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Holy crap! That is one expensive cake. We had 3-tiers, buttercream for 100 people, and the total was like 450ish plus like 20 for delivery, and that was in Orlando.
Your venue probably has a riser or cake stand you can use for the night.
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LoL That's what I said! Of course it was in my head... I had to act "cool" in front of the lady. Ha ha.. The cake wasn't dripped with diamonds or anything. To think that we're switching from wedding cupcakes to an actual wedding cake because it would be cheaper.
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Our cake for 120 people is between $3.25 and $3.75 a slice. It'll be about $400-$450 if we get enough for everyone, but we're probaly going to undershoot and do tartlets as well. The cake is buttercream frosted and baked by the most delicious bakers ever... but it's also in the middle of nowhere, Montana, so it's definitely UNDER market price.
That's a pretty sweet deal. If we went with the cupcakes instead it'd be about $3.00 per cupcake. $50.00 to rent the stand and delivery would be a lot cheaper. I'll have to talk to Fi about this. I'm not ok with spending that much on a cake.
Wow, that's an expensive cake. Can you maybe do a 3-tier and a bigger sheet cake? Also, do you need to rent the stand? $50 sounds like a lot of money to rent a cake stand. I'm sure you could buy one for less, and I've also seen some lovely diy stands. Is there any way you can have someone pick up the cake rather than paying for delivery? We might have to do that with ours, since there aren't many affordable bakers close to our venue. Whoever is picking up just needs to have a minivan or hatchback to accomodate the height of the cake.
It also occurs to me that it might be your fillings driving up the cost. I know one of the bakeries I've looked at during my research has different price categories for different fillings. Yours sound delicious, but I wonder if there are cheaper options that are just as yummy?
Interesting that your guy is okay with the price. Mine would flip out about that much money being spent on a cake. 
86 servings for $110. Toledo, Ohio.
up to two flavors and fillings.
i was simple though and chose yellow cake with chocolate frosting. delish!!
Holy crap that's a lot of money! :)
I don't know about you, but I can think of a lot better ways to spend $1,400 than on a cake that many guests will probably be too full to eat. I think I'd go get another quote if I were you. It seems rediculously expensive for just cake.
The cake isn't something that I feel like I want to spend a ton of money on (as our dessert at the wedding is mini-chocolate wedding cakes) so my mom and I are making cupcakes in advance and freezing them and my bridesmaids (who are super crafty) are helping me decorate them the day before the wedding.
we just had our first estimate on cake today, and it would be $200-400 for a cake for 100 people, including delivery, depending on how "wedding-y" we want our cake... and we're in southern california, where everything is expensive compared to nor cal (which is where i'm from).
so yeah, i think it's a bit much! good luck in finding something!!
I think you got a very reasonable quote for the bay area. We paid a similar price for a 140-person 3-tier cake (80 servings) and 60 servings via sheet cake for our cake out of Capitola, including delivery 1-hour away.
Most higher end bakeries in NorCal seemed to be priced around $10-16/slice, a starting price for fondant. You're only paying $6.50/slice, which is a really good deal in my exposure to prices. You can find deals in the area for cheaper, but it's going to be difficult to go under $4/slice.
We just got our estimate on the cake today. A three-layer bride's cake, with an additional two separate round layers on the side. One layer is a coconut-pineapple with coconut-cream cheese filling (pina colada, yum), the other two are lemon chiffon with raspberry creme filling, and the side cakes are chocolate with chocolate truffle creme, and chocolate with chocolate-raspberry creme. Everything is buttercream frosting, and we are having a simple pearl border on each layer with flowers on top, and words that we select all around the sides (honesty, faithfulness, love, laughter...). And we are having a separate 6-inch birthday cake for my niece, just white cake with white frosting, as it will be her first birthday. Including transportation and set-up, we were quoted $685.00 for 150 servings. Works out to about $4.50 a serving, which I think is reasonable for our area. We were generally quoted a base price of $3.50 a serving, going up from there depending upon decor and number of actual kinds of cake.
Our venue actually prefers a small decorative cake with sheet cake to actually serve, which would have been quite a bit cheaper, but FI absolutely will have no sheet cake. (For heavens' sake, its our wedding, not somebody's birthday party at work - were his exact words.)
If you like your bakery but want to get the price down you could see about getting something without the fresh fruit, and also ditching the marzipan, which I understand to be expensive as well. Also going with fewer stacked tiers (maybe go with staggered tiers instead) might reduce the price.
You mentioned the outer layer of the cake is marzipan. In my experience marzipan is very expensive, whether on cake or in candy candy. Maybe you can see if you can have buttercream or fondant instead, that might help bring the cost of the cake down. Just something you may want to ask about.
2 reasons why it is probably so expensive (thouhg I agree it is a little too expensive)
1) you live in SF
2) marzipan
We did fondant three tier for 125 people in CT and it was $550 after shipping ($50 for shipping). The cake was tiny to look at and we had a ton ton to left over. Our policy is to underquote it especially if you have other desserts (we had two types of Indian desserts)- we had 200 people and three tiers of cake to take home with barely a dent made for what people ate. I thought since I quoted for 125 it would all be eaten but it wasn't. Also the difference between buttercream and fondant and regular cake a tiramisu was a lot - like $3 a slice jumped to $6 a slice. Reconsider the type of cake you pick and the cost will vary greatly. .. . .
