Chateau La Mer Brides Re: Cakes?

Yea lou said they have a book or something you can choose..

Any feed back on those two vendors?

Well, Black Forest seemed like the place to go to and when I met with the baker, everything seemed perfect. But, like I said in my review, my cake was really lopsided and one of the dowels was sticking through the top layer (which you can see in the proofs because they took picture of the cake before they tried to cover it with the cake topper).

VillaBella was really frustrating to work with because I went down there when I had an appointment and yet there was no baker there to help me. I called many times in the next 3 weeks and went down there again, and they still couldn't give me a quote by then. Also, the family is right off the boat Italian and the woman was extremely difficult to communicate with.

Two very different stiles. BF is big and does a lot of bigger business. VB is more of a small mom and pop type place. There were maybe 8 cakes or so to choose from in the BF book and a couple in the VB book. Be prepared with something before you go in--some pictures, a general idea. Think about having your florist put fresh flowers on a plain cake maybe if you don't really like you choices, but don't want to spend the extra on a different cake. I don't see why you couldn't even put silk flowers from Michaels on there (unless they consider that a health hazard, but hey, your putting a cake topper and dirty fresh flowers on anyway, right?).

I think you're supposed to order the cake 4 weeks before the wedding, but you could always go and look around now. If you do go to BF, ask to meet specifically with Tom, cause the lady that helped us the first time wasn't even a baker and didn't know what they could and couldn't do and was a bit unfriendly.