Planning a Wedding — That All Important Wedding Cake
Wedding cakes aren’t only made by bakeries.
There are many grocery stores which feature top notch bakery departments which can produce elegant wedding cakes for a fraction of the cost you would pay a stand-alone bakery.
You may also want to explore the option of getting a person you know to bake your cake. As long as the person has experience with baking and cake decorating you may be pleasantly surprised to find that you will not only save money doing it this way but you may also make the cake experience much more personal if someone you know bakes it as opposed to an anonymous baker.
One word of caution, though: you need to make sure that the person you get to bake your cake actually knows what they are doing. You may be surprised to find the large numbers of people who bake well, but if they don’t have experience with creating the sort of cake you are looking for then you may be sorely disappointed.
If you are in the position where money is not an issue with regards to your cake then feel free to check with bakeries which specialize in wedding cakes and find a cake which is beautiful and delicious…just be sure to ask for samples while you’re there so you don’t wind up with a cake at your reception which is excessively dry or otherwise unpleasant.
The cake top tier is supposed to be saved for the first wedding anniversary.
If you have never heard of this tradition, don’t be grossed out by it. Indeed, a slab of cake will keep quite nicely in a freezer for a year, so you and your partner can share the cake when your first anniversary rolls around. Even if you do not plan on indulging in this particular tradition then you should at least be made aware of it so you aren’t confused when the top tier of cake, wrapped in foil and ready for the freezer, is shoved in your hands as you exit the reception.
If you do intend on keeping this tradition, though, just be sure to store the cake deep in the freezer and wrap it tightly. It would be a shame to wait the entire year of anticipating eating the cake with your husband only to find the piece was ruined because it wasn’t stored properly.
In other traditions that top tier of the wedding cake would be kept for the baby christening party. However that was when brides were expected to be getting pregnant within the first few months of the marriage.
You don’t need to go traditional with your wedding cake.
Everyone knows what a traditional wedding cake looks like: tiers of cake leading up to a small top tier adorned with a figurine of the bride and groom.
There are so many variations to this classical configuration that you can surely commission a wedding cake which is exactly what you want. Some people add flowing fountains to their tiers. Others stagger the tiers to form an interesting shape.
Still other couples do away with the tiers all together and instead have a wedding cake which is original and different. For example, one bride-to-be didn’t necessarily like the idea of a classical tiered wedding cake and instead convinced a baker to create a large sheet cake formed into the shape of a huge storybook. On the top of the cake the words “And They Lived Happily Ever After” was scrawled in frosting along with the names of the bride and groom along the bottom. Not only was the cake easier to serve to the guests, but everyone in attendance commented on how original the idea was. This, of course, made the bride and groom very happy indeed.
Are you broke yet? Hopefully by the time you have purchased everything you need for your wedding you will still have some available money left over for all the other necessities which come along with the act of getting married. Try your best to stay on budget and keep your eye on the ultimate goal: the union of you and the man you love.
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