At my wedding reception venue, they told me the way they traditionally serve cake is that after they cut it, they place it at every guest's place setting instead of at a common table. There are two flavors so they just put one than the other and people can trade if they don't like what they got. They do it while everyone is dancing and also put carafes of hot coffee at the tables too. People come to their table when they feel like it to eat their piece of cake. They do this because they only make the amount of cake for each guest to have one piece.
I really don't know how I feel about this. I think I would prefer to have all the cake just placed at one table and people can come and choose what they want themselves. Which do you think would be better?
Pros of it being at their seat:Everybody is guaranteed a piece because the venue only makes enough for each person to have one piece.
Cons:People might not be willing to trade so they won't get the flavor they want
If someone doesn't want their piece, other people won't be able to get seconds and that cake will be wasted in the trash because people won't be rude enough to steal cake from someone else's place setting.
I think I'd prefer it to be just at one table so we could get seconds and choose our flavor but the venue lady seemed to think that was not a good choice. What do you guys think?