Cheap Wedding Cake

The wedding cake is the centerpiece of the reception. Fancy cakes from a professional are expensive… and the bigger the cake, the more you’ll pay. It’s easy to part with over £500 just for your wedding cake!

One important thing to consider here is that cake on display does not have to feed all of your guests. You can have an ornate, smaller cake for display and cutting purposes, and then have a sheet cake in the kitchen that can be cut and distributed to the guests.

Of course, you need to do your research by scouring wedding magazines and researching on the internet. Once you have found the cake for you, a cheap option that is often employed is to get someone you know who is good at baking to create a replica of your chosen cake.

There are a couple of good alternatives to the traditional wedding cake that you should also consider if you want to try to reduce the cost of your wedding cake. First, you could have a “cupcake” style arrangement. Here, individual ramekins are prepared and arranged in tiers. Each guest gets an individual ramekin. The advantage of these is that they are much easier for you make yourself (or for someone you know to make them) and they can also double up as dessert for the wedding breakfast (i.e. you do not have to pay your caterers for a separate dessert dish – it’s already covered by the cake).

Second, a non-traditional option that is becoming more popular is to have a wedding cake made out of cheese! When you buy cheese from a wholesaler, it usually comes in cylindrical slabs (of varying sizes, depending on the cheese). It is possible to arrange 3 or four of these cheese slabs on top of each other into something that vaguely resembles a tiered wedding cake. Again, this is a relatively cheap option and also has the added bonus of acting as a dessert or cheese course for the wedding breakfast.

 

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