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    • MrsMelodyWalker
      CommentAuthorMrsMelodyWalker
     
    Has anyone had, having or thought about having cakes for the evening reception? I was looking through an old school friends wedding photos and she had giant cupcakes and had her caterers cut them up for her evening guests, I really like this idea! What do you think??? I have a giant cupcake cooking in the oven at the moment, going to have a go at decorating and see how it looks as if I go for this I think I'd just make them myself

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    • Sijen
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    Yep Mrs Walker - We are planning on serving our cake with the evening buffet - only because I have been to so many weddings when the cake has been left (and thrown away) - as we're thinking on having a sponge cake it won't keep and will therefore need to be eaten!

    Although we do love the cupcakes idea, friends of ours did this last year and we all took a cupcake home, but think 150 cupcakes may be too much lol x

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Oh gosh, I don't think I could do that many although I'm sure h2b's grandma would love to do them all and her cup cakes are yummy! My actual wedding cake will be cut and given out to guests at the wedding breakfast but I've always gone to evening receptions wanting a bit of cake lol!! xx

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    • shellay
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    we have a traditional three tier with our evening reception, but we are not having food before the evening reception as getting married later, but the giant cupcakes sound lovely, hope your trial run one turns out well :) x

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    • Jane
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    We are serving our wedding cake in the evening instead of a sweet buffet course, seems silly to spend £400 on a cake and have people too full up to eat it! So it is their pudding. Think your idea sounds fab x

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    • Hunny Bunny
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    I have designed a 3 tier cake and the middle tier will be removed for the day reception, although we will cut the cake in the days time. The middle tier has 35 individual iced cakes to match the theme and after the wedding breakfast, will be moving to the lounge area for coffee and a cake (magician will be there too) anyway on the evening, the tier will be replaced with the normal tier and used as a sweet, there will be 3 different choices of flavours, also we have a sweet buffet too. Would be gutted if had to bring the cake home with us!

    Good luck with the cupcake decorating x

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    • Jilly17
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    I like the idea of serving the wedding cake at the evening do too. After 3 courses including a dessert, coffee and mints do guests really want yet more food? At least if it is served on the buffet people have the choice to take a piece or not. I wonder how much cake is found in the bottom of handbags weeks after weddings!
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    • XLittleMissMe!X
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    I'm having my cake on display until the evening as we are having a dessert with dinner so will do the 'cutting' when everyone is there and then it will get taken away and served up.




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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Oh hunny bunny that sounds fab and you've really thought about that one well!! xx

    By the evening my day time guests sure as hell won't want more cake so I will just cater for about 80% of the guests that way they can or the can't and I won't have waste, I just really like the idea of the evening guests having some cake without me having to change the design of my actual wedding cake and leaving the wedding cake till later.. I'm probably making it a bit harder for myself but I enjoy doing stuff like this but whether I actually go with it will depend on how this cake looks lol!!

    I'm thinking doing a few giant cup cakes myself and then asking h2b grandma to chip in and do some small cup cakes, then it can be mixed in with the sweetie table!

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    I'm off to decorate my giant cup cake and when I say giant it really is giant lol if it looks any good I will post a pic for opinions! I know I will get the truth from you girls :-) x

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    • Jill
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    We're serving our cake with the evening buffet too - makes sense (although they look so good I could probably give it a good go myself) x

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    • MrsBroady2B
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    When I went my uncles wedding last year, his wife likes to make cupcakes (she want's to open a buisness doing them). She had made loads of them that she had put out with the buffet in the evening. They were very nice, and I think ven better knowing that she had done them.




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    • stressed to max b2b
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    were cuttin our cake at night time and serving it for puddin with the buffet and goin to supply whipped and tinned cream so they have that opption too x

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    • x~Hails~x
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    We are using our cake as dessert so are having cake pops (worked out cheaper the cupcakes) for the favours but have catered for EVERYONE including the evening guests and those who cant make it :-)

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Well... my giant cupcake was a flop lol literally!!

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    • tilomilo
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    we are also having the cake on display all day, but are cutting it and having it at the reception as our wedding breakfast comes with desert.

    oh dear about the cupcake - but you still got a few months practice xx

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Thats exactly what h2b said lol

    I however think I may give up and just leave my wedding cake on display and cut it before the first dance at the evening reception?

    xx

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    • Hunny Bunny
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    Surly not, was looking forward to seeing the pics. I've only very recently started baking, I made a christmas cake - which everyone said was great, well they would as there was a full bottle of brandy in it - and then last week I made a birthday cake for my daughter, everyone who tried it liked it, it was just sooo bloody stressful!

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    I think I may of took it out of the mould's too soon, should of let it cool down more! As soon as I took them out they shrank heheee oops. They had risen too much in the oven and had peaks too which they weren't suppose to.. oh well, I can try again, h2n won't mind eating them :-D

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    • stressed to max b2b
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    i think u should still post a pic of your flop lol x

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    hahaaa Its in the bin!! I'm going to try again tomorrow when I get home from Wookey Hole Caves, I'm off to be a kid for the day so when I get home I can go back to being old mother hubbard baking cakes :-P xx

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    • stressed to max b2b
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    ok but no matter what it turns out like u gotta post a picci ok lol x have fun been a kid for the day x

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    • suzky123
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    A friend served the cake n cupcakes and the cupcakes went meaning she wasted a lot of her cake

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    • CommentAuthortweedwedding
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    We're going to have our cake in the evening, but ours is made of cheese!!
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    • CommentAuthorButterflyDreamer
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    We Are going to have our cake at the evening reception :D

    We will be waiting for all the guests to arrive first.

