Buttercream vs white icing

We are doing a fondant with buttercream underneath. We are also having a desert with dinner so I'm sure not many of our guests will be having cake. Our wedding cake is a photo prop basically lol and I want it to look perfect! The cake will be tasty, of course! Fondant is good when it's done right! And will have ample icing underneath.

I say buttercream!

Fondant is pretty awful tasting...LOL! I probably wouldn't eat it if I was a guest either! Buttercream is far superior, and I don't think anyone will notice if it's not 100% smooth! They will bale happier if it tastes good! And I'm sure it will look beautiful no matter what frosting he uses...I would worry about the taste

If a buttercream cake is kept cold the frosting will crack but it doesn't look that bad and usually goes back together when taken to room temperature. It looks best when held at room temperature but obviously that would be very hard with a tiered cake. I work with a world famous patisserie, I got you girl lol

Buttercream!!!

Butter cream. Our bakery doesn't even use fondant because it tastes like shit. Here is the cake we picked out.

Buttercream.

Buttercream, hands down. Fondant...ew!

Buttercream. As a guest, I'd care far more about taste than whether or not there were any visual imperfections on the cake. Btw your cake is gorgeous!

Who cares if there are microscopic imperfections? Buttercream all the way.

As a guest I would care far more that the cake tasted good and was eatable than it looked beautiful but tasted like crap.

Buttercream...just ordered the cake today

Buttercream please! I dislike fondant.

Love me some Buttercream and that's what we're using. We're getting our cake from a major Mud-Michigan bakery and the like using buttercream. Their cakes look fabulous with no cracking on cakes with smoothed buttercream. I think you're safe. Fondant is usually more expensive and less appreciated by those eating the cake.

Do buttercream! I did, and check out this picture - there isn't a problem with it at all!

Buttercream!

I'm a sucker for buttercream, so I'd say go with that. Guests are going to remember the way your cake tasted more than they will remember the way it looked!

Buttercream for sure. Fondant is for looks only, tastes disgusting. But I have heard the same thing about buttercream, that it doesn't hold up as nicely as fondant. So that's why I choose a non-smooth design, I thought it would work better.

I would totally go for taste over look. I personally hate fondant. Beautiful cake

A good baker can do it fine with buttercream.