Take Home Cupcakes In A Wedding
Business By Buttercream.Fingers Updated 8 Jul 2017 , 3:02am by ypierce82
This is my first wedding cake order. I don't make wedding cakes because of all of the responsibilities and stresses associated with them but this is for an ex- coworker's daughter. I'm not very familiar with wedding traditions and protocols in North America. They want a cake for the bride and groom to cut and 90 cupcakes. There will be dessert with dinner and they are also having a candy bar at the reception. They think not all the guests would eat their cupcakes and may want to take them home....like a...wedding favour. They want to provide boxes to make it easier to do So and asked me to order the cupcake boxes. They think 90 boxes are too many but neither of us can guess how many to order.....any advice? Have anyone done this before?
Thank you
I've done something similar. I ordered the boxes and tacked it on to the price of their order, but I boxed ALL of the cupcakes and displayed them nicely on the candy buffet table. It worked well, and those that ate their cupcake used the box to load up some candy so no boxes were thrown away.
Thank you ypierce82! They are planning on displaying the cupcake on stands and shelves around the cake so I don't know if putting them in boxes would change how they could display them.
Did you charge for your time and efforts folding and loading the boxes?
I figured that's what they wanted to do. The question is will you be able to find boxes in smaller quantities? I would probably do 60 out and 30 in. Or half and half, it is really difficult to say. I definitely charged for folding, packaging, plus tying all of the ribbon. It was a good sized order, and they paid $140.00 just for that part alone. I don't do anything for free lol
I did find some businesses selling boxes online in 25-50 packs which I thought reasonable but they were not as cheap as they would like them to be 
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Thank you for the insight, really appreciated 
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