About a year later we were at my in-laws and you can imagine my shock when they told us "oh we have several bottles of the wine from your wedding we brought home to enjoy" I wanted to scream that they took one of our wedding gifts but I just bit my tongue. Some people feel justified in taking anything they want.
Loading up on wine to take home with you: NOT cool!
Yup..we bought expensive champagne for our wedding and it was a very good thing we hid 2 bottles away before the rest was set out...people just walked off with about a case of it! At the end of the reception we asked how many bottles were left over and were told that several of our guests had taken a bottle with them when they left! I could hardly believe it...and most of our guests were family! Guess they made themselves RIGHT at home.
But never ever have I worked or been at a wedding where the cake wasn't served! This one, literally, takes the cake.
Cat
How precious!!!!!!! You did a fabulous job. I would have been totally offended and I wouldn't have been able to keep my lips zipped. lol I would have had to ask, "Why?". Maybe after the dust settles, you can ask why. Be sure to post on here. heehee
[quote="Coral3"]Has this happened to others?:
Firstly, I'm not a pro decorator or anything, but I make a lot of cakes for family functions etc.
Oh yes you are! Your cake is beautiful! You are on your way! Keep up the good work!
As for Bridezilla?
That's the kind of crap that just makes you wanna go "Oops! Sorry, I just dropped your three tiered wedding cake on the floor! My bad!"
It is the strangest thing I ever heard of.
Been to many friends' weddings - of many different cultural/ soci-economic backgrounds, etc. and NEVER saw such a thing. There is no way that lovely cake would have gotten away uneaten from my friends at a reception...What a lovely wedding gift this cake made, BTW.
My theory: They took home and separated the tiers, keeping and later eating the one they'd cut into for themselves - and freezing the other two tiers to use later at another event... "Hey, everyone, look what we brought!" OP your cakes must be quite delicious for such greedy cake burglary.
My theory: They took home and separated the tiers, keeping and later eating the one they'd cut into for themselves - and freezing the other two tiers to use later at another event... "Hey, everyone, look what we brought!" OP your cakes must be quite delicious for such greedy cake burglary.
I'm pretty sure they cut all three tiers up into large hunks to freeze so they can just take out a big chunk at a time for easier defrosting.
First off, Coral3, your cake was just lovely. If you are not a professional, you should be. Lots of us on here only dream of making such beautiful figures!
All I can say about your experience is I am so sorry for you and HOW RUDE!! to the bride and groom!
Second, I have to add MY OWN WEDDING CAKE STORY to the mix. It has been 18 years and my mom, sister and I still discuss it. We all love cake! Unfortunately, my mind was spinning on the wedding day so I paid it no mind but later was furious and sad. I did not make the cake...Dupont Country club did, that is where this took place. The cake was nice but nothing like what people do nowadays. My husband and I cut the cake and it was wisked away by staff. People were done eating of course and were up dancing and drinking. If you were in your seat you got cake; maybe. If you were not, NO CAKE FOR YOU!!
I started hearing people ask where the cake went. Again, I paid no mind. At the end of the night my mom asked where did all of the cake go and that surely for as little as was served there would be pieces for guests to take home. They claimed all of the cake was cut and served and it was gone. Never did find all of the cake but she did manage to get me the top. I probably would not even had that if she did not insisted that there had to be cake back in the kitchen. After the fact we talked about writing a letter to complain about it but never did. On the lighter side of things though, we thought that maybe they were trying to recoup for all of the alcohol that was consumed by our families and friends as we paid a flat fee for open bar and drank them out of house and home!!!
That's a shame!
Before I got smart about adding that there were to be no other cakes at weddings I do, I did a HUGE cake with fountain, hundreds of flowers, etc. for a wedding and as my husband were leaving after setting up, we noticed about 4 sheet cakes being brought in. We talked to the bride's mom before we left and she said they would probably keep the cake I did and take it home. A few days later when the bride brought my fountain and such back to me, she mentioned how good the cake was and that she "only gave the cake you made to the people we REALLY liked"......say what???? I asked her...."you invited people to your wedding that you don't like?" She kinda ignored that question and just laughed. I got to wondering....did they accept gifts from the people they didn't like or did the tell them to not buy them gifts because they didn't really like them? I'm betting they accepted gifts!!!!
By the way - GORGEOUS CAKE!
I've only had that happen once. Several yrs ago we had a Pastor's Appreciation day and I made a 3 tier cake w/ pulled sugar ribbons and bows. I couldn't attend as I was working at the hospital that Sunday but my DH told me our Pastor's wife had refused to cut into the cake and instead packed it into the car to take home for pictures. I was floored! Later found out she had forgotten her camera and loved the cake so much she wanted pics of it. She brought it back to the Church a few weeks later (uncut) for everyone there to enjoy but I've always wondered if it tasted any good 
I absolutely adored my Pastor's wife and she was highly encouraging of my cake making endeavors so I know it was that she must have really liked the cake to go to that much trouble. But I remember thinking at the time, "What the heck are they gonna do w/ all that cake?"
BTW, when I came across the pic of the cake yrs later I thought, "She must have really loved me" cus it wasn't all that!
