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That is WAY too extreme. Honestly, by the time you get to dessert, you won't have room to even appreciate what it tastes like. I kept mine cake simple and made sure it tasted good but focused more on having quality appetizers and a good tasting main course.
My gosh, that seems really high! Is that including the delivery fee? (I want to ask if she misheard you - that you want a 400 person cake :-)) Are you in a high-cost area? Are you looking at a heavily decorated cake?
I'm SF Bay Area and our relatively plain, but still decorated fondant cake from one of the more expensive bakers around here is going to be $345 for 50 people, including a $25 delivery fee and $20 deposit for cake platter.
(Julie Durkee of Torino Baking - the cake's delicious and Julie's a doll. PM me for more info if you're interested in her cake)
" is expensive cake worth it? ".... not $20 per slice i'ld say
are you and he talking the same cake/size/servings here? is there a special via helicopter delivery involved? yikes.....
I think that "expensive wedding cake" means that it is $8-10 per serving. Where is your wedding?
Reasonable wedding cake is $3-5 a slice. And I live in LA!
Good luck!
I thought it was pretty crazy! Yes, the baker definitely heard me correctly - a 40 person cake, not 400. They are in Honolulu. I would put up a link to the site, but keep their prices pretty secret (for good reason, it seems) and I'm fairly certain they want to keep it that way. I could not find any references to their prices on the internet, so I called. Was a little disappointed when I heard the price, because FI and I had been admiring their work so much.
But hey, it's only cake. I will look for something cheaper, so I can have my cake and eat it, too. :)
I agree with PP...though I have heard of cakes this expensive. Usually b/c of super intricate detailing or crazy expensive flowers (esp. if they are sugar flowers which are v. expensive). For me, it was not worth that kind of expense. In fact, my cake is coming out to be cheaper than average ($2/slice)...though I've had some drama with the baker, but that's not b/c of the cost.
I guess I would say it really depends on your priorities. If you want to make the cake a major part of your decorations, then it might be worth the splurge. If not, I'd say you can easily get almost a 25% of that price (after some point, though, you do have fixed costs for frosting if you do fondant, fake tiers if you want them, and delivery.)
Ours was $600 for 175 people. I thought THAT was a bit pricey, but after tasting the cake at a wedding fair, I HAD to have my cake from that bakery. It was AMAZING. Ultimately it's up to you where your wedding budget goes, but $800 for a 40 person cake sounds a bit extreme. I would at least look around to see if you can find someone you like as well or better at a more reasonable price, and spend the savings on something a little more lasting, like your photography or videography package.
My question to you is this: Do you remember what the cake looked like at the last wedding you went to and do you remember how it tasted? I only remember what the cake looked like because I got a picture of it. But with all the other weddings I've been to from previous to present (most recent back in November), it has all been a blur. I think you should definitely spend more money on photography like Miss Apricot said above. Those are things you will look at forever. Trust me, if you think this cake is a lot, just wait till you get quotes on photography!!!
I'm sure you can find another tasty cake for less than $20/slice... that is insanely expensive :-/
The most expensive cake I've seen here in San Diego, CA (which is pretty exclusive to those who have money) is $5 a slice. I think I got a bargain considering mine is about half that price per slice and has mango filling! To me, I'm more worried at the moment on how my flowers will turn out!
$800 cake idea is officially scrapped.
@Miss Apricot and hhcheung - Yes, we got our photographer's quote and booked him. It is more than I thought it would be, but we love, love, love him! Photography is worth it. Cake, not so much.
I did have to think pretty hard about the last wedding cake I ate. At first, I couldn't even remember whether I had actually eaten it. I did. Obviously, it was not memorable. Point taken. I still want to have a nice cake, but it's pretty clear to me from your posts that $20/slice is way over the top.
Thanks, bees!
$20 a slice is very, even extremely expensive.
We used a very well known cake designer in NYC for our wedding cake and they quoted $800 as the minimum for one of their designs, regardless of # of guests. So if you divide the minimum by number of guests, it can be a very high number.
