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holdn5 · January 2011

If you don't mind sharing, how much did you pay per slice of cake? I can't remember what we paid, I thought it was around $1.75 a slice in 2006 (we had a 4 tier cake, bottom layer was fake). SIL is getting married and was planning to use a good friend's mom to make it until she quoted her $3.50 a slice. Is that the going rate these days? I almost had a heart attack!

FYI-she doesn't mind paying full price for the cake and isn't expecting a discount, but this lady doesn't even have an established business, she just does it on the side from time to time -- maybe that's the norm these days, I don't know, she was going off of what I told her around $1.75 a slice Zip it!

NDwife07 · January 2011

I just went back through my stuff and saw that we paid $4/serving, which included delivery/setup and the "hardware" in the cake (like the plates between the layers).

My baker started at $3.25/slice for basic cakes, custom-designed of course.

holdn5 · January 2011

Thanks Lauren. I lost my flash drive that had my wedding budget on it so I'm just trying to recall, which these days isn't so easy! I really want to say we paid $1.75 a slice, plus $1 slice cutting fee charged by the facility and that was it, but maybe I'm way off!

Mrs.Ashley · January 2011

In Sept 2008, we paid $1.74/slice (averaged out). The tiered cake (served 162) was $2.50/slice and the sheet cake (served 100) was $0.50/slice. This included delivery/stand, etc. The sheet cake was spice cake w/ apple pie filling, the bottom tier was cheesecake, the upper tiers were white cake with either buttercream or strawberry (depending on the tier).

NDwife07 · January 2011

Mrs.Ashley:
In Sept 2008, we paid $1.74/slice (averaged out). The tiered cake (served 162) was $2.50/slice and the sheet cake (served 100) was $0.50/slice.

Yeah, we did something similar. We paid for the "fancy" cake for 85 people, and then had a sheet cake for the remaining 100ish.

indyamy07 · January 2011

We used one of my parent's good friends and paid about 1.75 a slice in 2006. I know when we were looking it seemed like the going rate for a "business bakery" instead of "out of the home was about $3.00 then.

inkygirl · January 2011

We paid nothing. But then, we just did a dessert reception and only had a small cake for us, which was $20. Total cost per attendee for the reception was around 75 cents.

blondbomber23 · January 2011

I think we paid $1.75/slice in 2006. SIL just got married and I think she told me that they paid just over $2/slice. Both of us used people that ran their business out of their homes.

SusieDMB · January 2011

It depends who you go with, the design, flavor, and fillings.

Mine averaged out to $4 a slice, but one cake had 2 fillings (butter cake with white chocolate mousse and caramel) and the other was spice cake (the free seasonal flavor with cream cheese filling). I paid extra to get a damask design on 2 of the layers. That was with 4 layer cake and 1 sheet cake and factoring in the delivery fee. If you don't have fillings, 2.50-3 is more normal. People raved about my cake and it was worth it to me--and honestly saving 50 cents or $1 on a 200 person wedding is nothing in the cost of the wedding ($100-200).

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