Night Elf Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Did you save the top tier or a piece of your wedding cake for your first anniversary? When I got married the first time, my mom said that was a thing, so we did it. That cake was awful a year later! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G5052 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Nope. We took it on our honeymoon to snack on. There was some wedding cake left too, and a friend of ours asked about taking it for coffee time at the church where we were married. Of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Nope, ate it with the rest of the cake. We had traveled quite far to get married in my home state so it wasn't feasible for us to keep but I don't think we'd have saved it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We did. I come from a long line of food preservers so they wrapped that sucker good! It was quite tasty out of the freezer a year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 My wedding cake was butt ugly and tasted like sawdust. The cake decorator turned out to be a scheister. So, I told my mom to pitch the cake top because there was no way we were going to eat that. As i was we never even ate a slice at the reception. One bite was enough and most of the guests left cake on their plates. It was so bad that my mom grabbed a micro phone and apologized to the crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yes, and we used our wedding china for the first time when we ate it on our first anniversary. We took pictures, too. It was lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 My MIL saved ours in her freezer and my BIL ate it few months later. He said it was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yup! Our cake was beautiful and so flavorful...and we were so yakky at our reception that other than the bite we shared, we got NONE. We wrapped the tarnation out of that cake, froze it, and ate it a year later. It was so great. And there wasn't a crumb left after the reception, either. :0) Sherry wine white cake with butter cream frosting. FYI. :0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We did, and yes, it was terrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yes, and while it was good at the reception it tasted terrible a year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I did it, thought it was silly and ate it several months later. My cake was amazing and there was no way I was not eating it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We froze it and ate it one month later. So yummy! Lemon cake with buttercream and apricot preserves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freckles Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 yes. It was tasty even a year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SebastianCat Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yes, we saved it and it was excellent a year later. Our wedding cake had a layer of cheesecake in the middle of the cake layers. It was heavenly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yes, and it was delicious a year later. The icing wasn't so great, but the cake was. Our cake was alternating tiers of strawberry cake and white cake, because strawberry cake is my favorite. My mom said it was weird and insisted we at least put some "normal" cake layers in it. Guess which layers were gone first? Strawberry. Ha! We had 5 tiers, the bottom HUGE tier was strawberry, the next white, then strawberry, then white, with the cake topper being strawberry. James Bond and I only got a small bit of cake at the reception, so my cousin kindly cut off a chunk of cake, wrapped it up and put it in the hamper of food and champagne they sent with us to the hotel. After a, um, certain amount of time, we tucked in, and demolished pretty much everything. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Ours was Italian creme cake--and honestly, I don't remember if we saved the top or not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 My mother saved it for our 25th wedding anniversary! All of our children were there and they all sampled it. It was terrible, of course, but all of our children can actually say that they had a bite of our wedding cake. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I didn't want to. I ordered enough cake for everyone, IF we ate the top, too. It was a small wedding. The cake had 2 tiers--the top and another. Very small. One pushy guest INSISTED that we had to keep the top tier. Over and over insisted. I told her, "I ordered enough to be eaten now. I don't want to keep it." But she was a bully and I was wimpy at age 19. (Drives me crazy. My 41 year old current self would never be pushed around like that!) I was a terrible housekeeper and we put the cake in the oven of our apartment (so bugs wouldn't get it), headed out to the honeymoon. I forgot about it and a month or so later we had to throw it out. It was ridiculous. Ugh. Today--I would freeze it and eat it BUT only if I had enough cake for the guests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We picked at it for a few days after the wedding and then chucked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS Mom in NC Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 My mother said the same thing. I shrugged as I had no desire to eat year old cake. I think she saved it anyway. I assume she threw it out because I didn't care about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We moved cross country after our wedding, so we kept the top in dh's parents' freezer for a month, then shared it before leaving CA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We did, and it was sooooooo good! Pound cake ftw :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Good cake. I thought it was a bit silly to save it a year (how could it possibly be good?) but dh caught me sneaking bites one day and told me no more of that. We did save it at our one year anniversary and it was still surprisingly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loowit Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I didn't want to save it, but my DH's aunts insisted and wrapped it up for us. We had a a lot of friends who had gotten married about a year before us and told us that it wasn't worth it. I honestly can't remember if we tried eating it or it got tossed. I am thinking it got tossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 No. We had a three-tier with three different flavors of cake and I told the servers to give it all out that night. It was really good cake and gone within an hour or so. The thing about have three different flavors is that many people (especially the kids) want to try all three! