I went to a wedding two years ago where they had Dairy Queen cakes - there was one for each table of 8 or 10. It was yummy but they were still hard to slice, we could have used a knife in addition to a cake server!

I saw a MK Cadillac the other day! It was crazy - the woman driving it looked sort of busted and didn't have her "face" on for sure.

One of my law school classmates did this at her wedding last May. She had pink and brown cupcakes to match her colors.

We had seriously considered doing cupcakes at our wedding, but the baker that does the best cupcakes was already booked. I'm not hugely crazy about wedding cake.

We're having about 150 people. There's a bakery in our area known for their wedding packages. Essentially we're having a cake that will feed about 75 people then an array of desserts as well (cheesecake, pies, tortes, cakes, etc. - we get 7 choices, and they're huge and we can always add more if we want). So everyone can get something they like. It's actually extremely reasonable. Which is surprising considering that the baker does the desserts for some of the more high end restaurants in the city. Plus, of course, we WILL have an enormous cookie table!

Tentatively we've picked white cake with fudge filling with strawberries. Apparently some people think this is odd. Chocolate and strawberries don't go together??? Hello, chocolate-covered strawberries? It tasted fabulous.

No idea what I want the cake to look like. Our colors are blue and platinum. Thankfully don't have to deal with the look of the cake for a few more months.

Cake tasting was my fiance's favorite part of wedding planning so far. Though he did enough registering :)

*whew* I'm glad you got the important part down! ;)

Most wedding cakes really don't taste very good - I usually head right for the groom's cake whenever available!

But the wedding cakes are looking really beautiful right now. I was told that, since the fondant that looks so lovely tastes somewhere between eh and nasty, the bride should consider asking the baker to put a thin layer of some sort of jam on the cake prior to draping the fondant.

Instead of cake, my niece will be having individual servings of peach cobbler that will somehow be banked like a cake. Somehow, that goes perfectly with her personality!

Our daughter has talked her sister, who bakes cakes as a sideline, into making her cakes. They're discussing lots of different ideas right now but she does like one that has the layers set on at different angles like ADqtPiMel's cake.

I had a cake tasting on Saturday, and the baker put a generous layer of buttercream under the fondant. I thought it tasted great with the fondant, but my fiance loved that it was easy to peel it off, and he still got tasty icing underneath :)

That sounds yummy, too!

Oh thank goodness I re-read your post. The first time I missed this and was about to ask!

A friend of mine actually had more of a cookie garden - she said it was several tables of cookies and you entered through an arbor. Thats a lot of cookies!

Okay, it is time for this tradition to go nationwide! I had never heard of such a thing until GC, and let me say... it is a fabulous idea!

I vote regional. My mother-in-law told me about the one she and Dad had at their wedding and it sounded wonderful. Evidently Dad's mom called in favors from all her friend and they had an amazing table. I used the idea at my wedding and had a chocolate table instead of a cookies table- candies, grasshopper brownies, moon pies, etc. The browines were my favorite part!

Growing up in the south, I had never ever heard of this and was familar with the "cake and punch" receptions. I like the Western PA traditions much better!

A lot of it depends on the backgrounds of the bride and groom. I've been to a lot of eastern European, Eastern Orthodox and Greek Orthodox weddings everywhere, and they always have cookie tables (note: plural). Italian weddings have been similar.

I think both of these are true. I didn't have a cookie table, because my parents considered it not part of our ethnic group. But that's gone out the window - I went to a purely Scots wedding last year (kilts and all), and they had THREE cookie tables!

DD had as her groom's cake: a huge stack of Krispy Kreme doughnuts! It was big hit.;)

I love cookies WAY more than cake. Had no idea there was such a thing as cookie tables! I think I need to get married again...:p

One more time for the people in the back:

cookie table evangelism is go ;)!

I'm Greek Orthodox, got married in Arizona, and while I didn't have a "cookie table" per se, I did have a dessert table with all kinds of Greek sweets--baklava, diples, kourambiedes, koulourakia, etc. It was insane. All the women in my family were stockpiling butter, sugar, flour and honey for WEEKS before the wedding! Everyone went home laden with pastries.

Growing up in New York, we used to see variations on the cookie table called a "Viennese Table." On those, you usually had an assortment of cakes, cookies, and other pastries like eclairs and cannolis. Talk about a sugar high.

Anyway, I love the idea of cookie/dessert/what-have-you tables! The more sweets, the better I say!

I'm going to a wedding with cupcakes in about two and a half weeks. The bride to be was telling a few of us this past weekend that there's going to be almost double the number of cupcakes to attendees. If I remember, I'll take some pictures of the cupcakes (and post them) - but only if they're cute.

I really wish the cookie table idea would go nationwide, I love cookies.

NOTE TO SELF: Have Greeklaw girl call in favors of her greek relatives to help her make massive amounts of baklava to bring to San Francisco with her in Sept...... :D ;)

My brother's wedding was catered by GreekLawGirl's relatives.

Some photos my sister took of our cakes (before the tables were all nicely decorated):
http://photos-473.ll.facebook.com/ph...23848_2630.jpg
^^^This cake was very good - two layers of Bailey's flavor pound cake and one layer of pineapple coconut pound cake :)

http://photos-473.ll.facebook.com/ph...23847_2406.jpg
^^^This cake is actually a double chocolate cheesecake disguised as regular cake. Also super yummy :)

Anyone in the Atlanta area, this baker is AMAZING. The best cheesecake in the world --- http://classiccheesecakesandcakes.com/

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i am so not into cheesecake, but this LOOKS and sounds amazing. double chocolate anything is o.k. in my book. :-)

One of my friends is getting married next month. They are going to have a CANDY table. Can't wait to see the assortment the guests have to take home! :)

I cannot wait to eat my cakes! 9 days 'till the big day :)

Here's hoping that your big day "exceeds your expectations."

