Choosing a cake flavor is getting more and more difficult. At one time, brides only had to contend with vanilla or chocolate, and occasionally some fancier bakeries would offer specialty flavors. Today, even the most basic bakeries have countless flavors from which to choose. Most will allow you to make each layer a different flavor, but even if you do that, it can still be hard to narrow down your choices.

It often comes down to one question: do you want to choose the flavor you love or do you want to please the masses (your guests)?

While you’ll rarely find a guest who isn’t happy with a choice of chocolate or vanilla, some guests are picky eaters and will shy away from other flavors. Guest A might not like coconut. Guest B might be turned off by your mocha chip cake. If you choose something really off the wall or unusual sounding, you’ll probably find that more people decide to fill up on chocolate-covered strawberries and skip the cake altogether.

But it is your big day. Shouldn’t you be the one who is happy, even if that means ordering a really odd flavor of cake? Well, maybe…but here are a few things to consider:

• Cake is expensive. If no one eats it, you’re wasting money because of all the cake you’ll end up throwing away.
• You’re inviting guests to celebrate with you. If they didn’t matter at all, you could have skipped the reception completely.
• It’s considered good luck for every guest to have at least one bite of wedding cake.

In other words, yes, you should please the masses with your wedding cake!

That doesn’t mean that you have to give up on that Double Chocolate Raspberry Tiramisu with Butterscotch Lemon Mint Cream Filling cake that you’ve always wanted (yes…I did make up that monstrous flavor, but you get the point). Instead, if your favorite flavor probably won’t go over so well, have multiple wedding cakes. The larger one, which you’ll cut into, can be a delicious (albeit, slightly boring) white cake, while the smaller groom’s cake or a tiny cake in the back can be your favorite flavor.

You can also order multiple flavors as cupcakes! If there are ten different flavors that interest you, it might get a little too pricey to order a ten-layer cake, but ten dozen cupcakes is probably well within your budget. Make sure there are plenty of “boring” flavors for your guests, but go a little crazy to suit your own taste buds – and have a bit of them all!

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