Company Offers Fake Wedding Cakes For Cheap Couples

A new company called 'Fun Cakes' in Grandville, Michigan is offering a less costly alternative to buying an expensive wedding cake for the budget-minded bride and groom: renting a fake one.

The idea is to have an elegant, multitiered 'pretend cake' for show while serving guests slices from a real, simple and inexpensive sheet cake.

The inside of the fake wedding cake will contain mostly plastic foam, with a secret spot reserved for a slice of real cake to be shared by the bride and groom. Everything would then be covered by a frosting made from sugar and water.

After a bride and groom take the traditional first slice of their real wedding cake, it's often wheeled away from guests, out of their sight, to be cut up and served on plates. So the company says they would simply serve up slices from the cheaper sheet cake, and the guests won't even know it.

One Bride-to-be Nicole Kreuger says thanks to the service she will spend about half as much on a fake wedding cake paired up with a sheet cake as she would have spent on a real cake elsewhere.

"That's saving us a ton of money", she says.

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