Bywater Bakery steps up to honor Sucre’ wedding cake orders after closure

“To all the engaged couples effected by this abrupt shutdown, Bywater Bakery has your back."

by Mary Staes
June 17, 2019

After the abrupt closure of Sucre’ confectionary on Monday morning, Bywater Bakery said it’s stepping in to help any couples who may have lost their wedding cake orders.

“To all the engaged couples effected by this abrupt shutdown, Bywater Bakery has your back. The last thing you need while planning your wedding is extra stress,” a post on the bakery’s social media page said.

MORE: Community steps in to help those affected by Sucré’s abrupt closing

“We will do our best to honor any wedding cake contract held with Sucré. We also understand many brides and grooms are out the deposits already paid. So we’ll also honor the deposits you’ve paid, up to 30% of the total quoted.”

Let them eat cake!

MORE: Sucre’ To Close Its Doors After 13 Years

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Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether...

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