Just wanted to add that you may want to have her supply a swatch or something if she is particular. Her ivory may be my beige and someone else's cream....KWIM
Maybe.
This is something that for me would never happen. By the time you try & match an off white or an ivory and get that cake into whatever lighting is going on at the venue after matching or attempting to in the lighting where you decorate I mean I don't have very much patience left and there's none to spare for that ordeal (in futility.) 
Might work for you but no way pour moi.
(Where is PinkZ --she would be so proud of my pollyvoo francais--kinda sorta)
Thanks for more replies. She just doesn't want the bright white. I am going to make some test batches of icing with all of your ideas and let her choose which one she wants.
I just love this website. Everyone is always so helpful. Especially to us beginners....
I hope everyone has a great day. Happy baking....
Thanks for more replies. She just doesn't want the bright white. I am going to make some test batches of icing with all of your ideas and let her choose which one she wants.
I just love this website. Everyone is always so helpful. Especially to us beginners....
I hope everyone has a great day. Happy baking....
OMG--this again is something I would never ever do. You need to be the pro and make the decisions. She wants ivory, do ivory. The most I would go is 'dark' ivory.
This constitutes diddling in my book.
Matching ivory is like finding a needle in a haystack or something too tedious to imagine.
I encourage you to reconsider that idea.
I mean one wouldl not submit different blues for their approval or something.
Getting approval on components of a cake is asking for trouble.
Just an ivory thought for you--apparently a dark ivory thought.
I agree with k8. Just make it.
When I have a bride who wants ivory, in a humorous style, I tell her, "sure! Ivory, off-white, cream, champagne ... it's all the same to me." which gives them the idea that this field of color is NOT an exact science.
She doesn't want white. As long as it's "not white", you'll be fine. Dont' overthink this one.
I'm with Kate on this one! Don't show her--I did this too on my very first cake--to get the perfect shade of pink for the bride--big mistake--I had many different shades of pink just a shade apart and when you get right down to it, they just wanted pink, not my angst about the perfect shade of pink. Just a wee bit of experience talking here 
! Since then I've done lots of ivory cakes and my favorite is to use real vanilla to color the icing. If you do use ivory it takes like 1 drop per batch of icing--it'll go way ivory (golden) way fast!!!!
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