Cutting costs: Cakes
Designing the perfect dessert can leave you with a not-so-perfect budget. Save on your cake with these tips:
- Have a small cake to cut in front of guests, while pre-sliced sheet cakes (or cute bakers' cupcakes) wait in the back to be served.
- Talk to your baker about extra costs - you can usually get delivery thrown in for free.
- Not everyone will eat cake - subtract 10 people from your guest total when calculating the slice count.
- Use fresh flowers or fruit garnishes and your own supplies as cake decorations, to avoid handicraft fees from the cake designer.
- Skip a separate dessert - your wedding cake is enough.
- Serve half slices of cake to your guests, and enhance the plates with fresh fruit or sorbet.
- Forgo the fondant. Buttercream icing is less expensive (and tastier!)
- Use a topper that your parents or grandparents used, for a sentimental (and inexpensive!) final touch.
