Some people wanted to know, so here it is: We had our cake done at Saint Cupcake.
A wonderful little place in Portland. I had stopped in and had thier cupcakes before and loved them. I'm not a huge cake fan and I always felt the pieces were too big and too sweet at a wedding/birthday/shower. I also hated that you could only get a slice of whatever cake there was at the party but there was a good chance you would not like it.
I called up Saint Cupcake and made an appointment to meet with their wedding advisor. She was wonderful! We got two samples of each kind of cake (when we did not eat them she let us take them home!). And she was very helpful with all of our questions.
Thier cupcakes come in two sizes. Regular size and dot (smaller) size. I can't remember exactly but we ordered enough regular sizes for everyone, about 150 and about 75 - 100 dots. It was really not that expensive for the cupcakes. If you wanted special flavored frosting or special colored frosting/ sprinkles it cost more. We just kept whatever frosting it came with. The kinds of cupcakes we ordered were: vanilla with chocolate buttercream, toasted coconut cream with vanilla cream cheese frosting (my fav!), red velvet with vanilla cream cheese frosting, chocolate with chocolate buttercream, and big top (a vanilla cake with baked in chocolate chips and vanilla cream cheese frosting).
Here is a pic at our wedding (above) without the cupcakes, just the stand. It was a hundred degrees that day so the cupcakes came out right before eating. The stand was a wooden one, that we rented from the shop. It was simple to put together and we put ribbon around the edge to decorate it. It was $35 to rent for the weekend. We also had a friend pick up the cupcakes the morning of the wedding and bring them to the site. We kept them in the fridge till it was time to put them on the stand. Stephanie was my wonderful cupcake transferer! The shop would have delievered but because we got married in the middle of nowhere it was very expensive.
Here is a pic of what they look like on the stand. It was really great to have an interesting cake like this and have so many options. The only thing we did not think of was that people would take more than one cupcake each. There were guests who took multiple for themselves (I will not name names, you know who you are!) and the only bummer was besides the one cupcake we cut and shared, Patrick and I did not get any cupcake and we were a little sad about that....I should've asked my maid of honor Kelsey to go in and wrestle us up some but I didn't think of it and literally they were gone in seconds!!!! The cake total: $235. Good luck, wedding cake hunters!
