What Is the Average Cost of a marriage Cake: guidelines toSave

Weddings are high priced right now, especially if you want all of the frills. Certainly one of the costsyou need to consider is exactly what is the average cost of a wedding cake? The answer may surpriseyou but there are means you're able to cut costs. Jean Scheid offers some tips based on herdaughter's new wedding.

My daughter was recently married, and I wondered concerning the average cost of a wedding cakeand along with the dress, the venue, the favors, and all the other essential material, would the cakebe a big or small expense?

I don't live in the state where my daughter resides so I asked her to acquire some prices based onthe number of guests expected at the reception'approximately 200; which I discovered is actuallyconsidered a big wedding.

In the beginning, we was amazed that a two-tiered wedding cake with a water fountain would priceus around $1,500 dollars. Included in that cost the greatest part was obviously the cake itself,however the type of icing also makes the cost rise. For instance, whatever they called 'fondant' icingis more expensive than a typical buttercream or other kind of frosting.

Another surprise was the small little fountain my child saw in a bridal magazine and its cost.Needless to say one can go for water fountain elements that are built of costly materials, but themajority wedding cake makers use plastic elements which are fairly inexpensive. Of the $1,500 forthe cake our baker desired, the water fountain elements had been just $75!

Maybe not happy with the cost of $1,500 for a two-tiered wedding dessert, I began my search for thetypical price of a wedding cake and seemed for ways to save yourself some wedding expense dollars.

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The web site, Perfect Wedding time is among the numerous places i came across that offers genuineinformation on the average cost of a wedding cake. Many specialty bakeries that deal only in cakescan cost you a whole lot in case you are maybe not careful. In accordance with Perfect wedding, theaverage cost of that dessert for the reception relies on a two-tiered cake, choice of good fresh fruit,finger size portions, buttercream frosting, simple yet tasteful decorations and fresh flowers. Theexpense is $5.50 per piece, and in the event that you decide you want to go really big and add a tieror two add $0.50 to each tier per slice, or $6.00 and up depending on how numerous tiers you want.

Based on my daughter's desired cake, according for this price at $5.50 per slice for two tiers, thebase cost would be $1,100, plus $75 for any waterfall elements, or $1,175. Therefore, why in theentire world ended up being my child's dessert costing a whopping $1,500?

We had the ability to bring the price of my daughter's cake down seriously to the average cost of awedding cake by using some innovative ideas:

So in all, I paid $1,000 for the cake, $50 for the butterflies, $50 in the fresh flowers and $25 on thewaterfall bringing the total to $1,125, really $50 cheaper than the average price of a two-tieredwedding cake. If you click on the image towards the above right this really is my daughter's actualwedding dessert!

Keep your allowance in mind when deciding upon the kind of dessert you need. Although it's animportant and beautiful part of your entire day, it will be consumed and a lot of of decorations (andwaterfall) will be discarded. Often simple, yet elegant is your best bet.

Image Credit: Daughter's wedding cake courtesy Jean Scheid