I have been so stressed out by the whole cake process. Sounds like fun, right? Eating cake? It is the only thing that even came close to dress shopping as far as stress.
We have a package with our caterer that came with the cake and the vendor was Donna's Cakes in W Roxbury. She gets pretty good reviews. We had her cake at an open house and my sister and mom hated it and said in no way could we use them. Also, they only had yellow, chocolate and carrot cake and I think my mom has her heart set on white. So my sister says we can go someplace else and she'll pay.
We had our first tasting at Icing on the Cake in Newton. It was great. I loved it, my sister loved it.
Then we had an appointment at Veronica's Sweetcakes in Marshfield. Well it transpired that mom and my sister liked this cake more and I did not. I was told by my sister at this cake tasting that it wasn't about what I wanted anyways since the cake was for my guests (I wasn't crazy over the thickness of the raspberry frosting).
So tomorrow I have a third cake tasting at White's Bakery in Hingham. They don't really advertise that they do wedding cakes but I have heard really good things about their cakes. But my sister seems to not really be interested in going there. She wants to try Konditor Meister even though I've told her a thousand times that I despise their cakes (too rich and FI hates regular frosting so I really don't think KM is going to go over well). I finally said we could go in a couple of weeks because my mom says that she now thinks KM is the only cake that's any good and that I need to humor her. And, my mom wants to try Sugar Plum Bakery in Kingston because she really liked their cupcakes. I'm kind of getting a little worried that I have too many cake tastings on my plate as we would end up with 5 (counting KM). Is it just me or is that too many?
Oh and after I said that I liked Icing on the Cake (which my sister and mom really liked when we were there) my sister decided to order a small cake with white cake and raspberry filling (we didn't try the white cake when we were there) and I thought it was pretty great. But apparently my mom and sisters say the cake was undercooked and that it was crooked and that it was pretty unprofessional when my sister told them she wanted to order it to get an idea of using them for the wedding.
And - I called my caterer about working something out about the cake and they said that they were adding Montilio's so I should wait and see if I liked them (they're going to be at an upcoming open house). And I was relieved but then when I told the fam I was told they were not an option. Apparently a friend of a friend went to a wedding that had a Montilio's cake and it had mold on the inside. And my sister got a pastry there at Christmas that had mold in it. I'm just very frustrated and stressed out by this whole situation! I feel like this shouldn't be this stressful. I feel like just saying forget it and using Montilio's since it wouldn't cost us anything extra.
How many cake tastings did you go to? Any positive/negative experiences you could share about any of the places mentioned (KM, Montilio's, Icing on the Cake, Veronica's, White's or Sugar Plum)?