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Cakes are usually priced on a per-person, or per-slice, basis. [1] Prices can range from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars per-person or slice, depending on the pastry chef who is hired to make the cake. Wedding cakes and cake decorating in general have become a certain pop culture symbol in western society.
A slice of the couple's wedding cake was later auctioned off by Julien's Auctions in 2018 and was estimated to sell between $800–$1,200. Another slice sold for £1,850 ($2,565) in a 2021 auction. [53]
The official wedding cake was baked by London bakery McVitie & Price. [10] [28] A fruitcake made of four tiers, it stood nine feet high, [10] and weighed about 500 lbs. [28] It was made with 80 oranges, 660 eggs, and over three gallons of Navy Rum.
Weddings are notoriously expensive affairs -- between the venue, catering, entertainment, cake, flowers, photographer and other costs, these celebrations cost tens of thousands of dollars....
“We made the four large display cakes as well as enough bite-sized pieces of cake for 800 people to be served at the reception simultaneously,” Ptak describes.
Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten's wedding cakes. Putting the final touches to the principal wedding cake made by McVitie and Price, from a 1947 newspaper. Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten were offered many cakes from well-wishers around the world [1] for their wedding on 20 November 1947. Of these they accepted 12.
World's Largest Wedding Cake Record Holder Dreams Up Next Big Thing. It took Lynn Mansel, the executive pastry chef at Mohegan Sun, 10,000 pounds of cake batter and nearly 5,000 pounds of frosting ...
Wedding cakes Although not their core operation it is noteworthy that McVitie's were commissioned in 1893 to create a wedding cake for the royal wedding between the Duke of York and Princess Mary , who subsequently became King George V and Queen Mary .
Prince William. Catherine Middleton. The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place on Friday, 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London, England. William was second in the line of succession to the British throne at the time, later becoming heir apparent. The couple had been in a relationship since 2003.
The royal family announced that they would pay for the wedding. The costs for the cake, the florist, and the catering had been estimated to be £50,000, £110,000, and £286,000 respectively, and the overall cost was expected to be around £32 million.