How much cake?

christianavocal · May 2011

I have 120 people coming to my wedding. We are having both a bride's cake and a groom's cake. Should each cake serve 120? 60? How is this typically done?

Amivy06 · May 2011

Usually the bride's cake is the larger cake. As another piece of advice, if you are expecting 120 people, then I would have more than 120 pieces of cake. People will take seconds and the cake will run out before some of your guests even get one piece. Maybe have the bride's cake serve 120 and the groom's cake serve 40-60.

shopgrl3177 · May 2011

We're inviting 300 and we have enough cake for 325. Our bakery told us not everyone will eat cake but I would rather have too much than not enough. We're doing 3 different flavors so I thought some people might want more than one slice of cake.

shopgrl3177 · May 2011

Oh, and we're serving the grooms cake at the rehearsal dinner so we'll only have the wedding cake at the reception.

Wiscisbliss · May 2011

Some people will not eat cake, others will have two pieces.

I'd recommend getting extra, but not a ton (100-120 for bride's cake and 40 for grooms). Like PPs said, I'd rather have too much than not enough. Also, extra cake can probably be taken home and enjoyed by your family.

rascal17 · May 2011

Traditionally the brides cake is served and the grooms cake is for the guest to box up and take home, so if you are going to follow tradition and ediqutte your cakes should serve 120 people each.

If thats not the way your going or if you cant afford it I would do about 80 servings each for guests that want a peice of each, because we all know there are people out there with sweet tooths (myself included, if there were 2 cakes I would want a peice of each)

slcarter9114 · May 2011

Well, if you plan on saving the top layer then you'll need more then what is coming- unless you are excluding the top layer.

HYDROPHILE · May 2011

Well I bake and design wedding cakes and specialty cakes on the side, and the rule of thumb is order enough cake for 75% of your guests as your primary wedding cake. Contrary to popular belief about "people taking seconds," not everyone is going to want cake either.

If you're having 120 people, your wedding cake should be large enough to feed 90 people otherwise you'll be left with a lot of cake. The 90 people size doesn't include if you're keeping the top layer for yourself/your anniversary.

I've never heard of people running out of wedding cake, but I've heard enough about brides that have too much cake left over.

I had a bride recently that invited 150 people to her wedding. No matter what, she wanted a cake that fed 175-200 people because "that's what etiquette told her" and "what she read on a message board" (theknot.com?) She ended up with half a wedding cake remaining.

We are serving the groom's cake at the rehearsal dinner, and in place of a wedding cake, we are having cupcakes at our wedding in August. Why did we choose cupcakes? It saved us $100 from our caterer by doing so. They charged a $1/serving cake serving fee (for plates and napkins.) We opted not to get our cake from the caterer because his cakes look like he saw some at Wal-Mart and replicated them (poorly) and then wanted almost $600 for a two-tiered very simple design cake. Unfortunately, I was unable to do our wedding cake as I don't work for an already-established bakery.

younge bride 101 · May 2011

we did 300 peices for 230 (and it was ALL gone)
Then we did 100 for shane (and not even half was gone?

My point is you never really know lol my cake was awesome i admit it and it was and is only made by one person here its called bavarian cake, and that is probably why mine fell that way.

Go over vs short!

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