Cheap Wedding Cakes

You can have your cake and eat it too with these ideas for cheap wedding cakes! It can be very expensive to buy your cake from a bakery. Bakeries usually charge by the serving for wedding cakes. A serving is a one inch by two inch piece of cake. Depending on the cake, it can cost $5 or more per guest. A cake to serve 100 guests could easily cost $500 or more for a professionally made and decorated cake.

You will need a wedding cake topper unless you plan to use flowers. Click on the pictures below to see these in detail.

One idea to save money is to buy a small professionally made cake, maybe one that serves up to half of your guests. Then have a few friends or relatives make enough sheet cakes with white icing to serve the rest of your guests. These cakes can be cut and placed on dessert plates in the kitchen and brought to the serving table to be served to your guests. You can save about half of the cost of what you would have spent on your cake!

Another idea is to find someone who makes wedding cakes at their home. There maybe someone in your church who does this or someone who works in a local bakery who has a side line of decorating cakes at home for extra money. They will usually charge a lot less because they don’t have the expense and overhead of running a business.

Of course, the best money saving idea is for a close friend or relative to make your wedding cake! A simple yet elegant three tiered wedding cake is easy enough to make for someone who has some baking experience. An even easier idea for cheap wedding cakes is cupcakes! This would be easy and fun for you and your bridesmaids to do together. Just plan to do this at least two days before the wedding.

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