Why NOT to get a wedding cake from Walmart . . .
Permit me to have a small rant here:To the left is a photo of the wedding cake Walmart delivered to my grandson's August wedding reception. The projected cost of this "leaning tower of cake and icing" was $150.00.
Some background: When my husband and I were asked to pick up the wedding cake on Friday night at 5 PM (The wedding was Saturday at 1.), we went to my daughter's local Walmart and asked for the cake. We were told, after a 30 minute search, that the cake was nowhere to be found.
When we told my stressed-out daughter, she saw red and called the store, who assured her, amid profuse apologies, that they would have a cake for her by 9 am Saturday morning. Come Saturday morning, my daughter and her hubby went to pick up the cake and found the ASSISTANT STORE MANAGER (not the baker) frantically mixing icing and making an attempt to decorate the cake. Again, she was assured that the cake would be at the reception on time. The picture to the right was what was delivered.
Note the robin's egg blue coloring. The cake was supposed to be all white on the two bottom layers with a BABY BLUE (note the color of the blue in the tablecloth) bride's cake. As to the leaning part, a friend told me, amid gales of laughter, that she had never seen a cake lean in so many directions and not fall over. The not falling over part was in question all day as the top piece continued to slide and teeter on the edge until it was finally removed for the bride and groom to cut the cake. I think that because the top leans left and the bottom leans right it may have equalized things and defied gravity.
Let me add here that while it was happening, there were a lot of very angry people.
Looking back on it now, it was a minor flaw and the only flaw in what was otherwise a beauitful wedding. In years to come, it will be the one thing we'll all look back on and get a good laugh from. Oh, by the way, when asked, the store manager told her "I can't give you any satisfactory answer as to why the assistant store manager decorated the cake." But he told her the cake was free.
However, that does not change my initial warning -- DO NOT ORDER A WEDDING CAKE AT WALMART!
Blessings to all,
Elizabeth
posted by Elizabeth Sinclair at
12:21 PM
10 Comments:
Hahaha... This is the bride who got said wedding cake on her 'special day.' What a great wedding moment looking over at this leaning tower of hideous frosting and asking my new husband if that was the wedding cake. We had a good laugh... hahaha
That's hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
Jessie (an author website browser)
Wow. That cake looks worse in a picture than real life. LOL!
While i know walmart cuts corners like hell in times of panic if you have one of the cake docoraters 'witch you should have had that asst man. should have gotten into big trouble their cakes ccan be quite lovely and tastey but yes you were screwed, your suppost to be able to check with the store over a week before the evant to see the cake as thier making it and check that every thing is right as thier making it at least at my walmart you can that is really messed up though
Well, this makes me sad.. but a little upset too. Yes your cake looked awful, but honestly, if it was the manager that had to decorate it (instead of calling in an actual decorator like they should have), it's no wonder. Those guys don't even know how to answer phones, much less anything that involves something like this. I'd be supremely pissed at the store itself, but that's no reason to not order a wedding cake from WalMart. I'm a decorator at store 1125 in Normal, IL. and we haven't had any issues with our decorating for at least the three years I've been there, aside from when people who don't know what they're doing (*cough* managers *cough*) improperly take orders, which we only follow what's written down. Understandably that cake looks like complete crap, but I wouldn't go so far as to infer that all decorators at WalMart can't decorate cakes for shit.
Jodie, You're absolutely right. I should not have lumped ALL Walmart bakeries into the same pitiful category as this one. My apologies. Thankfully, my granddaughter's wedding was perfect in all other respects. I too have seen lovely cakes coem from Walmart. This just didn't happen to be one of them. Again, my apologies if I insulted any of the truly talented cake decorators. It was not my intention.
I stumbled across this blog and had to add my two cents....I own and operate a cake shop. A cake that size in my store would have been double the walmart price. However, it wouldl have been baked from scratch (not the frozen mass produced cake that comes in on the truck), homemade butter icing, perfectly aligned, professional quality, set up by me, and ready for pictures. Sorry you had to go through that...it would have been unacceptable in my business. Next time, look to one of us small business owners in the community for your cake and spend the extra...it is so worth it.
wow... i was googling walmart wedding cakes for pricing and i'm glad i saw this.
I am sorry that you guys ended up with such a mess for a cake. You must know that Wal-mart is overworked and severely understaffed!!! That's probably why a manager tried to decorate your cake. Although, that is no excuse, it probably is the truth. At the Wal-mart that I work at if the store gets desperate enough for decorators, it will accept employees from the floor to try their hand at decorating. I happened to be one of those and so far I have done a fairly descent job. Thank God. We didn't have a true cake decorator for over a year. But, now we have one and she barks orders like no one else has sense enough to do anything. I am not sure that it is worth it all. I spend a lot of my time on the internet studying cake decorating and watching u-tube cake decorating and it is slowly paying off. Wish me luck guys!!! Maybe I won't make a horrible mess like the manager that tried to do the wedding cake---at least, I think I can do one that stands up straight.
That cake does look pretty bad but honestly I wouldn't be that mad. If your going to cut cost and go to walmart to buy your wedding cake you shouldn't expect high class cake decorating. You only had to pay $150 for it then you got a refund so you got a free cake that would of taste the same as if it was properly set up and decorated. Also I have been to a couple weddings where they got their cake from walmart and they were beautiful and were delicious...and cheap. Sorry you had such a bad experience but I guess I'm the kind of person if that were to happen at my wedding and they gave it to us for free I would've just laughed it off.
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