Wedding Cake Alternatives/Ideas

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Our wedding is going to be an afternoon only affair and we will be serving our guests an afternoon tea. The afternoon tea is filling and includes bits like quiches, sausage rolls as well as the standard sandwiches, scones and cakes.

Our dilemma is what do we do about a wedding cakes? Guest will have just been served cake with their afternoon tea so are unlikely to want any more.

Should we serve wedding cake along with the afternoon tea cake selection, offer cake to go home with, not have a cake at all or something else entirely?

Any help much appreciated!

You can get non traditional cakes made up of cheese nowadays. Maybe something like that?

Someone near me makes cheesecake wedding cakes similar to these, it might seem more like a dessert after the tea then.

My DD had a pyramid of square iced cakes - half were chocolate and half were raspberry. Guests just took one if they wanted ( most took them home as they were easily carried), and the remainder went to her PIL place where they were having an after party the next day. They were very popular !

It depends on whether you want to "cut the cake" really, if you don't I wouldn't bother, if you do I would suggest serving drinks, then cutting the cake then serving the afternoon tea including wedding cake in your cake selection

A croquembouche would be lovely. I could complement the afternoon tea, but not repeat something from it.

Agree with the croquembouche idea. We had a very similar food set up and just had the savoury stuff on platters on the table, and then a dessert table with wedding cakes and a couple of other things (macarons, cheese board etc).

You can have a little cake just for the cutting. It's not 100% necessarily although a lot of people say it's the best photos from their wedding

I would make it part of your afternoon tea offering, and just choose something you like. We had a cheese and pork pie "cake" and after the official cut, it was dismantled and became a big part of our evening buffet (it was demolished before I even got a chance to sample it, so went down well!)

Or you could do the cake cutting earlier on and wedding cake could be one of the options to go with their tea

I would still have a cake for the ceremony aspect and pictures. Little boxes like this are cheap, pretty and make a lovely take home treat to enjoy later.

Helps when I add a pic!

We cut a cheese cake made of different cheeses at our wedding. served with grapes and figs (which we used to decorate the cake with) and crackers and chutneys.

Everyone really enjoyed it after the wedding breakfast.

Thank you - lots of ideas to think about! I think cutting the cake early and serving it as part of afternoon tea will work really well ☺️