So let me start off by saying that I'm not at all complaining about this lol, I just wanted to share my cake disaster story because it's what fuled my cake making hobby 
Last year I got married, I had gone through a private home baker for my wedding cake since I really love purchasing stuff from local sources and I like to help support most things homemade.
About 4 months before the big day I had finally found a baker that I thought would be perfect for me lol... oh lol.... so anyways, my first mistake was taking everything at face value, I didnt meet her in person, we communicated only via email. Although I really did try to be as specific as possible. I sent her pictures of cake styles I liked, my colours, my fabrics and we talked back and forth about various aspects of the cake.
I wanted 3 tiers, covered in white fondant, with a red ribbon around the base of each tier, black demask-style designs and topped with red roses (real or not, I'm not picky lol) my wedding colours were vivid blacks, reds and whites.
That was the basics and I paid 50% of the total cost right away, and then the rest about 1.5 months before the actual wedding. Please keep in mind that although I'm sure most of you are thinking "omg she didnt meet the baker or even go to a tasting" I was doing everything for the wedding on my own and 90% of it I made from scratch plus working 50hour weeks, so I was busy busy busy, anyways...
She agreed to bring the cake to the venue at 9am, which was good cuz I had lots to do and not a lot of time to do it lol so 9 am rolls around... no cake... I wait for about 45mins, no biggy, I'm really not a jerk, things happen, people are late. So I had my brother stand guard as I went to go do my hair and everything.
She drops the cake off at like 11, an hour before the wedding, by which time I dont have a chance to see it or her so then when I finally do get to see it I'm... whats the word... confused?
i'll have to attach a picture to make it clear but it was soooo far off from what we'd agreed on. The fondant had huge cracks in it, the roses on top where a yellowish white and all wilted and small, the ribbon was thin and falling off and the demask designs were thick cutout chunks of fondat painted grey-purple(???), we tried to make it look as nice as possible for the pictures so you cant see the cracks, and we tried to fluff the roses, but I'm sure you'll be able to see the massive lean bahahaha.
Although, all that aside, it tasted fantastic!
Afterwards, I did email her to thank her for the great tasting cake and to ask why it was so far from the plan, she told me that it was because the cake table had not been ready so she had to put it on one of the plain tables at the venue, which I still dont fully understand... but... whatever, like I said, it tasted great!
Last year I got married, I had gone through a private home baker for my wedding cake since I really love purchasing stuff from local sources and I like to help support most things homemade.
About 4 months before the big day I had finally found a baker that I thought would be perfect for me lol... oh lol.... so anyways, my first mistake was taking everything at face value, I didnt meet her in person, we communicated only via email. Although I really did try to be as specific as possible. I sent her pictures of cake styles I liked, my colours, my fabrics and we talked back and forth about various aspects of the cake.
I wanted 3 tiers, covered in white fondant, with a red ribbon around the base of each tier, black demask-style designs and topped with red roses (real or not, I'm not picky lol) my wedding colours were vivid blacks, reds and whites.
That was the basics and I paid 50% of the total cost right away, and then the rest about 1.5 months before the actual wedding. Please keep in mind that although I'm sure most of you are thinking "omg she didnt meet the baker or even go to a tasting" I was doing everything for the wedding on my own and 90% of it I made from scratch plus working 50hour weeks, so I was busy busy busy, anyways...
She agreed to bring the cake to the venue at 9am, which was good cuz I had lots to do and not a lot of time to do it lol so 9 am rolls around... no cake... I wait for about 45mins, no biggy, I'm really not a jerk, things happen, people are late. So I had my brother stand guard as I went to go do my hair and everything.
She drops the cake off at like 11, an hour before the wedding, by which time I dont have a chance to see it or her so then when I finally do get to see it I'm... whats the word... confused?
i'll have to attach a picture to make it clear but it was soooo far off from what we'd agreed on. The fondant had huge cracks in it, the roses on top where a yellowish white and all wilted and small, the ribbon was thin and falling off and the demask designs were thick cutout chunks of fondat painted grey-purple(???), we tried to make it look as nice as possible for the pictures so you cant see the cracks, and we tried to fluff the roses, but I'm sure you'll be able to see the massive lean bahahaha.
Although, all that aside, it tasted fantastic!
Afterwards, I did email her to thank her for the great tasting cake and to ask why it was so far from the plan, she told me that it was because the cake table had not been ready so she had to put it on one of the plain tables at the venue, which I still dont fully understand... but... whatever, like I said, it tasted great!
I would have started decorating after looking at that as well!
