Can you Save money on a Wedding Cake?

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Q: Are there Ways to Save Money on the Wedding Cake?

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Budget-conscious brides who want an expensive-looking cake at a reasonable price can have their cake and eat it too! Check out our favorite ways to make your confectionary dreams come true.

Double Duty:Find out if your caterer works as a baker too. Many hotels, country clubs, and larger catering companies have a pastry chef on staff. Often, if you use the staff pastry chef versus a designer from an outside bakery, you'll avoid cake cutting fees, service fees, additional tips and delivery costs.

Something For Everyone:Go ahead -- give 'em what they want. Order several smaller cakes in all different flavors, and serve them together on a dessert table. By sparing your designer major assembly and decoration time, not only will you cut your costs tremendously, you'll get a bite of tiramisu AND cherry chocolate cheesecake.

Flower Power:Not only are flowers one of the most beautiful ways to decorate a cake, they are also one of the least expensive. To cut costs even more, adopt a "less is more" motto, keeping sugar decorations to a minimum and letting your fresh blooms take center stage.

Nice Sheets:Your fantasy cake costs a fortune, but the look and taste is just right. What to do? Order a smaller-size cake and have your baker make sheet cakes from the same recipe. After you cut the cake, pose for pictures, and feed each other the first bite, your caterer can whisk the cake behind the scenes where it will be supplemented with sheet cake. Trust us -- no one will know the difference.

The Satellite Discovery:A satellite cake is created when an upper layer of separate cakes is tiered on top of a lower layer of separate cakes. The lower layer serves as the cake's "base." Essentially, satellite cakes are used when the cake needs to be built "out" as well as "up," and when the cost of creating a tall cake is prohibitive to the wedding budget. If you're a bride in need of a towering multi-layer cake, ask your baker about adding satellites instead of tiers. It's a beautiful solution to an otherwise pricey problem.

Square Edges: Boxy cakes are mod, but they are difficult to build and frost. It takes time and patience to even out all those edges -- so if money's an object, go for more traditional, round layers.

Something Borrowed:Your cake is new, so why not borrow from the past for accessories like cake toppers and cutting knives? After sifting though Grandma's hope chest or Mom's china cabinet, you might just find another way to honor brides of the past, revive the life of an heirloom, and save money while you're at it!

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