Did you save the top of your wedding cake?
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
United States
February 9, 2007 3:00pm CST
As many of you know we attended a wedding for friends of ours. They had a small wedding with just a few people in attendance. At the reception they were getting ready to cut the wedding cake when I told them to cut the bottom layer and save the top to have when they celebrated their first anniversary. They both looked at me like I had two heads! The top of the cake was saved and brought home with them. The next day they told me that the cake was going to be thrown out. The groom refuses to eat anything that is more than two days old.
I told them that the cake would be frozen and would still be edible in a year's time. My hubby and I saved our caketop, we shared it with the kids on our anniversary and lived to tell about it.
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@dhouston (417)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Your friends are nuts! My mother saved our wedding cake in her freezer. On out first anniversar, DH and I went back to the same charming inn where we spent our wedding night. But the night before, I made a special meal at home and we ate the top for dessert. It was just as delicious as it had been the year before at our wedding.
We often took a trip over our anniversary, and I always made a special homemade anniversary dinner the night before we took the trip.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
12 Feb 07
I loved your comment. He is more nuts than she is. She is willing to save the cake, he is not!
@Dara_momto4 (842)
• United States
9 Feb 07
No, we didn't. I would have liked to but never did. I know alot of people still follow this tradition and I think that's very romantic. How odd (and sad) that so many traditions are being forgotten. Wonder what our children's weddings will be like, lol.
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@thinkingoutloud (6127)
• Canada
9 Feb 07
Yep, I saved the top of my first wedding cake... stayed in the freezer for years and we never ate it (in retrospect, I guess maybe we should have? LOL).
When I got remarried three years ago, my sister and brother-in-law gifted us our cake... it was a beautiful (and yummy!) one layer, all white heart -- so we didn't have a top to save.
I think it's nice to follow traditions -- especially the ones that are so simple to do :)
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@ShadyGrove (996)
• United States
11 Feb 07
Yes we saved ours! I had heard of doing this for many years and it sounded like a romantic tradition.
My husband's family saved it for us in their freezer until after we came back from our honeymoon -- we moved it to our freezer later on, but I did not inspect it.
When our 1st anniversay came around I took it out of the freezer and unwrapped it -- it was half eaten!! My sister-in-law and her kids had helped themselves to it before they froze it! ugh! We did take a few bites of it, but it was sort of ruined for us if you know what I mean.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
12 Feb 07
Geez, they could have at least waited for you to have your fill of it. How rude.
@Michele21 (3093)
• United States
9 Feb 07
We saved the top of our cake also, it wasn't that great though!! But it is a fun tradition to me!
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
10 Feb 07
We saved ours. It didn't make it to the first anniversary though. We had to buy a small cake for us on that date. Now that we have kids we get a large cake for all of us to share. Showing our kids how important it is to acknowledge that day. Our impatience as youth gave way to a great family tradition now.
Certainly hope that that cake that good money paid for was not just thrown out! :(
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
12 Feb 07
It is nice to share the joy. When we celebrate our 10th I am planning to have a party to celebrate.
@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
10 Feb 07
If you freeze it in the box that you get from the store, it will get frostbite and be horrible. We froze ours in a ziplog freezer bag and ate it a year later, it wasn't too bad. Of course, all I wanted was the icing and that was AWESOME!!!
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@linda345 (2661)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
No we didn't. We only had a small wedding as it was my second wedding. We only had a slab wedding cake. We had alittle bride and groom on it though. If we had a real wedding cake we would have saved the top layer because that is a tradition in our family.
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@draconess (650)
• Canada
10 Feb 07
We actually ended up saving the top two tiers of our three tiered wedding cake, because we had a fairly small wedding and didn't end up needing them, the big bottom tier was enough to feed everyone. We just had our six month anniversary last week and took out a piece of the cake to celebrate, it still tasted perfectly fresh and delicious! All you have to do is package it right, ours is wrapped really well in tinfoil and ziploc bags. We have enough left that we'll save the little top tier for ourselves on our 1 year, and share the rest of the middle tier when our parents come out to visit!
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@princessmelokia (513)
• Canada
9 Feb 07
I'm getting married in July and we're going to start cutting the cake top and work our way down. . .we're not going to save to cake top
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@krislouiebaby (2347)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
i wish to save our cake top but honestly, we have no wedding cake..LOL
we had a simple wedding,,,as we have little money at that time,,,,
me and my husband decided to have a simple wedding,,,
but the most important is we have our both family present, and for that we were so happy.
good day...
@harwoodkp (285)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Yes we saved the top of the cake and froze it. At our one year anniversery we shared the cake and had another wedding nignt. That was very special to me.
Those memories help carry me through the harder times and helps me to be a better husband.
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@thunderofsins (738)
• United States
9 Feb 07
I wouldn't save the top of the cake. Its an old tradition, but so is the tradition of trying to eat the cake a year later and being disgusted and throwing it out! Many bakers now will make you a small "first anniversary" cake free of charge when you purchase your wedding cake through them. I'd much rather have a new fresh cake then eat something that has been in my freezer for a year.
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