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busymama7 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We did but ate it on or one month anniversary. Didn't want to risk it being yucky at a year cause it was good :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We saved ours and took it with us for our 1st anniversary trip to Colonial Williamsburg. I remember sitting in our cheap motel eating the cake. We even bought plastic wineglasses and had sparkling grape juice (I wasn't legal drinking age yet, LOL). It tasted okay... but since my wedding cake came from Walmart (yup! :p) it wasn't like it was gourmet to start with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in AZ Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 We did. My mom wrapped it up some super special way, and it tasted really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabinfl Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yep, saved the top layer, just barely -- it was a delicious cake! Unfortunately, we stored it in the freezer in our workshop, and during that year we had the workshop floor painted... with a special solvent-based paint. The solvent odor soaked into everything, including -- as we discovered on our first anniversary -- the wrapped cake in the freezer. :( (That was not quite as bad as the time the shop & garage lost power, and we didn't notice for a couple of days. We'd been storing our fishing bait in the freezer. :p ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I didn't know it, but yes. My parents and 3 siblings called on our anniversary and told us they were eating it. :D We had frozen Costco cheesecakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Did you save the top tier or a piece of your wedding cake for your first anniversary? When I got married the first time, my mom said that was a thing, so we did it. That cake was awful a year later! :laugh: Yes. We wrapped it foil, put it in a Tupperware bowl, and froze it. It was delicious a year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Ohhh...touchy point. My favorite kind of cake is carrot cake but I recognize that I am in the minority. Our wedding planner suggested that we do the top tier (traditionally the cake you save) in carrot cake and just cut them all at the wedding, not saving anything. Well, lo and behold at the wedding, she decided that I just had to save that cake for our year anniversary. I was so ticked and to this day, that was the one thing about my wedding that I regret. :glare: It was terrible at a year. Bleh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhudson Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 No, but I ordered a small cake for our anniversary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyco Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We saved ours and it tasted horrible a year later...we should have just gotten a new one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We got married faaaaaar away from home, so no. Plus it was little and three kids munched on it with us. There wasn't anything left. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSong Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We saved ours and wrapped it up very well. It was just what you did back in the Stone Age. I don't remember if we waited the entire year...we moved five months after the wedding so we might have eaten it then...but we did eat it and it was good. Do people still do this? I've been to weddings recently but have never heard it come up in conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 I think we were given a special extra layer to freeze by the baker. It was delicious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reign Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We did not save any and we had a ton of cake. I used cake as my table center pieces with some flowers on top. Each was unique and I though very lovely. They were taken away to cut with the flowers left on the tables. We had two whole cakes left and several large chunks. I had different colors/flavors so people had been picking and choosing. My husband and I took a whole cake on our vacation. I didn't want to save it, I wanted to Eat it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We didn't have a cake, and I'm not into freezer-burnt cake anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 I honestly can't remember, though I'm nearly certain we froze the top. I can't remember what our cake tasted like either. If it was horrible, I would remember though. It must have been fine. I think I must be strange! It feels like 20 lifetimes ago. edited to add: I asked my husband. He said, "I think so. Didn't your parents freeze it for us? I think they did. We probably ate it. I can't remember." When I asked if the cake at the reception tasted good, he couldn't remember that either. I guess we are both strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 There wasn't even a crumb left after the wedding, so nope. I like cake so much I can't imagine that I would have been willing to wait a year to eat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Ohhh...touchy point. My favorite kind of cake is carrot cake but I recognize that I am in the minority. Our wedding planner suggested that we do the top tier (traditionally the cake you save) in carrot cake and just cut them all at the wedding, not saving anything. Well, lo and behold at the wedding, she decided that I just had to save that cake for our year anniversary. I was so ticked and to this day, that was the one thing about my wedding that I regret. :glare: It was terrible at a year. Bleh. Aww, that's too bad. I love carrot cake, too. It's my favorite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We did not save any and we had a ton of cake. I used cake as my table center pieces with some flowers on top. Each was unique and I though very lovely. They were taken away to cut with the flowers left on the tables. We had two whole cakes left and several large chunks. I had different colors/flavors so people had been picking and choosing. My husband and I took a whole cake on our vacation. I didn't want to save it, I wanted to Eat it! How fun! That is a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewellsmommy Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We froze the top layer and ate it on our one year anniversary. It tasted fine. We briefly thought about not eating it though. Just days after we got our wedding cake the bakery was shut down by the health department! :blink: It was a delicious cake and nobody had gotten sick or died from it the first time around, so we went ahead and ate the top part for our anniversary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooCow Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 I want cake now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We saved a piece in our freezer to eat on our first anniversary. It did not taste so great. If only foodsaver vacuum sealing was a thing when I got married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Our wedding cake was yummy at the reception, but disgusting a year later. It was wrapped extremely well, too, so we were bummed. I will suggest to my kids to not bother with that strange tradition and just get something special for the first year anniversary celebration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 No, we did not save it. (I had heard of that idea but thought "yuck" -- I don't want to eat year-old cake!) The cake was eaten at the wedding &/or in the days after by family who took the rest of it home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We did. It was still good. It wasn't great like at the wedding, but it was decent cake and as poor college students we appreciated it. My mom and Mamaw were in charge of wrapping and freezing the cake and they're both adept a food preservation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 We nearly didnt have cake because I was pregnant and didn't want any. My mom insisted on some form of cake and last minute ran to Kroger. She STILL complains that I didn't have a proper cake at my reception...whatever! Not a cake fan here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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