bakery for my wedding cake

has anyone used a separate bakery for their wedding cake instead of getting it from the reception hall?

i could really use some recommendations of bakeries in nassau county that do wedding cakes... help ladies!

Check out Jean Marie Patisserie their regular cakes are great - I hear they do wonderful wedding cakes - they are in garden City

My cake designer is in Belle Harbor, which is not Nassau, but she's worth the trip and every penny - her cakes are works of art! Cynthia Peithman of Cakeline Couture.

Cakeline

spel,

if you do not use the cake form the NRC, do you think they would give you something else, like added food at cocktail hour etc? i am also debating about the cake situation. i dont mind the choices that they give, but i am concerned about how it tastes.

spel & groovypeg- Okay girls now you have me worried about the cake at NRC!!! Are you really not going to get the cake from NRC? You think its really that bad? Oh god another thing to worry about!!!

thanks, claud! i emailed cynthia & she got back to me right away!

i got one quote, from cakeline, for over $1,000
for a round, stacked, carrot cake, with draped autumn leaves. it seems that cakes go for between $8.00 - $9.50 per slice. if i were getting the vienesse hour, i wouldn't bother, but i'm not so...

needless to say, i'm still looking around!!

i would certainly expect NRC to throw in something else if i'm not using their cake. so far, they have been very flexible & accomodating, so i would expect the same with this situation. i'll give them a call when i make a final decision about the cake (i'll let you know what they say, of course!).

this is from the cakeline website. i like the look of the leaves (the shape is growing on me, i don't want a topper though).



edited to add:
nancy, no i do not think their cakes are ugly at all! its just not what i had in mind. i've been collecting cake pictures for awhile, & it doesn't seem like NRC could make the type of cake that i would like.

stephanie- that cake is absoutely beautiful!! I love the leaves!! If I had the extra $$$ I would probably do it but things are really getting tight so I don't think it would be worth it for us to pay the extra money but I would have loved to have a cake like that!! I am so jealous!