Same here

I went to the wedding of Mike's cousin & there was this neat stand where these cute cupcakes were stacked. There were chocolate & strawberry cupcakes so I swiped 4 of them to eat (like a total pig) before the bride came up to me in tears b/c I was eating their wedding "cake" before they had taken pictures with it. :eek: In my defense, the cupcake stand was set up in the middle of a table loaded with other pastries so I just assumed they were also desserts. I didn't know they were the wedding "cake". Oops!

You told me this one last night, and I'm STILL laughing.

I saw the fake tiers thing on "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?", but I have never heard of an entire fake cake. It seems tacky to me.

My sister and her husband aren't big cake fans, so instead they had three cheesecakes. They were just regular round cheesecakes with raspberries arranged on top; They sat on little pillar things to make them different hights. At the end of dinner, they cut the cheesecake and then it was served as dessert with some raspberry sauce.

When my cousin was married in Australia, they had the best wedding cake. Down Under they still serve the traditional fruitcake soaked in rum and then covered with royal icing. It looks like an American wedding cake, but tastes so much better! Then again, you can soak almost anything in Rum and it will taste better...

It seems that you are acting a snob. I am served at many many weddings and taste much better than some fondant-covered white frilly crap.

My sister's in laws gave out mini cakes as souvenirs to all the guests (for that relative's wedding). The mini cakes were a replica of the real 4-tiered cake, that they too were able to get a piece of.

I'm not trying to act snobby. I honestly think my cake (and many other wedding cakes) taste much better than sheetcake. Sheetcake is often OVER moist and has an every-day cake taste to it. I think for a wedding, having something more special helps set the tone of the event. My cake had no fondant (because I do not like the way it tasts), and had the best butter-cream icing I've ever had.

I agree with you about the butter cream tasting better. When I worked at the Culinary Academy here in San Fran, I became friends with some of the pastry students. They let me taste one of their cakes which were covered with fondant. It’s more “pretty” than anything else. It wasn’t bad but butter cream is def. better.

Am I the only one who got reminded of those rubber cakes at restaurants by this?

Not a fan.

Well, my cake for my first wedding was fake, but it was not a money saving thing at all. In fact, I think I paid more for that option. They individually decorated the foam layers to be my cake (and only my cake..not a rented one) with real frosting. However, they provided personalized, engraved boxes that contained a full half pound of cake in each box. Each box had a piece of 3 layer cake, a chocolate layer, a cherry chip layer and a white layer. There was raspberry filling and buttercream icing. It was the exact same cake batter that they used if they made the cake itself. Each guest got a lot more cake this way, got some of each type (have you ever seen people fighting over who gets the chocolate when it's on the cake table??), it was in an easy to take home container and there were no worries about the cake falling or becoming damaged. Nobody even knew that the cake was fake because there was a section of "real" cake for where we cut it. Then they whisked the cake away and brought in the boxes of cake.

My best friend had cupcakes as her wedding cake, and it was adorable. Three tiers of vanilla cupcakes with white icing or chocolate frosting, with sugar flowers on top of each one. They were delicious! :)

For Seattleites, she got them at Cupcake Royale.

as sophisticated as it gets
 

In deep bass voice:

"Ohhhh yeah!"

just what we always needed, a cake that you could buy the day of the wedding by running down to the local 7-11!

1. I hate buttercream, I will never understand how anyone can eat it.
2. The traditional British wedding cake is fruitcake and royal icing. Not the American version of fruitcake (which I found out is just a giant loaf of dried and candied fruits, very little cake), but actual cake with a lot of dried fruit in it. I HATE dried fruit. That's one wedding tradition that can stand to be changed in the UK.

Lordy, you change your username so much I can barely keep up!!!!

And ew on the cake, I hate dried fruit too.