Banquet Table For A 18 Inch Cake???!!!!
Decorating By foots2 Updated 26 Jun 2007 , 3:12am by adven68
I have a wedding cake to make for July 7. I was just informed that the cake table will be one of those long elongated banquet table.How in the heck could that possibly be decorated. No matter what I do the cake will look LOST.Im feeling pretty bad about it. Should I call the Hotel and see if a smaller table can be given for the cake or am I over stepping my boundries?
old trick from theatre:
make black -- goes away.
cover ends w/ black and then white (or some color) in middle.
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or
will there be a grooms cake?
brides cake at one end, groom's at other...then get assistance from friends and family to create a photo montage in middle.
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Elevate the cake as much as possible. Place a wooden box on the table (or something else sturdy) and cover with fabric. Palce the cake on top of that. It will bring more attetion to the cake if you get it up off the table.
Elevate the cake as much as possible. Place a wooden box on the table (or something else sturdy) and cover with fabric. Palce the cake on top of that. It will bring more attetion to the cake if you get it up off the table.
This would be my suggestion along with the black table cloth and skirt. Can you get some separate lighting directed on the cake? That helps too. 
I just did a cake on a banquet table like this. I'll try to post a pic soon.
I dont know what kind of lighting the hotel has in the reception room. I guess Ill have to call them and ask. Ill see if I can find some boxs to put the cakes on. The main cake is a 4 tier oval with 3 satellite cakes. Thats alot of spreading apart. Her color is Claret. Do you think that would be dark enough?For the table covering?
Question just wondering why you have to decorate the table. Wouldn't that be done by hotel or bride or someone else? I do agree though to accentuate the cake placement by height or light I think maybe the thinking on that size of table could be for room for plates utensils napkins etc. Just rambling sorry hope it turns out okay
are they planning other things on the table, like punch bowl or punch fountain? plates and forks? mints? nuts? Will the cake be cut on that table or the mysterious "rolled to the kitchen and done in secret" method?
Most of my cake packages are set up on an 8' banquet table for all of the above reasons. An 8' table also gives me space to set the plates after I cut the cake pieces. I set up the drinks at one end, the cake at the other, leaving me the space in the center for cutting and serving.
If we have iced tea, lemonade, punch and coffee, then I always suggest a round table for the cake alone and then an 8' table for all of the drinks.
to help you visualize
main cake and table are to scale (8 foot table 36" high; 18" bottom tier)
ghosted in second placement of satellite cakes
by time you add flowers, candles and other froo-froo...
not really a whole lot of space left on table
could also do asymmetrical -- main cake at one end raised highest and then satellite cakes drifting off to one side, each stair-stepping lower.
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