Factors to Consider When Choosing a Wedding Cake
You want your wedding to be flawless and that includes choosing the wedding cake with care. How do you go about picking the right wedding cake for that special day? First you need to decide how much you are willing to spend on the cake because be warned that wedding cakes come expensive. Do you want the whole nine yards with tiers reaching skyward or will you settle for one layer of real cake and the rest made of Styrofoam?
Take the following factors into consideration when choosing your wedding cake and you should be fine.
You will need to choose the style of cake you want to have. Tiered cakes are the most common choice for weddings. Then you have single tier or sheet cake, themed cakes, laser cut cakes, three dimensional cakes, monogrammed cakes and the list goes on. Nothing is ever easy when it comes to weddings – there are a gazillion decisions to be made on everything! Bakeries specializing in wedding cakes will be able to produce photo albums for you to look at as well as cake books for you to choose from.
There's a famous cliché which states that "the proof of the pudding is in the eating", so get to tasting. You will need to decide on the flavor, filling if needed and the icing. Professional bakers will set up a cake tasting session for you and they will prepare a sample just for you to taste. As with anything that has to be perfect don't rush the decision.
Your budget needs to be realistic and after talking to a select group of bakers you will have a better idea of how much a really good wedding cake will cost. A budget of at least a thousand dollars will give you a cake to die for; a budget of two hundred dollars means you get what you pay for. If you have budget constraints, it is far better to choose cupcakes or fruit muffins and a novel way of doing the wedding cake bit rather than buying a cheap wedding cake. If you choose a themed or monogrammed cake you could very well end up spending over a thousand dollars.
Make sure the bakery does a sketch of the cake you have discussed before you sign the final order. This will ensure that the two of you are in sync over what your expectations of the wedding cake are.