Screw tradition. We're eating the cake tonight.

climbingsingle

Did I tell you guys that my cake collapsed at the reception while people were walking into the dining room? They were able to salvage a few layers and still had it out on display. The wedding coordinator told me after the first dance and I was all, "Yeah, that's OK. As long as you have cake to serve to everyone, it doesn't matter!" I think she was relieved I didn't go bridezilla on her. 

Anyway, the cake was delicious. But H ended up never eating his piece. He was really sad the next day when he realized he didn't even get to taste it. So, today is our 1 month anniversary, and we've decided to eat our frozen cake tonight, instead of on our one year anniversary. I'm cooking a big dinner and we're going to drink champagne and eat our cake. 

Did you guys all wait a year? Did you not do this tradition at all?

birdybride2014

We don't plan on doing the tradition at all. We are getting a small two tiered bundt cake from "Nothing Bundt Cakes" so on our one year anniversary we'll just be sure to go buy another fresh one to eat  

Maggie0829

H and I ate ours after we got back from our HM.  My Mom took our top tier and sliced it, wrapped it and stuck it in the freezer.  After we got back from our vacation, H and I would take a slice or two out in the morning and then eat for dessert at night.  We did this every day until the cake was gone.  If there is cake in our house, whether it be in the freezer or not, it will get eaten as soon as possible.

On our first anniversary we went to our bakers and bought some cupcakes.

sarawifenow

H and I ate our cake for dinner yesterday. Our bakery will make us a 1 year cake, so we have that to look forward to.

 

ETF: Dinner, not breakfast. Either way we ate cake as a primary meal.

martha1818

So...what kind of cake are we talkin about here?! 

SmileDamnit

We had cake for breakfast the next morning…then forgot the rest of when we left to fly home. Oops. 

theartistformerlyknownas

Nothing sounds more disappointing to me than year-old, dried out, frozen cake, so we served all of ours. We'll go buy a fresh one for our anniversary.

A friend loved our cake so much that she requested the same one for her baby shower. Pretty stoked to eat it again!

cupcait927

If H wasn't on a Whole30 diet right now, I'd do the same thing tonight! Happy one-month date twin!

We're planning on waiting the full year. We did a 6 inch cake topper and then cupcakes for the rest, so I'm planning on getting cupcakes from the bakery that did our wedding cake to eat on our one year, in case the topper is a bust from sitting in the freezer for a year.

We left the wedding with 24 leftover cupcakes (got 60 in total for 54 guests, but they were LARGE cupcakes) and I think H ate one every day for breakfast for a week. He got cupcake-d out and sent the rest to work with me.

larrygaga

We are having ice cream cake due to FI wheat allergy. Maybe we will go out for Sunday's after a year

sarawifenow

larrygaga said:

We are having ice cream cake due to FI wheat allergy. Maybe we will go out for Sunday's after a year

Can I come to your wedding?!

melbenso

Our top tier was too big to fit in our freezer if we wanted to have enough room to use it as we normally do.  So we ate half the tier right in the days after our wedding, and froze the other half to eat on our one year anniversary.  Half the tier was three (large) pieces for each of us.  So we should have plenty left.  I only had a bite of cake at the wedding because I was so busy, anyway. 

AprilH81

Our top tier is currently in my parent's deep freezer just over 2 hours away.   The distance is helping us wait until our anniversary to eat it.

I'm sure it won't be as fresh as new, but I like the tradition. If it is horrible we can get a new cake (or cupcakes) from our baker.

larrygaga

sarawifenow said:

larrygaga said:

We are having ice cream cake due to FI wheat allergy. Maybe we will go out for Sunday's after a year

Can I come to your wedding?!

HA! I wanted to do ice cream cake for everyone, but I was convinced to do cupcakes for everyone else. 

You would not believe how expensive gluten free cakes are, and how shitty they taste.

Now I'm wondering if it's weird to have a different dessert from the B+G. I don't think anyone would judge us because FI has been diagnosed with  celiacs disease since he was 15, so they know what's up. Is this etiquette approved? 

theartistformerlyknownas

larrygaga said:

sarawifenow said:

larrygaga said:

We are having ice cream cake due to FI wheat allergy. Maybe we will go out for Sunday's after a year

Can I come to your wedding?!

HA! I wanted to do ice cream cake for everyone, but I was convinced to do cupcakes for everyone else. 

You would not believe how expensive gluten free cakes are, and how shitty they taste.

Now I'm wondering if it's weird to have a different dessert from the B+G. I don't think anyone would judge us because FI has been diagnosed with  celiacs disease since he was 15, so they know what's up. Is this etiquette approved? 

