Because your wedding cake will be the center of attention in the reception room, you should exercise great care to prepare a gorgeous looking wedding-cake table–and then protect it and all of its contents
First, decide where to place the table. Consider the walls around the table. It can destroy the visual impact if you have the cake in front of a tackily-decorated wall; even the most beautiful cake won’t stand a chance! If there’s no choice but to put the table in front of an awful wall, try draping the walls to block the tacky elements.
The table should be placed in a well-lit area, and it should be a good distance away fom the doors, windows and high-traffic areas. Too much traffic, and you risk having an unforeseen mishap with a person who’s not paying attention.
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The best spot is against a wall, out of the center of traffic. If your reception hall is too dark, without a well-lit area for the table, consider hanging directional lights pointing the way to the table.
If you’re using a folding table, it’s very important to check the legs before you place the cake on it. Hopefully you’ve seen enough episodes of ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ to know how many cakes are destroyed by collapsing legs.
Renting a Wedding Cake
I offer this merely as information, not as an endorsement. I read the other day about a growing trend of couples renting their wedding cake. That’s right: renting–as in, paying for it, using it, and then returning it.
The reason for this unusual trend is, of course, to save money. With the cost of cakes soaring, this is one way that some families have found of cutting down on their wedding expenses.
It seems there are some cake-providers and / or caterers who provide a cake made of foam, covered with real fondant. There’s a space inside the cake that contains a small portion of real cake to be used for the traditional ceremony.
Once the couple feeds each other with these real cake slices, the display cake is then taken into the kitchen, while the guests are served regular sheet cake from a local store. The foam cake is then returned, and re-used (presumably with a new fondant covering).
It can see a couple of good points about this practice. There is no more concern about the cake toppling, and you don’t have to worry about cakes sticking their fingers in it.
Still, old-fashioned though it may be, I still would want my guests eating from the same cake as the couple themselves. To me it just seems–well, traditional. Nevertheless, if you are less traditional than I, ask your local caterers and cake designers if they offer this service.
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