help question about wedding cake "flavor" - Page 2

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I am a little one person hobby baker that just started! I was only doing this for myself to have fun and all of a sudden people started ordering from me. This is only my 3rd order!!! and it is a wedding cake!

a bit off topic:

How do you guys get the profile pics and the signature graphics? I am very computer literate, but my profile area doesn't have a place to upload anything. Do you have to be a paying member for that option?

Is this someone you know....or a stranger? Is there some reason you can't just call them?

Call them. You'll be glad you did! [/quote]

I can't call her right now as I am a teacher and am in class. I have emailed her and mom and am awaiting a response. ;O)

well, doesn't matter now anyway as 8 days before the event, they have decided to go to wal-mart. I already have everything to make the cake and had made plans around an unbelievably busy week (conferences - I am a teacher and I was going out of town) to do this and now they want to go to walmart to get it "fresh" because it was going to have to be refrigerated for a few days before hand because of my travel plans, which they knew about when they ordered the cake. Why do people do this? I would never order something like that 3-4 weeks in advance and then the week before when someone was already prepared for the job cancel it for things I knew about before I ordered it!

Yeah, what she will get will have been frozen for longer than I have been decorating, probably! Oh well, I hope she enjoys it as I doubt she can get a 3 tier wedding cake done with no notice from a business like that much less something that is fresh and I don't think that Wal-Mart does Fondant either which is what she wanted. I already spent all that time learning how to and making the fondant and all that time planning and researching just for her cake. Spent time meeting with them and practicing the techniques I would use on her cake. This is someone I know and really didn't expect to get juked around on. I am really sad.

[quote=I would go ahead and make the cake, just for practice. A lot of people wait until their first wedding order to make a wedding cake, and it's very stressful.

Here is a great opportunity to learn without the possible consequences of it not working out. I'd do exactly what she asked for. You can always take the cake to school and possibly get orders there too.[/quote]

that is exactly what I was just telling someone I was going to do. Since we have conferences next week everyone will be craving sweets while they are waiting around for parents and such and I can get the practice. Then, when she sees the pictures later, she can just suffer with what she decided to do instead! The part that really sucks is I was going to use the money from that cake to pay back the money I used to get my airbrush system. I was going to save up for it but since this order came a few days after I decided to buy an airbrush, my husband told me to go ahead and get it then put the money back when I got paid for the cake, now, no cake. They knew that as well since they are people I know. (they are friends of my best friend) We even talked about how excited I was to be able to get the airbrush because of her cake order. I am just really upset over this whole mess! I was doing her a favor by squeezing the order in during a time that was crazy for me. I almost canceled my travel plans for her. Glad I didn't now. My husband would have been so disappointed as he has been looking forward to this trip for months.