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your wedding an outside wedding? Or will it be indoors? If your wedding cake will sit outside for an hour or so in June or July, and you have your heart set on whipped topping, you might need to change your mind. No one wants their wedding cake to melt all over the table cloth.

Most shops determine what they charge by the slice. Depending on your part of the country and whether or not you go to an in-store bakery, or a wedding specialty cake shop, you can expect to pay anywhere from $1.50 a slice to $15.00 a slice. The price will begin with your flavor choice and end with the design choice. Basic designs might include traditional scallops and ruffles, or basketweave, but anything else might adjust the price. A cake with edible fondant pearls, or fondant drapes, accents or roses will increase in price. A cake totally covered in fondant will usually cost more. The look of a fondant covered cake is exceptional, but some guests do not like the extreme sweet taste and will pick it off as they eat their cake. Another alternative is for your decorator to give you a faux fondant look using buttercreme icing and a hot knife technique when she decorates. The price will be less and your guests will not pick around the fondant.

Do you want your cake decorated with fondant or gum paste flowers? Or silk or fresh flowers? Fondant and gum paste decorations need to be made in advance so this is another reason for early planning. The cake shop might agree to decorate the cake with silk flowers if you supply them ahead of time. Most shops have delivery people to deliver the cake, not decorators who can do last minute decorations on the spot. Fresh flower decorations are usually left to the florist. Be prepared to have to coordinate delivery times to suit the schedules of both the florist and the cake shop. Another reason to plan early.

How do I pick out my design? Most shops have display cakes to look at and plenty of photo albums or wedding cake books to browse through. You may bring in outside designs, look on the internet, or design it yourself. Be prepared to be flexible. The wedding cake shop has to use available sizes of baking pans, so if you are wanting a 5 tier cake and only need servings for 50, expect to have to adjust your thinking. If you want to put a round cake on top of a hexagon, on top of a square, on top of a round...expect to serve quite a lot. The wedding shop has to pick sizes that will fit on top of another cake of a different shape, while keeping in mind

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