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feastie -> RE: Wedding Season (6/2/2006 7:50:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross
So it seems we're in full blast weddingpallooza season here, so I figured I'd open up to hear stuff.
Stories, traditions, preferences.
Two questions I have:
Why on earth do people getting married ever believe it's OK to suggest/order giving money as gifts in their invitations?
It's tacky. I've never seen a wedding invitation mention gifts or money. I will say, however, that in some cultures, money is given during the reception, but it's a tradition thing, not something the couple put on their invitiation.
Is it true that having a "fake cake" (one for the pictures and show, with a sheet cake version to give to guests) is viewed as cheap and tacky?
I'm a cake decorator. I've yet to have anyone ask for a fake cake, although it's not unheard of. Actually, I was reading recently that it's a common practice in China (I think, I don't remember precisely), to rent a fake cake and serve sheet cakes. The fake cakes even have an opening for the cutting-the-cake photo. That said, I can't honestly say that if I were to do a fake cake that it would be any cheaper than a real one. The cost of the cake itself is relatively inexpensive. The costs mount up for using fondant, gumpaste flowers, ribbons, drapes, bows, etc. I can also show you fake cakes that you'd never realize they were fake. They're not unattractive or tacky at all, I think it's just the IDEA that's unattractive and tacky to people. I am in the planning stages of my cake for the Oklahoma Sugar Art Show in October (the one they show on food network) and it will be a fake cake. Most of the cakes entries are decorated styrofoam dummies. Of course, the focus is on the decorating techniques and not taste! If money is an issue, I will suggest a smaller wedding cake and supplementing that with sheet cakes. Of course, that technique works best if, once cut, the wedding cake is removed to the kitchen and cake is served by servers. Once the cake goes back to the kitchen, no one is the wiser whether their particular slice came from the wedding cake or a sheet cake. All you're getting is a 1" X 2" or perhaps 2" X 2" slice anyway. Grooms cakes have also increased in price, as it's become popular for them to be a novelty type cake. Something that illustrates the groom's interests. There is the standard chocolate cake, but more and more people are choosing novelty cakes. Coolers with sugar bottle beers and sugar ice...tool chests...popcorn and movie cakes...the sky is pretty much the limit and these can cost just as much as the bride's cake.
Ok..'nuff said about that...sorry...lol I get carried away about cakes.
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