It is true the next wave
of on-line polling for wedding cake flavors is taking place through the use of
social networking sites such as Facebook?
In my
research, we found asking friends for their opinions, is NOT the way
to go.
Here’s why. Think about all the times in
your life you have asked the opinion of others about something important to you
or to help you make a decision.
How many times do you follow their advice?
Come on, be honest. That’s right, very few.
You typically go with your gut feeling.
The real reason you ask for
other opinions is to validate your own thoughts. You want others to agree
with you. And when they don’t, you become even more
indecisive. In the end, you still go with what you think is the correct decision.
When it comes to polling your friends for wedding cake flavors, the problem becomes even more complicated.
It’s one thing to ask your friends to help
you choose a wedding cake design among ten photos. In that particular polling
question, the photos are finished. Your friends are now giving their opinions
on a finished product they can see. It’s either yes or no for each photo.
In the case of cake flavors, you could get
their feedback from a total of ten flavors, having them choose the top four.
However, there is a double problem.
First, if you list a flavor like ??? or ???
your friends probably don’t have a clue what it is or what tastes like, unless
they've had it before.
Second, most of
the people taking the survey were not with you when you were taste-testing your
sample cakes. So, they don’t really know if they like them to begin with.
My suggestion:
Choose flavors based upon two pieces of input. First, your baker can give you
valuable advice based upon the popular choices of other brides for the rest of
2012 and all of 2113. Second, choose flavors you, your fiancée and family
enjoyed at your "taste tests."
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