Cake Tradition

Blondy214 · February 2013

So I am just curious about how many people are doing this. At my shower last weekend I was talking to FMIL and a few friends of mine about our wedding cake. I told them that that FI and I aren't planning to save the top tier of the wedding cake like many couples do to eat on their 1st anniversary. The idea of eating a year old cake is just not appealing to me at all. If we really want to, we will just order a very small version of our wedding cake from our baker for our anniversary. They looked at me like I was crazy and told me that I had to, it was tradition, blah blah blah. (I'm still not going to do this, they can think what they want.)

I was wondering if any of you ladies will be following this tradition or not, and if you are (or aren't) why?

[Deleted User] · February 2013

We're not saving it either. It will either get eaten by us, later that night, in our room--or in the week after the wedding. I already spoke with my cake baker about it, and I think she was a little relieved. Cakes really don't taste the same after a year in the freezer, no matter how well you wrap them. She's offered to bake us another cake on our one-year anniversary if we want, for a small fee. So that's my plan!

ETA: Not to mention that we have an old refrigerator (circa 1984) and freezer space is a hot commodity in this house! I can't afford to lose a cubic foot to store a cake for an entire 365 days.

[Deleted User] · February 2013

I think for now we're planning on following this tradition. I did see somewhere recently that a lot of couples eat the cake on their 1 month anniversary.

I got FI a HUUUUGE red velvet cake for his birthday last year, April 28th(the day after our 1 year wedding countdown haha) and FMIL froze about half of the cake. I think we were still eating that cake in October and it tasted great. I always thought it was taste gross but she wrapped it up just right I guess!

I think she wrapped it in aluminum foil and then put the pieces into ziploc freezer bags.

My only concern about saving our top layer is that it's got to make a 13 hr voyage back down to Florida with us after the wedding :-P

anssett · February 2013

I find tradition for the sake of tradition to be ridiculous. We won't be doing this.

melicifant · February 2013

It can't be too old of a tradition. My grandmother didn't have a freezer when she got married but she is 98. My favorite cake maker always makes a small cake for the couple on their anniversary.
No, I will not be saving any cake.

tiny speck · February 2013

We're not doing this. It won't be practical, as we're moving withing a few months of getting married so we won't be able to keep it frozen. Apart from that, the idea seems a bit weird anyways. We'll just do a nice meal on our anniversary anyways.

1mobags · February 2013

No.... Our person will do a small one on the anniversary for $25...... Which seems so much better than old cake

Christine9866 · February 2013

We are keeping this tradition. People who I have known to do this never have a problem with there cake that they freeze.

vk2204 · February 2013

We are not saving the cake for our first anniversary.

BrittRN+ · February 2013

Nope, getting the cake home from Mexico would be quite the task ha.

[Deleted User] · February 2013

Yeah we are. My parents have a large freezer in their garage so we plan on just sticking it in there and doing the anniversary thing. My sister and BIL did this and it was kind of fun. We had a nice dinner, as a family, to celebrate their anniversary, bought a new cake that tasted good, and they each had a bit of the old one (which wasn't amazing but wasn't bad either).

I'm not super for or against it either way, so I figure might as well.

ChiGirl2013 · February 2013

We're having a destination wedding, so there's no way that cake will make it back home with us - especially with our 5 year old dd knowing we have cake around. lol

My sister chose to freeze just a slice of her cake because of their lack of freezer space and she said that since she was able to fit it into a ziplock bag, it tasted just fine, although the raspberry filling was a little more runny due to being frozen and thawed.

I agree with anssett - sticking with a tradition just because it's a tradition is dumb. We haven't carried on all of our families' traditions since we've had dd - we've only kept the ones that are fun and meaningful for us.

KiwiKelly87 · February 2013

We aren't doing it either, as part of the price of our cake our cake person actually makes you a new top tier for your first anniversary. All of the vendors that we met with for the cake include a new tier in the price of their cake so that you don't have to save it for a year. My sister did save hers though and said it tasted fine even after the year!

phoenix870509 · February 2013

We probably won't either. Our cake baker gives the couple a free cake on their 1 year anniversary so we'd rather have a fresh cake than a year-old cake.

orangehills · February 2013

Heck to the no. That is nasty, and to me, a weird tradition. I'm going to enjoy my cake on our wedding day, and eat leftovers in the days after while it is still good and fresh!

adawn1981 · February 2013

No way! Not only will it taste nasty - maybe our freezer is old, but even if we have frozen pizza in there for longer than a couple of months it gets all freezerburned (yuck), but I have bad karma! My Dad and Stepmom saved their wedding cake in the freezer and I busted into it, just to taste it, and didn't seal it properly and the cake got gross. Sorry Dad and Stepmom! Well, I also have a stepdaughter that, like any girl, LOVES sweets and with the combo of my karma and her sweet tooth, that cake will be gone or ruined within a month!!

Our baker offers a free anniversary cake as well, problem solved!!

lpick21 · February 2013

I had completely planned on following thru with this tradition until I realized a few days ago that idk how I'm going to get it from Texas to DC! But I'll find a way. I think it would be fun to have that to look forward to next year, and if it's gross, it'll be even funnier! I've heard a lot of people say it was still decent, though.

bdpbride · February 2013

For what its worth - I saved the top tier of my cake from my first wedding and ate it on the 1yr anniversary. It was okay. Not spectacular but not bad either. Mainly it struck me as a waste though - I think we both each had a few bites and were kind of like eh..... then threw the rest of it away because there was no way the two of us could have eaten all of it in the next couple of days. So we paid a bunch of money for the extra tier that tasted just average and 90% was thrown away.

I say if you want to keep the tradition, then just save one piece. Wrap it in foil then a freezer bag really well, it will still be edible. Most likely you won't want more than one piece.

I won't be saving any cake this time around :-)

dani1361 · February 2013

our baker includes a small 8" cake to match your wedding cake on your year anniersary with the cost of the wedding cake!

So we will not be saving any cake, were taking any left over cupcakes to a nursing home for the residents.

[Deleted User] · February 2013

I wish I could get a fresh cake on our anniversary from our wedding baker but we'll be in Tampa for it, most likely :-) Maybe I'll make one with our super awesome new registry gifts that we'll hopefully get at some point haha. Or maybe I'll just go to a local bakery ;-) For some reason, I feel like the cake will be consumed before the year is up, hehe.

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