From political messages to Playstations: more fun groom's cakes!
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on October 06, 2011
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It's that time again! Get your virtual forks out and let's chow down on some more nom-alicious groom's cakes that have been popping up in our Flickr pool! We've got total nerd cakes, cakes with a political message, even a mostly-fake pirate cake made by a bride on the morning of her wedding.
GeekyGal explains this grooms cake with a message: "Michigan is a medical marijuana state and Theresa is a cancer survivor. We are also a caregivers to other patients in need of nature's medicine. We are both very active in legalizing medical marijuana."
Everyone loves a Millenium Falcon wedding cake. Each character on the cake base represented a groomsmen. Of course Leia with blonde hair and brooch bouquet is the bride and Han Solo with a beard is the groom.
Photo by Liz Pumphrey Photography.
Beth explains, "This was amazing. People couldn't believe it was really cake. It's a replica of Jay's favorite scotch bottle in white chocolate on a chocolate cake pillow!" I don't know about you, but whenever I hear "chocolate cake pillow" my mouth starts watering.
How adorable is this "bunnies on the grass cake" from Tribe member Mrs. Rooster?
From bunnies to birds — ANGRY birds! Oh yes, the ap phenomenon has now become a groom's cake from Steampunk Lulu's wedding.
Photo by Greg Khitrov of Treasure the Moments.
Here's an amazing Mario-themed groom's cake created by Sweet Lisa's Exquisite Cakes in Greenwich, CT.
A Playstation so great you can eat it, from Nikki & Chris's Jamaican-American, Southern soul backyard wedding.
Photo by Hollenbaugh Photography.
The bride explains this Smurftastic groom's cake: "We met in the Boise State University Blue Thunder Marching Band. Boise State is, of course, the home of the infamous Smurf Turf. This groom's cake celebrates our mutual interest and the place we met, plus our love for that blue turf and for whimsical fun things."
This was Adam's Katamari groom's cake from his Disney Steampunk wedding. If you look closely you'll see that the Katamari ball rolling over and squishing Disney princesses and other Disney things!
Photo by Monica Luper
Tiramisu cake, on the bottom and the top two tiers — totally fake! This was all made by the bride (DellaDeadgirl) and the bottom layer was painted at 7 the morning of the wedding.
Yes, that is a Galaga groom's cake
Photo by Pink Light Images.
The biggest, most delicious Nintendo controller I've ever seen is from Dustin & Christina's wedding. It also had a cord running around the front of it!
Photo by Justin Dunham Photography
Mary Beth showed off her tombstone groom's cake from their Halloween wedding. Too perfect.
Photo by Whitney Lee Photography
Not gonna lie, I'm terribly jealous of this pedal board groom's cake. In fact, I showed it to my husband and he's even MORE jealous. Grumble grumble … so awesome … grumble .. can't believe I didn't think of this before … grumble grumble …
Photo by Moxie Studios.
As the bride, Becky, explained: "When the groom is an iPhone developer, this is the natural choice."
All hail Catnippe who totally rickrolled her groom Martin with this surprise cake. Wait till you see his reaction.
About Megan Finley
Megan Finley is the Managing Editor for Offbeat Bride and the Associate Publisher for the Offbeat Empire. When she's not slaving away for the Empire, she's sharing her dork side on her own blog and on Twitter @meganfinley.
Amanda said
I just got fricken Rick Roll'd. How did I not see this coming?? LOL
Megan Finley said
YES! My first successful Rick roll! Life
Complete.
Erin said
Consider your life complete, x2..!
Amy said
Well played, Megan. Well played.
MissRed said
OMG Angry Birds cake!!!
sassy said
SO why can't these be wedding cakes again?
I LOVE the first one best! And it has given me some ideas THANKS YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!!
eri said
I'd never heard of grooms cakes before coming on this site. Are they served at the wedding?
MissRed said
@eri, My understanding is that they are a Southern tradition (though maybe another commenter can enlighten more). I grew up in the Southern U.S. and have always seen grooms' cakes. They are more "onbeat" than "offbeat," I would say. But we are still having one because hey, more cake
.
And yes I think it's served at the same time as the wedding cake ("traditionally," but you should just do what works for your own schedule!).
Megan Finley said
Hey Eri, a link to an explanation of groom's cakes PLUS more discussion and explanation of the phenom were discussed in the comment of this post: http://offbeatbride.com/2010/05/cool-grooms-cake
Jessie said
When my husband and I got married, we asked around for what kind of cake people wanted. We got pretty much half and half of white and chocolate, so we did a grooms cake in chocolate and our traditional cake it white. That was our reasoning.
Christy said
I was totally sitting through that video waiting for the grooms reaction. And then about halfway through it dawned on me. "Huh. I think I've just been Rick-rolled." That has never happened to me before. Which is clearly why I fell for it. Not because I'm gullible or anything.
Jen said
cake you WANT to play with! HAHAAHHAAH!!!!!