Wedding Cake - Need to Have or Nice to Have?

Nice to have

Need to have - but any dessert not limited to only traditional cake. Cake, cupcakes, pies, cookies, ice cream, macaroons, pancakes, etc!

I feel its a must have I think a small cake and some cupcakes is the best way to go we have the traditional cutting and feeding eachother the cupcakes are easy for small children

Nice to have. Our venue includes dessert in the price and gave the option of cake or a sweet table. We opted for the sweet table and still have the top tier of the cake so we still have something to cut. We just liked the variety of a sweet table and that they're bite size desserts so people can pop them in their mouth and get right back to the dance floor!

Need to have

I don't necessarily think a cake is needed, but some type of dessert is needed.

Nice to have. Not a fan of sweets so it wasn’t our priority. We had one mostly for the cutting the cake part and of course for our guest.

Nice to have. We are most likely going to have a cake, however I enjoy the idea of something like cupcakes or whatever else.

Need to have, you can always do both and it still comes out cheaper like all my Italian bakers are making cookies those will be our wedding gifts

Need! Is it even a wedding without a cake? Lol. I’m kidding! But certainly a need for me.

Nice to have. If it weren't included in catering, we would have just stuck with a dessert bar. Buttt...it DOES mean we get to have both. YAY SUGAR!!!!

Need to have!!! My guests love cake! lol

Have to have!!! its traditional.

Nice to have. I think any type of dessert would be a good replacement

Definitely a need to have

Definitely a must for us I love cake lol, we are also doing cupcakes for the kids & we have a chocolate station included with our package

Honestly it’s a need for me. It’s one of the things I’m looking forward to lol. Who does a wedding without cake????? Not this girl lol

Need to have for us! We love the idea of picking it out together and feeding it to each other! We might do a smaller cake and another dessert option. Also we are having a fall wedding so we are doing caramel apples for favors!!

Nice to have. My FH and I are not huge cake people... we are having an october wedding so we are doing a s'mores bar and cheesecake bites. We are having a tiny 5" cake to cut (and shove in each others face; we both want to, so theres no hard feelings).

Nice to have. We're doing a pseudo-family-style dinner at our reception venue (a pan-Asian restaurant), which already includes a plated Asian-style (i.e. less sweet) cake for the dessert course. I'm Asian and therefore don't have much of a sweet tooth (I hate frosting), so we've opted to do 2 macaron tiers that will be put out towards the end of the reception. Much prettier and guests can take some home as they leave the restaurant.

FYI just because someone opts to not to do a wedding cake doesn't mean their wedding is any less "real".