Weddingbee Blog

It’s taken me a LONG time to write about this because it’s something that made me really upset. I wasn’t even sure I was going to tell you about it, but now I have to look back and laugh at how incredibly stupid this was.

What I’m about to say is going to shock you.

The caterer FORGOT to bring our wedding cake. Like, literally forgot all about it.

I had plans to have a cake and pastry buffet so everyone could enjoy a little bit of everything. I was already about $5K over my budget by the time cake ideas rolled around, so I decided on a cake buffet in an attempt to save money. Remember Mrs. Avocado’s cake buffet? That’s what I was going for. Something like this:

Beautiful, right? I even printed this photo, along with maybe 5 or so more, for the caterer so he knew exactly what I wanted. He said he had cake stands and could do a variety of different cakes. I also told him that for “our cake”, the one that we would cut and smash in each other’s faces, that we wanted a red velvet cake with white cream cheese icing. I SHOWED HIM A PHOTO so he wouldn’t get confused. “Oh yes, Mrs. Dumpling. Trust me. I know exactly what you want.”

But is that what we got? Oh, no. This is the Dumpling Wedding, so you know it went totally wrong. We got this:

Does that look like a cake buffet to you? Yeah, me neither.

I didn’t think to ask him at the beginning of the reception if he remembered our cake buffet because I assumed that, as a professional, he would have brought all of our food we paid for. WRONG. There was a very nice pastry buffet on display, but the cakes were nowhere to be seen. I asked my DOC, Liane, to find out where all our cakes were and I’m still not sure what was said during that conversation because sometime during our reception I started feeling sick from being preggo and had to excuse myself.

But I’m guessing that he panicked and realized he forgot the cakes and sent someone to the grocery store for some back-ups. Now, why he couldn’t purchase whole cakes to cover up his mistake instead of cake pieces is beyond me.

So instead of getting a cute red velvet cake for Mr. Dumpling and me to cut, we got two slices, already cut for us. Now, where’s the fun in that?

In an effort not to be a total Debbie Downer, I smiled and pretended we were supposed to get two slices of cake to cut again.

I was, and still am, kind of ticked off. There wasn’t much I could do since I had already paid the caterer his full amount. He catered our rehearsal dinner as well and the food was great, so there were no complaints on the food quality. But what the heck kind of caterer forgets the couple’s wedding cake?

I’m going to blame my lack of following up and checking on things a millions times on being pregnant during the crucial last-minute stages of wedding planning. I had serious pregnancy brain and I was hecka sick up until the big day, not to mention the many fiascoes I got myself into in my first trimester that made me a crazy woman.

Many other things went wrong, but this one takes the cake… no pun intended.

What kind of things went majorly wrong at your reception?