Allergy friendly wedding cake? Good idea or not?

Absolutely have two! That way everyone gets something they like/can eat.

Totally acceptable! You can have as many cakes as you want, or no cake if you want! I went to a wedding a couple years ago with 6 different cakes, all different sizes, flavors, and looks. It was adorable.

Plus if you do a small gluten free but pretty looking one for your family and then just served cut sheet cake for the guests it may save a little money.

You might check with the bakery. I am also GF with several GF/dairy free guests, and we taste-tested several GF cakes with dairy-free frosting. They were delicious and FH couldn't tell the difference when we did our tasting. They didn't even charge us extra to do the entire cake GF. Everyone loved it it at our reception. Bakeries are getting really good at doing GF well.

Yep. Last wedding I was at, the entire cake was GF, and they just had one cake for everyone.

I plan to have additional desserts for my loved ones that have Celiac, and other food allergies. Either brownies/cake or something they like.

Absolutely you can have two! It's no different than having two flavors to me.

I'm sure you know this if you have celiac disease, but make sure your bakery knows you actually have an allergy (vs a preference) and see if they can handle it. We met with some bakeries that advertised gluten free and nut free cakes, but they wouldn't/couldn't guarantee no cross contamination in their kitchen. Depending on how severe your allergy is, you may need to choose accordingly!

My mom had 2 cakes because of Celiacs, no one batted an eye.

Thanks ladies!!! Y'all are so amazing!

I was actually curious about this too!!! I have gastroparesis, so i'm gluten sensitive. Fh wants to do a GF free cake so i can eat it too!

I make GF bread, cookies, and muffins all the time. No one notices.

I just don't want to inconvenience anyone else.

In the south, we do something called a Grooms Cake. It's usually a different type of cake than the wedding cake, and has something he likes on it. I.e. FH loves sharks so he is getting a shark jumping out of the cake. It is usually like a 10" round or so, depending on your guest count. You could do one but have it be GF, or have your wedding cake be GF and the groom's cake regular. Totally up to you! But it is a common tradition around here.

I honestly don't think anyone would even be able to tell the difference if you just had a GF cake. But I think cupcakes are a good idea too! You can have as much variety as you want

I'm GF so my sister actually had her baker do a mini-cake just for me at her wedding. You don't even need to make it fancy...just have the GF one in the back and serve that instead to those guests

We had GF and sugar free cake options for our guests. We did a cake and cupcakes so that we could have more flavor variety.

I think that's a great idea!

It's totally okay to do both!!

I attended a wedding last fall that had 2 separate cakes. Several of the guests were gluten intolerant, and the bride actually works for a gluten free bakery.

It is more than okay to have the 2 cakes, especially given that you can't have gluten.

Totally ok! Our venue included our cake, but DH has a dairy allergy (like carries an epi-pen) so we knew that they might not be able to accommodate us. Simple solution was to get my dream wedding cake from the venue's bakery, and then order a smaller cake of DH's choosing from a trusted vegan bakery. This worked well because we had a GF, 2 vegan, 1 peanut free, and another dairy free guest - so we just ordered a 2 layer, 12 inch cake that DH picked the flavors for. Everyone got to enjoy cake!

I have Celiac Disease as well & had a cake with three tiers... Two of the tiers were gluten free & one was regular. None of my guests could tell which was which, they were all delicious.

Do it! Though I love the tiers idea above.

I agree with pp. Totally okay!

Give the bakeries that can do gluten free cakes a chance before deciding - they might be good! I (and other members of my family) also have celiac disease, and we are doing a 100% gluten free wedding (though we will still have beer available for guests to drink). The last thing you want is for you or your family to get sick at your wedding due to cross-contamination.

We found a good gf bakery that does wedding cakes, and the only taste/texture difference is that they are slightly more dense than a regular cake. We had one for our engagement party and got compliments on it - no one even knew it was gluten free. One caveat about regular bakeries that also do gf cakes - often they are baked in the same oven as the regular cakes or sit out on the counter being decorated while regular cakes are being made, so you should make sure to ask a lot of questions about the cross-contamination risk.

It is also surprisingly easy to do gluten free dinner and hors d'oeuvres in a way that will likely not even be noticeable for guests - have your caterer go with all foods that are naturally gluten free (think steak, fish, chicken, roasted vegetables, potatoes, risotto, polenta, etc.) so the flavors will still be great.

ETA: I wouldn't recommend going with @Ricotta1's suggestion unless you just have an intolerance rather than celiac disease - having the gluten free tier either touching or in close proximity to the non-gf tiers risks cross-contamination.