Ugh. I was so glad that I booked everything up really fast and got the vendors I wanted. Well, now I've learned that my baker cannot do buttercream in any color but white.
Let me just say that I know that this is not the end of the world. People have much bigger problems than this.
That being said, I "saved the date" with $50 and planned on a cake that was probably going to be over $800. In fairness, my first picture I showed them was white, but come on. Don't you think it should be mentioned that it's the only option? I've been speaking with the bakery manager, and he said that colors come out too streaky. I just looked at their portfolio again and all of their buttercream cakes are white with colored decorations.
So my mother tells me tonight that she went down there to try some cupcakes. She mentioned to this same manager that her daughter was going to be getting her wedding cake there. When she told him my name, he said, "Oh yeah, she came in here with a girl with a bunch of tattoos and piercings (my sister) and she said you're going to be paying $450 towards her cake."
Now, my mother told me that's what she paid for my sister's cake, but we hadn't actually discussed that she would be doing the same for me. My sister got a cheap cake from a local donut shop. It tasted like donuts. Not bad donuts, but everyone I talked to brought up after her wedding that the cake tasted like donuts. So I casually mentioned it to this baker not knowing he was going to bring it up to my mother someday. So now she's ticked off about that.
Then my mother said she started her sob story about how she can't afford an expensive cake, and the manager tells her that they're one of the most expensive bakeries in the area. (And they can't do beige icing?!?) My mother has this idea that if you make people feel sorry for you, they'll lower the price.
Now she says that the cupcake she had was terrible, like she's trying to get me to go somewhere else. I don't know if I'm more angry at my mother or the baker! You know, I try to have a little dignity, something I wasn't exactly raised with. I don't need to be this bakery manager's best friend, I just want his wife to make my cake gorgeous and delicious. I've been working with them on some custom flavors, and I don't want to start all over, but now I'm embarrassed to even go there again.
Now that I've written this all out, I think I'll just shut my mouth, get a small groom's cake with my deposit, and go elsewhere for my wedding cake. I wanted people to be interested in my wedding, but I guess everyone is going to have to be spectators.