I am watching the FN wedding cake challenge and it just struck me, why do they make them move them all together. How often do cakes that tall and large actually get delivered all assembled? I would think that the majority of the time the are assembled at least somewhat on site. Maybe I'm wrong. FN used the reason for making them move it as it had to be realistic, I think if realistic as being whether or not it will stand or last for the event, not how many times it can be moved. Am I completly wrong?
No, you are not. I think they lack a lot of common sense ( along with a large group of chefs I have worked with ) and their reasoning is pretzel logic. I have been decorating and designing cakes for close to twenty years. That is a recipe for disaster.
I watched it yesterday also.
I thought the same thing- dumb logic. He said something like "Moving the wedding cake to the site is part of the responsibility of being a decorator." And I was like, yeah but we usually assemble it at the table it will be displayed on. Oh brother.
It was a great show though. Collete's cake was my favorite 
I also put my wedding cakes together on-site. HOWEVER, I have had one of them moved by the wait staff after I told them I wouldn't advise it. They said they do it all of the time. I guess they should be able to withstand moving them around after they are constructed. So when they say it is the decorators responsibility maybe that is what they mean.
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