Article from TMZ.com... My Big Fat French Wedding
Posted Jul 6th 2007 7:01PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Hook-Ups

There's nothing desperate about Eva Longoria & Tony Parker's wedding this weekend in Paris. Rumors are that the pint-sized beauty's $30,000 wedding cake was going to be made by chef Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings, who made the cake for Oprah's 50th. Rather than fly the cake from Napa Valley to Paris, Tony put his spur down and demanded the cake be made in France! Enough dough!

WHAT!!!! 30K?!?!?!?!

70 views and nobody else thinks that is outrageous?

It must be layered in gold and diamonds for $30K!

I guess when you have money to throw away you can do that.

I believe I saw on Sugar Rush that Margaret Bruan's cakes can be as expensive as $25,000. I almost fell over!

Nothing surprises me anymore.
My Mother would have said "That girl's got more money than sense."

$30,000?? That is crazy!

My wedding cake was $300, and after learning al lot more about cake decoratingsince then, I still wouldn't change a thing. It was a beautiful 3 layer cake for 100 with lace fondant and gumpaste flowers. We got a really good deal because the decorator didn't get to work with gumpaste and fondant in our area very much and wanted to do it so much.

I can't imagine what a $30,000 cake looks like. What does it have gemstones on it? 24K Gold foil? Fondant with real platinum made into luster dust?

$30,000... my WHOLE wedding didn't cost anywhere near that much!!! I wish they had given that money to a good charity instead! I love cakes but that's ridiculous!

$30K...and I have to push myself to ask for $80 when I KNOW a cake is worth more...crazy...

Can you imagine someone who is crazy enough to pay that kind of money for a cake. There is something wrong with this picture. I would love to see this cake.

Boy oh boy, I'd be one nervous cake maker if I knew that was the price. That cake had better be not only gorgeous beyond compare but the most delectable thing they've ever tasted. Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to have people not finish a slice?

And, I too would rather see that money go to charity. It's just obscene to pay that much for some flour, sugar, eggs, butter, etc. Unreal!!!

S.

I never understand why people pay such ridiculous prices, there comes a point where you are just paying for the name and are not getting anything extra for your money.... 30K... wow....

I just went to perfectendings.com and they are looking for a cake artisans it says. Anybody in the Napa Valley looking? FYI

luster dust made out of ground up diamonds must be covering this cake.

I think I could FORCE myself to bake a cake if someone wanted to pay me $30K I just think the people who have more money than they can spend think the more they pay for the cake the better it will taste. I would love to see the picture of the cake...but I bet it wouldn't taste as good as one of ours

It seems like a lot to us but to them it could have been a steal. Remember they live in a whole other world than us regular gals

Has anyone seen a picture of the cake? I was looking online but didn't see any yet...

Hey Tomoore, I used to live in Fort Washington! I grew up there and left after I got married 3 years ago!

I have to chuckle at this. Funny how perspective changes huh? Don't people say the same things to and about us regarding cake ex: "That much $$ just for a cake?" but we feel that our time/ingredients/expertise is worth it. Now this cake is a too much money to some but apparently for others it's not. Same with our customers. No difference other than the price tag!

Yah, a whole nother world! I just dont understand how most people barely get by and then their are others that are overpaid. The cake probably is going to be gaudy as hell and not worth the money. Just the baker knows he can get it from this couple so he will charge it. Must be nice!

Well I for one would LOVE to see what exactly 30K buys these days! Anyone see a picture yet???

I'm printing this article out and putting it next to my cash register. next time someone complains about my prices I'm going to show them that price tag

30k buys you....big hips!!!

eva could stand to put on a few pounds anyway

OMG that is a ton of money!!!

But am I the only one that read he went there to bake it? I am sure that $ also paid for his flight and room plus that of whatever staff he needed. So when you add that all in the price for the cake really isn't that much. But I could be totaly off and that was JUST for the cake. lol Who knows.

i feel sorry for the person who baked it. imagine the work... (but then we imagine the paycheck lol and wow) j/k i bet its a spectacular cake- or rather i hope it is and not one of those gaudy over priced monster cakes we've all seen now and then lol

You think? I bet it wasnt. I bet the cake itself was that much and that didnt include the airfare, etc. This guy did Opera's cake for her 50th birthday so he is in demand. Im sure he had a ton of cakes to do for the date of 7-7-7 and he charged $30,000 to make up what he was going to lose from not being at his bakery!

I can't blame the baker for taking 30K -- I mean who wouldn't! Whatever the reason -- the flight, etc. or because he's making up for lost business on that day, BUT --

what I can't get past is the couple paying that much! Someone said earlier that it's all relative based on how much $$$ we have/make, etc., but what isn't relative is the fact that the price makes a statement about what's important to them. Obviously, putting on a show is -- not how well that money could be used to help others or to be put to more constructive uses in their lives.

I mean this sincerely, if I ever have that much money, I can guarantee that I wouldn't spend 30K on a cake. A CAKE!!! It's ostentatious, wasteful, overly-extravagant, and self-agrandizing. Frankly, I would be embarrassed to have something like that at my wedding.