I can't imagine all this added craziness makes for a happy wedding day..that bride must be shitting buckets and rightfully so.
Which reminds me .... to the OP: you DO realize that we'll all be waiting on pins and needles for what you find out when you take the cake tier to the venue employees, right????? Tell them they have to give with the scoop, the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop or no cake for them!!
ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I take my hat off to you, you handled that awful situation so well. Your cake is gorgeous & that is a$2000.00 cake, they were really getting a wonderful deal at $1100.00.
Please keep us posted on the next chapter.
Relax now, put your feet up & know that you handled everything very well.
Is there anyone who lives in this city that the OP is in who wants to play detective, grab their digital camera, pretend to be that distant relative, show up at the venue, and try to see what everyone saying and take a look at the Walmart cake table? Come on! We need an insider now! LOL! 
i made it all the way to the end! woohoo!
All I can say is WOW! can't wait to hear the next development is this saga. Please keep us posted and I'm so glad you're able to see the good in this situation. I'd be frickin pissed! your cake was gorgeous!
Like someone was kind enough to state before... I know from experience because I had a customer write me a check for a cake that I then took to MY bank, they cashed it but a couple days later I got a call from them saying that the check was bad, (not enough money in their acct.) my bank expected ME to cover the check. I had to track the person down and get the money for the check and take it to my bank. Thankfully I didnt have any problem getting the money from the customer but it was a bit embarassing.
Is there anyone who lives in this city that the OP is in who wants to play detective, grab their digital camera, pretend to be that distant relative, show up at the venue, and try to see what everyone saying and take a look at the Walmart cake table? Come on! We need an insider now! LOL!
Haha... love it! That is definitely a wedding I'd love to crash! 
To be honest I want to see pix of the wedding reception, particularly the cake table! 
I also informed her that the bank had made the decision to prosecute this case as a fraud case after reviewing the contract therefore not only will bride have to pay me my money ( plus any fees incurred from it) but she will also be fined and most likely get jail time, though it could be suspended with community service.
I am glad the bank is stepping in, it will make less stress on me. but it's done and the venue rep is excited about eating cake with the other employees tomorrow and I am sure all the kids at church will be gaga over the cake!
YAY!! I can't believe how estatic I am to hear that she is going to be prosecuted!! Usually, I read these types of threads and feel sorry for the poster, but never comment. However, these people soooooo pi$$ed me off, that I REALLY wanted someone to GET them!!!!!!!!!
Oh, I also wanted to add that your cake is absolutely gorgeous! I also think you handled this VERY well. Love the idea that the bank, vendor and church are going to enjoy some cake! I hope you have a wonderful Easter!
(Indydebi, xstitcher and Ironbaker your icons are cracking me up!)
Haha... love it! That is definitely a wedding I'd love to crash!
With 350 guests, they'd never notice one more!
Hey!! I also want to know if this was a bride who thought she was SO popular and thought she'd really have 350 people show up .....OR..... if she expected 350 and had about 75 actually show!
Now that's funny right thar! (she said in her best Larry the Cable Guy voice!)
Your cake is SPECTACULAR! Truly gorgeous! I'm so glad the bride and her mother will never get to taste it.
Sounds like the groom's mother isn't too thrilled with her son's choice of spouse. Holidays should be fun!
I'm still angry thinking that nasty bride and her horrid mother are putting a different spin on this story right now! According to them, they did nothing wrong. That makes me so mad!
I'm picturing the DJ gathering the wedding guests around while he plays,
"And the bride cuts the Wal-Mart cake"!
I work in an accountant's office, and we were swamped with work today. We're so busy, but I kept sneaking onto CC to check the developments on this story. I may lose my job over this! (Not really--I got all the work done!) We often run into people who think the rules don't apply to them, just like this bride and her mother. I am very happy to set them straight!
wow you guys are posting too fast! 
I go away to get a little work done and there is 5 more pages to read, and by the time I get to what I thought was the end there is another page lol.
Let me guess the bride isn't a getting a particularly happy mother-in-law I would be so embarrassed if someone in my family (or someone joining my family) did that.
OP- That is a gorgeous cake I love all the flowers. So sad you had to put all that work into it though.
OMG your cake is fantastic!
My computer kept freezing and I had to reboot took forever to finally read all posts. All that hard work glad too hear the bank will help you out. Brides loss, the groom should run and run now before ceremony.
Unbelieveable! This is better than TV any day. Dsevans, you are quite the professional to hold up under all of that and still calmly explain the rules. Good for you for not budging, too! I can't believe she just thought she would pay whatever she felt like. You rock!
