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Halfunit

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 04:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This thread reminds me of the armadillo groom's cake from the movie Steel Magnolias.

Twinkie

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 05:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, Half. Just the other day I watched about the last hour of Steel Magnolias after having "talked" on the phone to mom. Well that was pretty stupid. I bawled like a baby for a good hour. But I do love that movie. Just have to remember not to watch it at certain times.

Twiggy, you are so right that most Floridians are NOT southern really. But since my mom is from Georgia and dad was from Mississippi this Florida native is pretty darn southern. LOL

Grannyg

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 05:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep, Mississippi has a Groom's cake. You would probably be taken to the wood shed if you didn't have one. People would certainly think the groom had been "ignored". By the way, while we are talking about weddings............it used to be only the bride's picture was in the paper, now it is the bride and groom. What happened to just having the bride's pic? Lots of things have changed over the years with weddings. Used to be that you just had bride's cake, groom's cake, punch, nuts and mints. Now it's finger foods and sometimes full meals. How do people afford all of this?

Ddr1135

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 05:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I wonder how they can afford it too Granny. Sometimes I think too much emphasis is placed on the wedding and not the "marriage" aspect. Last wedding I went to, there were 800 guests at the reception.

And that was one butt ugly armadillo groom's cake in Steel Magnolias!

Grannyg

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 06:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Ddr, it almost turned me against a red velvet cake cause everytime I saw one it reminded me of that cake!

Eliz87

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 06:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, do you live in Southern Ohio? I'm in N.E. Ohio and have never seen a groom's cake at a wedding. But, wow, after seeing that picture, I WISH my husband had a cake at our wedding. Yum.

Kappy

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 04:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Northern California checking in here . . . The first time I ever heard of a groom's cake was in the Movie Steel Magnolias and I thought it was a great idea. The most recent wedding I attended had a 3-tiered cake with each layer being a different flavor. It was iced in a beautiful blue-violet color and the only problem I saw was that people took a slice of each flavor which meant that there wasn't quite enough cake to go around because the bride and groom hadn't been expecting that, lol.

Anways, my vote for this "poll" is that it is up to the individuals being married as to what kind of cake and how many they want to have. It's their day and they are the ones who need to be happy in the end.

Wink

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cathie I don't know about that picture of the cake you posted. To me it looks like Rabbit was there and left his calling card all over it. Or Rabbit channeling a great dane. Maybe it looks better in person than in the picture

Twiggyish

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinkie, my family was from Tennessee prior to moving to Florida in the 40's.

Abby, I don't think we gave an opinion as to whether or not she should have one. I agree with you that she should do what she feels is right.

Tabbyking

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i'll bet it tastes like heaven and if rabbit visited that cake it was to sneak bites off the backside of it!

Tabbyking

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i do remember the armadillo cake from
'steel magnolias' but didn't realize it was a groom's cake. or if i heard it during the movie, i maybe just thought it was to insult him because they didn't seem to like the groom. what i remember about it was that it was red inside and therefore looked like road kill.
the groom's cakes i see on the links people have given often have a theme, but none have looked like the insides of a roadkill armadillo! thank God!
i can see the golf bag cake (for me!), a sports car cake (for me!), and a decadent chocolate, whisky, rum, bailey's whatever cake (also for me!)
my next wedding, LOL :), i am having a groom's cake. i am having a bride's cake, or traditional cake, or whatever it's called, too! we got married at tahoe and didn't even have a cake.

Cathie

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Wink, I think the one in the photo is a little too much, too. Ours will be a bit more subdued, I think. There are many styles to choose from, here are a few variations:

http://www.myweddingcakes.com/Groomscakes.html

Twiggyish, you are correct, I wasn't asking for opinions as to whether or not to have a groom's cake, just asking out of curiosity what parts of the country were aware of a groom's cake.

My future son-in-law has only made one request regarding the wedding, that he have a chocolate cake with the chocolate dipped strawberries, and he even offered to pay for it, lol. He is from Oklahoma (which I have to whisper around here after the dreadful TX-OU game yesterday) so we can include OK as another area that celebrates with a groom's cake.

Sia

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Eliz, extreme E. I live in a rural area but attend weddings both in rural and urban areas. No one in my family is from the south; we're all pretty much from right around here, or at least within 100 miles or so of where I live.

Texannie

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 05:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I swear my mind is going..we did have one! LOL (heck it's been almost 20 years! LOL) My dh's only 2 requests were pecan balls at the rehearsal dinner and his groom's cake was German chocolate.
As to food at the reception, another thing I have noticed that seems to be more regional is seated dinners versus buffets. Most of the southern receptions I have been to, have been buffets.
btw..Cathie, my dh is still ill over that game! LOL

Spygirl

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm from Texas and have lived in Louisiana. I've been to dozens and dozens of weddings and there was a grooms cake at every single one. At one wedding, they did a variation, however, and the groom's cake was an assortment of cheesecakes. Dozens and dozens of cheesecakes...I remember vividly because I served them...alone. Anyone ever tried to serve cheesecake?

I take pictures at all of the weddings, so if I can locate my big box of pictures, I'll post various grooms cakes at some weddings I've been to. One in particular was very beautiful.

Bakerygirl

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 11:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm a cake decorator and I have never done a wedding cake without a grooms cake with it and I'm from Oklahoma. Usually its something the groom likes, cake wise or a hobby. My husband wanted cheesecake so I done a 12" cheesecake and put chocolate covered strawberries with some tuxedo covered strawberries. If anyone ever has a question about a wedding cake or any cake I'd be glad you help. I been around cakes about everyday for the past 7 years.

Kady

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 11:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Louisiana girl here....I always thought it was traditional to have a groom's cake. I didn't know it was regional. Wow...I learn something everyday. :)

Cathie

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 07:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My cousin and his wife were visiting for the past week from southern IL, along with their 24 year old daughter who lives in St. Louis. Cousin and wife had never heard of a groom's cake but their daughter who works for a wedding photographer in St. Louis said about half of the weddings they cover there have them.

All of the weddings I have attended for the past 10-12 years here in N TX have had groom's cakes, but when I got married here in the dark ages we hadn't heard of them. Maybe it is something that is slowly moving across the nation.

This is what I love about the TVCH boards--I can learn something new here every day! (Still shaking my head about the fact that a lot of TVCHers didn't have garbage disposals, which I assumed were everywhere!) :)

Pixie

Friday, October 17, 2003 - 09:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Alabama checking in here. All the weddings I have ever been to have had a groom's cake.