did you save the top deck of your wedding cake?

[Dancing Fire]

 

[FrekeChild]

We''re having one LAYER, so no.

My mom saved a chunk of their wedding cake (also one layer), and it is still in the freezer at my dad''s, just under 33 years later.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 11/20/2009 1:53:04 AM
Author: FrekeChild
We''re having one LAYER, so no.

My mom saved a chunk of their wedding cake (also one layer), and it is still in the freezer at my dad''s, just under 33 years later.

are you gonna eat it?

 

[FrekeChild]

Ew, no. I''m not about to eat ANYTHING that''s older than I am.

And I''m starting to warm up to the idea of "decks" instead of "layers". Hmmm...who knew?

 

[kstar512]

I did. We are eating it on our one year anniversary, along with a bottle of wine we bought on our honeymoon in Italy

 

[cammy85]

yup! it''s in our freezer! can''t wait! and we are also going to get one anytime we go home to visit my fam because I can''t get enough of their cakes! YUM BUTTERCREAM!

 

[purselover]

I doubt I will it just doesn''t interest me for some reason.

 

[jcrow]

yep, and it was YUMMY!

 

[vc10um]

We won''t because we''ll be cutting it (it''ll be our only tier...all our guests will receive cupcakes) and we won''t be able to get it home anyway. Wedding will be in KC, MO...we live in the DC Metro Area.

I plan on having a local bakery that we love re-create it on our first anniversary, though.

 

[charbie]

nope. it wasn''t huge, but it was big enough that i wasn''t going to be able to fit it very well into our freezer. my sister made it, so if i really want, she can make me another one. i ate little pieces of it the day after the wedding though

 

[sunnyd]

We did. I doubt it''ll last a year though...it''s the only flavor we didn''t even get to taste, and it''s the only kind of cake DH likes (banana) so I''m thinking we''ll bust it out long before next November 7th.

 

[rhbgirl24]

eeeeeeeew.... no! They took off the top layer for us to save and I told them to stick a fork in it and put at at DH's seat.... lol he loved that!

We will get the place to make a small one for us on our one year!

 

[Octavia]

They saved it for us, but we ate it instead of freezing it. All we got at the wedding was the tiny bite after cutting the cake, so we wanted some! It was dessert for two days post-wedding, yum. My parents froze some of the other leftover cake for us, but I doubt we''ll really want to eat it. For our anniversary, we''ll probably order a little cake in the same flavor from the bakery we used.

 

[cleokizzy]

uhm, why would you want to save it for your 1st year anniversary?!? sorry for my naivete - but is it some sort of a custom/tradition?!?

 

[emeraldlover1]

We did not. We had four cakes and had an entire one left over and we gave it to my aunt. We didn''t really want to freeze it and then eat it. We decided that if we want a cake at our one year we will order one from our baker.

 

[parrot tulips]

The caterer saved it without our realizing it. Since we had the cake, we intended to wait until our 1 year anniversary, but caved to our sugar cravings late one night and dug in on our 1 month "anniversary."

 

[Laila619]

Yep, we just had it for our one year anniversary! It actually wasn''t too bad.

 

[BeachRunner]

Date: 11/20/2009 10:02:17 AM
Author: vc10um
We won''t because we''ll be cutting it (it''ll be our only tier...all our guests will receive cupcakes) and we won''t be able to get it home anyway. Wedding will be in KC, MO...we live in the DC Metro Area.

Ditto this. We had a cupcake wedding cake, and DH and I cut into the one and only layer or "deck". My mom made chocolate favors for everyone, so we saved on of those and stuck it in our freezer. We''ll eat that on our year anniversary. That''s if DH doesn''t eat it before then!

 

[iloveny]

Well, we tried to save it! The restaurant where we had our reception said that they would keep it i the fridge for us, because we didn''t want to take it with us on our wedding night. A week later we went back for it and they had accidentally THROWN IT AWAY!!!! The restaurant manager was mortified, and he gave us a $200 gift certificate to the restaurant, a bottle of Dom Perignon and he bought us dinner and drinks that night. It was probably for the best because we have a very skinny freezer in our NYC apartment, so we would have had to cut a few pieces off of the top layer and we would''ve thrown the rest away. I feigned disappointment as we ate, but truthfully DH and I thought we made out like bandits!

 

[sonnyjane]

Date: 11/20/2009 2:52:47 PM
Author: cleokizzy
uhm, why would you want to save it for your 1st year anniversary?!? sorry for my naivete - but is it some sort of a custom/tradition?!?

