Money Saving Wedding Cake Ideas

The wedding cake is a traditional part of the wedding reception. It can also be an expensive purchase eating up a chunk of your wedding budget. In order to save some cash consider these money saving wedding cake ideas.

Shop around and quiz your family and friends for names of bakers before you make your decision. You just might find an experienced cake maker who works from home at a much lower cost than the popular bakery in your town. I know in my location there is someone who because of family commitments closed their retail store but continue to offer their wedding cakes on a smaller scale from home. (She makes beautiful very tasty cakes.)

Local supermarkets and grocery stores are another option. Some of these stores offer cakes that are quite good and look wonderful. Here again it pays to shop around and see exactly what kind of wedding cake the particular store turns out.

If there is a cooking school in your area, they may be able to make the wedding cake for you for not much more than the cost of ingredients.

Many people choose to have a small elaborately decorated wedding cake and use decorated much less expensive sheet cakes to serve the wedding guests. Another money saving idea in this same vein is to decorate a dummy cake made from styrofoam for display on the table. Sheet cakes are then served to the guests.

Something else to keep in mind, while fondant is the trend for wedding cakes now, many people don’t like the taste and butter cream icing is much less expensive. Speaking of butter cream, part of the high cost of a wedding cake is the time someone has to spend making the decorations. A cake frosted with a smooth butter cream frosting can be decorated with ribbon and flowers and look just as beautiful but at a much lower cost than a cake that is elaborately decorated.

Keep these money saving wedding cake ideas in mind and your wedding budget will thank you.