Wedding cake blues

[sylvier]

We had a potential customer call in today wanting a wedding cake for January 1. My boss shot her down in flames - (1) we don't do wedding cakes (2) we're closed on January 1, like most bakeries around here. Seriously, who would wait till two weeks before the wedding to start thinking about the cake? Hope she at least has her dress, flowers, photographer and wedding venue planned. And why do people get married on holidays anyways? After the divorce, that holiday will be tainted forever!

[EvilEmpryss]

Send her to Costco or Walmart. They'll do it, it'll look good, and it'll taste great. It also won't cost half the reception budget.

But yeah, waiting this long to get the cake means either poor planning or problems with a previous baker.

[Red_Dazes]

But yeah, waiting this long to get the cake means either poor planning or problems with a previous baker.

...I'd like to stand up for the procrastinators of the world and say...

....sometimes you just forget important stuff.... like.... the Cake.
I mean "Why do today, what could be done tomorrow?

[Soulstealer]

...I'd like to stand up for the procrastinators of the world and say...

....sometimes you just forget important stuff.... like.... the Cake.
I mean "Why do today, what could be done tomorrow?

As a fellow procrastinator I can see forgetting stuff that you shouldn't but the cake? Hell the cake is the only reason I may get married one day. Never mind on marriage, after I finish uni and get settled in a job I'm ordering cake, damn cakewrecks and their sunday sweets section.

[EvilEmpryss]

Getting married for the cake is like getting arrested for the free photo.

[Tigerpounce]

Getting married for the cake is like getting arrested for the free photo.

But more painful.

[EvilEmpryss]

And the lawyers are more expensive.

[AnqeiicDemise]

I forgot to get the following until a week and a half before the wedding:

* Dress
* Bands

I got a 'maid of honor' dress from David's Bridal in a gorgeous Champagne color that fit me off the rack and our bands, we found at Zales in a ready-to-fit size.

Our Cake, we ordered it four days before the wedding. -.-

This happened because the wedding was being planned for another state and my sister completely forgot to order it. Thankfully, we only had like thirty guests so the bakery we talked with said they'd have no problem squeezing me in. I really wanted a sugar skull at the top but we switched it up with red roses and some black ribbon about this square base. It was really cute.

So, -clears throat- on behalf of all procrastinators in the world, I'm sorry you had to put up with our lack of planning.

[Aethian]

Seriously, who would wait till two weeks before the wedding to start thinking about the cake? Hope she at least has her dress, flowers, photographer and wedding venue planned. And why do people get married on holidays anyways? After the divorce, that holiday will be tainted forever!

I remember one Bridezilla episode where the Bride was running around everywhere trying to find a professional cake because her MIL (from hell) didn't like the bride and groom's choice cake and canceled it...without telling the bride. It was one week from the wedding, they ended up having beautiful cupcakes on a really nice looking cupcake stand that did not look tacky. Of course MIL threw a fit saying she should have a proper cake and then took the oversized mini cake that was the topper and threw it away which was supposed to be eaten on the first anniversary.

[XCashier]

I remember one Bridezilla episode where the Bride was running around everywhere trying to find a professional cake because her MIL (from hell) didn't like the bride and groom's choice cake and canceled it...without telling the bride. It was one week from the wedding, they ended up having beautiful cupcakes on a really nice looking cupcake stand that did not look tacky. Of course MIL threw a fit saying she should have a proper cake and then took the oversized mini cake that was the topper and threw it away which was supposed to be eaten on the first anniversary.

Perhaps they should've titled that episode "Mother-In-Lawzilla"! Let's hope the couple moves very far away from the old hag and has little to no contact with her.

[Ree]

And why do people get married on holidays anyways? After the divorce, that holiday will be tainted forever!

Whoah...cynical, much?

[jedimaster91]

...then took the oversized mini cake that was the topper and threw it away which was supposed to be eaten on the first anniversary.

Not that what crazy MIL did was right, but Mr Jedi and I didn't save the top of our cake either. We just didn't think year old frozen cake would taste very good, so we just bought a different cake for the anniversary.

[tropicsgoddess]

We had a potential customer call in today wanting a wedding cake for January 1. My boss shot her down in flames - (1) we don't do wedding cakes (2) we're closed on January 1, like most bakeries around here. Seriously, who would wait till two weeks before the wedding to start thinking about the cake? Hope she at least has her dress, flowers, photographer and wedding venue planned. And why do people get married on holidays anyways? After the divorce, that holiday will be tainted forever!

I wonder why people do it besides the fact that it's cute (to them). To me, getting married on a holiday is so freaking cliche.

I remember one Bridezilla episode where the Bride was running around everywhere trying to find a professional cake because her MIL (from hell) didn't like the bride and groom's choice cake and canceled it...without telling the bride. It was one week from the wedding, they ended up having beautiful cupcakes on a really nice looking cupcake stand that did not look tacky. Of course MIL threw a fit saying she should have a proper cake and then took the oversized mini cake that was the topper and threw it away which was supposed to be eaten on the first anniversary.

Wow....Mother-In-Lawzilla much?! I hope the bride and groom moved far, far away from that bat. No way would I tolerate that AT ALL.

[Mikkel]

Hell the cake is the only reason I may get married one day.

Make me think of this recent comic: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20091214

[LadyAndreca]

Not that what crazy MIL did was right, but Mr Jedi and I didn't save the top of our cake either. We just didn't think year old frozen cake would taste very good, so we just bought a different cake for the anniversary.

Haha, our cake got left in the cake tupperware thing...on the counter...where we forgot about it for a month or so... It was rather blue and fuzzy when we found it. We just laughed about it and agreed that we hadn't really wanted to eat thawed, year-old cake anyways.