So...were you bluffing about the bank prosecuting, or is that true? Wowee, someone's going to have a rotten honeymoon...and well deserved, too. I wonder if it was out of the country? You can't leave the country (or maybe even the state) if you're under investigation, can you?
Wow what a drama. That b and mob are real witches. I wonder if the groom doesn't cancel when he finds out. I would love to be at that reception. That is a very beautiful cake. Hope you post with more on this.
I don't usually think this way, but part of me is dying to see an update saying that the Groom decided to call off the wedding over this as he didn't want to start married life with a lawsuit and having his name dragged through the mud because his wife wanted to commit fraud. At least his Mum is on side and I have a feeling she won't let the MOB and Bride get away with claiming to be the victim on the night!
I don't usually think this way, but part of me is dying to see an update saying that the Groom decided to call off the wedding over this as he didn't want to start married life with a lawsuit and having his name dragged through the mud because his wife wanted to commit fraud. At least his Mum is on side and I have a feeling she won't let the MOB and Bride get away with claiming to be the victim on the night!
I was thinking something similar -- when the preacher man gets to the part about "Does anyone know why these two should not be joined?" how on earth is the groom's mom going to stay still in her seat and not jump up and down saying "I do, I do!!"
Oh my goodness, this is better than any soap opera any day! I'm sorry this happened to you but super glad that the bride will finally pay for what she's done.
Seriously, please keep us updated. I couldn't believe how many posts I'd missed since leaving work.
I cannot believe some people can be so dishonest! I really wish she had contacted you in person at least.....face up to her mistakes. The fact that she hid behind her mother is even worse. I'm glad the MOG called you personally to get the real facts. Maybe that will help prevent anything nasty being said about you....of course, just add defamation of character to the docket....I'd like to see Judge Judy and Dr. Phil on this one....
If only we could have made it in time.....I would have loved to have been there...by the way, your cake is absolutely lovely. I would be sure that everyone, including the MOG saw a picture of the cake that you completed, personally for them.
The bride really started her marriage off on the wrong foot. Shall we start a pool on how long it lasts?
This s*** is BANANAS!!! this thread was only 4 pages when I last looked...I just got caught up.
First - You go with your bad self for standing up and not being steamrolled!
Your cake was excellent and I'm just appalled at this turn of events.
I hope this is a lesson to the newbies just starting out. You always need to charge, you always need a contract, you always need to CYA and you always need to stand up and not be taken advantage of. Clients will look for any sort of loophole to get out of paying. This bride thought she found the perfect one....but EHHHHH....Nope!
Of course we all wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, but the glimmer of that was quickly fading once the bank provided info and then the MOB opened her mouth and ruined all hope. I feel bad for the MOG and her family too, she sound so sweet and wanted to her family to enjoy a beautiful wedding. I'm not sure if I'd want to be at that wedding.....I'm sure it's pretty awkward with the giant elephant in the room..or not in the room.
Wow, just saw this thread, been out or busy most of the day...
All I can say is, its a VERY VERY good thing you got a call from your bank! It makes me shudder to think that most of the rest of us would have delivered the cake and had a real bad Monday when we found out what the bride did.
I can't believe you handmade all those roses....the bride would have gotten a super deal if she would have just paid up.
Can't get this thread off my mind now. LOL
You, know, I actually feel bad for the MOG, though. She's attending this fiasco of a wedding, probably just fuming at the horrible bride - assumably trying to figure out what to say when everyone starts talking about the Wal-Mart cake I'm sure. Do you think they'll just skip the cake cutting part of the reception altogether? I'd just love to know what's going on in there!
I'll bet this is a record for CC! 24 pages in one day! (at least I'm assuming this all happened today. It all says April 11th and since that's tomorrow.....
You, know, I actually feel bad for the MOG, though. She's attending this fiasco of a wedding, probably just fuming at the horrible bride
I totally agree with you.
You know, that got me thinking.....do you think the Groom even has an idea of what his bride did? 
OMG could you imagine his reaction first, when there's not wedding cake, and secondly when they are summonded to court?
OMG, what a great reality show this would be for VH1! Anyone have a video camera? I'm moving and changing careers! LOL! 
Congratulations to dsevens (OP). You are a good person or the bank and venue folks wouldn't support you like they did. You are a good person who stood up for what is right. You are a good person who has many, many, many supporters on CC.
Sleep well tonight - you did the right thing.
I showed my husband the picture of the cake you did and he wondered how you would have transported it - each tier in a separate box or all together? 
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