Oops! They Did It Again
October 11, 2017 Will you guys ever get tired of seeing wedding missed marks? 'Cuz I'm thinking, "no."
Let's test that theory, shall we?
What the bride wanted:
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What the bride got:
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That'll buff out.
A lovely leaf motif:
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And a lovely...oh good grief:
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Actually, that leaf design is so popular I have two wedding wrecks based on it:
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Whoah. This baker needs to make like a tree, and get out of tree decorations.
(Hm. I feel like that line didn't go quite right. Maybe I should follow it up with something clever.)
So.
YEAH.
(Theeere we go.)
This next one's in reverse order; here's what Anthony L's bakery replaced another bakery's initial wreck with, and with only an hour and a half to do so before the wedding started:
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Not bad for less than two hours' work, right?
Especially when you compare what the original cake (again, from another bakery) looked like:
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Am I the only one who thinks this looks like Play-Doh? I keep expecting it to spring to life, claymation style. And then maybe turn into a giant demon dog and terrorize a nerdy New York accountant.
Just me?
Here's a fun, modern pattern:
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Aaaaand the fun stops HERE:
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It's never a good sign when your cake is crying.
Goodness gracious, great balls on wires!
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Seriously. They're like shiny little bubbles of joy - totally cute.
These, on the other hand, are just...
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...balls.
Thanks to Krista V., Emily B., Allison I., Anthony L., Tempest J., & Sarah B. for feeding our horrible wedding wreck obsession.
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Reader Comments (18)
Black? On a wedding cake? Yeah, that seems appropriate.
Most of these seem to be a failure to translate fondant to buttercream.
Those awful cakes with leaves on them makes me want to say, "son of a beech...or is it birch?" What makes these wreckorators think they can go out on a limb and branch out into tree decorations? What do these crazy ideas stem from? It's as if someone planted a seed in their minds that they could do this. Someone needs to get to the root of the problem. However this got started, no one is showing them how to do it right, it's as if no one is at the elm to steer this movement in the right direction. Is this oak-ay? I think knot. Willow they ever stop? These are so bad they'll never be poplar. We can only pine fir the days when bakers were truly professionals. Maybe these saps should be stuffed in a trunk until they cedar error of their ways. I know this has me stumped and I'm bushed. I mean, what they do isn't art - it's horrorticulture.
Great post, Punster-Mike!
To answer your original question, Jenn: an emphatic NO -- we will never be tired of these wedding cake wrecks! They are the best -- er, worst?
Would love to know the backstory on these. Did Anthony L. refuse the first altogether? How did the first bakery react? Did they think they made an acceptable cake? How did he find another bakery so fast?
#TeamSavedTheDay for the bakery that helped out that bride. You guys are AWESOME!
Also fondant----->butter cream designs almost never work out. If the decorator has such mad skills to pull that off, you're gonna pay the big bucks anyway.
What's with all the sketchy fug fondant work and nasty piping? The time to learn is not on a client's cake.
Question, how are the leaves done on the original cake? Curious.
The "two-fer" wrecks (4th and 5th from the top)...Well, Jen's suggestion was spot ON!
(Not that I'm excited,mind you.....)
That *camo* design though....wow. .uhhh..anyone else here see a hostage with a camo head wrap covering the face? No? Okay......really. Here they come with my meds...
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I'd be happy with that fourth original. The more (icing) the merrier! 8-d
Bravo, Mike ^^^
I agree with Becky..........fondant to buttercream never yields the same look. However, it can still be done better than these!!!
Did the team that made the beautiful replacement cake get to eat the wreck? I feel like they should have been given it as a reward for pulling that off in so little time. And tts not like you can return a cake.
And it's Mike for the win!
I wish they'd share the budget also. Like, did they dig in with the picture of the blown sugar ball cake, which is super simple looking but actually probably very labor intensive, with only a 37.48 budget?
Mike wrote a regular tree-tise in his post. Very punny!
I looked at that first leaf wreck and thought "you know... it's not as bad as it could be". Then I scrolled and I was right! LOL Those poor brides.
I agree with Becky. The majority in this post are because the Bakers are doing it in buttercream instead of fondant. You can't get there from here. You can do great things with both but the exactness that can be achieved with fondant blows out buttercream. My question is, when the brides walk in with a photo of what they want, do they LOOK at the samples? If they don't see fondant in the samples... walk away, no, just walk away. Love ALL your posts!!
The second leaf wreck looks like camouflage.
So glad the bride got a better cake. Wow to the original I really hope they didn't pay for that one.. ugh.
No, we will never get tired of them. It's my whole reason for reading.
Are the balls on the wreck version strung on twist-ties- the kind that comes with a pack of food storage bags?