Wedding Forum - Need help...

HELP!! My partner and I are looking into our wedding cake and some companies are asking crazy prices. I mean like £300 for a sponge cake is ridiculous!! Anyway my fiancé's Gran has offered to make our cake for us if we buy the ingredients and everything we else we need for it. The thing is some of the family are telling us not to go for it incase she messes it up! She done one of her Grand-Daughter's wedding cake and she has done nothing but moan about it for the past 3 years about how the whole cake ruined her wedding! I was there and the cake was beautiful as well as the other wedding cakes she has done. I would like her to do it but their comments are making me doubt my decision.. Any ideas on what to do??

I'm not wanting anything fancy. Just simple but elegant :) Her cakes are amazing. It's just all the bitching I can't deal with. Sometimes I think it would be easier to get a baker to do it to stop all of that but on the other hand I can save 300 quid and put it towards something else if I get my fiancé's Gran to do it for us. Plus the woman I got to do my Mum's wedding cake last year only took 60 quid for a 2 tier cake but she can't do ours :(

If you like her cake then go with her. I would ask my sister make mine but she told me no as she doesn't want to mess it up....so I will be gettingher to make chocolate to go on the tables for after dinner.

Have you thought about going to Asda or M&S and getting their cakes and then just getting extra decoraion for them will save you a small fortune if you choose not to go with gran xx

We are paying between £220 and £260 for our 3 tiered/3 flavoured cake so can see why you don't want to pay £300!!

Have you looked into supermarkets? Some of their cakes are lovely and then perhaps you could get your OH's gran to decorate it maybe?

I recently found out a wedding I went to recently, her cake came from W@It-rose! I would never have guessed it!

Like I stated before I bought my Mum's wedding cake last year from a baker I know and only paid £60, that's why I grudge paying that kind of money but unfortunately she can't do our wedding cake. I understand the time they put into cakes and effort they put into their cakes but it's still expensive! And I also grudge paying that money because I know I can have it done for me by my fiancé's Gran. But what my question orginally was wither to put up with the hassle and have H2B's Gran to do it or pay the money and not have as much stress! Mrs T. 2 Be was it a sponge cake or a fruit cake? I know Asda do lovely fruit cakes but I'd really like a sponge cake :) x

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Just tired of feeling like I have to please everyone where as I should be ust trying to please myself and h2b. I had a look on the m&s and I seen exactly what I was looking for @£179 :) So thanks very much :)

MandS do a lovely sponge and you have a choice of teirs. Then you can decorate howered you want. Thats what im doin and making loads of cubcakes. But if you want gran to do it then go for it x

Rhiannon the reviews on them are fantastic :).. I'm nearly at breaking point with them all. It's nothing but hassle, it's as if my wedding can't be as good as theirs.. Our wedding budget is around £10,000 which is alot of money which my h2b and I are working our backsides off to save up, as we are paying for it ourselves. They all want to get their bit in, even if it's nothing to do with them! Xx

You've got the right idea December :) I think I'm going to get her to do it :). As you said even if its not perfect it's came from the heart. Plus that way I can keep an eye on it and even decorate it myself so I know it'll be the way I like it. I just want it simple though, 2/3tiers, royal blue ribbon and a monogram cake topper x

I got my cake topper off of the bay for £16 :) And can easily pick up ribbon from the craft shop, I think doing it that wa will be my best bet :) xx