Bride 'humiliated' after she discovers her wedding cake was made from Pillsbury cake mix

A Chicago bride was near feeling 'humiliated' aft she spent implicit $12,000 connected catering for her wedding - lone for her guests to beryllium near eating takeout from Pizza Hut astatine the extremity of the night. 

Lauren Franken, 36, claims that her wedding barroom was made retired of Pillsbury barroom mix, and astir of the 'cold' and 'raw' nutrient was served an hr late.

The bride, who got joined successful June astatine The Chelsea Sun Inn successful Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, not lone paid $500 for the cake, but besides for dinner, an unfastened bar, a sushi barroom and late-night pizza. 

But unfortunately, things didn't crook retired arsenic planned, leaving astir of her guests eating Pizza Hut oregon Chinese takeout erstwhile the wedding was said and done. 

Things got truthful bad, Franken claimed, that immoderate of her guests adjacent had to measurement successful to get things going successful the kitchen.

'They showed up astatine 3:30pm and the wedding was astatine 5pm,' Franken said.

'I was amazed that they were not there, making food, baking a barroom oregon anything. Thank God I had the guests that I did that were capable to propulsion everything together.'

She admitted that the caterers had 'single handedly ruined the full day,' and lone served capable nutrient for 40 people, which was served an hr late. 

'Food is simply a large portion of a wedding,' she said. 'One of my guests, who flew crossed the state to beryllium there, had to navigator astatine my wedding.'

The bride had primitively got successful interaction with the caterer successful November 2023, and expected that everything would beryllium acceptable successful clip for her large day. 

She wanted an 'elegant' and 'naked' three-tier cake, and showed the caterers plentifulness of pictures of examples she admired.  

The mates had settled connected a barroom with limoncello, cannoli and tiramisu flavors, but said instead, the barroom tasted of vanilla and 'store-bought buttercream.'

Franken claimed that they lone showed up an hr earlier the wedding, and started making the barroom astatine 9:30 pm, an hr aft it was expected to beryllium cut. 

'She utilized container frosting and barroom mix…. We saw it successful the trash. I saw the frosting and idiosyncratic other saw the barroom mix. It was humiliating,' the 36-year-old said. 

"At that constituent I was truthful shocked astatine everything that I wasn't amazed that they would usage store-bought stuff, she evidently wasn't going to commencement whipping up buttercream astatine 9.30pm.'

She said that they instantly frosted the cake, too, which near the frosting melting each over.

Plus, Franken had requested flowers, which they didn't adhd - successful fact, a impermanent had to enactment immoderate connected for the couple.

'It had a immense interaction connected the day,' Franken said.

'I wasn't capable to unbend and bask my night. I was disquieted astir guests not eating, radical similar my grandma being successful 100 grade upwind with nary water.'

However, successful the end, she admitted that the acquisition did bring each of the guests unneurotic successful a unusual way.

'At archetypal radical were shocked and I deliberation radical felt atrocious but astatine the extremity of the nighttime it became benignant of chill that we had specified chill household and friends that were consenting to enactment america and measurement into a role,' she said. 

'They were determination to bask a wedding and each of a sudden, they were cooking and bartending and waitressing and washing dishes and taking retired the trash,' she continued. 

'It was truly bully to spot that we person specified a large enactment system. I deliberation everyone felt atrocious for america astatine the extremity of the night.'

Since the wedding, Franken has shared a representation of the barroom connected societal media, showing what she wanted versus what she got.

The station got implicit 450 comments, agreeing with Franken that the barroom was conscionable horrible.

Franken said that the caterers blocked her connected societal media, and she has since tried taking ineligible enactment against them, but has not been capable to marque interaction with them. 

The caterer was approached for remark but failed to respond.