Cakes buying or making your own?

I've gone god old M&S, three tiers, one fruit, on sponge, one chocolate cake, lovely fresh flower cake topper/decoration from my florist - £199 and £20 respectively - Bargain!!!

A mixture of both. My SIL2B is hopefully making the main cake:-

excuse the couple

Also having the scrummy chocolate cupcakes from Waitrose.

I was making mine, but I won a competition to have one won £800! Sorry, I'm super super excited!!

Aww thats great, I am now thinking of making my own due to seeing this square one I like. But then H2B pointedout that it may bw tricky to get all the tiers the right height so I might just be better buying one lol. I hate making decisions - only who knows how I have organiced anything so far lol x

I'm making my own (with a little help from my brother and sister) - but we're having cupcakes so it should be easy. My ma is not impressed and is worried it'll be rubbish, but I'm not worried. In my head I am a cake maker extraordinaire. But then, in my head I'm also a fantastic singer who could give Beyonce a run for her money. Hmm, maybe I should rethink this one....

Ooh and FF - winning a cake - that's brilliant. I'm very jealous!

For those wanting to make there own cake I saw in a magazine the other day a step by step guide. I can't remember which mag it was but it was on the front. It may have been womans own or weekly.

I was having an M&S cake and then decided to book one when we freed up some of our budget.

We are having this as a top tier and 60 cupcakes with cake wraps and stand hire for 350

Thanks for the replies

The cake I like is similar to this one but square. The one i liked had pearls cascading down one corner of cake with flower topper - might just go order it lol x

I think if you've never made anything like this before you might find it quite stressful. I've made a few now and I still find square cakes the hardest - in terms of trimming the cake down to be level and perfectly square, and in terms of covering. It can be quite an art to get sugarpaste to sit smoothly over square corners. Also, you'd have to be pretty nifty with a piping bag to do neat pearls.

I made my friend's cake and took a week off work as it was the first wedding cake I'd done! Don't underestimate the time you'd need.

I'm making my own with some help from friends - I'm going to bake the bottom fruit tier and they're going to do the top two sponge tiers, and then I'll decorate it all.

I think I might be mad!

My lovely nanny is making her traditional chocolate cake - although she has never done it with Tiers before, so we're going to spend the summer practising... and eating lots of cake!

We'll then add pretty ribbon and hopefully flowers.

I'm ordering my cake, 4 tiers, 600.

if you havent got much experience it might not look or taste as good as something you buy. AND it will just add to your list of things to do and stress you out right before the wedding. I say if you can find room in your budget to order it, then do it!

x

Well so far i havent got a price for a cake but its just to get mine iced. My mums baking ours-and apparently the MIL2b is doing a teir as well. I havent got a pic of the one i want here as im in work! but its a square one, 3 fruit teirs. I would like another madiera or sponge cake as well. I was going to get it put out just to be cut but depending on the price i think i might like it a wee farm cake! (as my OH is a farmer!) bit like this one but square!

well so far i havent got a price for a cake but its just to get mine iced. My mums baking ours-and apparently the MIL2b is doing a teir as well. I havent got a pic of the one i want here as im in work! but its a square one, 3 fruit teirs. I would like another madiera or sponge cake as well. I was going to get it put out just to be cut but depending on the price i think i might like it a wee farm cake! (as my OH is a farmer!) bit like this one but square!

Once again thanks for the advice.

Deborahmcintyre29 - I saw a cake supplier the other day at a wedding fair who had a cake very similar to one you are wanting - its so unique

Kaz and Dave - love your cake too - malteasers so yummy

Please note ladies, that some of us actually fall just above M&S prices now on cakes, so you could get a bespoke cake, made to your instructions, for just a small amount more !!!

This will sound weird, but most M&S cakes are very thin, and you could end up with getting twice as much (in depth) for almost the same money !