Wedding Forum - How Much!!!...

A friend of mine is doing our wedding cake & said she would get us a qoute for the ingredients etc, and we are having a 4 tier hexaganol cake & she said its £297 just for the ingredients, tins, marizpan and icing!!!

lmao with friends like that who needs posh bakerys! lol x

that to me seem's really dear. Their is a professional baker featured in the deb hams catalogue (for up here in scotland) that would do a 4 tier for that price.

personally I would look at others near you, if i were you

wow that is very expensive!!! I would look around xx

Is she making it for free???

she reckons its because i want a hexaganol one that its the tins, the marzipan etc thats gonna cost the most

the cake from america i wanted was only £300 so that does sound a tad expensive xxx

Definitely too much, I would get quotes from the professionals

The cake my cousins making me is four tiers with hand made icing roses (over 100) and that was priced at 450 in the shop she gets inspiration from. Shes doing five tiers for me so goodness knows what that would cost!!x

I was making mine an I think ingredience is going to cost 100 x

We did think about making our own but dont think the stress will be worth it, as we're only have 50 guests we can get away with a two tier cake which should be around £300, a lot of money for one cake but it will be fab

wow that is expensive .... i thought she must be buying the tins and was going to suggest she hire them but you say she already has these?

wow that does sound expensive to say its a friend doing it x
my friends husband is making our 4 tier wedding cake and its costing us £160.00 and the pic of mine is in my pics xx

I was quoted £150 for a 3 tier square fruit cake from a friend... i thought that was steep for a cake considering they already had the equipment to make it etc..

My mum seemed to reckon that was quite good as bakerys charge 3 times that just because its a wedding cake!

I would ring round places and see if you can get some other quotes before you decide hun! xxx

Just posted a link on your wall- hexagon cake tins- a set for about £25.00 :) xx

that is expensive! how can ingridients cost that much! as she is your friend i would say to her you can not understand why they are costing so much. prehaphs say if you get the ingridiends how much will she charge to make it as that will work out alot cheaper

You can hire the tins so there is no need to buy them. My local cake shop hires any shape for a couple of quid a day. No point in getting her to buy the tins for you to never use them again. Also if she buys a box of icing from a cake shop it works out cheaper than if you were to buy lots of packets from the supermarket etc. You could even buy ready made fruit cakes in your shape for £10 for a 10 inch cake and then just ice them!

LMFAO Neal!!!

as a chef myself i know that ingredients dont cost that much! espcially when my pastry lecturer used to tell us how cheap it was to make things! and i know for a fact sponge cakes are one of the cheapest to make

i went onto ebay for geri last nite nad priced up hexagonal cake tins and a thing of 4 tins were only 20 odd quid so even if she bought them it doesnt take another 257 for ingredients

I am doing jo, i'm going to phone my old college lecturer & my childminder does amazing cakes so going to ask them 2 what they would charge

it depends on whether your having a fruit cake as dried fruit for a cake that size can cost a lot, along with things like eggs the cost can soon go up. my mum used to make wedding cakes and she had to charge 400 pounds or more just to make a bit of profit after she had payed for the ingredients and the time it takes to make it. i find people dont realise the work that can go in to a cake of that size. xx

im makin my parents silver wedding cake this weekend and its a 2 tier vanilla sponge and ive just bought the ingredients today and spent £25 on ingredients and £10 on decoration things. the cake tins i dont have but have hired for £20(deposit which i get bk) so thats £40 for the 2 and then its £1 a day. so for the time i need them for it will cost me £6 in total to hire 2 tins.

if ya friend has given u that quote she has added some on for a profit. i work things out for ingredients then work out how long its gonna take to make it and add some on.