to want this cake as my wedding cake and not pay £500 for the priviledge!

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awesome cake

Clevercow your cakes are beautiful and I'm of your talent. I'm a very amateur baker who is about to take the leap from cupcakes to big cakes, so I've got massive respect for anyone who can teach themselves to make cakes like you have.

Well done, welcome to Mumsnet, and don't feel bad, everyone gets a pasting here at some point, myself included (in a previous username).

£500 is a very reasonable price for a wedding cake that you really want...

I paid nearly 2k for mine.....exorbitant, obscenely indulgent I agree...the sillyest spend...but it was what we really wanted.

Clevercow - I love your sandcastle cake, but I don't like your attitude, not one bit - so no matter how much I loved your cake, I wouldn't order it from you.

Oh and as an aside - just because someone works from home it doesn't mean they don't pay tax or NI.

sausages - do you have a photo for us??

It was from the little venice cake company...the little venice lace design. Plus we paid £20 delivery...

Oh well...we did manage to cut back on other things though!

I can actually make celebration cakes myself...but didn't want the stress of doing my own cake.

Am in the process of making a special cake for my parents very special wedding anniversary....it'll be quite traditional (with marzipan and royal icing) and I'll do a filligree design and make some sugarcraft roses myself.

Sausages - it's lovely :) ... but I'm still blanching at £2k When I lived overseas I did some cake decorating and made some wedding cakes for friends & friends of friends - who all kep encouraging me to do it full time, but I really didn't want to - I liked the fact that when I did it, everything was perfect (well as perfect as I could make it if you know what I mean) but I knew that if I did it 'for a job' I just couldn't maintain that level of concentration/perfection/detail. It's bloody hard work. However, £2k?? I might have to have a rethink ... even at £500...

All of their cakes are truly gorgeous, Sausages but [ouch] at the prices.

www.cakewrecks.com/home/2011/11/23/return-of-the-poo-wangs.html

The cakes made me .

chipping DH and I aren't going to stop 'blanching' ....it will always be our gasp factor spend!

I agree...I could never do cake decorating as a business. For love yes....but not as a business as it really is hard and time consuming work.

Made my sister's 5 tier wedding cake....out of love and for a gift...and always make family celebration cakes. Would also do for very close friends...but that's it!

I think LVCC can charge those prices because of the clientelle that they have on their books...but I am sure that other cake makers can achieve the same quite easily.

The point I was making was that £500 is a very reasonable amount for the cake of your dreams. If you can afford it OP then go for it!

Um, I can't remember who linked to cakewrecks earlier, but i'm never eating cake again. This is your fault.

It was all fun and games, until I ended up on a baby shower cake page...