Cupcakes at a wedding?
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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on
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I think it depends on how they are displayed. I've seen some lovely cupcake displays. I'm actually doing cupcakes for a friend's daughter's wedding. It will be 4 hours away, so this is something easy she can transport herself and set up (she's making her own tower), it's less expensive and I am planning to make them very pretty. It all depends on how formal the wedding is also.
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Permalink Reply by Kathryn P on
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Hey Eileen, I would love to see a photo of your cupcakes and feature it on my blog... if you are interested. (www.sugarturntable.com)
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Permalink Reply by Deah on
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I'm not really a cupcake fan. I don't enjoy making them and it isn't a big deal to me to have my own little "cake". Give me a big 'ol slice of cake anytime. I've seen displays of cuppies done well and some not so well. If you take the time to create a pretty cupcake and an elegant display I'd say do it. Otherwise, if you are going to line up the cuppies on a table and have the guest come by a pick them up then don't bother. Wal-Mart can handle that kind of cupcake.
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Kathryn - the wedding is not until the end of August if you can wait that long. :) The colors for the wedding are black, white and fuscia (yeah, I know). So I'm baking the cuppies in black foil liners, using a white buttercream frosting, then making fuscia and black flowers to go on top. I did do a wedding last year - here's a link to that display:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=442903299953&set=a.44290...
It was a very informal event though and the reception was in a rustic setting. Each different shade of cupcake wrapper denoted a different kind of cupcake. The dark green were oreo cake with vanilla buttercream and a fondant calla lily on top, the medium green wrappers were apple spice with a cream cheese frosting piped in a chrysantemum, and the light green were lemon poppyseed with vanilla buttercream and light green "fantasy" flowers (meaning I didn't try to make them look like a real flower, but created my own look). There IS a cake on the top of the stand that had the couples' topper on it and that is what they used as their "cutting" cake. The cupcakes got rave reviews from guests with people going back to the table again and again to try all the different flavors and I didn't see ANY flowers laying on plates, but lots of empty lollipop sticks (which is what I formed the calla lilies on).
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Beautiful job Eileen! I will post these up next week on my site, if thats okay.
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Sure. :) Keep in mind I am not a professional decorator, though. LOL!
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Permalink Reply by Stampinsher on
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It also depends on the budge of the bride. My adult daughter actually had a friend make her wedding cake, The Large Cupcake cake with normal size cupcakes all around. The display was very pretty. The large cupcake cake is the one that they saved for their 1 year anniversary. It worked out well for them.
I've also seen cupcakes given out instead of a slice a cake that had similar decorations to the wedding cake. I don't know whether the wedding cake was a partial dummy but it did have two smaller layers that were real. It was very nice. Decorated beautifully.
I see nothing wrong with it, especially with the hoopla in a GOOD WAY (excitement) these past couple of years about cupcakes.
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Permalink Reply by Dawn Becker on
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Where are cupcakes cheaper? Every decorator I know, myself included, charges MORE for cupcakes than cake. Cupcakes take much longer to fill liners than a cake pan of the same number of servings (my time is worth $$). Cupcakes take much longer to decorate. Again, my time is worth $$. And those liners are more expensive collectively than cake boards.
In my world, the bride chooses cupcakes because she wants that look - not because they are cheaper.
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Love what you did here!!
Eileen S said:
Kathryn - the wedding is not until the end of August if you can wait that long. :) The colors for the wedding are black, white and fuscia (yeah, I know). So I'm baking the cuppies in black foil liners, using a white buttercream frosting, then making fuscia and black flowers to go on top. I did do a wedding last year - here's a link to that display:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=442903299953&set=a.44290...
It was a very informal event though and the reception was in a rustic setting. Each different shade of cupcake wrapper denoted a different kind of cupcake. The dark green were oreo cake with vanilla buttercream and a fondant calla lily on top, the medium green wrappers were apple spice with a cream cheese frosting piped in a chrysantemum, and the light green were lemon poppyseed with vanilla buttercream and light green "fantasy" flowers (meaning I didn't try to make them look like a real flower, but created my own look). There IS a cake on the top of the stand that had the couples' topper on it and that is what they used as their "cutting" cake. The cupcakes got rave reviews from guests with people going back to the table again and again to try all the different flavors and I didn't see ANY flowers laying on plates, but lots of empty lollipop sticks (which is what I formed the calla lilies on).
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