Choose Your Wedding Cake To Suit Your Personality

by E-NewsCast Team
February 11th, 2010

The job of choosing the right wedding cake style is theresponsibility of both the future bride and groom. The style ofcake you’ll choose will largely depend on the wedding theme andthe size of the wedding. You’ll want to be sure your cake islarge enough for all attending guests to receive a piece. Ifyou’re having a super large wedding you can always have twocakes. In fact, a new trend is for there to be a bride cake anda grooms cake. It can actually be quite a fun event where you can let a littlebit of creativity flow. The solution to a “no stress” cakeselection is simply knowing what you need and doing yourresearch before hand. The information below will assist you inmaking sure you’ve got your icing covered! The wedding cake isusually cut into small slices, packaged and tied with a ribbonfor your guests to take home. You can also serve your cake fordessert. A cake large enough to serve all your guests may costmore but by the same token you eliminate the cost of dessertfrom your catering budget. Choose a cake that you both enjoy. The size of the cake isdirectly related to the size of your wedding and your budget.If your budget for your wedding is low or you just do not wishto pay very much for your cake. If your budget is small, checkaround with friends and family – there may be someone who hasthe expertise to do your wedding cake for a fraction of thecost. Friends, family, magazines, your local bakery, and theinternet are all great places to get ideas about the types ofcakes available. Or go crazy and get the cake you’ve alwaysdreamed of having. Types of Wedding Cakes There are many types of wedding cakes youcan choose for your wedding depending on your budget and size ofyour wedding. Here are just a choices  Small or largeround cake  Small or large sheet cake  Singlelevel wedding cake  Multi level wedding cake Themed wedding cake – for example for a beach wedding you mighttie seashells into your cake, or have a sandy textured icing. Fresh flowers on your wedding cake  Icingflowers on your wedding cake  Silk flowers on yourwedding cake  Match your cake with the colors of yourwedding theme – the colors of the flowers or the color of yourbridesmaid dresses are popular choices  Traditionalwedding cake is fruit cake with white icing  More traditional choices are chocolate or orange cake,sponge cake or carrot cake. To be able to keep the top layer ofthe cake it must be a fruit cake. Order your wedding cake 6months to a year in advance. The month you are getting marriedin is important because the type of cake you choose may not workwell with the season. For example, mouse in wedding cakes doesnot work well during the hot month of August. Winter weddingcakes have fewer restrictions.Questions to ask your Bakery and or Baker1) Are samples available to try before you buy? Just because acake looks good doesn’t mean it will taste good, or not be ashard as a rock. Best to taste test so you’re not disappointed..2) When is the last day I can make changes? By finding out whenthe last day you can make changes is, you will most likely begetting the answer as to when they will be starting your cake..3) Do you deliver? Cakes do not ship well, so unless you’ve madearrangements for someone to pick your cake up and bring it tothe reception, it is best if the bakery can deliver it. 4) Howdo you ship your wedding cakes? 80% of wedding cake damageoccurs during shipping. Shipping is also your friend picking itup in their car. The cake needs to be packed properly to ensureit arrives at the reception intact. 5) Should something go wrongwhat is your back up plan? Many will say that they either haveno plans or that nothing will go wrong. Not a good enoughanswer. When it’s the day before your wedding and something goeswrong it’s too late to come up with a backup plan. 6) How muchwould it be for regular cakes the same size as the wedding cake?This will determine if you are being gouged or not. As with allelements of your wedding planning and preparation are important.Decide the type of cake, get pricing, and order early. Then youcan place another nice big fat checkmark on your “to do list”.© Copyright Sher Matsen, All Rights Reserved.

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