When weddings cost as much as one year of college, brides and grooms start to wonder why they should pony up $250 for a wedding cake when they can rent a beautiful model for just $100.
The inside of a faux wedding cake crafted by Fun Cakes contains mostly plastic foam, with a secret spot reserved for a slice of real cake to be shared by the bride and groom…
“The only difference is the inside. Nobody can tell,” said Kimberly Aya, whose 3-month-old company also bakes real cakes.
The savings from a rented wedding cake could buy a wedding dress at Target. Is it worth it? Tell us in the comments. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER
Budget Brides and Grooms Rent ‘Fake’ Wedding Cakes [ABC 7]
(Photos: Manassas Cakery)
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*shrugs* My mum in law just got a fancy white cake from Costco and it was perfect. I’m not even a huge cake fan, I was going to forgo it completely.
My husband and I are both in college and pretty much penniless, so we decided to just dress up nice and head on over to the courthouse. Our wedding cost us a total of $20 and we’ve never regretted it. I think his stepfather was pretty stunned as well as pleased, since he had just shelled out 20K for his own daughter’s wedding only a few months previously and was hurting badly from that.
The cost of a traditional wedding, even a budgeted one, can amount to a year’s worth of rent and groceries easy! Personally, I’d rather save the cash and know I can afford the cost of living rather than blow it all on some momentary extravagance. One of my friends from school got married a year and a half back, and wanted a fairy-tale princess theme to everything. They spent a ridiculous amount of money, since they were in love and wanted to make the day as special (and materialistic) as possible. Now, they are still so in debt by their wedding that they constantly quarrel, he can’t afford to get his degree, and they are considering divorce. Sad, really.
Actually, in Japan, it is tradition to have a fake cake (there isn’t even a “hidden slice” in it– just a spot where the bride and groom can pretend to make a cut) and the sheet cake back in the kitchen is what the guests eat. These fake cakes in Japan are extremely ornate and even do things like blow smoke…
I think that a wedding should be whatever anybody wants– and you forget the enormous pressure put on couple by their parents, who often are the ones footing the bills.
Just enjoy the wedding and let people do what makes them happy. If a couple can’t decide on their budget and where to spend it, then maybe they should be getting married– because a wedding is not the only time in their life that these kinds of decisions need to be made.
When we got married we didn’t have a lot of money but we wanted it to be beautiful anyway. I made the cake myself and decorated it with sugar roses and some pearl strings. On top I placed two china rabbits on a bed of grass made of green Icing.
The invitations I also made myself. I designed them, got some card and printed them on my own computer. They looked pro.
I made the favors by using the same design ftom the invites to make heart-shaped boxes in which I put tealights and tied closed with ribbon. You can get tealights in bags pretty cheaply. It also gives a nice “theme” yo use the same design. I made the Thank You cards too.
I would never spend 8,000 on a cake! but eveybody’s different.
OMG…I’m so interested in this fake cake thing. I want this exact design but in Apple Red. Please email me as soon as possible my wedding is in six months. Email me @ graceygee@yahoo.com