WEDDING CAKE DISASTER

Hello Lovelies,

Hope you are having a great week.

Today's post I will be sharing my wedding cake disaster just to encourage any beginner or a cakie person who is still struggling to find a balance in this business.

It all happened when I got a call from the bride's mother-in-law. She had received a fruit cake from my sister-in-law during the Christmas celebrating and immediately fell in Love with my cakes. She arranged an appointment with me and after our meeting she booked me for the big day. I got a call few days after from the Bride who happened to be someone I knew back in Uni. We exchanged thoughts and designs on what she wanted for her day and I was so much excited about making this cake.

Fast-forward to the wedding day, I got to the hall in good time to set up the cake but before we got to the hall, my assistant noticed a slight issue with one of the tier which occurred during transportation. It was something we could fix at the venue so I wasn't worried about it. So we setup the cake, took a few photos and waited about an hour to be sure that the cake had good balance then we left to meet up another delivery for the day. After about 30mins, I got a call from the event decorator...hello is this yelashcakes, your cake has fallen oooo, come back to the hall now and see it.. Errrmmmm, WHAT WHAT, how did that happen bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. Immediately jumped into the car and back to the hall I was. As I entered, I saw 3 tier still standing however the top cake which I had used a seperator to divide had fallen. I was heartbroken, all I could think of was the Bride, she won't be happy with this. There was nothing I could do to salvage the top teir, it was badly smashed that we had to bin it. I said to my assistant, no time to brood, lets figure how to make this 3 tier look good, so we took some roses out and used it to form a bouquet to seat on the top of the 3 tier cake. This time I instructed my assistant to stay in the hall until the event starts proper so she can guard the cake.

Lessons I took away from this cakie disaster: 

• Always arrange with the bride to have someone watch over the cake at the reception. Anyone could have hit the cake table (not intentionally) but I wasn't there to confirm that and nobody owned up to it.
• Always take photos of your cakes after setup. This was my saving grace as I had evidence of the cake standing before leaving the hall.

Here is a picture of the cake

The top part fell off so we had to work with the 3 tier alone.

We all have our fair share of disaster, no business can boast of disaster free, be it wedding cake, celebration cakes, pastries etc... It is our ability to come back from the disaster with a BANG that sets up apart from the lot. As long as you enjoy doing what you do, Keep Believing that your best is yet to come.

Have a Caketastic day...

xoxo..