What's reasonable to pay for a cake?

Hiya/...cant help with costs i'm afraid,,,,,but i know a lot of my btb's have bought m& s cakes.

just heard theres a topic re cakes on "good morning" in a mo....you might get ideas ?

linda x

It really depends on how much the cake means to you. Some people consider it to be the main focal point (other than you - the bride, of course) in the room.

Depending on where you shop, you can get cakes from around £100 (supermarket) to £1000+ (designers)

If you're happy for a middle of the range price, possibly £250 you'd get something very decent for that...

HTH

I was going to go down the M&S route myself. I am all about paying the least amount needed but still getting the same effect. However, when we chose our venue there is a special stage area at the recpetion where the cake goes. So then once I priced an M&S cake about £100-200 for about 80 guests and then realised I'd have to pay for deco on top of that, decorate it myself and get it to the venue myself I started having 2nd thoughts....Luckily when I attended a recent wedding fayre I found a lovely lady who was willing to do a cake I had seen a picture of in one of the wedding mags (quoted from £450) for a total of £300. Its a three tier one with fancy deco, delivery to venue and a free iced sponge cake the same size as the smalle rtier thrown in!!

To us the cake is one of the main focal points of the wedding so we have gone for something that is a totally bespoke design based on our colours, style and venue, by a fantastic company. It's 3 tier with flowers between each tier.

The cake is costing £850 and the fresh flowers are costing a total of £140 on top of that.

It's totally an individual thing though, people spend from £50 to £1500 on cake so just go for what you want x

I'm having individual cupcakes from a cakemaker - I thought they were very reasonable 70 for £100.

We've got 4 tiers and are paying £290

Only got about 100 people coming & went a bit mental - think we're going to be eating cake for weeks!

Hi, it's entirely up to you how much to spend. I had soem quotes for 3 tier fruit cake for £180 decorated. But we have opted for a chocolate cheesecake, as it will be our dessert too. A friend is making them for us, 3 tiers on display and a couple out the back which can be pre-sliced. We did have a quote of £300 from a cake maker but she let us down.

Like other posters have said, you can spend almost as much as you like but the price will depend on what you want.

Usually the price will reflect not just the ingredients used but the time that it will take to make. Also if you want something specific that nobody else has asked for, then some suppliers may put an additional charge on to cover any equipment that they may need to get. Fruit cakes can be made in advance as the cake has a longer shelf life whereas sponge cakes tend to be a bit more last minute, so a fruit cake may be decorated 3 days before at a slightly less stressful degree, where as a sponge may be baked one day, decorated the next (and depending upon the complicatedness of it, may take well into the night) for delivery next day.

As for sizings, again this will depend on what you want and how you are going to serve it i.e. whether it will be served as cake (and have a dessert as well) or use the cake as dessert. The portions can be smaller if also having a dessert. Also, fruit cake portions are usually smaller than sponge cake portions.

HTH

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