Need Help For Wedding Servings All Experience Wedding People
Decorating By heavenscent Updated 4 Apr 2007 , 11:19pm by heavenscent
Just need help to make sure I am correct. This is what the wilton book says. Just want to make sure we are correct I am using the square pans.
6inch serves 18
8inch serves 32
12inch seves 72
For the grooms cake I will be using the
14inch serves 98
Total servings 220
or if I go with the 12 inch again
total 220
They are expecting a total of 150 guest so should I use diffrent size pans 
you also need to consider if they are saving the top tier. if they are, they need to pay for that tier, but don't include it in the number of people the cake will serve. if they're saving the top tier, a 6, 10, 14 square will leave enough to feed 150. the wilton servings are accurate for a wedding. wedding servings aren't supposed to be large like for a party. i don't know the rules for how a grooms cake fits into the total servings needed. sorry, maybe someone else can help there.
they do not wish to use the top for the 1 year anniversary. They plan to serve it at the wedding. Any suggestions?
if they're serving it all, then your wedding cake will serve 122, you only need an 8 inch square grooms cake that serves 32. is there a reason why the grooms cake needs to be 14 inches? no need to make that much cake for only 150 guests. unless the bride/groom wants it all that big and is willing to pay for it knowing there will be lots of left overs.
At the time it was just the groom & he was not sure what to do. I just found out about the top 6inch tonight. So I gave the bride all sizes & number of servings so she can choose what she would like to do. Why are the servings smaller for a non wedding cake? Thanks for your help I will let you know what they decide.
Wilton's wedding size servings are smaller than party size servings.
Wilton serving charts:
http://www.wilton.com/cake/cakeprep/baking/times/index.cfm
Party cutting guide:
http://www.wilton.com/wedding/cakeinfo/partycuttingguide.cfm
Wedding cutting guide:
http://www.wilton.com/wedding/cakeinfo/cuttingguide.cfm
HTH
a wedding cake is supposed to be just a light taste of cake after a fairly good size meal. thats why they're only 1x2x4 typically. a party cake serving is larger, 2x2x4, because typically the only food to eat at a party is the cake and ice cream. theres a great visual in the gallery of painted wood blocks that look like cake, and illustrate the difference in serving sizes for different occasions.
I have done 1 other wedding cake but it was with a friend & she did the pricing.I came in really low need the exposure. I am charging 1.75 with a 45 set up & delivery fee. What do you charge if you dont mind me asking
You are not allowing enough size difference between the top and middle tiers. You should allow a min of 3 inches difference, but in my experience 4 inches is the optimal size differential.
Also, my experience has shown that the groom's cake and the bridal cake should not be counted together for the total number of cake servings as many guests will want some of each.
I would plan on having enough bridal cake for all 150 guests and enough groom's cake to feel at least 2/3 - so 100 guests.
Hope this helps! 
Really I have never heard this before. Anyone else?
I do the bride's cake to serve the amount that they think will show up for the reception and I like to think of the groom's cake as kind of a back up cake. I don't really plan for it to serve a specific number (unless they request something specific) but I don't do one smaller then a 10" round or a 1/2 sheet cake. just my preference and I charge $2.00 per serving with a min. $25.00 delivery/set up fee, depending on how far I have to go. hope this helps
Discussions about the number of servings always makes me nervous. Yeah...the Wilton charts are right. If someone from Wilton is cutting the thing. But, if your Aunt Bertha or Cousin Daisy is cutting it, the pieces are going to be MUCH bigger, and you're going to run out of cake. Brides, always on the lookout to save a buck, tend to want to pay for exactly the number of servings they need. If they stick to that, they should pay you to serve it so that it actually goes that far. I always try to throw in at least another 10% of servings for the Aunt Bertha Factor. Of course, there is always the "no show" factor, too. There are usually fewer people there than she thinks will be - and sometimes you get a few who are on a diet, too. It sometimes works out just fine. But, IMHO, the "official" slice sizes are unrealistically small...and following the charts religiously puts you in danger of running out of cake.
Hey guys just wanted to let you know I got it!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah now I will have cake nightmares for the next 2.5 months. If anyone has any pointers I will glady take them.
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