OP, your wedding cake IS "all that!" Maybe she thought it was so gorgeous she didn't want to cut into it. Although, I think in the spirit of the event she SHOULD have
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I was given a small chunk of The Cake yesterday!! (7months after the wedding!) My MIL volunteered it without me asking. And I'm happy to say that even after seven months in a freezer the cake is delicious - absolutely perfect 
...but knowing now how good it was makes me even sadder that it didn't get eaten on the day (and, selfishly, I would have loved for the guests to get a taste so they knew that its beauty was not just skin deep) 
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Don't mean to offend your immediate or extended family members.. but that is just down right WEIRD! Definitely rude not serving or at least offering a couple of the tiers around. Hmmm super tight a$$ greedy is what comes to my mind with that type of 'hoard the cake in the freezer' behaviour. Makes me really angry on your behalf.. I would've been devo'd as well.
Most importantly Coral, your cake was awesomely fantastic.. your work was so clean and well done 
...Would you believe it happened AGAIN!?
This time it was a cake for my mother in law's birthday. (Yes, same family - this is the mother of the aforementioned bride) We had a family get-together for her birthday, I made a two tier birthday cake which...she took home with her uncut! Admittedly it's not as baffling as the cake not being consumed at a WEDDING...it WAS only a birthday after all, but still! I don't understand...what is it with people not sharing their cake!?
Beautiful cake, Bummer no one got to taste it though!
To me it is just as baffling as the wedding cake. I've never, in all my live long days, seen someone take their cake home with them from any party...ever. These people need to be on that show, "My Strange Addiction" with the lady that can't stop eating toilet paper and the women who can't sleep without having her blow-dryer in bed with her.
Of course, where I work, one of our major donors (she left us over 3 million dollars, plus her house, in her will) used to bring a zip-lock baggie in her purse to all of our post-show receptions. First thing she'd do when she arrived was walk over to the shrimp bowl, open her purse and start shoveling shrimp into the baggie, furtively looking around to make sure no one was watching. Then she'd spend the next hour walking around, being all charming and elegant. But you had to talk to her knowing she had a purse full of warm, nasty shrimp. Though, for all I know, she had a little ice pack in there too!
I am floored that they did it again. The wedding was so shocking, and maybe I just kinda got over that initial shock, but for a birthday cake?????? That's a big part of the celebration there, the cake. Unless of course you had a band and dancing, etc.
I think you either have to say something, or just not do a cake for them again. Time they grow up and learn how to share. Maybe they'll have some sort of valid sounding reason, in which case you get to either understand or educate them a little more. But I'd sure be telling them that you are NOT making a cake that won't be shared with all the guests, and not just a paper thin sliver either, a big honkin piece of cake.
To me it is just as baffling as the wedding cake. I've never, in all my live long days, seen someone take their cake home with them from any party...ever. These people need to be on that show, "My Strange Addiction" with the lady that can't stop eating toilet paper and the women who can't sleep without having her blow-dryer in bed with her.
Of course, where I work, one of our major donors (she left us over 3 million dollars, plus her house, in her will) used to bring a zip-lock baggie in her purse to all of our post-show receptions. First thing she'd do when she arrived was walk over to the shrimp bowl, open her purse and start shoveling shrimp into the baggie, furtively looking around to make sure no one was watching. Then she'd spend the next hour walking around, being all charming and elegant. But you had to talk to her knowing she had a purse full of warm, nasty shrimp. Though, for all I know, she had a little ice pack in there too!
Just picturing a little old lady shovelling shrimp into her Chanel, LOL. I guess that's how she amassed her fortune...never spent money on shrimp!
Wow - that is just amazing!
You may have to start making 2 cakes, 1 for them to take home and 1 for them to actually serve!
Hell no! - that would only encourage them!!....plus, what's the bet they'd take BOTH home with them if I did that!? 
Beautiful, beautiful cake. Where on earth did these family members learn their manners? Oh wait, they missed that class.
I have to stick with what I said before. Either turn them down the next time they ask for a cake and tell them exactly why when they ask, or have a talk with them now and tell them the rules, YOUR rules.
i am just baffled! my mind is whirling with all this bizarre behavior! wow! your cakes are gorgeous.. and staff STealing cake from an event they're hired to serve at? i'd have been seriously tempted to charge them with theft as thats exactly what it was.
Sounds like they are closet eaters to me. Your work is fantastic. You should be proud of yourself.
I would NEVER make a cake for them again. And make sure you tell them why.
Actually, I changed my mind. Next time I would make it as a dummy cake but not tell them. Imagine their surprise when they go to cut into it. I would just say "well since you obviously weren't planning on sharing it just like the last 2 times there was no reason to make so much cake."
Just picturing a little old lady shovelling shrimp into her Chanel, LOL I guess that's how she amassed her fortune...never spent money on shrimp!
LOL!
Karma=how big their a$$ is going to be after eating all that cake.
Unfortunately I had a weird cake happening to me too. Made a 3 tier cake, i mean huge with ganache on one layer, dulce de leche, you name it i made it. we meet at the hotel they were staying so they could get drunk and not drive. I walked in there put my cake down. she asked "did you bring silverware and plates?" uhh no duhh, i just spent all my money on this cake. so the asked if maybe we should just grab hands full of cake. WTF???!!!! long story short we ended going the restaurant and i never tried the cake. This happened when Duff Goldman came out with his cake mixes which i got the chocolate and the vanilla for her as gifts since she's a fellow caker. I told her to tell me if she liked them or not so maybe i might buy one for myself. A few weeks later she told me that the mixes were ok but that she wasnt sure because she docotored the. again WTF???
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