The sky is the limit for the designs and decorations on wedding cakes. There are millions of ways to make your wedding cake unique and flavorful.

You can try some of the following ideas for a creative wedding cake design that can cost you comparatively less than other lavish designer cakes:

1. Naked Wedding Cake - $600 for 100 People

Naked Wedding Cake is the most popular wedding cake design in 2023. At places like Sage Cakery, its price is set at $600 for a cake serving over 100 people.

These cakes have minimal frosting, exposed layering and edges, and decorated with fresh natural flowers.

Naked wedding cakes are much cheaper because they use less frost and fondant. They can be costly only when the couple decide to use lots of berries or out of season flowers.

The average cost of Naked Wedding Cakes is around $600 depending on the number of servings required.

2. Fondant Tiered Wedding Cakes - $800 for 100 people

Having a three-tiered cake at a wedding has been a tradition from a long time. It is perfect to serve for a large wedding reception and suitable for great photography due to height and drama making it a focal point at your event.

Generally, tiered cakes with heavy fondant are pricier due to excess use of frost and icing. The price also depends on the ingredients used. Vegan, gluten-free and almond free options are generally costly. 

The exact cost depends on the bakeries and choices you make, but in average couple spend not less than $300 and not more than $800 in a traditional tiered wedding cake. 

3. Minimalist Wedding Cake - $350 for 100 people

When you are opting for a simpler and minimalist wedding, you can go with a plain monochromatic two-tiered cakes. You can also match the color with the wedding theme.

As the name suggests, it is a minimalist approach so the extra cost that may have occurred due to delicate designs, or pricey decorations is drastically reduced. With the focus on just the taste and flavoral these simple cakes are affordable options for a simpler wedding.

However, the flavor and ingredients should still be of satisfying quality. So, generally minimalist wedding cakes also cost around $350 for 100 people in bakeries like Walmart, Seasoned From Above, Cake Central, Sweet Dreams Bakery and more. Price varies depending on the bakeries and other factors.

4. Cupcake Wedding Cakes - $700 for 100 people

The cupcake wedding cake became worldwide popular during the 2000s. Using cupcakes for wedding can be designed in your own way. You can choose variety of color combination, frosting, pairings with cake toppers, gold sprinkles, alternating flowers, decorative papers, fruit topping and more.

Cupcake wedding cakes is also another price saving design as it requires less skill to make cupcakes compared to the tiered cakes. But the creativity to design and provide for large group of people can still add to the cost. On an average people pay between $200 to $900 for a cupcake wedding cake for 100 to 120 people.

5. Bride and Groom/ Couple Topper Designs - $400 for 100 people

Another most popular wedding cake design is that you can add some frosty icing and cake toppers representing the bride and groom, or a dancing couple, or some other romantic scene. Some people make it funny as per their customization.

Adding a stylish artificial and non-edible topper on the simpler cake design make it pretty cost effective. You will get the desired drama and beauty without breaking your bank for the intricate cake work on for the romantic designs. 

A cake topper will cost you around $5-$50 dollars at any online or walk-in shops. You can add it on top of your minimalist design cake worth around $350 and voila. You got your beautiful designed cake withing $400. 

6. Sheet Wedding Cakes - $400 for 100 people

While there is no exact average of the cost price of Sheet Wedding cakes, it is safe to say that if you have to pay $1000 for a tiered wedding cake for 200 people, Sheet cakes would be around $800.

It means, you can save up to 20% of your money, if you opt for a sheet cake at your wedding with same flavor, ingredients and quantity. It is because the stacking and decorating for a tiered cake requires few hundred more dollars. 

Some people also opt for a small tiered designer cake for the cutting ceremony and serving the rest of the guest the sheet cake of same flavor.

You can also buy sheet cakes within $100 from supermarkets like Costco or local bakery shops.

7. Watercolor Wedding Cakes - $150 for 100 people

Watercolor cakes are classic buttercream cakes finished entirely with a hand-textured watercolor effect. The colors can be of your choice. Most common are golden, bluish and mixed color. 

Just like any other designs, the price depends on the level of details and specialty couples want in their cakes.

The starting price for a simpler watercolor wedding cakes is around $150 for 100 people. Bakeries like Ruzecakehouse, Belmar Bakery, Whipped Bakeshop and many others provide it in the same price range.

8. Black Wedding Cake - $431 for 100 people

A Black wedding cake is the opposite of the traditional white cakes. It is generally preferred for a Halloween themed or dark themed wedding party. The black color is made up of fondant and buttercream. While the other ingredients are same, it is similar to the regular minimalist or tiered wedding cakes.

The price is also similar, which is around $340-$540. Freed's Bakery has the Black diamond cakes in $431 which is perfect for 100 guests.

9. Maximalist Wedding Cakes - $1000 and above

We have talked about the minimalist design, which uses the least possible designs and decorations for a simpler final look. But the exact opposite design is the maximalist design. It includes all the decorations that can be added. Some of them may include, diamond, gold, or pearl finish, unique flowers, large number of tiers, use of extremely high-quality ingredients, and taller cakes. 

If you feel your cake should have it all, then it sure will cost you at least $1000. More than that, you can go as much higher as you like depending on the special requests and work needed on the cake.

You can get maximalist cakes under $1200 at Tiffany's Bakery. While at Freed's bakery you can get in around $900.

10. Textured Wedding Cakes -$675 for 100 people

Textured wedding cakes are those which uses lace, ruffles, waves, or decorating objects to oppose the smooth icing surface. Some have dotted designs, some have embedded items and many more.

So the price depends upon the materials used to make them textured. Generally, it costs around $590 to $690 at a popular bakery. Shops like Camerons' bakery sell it at around $675. Similarly, Custom Cakes By Adele cost around $8 per serving which means around $800 for 100 people.

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