I think you can get a more affordable, yet beautiful and delicious cake for 45 guests at a much better price. The cake design is usually important for 1 photo op and people comment most on whether it's tasty, then forget about it after the wedding.
I think that's INSANE. Just insane. Then again, I spent $70 on cake for the guests, and $70 on a pretty bakery cake to cut (which, of the handful that got to munch on this at the brunch, said it was fabulous).
Everyone loved the Costco cakes, though. "it's so good, where'd you get it?!" then looked shocked when I said Costco. A lot of it didn't get eaten, either, because people were drinking heavily. Just an FYI.
Hmm. Well, I will say that I paid at least that much for my 40-person cake. But it included sugar flowers, marzipan, cupcakes and cake, + delivery 4 hours away etc. I'm glad you've decided to splurge on photography... but just wanted to add, I don't think it's totally insane to pay that much if you hire the best in the business. Oh, and I will say, I actually got lots of compliments on the cake too... so to me, it was money well spent.
I wonder how much Slyvia Weinstock charges? I love love love that woman!
It does sound very expensive for a small cake, but everything in HI is more expensive!
there better be gold nuggets in a cake for $20 a slice!
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and I just looked up Sylvia Weinstock cakes - apparently they *start* at $10 per slice. (I'm sure they go way way up from there)... but still...
oh man, I thought mine was expensive at 4.50/slice... but it is so worth it. I don't think I would even consider paying $20/slice that is a bit much. If you keep looking I bet you'll find a baker that will give you what you want for a more reasonable price!
Find another baker! I'm kind of biased as we're not even having a wedding cake (I think they're all pretty much overpriced) but that's so expensive!
Thats suuuper expensive! holy moly! and I thought I was paying alot for our cake! you can definetly find cheaper...yeah! for sure!
mine is free comes with the venue--so my answer is yes it is very expensive
Oh my, that's really expensive. When we were looking for a baker, we were finding the average cake to be $4.50-$7 per slice ($4 for a really simple design and $7 for a really intricate design). We ended up with $4.50 because we wanted a simple cake.
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Do you have a set budget for yourself? If not and you have the means to and you really want to - you should go for it!
But if you're going budget and think that you can spend that money towards something else that's more worth it, it's very very expensive. I honestly think the food is more important than the cake!
I think the price is really high, I thought most places were anywhere from $4-$8 per slice on average. Anything you can do to get the cost down or maybe find another bakery who can do something similiar but less expensive?
That does seem quite high, although I didn't do a lot of cake research, as we had a family friend/pastry chef make ours. I had friends who paid around $5k for their cake (175 guests), but they were real foodies and insisted on this particular bakery for their cake. For my part, and I LOVE cake, I don't think it's a place I'd spend all that extra money on.
That is too much. I'd love to see what these cakes look like for $20 a slice.
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Yikes! Yeah, that is expensive. My friends had a $500 cake, but it had to feed about 400 people, so $800 for 40? Yeah, a bit ridiculous.
Yeah, I'd love to see an example of what a cake this expensive looks like, too! Can you link to the bakery or to some examples of their products?
To answer your question, I think that paying more to get exactly what you want in your wedding cake, especially if it's your dream cake, is completely worth it.
I don't think that a cake has to be expensive to be good, I once had a Costco cake that was sooo delicious, but my dream wedding cake is on the high end.
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@tanya123 and @amysue - I don't want to post a link, because I respect the baker as a business owner, and it is quite obvious that they don't list prices on their website for a reason. I feel like posting it publicly after this whole thread would not be nice.
But I will PM you the link - also, please don't pass it on publicly. Anybody else who is curious, just PM me and I will send you the link.
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There's a baker I really like. Their cakes are original and beautiful. But when I called up to inquire about the cost of the cake, it was about $800 for a 40 person cake. That's $20 a serving. Is it just me, or does that seem a little high? I'm having a small destination wedding, so it's not like the cost per serving will add up. But is expensive cake worth it?