About ten years ago my then-girlfriend asked my mother (a retired baker) and me to make a cake for her cousin's wedding. We proposed some recipes to the bride a

About ten years ago my then-girlfriend asked my mother (a retired baker) and me to make a cake for her cousin's wedding. We proposed some recipes to the bride and groom, they chose one, told us how many guests they were expecting. They accepted our quote so we went ahead with the whole hog, three tiers, chocolate leaves and everything; I show up a couple hours before the reception to stack the tiers in place and add the decorations, gold dust and all the rest. But I get to the table and there's another cake! We'd never considered the possibility that we weren't making a "wedding cake", but the bride's family was under the impression we were just making a "cake for the wedding" and they were responsible for buying a "wedding cake" (in this case real, but flavour not a priority).