Every one of them. Best wishes for a WONDERFUL wedding day. :)

Well said!

I can't wait to see pictures of your cakes, Miss Glitter. Enjoy every bite!

Oh I totally will! I told my wedding planner that I have to eat cake on the big night! When I go to weddings that's usually what I like to eat anyway! I haven't had any type of cake in over a month, so I'm so over due! :)

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So, it is time to find a wedding cake. Anyone have any websites (besides the knot) where one can look at pictured for design ideas? Google images brings up more than a million pictures, and I am overwhelmed!

This isn't exactly for design, but it's a check-list on cakes (a good place to start). The designer is local, but does cakes for Martha Stewart
http://www.wendykromer.com/cakes-and...ions/index.php

For the uninitiated, in regards to the Cookie Table: (from Chris Fennimore, of WQED)

The Cookie Connection
"The cookie table is a local wedding tradition worth baking for. Flour, sugar and butter have been disappearing from grocery shelves at an alarming rate over the past few weeks. Like milk and toilet paper on the eve of a winter storm, vanilla extract and chocolate morsels have to be restocked regularly. Are people preparing for some sort of calamity? No, they're just stockpiling cookies for the season of weddings, graduation parties, anniversaries and other family gatherings that seem to hit a peak in June.

I never met a food tradition I didn't like, and the Pittsburgh cookie table is one that came as a welcome surprise to this transplant from Brooklyn, N.Y. The quantity and quality of the cookie assortments at these functions are a source of endless discussion and great family pride. I recently read about one event where there were 800 dozen cookies! You may have heard of even more extravagant displays.

No one seems to know where or how this tasty tradition began, but here are two recipes from my mother's repertoire to add to the table." (He followed with a recipe for pizelles and a tartlet.)

Bringing cookies to a wedding is showing your affection to the bride and groom. I've been to showers where a list was sent around to see if you could make cookies, what type, how many, etc. In the Western PA area, every Cookie Table must have pizelles, mini ladylocks, pecan tassies, thumbprints, mini cheesecakes, those (insert nationality here) Wedding Cakes, and some "kid cookies" (peanut butter, chocolate chips, etc). Ohio ones have to include Buckeyes, too. When you book your caterer, they usually tell you whether or not they will "tray the cookies" - put them on display in a pleasing manner. Truly great Cookie Tables not only have the one main table, but a plate on each table.

I got a lot of good ideas for mine from the Martha Stewart wedding magazines.

my cake:
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...1/IMG_7310.jpg

Mr. Winnibug's groom's cake:
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../IMG_73111.jpg
(he was working at the sheriff's dept. when we got married, the prisoner number was our wedding date, 060306, and he's saying "How long am I in for?")

I think we may end up with something similar to Winni's and I'm pretty sure we'll have something UGA related in there somewhere on the groom's cake if we have one - maybe a big bulldawg? Sidenote, he actually asked if we could have the game playing on a big screen projector if our reception happens to fall during a game since we're getting married on a saturday during football season.. wow.

My friends got married in the spring instead of the fall (which she originally wanted) because he's a Penn Stater who does not miss a televised game. I'm so thankful that my Michigan alum bf - although he's a big fan - does not make his whole life for several months of the year revolve around watching The Game on TV.

I have to laugh because this was a concern of mine when I was planning my wedding. I picked a weekend when Auburn would be out of town because some of my bridesmaids and friends would kill me if I made them miss a game and I completely understood it. Unfortunately, Alabama was playing Tennessee in Tuscaloosa! Ugh. It took care of itself because Auburn played early so I could listen to snatches of it but Alabama went into triple overtime and our priest was late to the wedding because he was watching the game. He was a priest in T-town before being moved to Birmingham so we understood. There are pictures in our album with him and us and he's in his birks with his nice robes on.

I think he would DVR the game if he had to but if we can plan around it, he'd be happier, lol. Maybe he can watch it while he gets ready if we end up getting married later in the day... he's probably getting an Uga cake so shouldn't that be enough UGA stuff?? LOL.

My cousin's fiance watched an OSU game in the hotel while the groomsmen were "getting ready" (translation: having drinks). The game wasn't supposed to be over until like 30 minutes after the ceremony was supposed to start. The ceremony ended up running a half hour late because the guys were dressed, but didn't want to leave the game (since there was only 30 minutes left). Everybody in the world called up to their hotel room (her mom, his mom, me, the planner), but they didn't answer because they had decided they weren't leaving the hotel room until the game was over. They strolled into the church a half hour late and she was furious (but it's funny to them now).

Um..how about no. That was disrespectful to EVERYONE who attended. And an amazing sign of "unfailing love" to the bride. I know I'm going to be a bridezilla, b/c I would have told homeboy to step after that, I couldn't marry his behind. Your cousin's super nice! (But she's related to you so she must be!)

I could totally see J doing that! I don't think I'd be nice about it but I wouldn't flip either. Knowing me, I'd be running late anyway and would welcome someone else to blame for the ceremony starting late :p

Yeah she's one of the few brides I know who were actually on time and waiting for everyone else. I have never been in or to a wedding (besides hers) where the bride was not running late.

Wow really? LOL. Yes she was upset (because guests had been waiting), but obviously didn't think it was worth a blowout and an argument because when you think about it, your wedding (while a wonderful and important day for 2 people), is just one day in the rest of your lives. And who wants to say that they had a blowup on their hubby on their wedding day because he was 30 minutes late and it ruined the rest of the evening?

I just want to know why cake is so expensive ! I got a quote for 14 dollars a slice !!!! And its not a terribly complex design idea

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...dding/cake.jpg

I am finally getting some pictures from friends...here is our cake.