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6 Trade Secrets For Minimizing Wedding Cake Costs by Sarah James
Master decorators can make visually stunning wedding cakes to suit pretty much any style required but, unless you know certain tips and tricks you could end up blowing a huge portion of your budget in no time at all.
If left unchecked this aspect of the budget can spiral out of control just because of a lack of research where the eyes are bigger than the budget.
Fortunately, there are some trade secrets that can help to ensure the costs don't derail the entire amount of money set aside for this feature.
The Bait and Switch: For some reason, the moment a designer knows that the "event" is a wedding, the price instantly creeps up.
To stop this from happening be sure that, when pricing the various elements, you don't talk about which event the cake is going to be used for.
Once you have agreed a price it makes it much harder for the baker to increase it at a later date therefore instantly saving you money.
Also, under the circumstances, do not look for the highest end bakery.
While it is true that you get what you pay for, it is also true that, at the upper echelon shops, a bride is paying as much for the reputation of the baker as she is for the cake itself.
Take the shop with the highest price tag and the one with the lowest price tag, cross both of those off the list and pick somewhere right in the middle.
Before cutting the cake, cut the guest list instead: No matter how much research goes into finding a bakery that doesn't charge an arm and a leg, the fact remains that the pricing is based per slice, and not per cake.
Therefore, it stands to reason that the smaller the guest list is, the less wedding cake will be consumed. An alternative to this would be to have a smaller wedding cake done to the style preferred, and have a flat sheet cake on hand to take care of feeding the masses.
It's Hip to be Square: Hewey Luis and the News had no idea when they recorded the hit song Hip to be Square that they were actually talking about a giant pastry as well.
Even though the round style has been the most identified with, the square style actually feeds more people, and as such can save a little money off the overall price tag.
Go for the Real Deal: In this case, it is cheaper to put away the sugar embellishments and instead use the real thing.
Don't spend the extra dollars trying to get sugar flowers made to adorn the cake, use real ones instead. The same theory applies to fruit as well.
The same thing applies to cutting down on the number of fillings that go into the project. While two or three may or may not taste better, one will be plenty and will cost quite a lot less.
Fake it till you Make It: If a multiple tier cake is the only one that will do, but the budget just doesn't take care of that desire, ask the baker to substitute Styrofoam layers near or at the top end of the cake.
It will look absolutely identical and the guests will never suspect the difference.
The Slice is Right: Since it is true that cakes are priced by the slice, be sure to educate and account for this eventuality in the financial plan before the process ever gets started.
Let's look at three different options available.
The cheapest cake will be one costing up to around $2 per slice. It will generally have a butter cream type topping and a vanilla filling as these are the most cost effective options.
For a guest list of 100 people, that price tag would start from around $200.
The next level up is a one or two tier cake which will have a few embellishments on it and a more expensive filling such as banana, raspberry or carrot.
This cake will start around $5 per slice and using our first measure above the same 100 guests would almost double the price tag.
The top end cake will generally have four or more tiers, lots of embellishments and an expensive filling which may include something like cream cheese.
This will start at $10 per slice and unless money is no object or the guest list will remain extremely small will probably not be an option for most brides.
The wedding cake is an extremely important visual for the big day, and brides usually have a clear cut idea of what they want.
Unfortunately, with the way that the pricing is set up, many couples are shocked at just how much a little sugar and flour mixed together with decorations to match can cost.
By using some proven trade secrets, though, the desired cake just may be able to become a reality and at least a runaway budget won't be an issue.
Sarah James is the owner of My Lavish Wedding which is a free tips and advice website helping brides through the entire planning process from sourcing a dress to finding dream wedding cakes
Article Source: http://www.earticlesonline.com/Article/6-Trade-Secrets-For-Minimizing-Wedding-Cake-Costs/691172
Very short bride/wedding dress help?
Im very short, 4'11. And ive always avoided long dress because they are very overwhelming and seem to just swallow me. Even my prom dresses were all short. But on my wedding day i feel i have to have a long dress. Is it possible for me to find a long traditional wedding dress that doesn't overwhelm my small frame? Any advice on styles, designs etc?
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Hope this helps.
