annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Though i need to add - by the time you total up the accessories, the specialized tips you need to buy (if you need to buy them), it might be cheaper to get the $90 cake and pick it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Though i need to add - by the time you total up the accessories, the specialized tips you need to buy (if you need to buy them), it might be cheaper to get the $90 cake and pick it up. Yeah, it's something I'm going to have to price. If I can swing it I may go up my next weekend off and see if they will let me taste test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 The stacking is the same - wedding cakes are traditionally 4 layer. however, you can do as you please. the issue comes when making the tiers - you can't just put on cake on top of another - the weight might crush it, so you have to either 1- put in dowels for internal support, or 2 - use a setup like from wilton (separator plates or columns). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 The stacking is the same - wedding cakes are traditionally 4 layer. however, you can do as you please. the issue comes when making the tiers - you can't just put on cake on top of another - the weight might crush it, so you have to either 1- put in dowels for internal support, or 2 - use a setup like from wilton (separator plates or columns). So on a 3 layer cake (like you stack the 3 cake parts and inbetween put the frosting - is that what a layer is? The number of frosting layers inbetween the what I would call the brick of the cake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I have to say, before I started cake decorating, I never understood why a cake could cost $1000. Now I know. It's a lot of work!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 So on a 3 layer cake (like you stack the 3 cake parts and inbetween put the frosting - is that what a layer is? The number of frosting layers inbetween the what I would call the brick of the cake? Yeah, that's the layers. And then the tiers are the numbers of those cakes stacked on top of each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 I have to say, before I started cake decorating, I never understood why a cake could cost $1000. Now I know. It's a lot of work!! I watch that cake show - I know there are many, it's like a show were they show a bunch of wedding shops doing cakes from around the coutnry- and some of them are OUTRAGEOUS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Yeah, that's the layers. And then the tiers are the numbers of those cakes stacked on top of each other. Hm. So I may actually be thinking of a larger cake then. Idk. To me a tier would be like the separate sections... but those separate sections are comprised of more than one cake with frosting inbetween them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 yeah, they are great!! well, don't spend too much time pricing. you don't need another thing to be stressed over on your wedding day or around that time. it might just be easier to pick it up and be done with it, rather than fumbling around with pastry bags and tips and dowels and hacksaws. yeah, you have no idea what my kitchen looks like. very random, lol!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 hacksaws? lol Before I price I"m def going to make a trip up to taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 oh yes. tasting is the most important part. yeah.... lots of accessories. things i never knew!!! I think that ordering 2 simple white round cakes and then doing the decoration on your own might be good and be the most cost and time efficient. I don't know if they would stack the cake for you or you would do it yourself. it's safer to transport unstacked (unassembled) cakes and do it at the site. For the ribbon- here is a tip - choose your ribbon, and put tape on the back of it, if you are wrapping it around a non-fondant cake, so that the oil/butter doesn't soak into your ribbon, yuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 You can use actual ribbon? I was jut going to tell them to do a dark blue blue icing and make it look like a ribbon, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 oh yeah! and it will look neater than them trying to paint a ribbon. what about a light blue ribbon and use the same white and blue gerbera daisies you are using for your bouquet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Well the white gerbera daisies I have are huge. I mean huge. Just freaking huge. lol. So I can't use them because I want them were the layers meet. And the dark blue ones I have are just like white ones - F-ing huge only, not as huge as the white ones but still too big I wouldn't want the cake layers to be that big. So I have to stick with yellow and light blue daisies (the light blue daisies are like the ones from my bouquet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 yeah, medium sized flowers would look best. ok, i'm off to bed. goodnight!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 yeah, medium sized flowers would look best. ok, i'm off to bed. goodnight!!! thank you for all your help Annie! Night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbellkj Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I'll def keep that in mind, thanks Annie! I'm having to go to my hometown to do the cake so I think what I may do is hit a few other stores like Publix and what not and look at prices and tastes. I know for a 2 tier Walmart charges about $90. Buttercream is different than normal like cake icing, right? My cake came from Publix, it was very simple and buttercream, but Publix makes AWESOME cakes and everyone was excited to have a piece of 'publix cake'. I want to say we paid under $200.00 for it, including delivery and it fed 100 people (I believe). Also if you go to Publix and tell them you want to taste the cake they give you this HUGE sample platter to take home with all the frostings and fillings. It was awesome. Here is my cake, very simple, but it wasn't something I was really big about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Oh it's cute! Hm, I'll have give the local publix a call in my home town to get some prices then. I really have never dealt with Publix before but a few people have said they are a pretty good place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejigsup Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I don't mean to sound stupid or anything, but what's a Publix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 it's just another grocery store chain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Well. The old photographer called me. He asked what size I wanted and I said 4x6. He said he felt really bad about what happened so he was going to do those for free as well as an 8x10 of each pose I wanted for free as well. And he is sending the check out tomorrow. Well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 What has happened with this generation of kids? I saw a kid today at work whose mother told him to stop running through the waiting room and he turned around and told her to F off and threw his drink at her. My eyes literally bugged out of my head!! If that had been me I would have been switched until I couldn't sit down for a week! Scratch that, I never would have even done it! Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 30 mins, 1.40 miles, 200 calories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 Why yes, if you pretend like you only have one child (when you in fact have two) then don't be surprised when that child you ignore, ignores you back. It is going to take every fiber of my being to keep my Irish temper and my American frankness in check, I see it now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 I had my yearly physical at work. Not much, really. They did a PPD test (I think that's what it is called) and I can't eat after midnight tonight - yay - so I can have blood work drawn tomorrow to check for a host of things - kidney function, liver function, gluco levels, high cholestrol, etc. It's all free with the physical so yay. Although I am afraid of needles so the whole getting blood drawn thing never sets well with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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