Many decades ago, Art and I went to a wedding in Chicago. It was for the daughter of one of the friends he worked with at the USEPA.
He reminded me that it was also the first time we'd heard Pachebel's Canon in D for a wedding march. It was absolutely beautiful with Lake Michigan in view through the giant glass windows of the church.
I found this photo on Wikipedia.
I thought this would be the most unusual wedding cake we'd ever seen.
However, earlier this month we were at the wedding of the daughter of one of our best friends.
The only time I've ever cried at a wedding was when our daughter Tiffany came walking down the aisle on Art's arm. I really thought I was perfectly fine and then suddenly, I burst into (quiet) tears... quiet torrential tears. My teacher buddies behind me saw what was happening and quickly sent up tissues.
Well... I've been to many weddings since without any tears at all so didn't expect it to happen again. I promise you, I'm not normally a crier. But his wonderful young woman getting married was very, very special and it happened again.
The wedding was beautifully planned and organized by family and friends. But then I saw the most amazing thing. The bride is allergic to eggs so a family member made this cake for the wedding couple.
It's a watermelon cake!!! A truly beautiful, meticulously created wedding cake. I've written before about how Art LOVES watermelon. We usually celebrate his birthday with a watermelon slice. Therefore this wedding cake absolutely blew us away.
And yes, there was the tradition of the wedding couple cutting a slice of wedding watermelon for each other.
There were two other regular giant cakes for family and friends.
Have you seen any interesting wedding cakes?
Watermelon cake? That's wonderful! Our son had doughnuts for his wedding cake. It was perfect for him and his bride. He cut the doughnuts with the same knife we used at our wedding! And the song that we all heard as the bride came in on her Dad's arm was written by our son! I had tears of joy myself. I dearly love weddings but our son's was truly special.
ReplyDeleteWe had a traditional cake that was untraditionally lopsided.
ReplyDeleteThese days, I cry at the drop of a hat. So much in the world is making me stress cry. Watermelon cake seems wonderful.
ReplyDeleteLove that watermelon wedding cake!
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't have a lot of friends because I haven't been to a wedding in ages. I do however admit to crying at my own wedding when I saw my soon to be wife walk down the aisle towards me. I was cool up until then and after I got myself together, cool the rest of the ceremony and evening but not for those few minutes. Fortunately as soon as she got up to me our backs were to the audience.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter's was the most trouble. She married a Scottish man whose family was split between Glasgow and Toronto. His parents had been to a Canadian wedding where the cake was white. His mother disapproved. Wedding cakes should be dark fruitcake, she believed. So, for the daughter's wedding I and a friend whose grandmother had been Scottish and a fruit cake maker, we two, made Scottish wedding cake for 100 people. Yeah. My arm still aches when I think about it, but groom and his mother were satisfied.
ReplyDeleteThe last wedding I went to was 2019 or so. Although I don't like watermelon, that cake is gorgeous. My daughter had a watermelon cake too--not as elaborate though. Bakers on the Great British Bake Off often make that French cake with cream puffs. It's tricky! I think it's normal to cry at our children's wedding. I did too.
ReplyDeleteWhat an original idea!
ReplyDeleteI would love a watermelon cake!!!
ReplyDeleteMy youngest son and his wife are not cake fans and had a WOODEN wedding cake! I have no idea where they ordered it. They posed by it and then had a dessert table of cookies, brownies and pie.
Kay of Musings: Really? A wooden cake? That is just so amazingly original and they’d always have it for posterity.
DeleteNever have heard of a watermelon cake.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a cake like this for a wedding. However it looks very good to eat.
ReplyDeleteThat was a wonderful accommodation for the bride.
ReplyDeleteI have been to several family weddings in the last few years. Mostly they now have a small, tiered cake for the bridal couple and then traditional sheet cakes for the rest of us.
Our wedding cake was traditionally tall and tiered, but unusual for the era in that it was chocolate and topped with fresh flowers.
WOW!
ReplyDeleteCream puff cake? Watermelon cake? So interesting. I don't really like cake so at our wedding I had a giant chocolate chip cookie and didn't do the cake sharing (smashing) ritual.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much love all cakes so weddings make me happy for several reasons. I also love watermelon and that looks like a good one, and had that creampuff thing at a fancy restaurant in Venice and loved it too. Clearly I am the ideal guest, plus I tend to weep quietly at most weddings and now that I am old people can wonder if I am someone's dear old granny.
ReplyDeleteI do find the cake sharing/smashing thing vulgar and unpleasant.
Ceci
None really in person. I also don't vividly recall either of my cakes or food. Too busy during the wedding to savor the flavor
ReplyDeleteWith all of the various fruits attached to the watermelon squares, it's an elaborate fruitcake. One goofy niece had a dinosaur cake with two plastic dinosaurs dressed up on top as a bride and a groom. (second wedding.) My nephew and his Japanese-Irish bride had a cheese cake. Nope, not the pie type of cheesecake, but wheels of real expensive foreign cheeses, laid flat on their sides to build a tower of cheese wheels in gradual smaller sizes. (Also a second wedding, a little more classy.) Linda in Kansas
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