Unique Wedding Cake Ideas to Cut Your Wedding Costs

Weddings no longer have to be planned using old, traditional rules. When it comes to wedding cakes, brides have been expressing themselves for years with icing colors and various statuettes on the cake's top layer. Saving money on the wedding cake is entirely possible in the 21^st century. Wedding cakes can be designed and personalized however the bride and groom choose. If you want to make your wedding the talk of the town and still save money, take a look at these unique wedding cake ideas.

Assorted Wedding Cakes for Your Special Day

Have you ever thought about using assorted cakes of different sizes and flavors arranged nicely on the dessert table? What's cool about this suggestion is that you have a number of ways to plan for the assorted wedding cakes at your nuptials and you will no doubt save big money on the cake.

--- All the cakes are to be baked fresh the day before the wedding and brought to the reception hall early on the day of the wedding.

--- There's a number of ways to select the types of cakes to bring. For example, the couple could ask their parents, aunts, cousins, and friends to bake one of the couple's favorite cakes to serve at the reception.

--- Let's say since you were 10, your grandma used to bake the most luscious coconut cake and it became your favorite. Well, have grandma bake that cake for the wedding. Maybe the groom's mom's specialty is Black Forest Cake. So, have her bake and bring that cake. Get the picture? The wedding cakes become part of the wonderful history of the couple and their families and bring that history to your wedding.

--- Encourage your mothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, and friends to make their most special cake for your wedding (this suggestion differs from the one above because your family and friends get to choose the cake type).

--- Still another way to handle the assorted cakes suggestion is to have the bride and groom generate a list of cake types they would like to have and then ask family members and friends to each bake one of them.

Possibilities are endless for the cake assortment idea. Two things are for sure: your guests are going to love the cake assortment idea. Plus, following this suggestion is going to preserve your wedding cash.

Wedding Sheet Cakes to Save You Money

Consider ordering sheet cakes instead of a traditional cake.

--- Wedding sheet cakes are much less expensive to order from bakeries than a tiered wedding cake.

--- Firstly, rather than pay to have them delivered, the bride or groom can pick up sheet cakes and transport them to the reception hall the day before.

--- Also, sheet cakes in traditional white or chocolate varieties can be baked at home pretty easily by the non-professional. If iced with butter cream frosting, the only thing left to do is obtain an icing bag to decorate the cupcake tops with basic star decorations.

--- If you want to write something on the cakes, ask a friend or family member who has taken cake decorating lessons to do it. Remember, very basic decorations can be done by the average person.

Have a Tiered Cupcake Wedding Cake to Treat Your Guests

Have a tiered cupcake display instead of the traditional tiered wedding cake. Online instructions for making your own serving tier for cupcakes are available at this web link. The advantages to serving cupcakes at your wedding are many:

--- Cupcakes are generally less expensive to have made than cake. Also, cupcakes are quite manageable to bake at home for your own wedding and also to transport them and set them up. Baking and transporting the cupcakes yourself saves big money in your wedding budget. Call on your family members and friends to each bake a few dozen cupcakes and ice them. You can use a decorator icing bag to put an icing star on the top of each one in your wedding color.

--- Cupcake portion control for guests is automatic.

--- You can express your wedding theme through the icing and decorations on the cupcakes.

--- Choose to make all the cupcakes the same (i.e. chocolate) or any variety you like.

--- Cupcakes are self-serve for your guests. Guests simply walk up to the tiered cupcake display and grab a cupcake. No attendant is necessary to cut cake and serve it to guests.

--- Offer small plates and napkins near to the cupcake tiers. Forks really aren't necessary.

Can you say, Wedding Pie?"

You may find this next suggestion hard to swallow (pun intended), but pie is the new cake. That's right, the latest word is that pies are going to be "big" this year (ABC Evening News, 2011) and will even be served at weddings in place of the cakes. So, if you are a pie lover, consider serving pies at your wedding reception to totally wow your guests.

--- You will most likely save money serving pies as compared to cakes, even if you order them from a bakery.

--- You can serve all the same pies or offer an assortment of either home-baked or fresh bakery-baked pies.

Remember that your wedding belongs to the two of you and you can do pretty much anything you want when it comes to the wedding cake. No matter which of these unique wedding cake ideas you choose, you can be sure that you will save some cash and wow your guests at the same time.

Sources

ABC Evening Television News, January 21, 2011.

Bridal Association of America website.

Cake Journal website.