My husband (who has made every delivery with me) offered to deliver my simple stacked 3 tier cake today to a church 5 minutes away so I could take his mother shopping for him. With only two stops between here and there he gets into a rear ender. 
Thankfully no one was hurt and minimal damage to the cars, but my cake.... The tiers shifted on the plate and cracked the buttercream, at least the cake itself didn't crack. When he called I raced to the church and tried to fix it the best I could, I was in tears when I saw it. The brides mother came up twice and hugged me, father was all "now we have a funny story to tell" but they weren't going to tell the couple until afterwards what happened. I offered to refund their money and they said they wouldn't hear of it. I am going to send the couple a 'coupon' for a free anniversary cake. I feel terrible and I'm worried about what the wedding couple think. It was beautiful before the accident! I am wondering if I should send them a copy of the picture I took this morning before the cake left the kitchen so they can see it didn't start out so awful? 
Thankfully no one was hurt and minimal damage to the cars, but my cake.... The tiers shifted on the plate and cracked the buttercream, at least the cake itself didn't crack. When he called I raced to the church and tried to fix it the best I could, I was in tears when I saw it. The brides mother came up twice and hugged me, father was all "now we have a funny story to tell" but they weren't going to tell the couple until afterwards what happened. I offered to refund their money and they said they wouldn't hear of it. I am going to send the couple a 'coupon' for a free anniversary cake. I feel terrible and I'm worried about what the wedding couple think. It was beautiful before the accident! I am wondering if I should send them a copy of the picture I took this morning before the cake left the kitchen so they can see it didn't start out so awful? 
