My FI and I are having a cookie table and ice cream bar in addition to a cake at our reception. Am I obligated to have enough cake for all the guests, hopefully around 140, or would it be acceptable to just have a small 2 to 3 tiered cake? Neither of us are huge cake fans, which is why we are having the ice cream bar.
Re: cake question
A cheap option would be to have a small tiered cake to cut for pictures, then serve sheet cake for the guests that is plated behind the scenes. Nobody will notice or care that it didn't come from the little cake.
When you have an assortment of desserts, people will take more than one. Order cake for everyone.
[QUOTE]Honestly nix the cookie bar and ice cream bar and do only cake. <strong>Generally </strong>those special dessert tables go to waste. There's so much food on them and it never gets eaten. A cake would feed everyone and you'd get a piece to take home. You're not going to be able to take home left over ice cream from an ice cream bar. (No one is <strong>generally</strong> impressed with those types of things anyway). I feel mostly people are <strong>generally</strong> pleased with a piece of cake.
Posted by OwningAHome1981[/QUOTE]
You <strong>generally</strong> give terrible advice and make ridiculous assumptions.</div>
Agree. Yeah, just like you should send a gift if you receive an invite. Some people should be banned from giving advice to others. Thank goodness there are so many level headed posters who are up on etiquette and give normal advice to counteract the likes of OAH1981.
[QUOTE]My FI and I are having a cookie table and ice cream bar in addition to a cake at our reception. Am I obligated to have enough cake for all the guests, hopefully around 140, or would it be acceptable to just have a small 2 to 3 tiered cake? Neither of us are huge cake fans, which is why we are having the ice cream bar.
Posted by betsyray85[/QUOTE]
As others have said, have enough for everyone. You'll be surprised; in my family, NOBODY likes cake, the day of our wedding, it was gone in 2 seconds. Almost everyone had some.
[QUOTE]Thanks for the mostly helpful input! I thought about having sheet cakes in the back to serve from, but just wanted to see what the general consensus was. Sheet cakes in the back it is, with a small cake on display to cut. Eliminating the ice cream bar and cookies are not an option, OwningAHome1981. If my guests were to show up at my wedding and not see ice cream, they would be worried I was kidnapped. A cookie table is also a Pittsburgh wedding tradition that I intend to keep. Trust me, I'm not doing these things to impress my guests.
Posted by betsyray85[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>My DH and I would be so happy at your reception. He is a cookie and ice cream fiend and pretty much could care less about cake (I eat his piece at weddings) and I adore cake. I think you have a good solution going now.
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We had a cookie and dessert table, in addition to our wedding cake, and it did NOT go to waste. We had take-out boxes, and people were loading up on those things !!
Websites/blogs where our wedding has been featured:
http://www.dapperq.com/2013/11/a-very-dapper-wedding/
http://www.onabicyclebuiltfortwo.com/2013/10/wedding-christina-g.html
http://4realequalityweddings.com/2014/05/16/g-christina/
[QUOTE]Honestly nix the cookie bar and ice cream bar and do only cake. Generally those special dessert tables go to waste. There's so much food on them and it never gets eaten. A cake would feed everyone and you'd get a piece to take home. You're not going to be able to take home left over ice cream from an ice cream bar.<strong> (No one is generally impressed with those types of things anyway).</strong> I feel mostly people are generally pleased with a piece of cake.
Posted by OwningAHome1981[/QUOTE]
Wrong. I and plenty of other people I know are impressed with those types of things. Don't generalize about that.
OP: If you do serve any cake, you do need there to be a piece for everyone.