How you can save money with wedding cakes

Wedding cakes can be expensive. Hiring an experienced baker for your wedding cake can cost from $4-20 a slice! That is a pricey wedding cake! So how can you have the wedding cake of your dreams and save some money for your honeymoon or your new home? Well we have some tips to help you get a unique wedding cake on a budget!

Save money on a wedding cake tip #1
Do your wedding cake research! Search the internet, ask friends, strangers, look in the phone book until you get a long list of wedding cake bakers. Call each wedding cake baker and ask them how much they charge per slice of wedding cake. Once you find a few of the cheapest wedding cake bakers in your area, schedule a consultation to discuss your wedding cake ideas and see if they meet your needs. Remember you are in charge! Don't get suckered into hiring a wedding cake baker because they pressure you. If you don't like their wedding cake samples or don't think they will make your ideal wedding cake or if it is too expensive, it is ok to walk away, even after a tasting. Don't sign a wedding cake contract until you are absolutely certain you want to work with them.

How to get a cheap wedding cake tip #2
Hire an affordable baker to make a plain tiered wedding cake, no frills. Have them set it up at your reception for you (this is hard to do on your own!). You can save money on your wedding cake by adding your own decorations to the cake once it is set up. You can use fresh flowers (remember to ensure they don't have pesticides) or fake flowers to decorate your wedding cake yourself. You can also decorate your wedding cake yourself by ordering gum paste flowers online on the internet, and then placing them on the wedding cake yourself. The internet has a lot of resources for gum paste wedding cake flowers or wedding cake fondant decorations that you can buy and have shipped to your home.

How to have a beautiful wedding cake on a budget tip #3
Choose the wedding cake of your dreams with all the decorations you want and have an experienced wedding cake baker make it for you. How is this wedding cake affordable you ask? Well, only have the baker make a cake for 50 people (or whatever the minimum is that the wedding cake baker charges). Then, you or family members can make sheet cakes using similar flavors of the professional cake to serve the rest of your wedding guests. Give the sheet cakes to your caterer on the day of the wedding. Your caterer will cut the wedding sheet cakes up in the kitchen and serve them to your wedding guests. Once the professional wedding cake is cut up, it is hard to tell between a sheet cake and professional wedding cake. Your guests will never know they are getting a piece of sheet cake and not a piece of the actual "wedding cake" that was on display at the reception.

Or you can save even more money by using wedding cupcakes!