Wedding stuff

• Confirm everything with EACH one of your vendors two weeks before the wedding.
• Read your contracts.  Yes, they're probably boring, but they're important.
• About 75% of the people you invite will come to your wedding.  If most of your guests are family, that number could be higher.  If most of your guests are from out ot town, that number could be lower.
• Vendors love getting Thank You notes.

Cake stuff

• You should order cake for the actual number of guests, just like you will have a chair for each person, and entree, salad and drink for each person.  Not everyone eats cake you say?  Yes, but some people eat two pieces.  Or three.  It averages out.
• If the servers at your reception cut, plate and set the plates of cake in front of your guests, then you certainly need a plate for each person.  Can you imagine being the last table served and the wait staff says, "sorry, but we're out." 
• Planning to have the caterer cut the cake, plate it and set it out for your guests to pick up can result in dryed out cake.  And do you really want 200 people to get up to grab cake all at the same time?  I've been to receptions where it's happened.  It wasn't pretty.
• Cut the cake and serve it right after dinner, when people expect desssert.  If you wait until midnight to cut the cake, a lot of your guests will have left. 
• If you wait until midnight to cut the cake, your caterer may have left.  Your caterer is the one who cuts the cake.
• Good cake gets eaten.
• Good fondant tastes good.  Bad fondant tastes horrid.