FI and I are stumped on how to decorate the cakes...yes, that's plural. Cake"S"
Our venue does not provide cake preference/allowance. And we just don't have the budget for a $500-$900 cake. Nor do we WANT to spend that much money on cake.
Which is fine, we found somewhere we really want to get our cakes from. $110 for 150people.

But they don't have any wedding-y decor ideas that we like. I can't find any online either.
Here's the catchy part, it's two sheet cakes, and then a personal circle cake. I thought maybe sticking the two sheet cakes on the sides of the circle cake and then maybe a topper on the circular one...but i have NO idea how to decorate the two sheets. My FSIL thought it'd be cute to maybe do a chocolate one that said MR and a vanilla one that said MRS...but i'm not sure if that'd be tacky? I mean...sheet cakes really aren't all that wedding popular anyways...
Any ideas?
Re: Cake Decor'
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I'm not so good with the advice... Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?
Or this one was pretty I thought:
ETA: Tiffany do you know how sturdy those tiers are? they kinda scare me lol
[QUOTE]I like Steph's idea. It would be must less cluttered and more sophisticated. You could decorate the table to add some extra pizzazz.
Posted by balfour00[/QUOTE]
yeah i like that idea. sadly the reason why this problem occured is because we cut the budget for cake down so we could bump the budget for food and drinks up....i think the guests would prefer it that way anyways :) cake is really just dessert
IMO a nice small cake on display is more elegant than sheet cakes. Cut the sheet cakes in the back and have them served at the tables and just use your pretty round cake for pictures and cake cutting. You could add flower petals, your topper, have votives around it --it would look nice I think.
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[QUOTE]IMO a nice small cake on display is more elegant than sheet cakes. Cut the sheet cakes in the back and have them served at the tables and just use your pretty round cake for pictures and cake cutting. You could add flower petals, your topper, have votives around it --it would look nice I think.
Posted by stephiehall[/QUOTE]
flower petals and votives....you're my hero steph! :)
[QUOTE]IMO a nice small cake on display is more elegant than sheet cakes. Cut the sheet cakes in the back and have them served at the tables and just use your pretty round cake for pictures and cake cutting. You could add flower petals, your topper, have votives around it --it would look nice I think.
Posted by stephiehall[/QUOTE]
<div>Perfect advice!</div>
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[QUOTE]I used Henk's Black Forest Bakery for my groom and bridal cake and spent $250.00 total. Everyone at the wedding thought the cake tasted delicious and I was able to bring in a picture of what I wanted decoration wise and they did it. Just a thought!
Posted by cc1019[/QUOTE]
Well what set off the choosing of our "bakery" is that FI hates cake...i'm not a huge fan of it myself...
we're doing ice cream cake...
i know...how traditional is that!
hmmmm...
i do like this though:
it's my new inspiration
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[QUOTE]Will your bakery do one for you? It will cost a little more but shouldn't be too much as long as the design is simple. Our bottom tier was fake, as was the top.
Posted by stephiehall[/QUOTE]
i'm not sure. i'll have to ask. but if anything we'll just make one of the sheet cakes a size smaller and purchase a second small tier. we can maybe add a little to the budget, but i'd like to keep it at what i have now. that way we can have more room to play with catering. this could also all change once we get a more solid number of guests.
It will be pretty, don't worry!
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