I'll start this post of with a confession...
I am not a HUGE cake fan. I felt a few jaws drop just writing that haha, but it's true. I like cake and I love cheesecake, but it is not anything I am ever craving for or thinking "mm I would like a piece of that cake". I often don't eat the cake at parties or even order desert at restaurants. Maybe it is because of my feelings towards cake, that I have noticed that wedding cakes often go largely uneaten.
I am not a HUGE cake fan. I felt a few jaws drop just writing that haha, but it's true. I like cake and I love cheesecake, but it is not anything I am ever craving for or thinking "mm I would like a piece of that cake". I often don't eat the cake at parties or even order desert at restaurants. Maybe it is because of my feelings towards cake, that I have noticed that wedding cakes often go largely uneaten.
At the weddings I have attended, by the time the cake comes out most people are full, a bit tipsy and out on the dance floor dancing. They may run back to the table for a bite or two of cake and then return to the dance floor. Some I'm sure miss the cake entirely or are too full to eat it.
At our wedding when guests enter they will be served canapes, then when they sit they will be hit with an individual antipasto platter, an entree, salads and dips on the tables, a main, a desert and a fruit platter to finish. That is A LOT of food.
When thinking about the amount of food that will be at our wedding in conjunction with my observations on wedding cake, I have decided that we WON'T be serving cake at our wedding.
No, I'm not saying we won't have a cake and I'm not saying we won't share it with our guests, all i'm saying is that it won't be served on the tables on plates.
Instead, I have opted for a "take your cake" option. I will be asking the waiters to place people's slice of cake in a cake box, which will be placed on a table near the exit for guests to grab as they leave. Sure there will still be left overs and some still won't get eaten, but there will also be a lot eaten the next day when people pull it out of the fridge. That's the plan anyways!
To carry off my plan, I purchased these cute cake boxes from Light in the Box (thanks for making me look on that site Little Black Sheep) with a handle and all.
I purchased 192 of these little babies for only $96 incl. delivery.
how they start out
We only needed 180, but purchased the extra 12 to play around with. For the wedding, I want to have a black ribbon around the handle and a customised sticker on one of the sides.
Big enough for a slice of cake.
That's my hand underneath.
I am really happy with them.
They will be our own little party bags :)
Such a good idea, I never eat cake because I'm too full or busy chatting/dancing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for validating my idea! I just told a cooworker and he responded by saying, "well i'd rather eat my cake after my meal". lol there will be dessert!
DeleteGreat idea! I have never eaten a cake at a wedding either. I wasn't going to have a cake at all - but then changed our minds. We ended up cutting the cake and leaving it off to the side of the dessert buffet. Everyone started to help themselves and I didn't even get a taste! I couldn't believe it went! I was planning on having cake for ages after the wedding.
ReplyDeleteOooohhh a dessert buffet! Maybe it depends on how many cake lovers are at your wedding? hahaha. I don't care when it gets eaten, I just think you spend a lot of money for it to go to waste!
DeleteCute Idea!
ReplyDeletethe most recent weddings we have been to the bride and groom have cut the cake and never shared it haha and then for dessert it will be a sticky date pudding w fruit or something! X
whhhaaaat??? no sharing??? what piggy mc pig pigs! hehe
DeleteI've never been a cake fan, but I have put it down to never having good cake! I recently started to like it and now I get major cravings - not good for the waistline!!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of having dessert at the wedding and taking a slice of cake home. We had sorbet for our wedding dessert then the cake was left on platters to be picked at but they didn't put one on the bridal table so I don't have any idea what it even tasted like!
a lot of brides are saying they haven't tried there wedding cake.. hehe. I will try to stay away from the good cake then, I don't think my thighs can handle it!
DeleteYay glad you found something on that site. We are doing cake boxes too but I made them from scratch, which was a bit of a mission but I do love them dearly. Check out vistaprint if you want to make your own stickers. They are quite well priced and send them to you within a good time as well. Just ask your coordinator whether they will put the cake in the boxes or whether the guests will put them in themselves. Our venue won't put the cake in the boxes for us but our wedding day coordinator is going to do it for us instead. I've also come up with the idea that the cake is going to be served on platters with the boxes and a sign in a photo frame saying help yourself to a piece of cake which you can take home in your own little cake box if you want.. or something similar to that, these will be popped on the tables when the dancing starts so guests can take them home with them :)
ReplyDeleteYou would make them from scratch, you clever little thing you! hahaha I will get on to the stickers as soon as I nail down my theme. I have thought that I will have to ask about if they will do it. I think i'd prefer if I could get someone to put them in boxes, so guests aren't handling cake. Hmm i'll have to see, thanks for the ideas!
DeleteI love them! That is a really good idea. I totally agree, no one I know seems to eat the cake and I know I nearly never do. No one is hungry by the time if the cake comes out or are as you said too busy dancing (or drinking) I'd totally take the box of cake home to eat later. Personalising them is very clever too.
ReplyDeleteThanks hun - my mum has already come up with some great ideas, she is the creative one of us two.
DeleteGreat idea! A lot of the weddings I have been to lately have given cake to take home. It's the best way to go, because the people who really want cake can eat it out of the box, but the rest have a lovely piece to enjoy at a later date when they're reminiscing about how wonderful your wedding was! :) My cousin had the cake cut up on a platter, with empty cake boxes next to it so that people had the option to eat or pack up to take home. The boxes you've got are so cute! x
ReplyDeleteNice to know it works well. I am thinking now that I will get them put on the tables, rather than a table near the exit, so that people have that choice.
DeleteI love the idea! I wanted to do this too for my wedding, but I couldn't find anything I liked and it all got a bit too much. but if people want to eat it after, then they can just take it out of the box and eat it.
ReplyDeleteExactly my thoughts!
DeleteYou will find these days that most cakes are made from foam and you can allocate how many slabs you want out the back. I dont know if any other brides have done it - but my sister got the majority of cake made out foam it was still iced and looked fantastic and the top layer was out of real cake so they could slice into it when they toasted . She nominated how many people thought would eat the cake and she was correct and we had cake left over too.
ReplyDeleteSophie! SAY WHATTTTTTTTTTT???????????? (so that is how they got that super tall tier!! good idea though) I wish I did that.
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