Fake Cake Among Us

I was going through my daily blogfest on my Google Reader today....reading through tons and tons of wedding blogs, as usual. I was reading a quite interesting little post on replicating your cake. Basically, this company will create a porcelain replica of your beloved wedding cake for $500 and up. Did I mention it's 5 INCHES tall? But I digress....this is what I found amazing....

She also mentioned in her post, that an alternative to this idea was renting a fake wedding cake from a company called Fun Cakes Rental. This is basically your "put out a fake styrofoam cake, serve your guests sheet cake" routine, except, you actually rent the cake. You basically pay them $100 for the cake, plus a $200 deposit for safe return, they ship you a cake (you pick the design, or design your own), it comes in a big wooden crate, and for the most part it is a big fake styrofoam cake, covered in fondant, with the look and feel of a real cake. On the website description is also says the cake has "a small container for real cake" inside. I have no idea what this means, but it sounds a lot like hiding real cake to trick people during the cake cutting/feeding. I'm stumped. So, to continue the shock, I went to the website and found out that this company is actually based outside of Grand Rapids; in Grandville, Michigan,where I used to live. Crazy.

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of bakeries now won't give you much of a discount if you ask for all, or some of your tiered cake to be styrofoam. I've been told it takes about the same effort to decorate the styrofoam, so there is very little discount as far as that goes. SO, if you were thinking of getting a styrofoam cake anyways, then check out Fun Cakes Rental. Personally, I loved my wedding cake, and I am probably one of those nuts that would immortalize it in a 5 inch porcelain statue, so I say go real cake. BUT, if you budget doesn't allow it, and you need a quick fix, check into this---they actually offer quite a few options, ship across the country and to canada, and are an economical solution to a cakey problem. Would you buy a fake wedding cake?