caribbeanspicebride's Pink wedding


07/09/2008
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Wedding cakes as centerpieces...I'd like to hear your thoughts
Yesterday I was talking to my hubby 2 be and I was telling him about some of the great things you girls are doing for your wedding like candy buffet, personalized M&Ms etc. Then I mentioned that even some brides are having miniature cakes for their wedding and he totally fell in love with the idea. He wants us to do it!

So our huge wedding cake would run us $400 ( we got a discount) and that doesn't include the sheet cake to serve to the guests. We initially took that cake ( it can be seen in an earlier post) because we thought we had to serve the guests with that cake.

I was thinking maybe if we got a nice three tiered cake and make about 20 miniature cakes that serve 8 people it should be about the same price right?? If we take the three tiered cake plain ( because we really are not gonna do much with the cake after the wedding besides give it away and eat it) and the miniature cakes in a nicer flavor with filling..it shouldn't be too expensive. Plus we wouldnt have to spend too much on centerpieces and dessert. Plus I have never seen this done before in any wedding I've been too or seen pictures of here in st.maarten.

My problem is...people are gonna touch the cake or it might even get knocked over. Maybe I can put a glass cover over the cake for safety.

What do you girls think? Any of you doing these cake centerpieces? How to deal with people interfering with the cake? I would really like ot hear ur thoughts on this one.
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mamajea
 |  Surrey, BC, Canada  |  07/09/2008
We are having centercakes. We just could not find a centerpiece that we could agree on, and found that they are so expensive to do anyhow. My mom came up with the idea of a centercake, and we loved it. Our centercake will be the exact replica of our main cake, only that we are having numbers made out of steel and putting them on top of the cake as table numbers, and a green cymbidium orchid on top (our main cake is a monogram "V", also steel and a cymbidium orchid). We are going to home depot and having them cut us boards that are the dimension of the base of the cake, and then wrapping them in kind of a plastic coated Damask wallpaper...this will add height. Surrounding the cake is going to be 4 votives, with alternating black and white candles, and then diamond confetti loosely place in between it all. (see blog for pic of cakes)

Ok as for price breakdown, these puppies are no ways cheap, but they are most friendly than vases, and flowers are hard core.

2 tier centercake: 6" base 4" top, serves 8-10 guests, was $50 per cake. (we have 14 in total) The filling is a tuxedo cake (white chocolate/dark chocolate)

3 tier Main Cake: Serves 125 people was $610
Each tier being a different flavor (tiramisu, carrot, and chesecake)

The beauty of this is that we did not have to order any extra desserts, and took that savings and put it towards a chocolate buffet, and fruit.

Our baker is providing us with a lot of cake boxes so that guests can their slice home...and we can lug our leftover main cake to the gift opening at my mom's the next day!

And don't worry about people touching it so much...they won't make it all disgusting...afterall that is their cake to eat right?

Good luck with it all...hope this novel helped a bit! ;)
luvnhim
 |  Muncie, IN, United states  |  07/09/2008
What a cute idea! I think that the guests would love it....and give them something to look forward to :)
elle2wed
 |  Los angeles, CA, United states  |  07/09/2008
sounds nice but that might to be expensive for me...lol but go for it
dd977chic
 |  Clermont, FL, United states  |  07/09/2008
YES PEOPLE STICK THEIR FINGERS IN CAKES.....ADULTS ARE SOMETIMES WORSE THAN THE KIDS!

I THINK IT WOULD BE EXPENSIVE UNLESS YOU DID THE CAKES YOURSELVES
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