Don’t be afraid to admit that your favorite part about a wedding is the cake. Bride and groom pay attention – if your wedding cake isn’t tasty and delicious some of your guests are going to be sad. Believe me, I know it to be true.
Most North American weddings still do the traditional cake cutting during the reception. It’s a fun time to bring the whole party together again, focused once more on the newlyweds. For some brides and grooms, this is their only chance to get to taste their own wedding cake. They get a quick little piece shoved in their mouth and no more because there is still more dancing to be done or more hugs to squeeze in. Don’t let this happen to you. Ask your caterer to pack a to-go box of a few slices of cake that can be placed in your get-away car for later that night. The cake usually won’t taste as good a week later and definitely won’t be up to par a year later when you thaw it out to eat it for your anniversary!
My husband wishes that we had done this at our wedding. Every time he’s reminded of our wedding he says, “Man, I never got to eat a slice of my German chocolate groom’s cake!” One of these days I’m gonna have to go back to our baker and ask her to make a small version of the groom’s cake again. Some bakers have a special deal where they replicate the top layer of your wedding cake for you on your 1 year anniversary. That’s fabulous because then you don’t have to put up with a big frozen cake in the freezer for a year!
Great Charlottesville, VA Bakers: Cakes Unlimited and The Baker’s Palette
