does anyone do this??
i just had a call from a bride asking for prices, as she is having her recpetion at a golf course, and they will charge her a $2.00 per serving service fee if she brings any outside food. her meal already includes dessert... she just wants the cake for picture purposes, which i understand..
how do you all do this??
any tips?? pricing info??
thanks
I've never sold a wedding cake let alone a dummy but I'd look at price based on how much time and supplies I needed. I don't think one would be that much cheaper than a real cake and it's going to take as long to decorate so I don't think I'd be inclined to sell it for much if any less than a real one.
There are places that rent dummies fairly cheap, you return them and they get used at the next wedding they're booked for. In that case I can see letting them go for less because you'll make it up over the course of several weddings.
I have never heard of that, if I were the bride I guess I would have words with the golf course about their policy towards a wedding cake. Hor'dourves or other food brought in I can understand, but if they have wedding receptions their, people would want to have a wedding cake and not be charged by them for it.
This is what I'd do. If your doing a dummie or a real one, the decorating time is going to be the same. Only expense you won't have is the cake ingredients. You still have the icing and MMF and whatever else she wants on the cake. Figure out what size and shape and what style of cake she wants, including flower, topper, etc. Then charge her for the cost of them + your time in decorating it, delivery, set up, etc.
I think if you do it right, you're going to find that you will have to charge at the minimum, half of the cost of a non-dummie cake. Say you have a cake that's 4 tiers stacked(14, 10, 8, 6) and the bride wants fondant and lots of gumpaste roses...figure out what you'd charge for a real cake, and cut that price in half. Something like that.
That's what I'd do.....my time is still worth the price, even if the cake is a fake.
Here's a website that rents cakes ... maybe the bride saw something like this. http://www.rentthecakeofyourdreams.com/pricing.html
If the bride wants a dummy cake, then I agree with the above posts ... the work is basically the same.....she isn't going to get this for $25.
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