How much did you spend on dessert (cake, dessert bar, etc.), and for how many guests?

$575 for a homemade ice cream truck to come with waffle cones and cups for two hours — 75 people.

Out of curiosity, what is included in this dessert bar? Does that also include delivery and setup? It's approximately $30 a person, which is a little pricey for dessert in my opinion, but wedding stuff in general is always pricier. Ours is about $18 a person, which is more reasonable, but it is in house.

The dessert bar option at our venue is kind of expensive as well and we realized a cake would potentially be cheaper, but ultimately we think the dessert bar will be a bigger hit with guests. Also the cake wasn't that much cheaper, so it seemed worth it to get the variety.

Whoa whoa what??? We are doing a 9 inch cake to cute and 180 mini cupcakes for 100 people and it was not even $300 🥴 AND the bakery is throwing in decorative beads and flowers to tell the flavors apart.

I think I spent like $700 total on various desserts from a local bakery to feed 185 people (in upstate NY for context).

I spent $375 on cake for 120. That got me two half sheet cakes and a single three-layer 9 inch cake for cutting/photos. No decorations, plain white icing, we'll add ribbon and fresh flowers day-of. It's all vegan, white cake with lemon curd filling and cream cheese frosting

We’re ordering a bunch of cannolis and Italian cookies from A local Italian bakery and costco, then having a small cake for just myself and my fiancé. Our venue will have a table where we can put all of the desserts, but doesn’t require an approved vendor for them which was great for us! Probably will be around $500 total for 120 guests.

Look up a food truck! Or, look up places where you can bring a soft serve station!! You can rent the machine AND the people to help run it for less than $800.

Publix. 84 guests. Two 1/2 sheet cakes, one Chantilly, the other cannoli supreme. A third 8" cake for us to cut in chocolate avalanche. $180.

They look delicious, we will find out in a couple weeks.

And then something for my gluten free friends, which may be me making them a pie with GF crust. I haven't figured out what yet.

Also, people capitalize on weddings … especially small bakeries.

We're getting our wedding cake from a local bakery to serve 60 and our total is about $600. During our search, we got two other quotes, one for a cake serving 60 for $1500, and one for a creme brulee bar for 60 for $3k.

We were around $1200 for 120 guests, including a cake (we saved money by asking the venue to cut half slices, which were still plenty big) and a dessert bar with enough bite sized desserts for 2-3pp. We are in a HCOL area and this was a well-recognized bakery, and included delivery.

We did a dessert bar in 2022, 50 guests in Los Angeles.

We got:

4 dozen Voo Doo Donuts (3 regular 1 vegan) for $180

4 assorted dozen Nothing Bundt Cakes bundtlets for around $300

Local bakery 4 dozen tea cakes plus a small cake for us to cut $200

And our caterer did 3 dozen vegan mini milk shakes with chocolate chip cookies for another $150.

A dessert bar was my dream item and it was a hit with our guests, we had little take home containers offered and we were mostly cleaned out lol.

Dessert bar $2400 for 125 people, 3 dessert items per person. This is some of her work but similar to this with some cakes, shooters, pies, cookies, eclairs, cannoli’s, etc.

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Our $85/person meal includes a s’mores bar.

Our cake is about $650 for 85 servings.

That’s crazy expensive! I am doing a dessert bar for 100 people plus a 6 inch personal cake for $700 total and that includes set up.

We’re doing all donuts. We did 8 dozen, plus a $50 delivery fee for $300.

We did a variety of mini dessert platters from publix for my company Xmas party. We got mini canoli, cookies, brownie bites, mini Bundt etc. I bought stands off Amazon and it all cost less than $300. We had 100 guests and had left overs, even with a shit ton of kids who were tearing up the dessert table.

I got a cake for my 60 guests and it was like 350 and gorgeous.

$50 for two cakes from Costco - served 70 people.

$250 at Publix to feed 120- cookie cake plus cookie sandwiches & cookies- and we had a ton left over. Included delivery.

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$310 for 170, I’m buying a cutting cake from milkbar and then sheet cakes from a local bakery.

We're ordering cake and dessert through the same caterer as the rest of the food. We're paying approx. (using a very rough currency conversion factor) $5/person for dessert and $6/person for cake. But that will be strawberry cakes so nothing tierd or fancy. So total for 60 guests approximately $660.

