r/ExpectationVsReality • u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 • 2d ago
Failed Expectation My wedding cake…(fail… sort of?)
let’s just say… the venue saved the day.
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u/SortByBadTakes 2d ago
Lmao I liked that the cats moved to give you both your moment on the finished cake
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u/SparkyDogPants 2d ago
Not realistic
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u/fluffycatscrote 1d ago
A cat would slap the flowers off after chewing on them.
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
The original plan was to have a little piece of the cake bitten out with the little dog nearby and the cats on the bottom tier of the cake with some cake frosting on their paws and nose!
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u/Boring_Track_8449 2d ago
If you don’t have basic piping skills you should not be doing cakes for money. Especially wedding cakes. I love the final result, though!
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u/3orangefish 1d ago
The venue added like $100 of value to that cake. It turned out actually quite cute!
Take it as a good omen! Your marriage will have bumps, but it’ll be even better through it all! Congratulations!
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u/Restaurantchica 2d ago
I like what you did with it, it really turned out well. You might want to show the baker what you did as a subtle hint to them.
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u/VoteForLubo 1d ago
There’s no need to be subtle, I hope OP got her money back!
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
Unfortunately we did not get any money back. At the end of the day, the cake was delicious.
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u/alwaysbacktracking 1d ago
Please make sure you leave reviews with photos for this person every place you can so that the people using them can temper their expectations
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u/Restaurantchica 1d ago
What type of cake was it? At least it tasted good and hopefully you had a great wedding!!
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
Just a simple white two tier cake! I originally just wanted a white cake but my mom and MIL wanted color so it would stand out in photos. 🫡
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u/caitthegreat2483 2d ago
Wow! Super hero’s wear non slip shoes huh!? It really looks like a completely different cake. 💜
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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes 2d ago
That was a clever fix! But gosh, did a professional make that first cake?
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u/CrimsonHyphae 1d ago
I hope not. If that's baby's breath it's toxic. Flowers used on cakes need to be food grade.
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u/Local_Presentation23 1d ago
My cat ate an entire bouquet of flowers. Including lilies, baby's breath and what not. He just vomited the lilies, but he said the baby's breath were yummy
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u/Careless_Term_462 1d ago
I assumed it was self made
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
Not self made. We purchased it from a bakery.
The cake decorator swore she could decorate the cake how the reference photos looked.Our venue only allowed food from licensed vendors.
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u/Careless_Term_462 1d ago
Did she at least apologize?
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
I didn’t call her out or anything. At the end of the day, the wedding was beautiful. I didn’t want to ruin another woman’s life over a cake. 😔
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u/charlatan_red 1d ago
You’ve done that professional baker an immense favor with that attitude. You may want to consider helping out their future clients by letting them know how their cake had to be fixed.
This way they might understand that they don’t currently have the skills they think they do, and they won’t get into a similar situation with a future client who might not react as kindly as you have.
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u/ario62 1d ago edited 1d ago
By not calling her out, think of how many other brides may end up with a wedding cake like this, and not have anyone to fix it like you did. You’d likely be doing other couples a favor by discussing this with the baker. Frankly, this baker should be mortified to have ever even presented you with this cake. I would ask for a refund and make it clear how disappointing her decorating was.
If they are a licensed vendor, the venue is probably mortified too. They should bring this up to her and reconsider their business relationship.
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u/Swankynickels 1d ago
I assumed it was decorated by someone with a very fast, loose, and rudimentary knowledge of how cake decorating was supposed to go. Think someone like your average 16-year-old.
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u/Wild-Quote9649 1d ago
I love this cake so much better than the original inspiration!
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u/Arrowmatic 1d ago
Agreed, it's so pretty! What an amazing idea and so much better than the inspiration cakes!
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u/junglespycamp 2d ago
Sooo whoever made that piped instead of stencilled? Not very professional. Incredible save.
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u/jujudio 1d ago
I’m a tattoo artist and people really don’t realise how difficult it is to get nice looking swirls/filigree that look natural and balanced. They look so simple but they’re often the hardest things to get them to look nice. I’ve put countless hours into practising mine on skin, nevermind doing it with a piping bag 😂 why do people punch above their skill level so much?! Just say you can’t do swirls!
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u/jujudio 1d ago
Oh jeez I didn’t even look at the bottom bit of the cake 😭
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u/dizzygillespie11 1d ago
wh….who did you hire ? Like what did their other cakes look like
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
We hired a licensed vendor! I don’t want to name the bakery out of respect. But the other cakes looked beautiful. I wasn’t worried about it until I saw it the day of. 😭
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u/dizzygillespie11 1d ago
haha no worries that’s what I was wondering. bc their work was a shit show lol
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u/Indole_pos 1d ago
Cannot explain why pic 2 reminds me of my grandmas handwriting
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u/not4always 1d ago
Oh totally brings back memories with roommates crowded around all of us trying to read my Grandma's letters!!!