Yes, it''s a common tradition.

OP, we eloped to Maui and got cupcakes from the local grocery store, so no, we didn''t save them

 

[elrohwen]

We had cheesecakes, untiered, so there wasn''t an actual top tier, but the bakery did make us a mini-pumpkin cheesecake to take home. We froze it while were on our honeymoon, then ate the rest as soon as we got back. Actually, I think there''s still a piece left, but it''s been a month so maybe I should throw that out

 

[Kaleigh]

We did, and had it for our 1 year anniversary, it didn''t taste so good. But it''s a fun tradition, and am glad we did it. I don''t know maybe it wasn''t wrapped properly.. No clue, this was 23 years ago. Memory fades, LOL!!!!

 

[vc10um]

Date: 11/20/2009 8:32:33 PM
Author: iloveny
Well, we tried to save it! The restaurant where we had our reception said that they would keep it i the fridge for us, because we didn''t want to take it with us on our wedding night. A week later we went back for it and they had accidentally THROWN IT AWAY!!!! The restaurant manager was mortified, and he gave us a $200 gift certificate to the restaurant, a bottle of Dom Perignon and he bought us dinner and drinks that night. It was probably for the best because we have a very skinny freezer in our NYC apartment, so we would have had to cut a few pieces off of the top layer and we would''ve thrown the rest away. I feigned disappointment as we ate, but truthfully DH and I thought we made out like bandits!

Sadness that they threw it away...but HOORAY for what sounds like an amazing dinner in it''s place!!! Man, that manager gets two thumbs WAY up for recognizing how important that must have been to you and doing something to try to compensate!

 

[musey]

Nope, we got a new one (same flavor, same baker) for the first anni.

 

[musey]

Date: 11/20/2009 8:58:30 PM
Author: sonnyjane

Date: 11/20/2009 2:52:47 PM
Author: cleokizzy
uhm, why would you want to save it for your 1st year anniversary?!? sorry for my naivete - but is it some sort of a custom/tradition?!?

Yes, it''s a common tradition.

Only about as common as, say, the bouquet toss

I''ve always known this is just "what you do," so when our baker suggested an alternate option, I was so relieved!

 

[jaylex]

Date: 11/20/2009 8:32:33 PM
Author: iloveny
Well, we tried to save it! The restaurant where we had our reception said that they would keep it i the fridge for us, because we didn''t want to take it with us on our wedding night. A week later we went back for it and they had accidentally THROWN IT AWAY!!!! The restaurant manager was mortified, and he gave us a $200 gift certificate to the restaurant, a bottle of Dom Perignon and he bought us dinner and drinks that night. It was probably for the best because we have a very skinny freezer in our NYC apartment, so we would have had to cut a few pieces off of the top layer and we would''ve thrown the rest away. I feigned disappointment as we ate, but truthfully DH and I thought we made out like bandits!

Ha ha! What an awesome substitute that was! It''s too bad that you won''t have your cake for your one year... but save that gift cert and you can go to the restaurant you had your reception at instead! Pretty good trade-off?


Yes, I''m planning on saving the top tier of our cake for the one year anniversary... i''m sentimental lol

 

[KatyWI]

Nope! We sure didn''t! We knew we wouldn''t have room in the freezer, so we saved the top tier to serve at brunch the next day with our families.... and it was delicious!!!

Plus, year old cake? Yick! We''re going to have the same baker make us another one for our anniversary.

 

[luvthemstrawberries]

Haha I''ve already been informed by FI that there''s no way he''s eating a cake that''s been in the freezer for a year.

I really don''t know what we''re going to do with all the extra cake though - the venue does our cake for us and gives us a 3-tier cake with the package - 10 inch, 8 inch, and 6 inch layers... we have 13 people total coming to the wedding, haha. Maybe we''ll send bunches of it home with people in boxes.

 

[katamari]

Nope. Not at all. Ours wasn''t layered, but even if it was there was no way we were going to do this--both of us are much more into savory than sweet and didn''t even eat any cake on the actual day of our reception.

We did, though, save two of the homebrews we gave out as our favor and plan to open them and toast to our first year of marriage on our anniversary.

 

[lilyfoot]

Date: 11/22/2009 1:41:56 PM
Author: katamari
Nope. Not at all. Ours wasn''t layered, but even if it was there was no way we were going to do this--both of us are much more into savory than sweet and didn''t even eat any cake on the actual day of our reception.

We did, though, save two of the homebrews we gave out as our favor and plan to open them and toast to our first year of marriage on our anniversary.

cute!