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Bride's wedding cake disaster goes viral: 'I want to cry'
When it comes to planning a wedding, there are so many important details to take care of – and the cake is definitely one of them. After all, what would a wedding be without cutting into a beautiful (and delicious!) tiered cake with your new partner?
But sometimes, even when everything is planned and organised perfectly, things can still go wrong – as one unlucky bride recently found out…
Sharing her story on the popular website Reddit, the woman said that her mother had put 'pressure' on her to purchase her wedding cake from one of her mum's friends who was supposedly a 'professional baker'. However, when she received a photo of the trial version of the cake, she was horrified at the outcome.
‘They just sent me this photo of the trial. Suffice to say it’s not what I ordered,’ the bride wrote, alongside a photo of let’s just say a cake that looks like my goddaughter (who is six months old) iced, if you don’t believe me, take a look at the photo of it below.
The Bride’s Wedding cake. Image source: Reddit.
Now, I know it wasn’t very nice when I said my goddaughter could probably ice this cake better, but Reddit users haven’t been much nicer, with some describing the cake as a ‘monstrosity’, ‘horrible’ and ‘wonky’.
According to the bride, she has had many wedding ‘disasters’ pan out over the past few weeks, including ‘dress disasters, venue changes, and it looks like it’ll be raining [on the wedding day]’ but this one is by far the worst of all. You might even say this one ‘takes the cake’ (sorry, I had to).
She went on to explain, ‘I wanted a two-tier naked cake and I got a deformed hat,’ she wrote sadly. ‘I managed to get my mum to admit that her friend isn’t really a professional — this is literally boxed cake mix and premade icing. She thinks it’ll look fine when we add flowers.’
She explained to other Reddit users that she wanted a ‘white naked cake with lemon curd filling’, and because the wedding is located in the Blue Mountains in NSW, there are no nearby cake shop options available with this short notice. ‘To be honest I’m kind of freaking out. I’m going to call around a bunch of bakeries today to work out what to do — I haven’t replied to my mum who sent me the photo because I can’t think of anything to say other than “what the f***”.’
As you can imagine, Reddit users were sharing their opinions and offering up advice left, right and centre.
‘Refuse to accept them as your baker. You were promised professional standards and this looks horrific. I would be embarrassed to serve this to friends at home and I’m rubbish at baking,’ one person wrote.
‘You’re the one getting married! You should be the one to pass judgement on what your cake will be. I’m sorry you’re being pressured like this!’ a second chimed in.
‘Your mum was being ridiculous. Did she think that her friend’s cakes would be SO good that you couldn’t tell the difference between a professional wedding cake and a lovely but wonky and ugly cake made at home with love?’ asked another.
The bride came back to the original Reddit post and gave us all an update on her situation. ‘I just called mum and I want to cry. She’s doubling down. She keeps insisting it’ll look fine on the second attempt and with some fake flowers. It’s a public holiday where the wedding is, so everything is shut and I can’t even call a bakery to organise another option.’
Thankfully, there are some good people out in the Blue Mountains where the wedding will be held, with users jumping into action mode to help the bride offering up different bakeries to try and even helping the bride make plans to purchase a brand new, beautiful cake.
So what do you think of this, members? What would you do if you were in this situation? Is the bride being unreasonable, or is her mother? We’d love to hear from you!
