Wedding cakes, sponge or fruit cake?

Ive never actually thought of the cake going off but your right....i dont even know how long sponge keeps for?? we both hate fruit cake so was going to have a 3 tier cake with chocolate,lemon and vanilla layers

Neither of us is a huge fruit cake fan either so we're going for sponge which I may make myself (I'm going to have a trial run soon to see how I get on). I hadn't thought about what to do with any left over... How about having a sponge cake for the day (if that's what you'd prefer) and maybe getting a smaller fruit cake specifically to send to absent guests? I think you're right that a sponge won't last very long, especially once it's been cut, they generally need to be eaten within a couple of days.

God I love fruit cake!

I have made my own three tier wedding cake and I love the fact I made it myself. It was an absolute labour of love.

All three tiers are fruit cake and I honestly don't care whether any of my guests like fruit cake or not. Those that do will enjoy and those that don't won't have any.

I don't mind if I spend the next year living off my wedding cake!

We're having 3 tiers: top one chocolate, middle lemon sponge and bottom fruit cake. I don't like fruit cake but lots of people 'expect' a wedding cake to be fruit cake, and as this is the biggest layer any left should keep a while.

Sponge cake won't last long once it has been cut (at least that's what I'm led to believe). But tjat said, I hate fruit cake and wouldn't eat it at the wedding, so we are going for the bottom layer as fruit cake (someone will eat it I'm sure) and the 2 above as sponge. I'm not too worried about it being eaten. Myself and other members of my family are very much into cake. If there is any left, we will just give it to family the day after, what they don't eat can be binned as I will have had my fair share before then

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Well I guess the first thing to do is work out how much cake you need.... We're having it as our dessert so are getting a lot. If you are having a separate dessert, then don't order as much. It's also easy o get different types of cake in different layers. That way everything is covered!

As a cake maker I would say fruit doesn't get eaten so much and only really keeps for a long time if its not been cut and is packaged well. I would go for different flavours of sponge and ask for it to be served as part of the evening buffet. Not everyone will eat cake and you do not need to cater for all your guests.

I am going to have 2 layers of sponge and 1 of fruit.

I had a 3 tier fruit and the top and half the middle layer were left, fortunately I absolutely love fruit cake. Because you cut the bottom layer at the ceremony that is the one that is cut and given out to guests usually. if you are worried about having loads left get the venue to give bigger portions, usually it is tiny considering what gets left over.

Funny you should say this, these are our exact flavours too and I am currently arguing with my mother (who is making the cake) over the ordering of the layers. We want it to be bottom chocolate, middle lemon and top fruit. I am a mad chocoholic and don't really like fruit cake. I only ever agreed to fruit cake as it could easily be made as gluten free and be suitable for my dad but my mum reckons the middle layer should be fruit and top lemon as 'more people like fruit cake than lemon cake'. I've tried telling her we're choosing flavours based on what WE like but she doesn't get it!!

My sister is doing a fruit cake for us and is in discussions with our cupcake lady - so that on the day it will be a surprise for both OH and myself. Between them they will design and coordinate decorations/display - I have given suggestions for what I would like but ultimately this is something that will be beyond my control ️?️ The cupcakes will be lemon, orange and vanilla favoured and the fruit cake can be sent out to people who can't join us on the day!!

Swampy

We both love fruit cake but are also aware that a lot of our close family members don't. We are having 3 tiers, the bottom largest one is chocolate, the middle one is lemon sponge and the top one is fruit. We are going to cut it during the wedding breakfast but we are then going to leave it on display so tht our evening guests can see it. It will then be taken away and cut up and served with the evening buffet. If there is any left we will take it home the next day.

We are having lemon, chocolate and plain sponge in ours, hoping that if we tell the cake maker how many guests we have she will make it for roughly that amount of people.

We're going for a mixture. People like lots of different cakes and some guests will expect fruit cake at a wedding.

Ours is bottom fruit cake, middle tier carrot cake, top tier, chocolate cake.

If your sponge is a Maderia it will keep for about a week once cut. Maderia sponges can have jam in the middle

We had a 4 tier cake. The bottom tier was fruit cake, then chocolate, then vanilla sponge and then the top tier was fruit cake so that we could keep it. I love marzipan so I love fruit cake for that reason. We had cake along with cheese & biscuits plus bread rolls for the evening buffet. When I went to get some cake at the end of the evening all of the cake had gone and I wasn't happy that i didn't even get to taste it. My hubby didn't get any either. So we decided to have the top tier the next day instead of keeping it.

I am definately going for sponge, I am actually contemplating red velvet, going to make myself a cake in the next few weeks and see what it tastes like .

I am going with the smallest cake possible, if there is some left over then I will eat it as we arent going on our honeymoon until a couple of weeks later.

We got our cake from marks and spencer, we oredered a 3 tier sponge cake aswell as 2 fruit and 1 chocolate cutting bar incase guest wanted something different.

we aint too worried about if we have cake left over as one way or another it will get eaten lol xxx