I need ammo!!!!!

[mystiichell]

Thanks again for all your help & suggestions. After I calmed down last night I sent my planner Jennifer an email expressing my concerns in detail. She called me this morning & we talked about it. She is going to speak with the GF bakery & get back to me with some options.

Lesson Learned: If you have something that is a concern TALK to you planner, I had apparently not made myself clear in my initial request as to why I wanted to make the changes that I wanted to make. Once Jennifer understood where I was coming from & exactly what I was needing she was able to help me out. I forgot that she is not able to read my mind.

 

[cryssi]

glad your planner is helping you find some options!

 

[KellyJo18]

We had a fondant cake at our wedding a couple weeks ago and they do peal off the fondant so guests are served only the cake with butter cream frosting. Here is a photo of what our cake looked like after it was served so you can see how much butter cream is under the fondant. It is mostly the chocolate mousse frosting and a thin layer of butter cream on the edge.

If you had them do some sort of whipped or Bavarian cream filling you would still have some butter cream on the edge but it wouldn't be extremely hard to scrape off.

We ended up eating our anniversary layer in our hotel room. It had been boxed up with the fondant still on it. We both tried a bite of the fondant and I must admit I thought Disney's fondant tasted much better than most of the other fondants I've tried.

 

[dee slack]

After I calmed down last night I sent my planner Jennifer an email expressing my concerns in detail. She called me this morning & we talked about it. She is going to speak with the GF bakery & get back to me with some options.

please do let us know what the outcome of this is, and I really hope it's what you want to hear.
I sure hope there is a (low cost!) alternative to buttercream, and if there is, I NEED to know (I was looking forward to eating my cake until I found out that it was smoothered in the stuff and that I'd have to scrape it all off before I could eat it ). I wonder what a 'plain' cake would look like?

 

[evedein]

DD(melmel) had an intimate wedding at Sunset Point 12/05. She also had Jennifer O'Leary & went round & round about the cake. She desperately wanted the Mickey's Delight (see JaxTeach's post for picture). At that time, Disney wouldn't budge at all on changing the cake. Even though other brides had recently had success with their cake requests ( & again after her wedding). It seems to depend on their mood that day. Also, Melissa hates butter cream & didn't want all that drippy icing on her cake. Anyway, after weeks of e-mails back & forth, they reached a sort of compromise: the cake had butter cream icing, but it was spread smooth, without all that extra icing for the decoration (the icing tasted great by the way) & we ordered the Mickey's Delight (served about 20 people) from the Yacht Club bakery to be served at the wedding dinner at the Yachtsman. So she ended up with 2 cakes - a different flavor & filling for each layer (the chocolate cake with peanut butter filling was incredible). The second cake cost $175 & we brought Gladware containers from home & sent large pieces from both cakes home with the guests. So, Melissa was satisfied (although still annoyed with Disney) & we could move on the the next pre-wedding crisis. I have to say though, Jennifer really did try to acommadate her as much as possible.

 

[Cinderella22]

I was floored when I started talking cakes with my planner. I paid $450 for a cake and then I had to throw more than 1/2 of it away because I couldn't bring it back across the boarder with me.

I didn't want a cake initially, but as planning went on I got caught up in the "wedding stuff" and decided I needed one. Looking back I wouldn't have done it. I would have put the money towards a character or something... It was beautiful and very tasty, but really a waste. Oh well...

Ohh poo?? can't bring it across the border with you??? Oh no, I may be in the same boat!!! Im from Canada.



Maggie

 

[mystiichell]

I just wanted to let everyone know that I received an email from Jennifer O'Leary & she advised me that she spoke with the bakery manager @ the GF & they are going to do the fondant icing for an upgrade charge of $75.00

 

[Lynn5700]

That sounds more reasonable!!!! Good I'm glad it worked out!

 

[mystiichell]

That sounds more reasonable!!!! Good I'm glad it worked out!

DITTOS

 

[dee slack]

that's excellent news

 

[dmslush]

I'm glad you were able to get the fondant upgrade at a more reasonable price!


Hopefully disney will become more aware that disney brides are not single units out in the world blindly planning a wedding, but rather many of us are working together and comparing what we are getting. Maybe it will result in better consistancy.

 

[Summer-Caitlin]

So can anyone tell me what the recipe is for fondant in the States? I want to compare it to what we have here, we eat the fondant in the UK, so I want to know it's worth it to pay the upgrade!