Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 14:29     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Seriously, everyone loves the sheet cakes from Costco. They are delicious. Go with that...
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 13:57     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Anonymous wrote:I am getting married in a few months. Second wedding for both of us so we are just having a small, intimate wedding. 50-60 people. We would like a wedding cake, but so far have gotten two quotes for around $600! I do not want to spend that much, and I don't think we are asking for anything that fancy.

Any suggestions for a less expensive bakery - even a friend who is trying to get their business off the ground? I would like to keep it $200-$300 if possible

Thanks!


We ended up buying many smaller cakes instead of one wedding cake and it was about half the price from the same bakery. Everyone liked the choice and many had small slivers of each kind. it was a hit.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 13:33     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Wow. The quotes you get seem really expensive. I got married in NYC 7 years ago, and got a wedding cake (non fondant) for 50 guests from a no name bakery on the lower east side for $200. I'd expect it to be more now, but not 3 times as much ...
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:45     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
We did a Baskin Robins ice cream cake. I think it was $50-60 for a really large one. Everyone seem to like it.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:43     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Try Heidelberg in Arlington. My sister used a grocery store for her wedding cake. Safeway does good cakes as does Wegmans. See if they do wedding cakes.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:41     Subject: Re:Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
I got my wedding cake in 2013 from Edibles Incredible in Reston. I'm pretty sure you can do a buttercream frosting cake, at your price point, if you pick it up yourself. My cake was 100 servings at $4.25 a person, but I had three tiers, three flavors, and an ombré design, so it might be even less for something simple. Also, they do a free cake tasting with three full pieces of cake!
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:28     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
We got a small cake to cut and cupcakes. A sheet cake is a great idea, but since we DIY'd much of our wedding and didn't want to stick someone on cake-cutting duty, the cupcakes were simpler. We went with Sticky Fingers Bakery, and they did a great job.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:28     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
I baked my own wedding cupcakes, swear to God. 120 of them (for 90 guests). My poor aunts were frosting them on the morning of the wedding.

If you want to go really cheap, there's your answer.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:12     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
We had 30 people at our wedding and just got 2 different kinds of your run of the mill, order off the menu cake from a local bakery. They were prettily decorated, even if they weren't "wedding cakes", and it only cost us $40 for some really delicious cakes.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:10     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
I ordered a stacked/tiered sheet cake for my parents' 50th last year.

Full sheet cake on the bottom, quarter sheet cake on top. The quarter sheet had a photo on it, and the writing and flowers were on the full sheet around it.

It was beautiful, fed 110 people, and cost about $150.

Congrats on your wedding!
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 12:01     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
A small cake for cutting and then serve cupcakes? We had cupcakes at our wedding. We deliberately over ordered from our fav. cupcake food truck and 4 years later, people still mention how good those cupcakes were. $350 for the whole lot of them. We ordered about 130 cupcakes for 80 guests.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 11:57     Subject: Re:Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Go to Giant and order a sheet cake with white icing. Their cakes are delicious.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 11:56     Subject: Re:Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
We had our reception at a restaurant and they made the cake and rolled it into the per person cost for dinner. It was beautiful and delicious and ended up basically not costing extra. Not sure if where you're having the reception but that's a potential option.
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 11:52     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We did a tower of cupcakes for our wedding. They were decorated beautifully, very affordable, and guests loved being able to choose their flavor.


We did this too. We skipped the cake cutting all together too. But if you want to do that, just get a small white cake from anywhere to cut.


+2

We had a small cake to cut (that we used as a topper) and then the guests got cupcakes (and other desserts).
Anonymous
Post 04/06/2016 11:43     Subject: Wedding cake suggestion - less expensive
Anonymous wrote:We did a tower of cupcakes for our wedding. They were decorated beautifully, very affordable, and guests loved being able to choose their flavor.


We did this too. We skipped the cake cutting all together too. But if you want to do that, just get a small white cake from anywhere to cut.