If you think about a “cake cutting fee” being $6 a person, multiply that by 90 people… $540. So let’s say desserts run for about $10 a person.. I’d pay no more than $900 but I do think where and how fancy the set up is, plus travel to your site, time to set up etc also gets factored into the cost.

About $300-350 on 33 guests

(This includes a small cutting cake for us, cupcakes for the guests, as well as donuts and a couple other dessert options)

This is in NJ and I’m getting the donuts/cake/cupcakes from a bakery and then the rest will be from wegmans

I ordered two double sheet cakes from a local bakery for $120 each. A delivery guy from the pizza place across the street from the bakery brought them to the venue for me. I had 130 guests.

100 dollars

We had 75 guests and bought an assortment of 12 pies, cheesecakes and tarts from a reasonable bakery they delivered, but no staging or set up. We had it buffet style and serve yourself. We had some catering staff that cut them.

Like 200 for grocery store cakes that looked amazing. Did a small cake for cake cutting and it was like 150

We got a two tiered cutting cake for us, then assorted puffs, cannolis, cheesecake bites, cookies, etc for about 100 people. It was $650 and that's including $100 delivery

Forgot how much our caterer charged for desserts (plus they gave us a good discount as they were friends of friends, so maybe not that comparable) - but they recommended canapé desserts (3 per person) which really helped cut costs while giving variety!

They were just simple bite-sized stuff like mini shortbread and brownies, but all homemade. A huge hit with guests - especially as everyone was so full by then!

Similar to another commenter, we also got our wedding cake from a chain bakery (often cheaper than fancier independents) for c.£200!

$60 for a single tier, $120 for a full sheet to serve 70-80, and I did our entire cookie table (600ish cookies)

I’m spending $400 on a cake for 120 guests + $450 on a chocolate fondue fountain with fresh fruit for 50.

Our cutting cake is $250 (includes delivery to venue), ordering 150 cookies from a local bakery for about $200, and then $500 for a coffee bar (that includes setup and breakdown). Didn’t plan to spend so much but having things delivered and paying for the setup helps with the stress.

We had 65 guests. Family members volunteered to bring in their own desserts. I believe they spent about $200. We purchased trays on Amazon and borrowed my MIL's cake stand (we had multiple regular-sized cakes, but only 1 was displayed). We had a normal venue which provided the food, but they allowed us to DIY desserts.

$530 for Joy macaroon 10 tier tower- 220 pieces. Have approx 100 guests. Decided to not do the cake but i did get quotes for 700-800 ish before delivery fee.

Please make sure you try the desserts beforehand. I've worked multiple weddings that had elaborate dessert tables and many items that are taken just have one bite out of them...

It's so easy to get wrapped up in the charm of everything, but be practical too. What will people actually eat/want. Of course you and your partner get to choose, but it's for your guests. If they're huge on desserts then absolutely, if they can take it or leave it then scale back.

We paid $610 for both a bride’s cake to serve 100 and a groom’s cake to serve 50. I think the bride’s cake on its own was just under $400.

My baker quoted us $10/person for 3 pieces of dessert per person and a 2 tier 6” cutting cake for photos. Then we also paid for her styling package so it’s a gorgeous greenery background, LED sign, and a beautiful table set up, and an attendant to maintain the dessert table so they will ensure the table looks beautiful at all times and as long as there are desserts they will make sure there are no gaps on the table and once things start to dwindle they will continue to re arrange it to keep looking great.

That is all for $1900 for 100 people (that includes all taxes, fees, travel/bridge tolls. If we want to add on her super cute little Italian cart to be our table then it’ll be $2600. Sooo I feel like the quote you’ve gotten is rather high especially given we are in what is considered a HCOL area in CA.

Our venue’s package includes a cake and we are adding on a gelato bar that is $9 pp

So we had a dessert that came with our plated dinner that we unfortunately couldn’t opt out of. Cake for ~80 people was $750. I think almost everyone ate one thing or the other and there was a lot wasted, unless you’re planning to have a lot of smaller options or not doing a full meal I don’t think it’s worth it to have more than one dessert.

That was all the qoutes we got until we found a local bakery that had been in business forever - now it's 300 for cake, dessert bar.

$800 for dessert sounds more down-to-earth, but who knows, maybe you can find a sweet deal without sacrificing taste. Beach town vibes in FL must add some extra flavor to the mix.

Holy!!

