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So, I'm getting married in May (and yes, before you ask, someone is crazy enough to want me as her husband). In every wedding I have ever been to there was the fancy, schmancy "wedding cake" and then the less fancy, usually goofy "groom's cake". But the folks I work with here in Phlly claim to never have heard of a "groom's cake" tradition. Has anyone else ever had or seen a groom's cake, or has my poor mind finally cracked under the strain of being a horrid undead thing feasting on the flesh (and brains) of my once fellow humans?
Either way, I plan to have a groom's cake, and I think I'll have one that looks like a brain....
So, I'm getting married in May (and yes, before you ask, someone is crazy enough to want me as her husband). In every wedding I have ever been to there was the fancy, schmancy "wedding cake" and then the less fancy, usually goofy "groom's cake". But the folks I work with here in Phlly claim to never have heard of a "groom's cake" tradition. Has anyone else ever had or seen a groom's cake, or has my poor mind finally cracked under the strain of being a horrid undead thing feasting on the flesh (and brains) of my once fellow humans?
Either way, I plan to have a groom's cake, and I think I'll have one that looks like a brain....
Congratulations - Marriage and Undeath are closely related - once married it is sort of like you are still alive. In all seriousness marriage is great!
FWIW: I have never heard of a grooms cake, and I am reasonably well informed. But then I didn't have a bachelors party either. I guess I am too much of a fuddy duddy. My advice, is that if you want one have one - if you don't - don't do it just because it is a local tradition. And for gods sake make sure it doesn't taste like brains no matter what it looks like.
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Good luck to you Zomb, and remember that marraige is FOREVER. Especially if you are Undead.
It is really cool to have someone to lean on when you need to take a break from Global Domination. You'll love it.
People's brains= Yummy
Wife's brains= Yucky (she did fall for a zombie after all, how good could it be?)
FH
So, I'm getting married in May (and yes, before you ask, someone is crazy enough to want me as her husband). In every wedding I have ever been to there was the fancy, schmancy "wedding cake" and then the less fancy, usually goofy "groom's cake". But the folks I work with here in Phlly claim to never have heard of a "groom's cake" tradition. Has anyone else ever had or seen a groom's cake, or has my poor mind finally cracked under the strain of being a horrid undead thing feasting on the flesh (and brains) of my once fellow humans?
Either way, I plan to have a groom's cake, and I think I'll have one that looks like a brain....
Congrats on your wedding Aberzombie. A groom's cake is very traditional. I had one for my wedding. Every wedding I have ever been to has had one. Where are you from? I can't believe that they have never heard of this.
So, I'm getting married in May (and yes, before you ask, someone is crazy enough to want me as her husband). In every wedding I have ever been to there was the fancy, schmancy "wedding cake" and then the less fancy, usually goofy "groom's cake". But the folks I work with here in Phlly claim to never have heard of a "groom's cake" tradition. Has anyone else ever had or seen a groom's cake, or has my poor mind finally cracked under the strain of being a horrid undead thing feasting on the flesh (and brains) of my once fellow humans?
Either way, I plan to have a groom's cake, and I think I'll have one that looks like a brain....
To paraphrase Greg Behrendt,
Are you kidding? It's CAKE! You need a reason?
Kidding aside, a groom's cake is quite traditional. At my wedding, several people said they preferred it to the wedding cake!
By the way, welcome to the married club. It's a great place to be!
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That link Fakey gave suggests it is a regional tradition. I live up north and have never ever heard of a Groom's Cake before I read this thread.
Yeah, after reading the linked story it all makes sense. I'm originally from New Olreans, and now live in Philadelphia. So the poor bastards who have lived all their lives up here have never known the joy that a groom's cake can bring.
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That link Fakey gave suggests it is a regional tradition. I live up north and have never ever heard of a Groom's Cake before I read this thread.Yeah, after reading the linked story it all makes sense. I'm originally from New Olreans, and now live in Philadelphia. So the poor bastards who have lived all their lives up here have never known the joy that a groom's cake can bring.
Well, shape it like a philly cheesesteak sammich and they'll diggit the most.
I'm originally from New Orleans
So that's how you became a zombie...
The universe is much clearer now...
Being a Southerner myself, (Isn't Nessus the southernmost layer of Hell?) I had to bring the groom's cake on up to the north with me. My groom's cake? A pyramid of six dozen Krispy Kreme donuts.
El Skootro
We didn't have a "grooms cake" at our wedding earlier this year but we did have two cakes, one traditional fruit cake and one (large) chocolate cake.
Congratulations
I live down south, and I've heard of a grooms cake. The ones I have seen were usualy sports related, but I've always wanted a dnd one. I have even seen three cakes one that looks great but taste bad, one that's for eating, and the "groom" or "goof" cake. It doesn't matter just do what you want. Congrats again!
Fizz
Jello or ambrosia salad might work better for a brain, just because they fit into those molds and brains are gooey and tasty to begin with. I believe a few years ago in Dragon a couple sent in their wedding cake that looked like a Player's Handbook. It would be really cool if maybe the jello brains sat in a skull made of delicious cake. I'm sure it's possible and it is your wedding, too! So do what you want!
And congratulations!
"Marriage is a long conversation."- Nietzsche
"Marriage is a long conversation."- NietzscheWas that right before "that which doesn't kill me,"....?
Congrats, Zombie, in all siriusness.
More than likely. Though, as the story goes, syphilis did wind up killing him. Rather than making him stronger. Even Nietzsche couldn't nihilate everything he would have liked to. I wonder what kind of wedding cake that guy would have wanted.
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More than likely. Though, as the story goes, syphilis did wind up killing him. Rather than making him stronger. Even Nietzsche couldn't nihilate everything he would have liked to. I wonder what kind of wedding cake that guy would have wanted.
"Marriage is a long conversation."- NietzscheWas that right before "that which doesn't kill me,"....?
Congrats, Zombie, in all siriusness.
Something with penicillin-flavored icing maybe?
Well, I've never actually been to a wedding with a groom's cake (although a few souls have, in fact, been brave enough invite me to weddings, one of which was my own!), but I learned all about groom's cake watching the movie Steel Magnolias, in which the groom's cake was shaped like an armadillo, and was made of red velvet cake with grey icing.
I am still trying to figure out how to make grey icing...wouldn't battleship grey xmas cookies be grand?
--Fang
Director of Narrative
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I didn't realize that groom's cakes were a southern thing. Every wedding I've attended, catered and officiated had one. The bestest one was actually a number of this key lime pie that my wife and I collaborated on. It was divine. I think you should bring a bit of the Crescent City up there and make a king cake groom's cake, but instead of the baby (or bean for the purists) you should have a little plastic brain inside.
And if you need a minister that's not super-religious to perform the ceremony I'll do it for a plane ticket and a piece of cake.
No I've heard of Grooms cakes before and once saw one that was done like the PHB (3rd ed)
Congratulations!!!