Beautiful Wedding Cakes For Less! 3 Tips To Save
As beautiful an occasion as the wedding is for any happy couple, it’s important to keep a budget in mind when it comes to planning a wedding. When it comes down to it, after you tally up the expenses, the money you pay even for a modest wedding can be quite exorbitant! That said, what are the best strategies for getting a lovely wedding cake without paying exorbitant amounts of money?
First things first, stay away from the more exotic ingredients that can drive costs of a wedding cake up. A fancy ice cream base cake with strawberries inside sound great, but cakes like these can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars to make, especially if the cake you get is a tiered cake! Maintain normal ingredients such as frosting, basic filling and fruit on the side to supplement.
Next of all, try to get sheet wedding cake instead of tiered cake to feed most of your guests. Have a basic 2 or 3 level tier cake for photography on the wedding day, then order a few more sheet cakes to feed guests with. Most guests won’t be bothered by a small tier cake and sheet cake will help avoid needing a massive tier cake to feed everyone!
In addition, skip the bakery for the wedding cake and stop by your local grocery store. Grocery stores often have great bakeries right inside the store for wedding cakes that aren’t nearly as costly but can still get a great result. If you visit a bakery to get the wedding cake made, you will likely be paying a good bit more money because of branding and reputation. Avoid this by buying from a grocery store instead!
All in all, not every item in the wedding needs to be extremely costly for the day to be wonderful and memorable. You can cut costs without cutting memories on a wedding cake. After all, the majority of guests just want good taste rather than a huge, elaborate cake that costs a fortune! As long as you are on par with these tips, your cake should turn out fantastic without being too expensive.
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