Should I Barter? My Wording In The E-Mail Caused This!
Decorating By nglez09 Updated 2 Mar 2007 , 12:47am by CINDY1956
They are fairly good size however, they have to be big enough to put a tulip stem in and still have room for water. How many are you putting on the cake and what is the placement or design? I thought in your previous post you were going to go with gumpaste...did you change your mind?
Yes, I just don't have time for gumpaste and I've never done them before so I couldn't.
I am putitng them on as a border all the way around the bottom of the middle cake and the bottom of the top cake.
By the time you buy the flower and the pick for it, would probably work out about the equivalent cost of a silk tulip. Have you considered that path?
That might be a better option. If you put flower picks all the way around the bottom of the cake it may start to fall apart as they are quite large.
MaisieBake wrote:
They're a bakery, not a supply shop. They're doing you a favor and they're charging for the service.
If you don't like that find another vendor.
nglez09wrote:
I was trying to find out what I should do in regards to their price (which is MORE than thrice as much as retail) and I don't think your comment was in any way beneficial and even uncouth.
you wrote that is only in regards to their price then maybe you can just try to communicate back at them and ask if they can give you a lower price.(that is the title of your post isn't it?) 
...if not, then you have a few choices : accept their price or like what maisiebake suggested try to find another vendor or follow the suggestions of our fellow cc'ers of what else you can do about it..
nglez09, I'm with Deani on this one. I'm a floral designer by trade and work with fresh and silk. The problem with fresh tulips is that if the venue is warm those tulips will open up fast and may overcrowd your cake's design. Silk tulips are in the stores now and there are so many of them that are life like. Someone mentioned the Afloral site and I recommend them highly. I've bought from them so many times I've lost count and they have great customer service.
Nglez,
Did you get my message? If you don't care to respond, that is fine.....just wanted to see if ya got it 
Thanks a lot for the help. I called a florist and she'll give me each for $.50. Way lower than the bakery and these come with a cap.
Khoudek and Deani, the tulips are a special request. I don't know if they'd really want silk flowers. 
I guess I'll be stubborn and go with the fresh ones and then I'll suffer the consequences and learn to learn. 
Thanks again everybody! 
You might want to reconsider, and ask the client about silk. the stems in the tubes are going to take up a lot of room. It will negatively impact the stability of the base of the cake. Imagine even 10 under the base of your cake. And they will probably damage the top tier, too.
You might get away with fewer, but I don't think you can get enough to completely border the base of the cake.
If the lower circle of tulips is actually on the cake board, it will support the flower heads fairly well, without the addition of water tubes. They may still wilt some, but they won't be able to fall over.
You might want to reconsider, and ask the client about silk. the stems in the tubes are going to take up a lot of room. It will negatively impact the stability of the base of the cake. Imagine even 10 under the base of your cake. And they will probably damage the top tier, too.
You might get away with fewer, but I don't think you can get enough to completely border the base of the cake.
If the lower circle of tulips is actually on the cake board, it will support the flower heads fairly well, without the addition of water tubes. They may still wilt some, but they won't be able to fall over.
I'm going to be making a tiered one that's the same size as the one in my pictures (14, 10, 6). I'm going to put the tulips as the lower border for the 10" (on top of the 14") and then under the 6" (on top of the 10"). Is this still applicable? I'm thinking I would only use about 5-7 tulips on the 10" and then 3-5 on the six inch (depending on the size of the tulips)? TIA.
[quote="JoAnnB"]You might want to reconsider, and ask the client about silk. the stems in the tubes are going to take up a lot of room. It will negatively impact the stability of the base of the cake. Imagine even 10 under the base of your cake. And they will probably damage the top tier, too.
That's what I was referring to in my post above. I would definately ask them about silk or figure out something else to do with the fresh ones. 
If the cake isn't going to sit out a long time, and the weather isn't really hot, the tulips will be OK for a time. You can just use straws to mark the location for each flower stem, then stick the flower in at the last possible minute.
If you are going to try flower picks or the water tubes, they displace more cake and it -might- cause some problems. 5 around the base would probably not be a big deal.
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