    Tweed, The chef at work made a 4 tier wedding cake made from cheese It looked really good! He was telling me how Much the bottom 2 Tiers cost and i almost fell over! (It was for one of our managing directors lol).
    Are you Serving it with all the pickles and crackers etc?
    I love the idea i think it's interesting. I have heard of a Couple having a Pork pie cake too :D

    I think if i liked Cheese enough i'd have one but i'm quite happy with a sponge cake!
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    • CommentAuthorButterflyDreamer
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    Mrs Walker to be we went to wookey hole not so long ago and it was brilliant :D I loved all the caves and there was a room where they had been maturing cheese for god knows how many years!
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    • janetx71
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    we are serving our cake in the evening we thought of having cup cakes as well but decided to just have our wedding cake xxx
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    • Sijen
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    Ah Mrs Walker I was looking forward to seeing your cupcake too ha! On the other hand - think about time etc in making these yourself the day /or two before your wedding...be honest...could you REALLY be bothered? Ha!

    Our evening buffet has 3 desserts included so we're going to ask if they could drop them and just offer the wedding cake (may save us a few dollars as well ;o) ) x

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    • fluffyfi84
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    We are having cupcakes with a giant cupcake at the top of the stand to cut. We are having them during our evening reception as there is no sweet course with the buffet and as we are having dessert with our wedding breakfast I thought it would be nice to have cake for the evening. x
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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Ok, so giant cup cake number too is the oven, I followed a friends advice and she's awesome making cakes so I'm keeping my fingers crossed this one works, I'm dead excited to see the outcome lol I really just want to decorate it!! I will show everyone, whether its a flop or not hehe I promise!

    Wookey Hole was AWESOME. I've had the best day, deffo what I needed after such a crap few weeks. Got to spend time with my h2b and my sister whos about to POP, her baby is due in 3 weeks but is measuring full term so we had fun acting up like kids before her own kid arrives, although crouching through caves was a bit of a mission for her. We played crazy golf which was just the funniest thing ever, I sucked, 6-7 shoots at each hole untill the very last hole, the hardest hole I got a HOLE IN ONE!! HAAAAAAAAAA

    I'm a bit of a high at the moment so excuse my waffling lol

    All your ideas sounds fantastic. I don't think it actually matters when its served, what you serve, or who you serve it too.. its your big day, the day you marry the love of yours life's, it'll be perfect

    Ok enough of the soppy stuff lol!!


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    • CommentAuthortweedwedding
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    Butterfly Dreamer - My Brother had a 3 tier pork pie wedding cake!! It was really nice too :-) And yes, we're going to have chutney's and crackers and grapes and apples etc. We've found a company that can do one for about £160, but we need to get more details... I'm going to make the chutney, and have bought the chutney jars this weekend!! :-) I love cheese!! :-) x
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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    I was in a cave with about 600 lumps of 8 year old cheese! Stinky!

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    • Sijen
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    Ha Mrs W 2be you make me laugh...dying to see the new cupcake! Pics please!



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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    LoL I'm glad I make you laugh! I make myself laugh, although I'm not sure that's a good thing hahaa.. It's still in the oven but it's looking fab, so scared to open the door and it sink lol smells sooooooooooo good!!

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    • Mel D
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    We're also having our cake as dessert, along with a cheesecake and chocolate cake (h2b HAD to have a chocolate cake - but wants a big fancy wedding cake) and anything that's leftover we're bringing out in the evening.

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    mmmmmmmm chocolate cake!!

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    • Sijen
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    Oooh sounds good MelG...If my H2B had his way we'd have a giant egg custard ha! Any chance of that Mrs W? Lol can you imagine?!?



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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Lmao I just said to h2b how do you fancy a giant egg custard tart cake and he looked amazed and said "do they actually exist, I;d love one" what a douche bag! Ok, I have 2 minutes before the cakes come out!!

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    • Sijen
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    Hahahahaha - actually just burst out laughing REALLY loud and scared the life out of the cat!

    Ooooh exciting times for the great unveiling of the cupcake....fingers crossed!!!

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Lmao

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Ok.. sponges are out of the oven, they haven't sunk they are nice and firm but spongey look and smell amazing I just hope they don't sink as they cool!!

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    • Sijen
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    Woohoo - how were they? Any pics?

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    Yeah I've put pics in my albums lol looks so funny!!!

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    • Sijen
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    Mrs Walker - just checked out your cupcake - WOW!!! That is a big one! It looks fab - well done!

    (Are you taking bookings? lol) x

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    LoL It doesnt look as good as Id hope it would LoL BUT it tastes bloody lovely. Going to make another tomorrow now I know exactly what to do and hopefully it'll look better :-D

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    • Sijen
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    Wooo you are getting into it aren't you? It does look yummy ha. Enjoy!

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    • stressed to max b2b
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    hey thats fab for a first well second attempt lol keep it up u will soon be an expert and we will all be booking u for ours lol xx

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    I'm practising again, I have a double chocolate giant cupcake in the oven with white chocolate chips, I'm going to fill it with vanilla buttercream strawberry jam and marshmallows lol yummy!! xx

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    • Sijen
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    Ha my mum's just been round and has offered to make my favours - white choc baileys truffles....mmmmmmmm they look / sound delish!

    We've also just decided on serving our wedding cake at the end of the wedding breakfast with the tea & coffee rather than having a dessert...then serving the rest with the evening buffet.

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    • MrsMelodyWalker
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    We're going to cut the cake at the end of the wedding breakfast but it'll be served in the evening now.. we're having chocolates and mints with coffee anyway. So I don't really need to make the cup cakes but I'm having fun doing it and eating it lol! xx

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