What is your Budget?
24 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
What is your Budget?
This question tends to make most people cringe, get nervous, indecisive and skirt around the answer? When a cake professional, caterer or any other creative vendor asks this question it is not just curiosity or idle conversation and it is definitely not asked as an opportunity to charge more or sell you something you don’t need. Very much the opposite, we ask this question so we can point you in the right direction; sell you what you DO need and within your price range. There is nothing more disappointing than to get excited about a fabulous cake design just to find out that it costs more than you can afford. And it is just as frustrating for the professional to put effort into creating a design or proposal that doesn’t meet the customer’s needs financially. Custom cake pricing can vary greatly depending on how complex the design is and the materials used. By giving your vendor a price range up front it helps us to know what types of cakes and designs to present to you, without wasting your precious time or getting you excited about a cake that busts your budget. Lets say you are having a pricess birthday party for 15 adorable little 4 year girls, I might recommend one of the two princess crown cakes below; one of which is considerably more expensive than that the other. Your little girls gets her heart set on the shimmery one with the 3D crown and then you find out it will blow your budget. Here comes the tantrum….if your kids are anything like mine! How do you avoid the frustration & drama? Be upfront with what you can spend, if a vendor knows up front that you can only spend $XX they will not present you with something that costs $XXX. So next time someone asks the question…“So, what have you budgeted for this”…, don’t be afraid to answer.