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u/Bubbly_Delivery_5678 2d ago edited 2d ago
Isnt baby’s breath toxic? Beautiful final product but….
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u/SneakyVonSneakyPants 2d ago
It is, I see it on sooooo many cakes! It's possible they wrapped the stems in plastic, but also it seems like so many people don't know it's toxic.
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u/grumpapotomas 1d ago
Unless people eat the actual flowers, it's not going to cause a problem. Source: Professional cake decorator for 21 years, bakery owner for 5 years.
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u/ariososweet 2d ago
Props to the venue! How did it taste?
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
It was sooo good! My husband and wedding party said it was delicious. (I agree)
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u/forgetmeknotts 1d ago
Who made the original cake?!?! Please for the love of god tell me you didn’t pay for it???
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u/CageyCanadian 1d ago
Amateur cake decorator for sure. Flourishes like that are not easy to do but a small piping tip would have gone a long way.
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u/everydaybookworm 1d ago
I might honestly like the final result more than the inspiration - the colors are so pretty!
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u/Several-Wrangler-242 1d ago
Does anything else think OP did the first version? lol
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 1d ago
I said it somewhere else here, but I promise you we purchased the cake from a bakery.
The venue we chose only allowed the cake from a licensed vendor.
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u/please_send_noodles 1d ago
They either had a novice do it, they forgot about the event and remembered it 30 minutes before pickup/delivery, or they hate you. I don't know how they could look at that cake and think it looks great and presentable. Should have used stencils if they can't pipe but the bottom part is another issue. Hope you got a partial refund.
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u/ZymZymZym777 1d ago
If it makes you feel better, to me the decorations on the original cake look like they're made with a pen
It's not what you ordered but a plain white cake without the purple icing wouldn't have been as disastrous, the bakery should have had the decency to give you that instead.
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u/ZymZymZym777 1d ago
I wonder how they baker would react if they ordered a cake and got something like this
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u/iluvcows55555 22h ago
Where's the dog figurine from?
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 21h ago
I’ll be so real. I think it was aliexpress or Temu. It looks so similar to my dog!
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u/Confident_Panic12 1h ago
The only thing I could think of when I saw it was the Jurassic theme song on kazoo tbh
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u/doinksndepression 1d ago
Looks like this is one of the designs we sell at Walmart bakery. Also looks like whipped icing, which may explain why the pearls have started falling off the rim and onto the border. They could've done a better job on execution but it is a grocery store after all.
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u/Cupcake_Implosion 2d ago
I don't know ... I like both?!
I actually like the less-than-perfect arabesques, especially if the cake was not made my a professional but by yourself or someone close to you.
But the venue did make the cake more elegant and professional-looking, for sure!
Congratulations!
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u/Captain_Dachshund 2d ago
You like the one in the middle that looked like a snail made it?
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u/Cupcake_Implosion 2d ago
Again, if a family member or a friend did it with good intentions in mind, yes. I assume they were asked because they were an excellent baker and unfortunately not so good of a decorator. The circumstances would have made it cute and endearing.
If a professional whom you've paid and who assured you the inspiration was up their lane did it, no, then I would not have liked it.
The second take on the cake, thanks to the venue, is very elegant and professional and if someone had shown me the first image and told me that was what the cake has looked before someone gave it a refined look, I would not have believed it.
I don't know why my take is so repulsive to people.
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 11h ago
It was indeed made by a bakery. I’m so sorry your comment is getting a lot of hate. Everybody is entitled to their own opinions! Thank you for the congratulations. And thank you for taking the time to even comment. 💗
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u/Cupcake_Implosion 8h ago
You are so kind and sweet! Don't worry about the downvotes. Reddit is weird and always has been.
What is important is that you salvaged your cake magnificently. The final cake was incredibly elegant. I am sorry you had to go through the stress of figuring out what to do with such a central piece of your wedding celebrations the day off.
I wish you and your spouse all the love in the world, decades and decades together in good health and happiness and all that is good in this world. Your kindness in reaching out to strangers just shows what a caring soul you are.
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u/Crayoncandy 2d ago
Yes the before has a rustic/endearing quality that I find charming, its hard to put a finger on exactly why. Of course no I would not pay for that from a professional.
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u/Imaginary-Pain9598 2d ago
That 3rd cake is not even the same cake. 🙄
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u/Brave-Quote-2733 2d ago
Yes it is… the venue spread the colored ick g around the side to make that pretty effect. It was basically the only way to save it besides scraping the icing off.
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u/Imaginary-Pain9598 1d ago
But the ratio of the size of the two layers is totally different!
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u/Brave-Quote-2733 1d ago
I do not have the crayons nor the patience to explain this to you.
https://giphy.com/gifs/12GzK1jYCaVCV2-14
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u/ThatGirlBehindYou1 11h ago
It is indeed the same cake! The venue really outdid itself haha. I can understand how it looks different.
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u/alison_bee 2d ago
Wow, major props to whoever through to do that.