1. Your guest numbers
Cake is usually served to everyone at the wedding breakfast, plus any evening guests who'll have a slice too.
2. Cutting style
This changes how many portions each tier gives you.
3. Cake style & budget
This sets the rough cost per portion — your baker's actual quote will depend on their pricing.
Your cake, worked out
Updates live as you fill in the form above.
Keep your budget on track
Cake is one of the easiest costs to underestimate. Once you've got a rough figure here, add it into your overall wedding budget so there are no surprises.
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How to use the wedding cake calculator
- Enter your Day guests and any Evening guests having cake.
- Tick the 10% buffer if you want extra for seconds, waste and suppliers.
- Choose Wedding-style or Party-style slices and your cake style.
- Check Your cake, worked out, then press Copy summary, Print or Email this draft to myself.
What it does
- Day guests plus evening guests
- Optional 10% buffer
- Wedding-style or party-style slices
- Three cake styles for rough costing
- Suggests tiers and portions provided
- Copy, print or email the summary
Use it with
- Evening Buffet Calculator – enter your evening guest numbers and tick the dishes you are considering to get buffet quantities and a rough cost guide for your caterer
- Mocktail Menu Builder – build a printable alcohol-free drinks menu for your wedding from 12 classic mocktails, a named signature drink and your own recipes
- Wedding Drinks Calculator – enter day and evening guest numbers, toast and welcome drinks and your drinkers' mix to see how much wine, beer, spirits, fizz and soft drinks to order
- Buffet Food Label Maker – print folding buffet labels for each dish with its name, description, vegetarian and vegan badges and the 14 UK allergens marked
Questions
Wedding Cake Calculator: common questions
Who is the wedding cake calculator for?
It is for couples who want a rough idea of how big their wedding cake needs to be before speaking to a baker. Enter your day guests and any evening guests having cake, choose a slice size and cake style, and the tool shows the portions needed, a suggested number of tiers, the portions those tiers provide and an estimated cost.
What is the difference between wedding-style and party-style slices?
Wedding-style slices are smaller, tea-time portions and give the most servings per tier, which is the usual choice when cake is served with coffee. Party-style slices are bigger and dessert-sized, so each tier gives fewer portions and you will probably need more cake. Pick party-style if the cake is being served as the dessert.
Is anything I enter saved or sent?
No. Guest numbers and choices are worked out inside your browser and are not saved to your device's storage or sent to any server, so the form resets when you reload the page. Copy summary puts the result on your clipboard, and Email this draft to myself opens a draft in your own email app.
Should the wedding cake be served as dessert?
It can be, and it saves on a separate dessert course, but you will need larger, party-style portions and the cake needs cutting earlier in the day. Many couples cut the cake after the speeches for photos, then have it served later with coffee or put out with the evening buffet. Agree with your venue who cuts and serves it.
Tim’s tip
Agree with your venue who will cut and serve the cake after you have done the ceremonial first cut. Otherwise it can sit on its table for hours while everyone is dancing.
Made by Tim Daymond (Tinsel Tim). Tim has been a DJ since 1976 and has run Mobile Disco Network since 2013. He plays weddings and parties across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. He is a Norfolk County Council Trading Standards Trusted Trader (ID 0000457), a member of the NADJ and the winner of 23 independent awards.
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Your privacy: this tool runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to Mobile Disco Network or stored on a server. Nothing is saved once you close the page. Email buttons only open your own email app, and nothing is sent until you press send.
Free to use, no sign-up. Last reviewed 11 October 2026.
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