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I think it's a good idea!
I was at a wedding where they had ice cream cake instead of real cake due to allergies and budgets and it was really good, but after the cake was out for 10 minutes, it started melting and falling apart! But it was really tasty and something a bit different! :)
Great idea. I went to a wedding with an ice cream cake once and it was a big hit! Everyone loved it and it was really unique. The wedding was over three years ago and it is the only wedding cake I remember...
Yeah! I am super happy to hear positive comments! A girlfriend (who is in pharmacy school with me) said that due to lactose-intolerance, I should contact those that manufacture Lactose for some samples! And, I even thought about it! haha!
Having samples of Lactose is a cool idea! Having lived with someone who was horribly lactose intolerant there's not a lot of deserts that they can eat. Almost everything has either milk or butter in it. Therefore I wouldn't worry about it too much. Folks who have alergies are use to not being able to have baked goods, so a regular cake wouldn't be much different then an icecream cake.
Having said that... I think it's a wonderful idea! I'm actually going to be getting one for my husband for his birthday. He prefers them to regular cake anyday!
missbean, it's funny, because I was just talking to a couple who had an ice cream cake at their wedding and it was so frozen that they could hardly cut it!
We considered an ice cream cake for our wedding, so I'm biased. But I say "yum" :)
We just had an ice cream cake for my daughter's birthday and it was so hard that we had to saw it into pieces! The cake was made the morning of and it was frozen solid! Not a good time.
I be worried it would melt....you know before each person got theirs. Who wants mushy ice cream...worse while it sits it could go lopsided and on the other hand it could be so hard you may not want be able to cut it nicely.
What about having a dessert table? I've seen ice cream sundae stations ehere they can keep it cool until every one has some, bars, pie...cookies even.
peachypear - I think a reason as to why they were so melty was because the venue took them out of the freezer early and the reception was running late, so by the time that the couple actually cut their cakes, the cakes had been out for 20 minutes already.
OO I love the idea of a sundae bar. We had a crawfish boil for my husband's office and I did a sundae bar for dessert and it was a HUGE hit. I made (ok, bought most of them or begged friends to make them) chocolate chip cookies, brownies, meringues and fudge pieces to mix in with chocolate and vanilla ice cream. We had chocolate, hot fudge, strawberry, milky war and caramel sauces plus whip cream, cherries, nuts, toffee bits, chopped up kit kats (those were for me!), peanut butter chips and all kinds of sprinkles. Yes, I went over board, but it was super fun! Everybody had blast. For a wedding, I would hire servers to scoop ice cream, because even with 25 people we had a log jam at the wonderful ice cream.
KateMW - You're reminding me of a wedding that I went to years ago with root beer floats! Mmm... :) They had kegs of root beer and tons of vanilla ice cream. So simple and so fun!
We had ice cream cakes at our wedding and it was awesome =) Especially since it topped out at 105deg that day! We just took them out of the freezer, got a few quick pictures and started cutting. It helped that we had three people cutting and a small number of people to serve, and we put them away in between people coming for seconds and thirds =)
Everyone really liked it (yay Ben&Jerry's!) especially since we had the leftovers for breakfast the next day! 
A friend of mine got married down in Iowa (I'm in MN too!) and they had The Marble Slab which is along the same lines as Coldstone Creamery bring an ice cream cart to their reception and set it up in the lobby, people basically could order ice cream like in the store. I think they got to choose 4 or 5 varieties of ice cream to be offered and also had all the fixings that could be mixed in. It was delicious and everyone enjoyed it!! I know there are some other great ice cream places in Minneapolis you could look into that maybe would do something similar.
Edit: Here's the site for The Marble Slab catering http://www.marbleslab.com/catering/options.html
Love it. My friend is having a Carvel ice cream cake as the second cake/groom's cake at her wedding. I can't wait to get a slice of Fudgey the Whale. It's going to be SO much better than any wedding cake I've ever had.
Thank you ladies for all your input!!! It sure has been helpful! I think we'll probably go through Izzy's since they've been really nice.
I was thinking of doing a sundae bar, but I wanted my guests to be served. That does sound super yummy though! Mmmmm, it's bad when I want ice cream at 8 in the morning!!!
I'm doing an ice cream cake too! Who are you having deliver it? We're still trying to figure out the best place to get it from!
Izzy's in St. Paul (MN) is doing ours. They will deliver, tier, cut, and serve the cake.
Izzy's is great, good choice! And did you know that they run pretty much entirely off solar panels on their roof?! I saw a story on them a few years ago, it's pretty impressive, so yay for green ice cream ;) hehe
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: #3b312f; font-size: 12.5pt;">I recently got married and had Cold Stone Creamery in Lockport cater our wedding reception. This is the store we always go to since it is in the town we live in but when I was picking out my flavors and toppings another bride was booking her engagement party and she lives in NorthBrook and they said it was no problem to cater an event that was alittle bit aways
I choose the option of having the ice cream sundae bar atation and everyone loved it! I was going to do the option of the portabkle frozen stoen that they would mix the ice cream and candy on just like in the store but the sundae bar was a little bit cheaper.
We had our whole wedding catered for way cheaper than our cake or a chocolate fountain would have cost. This Cold Stone in Lockport is really pretty reasonable and did a beautiful job. My theme was fall with leaves and broze colors and they set their table up to match my theme for free!
At Christmas thats all my family could talk about was the sundae bar. I would go to this Cold Stone off 159th even if I moved away because they treated us so good. I couldnt decide on my flavors or she let em try all of them again and again and gave me really good suggestions.
We also had a Cold Stone Candy station setup with cold stone containers on the way out for people to eat on the way home
They also do total Ice Cream cakes!
We had 200 guests, they gave me a quantity discount and I had the middle Ice cream sundae bar package. It was about 3.00 pp plus tax
After spending hours, weeks, months searching I found them and it was the best deal I had yet to come by.
Good Luck!
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My fiance and I are not huge cake fans...so, we were thinking of having an ice cream cake. They can deliver the cake, tier it, serve it, and even box the remaining cake for us to pick up at a later date.
What are everyone's thoughts on this?