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How Much Does a Wedding Cake Cost?

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How Much Does a Wedding Cake CostIf you’ve attended many weddings in your lifetime, I’m sure that you’ve seen seen that wedding cakes come in all kinds of shapes sizes, and of course, designs. While you can find your dream wedding cake while browsing through numerous photo galleries (I did), that won’t help you a bit in determining how much that wedding cake will cost. So how much does a wedding cake cost anyway? Well, that actually depends on several different variables that go into creating a wedding cake. While the costs of creating a wedding cake will vary from bakery to bakery, it’s best to know what an average cost for wedding cakes are, as well as some definite factors that can raise the cost.

How Wedding Cakes are Priced

Wedding cake prices are not typically given out as a total cost per cake. Now I did look at some brochures for wedding cakes from some local grocery stores, and they did show a picture of a wedding cake and give a price for that cake as seen in the picture. That however, is not your average case. Most bakeries will charge you a “per slice” fee.

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What About Chocolate Wedding Cakes?

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What About Chocolate Wedding CakesI must admit, I’m a bit of a traditionalist at heart, and I wanted to have a beautiful traditional wedding. I wanted a huge white wedding dress, my dad to walk me down the aisle, and everything that went along with it. I have to admit though, I I nearly faltered when I started planning for our wedding cakes, and what kind of cake they would be. Let me explain. I love chocolate, and I can’t plain white cake. Really, even birthday cake…if it’s not chocolate than I really don’t want a piece of it. It’s crazy, but I guess it’s a girl thing or something. So, when it came to planning our wedding cake flavors, I really didn’t want a plain white wedding cake. I wanted my husband’s groom cake instead, chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate covered strawberries. My husband, by the way, hates chocolate. It’s a crazy mixed up world we live in, isn’t it? And then I wondered, ar chocolate wedding cakes for brides even possible? Turns out, the answer is YES!

Chocolate Wedding Cakes are Getting Popular

Turns out, I wasn’t the only bride craving the groom’s cake at the wedding.

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Square Wedding Cakes

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A relatively new trend for wedding cakes over the past few years has been the introduction of square wedding cakes. In times past, wedding cakes were always circular tiers, but that isn’t the case anymore. Square wedding cakes have become a huge trend for brides choosing their wedding cake, and there are many different ways that you can have square wedding cakes and still have them look different from all of the other wedding cakes out there. Here are just a few of the great wedding cake designs that you can use with square wedding cakes to get the perfect look for your wedding cake, as well as a few precautions you need to be aware of when deciding whether or not you want a square wedding cake.

The Gift Wrapped or Basket Design

Perhaps the most popular way to decorate square wedding cakes is to make them look either like gifts (which there will be a lot of at your wedding), or like baskets.

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Wedding Cake Designs

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Wedding Cake DesignsYou’ve got to admit it, cake designers are getting pretty creative these days. Wedding cake designs are not just limited to plain white wedding cakes with white icing flowers and a plain old wedding cake topper on top anymore. No way, wedding cake designs you’ll notice now are showing wedding cakes in all sorts of shapes, designs, colors, and accessories. If you can dream up your ideal wedding cake design, then chances are that some bakery or baker will be able to make it up to your specifications. But, there can be a downside. With so many choices in wedding cake designs, what happens when you just can’t choose the one you want for your wedding, or find that perfect wedding cake design picture that goes along with your dream wedding cake? Here are some basics of wedding cake designs that you’ll need to decide, and other accessories you can use.

Wedding Cake Designs - The Tiers

One of the first things you’ll need to be deciding when talking to your bakery about wedding cake designs in what kind of tiers you want on your wedding cake, how big (in diameter) the tiers should be, and how many tiers you’ll need. The number of guests you are expecting for your wedding is a great indicator on how many tiers and how large each tier should be. Your bakery should be able to tell you approximately how many servings you’ll have with the different number of tiers and the sizes of each tier. Now for what kind of tiers. The two basic kind of tiers you choose from are round tiers or square tiers. Then, if you choose square tiers, you’ll need to decide if you want them all straight, or to have each tier turned for a more funky look. To help you choose your wedding cake designs in this area, your bakery should be able to show you what each wedding cake design would look like.

Wedding Cake Designs - Colors and Flavors

Next, when choosing from the different wedding cake designs, you’ll need to decide what flavor of cake you want, if you want any kind of filling, and what flavor and color you’d like the icing to be. These cake flavors, depending on your bakery of course, can be any flavor that you choose. See my article on White Wedding Cakes to see what I did, and how you can have fun with your wedding cake flavors.

Wedding Cake Designs - Decorations

This is really where bakeries get creative for their wedding cake designs. There are so many different ways to decorate wedding cakes, that I don’t even know if I can cover them all, but I’ll try. You can choose a wedding cake design that is done purely of icing or fondant. Basket weave is a popular decoration for cakes, as well as polka dots or stripes. Also, my bakery used sugar flowers of different colors poked into the icing (see the picture in my Wedding Cake Topper article for a picture of my cake). Or, you can use fresh flowers, ribbon, crystals, or even fake pearls lining each tier. The number of wedding cake designs is limited only to your imagination, so plan away.

There are lots of wedding cake designs to choose from, and it took me long time to find the one I wanted. In fact, I even changed my order a few weeks before the wedding when I found a picture of a wedding cake design that I liked better than the one I had. So take your time, find a wedding cake design that you really love, and enjoy !

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