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to want a wedding cake made from cheese

95 replies

Jasonthunderpants · 15/06/2010 19:57

We are getting married in Aug and I would like a wedding cake made from cheese(I love the stuff)

Whats the problem? A lot of people dont like wedding cake anyway

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babybarrister · 15/06/2010 22:35

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AliBaba40 · 16/06/2010 09:10

I don't think I've ever seen so much agreement on an AIBU thread before...

Looks like a done deal - you must do the cheese cake! Hope the wedding goes well

beanlet · 16/06/2010 13:43

We didn't have cheese as our cake at our wedding, but we did have lots of cheeses and crackers, and they went down a complete storm (especially the Epoise. . . yum). Such a good idea.

LouIsWaltzingMatilda · 16/06/2010 13:47

My local cheese shop makes them.
Yellowedge it is called. It's in St Margarets near Richmond if that helps.

diddl · 16/06/2010 13:53

I love cheese and wedding cake

A wedding cake doesn´t have to be the traditional fruit type though.

I think I´d have a wedding cake & make a cheese wedding cake myself.

Or have a cheese wedding cake & a cheesecake wedding cake!

diddl · 16/06/2010 13:58

drool!

Kittykatzen · 16/06/2010 18:22

I've seen an amazing tower of cheese for a wedding, just like a wedding cake - complete with bride and groom mice on the top. Very cute and unusual!

LittleSilver · 16/06/2010 19:13

GREAT idea. Wedding cake is 'orrible anyway. As for those desparate for a slice of fruit cake? Sod them, tell them togo and get married themselves.

xMrsSx · 16/06/2010 19:19

I had friends who are CHEESE MAD and went on a special cheese cruise to France to buy it all themselves... worked out really cheap, and looked great all covered with grapes etc. It's your wedding, you have whatever YOU want (and dp of course). xx

BornToFolk · 16/06/2010 19:19

My friends had this and it was brilliant! We ate it later on, after the dancing with lovely bread and chutneys and it went down a storm

Aitch · 16/06/2010 23:31

oh yes, pals did this, it was great. but agree agree with getting lots of it cut quickly, because no one wanted to ruin cake so it meant that a lot got left over.

Jayneyc · 17/06/2010 14:50

Yes definitely do it. My friends had a 3 tiered cheese 'cake' decorated with flowers and served with crackers and chutneys etc - it was gorgeous! She had a small cranberry cheese tier, a large cheddar tier but I don't remember what was the middle tier except it had a nice coloured wax rind. We took loads of cheese and biscuits home to munch on and they gave away loads as well. Definitely better than yukky fruit cake.

x

mw27pink · 17/06/2010 15:04

There is an american recepie for making cheese cake as in a savory dish rather desert...You should do it becouse this is what you would like to remember, and not to please other people!! I think its a fab idea and quite special!! Congratulations by the way!!

Downdog · 17/06/2010 15:09

fab idea! fruitcake goes really well with cheese too!

I'll have a goat/sheep cheese cake thanks.

RiverOfSleep · 17/06/2010 15:13

Cheese = yum. You can't go wrong.

I wouldn't bother with some 'normal cake just in case'. We didn't have a cake at all, just had my favourite pud for dessert. As far as I know our cakeless wedding still counted as a wedding and we are legally married.

mummyplonk · 17/06/2010 17:31

Hiya, We did a 4 tier cheese cake for ours, the local shop quoted us about £500, it is entirely do-able yourself if you want to give it a bash, it's lots of fun to do and cost us about £200'ish.

Our large Sainsbury's were fab, we went to the cheese counter they gave my husband I I samples of about 20 or so different cheeses, we had a large stilton, umm the one with 3 colours (three counties?) Brie and a goats cheese on top. They ordered them about 6 weeks before the wedding and we picked up a few days before (very heavy) they gave us all of the diameters for the cheeses.

We went to a local cake shop and hired a 4 tier wedding cake stand and bought 4 round wooden chopping boards, just cheapy one's and made sure they all fitted in the slots, off centre stands were the best we decided so it was easier for guests to serve themselves without having to take it to pieces.

We ordered a couple of nice wooden mice from the internet for the top, a pack of ummm what is the fruit that looks like small orange cherry tomatoes with leaves (stupid emotion), some nice flowers to match your theme dark red & orange look nice and fill the gaps with these, and voila.

I would second what others have said about a few small sweet cakes for the younger guest did turn out to be the right thing to do.

Hth and have fun cheese shopping yum yum. x

GreenwichB · 17/06/2010 18:04

Had one at mine -I didn't fancy the usual fruit cake job, pudding was provided as part of the venue set meal and there always seems to be tons left over which given the cost of the average wedding cake (unless you have a particularly talented relative) is just heartbreaking.
Did a tiered cheese cake job with little round cheeses acting as pillars - the cheese company delivered everythign to the venue, who assembled it and decorated it (with a bit of unpaid help from the florist). It looked great - fairly simple - some cheese companies will do great extravagant things with ribbon and feathers and all white themes but that wasn't really my cup of tea. All you really need is some decent biscuits and chutneys, and request that the cheese company provide some flag labels/notices as to the name/type and whether or not the cheese is pasturised for the pregnant guests - it went down a storm with the evening food and especially if you have evening guests is a nice substantial treat. I would recommend getting the venue to slice it up - relying on people's greed could mean that you end up with a lot of cheese left over. No-one wants to be standing there hacking away with a queue of people behind them. My venue were fantastic - anything that was left over they put into little bits of muslin tied with ribbon and left for people to take home as a keepsake. I guess they would have done the same with a wedding cake but it never occurred to me to think of or ask for and it was nice to see it all go, even though one guest admittedly shamefully weeks later that he'd requested a few people get him some extra bags to take away

GreenwichB · 17/06/2010 18:07

£500 ? Norbiton Cheeses did a mega cake to feed 95 for £286.75, included the cake for 95, the crottin (little tier cheeses), 15 packages of biscuits (I'd order more than this) and 4 jars of chutneys.

SirBoobAlot · 17/06/2010 18:12

Can I come?

BouncingTurtle · 17/06/2010 18:18

Jason - can I come to your wedding?

Think it is a fab idea, I hate wedding cake!

mummyplonk · 17/06/2010 19:01

Greenwich I was shocked as well!, later found out this little cheese shop in the Cotswolds supplies Prince Charles. There are lots more places offer them now so please dont be put off by the price I mentioned.

cornsilky · 17/06/2010 19:03

I'd have liked one made out of gold.

CaptainWinky · 17/06/2010 19:05

A friend of mine had a pork pie wedding cake- are there two or were we at the same wedding? A&H?

Rockbird · 17/06/2010 19:29

Sounds revolting, but hey, you're paying!

But never mind that, what's pissed me off is whoever above said yeah do it and buy some cheap crap cake for the kids . I know it's a whole other thread but it really fucks me off when people palm kids off with shite 'cos they're not worth anything decent.

dizzydixies · 17/06/2010 19:50

I know another MNer who did this and she is an expert on all things cheese related - shall go and get her over here!