Wedding cakes and desserts
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Anthony Perez10 said:The desserts were homemade since we held the reception at a local community center rather than a fancy restaurant. I actually ordered the cake from a bakery in a suburb of Chicago, but they completely failed to deliver it. A stroke of luck, however, was that the maid of honor ordered a surprise cake from a local shop in the suburbs, so we at least had something to cut. Since the cake was prepaid, I couldn't help but wonder if the girl just tossed the order in the trash or lost it instead of passing it to the kitchen. Just a few months ago, I heard that this same bakery pulled the exact same stunt with someone else and missed a delivery too. To be fair, they did refund the money after three days, but that doesn't exactly take the bitterness out of the experience.
Oh my goodness, I am so sorry to hear that! That sounds absolutely awful. Isn't it unbelievable how unprofessional some people can be?👎 I really hope you weren't too stressed out by it all...
On my end, I have to give a massive shout-out to the sweets and cake we got from a boutique bakery in downtown Chicago... they partner with our caterer (Matis), so everything was bundled into the price. The dessert spread was incredible: we had traditional pastries, honey pie, cookies, macarons, mousse cups, profiteroles, fruit baskets, and pralines. As for the cake, it was a fusion of white chocolate mousse and Ferrero Rocher flavors—everyone got a bit of both—and it was divine! It was incomparable to those standard wedding cakes you usually see. Honestly, that Ferrero flavor might be the best cake I've ever had in my life. For chocolate lovers like us, it was pure perfection.😍