Cake Stands - Yay or Nay? Buy or DIY?

I found mine at hobby Lobby. i saw some gold ones there that looked awesome!

You can always get hobby lobby coupons too!

If you find one you like in silver or another color, there is always spray paint.

I saw some basic plastic clear or white ones at party city, they were like $7 and you could just spray paint it and then get a foodsafe doily thing or cut a round out of wax paper and put on top to keep the food off the paint.

Hobby lobby has amazing cake stands check them.out

I was just at Hobby Lobby today and only saw square gold ones and they were about $60. What is with the cost of these stupid cake stands?

Michael's has some plain wood ones right now ($20-ish?) that you could spray paint gold.

We rented ours from the bakery. I wouldn't trust anything I DIYed, personally, and sure didn't need to own a cake stand.

I do not see the point unless you do not have one on your registry and plan to use it at home afterwards. I never thought once about having one and didn't miss it. cake on table. done. see photo of my gorgeous cake

Only reason im having one is my baker provides it for free.

Some Bakeries rent it for a super small fee

Same here, I'm just like you. Don't need to have one around the house afterwards. We plan on using a pre-cut big stump base for our cake pedestal. Ours fall/outdoorsy wedding theme though. I've seen nice ones at Walmart, A.C. Moore, Michaels, Hobby Lobby (if its the wrong color, can always buy spray paint and paint it to fit your color scheme).

I have one here's mine

We made ours. Here's an idea of what's it going to look like. Groom's cake will be on it's own also.

I made mine! I made the tall one on the left and the small short one on the right by finding random things at goodwill. pretty plates and candle sticks. super glue and some spray paint! was less than $10!

I found three candle sticks of various heights and plan to make cake stands out of them. I also bought some short candle sticks and will get some plates at the dollar store to make cookie plates of various heights.

I am having a rustic wedding with a small two layer cake and cuppcakes, so i will be using crates as stands, cheap a easy

Borrowing one from my baker. I put down a deposit and get it back when it is returned the next day.