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 :)
