Fakin it
Today's brilliant on a budget tidbit...
Fake cake!
Enterprising couples who want a beautiful cake but aren't up for shelling out the hundreds of dollars have hit upon an elegant middleground:
"The idea is to have an elegant, multitiered pretend cake for show while serving guests slices from a real but inexpensive sheet cake.
The inside of a faux wedding cake crafted by Fun Cakes contains mostly plastic foam, with a secret spot reserved for a slice of real cake to be shared by the bride and groom.
Everything is covered by gum paste and fondant, a frosting-like confection made from sugar and water often used in cakes and pastries.
"The only difference is the inside. Nobody can tell," said Kimberly Aya, whose 3-month-old company also bakes real cakes.
Fake cakes aren't new but renting them is fairly novel.
Mary Brown, manager of Cakes Plus in Grand Rapids, said her bakery has rented out its window displays a few times when brides were desperate and needed something at the last minute.
Brown said a typical three-tier cake serving around 100 guests costs an average of $200 to $250. Aya charges $100 to rent an in-stock fake cake and $150 for a custom design."
My only quibble: If you had a fake cake would YOU go through the pretense of the cake cutting?
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2 Comments:
I see no value in that, granted the real cake costs more, but is worth it. You'd still want cake and probably pay $50+ for sheet cake to feed your guests. I could imagine a rental of $25 would be worth it and $75 for a custom one (being reused a bunch).
Our cake is 3 tiers and would be $180 if it was regular cake but we chose custom flavors for each tier and the design is amazing. Our wedding topper was 300+ bucks for the design (not sold by the baker). If it were smart, people would just have a party and not a ceremony or huge cake, but women LOVE to spend money and be the center of attention so I'm just going with the flow.
I agree with the above comment! Sure, you might save $100-$150 on the cost of the cake itself but you still don't have any desert. Once you buy enough the sheet cake you might save maybe $50 if that. Is that kind of savings really worth the fake cake? I would suggest that brides do some serious shopping and researching before assuming that the rental option is actually cheaper.
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