One budget friendly wedding cake idea is to use cupcakes instead of a traditional wedding cake. Cupcake towers are very popular as a chic and whimsical alternative to traditional wedding cakes. Who doesn’t love cupcakes, right? Even the professionals are doing cupcake towers as a super cute way to buck tradition. If you have a talented baker in the family who is willing to lend their services, bake away! Not only will you have a unique wedding cake, made with love, but you will have saved quiet a pretty penny!

You can purchase or rent a lovely cake tower. Choose a white one because you want the focus to be on the cupcakes. You can disguise any showing parts of the tower with elegant satin ribbon purchased from your local craft store. When decorating your cupcakes, keep it simple because once you get all those cupcakes together the impact will be big! Work with icing in the colors of your wedding, you can keep the color sophisticated and monotone or alternate to be more festive. How adorable would it be to monogram them with your new initials? You will have yourself quite a lovely and delicious wedding day dessert!

A fabulous way to share the sweet love that has gone into your cupcake “wedding cake” is to bake double the cupcakes than you will need for you tower. You can wrap each mini cake in a cellophane bag, attach your family recipe and tie with a bow. On one side of the favor table, set up the cupcake favors and on the other you can offer mini milk containers. Your guests will have a delicious treat to look forward to once they arrive home. By the way don’t forget you can always top the tier with a matching mini cake for you and your new husband to do the traditional cutting celebration with or save it for your first anniversary!

Another budget friendly wedding cake idea is to have a small beautiful wedding cake on display and to also do the traditional cutting celebration, and behind the scene have a sheet cake. That way when you and your new husband are done cutting the cake, the servers will take it to the back and what will come out on plates to your guests are the slices from the sheet cake. They will never notice that it is not the actual wedding cake that they are enjoying. This way you still have a gorgeous wedding cake that was not so massive so it would cost you a lot less, and then a much less expensive sheet cake will serve its purpose in serving the guests without losing any glamour effect because it is done backstage. This is truly a clever way to save a lot of money on your wedding cake.

If you are not a traditional bride you can always skip the wedding cake altogether and serve little desserts instead. By ordering your desserts in bulk from your favorite bakery you are more likely to get a better deal. This way you also have a variety of choices in flavors to satisfy all of your guest’s taste buds. This is a great way to save money if having a traditional wedding cake is not necessarily your forte.

Happy tasting!