I include the price of delivery into the cake..it does eat up gas to travel a long way but like someone here said on another post...do we expect the customer to pick up and set up the cake themselves?
of course furniture stores charge delivery prices and its not really the same as picking up and setting up a cake..
so i include it in the pricing
Built into the pricing. Anything outside a 30 mile (30 minute) drive (as determined by Yahoo! Maps) might get an extra charge. No way I'm letting a family person deliver and set up a cake! Lots of times, there is decorating that needs done at the set-up site.
With my full package, the cost of the cake also includes me staying to cut-n-serve it.
indydebi
you stay and serve!!!!!!!!!! WOW, that is above and beyond! Sometimes they cut the cake so late into the reception...... and not at a preset time. Doesn't that take away from your family time?
some of you may have noticed that I tend to be kind of a bossy type? (No! Really!)
Seriously, what I "suggest" to brides is that they do the cake-cutting ceremony as soon (or as soon as possible) after they arrive at the reception. In response to the quizzical "you do the dessert first?????" questions, I point out a number of reasons why this works best for THEM:
- The eating of the wedding cake is traditionally the first meal shared as man and wife. ("Yes, REALLY!" I say to the 20-somethings who have never head this!)
- This gets the cake-cutting ceremony and photo op out of the way. Now the couple can just enjoy the reception instead of worrying about "where do I have to be NOW?" If the photographer is charging by the hour, this prevents him from doing "overtime".
- Since the cake is already cut, I can see when the guests are done with the meal and I can start cutting the cake for their guests to enjoy as part of their dessert.
- They don't want to hold off serving the wedding cake until the late hours of the reception (like all the magz tell them to do) when most of their guests will be gone. Not every grandparent and aunt is an all-night party animal. Couples.....BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR GUESTS! (she said with her mom-finger going in their face!).
Plus I'm usually there anyway with the buffet, so it's not like I'm sitting around doing nothing for 3 hours. Rarely do I do a cake without doing the buffet.
Bottom line is I pretty much tell them when to cut the cake and why it's to their advantage. I've never really had a bride argue with me on it.
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