Oh. OHHH.

Sometimes a rolled up hundred dollar bill just isn’t fancy enough.

passed away at 13. Rena, our adopted canine companion. Can’t deny golden’ are golden.

Hug ‘em tight y’all.

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…

Not my wedding, but my friend’s. The wedding cake never showed up and the baker wouldn’t answer the phone. The bride’s sister went to the nearby grocery store and bought sheet cakes.

Not so much a disaster but still funny. We got family members to make the layers of cakes and a cake decorator to put them together and to ice it for us. This decoator was in a nearby town and we got a friend to pick it up the day before the wedding because she lived in the same town. After putting the cake in the…

Sent my fiancé to pick up the cake and take it to the restaurant. “Take someone with you.” Should have clarified “to hold the cake.” They both sat in the front seat with the cake in the back. Best part: both had minored in physics.

Instead of one big cake in the middle of the room and floral centerpieces on the tables, we decided to kill two birds with one stone and put a cake on every table. (I know; I’m a genius.) I bought glass candlesticks and glass plates from the Dollar Store, a tube of glass glue, and made my own cake stands. Welllll, the…

My sister and her now-husband had under the sea theme to their wedding (they met snorkeling, and they love fish), so they ordered this beautiful three-tiered cake from our local bakery. The bakers and artists outdid themselves — it was a stunner. Gorgeous, elaborate fish. Square, off-centered tiers. Really cool. (This…

We had this pretty standard three-tiered wedding cake plus a giant sheet cake, which it turns out was a good thing. There was ivy going up the outsides of the tiers like a staircase, but there were also candles? I can’t really be held responsible, as my former MIL was midwestern and very into planning the details of…

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…

How about this: We didn’t have one. A dear friend of the groom’s had described this awesomely geeky Ninendo cake she was going to do for us- We even had all the decor to go with it, for a geektastic wedding reception- then, the DAY OF, texted him that she had forgotten about it and hadn’t made it. After MONTHS of…

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…

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Not so much a disaster but funny. One of my younger brothers, who was 20 at the time, was conned into believing that my wedding cake was not real. My nieces, 9 and 12, decided to convince him that they we were using a prop/display cake. I don’t know what possessed them to trick him, or what possessed my brother to…

I fear a different kind of cake disaster.

Not much of a disaster but we went to cut the cake and for some reason my mom got really impatient, so she yanked the knife out of my husband’s hand and just cut us two pieces, handed them to us and said “Here!”

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…