What To Know Before Ordering Your Wedding Cake

WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE ORDERING

FIRST CONTACT

First information we will need is your wedding date so that we can check our availability. We do book on a first come first served basis. To keep a good quality product we accept only so many orders each week. When date is maxed out we turn down all other orders. Wedding cakes are most usually booked 6 to 18 months in advance.

GENERAL PRICING

Every wedding cake is so custom they can vary greatly on pricing. Our starting price on wedding cakes is $3.00 a serving and goes up from there depending on the skill level and complexity of your design. You are more than welcome to send an inspiration picture of a design you like with your estimated servings, and we can give you a much closer estimate of what your cake would cost. It is an additional $.50 a serving if you choose to add a filling.

WHAT SETS US APART

BAKED FRESH

All our cakes are custom baked fresh to order, never frozen.

FILLING 

Our strawberry and raspberry filling is made with fresh strawberries and raspberries. A lot of bakeries use a commercial filling that is the same thing they use in jelly donuts. We pride ourselves in giving you a much higher quality product.

FROSTING  

We are known for our unique smooth-tasting buttercream frosting. Not too sweet. The shortening we use in our buttercream is produced and formulated just for frostings and fillings and melts in your mouth like chocolate. A lot of people have only had buttercream made with Crisco. Unfortunately Crisco is formulated for frying and has a much higher melting point hence leaving a greasy film in the roof of your mouth. You will never get that with our smooth buttercream.

SMALL BUT MIGHTY 

We are a family-owned business. The person corresponding with you will be the person creating your cake not a hired salesman or random staff member.

BOOKING & PAYMENT POLICY

To initiate the booking process, we require a 25% non-refundable retainer when you book your wedding order. This secures your event date and your price rate. Remainder balance is due 3 weeks before your event. You can make any alterations up until this 3-week deadline date and we can adjust the cost and servings accordingly. If final payment is not paid in full by the 3-week deadline any monies paid will be forfeited and relinquishes any obligations from us to produce your order.

DELIVERY

We deliver any tiered wedding cake free of charge within 10 miles. Anything beyond 10 miles is $2.00 a mile one way. Our normal range is up to about an hour away. We do have a refrigerated delivery car so if you are willing to pay the delivery charge there isn't really a limit. However, if it is exceptionally far it may be more feasible for you to find a decorator closer to your venue.

CONSULTATION & TASTING

If you have read this far and we look like we will fit within your budget if you choose to go to the next step, you may want to schedule a tasting/design consultation. I prefer to schedule these on Sundays but can make exceptions. To save from e-mailing back and forth several times, it's usually easier and faster to call me at my store number. We can both get our calendars out and go over our appointment date options. If you are making other appointments that day you will want to allow about an hour and a half here.

FLAVOR CHOICES

When you do your tasting we provide a 6 pack of cupcakes so you can choose up to six cake flavors and six filling flavors. We would need to know your flavor choices at least one week in advance of your consultation date. If you do not have a preference or do not get your list to us in time, we will do our most popular sellers. It is also good to know if anyone at the tasting has any allergy or dietary restrictions. You can view our cake and filling flavor options here.

CAKE EXCLUSIVE

We stand behind our product the way it tastes and looks. Because of this we require all cake products come from us. We just want the quality to all be the same. If you say your cake came from Creations By Laura and your guests are served cake from someone else that is less desirable, they are not aware it did not come from us. Plus it is a liability issue. If someone says they ate cake and got sick “who's was it?” We work from a licensed inspected establishment that exceeds all health department standards.

KITCHEN CAKES

If you are on a tighter budget and need to economize we do offer kitchen cakes for only $1.75 a serving. These are non-smooth non decorated cakes. The construction is still two layers high so once cut, plated and presented it will look the same as the main wedding cake.

CUPCAKES

Cupcakes are $2.00 each. For this you get white papers and white icing. If you want colored icing, sprinkles, flower or any other sugar decoration on each one additional cost would be determined by how time consuming that element is. It is $.75 per cupcake if you add a filling. If you like our cupcake stand we furnish it free of charge with a security deposit. Or you can do your own tablescaping and we can set the cupcakes on whatever serving containers and stands you provide.

DESSERT TABLES

When doing a dessert table it is more a budget permitting concept. You will want to figure between 2 and 4 items per person. Everything will look so yummy they will want to try more than one thing. You can furnish and provide your own display containers or for a added fee with a security deposit we can use all clear containers we have. You can find our dessert and price list here.

FLOWERS

If you want sugar flowers on your cake we have the skill level to do that. Do keep in mind sugar flowers are made one petal at a time and constructed together on wires so you still cannot eat them. They can be very costly. Or you can purchase and provide any silk or fresh flowers. We can then arrange them on the cake for you free of charge. Smaller flowers and spray roses look best arranged in bundles the size of a boutonniere to the size of a corsage.

SPECIAL DIATARY REQUESTS

If you have a few guests that would need sugar free, gluten free or dairy free you can purchase cupcakes from us for them. I do not know how any of these would bake or do structurally on large layers and would not want to chance it on a wedding cake.

ANNIVERSARY LAYER

The top tier of the wedding cake is traditionally saved for the first Anniversary. So when we quote wedding cake servings this cake is not counted in those servings but is included in the cost quoted. Should you decide to cut your top layer it will serve an additional 8 to 12 people. If you average that cost of that tier in a smaller cake it obviously will make more of a price difference than if you average that same cost into a larger cake.

After reading this page if you have any further questions, please contact us and we can assist you.