diy Wedding Cake

Another option is just buying store bought cakes and decorating it yourself

I had planned on it but ended up just buying a cake. If you decide to make it yourself just make sure that the timeline won’t give you a bunch of stress. Our cake was made and picked up the day before the wedding.

I haven't personally but I follow a baking account on Instagram @chelsweets and she also has a more formal blog - she's a full time baker who also made her own wedding cake and posted an in depth article about it online! This includes making the cake, transporting, decorating with real flowers, etc Good luck!!

How much cake are you going to have to make? I think that’s a big consideration as well. If your wedding is 100+ I don’t think I’d recommend it. Also are you tiering the cakes and if so are you or your baker friends versed in how to do it?


I don’t think it’s a bad idea (I made my own for my first wedding and it went really well!) I just want to make sure you know what you’re getting into

View Quoted Comment It'll feed about 50 people and yes there will be tiers, but I've done a few of these before with the dowels and all. Do you happen to remember if you made yours the day before or how many days before the reception?

View Quoted Comment I thought about this once but I want more interesting flavors. Maybe this could work for the base layer though. Thanks.

View Quoted Comment Mine was smaller than yours, but I made all the cakes two days before and put it together and iced it the day before. If you’re tiering it, I would obviously transport the individual cakes and tier it on location. But I think it will be great! Good luck!

You are so brave!! If you do end up making your cake, I hope you come back and share pics!

View Quoted Comment Aw thank you!! I will