I love this idea for a wedding cake contest, posted as a comment to a Lifehacker thread about budget weddings.
Our baker went Chapter 11 the month before our wedding, and so we told all the guests to bring a cake if they wanted to eat a cake, and we'd award prizes. We had 15 entries, some very simple, some really complex and amazing. A ton of fun, really interesting additional wedding-day activity (the contest), more food, more involvement.
