Loans for Wedding Receptions and Venues

This is just amazing, Nigerian Bride, Chidi Ogbuta, or Texas had a custom made, life size portrait cake of herself!  Rather than fulfilling her life long dream of having a doll made of herself, she instead, decided to have a self portrait wedding cake made of herself.  This is just amazing!  Take a peek at the picture of Chidi cutting the cake with her husband.

I was browsing the Net today looking for Wedding Cake ideas.  There are so many ways to design a cake, but only a few present the elegant image that I find perfect for a wedding cake.  Many of the cake designs that work well for me are topped with floral arrangements.  The flowers really add a nice touch to a wedding cake.  A few flower toppers look clean and simply, but present very elegantly.  When you begin to incorporate a lot of different colors or objects into a wedding cake, the cake begins to become more of a birthday or party cake.  Here are some examples that you could consider when designing your wedding cake. The cakes are all designed by the designer “Cakes By Sam, Inc.“.Mini Calla Lilies work very well as you will see.

Dependent upon your catering hall / venue, you may have to pay for your wedding cake, or it may already be already included in your price per person.  If the former is true and you have to pay for your wedding cake, there are a number of options to consider in order to lower the cost of your cake.  Here are some ideas to consider to lower the cost of your wedding cake.

• A simple, plain cake is very cost effective to create, and by simply decorating the cake with fresh flowers, makes for a very elegant wedding cake.

• The more time consuming and expensive part of a wedding cake is it’s decoration.  Obviously the larger the cake, the more time spent decorating it.  Consider designing a smaller wedding cake, while cutting and serving a large plain cake?

• Avoid a circular cake, a square cake can cut more equal portions and thus less waste in cutting serving sizes.
• Purchase a cake from an independent off location (not at the reception hall) baker.

• Don’t save the top tier of the wedding cake.  Often times couples save the top tier of their wedding cake to eat on their anniversary.  Do you plan on eating that year old frozen cake?  Why not server the top tier to your guest?

Have any other wedding cake savings ideas?  Leave a comment.