To think there's a bride out there, who might be a little miffed tomorrow...

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

Another stall holder here sells cupcakes. She has just been approached by a bloke asking if she sells her cupcakes off cheap at the end of the day... For his wedding tomorrow!...
Or if she could make him some for tomorrow. 300. In one night. And if she could do them cheap for him! As he doesn't have a cake yet!

I hope that they are just having a last minute low budget wedding.

YABU for not saying whether he was able to do them :)

I wonder if the cake was the one thing she trusted him to do.....

Last minute baker relative let down? I'm sure I've seen threads like that before
I hope he's not just being a twat!

Ahh, I dunno. TBH I think 300 shop-bought cupcakes would be a step up from most of the 'wedding cupcakes' I've had the misfortune to eat! Cheap and practical too.

Maybe the bride even knows he's doing it and approves? It does occasionally happen, I believe.

Me too sparkles!

I make wedding cupcakes, lots of people have cupcakes as well as a traditional cake. My last bride served them instead of welcome canapes. Last minute idea maybe?

If they just wanted plain frosted ones, nonintricate decoration, I could probably do 300 in a night, I'd charge a fucking hefty extra fee for the lack of sleep though!

Budget wedding - 300 guests????

I have to agree about wedding cupcakes, every single one I've ever had has been horribly dry and claggy but the ordinary ones from M&S have been nice and soft.

Maybe it's the one moment in your cake life we need some preservatives to keep them soft

I had cupcakes at my wedding - red velvet ones from the Hummingbird Bakery. They were divine

Did the stall-holder make any?

I went to wedding where they had Mr. Kiplings French Fancies!

Glad it's not just me laurie! The worst were terribly claggy 'fruitcake' cupcakes (why?! Who wants heavy fruitcake made up as a cupcake, it doesn't bake properly and is like sawdust), iced very clumsily in blue icing with glitter on the top so it got all over your hands. I kept automatically glancing around for a toddler to say 'oh, well done!' to, as if felt as if one had made them.

The stall holder has t heard back from him yet. He definitely said he needed them because he doesnt have a cake yet!

I used to work in a jewellery shop years ago when I was a student.

Had a woman come in at 8pm one night, an hour before closing time, asking if we had 4 of a certain necklace as she wanted them for her bridesmaids. She was all jittery when I had a look in overstock and could only find 2. Said she was getting married in the morning and needed them.

Not sure why she hadn't thought of coming in sooner, but I didn't like to ask.

That fella looking for 300 cupcakes was crazy!

They should just not bother having a cake at all, we didn't and nobody even noticed

Not exactly the same but my DM used to work in a Spar. They had a woman come in Christmas morning one year wanting a turkey with all the trimmings, Xmas cake, mince pies, pudding & crackers.

Oh dear. He's being a little optimistic to think there, isn't he?

My SIL had a cupcake tower at her wedding, she got about 250 cupcakes from M&S. But she ordered them in advance, to be sure of having enough.

You've all never had a nice wedding cupcake because you've never had one of mine

Whatever's going on, he's got a bleedin nerve asking for her to do them cheap! How could he possibly think that was an appropriate condition?

What did she say? I'd have to be absolutely desperate for my first big break to say yes to that, he sounds like a nightmare client.

zumbahater, he might have trouble finding 300 cupcakes in M&S this afternoon.

But he could buy some of the iced fruitcakes that they sell instead. Our local M&S ususally has 3 or 4 different sized ones of those, and a display of little cake pillars next to them.

If she's going to do it tell her to make him understand how long it's going to take, because he's probably never baked a cupcake in his life and thinks they just happen. And yes, HUGE extra fee for the inconvenience.

I am quite cross about self-employed people getting taken advantage of at the moment after that accountancy thread!

Was a film crew following him a la Don't Tell The Bride?

No. No film crew! I feel really sorry for the poor bride!