Wedding Forum - Is anyone buying store bought and...

Deffo! I'd be happy to do this...the cake isnt one of the most important things for me, luckily we get ours included with our reception package, but its plain...so we are allowed to take it away decorate it and then take it back... But If I did have to sort our own cake out, I wouldnt be going all out on it! lol x

i was thinking of doing that but i dont know if it will cost more to make it? weve got 130 day guests and around 150 evening, any ideas how much it costs too make one? xx

ooh, i shall have a peek at those then, thanks trikstanika xx

you can order taster packs from mmm nnnn sssss xxx

Yeah I thought I had seen that on one of them lol x

I was thinking of just using fresh fruit or flowers, if I'm getting sponge cake. However, if someone convinces me to get fruit cake I'd probably get some edible flowers off the bay.

I have been looking at cakes from a well known super market too. Ive been shocked by the prices people charge for cakes! and tbh its only going to be eaten so i dont want to waste loads of money on it.

I found a local woman that makes cakes in her spare time and said she'd make a 3 tier, plain white iced sponge cake for £70 and then my mums found a site online and were going to get some royal blue ribbon and string of diamonties to put around each tier then some edible roses for on top. Saves me a few ££££'s

Yes I've been debating getting an m and s cake, tried to order the taster pack but have been unable to. Rang them up and said they couldn't as a new booklet thing is coming out so don't know if they are stopping doing it. Why spend so much money on something that may not all get eaten anyway. If I get one I will just be putting flowers on the top x x

i have seen some brides bought from tesco and decorate it. it is alright, no one will notice it. you can even bake your own cake and decorate it . if you have dessert at the dinner, you can cut down on cake, you can just ordered/buy one for cake cutting, people won't notice for not eating the cake

I made my own 3 tier fruit cake (pictures in album somewhere) The ingredients for all 3 cakes came to well under£50 and i had plenty of cake to feed 120 with a tier left over (no need to make a christmas cake this year!) Its certainly worth a go if you are on a budget,its not that difficult and they definitely taste better than shop bought too xxx

We are getting our cake from marks and sparks too. You can't order the tes co ones online, I don't think, and our store hardly ever has them in. I've heard the m and s ones are quite nice and they seem quite good value, too xx

I agree. A lot of people don't like fruit cake, and I think the majority of brides have either sponge or a mixture. They're missing a trick there xx

lizxzylou the trick was to keep it really simple so the cakes were just plain iced.(i used marzipan and then fondant icing as i didn't think i could manage royal icing) .I then bought some lovely ribbon to pin around the cakes instead of doing fancy icing and this covered any imperfections.I made the flowers inbetween myself.it was actually very simple.I just got two polystyrene dummy cake tiers and a load of fake roses (although you could do it with fresh but i didn't want to be doing it on the morning of my wedding!) i then stuck the fake roses into the dummy tier.The flowers on the top were supplied by the florist to match my bouquet.
I have made my own christmas cake for the last 3 years but that is the extent of my experience lol!

Thanks Amy xxx

We are getting ours from Wait....Rose
2 tier £99
Florist will decorate with fresh flowers
Dont like fruit cake and m & s seemed to be double/triple that cost

Cake is lovely but not one of the big things of the day in my opinion

Everyone seems to be surprised that I am not making my own as I have my own cupcake business but it is so time consumming and I am quite particular that they are best eaten the day they are made or the day after at a push so that would mean up & baking the morning of the wedding (getting married at 13.00 so thats a no no)
Or doing the cake the day before
I can't deal with that stress!!!

Don't blame her!
Its pretty stressful making them for someone else without all the time constraints and other wedding stresses that go on
I made my friends for her
70 cupcakes, 3 days after getting out of hospital from an infected dog bite to my hand
Made them single handedly if you will! lol

H2B was a star actually, he helped me so much and they looked amazing
Took over 5hrs but was worth it when she saw them

Were considering getting ours from a certain supermarket... the one's who adverts make your mouth water (particularly at the chocolate pudding!) he he! We can get a plain iced three tier for £74, would just decorate with some lace ribbon and a cake topper and tah dah! Bargain ;) x x x

That's unsual HelenW i'd not thought of having a wedding cheesecake! Sounds yummy! x