Probably not, but it's one of those things that I wouldn't care about. You're not eating something more luxurious than other people, you're eating something that won't make him crap his brains out on the dance floor or whatever other side effects he would have. I'd just eat it discretely, and maybe have a few cartons of ice cream available if anyone asks for some.

climbingsingle

martha1818 said:

So...what kind of cake are we talkin about here?! 

Strawberry shortcake 

larrygaga

Alright. We aren't going to broadcast that it's ice cream cake anyway. We are going to cut it and eat it and have it not be a big deal, because we don't care about cake. 

I'm still working to convince buying parties that we should do ice cream cake for all.

melbenso

larrygaga said:

Alright. We aren't going to broadcast that it's ice cream cake anyway. We are going to cut it and eat it and have it not be a big deal, because we don't care about cake. 

I'm still working to convince buying parties that we should do ice cream cake for all.

Maybe have some ice cream cake and some cupcakes for everyone?  People could choose which one they want.  (I'd get a little more than 50% servings of each though, since some people will take both.) We had regular cake and cheesecake.  Both were pretty popular.

JennyColada

I'm laying in bed, trying to talk myself into going for a run.

What do I do instead? Read a topic about cake.

Oi my life.

mschristie123

Our venue gave us a ton of leftover cake and we ate some the morning after the wedding. Our cake bakery actually doesn't do the saving the top tier thing, and instead give you a free cake on your first anniversary. I was pretty pissed with our bakery though because they never gave us our monogrammed cake topper we custom ordered form them. So we may or may not use them for the 1st anniversary cake.

Cookie Pusher

Our top tier was way too tall to keep the entire thing in the freezer, so we ate most of it the week after the wedding except for a moderate-sized slice. It's in the back of the freezer, foiled and ziploc'd until our 1 year anniversary or the next major power outage, whichever comes first!

amelisha

We're having a DW with a restaurant reception so no cake or similar, and that's really the only sad part for me, haha. Pig out for me, ladies.

lyndausvi

We had an OOT wedding (via a plane).  Add in a 2.5 week HM it was just not practicle.   We had a very small freezer and would not have wasted the space anyway.

VulgarGirl

Our bakery gives us a cake on our year anniversary, so we aren't gonna freeze any of the cake. 

sarawifenow

Now all I can think of is cake...Guess I know what we will be having for dinner. Again.

CTYankeeBride

Not freezing/ saving cake here. If we have a few slices we'll probably freeze them to eat when we get back from our honeymoon.  I love the idea of having a slice to celebrate the first month and making a fuss over it. 

levieenrose

That cake in the freezer is pretty much the only delicious food item for which I have had restraint. I am gonna sit this one out! 

However, there was so much extra cake that we brought home a half of the second tier. That was shared at a small leftover-wedding-cake-and-board-games affair with our local friends. 

ashley8918

Well, we don't do cake; So I took the top tier into work the Tuesday after the wedding.

climbingsingle

ashley8918 said:

Well, we don't do cake; So I took the top tier into work the Tuesday after the wedding.

What do you mean you don't do cake? This does not compute. 

LakeR2014

ClimbingBrideNY said:

Did I tell you guys that my cake collapsed at the reception while people were walking into the dining room? They were able to salvage a few layers and still had it out on display. The wedding coordinator told me after the first dance and I was all, "Yeah, that's OK. As long as you have cake to serve to everyone, it doesn't matter!" I think she was relieved I didn't go bridezilla on her. 

Anyway, the cake was delicious. But H ended up never eating his piece. He was really sad the next day when he realized he didn't even get to taste it. So, today is our 1 month anniversary, and we've decided to eat our frozen cake tonight, instead of on our one year anniversary. I'm cooking a big dinner and we're going to drink champagne and eat our cake. 

Did you guys all wait a year? Did you not do this tradition at all?

Nope.  Lasted until just after the honeymoon (as we didn't get to eat any at the actual wedding).  We had a sports themed cake so the top layer was a football.   It was very yummy!!!  Thanks to all these ideas - I think we'll do cupcakes of each flavor of cake we had on our 1-year anniversary. 

kaitlynmichelle

We couldn't save our cake tier since we were a 9 hour drive from home for our wedding, and stayed in the area we got married for another week and a half.

Instead, we hosted our families at our cabin we rented two days after the wedding for a bbq party before our parents flew home. We served the top tier to everyone. They all kept insisting we save it for our anniversary. No way am I eating a cake that has been sitting in a car for a week while we go hiking and camping.

I'm hoping a local bakery can recreate it for us next year.

mrsjhodge

We had a small cake, and cupcakes.  The cake arrived at my parent's place the day after the wedding.  Mom wanted us to pack it up and take it home, so we packed it up.  Neither of us love cake, and it wasn't very good, so we tossed it when we left the island.