What do you need to know about wedding cake bakers?

• Ask your caterer first if he or she specializes in wedding cakes. Not all do but someone who has mastered the skill of wedding cake baking and catering a wedding would be a great find indeed. If your caterer isn’t a master cake baker, he or she may be able to recommend someone who is.

• Your corner bakery may have the best wedding cake baker around. Many bakeries can create cakes that would rival even the best caterer’s and likely for a lot less money, time, and hassle than going with the cake baker that all the celebrities use.

• A wedding cake is nothing like a birthday cake. You’re probably used to paying peanuts (or close to it) whenever you get a cake to celebrate someone’s birthday. Well, if you budget between $500 and $2,000 (or more) for your wedding cake, you won’t have sticker shock when you start adding up the details of your ideal wedding cake.

• Some wedding cake bakers don’t bake cakes at all. Many brides and grooms look to cut costs by having a fake cake for their cake-cutting ceremony. If serving your guests the real deal is no big deal to you, you will definitely save time and money by ordering a fake cake.  That is, the top layer of the cake will be real it’s what you’ll use for your cake-cutting ceremony but the rest will be decorated Styrofoam. Just keep in mind that if you go the fake cake route, you stil have to come up with another dessert to serve your guests. Some frugal couples
order a plain sheet cake (with a birthday cake-like price tag) and serve that instead.
The guests are none the wiser.

Make sure your cake bakershows you a selection of cake toppers to choose from. If he or she doesn’t have any or you’re not happy with the choices on hand, you’re going to have to find an appropriate cake topper on your own.