How to Select a Baker for Your Wedding Cake

Your wedding cake is one of the most important (and most delicious) symbols of your wedding. It is surrounded in ceremony and tradition, and it represents something both families and all friends can gather around and share. The beauty of a completed piece is often only matched by the experience of cutting and sharing it with the guests. Here’s how to select a baker for your wedding cake.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• List of bakers

1. Decide what kind of cake you want. You’ll have to know how big you want the cake to be, in what style (multiple tiers or not) and what flavor.

2. Ask friends and family about bakers that they’ve used for weddings or other catering services. See what kind of service and product local bakers have offered to people you know.

3. Consider the venue of your wedding. Ice cream cakes aren’t possible in all settings.

4. Contact bakers and ask them if they’re able to design and bake the cake of your dreams by the time you need it. If they don’t have the ability to make it, you shouldn’t waste any more time visiting the bakery.

5. Go to cake tastings. This is arguably the best part about choosing the baker. Set aside a day to visit each baker that you are considering and taste some of his or her cake.

Tips & Warnings

• Most wedding cakes are either white or off-white. However, there is a trend now toward matching the cake’s icing to the color scheme of the wedding.
• Multiple tiers offer the opportunity to have multiple cake flavors. This way, if guests don’t want one, they can opt for another choice.
• Allow about 8 weeks from the time you order your cake to the actual day of the wedding.
• Before you finalize your design, you might consider what your top decoration will be. You aren’t obligated to have one, of course, but if you do you’ll want it to match the style and sensibilities of the cake’s design.
• Wedding cakes can be expensive. Set a budget ahead of time and stick to it.