Cake-smashing: Traditional or tacky?
Filed under: Cakes and Catering, Culture Clash, Etiquette, Receptions
I'd seen it on the occasional sitcom. I'd read about it. But I never for once believed that people really did this. Seems I was wrong. I confess to being baffled. Who does this? Why?I checked in a few chat sites, visited a few blogs. The discussion is lively, to say the least, and detractors outnumber fans by a long stretch. Fans claim it's "traditional". Traditional to whom? For how long? I do not know a single person who has done this at their wedding.
Fans further claim it's "harmless fun". Hmm ... Seems like nothing more than a sublimation of aggression to me. While there are all sorts of ... creative ... things I can imagine doing to my beloved, cramming cake up his nose just isn't one of them. And harmless? Try telling that to your hair, your make-up, and your clothing.
And mostly -- have they no idea how totally TACKY this is?
What's in a name?
Dress of the day: Anastasia by Maggie Sottero
Unusual wedding cakes from Dragons and Daffodils
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Sep 27th 2007 @ 9:11PM
Florinda said...
At some point, it may have been an amusing twist on the bride and groom feeding each other wedding cake - bad aim caused icing on the face and a good laugh, in the pie-in-the-face sense. But it's become far too much pie-in-the-face. As you say, it's aggressive, and it's tacky. And I hate to admit I've been at weddings where it's been done (not my own, thank heavens!).
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