Trying to stay within your budget when planning a wedding is a lot like walking a tightrope. In the face of all of that stress, many couples opt for cost-cutting strategies in certain areas of their celebration that they hadn’t even considered before—including the wedding cake.
Several companies offer a faux cake service, which includes a tower of styrofoam cake that is covered in fondant, frosting and icing, with one real tier for you and your beloved to cut as a part of the reception. Then the baker will hand out slices of a sheet cake to all of your guests, essentially letting you have your cake and eat it too.
Since I love food, baking and all other things food-related, I am turned off by the idea of a fake cake. In fact, I posted this photo of a REAL coconut cake by Rebecca Thuss because it just looked too delicious to pass up. But, I can also understand that someone less food-obsessed might be willing to cut their budget by cutting a faux cake instead of the real deal.
What do you think? Do fake cakes make you want to rant or rave?
Tags: budget, cake, fake cake, Rant or Rave
I’ve been at weddings that use a faux cake, and it looked beautiful! Plus the cake they served was delicious, so I had absolutely no complaints. I think this is a great way to both stay in budget AND make sure your cake plans don’t fall through.
i think if it’s done right, you will never even know it’s a faux cake & that’s really all that matters. afterall, who wants to eat fondant?
Cakes are insanely expensive. Mine hovered around $900 and I hated it. We had so many people at our wedding that we ended up serving sheet cakes anyway–if we had bought a cake to feed them all it would have been over $1000! So I would totally be ok with this. No one would ever know, the cake tastes the same, voila!
i felt slightly shafted at the idea of a fake cake at first, but then my baker convinced us to go with it. (she said it was also easier for them) i had a fake cake and NO one had the faintest clue AND it was 50% less. Maybe at a smaller wedding it’s not such a big deal, but when you need to cut and feed 470 guests, it becomes an issue.
i’ve used it for clients and loved it.
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I had a fake wedding cake and it looked fantastic! I was able to choose the exact design I wanted thanks to fake-cakes.co.uk.
First of all, let’s get one thing straight: no one’s talking about faking a three hundred dollar cake, they’re talking about faking a three thousand dollar cake, the kind of big, bold, designer confectionary behemoths which are the grand centerpieces of breathakingly beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime events. That’s where faux cake shines. If you’re having a small, simple ceremony with close family and friends, a fake cake is probably not for you AND THAT’S OKAY. You should have the wedding you want.
Secondly, there is really only one way to (ahem) save dough with faux cake, and that’s by renting it. Rental cake companies are springing up all over, so look for one in your area.
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