Cakes, too much or too little?

I think you can budget down a little. Doesn't have to be cake for everyone necessarily, especially if you have other desserts on the side.

I think this really depends. We had our cake served to the tables as dessert so it would have been pretty noticeable if a group of people weren’t served dessert. If the slices will just be on a table or you’ll have other desserts too, you may not need that many servings.

We ordered double what we'd need. 24 regular in our 3 original flavors. And 180 mini in 6 flavors that we're also using as our wedding favors

It definitely depends on if you’re just having one flavor of cake, different flavors of cake, or a variety of desserts along with the cake. For us, we did Nothing Bundt Cakes bundtinis and we got 4 different flavors. We calculated 1.5 bundtinis per person (divided the flavors evenly). We ended up with only 4 bundtinis left over, so that calculation definitely worked out for us.

I just contacted my venue as well to see how the dessert stuff all works and what is allowed there. One venue I was considering only allowed cakes and nothing else and I forgot to ask the place that I actually booked at. So I honestly didn't even think of a smaller cake and then adding other types of desserts with it!! Man, I don't know who gave me permission to plan a wedding but this is stressfull! lol!

We had a 100 person guest list and we had a cake that served 40. Then we had a full dessert bar with several other options. When there are other options, not everyone eats cake.

I have been to a wedding where the couple only offered cake for dessert and did not order enough for everyone and ran out with about 5 tables unserved...

We did large gourmet cupcakes from a local bakery. They were large, but the size of a traditional slice of cake I believe. We ordered one per person for 125 people and had approximately 15 or so left over.

We’re rounding down!! We have a tight budget and I know for a fact a lot of people won’t be eating the actual cake and we have a little dessert table anyway set up like a buffet.

We're doing cupcakes and rounding up a little. My plan is to have 20ish more cupcakes than people.


We recently attended a wedding that decided partway thru that they would run out of cake so they started cutting much smaller pieces. Which wouldn't have bothered us... but everyone at our table got a normal sized piece of cake, and my fiance couldn't get any until after the speeches for some reason. And they served him a teeny, tiny piece. He was sad because he just got done with a gluten hiatus.

For us, we're getting a single tier rosette piped cake, and a full slab grocery store cake. Considering my guest list, that should be more than enough, honestly.

I think I'm budgeting up because I love cake and I'm taking some with me.

We had 110 people and this was our cake. we have the whole top tier in our freezer and we didn't offer any other dessert options. tbh i'm not sure how much cake they threw out

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I think this depends on the crowd, as well as what other offerings, if any, are available. I don't really like cake, so if there are other sweets available I'll usually end up skipping cake in favor of a different dessert option. Or I usually just have a couple bites of my FH's piece of cake.

If you want a beautiful cake, and you want to be able to serve everyone, and budget is an issue, why not have a large sheet cake for guests and a smaller cutting cake for yourself? This is a popular option and much less expensive than a fully decorated, multi-tiered wedding cake designed to feed hundreds of people. Lots of people do this, and in the event you end up with a lot of extra cake, you won't feel so bad if you are only paying $1-2 per extra serving vs $5-7 per uneaten piece.

We're expecting around 125 people for our wedding. We got a cake that will feed 90. We did this because we know that not everyone will eat cake and we are also having a dessert bar at our wedding, so guests will likely eat from that if they don't want cake.

I would at least have one serving per guest.

I'm still waiting on a response from my venue, but hopefully I can bring in other dessert options as well because you guys have some good ideas lol I would be the one to run out of cake I swear it, I am a horrible planner! lol