Cake averages between $3.00 - $8.00 per person. We went cheap and ordered ours for 1/2 the number of guests we are inviting. We ordered ours from china town for $185.00 plus $50.00 delivery-- the cake will feed 70 ppl. However, we ordered a sitdown dinner that includes a viennese swee table, so we figured that we don't need cake to feed everyone. Our baker is www.wonderbakery.com. I love them!
I think you can do better if you keep looking. We are getting our cake in Chicago from a very upscale pastry shop for $6/person and $50 delivery. Our cake has fresh fruit and buttercream icing with very detailed custom design, and parts of it are even painted gold which is quite a lot of work. Your quote seems high.
I'm in the SF Bay as well and a locally "reasonable" cost for cake is $5 per slice. It's quite unfortunate!
Another option is searching for someone that is $5 per slice because it sounds like you are going more towards the $7 per slice. Use more basic flavours instead of upgraded ones, etc.
We are doing cupcakes only but a small "cake topper" on top of the tier and the cupcakes are only $2 per cupcake x 100 and then the topper is $50 so we're getting out w/ only $250 but again it's cupcakes only. Half will be buttercream frosting and 1/2 will be fondant because they will have adorable sunflowers on them. I AM IN LOVE w/ our baker so if anyone is in the Northern NJ area you should check him out - Le Petite Gateau in Park Ridge, NJ. 
I figured not everyone eats a whole piece of cake anyway so the cupcakes will be perfect for our very casual wedding! Also I bought a cake tree at Bed Bath and Beyond for cheaper than any cake place was willing to have me rent on for and now I own it. If anyone is getting married later than August (which is when I am) I will happily sell it to you!
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Please keep looking. I don't care where you are, thats a ridiculous amount of money to pay on flour, sugar, and butter.
Regardless of how artistic it might be, there are others out there with equally tasty cakes that will charge less. either shop around or alter your flavor choices.
thats my .02! 
I am asking for a very particular topsy turvy cake. I live in south florida and with a fondant covered 4 layer cake to feed 100 including 12 sugarfree cupcakes , a frozen "top" for the 1st year celibration and delivery it came to $750. I thought THAT was expensive!!!!! wow... it just seems like a lot to spend on a cake , even a beautiful one. But I don't know what your budget is like. I found another bake who will do the same thing except the suar free cupcakes fro less then $300. Good luck , I hope you find something.
It's the marzipan that's inflating the cost of the cake. Buttercream is the cheapest option. Fondant is also expensive. I don't know what cake design you are looking at, but option A, without the cake stand and delivery charges come out to a little more than $5 per slice (assuming 200 ppl - the sheet cake looks like it'll feed 50), which is very reasonable (i know, sad to say!).
I went to Home Goods yesterday and they sell really nice, large cake stands that average around $30. You may want to get the diameter of the largest layer of the cake and buy one yourself. It's better than paying $50 for a rental.
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sounds like you went to Perfect Endings or Elegant Cheesecake!
I'm in a similar predicament, I want an organic homespun cake and the places that do this for weddings where their cakes actually taste great have $800 minimums. OUCH!
But like the girls said, I'd keep searching. There are a lot of bakeries along the peninsula that are less expensive.
Sounds about right for gourment, foundent covered and decorated wedding cake.
Mines is 4 tiers, square.
the flavors are: Raspberry Diva, English Triffle with strawberries and kiwis, Chocolate Mouse
2 back up sheet cakes to feed a total of 240 people and our total is:
$1045.83
The place doing it is called Butter Cream - highly reccommeneded for you MN gals out there.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm set on NOT going with them. They have pretty good customer service. It's a husband and wife team. I think I can find cheaper else where so the hunting shall continue. I would love to go back to the cupcake idea and get a smaller cake to use during the cake cutting ceremony. For our engagement parties we had safeway's sheet cake and it was soooooooo good. That's another option if they do wedding cakes.
I had no clue marzipan was expensive. But then again I don't know much about cake. LoL I just ask that it's not overly sugary (like Costco's cake) and really dry. Nobody likes a dry cake.
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If you are interested in a trying someone in SF, our cake person is great! Of course with our budget we are just doing a 2 tier buttercream cake for 75 people for about $400. Her name is Stephanie, she works at Tartine bakery, but has her own company on the side making wedding pastries/ cakes.
I will admit i'm not a traditional bride, but I really could not care less about cake. although I know that I have to have a picture of me and my Fi cutting it. I'm going the cheap way. I purchased a three tier cake stand off of ebay for $20 and I'm getting a local bakery to make me three 12" cakes frosted with my wedding colours, $18 each. Than I'm getting a sheet cake from the same bakery with the engagement photo of Fi and I on it $30 for a grand total of $104.
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<span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px">My Fi and I went for our first cake tasting today at a bakery that was recommended by many. When we got there we looked at their portfolio to et an idea of what they've done. Of course you can give some of your own idea. Next was the best part. Tasting the cake. Since FI and I aren't picky at all we had to pick two flavors. He got to pick one and I picked the other. Next came the quote...
1st Quote/Option: 4Tier cake 150p $975.00
1/4 Sheet Cake(to get sliced in the back) $88.00
Riser rental $50.00
Delivery $95.00
Total: $1208.00
2nd Quote/Option: 4Tier Cake 200p $1300.00
Riser Rental $50.00
Delivery $95.00
Total: 1445.00
The cake will consist of two layers of Tiramisu and the other two will be a rasberry mousse with fresh fruit. The outter layer will be a marzipan. I think this is a little much for a cake. Fi really likes 'em but I think we're getting ripped off. What do you guys think???