The dream wedding cake is a vision of sheer loveliness with roses and beads, ribbons and curlicues, and all the stuff that makes wedding cakes a feast for the senses. But then disasters can happen to the best of them; here are useful tips to avoid a smashed wedding cake and other cake catastrophes of epic proportions.

The Expert is always the Best Choice

When you finalize your order for your wedding cake, the baker begins to schedule and plan your cake. With their experience with wedding cakes, they know better than risking your cake to chance so they start preparing your desired colors and trimmings. With their track record, they know what to do, and how best to do it. Know this - a confident baker knows his job so you can rest easy before your wedding day.

They can prepare the wedding decor months ahead of schedule and bake the cake weeks ahead of the wedding. The frosting is done three days ahead and a day before the wedding, the cake is done. Aha, so now you know that wedding cakes are not prepared a day before the wedding. So imagine the effort and the inspiration that goes into your wedding cake.

To ensure that you don't have a disaster of a wedding cake, let an expert do the baking. Most of them expert bakers have vans to deliver the cake, not the backseat of their cars where disasters often strike. The experts can copy the cake perfectly because they have the right tools for job. So if an aunt bakes yummy cakes, there is no guarantee she can make an exact replica of your dream cake, unless she has been into baking for years and knows what it takes to bake wedding cakes.

Plan B

Be prepared. Have an emergency plan ready in case you cake topples on the way to the reception area. Now what can this be? This is where your aunt comes in. She can bake you a colorful array of cupcakes in different flavors and arranged beautifully to replace your wedding cake. However, should disaster not strike, you still have mouth-watering cupcakes to serve your guests.

Having an emergency wedding cake is a practical option should you have a ruined wedding cake. A replacement cake may not be as lovely or as intricate as wedding cakes go but then again, there's no time to weep over. So cheer up and be confident knowing you have another cake waiting in the wings. It may cost but then, what else can you do? Anyway, you can still serve that cake to family and friends the next day.

Should You Go for Cheap Wedding Cakes?

If budget is an issue, don't go mooning for an elaborate cake you saw in another wedding. Cheap bakers cannot give 100% guarantee that they can do it. The problem is you can't see the cake until your wedding reception and it would be jolting to see an alien-looking wedding cake, instead of bright pink roses you have you have orangey strange blooms and instead of a perfect tier you have the leaning tower of Pisa threatening to tumble any time. For your wedding cake, let the wedding cakes experts do the job. Your wedding cake is the centerpiece of the reception, so why scrimp now and cry later?

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