Have you wondered why wedding cakes costs hit the roof? Why do
they cost so much? You will be amazed to know that the prices
could touch $15 per person or more?
I recall how Mrs. Ingridman taught me invaluable lessons on how
to lower a wedding cake price while still going for the
classiest of cakes. After her successful wedding, she told me
how she managed to treat her guests with a mouthwatering cake
which was bought at reasonable price.
She told me the reasons why most wedding cakes turn out to be
expensive are because the cake pans used to bake them are
expensive. I will list some of the ways by which you can lower a
wedding cake price and choose the best cake for your wedding:
1. Before you agree to give an order to the baker, make sure
that the decoration and design is the right kind to suit your
taste. Go through referrals and see what prices are being
quoted. Look through the samples first before deciding on your
cake. A supermarket could offer a wide range of cakes at a
lesser cost than your bakery.
2. Decide on how you want to decorate your wedding cake…whether
you want to keep it simple and cute or splendid and rich. Avoid
over decorating the cake. It is not necessary to have a five
tiered cake. You can have your cake stacked if you want.
3. Bakers who are not specially into wedding cakes could still
bake the best cakes and cost less. Home bakers too do not charge
much and could make lovely cakes.
4. You can borrow the pillars. There are disposable pillars
available with your local baker or rental companies which are a
better alternative than those crystal pillars if you want to cut
down on the cost of the pillars. Let the baker or your local
rental company helps you with the disposable pillars instead of
the crystal ones.
5. Another great idea would be to find prices at a cake making
or culinary school near your place. Students have baking and
decorating cakes as part of their curriculum. You can be assured
that you will get gorgeous cake and have your wedding cake made
at a very low price.
6. Investigate prices at a culinary school near you. If students
are baking and decorating wedding cakes as part of their
curriculum, the per person charge may be greatly reduced.
7. You can even save on your wedding cake topper prices. In
Mrs.Ingridman’s case her uncle asked her what she would like to
have as a wedding present. Her quick answer was a wedding cake
topper. Often relatives and well wishers would ask you to ask
what you need as a gift.
8. Another good thing which Miss. Ingridman did, which you may
want to do, is that if you buy a multi-tiered cake, see that you
decorate it yourself or have the florist do it for you. If you
want flowers on your cake but the cost of the artificial flowers
isn’t fitting in your budget, let your florist put real flowers
on the cake. Just make sure that they are non toxic. Check the
price of the organic edible flowers.
As Mrs. Ingridman put it, before you meet with any baker, look
around for the best samples.
Expect to pay per slice of the cake as the cake cost depends
more on style than flavors.
Before sign up with your baker, shop around or decide what is
the topper you would like, what style you would want for you
cake, what flavor is the taste of the season for you and how
tiered it should be…but the most important see that your
mouthwatering wedding cake comes at mouthwatering price.
What is important to get what you want, at a price which does
not tug at your purse strings.