Groom's cake

laurenclaire1386

It gets cut right? People eat it right? Or is it just for show? FI's getting one, and he's really excited about it, so we're definitely doing it. I just started thinking back, and I don't think I've ever had a piece of groom's cake, or really ever known the purpose of having one. Did your groom have a cake? And what on Earth did you do with it?

New MIL

My brother in law had this delicious chocolate concoction and yes, it was cut.  We opted for a piece of that rather than the wedding cake:)

pirategal03

We're having it as rehersal dinner dessert. 

akhensley81

I'm not doing one... but when I met with our cake lady she told me that the Groom's Cake historically is cut up and pieces are given for the single women in attendance at the wedding to "take home." Which I thought was completely bizarre. So I'm probably not much help.

Edit: Before TK, I had never even heard of a Groom's Cake.

georgia_bride09

Our groom's cake was cut and eaten. Every wedding I've been to that had a groom's cake, it's been eaten. <-- questionable grammar  

GreenPepperBurger

I think it would be cut/eaten. It's a cake, right? I love groom's cakes; they're usually so fun and unique. What does his look like?

laurenclaire1386

Georgia, your grammar is fine Thanks ladies. Groom's cakes aren't something I've ever paid attention to. We haven't ordered it yet, but we ordered the wedding cake Saturday. The wedding cake alone will feed all of our guests, so it looks like we'll have some leftover cake, I guess.

laurenclaire1386

GreenPepper, I'm actually pretty excited about it too. It'll be a Nintendo question block. Something like this:

lapcan

My grooms cake went faster than the bridal cake.  In fact, it went so fast that I didn't even get a chance to try it!  Everyone said it was delicious though.

Here's a pic of our grooms cake:

AmoroAgain

LC, what's the word on invites?

laurenclaire1386

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[QUOTE]LC, what's the word on invites?
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
We went to a brick and mortar stationary place and found a few we liked, but I'm still shopping. My goal is to have some picked out and ordered by the end of the month.

schwoebr

I remember going to weddings when I was little that had the traditional "bridal" cake (vanilla) and then a "groom's" cake (chocolate). Now you can have multiple flavors among your tiers, so you don't really need a groom's cake.  We are having one, but as our rehearsal dinner dessert like a pp said.

stephl3055

We had one and it was cut just like my cake.  The waitstaff carried around pieces of both cakes and let the guests choose which one they wanted. 

I included a picture just because.

JudieN

Every wedding I have been to has had a groom's cake (apparently it is a southern thing....but I am a Texas girl). It is always cut and served alongside the bride's cake. It almost always seems to be chocolate. At least in my experience.

We are doing cupcakes - but we will have a particuar flavor of cupcake for the groom's cake - and place it separate from the rest.

AmoroAgain

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Groom's cake : We went to a brick and mortar stationary place and found a few we liked, but I'm still shopping. My goal is to have some picked out and ordered by the end of the month.
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]
Good deal!  Let me know if you need any help. :)

laurenclaire1386

Will do dahling. Thanks!

georgia_bride09

Steph, love the "Win"tendo controller!

I Want Cake

I want to give FI one to be eaten at the rehearsal dinner.  I've never seen one done where I live, but I must watch too much Food Network Challenge or something, because they sound pretty damn awesome.  If I can afford to get one, it's going to be a cake carved into Darth Vader's head, complete with shiny black fondant, so people can peel it off if they're squicked out by the blackness of it.  It's something I've wanted to do for FI for awhile.

aggiebug

huh are you not getting the cakes from the same place LC?

Typically around here it is standard to have the 2 cakes and the baker has the "numbers" to order of each cake to feed all the guests without excessive extras.  I am suprised being in NOLA that your baker didn't mention this.  you are going to have a TON of cake left over if your wedding cake feeds all your guests.

And yes they get cut.  A lot of times I have seen the b&g feed each other a bite of both cakes or the bride feed the groom grooms cake and vice versa. 


*8and to whomever mentioned them being served to the single ladies:  Back in the old days the groom's cake was either a pound cake or fruit cake that was served into little boxes and given to single ladies to place under their pillow so they could dream of their future husband. - this is coming from my mom who was married in MT over 40yrs ago now.

GreenPepperBurger

LC, I love that! It's really cute.

I also really love the old school Nintendo one, too.

tldh

FI can't wait to dig into his pumpking spice ASU Sparky mascot grooms cake.  He keeps telling me that his is going to be more popular than my white almond cake.

pooh8402

more people ate H's cake than ate mine. we did 3 cheesecakes for his cake and could have easily had 5 cheesecakes. there was plenty of my cake leftover (lemon with raspberry filling). I didn't even get any damn cheesecake, except for one bite that H gave me from his slice. *pout*

bonnyandtim

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[QUOTE]We're having it as rehersal dinner dessert. 
Posted by pirategal03[/QUOTE]

Ditto for me.

myother1

We cut both cakes, but that definitely came as a surprise to me -- I was not expecting to cut the groom's cake in front of everyone (and, to be honest, I thought it was a little redundant: cut, serve, eat awkwardly, rinse, repeat).

Here's our Groom's Cake - it went over well with the nerds:




(And yes, we know this was the Apple logo, but our baker did not.  )

Jelenny

must be a regional thing.....in wisconsin a lot of the grooms cakes are served at the rehersal dinner...but other places it's at the wedding...

but yeah they are cut an enjoyed - can't wait to plan on for my FI...probably going to rock more than the wedding cake since I have ooooodles of ideas up my sleeve!

pooh8402

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[QUOTE]We cut both cakes, but that definitely came as a surprise to me -- I was not expecting to cut the groom's cake in front of everyone (and, to be honest, I thought it was a little redundant: cut, serve, eat awkwardly, rinse, repeat). Here's our Groom's Cake - it went over well with the nerds: (And yes, we know this was the Apple logo, but our baker did not.  ;) )
Posted by myother1[/QUOTE]
good thing Apple owns Mac. your cake is fine.

myother1

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Groom's cake : good thing Apple owns Mac. your cake is fine.
Posted by pooh8402[/QUOTE]

Techically, it is incorrect to label the Apple logo as the "Mac" logo.  But thanks.  Only the most hardcore Mac fanboys mentioned it.

ARod22

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[QUOTE]I'm not doing one... but when I met with our cake lady she told me that the Groom's Cake historically is cut up and pieces are given for the single women in attendance at the wedding to "take home." Which I thought was completely bizarre. So I'm probably not much help. Edit: Before TK, I had never even heard of a Groom's Cake.
Posted by akhensley81[/QUOTE]

<div>The bizarre-ness of it doesn't end there.  I heard that the single ladies are to put the piece of cake under their pillows, and that night, they will dream of their future spouse.</div><div>
</div><div>Anyway, we're not doing one.  We are having plenty of dessert plus the wedding cake, and figured everyone would just be caked out if we got another one!</div>

mags0607

A couple of the weddings that I have been to have cut the grooms cake, and served it, but the extras were packaged up and sent home with the guests. ( maybe it was just supposed to be for the songle ladies, according to PPS).That cake hit the spot when I was really drunk after the bar we went to. I thought it was a fabulous idea.

tafft1

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[QUOTE]GreenPepper, I'm actually pretty excited about it too. It'll be a Nintendo question block. Something like this:
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

OMG best idea ever!