Yeah, I think that’s usually the case for behemoths like this:

Also the leather coin purse from Tiffany’s??? WHY

If the “I Thee Dread” series ever has a ‘tell us your stories about your in-laws saying numerous inappropriate things to your guests at your wedding reception” I will be here guns a blazing!

“MIL was able to embarrass herself in numerous other ways at the reception.”

I shed a single, awed tear for this post.

Also, kudos to you for giving the bakery manager shit for laying it on the newbie. You are a beautiful person.

Him licking his fingers is the CUTEST. And your seafoam cardigan with all that delicious tulle and cleavage. You and your dude looked incredible. This should be like, three feet by five feet over your couch.

Yeah, but you can’t charge for cake cutting and then neglect to actually cut the cakes.

When my son was 6 he was just getting into jokes and riddles so we had a joke-themed birthday for him. Lots of fun and highjinks. I had told him that for a joke we’d have re-lighting candles on his cake, but that he should keep it secret. He did and you could see him delightedly anticipating his friend’s reactions.…

My late husband and his best man were in charge of transporting the liquor and the wedding cake to the hall before heading off to the church. They very carefully filled the trunk of the borrowed Lincoln with all the booze, then gingerly set the cake on top.

Really a potential disaster. My mother in law offered to make our wedding cake for us. A nice offer, but fraught with potential disaster from the start. Problem 1: My in-laws live about 10 hours from where we were getting married. We don’t live there either, so when I asked about how she was going to make the cake, I…

I get that if the parents are paying, they like to have some say in the guest list but considering that you’ve been upfront and honest for YEARS about not wanting your aunt at your wedding, it shows a tremendous lack of sensitivity on her part. Obviously she and your aunt both fell off the same branch of the family…

Fuck no. I told my husband he’d better not smash cake in my face, and he was like, “Why would I ever do that? That’s so mean.”

My pops is black and my mom is white, and when they got married in the early 80s in buttfuck Colorado this was quite the anomaly/scandal. They couldn't find a black groom cake topper so they just sharpied in a white dude. Nothing says “special day” like blackface on your wedding cake

Not my cake disaster but I was witness to this as a plus one at a wedding. Couple orders gluten free cake because best man has Celiac (we know this because the table tents said in lieu of favors they were donating to several charities including one having to due with Celiac disease in honor of the best man). Bakery…

That looks incredible! I had a very small “destination” wedding in Palm Springs (I’m from Canada) so I went with an angel food cake (mix) despite being at least an intermediate amateur baker (that’s a thing). I just wanted something easy that everyone would love (and they did). Non, je ne regrette rien - it was…

Less cake-related but rather young-family-member-meltdown-related ... My littlest cousin lives overseas and we’ve only met a couple of times - but we wanted to include him in our wedding ceremony when he was about 6 so we made him a ring bearer. By all accounts he was super excited until he got to the rehearsal and rea…

Thank you!

My aunt Bonnie’s second wedding was a small affair in Lake Tahoe. Her cake was from a chain grocery store, which, since it was located Tahoe, did regular wedding cake business and had a pretty large bakery section. My aunt’s fiancé, Steve, picked up the cake the morning of the wedding and came back to the cabin we…

I fear a different kind of cake disaster.

I wanted a 3 tier square shape, small and simple. My ex husbands mother claimed to be the cake boss of the rural south and “could whip that up easy peasy.” She kept me up to date on cake progress and everything she was super stoked, and I bought the hype. Come the day of our wedding (April fools day actually) we get…