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Wedding Professionals in Ventura and Santa Barbara: Wedding Cakes / Bakery

As attributed (perhaps incorrectly) to Marie Antoinette: Qu’ils mangent de la brioche... or "Let them eat cake" . I have photographed and tasted an whole lot of wedding cakes over the years... Quite often I have weird dreams about wedding cakes (I wonder if that's normal?)... Any way...

Your wedding cake is going to be your receptions center piece. The cake should represent you and your fiancé as a couple (Well...Spouse...by the time you actually cut it) and the possibilities are endless: Simple two tier to an elaborate five tier, fresh flowers, sugar flowers, shape, color, ribbon, "mini cakes", cupcakes etcetera... You also want your cake to flow visually with the tone and landscape of your event.

Most bakeries price their wedding cakes by slice and it can range from about $2.00 to $15.00 depending on the size, flavor, fillings, icing and complexity of the design. ($15.00 per slice? Wow) Oddly this is the only information I could pry out of all the bakeries that provide wedding cakes in the area.

So here is the one cool tip I can share with you about wedding cakes:

A smaller wedding cake will cost you less (duh) so, why not have a small version of the cake you want for displaying and cutting purposes and get sheet cakes of the same flavor and filling for the catering crew to cut and serve to guests. The sheet cakes will cost you WAY less because they don't need to be stacked without caving in (very tricky) and they don't need all the special decorations because the only people who will see them are your caterers. Plus, won't it be fun to have all your guests wondering how such a small cake fed so many people?

So there... If anyone ever calls me back I will diligently report what what they can tell me about the secrets of wedding cakes.

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