Wedding cake as dessert

Not at all, my best friend didn't have a wedding cake, but instead had some fancy deserts as their alternative as part of their buffet. I think it was on a cheesecake that they had their wedding figures, which were Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

No, not a silly idea, often at weddings the cake doesn't get eaten so this is a great way to make sure it does! x

Our daughter is doing the same thing - they are having a four tier "wonky" cake, all different flavours - chocolate sponge, lemon drizzle, carrot cake and cherry sponge with a small separate fruit cake made in the traditional way.

Not silly at all. We wanted to do this but the venue wouldn't knock anything off for not providing and serving dessert so it seemed silly to pay for something that we weren't having as part of the reason was saving some pennies. If you can do it, do it!

We're doing this too! Again its to save a few pennies, wedding cakes can be so expensive, but I really wanted to have one so at least this way it'll get eaten and not left on a buffet table. Planning to serve it with a few fresh berries too.

Thank guys, glad it wasn't a silly idea lol. We have just hired a funtion room above a bar so there is no charge to take food in so won't cost us anything to serve our own cake lol.

The deal they have is room hire is £200 if you want to do you own catering, or it's free if you take there catering. Worked out much cheaper to hire the room and sort out our own catering!

We are having cupcakes as the cake- with one tier- and we will be serving the cupcakes as dessert.

we are also having a buffet too

Not at all, infact its a nice way of treating your guests. Goahead.

Sorry bit off topic...but I wanted something diffrent to the normal fruit cake but the mother in law to be is making ours and she said we couldnt have the bottom two layers as any else because nothing else is strong enough to support itself.

I want chocolate cake!

I'm doing this, we get married at 3, buffet around 4:30, then I'm planning on having cake and tea/coffee around 8ish

Well, the wonky cakes sit on top of each other like these:-

http://www.thecakefairy.com/www.thecakefairy.coms/info.php?p=6

But I know lots of people who've had chocolate cakes - I'm sure the cake ladies on here will be able to advise you on this one!

My friends had a three tier cake the bottom was fruit but the middle was chocolate and the top lemon it can be done! I think you need more dowels maybe.....?

My Grandma made mine and we had bottom layer fruit, middle choc sponge and top lemon sponge. She said the bottom layer had to be fruit so it could support the other two layers, but the other two could be anything. Another good alternative is carrot cake as this is quite sturdy as well. Its defo possible so maybe worth mentioning it to her!!

We're doing this too! We are having cupcakes as favours, and a 3 tier wedding cake, 2 tiers fruit (jamaican rum) and one tier sponge. Will have the biggest tier (fruit) and middle (sponge) cut up fro teh guests dessert. We are also having fruit arrangements made by 'Tooty Fruity' for desserts; two bay trees made from strawberries and dipped into white chocolate x

Yum Yum! Can I come to your wedding please!!!

Ooo ooo!! and me ... and me!! Sounds amazing!!! xx

We are having the wedding cake as the dessert, the bottom tier is going to be a stawberry sponge with a cream filling and the top tier is a lemon sponge with lemon buttercream filling, our two favourite's We have bought some really nice inexpensive cake boxes from ebay incase people do want to take it home instead

We had the cake as the dessert at our wedding yesterday. We did the cake cut before the speeches and then the chef cut it up in the kitchen to serve.

Hi there

I dont think they would find that odd at all this is exactly what we are doing but having it for dessert at our evening reception! We arent having a buffet in the evening just bacon butties so thought wedding cake would be a fab dessert!!

Not silly at all..if I was at a wedding and given cup cake for dessert I would be more than happy and actually much prefer that to gateaux or something like that!

We're going to serve our cupcakes as dessert - with some sorbet! Yum!

Sounds like a great idea.... I've seen some fantastic cupcakes on here!

I think that's fine.

My friend dished out her wedding cake as dessert.