Does anybody have order forms for doing wedding cakes? How much do you charge for delivery?

What flowers can you use to decorate a cake? Is is ok to decorate a cake with flowers that aren't edible?

Thanks again for your help.

I'm a new to this a s well and not the best person to answer, just bumping it up so someone who can help may see this

I do have order forms for special occasion cakes. I would be happy to share it with you if you want it. Just send me an email
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I use a contract for weddings that has all the details in it. For flowers I would make sure any flowers stems are wrapped or put inside a pick in the cake.. Or just layed on the outside if you can, depending on the design with something layed under them. I think you have to be careful because of pesticides on any flowers.
HTH

If you talk to a florist about the types of flowers you can use, they will know best. You have to use flowers that haven't been sprayed with any sort of chemicals. Also, you never want to "stick" a stem directly into the cake. There are "peg-like" tubes that you can stick into the cake and then insert flowers into. (Wilton makes them).

For wedding cake delivery and set up, I charge starting at $25 depending on size of cake, etc.

There are some people with really elaborate order forms. Just be sure that the time, exact day and date and place of event is clear. Set a delivery time, quote price per serving plus your set up and delivery. Also, clearly state the order: flavor, filling, size etc to be done. Also, contact information of the customer

Make sure you sign it as well as the customer, date it and have one copy for your customer.

I believe there is a list somewher e on Cake Central that tells you which flowers are safe to use. I would never use an inedible/poisionus flower on a cake. Silk is fine for me--but never anything like fresh holly, lilly-of-the-valley or pointsetta (just a couple that I can think of off hand.)

Also--when it comes to flowers, you need to make sure that you are using a sturdy flower. I have a pic of a Mom's day cake I made with a pansy spray. Let me tell you--withing about 1.5 hours, the pansies were wilted and VERY sad looking.

My neighbor actually owns a flower shop and he told me that as long as you wash the buds carefully and do not use the stems--commercially grown flowers are fine for cakes. They do it all the time when the decorate them. He does not, however, use anything that they have to spray to maintain freshness (white roses for one). Apparently if they spray the roses--they spray the buds and the stems--not the actually petals. Now I haven't researched this personally--but as I'm doing a wedding in a month with fresh flowers--I'm going to have to get cracking! lol!

Lisa

Here's the link to the list of flowers that you can use on a cake.

http://cakecentral.com/article18-List-of-Non-Toxic-Flowers-for-Garnishing-your-Cake.html

AngelaP, there is a list of flowers that are poisonous on this website .. http://www.cakeconnection.com/freshflower.htm .. there are other websites out there that give lists also

Delivery charges depend on location for me... I live in a rural area, however, I am in close proximity to town... it all really depends on how far it is from me ..

As far as what flower do I decorate with, that also depends on the bride and what she wants... they can be made from fondant, gumpaste, BC icing, or fresh flowers... The price varies depending on what is used.. if she chooses fresh flowers, I tell them I have to get the price of that type of flower from the wholesale florist shop.. I will mark up the price about 20% due to the fluctuation of cost... I may call today and 25 roses would cost me $25 ... I can call next week and it would cost me $27 .. so I use a 20% mark up to cover the difference and my expense of having to go there to pick them up...