I got lucky with a small local bakery. But it was $350 for enough desserts for our 90 person wedding, plus I had a dozen cupcakes leftover that I took home.

Broken down it was like 5 or 6 dozen cupcakes, 3 or 4 dozen cookies, 2 dozen brownies.

I’m doing donuts from a yummy local donut shop, around $100 for 85 people. My guests aren’t big dessert people, but everyone loves donuts

Next place you ask for a quote, don’t mention that it’s for a wedding. Say it’s for a celebration. Pick up yourself and see if you can get friends/family to help you set it up. You’ll dodge the ridiculous prices for wedding desserts and you get to skip out on the delivery and set up fee

We had a cannoli station with made to order cannolis and it was $4 a person and then did a small 2 tier cake for $150

Keep in mind that when you offer a variety of mini desserts, people tend to try one of everything. The worst part is that most people just take a bite of each and waste the rest.

Did donuts for 100 people (in Chicago) and it came to $485

We spent $350 on our dessert bar for 75 guests — we had a variety of three Publix cakes (carrot cake, lemon raspberry, and rainbow chip) plus gluten free chocolate cupcakes and a variety of giant Costco cookies. We just placed the orders and picked up the day before the wedding, then stuck them in the fridge at the venue before our rehearsal.

We are spending under $400 on a two-tier cake and two types of cupcakes.

2 words- Berry. Chantilly. Whole Foods has one of my favorite store bought cakes- the berry chantilly. We bought a 32inch circle for us to cut and a sheet cake! It was SUCH a hit and such a steal! It cost us $300!

Edited to add. We had 110 guests.

$530 on 120 individual cheesecakes for 97 guests! Rhode Island here

120 bundtinit cakes from nothing bundt cakes: a little less than $400

We looked into that. Mini deserts were about 5$ each. So 2 per Person for 80 people is $800. Setup , tax and delivery not included. Your quoted price sounds a little high .

We’re thinking about having a local ice cream place bring their truck and do ice cream sandwiches! They quoted us $1800. 2 hrs of service, 2 flavors, 180 people. I wish it was cheaper but we love this ice cream…. And who doesn’t love when the ice cream truck comes!

DAMN lol that’s insanity. I just went to a local bakery and got assorted cupcakes, cookies, whoopie pies, dessert bars etc. Enough for 150 people, 2-3 small pieces each. Total was $345

I’m in California and am paying $1600 for two cakes, mini cheesecakes, custom sugar cookies and chocolate hazelnut tarts for 120 people.

2 tier cake (top tier not eaten, saved for anniversary) + sheet cake to serve guests + 2 dozen cupcakes = around $350ish (from Publix)

Custom cookies from local baker - I think we did 4 dozen (a little less than 2 dozen were used for the hotel guest bags and the rest were on the dessert table) were around $180

Donut holes were like $15, maybe less

So a total of around $545 120 people

2 Costco cakes £34 for 80 people works out 42p a guest but there is also dessert served with the meal so rough cost based on what I think catering cost is as we paid a package price for the venue I would say it is another £300.

We spent about $11 per person on a small wedding cake, cupcakes, and macarons.

$3k for cake

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400€ for a wedding cake for 80 people (center of France)

We have 65 guests. Our baker and I worked out our contract based on our guest list of 90 before we had a final headcount, so the cake we're having serves 100. It's $650 (including delivery.) We're boxing up what's left and taking it home for our luncheon with guests the next day. We also added an Italian Desserts Table (with some GF from our GF guest) for a total headcount of 71 (our 65, plus FH and me, and our vendors.) That's $5/head.

In all, our desserts cost us $1005.

For demographic purposes, our wedding is just off of Cape Cod, but still considered a tourist area, on the first day of Tourist Season. Our venue is across the street from the beach. (It's not a cheap area, so this price is actually pretty amazing.)

Our cake is going to be around $1000 for ~200 ppl

Restaurant reception offers a $10pp dessert bar with 4 desserts

Our wedding cake was more pricey, $12/slice wedding cake. Delivery fee separate but under &100

Yikes! I’m spending $500 on my cake and a couple of desserts. I didn’t want too many sweets at my wedding. That seems a little over the top. Maybe you can find a different bakery or if you’re love with this bakery maybe one peice per person??

We’re doing Nothin Bundt Cakes (because everyone loves them!) and for 65 guests we’re looking at $200 total.