Do you know what a groom's cake is?

[CheshireVal]

I'm getting married in a month and a half and am having a traditional wedding cake AND a groom's cake.

Every time I've mentioned this to people, almost everyone has asked me what a groom's cake is. I've noticed that it's usually people originally from the Northeast. Is a groom's cake a Southern thing? I just kinda thought it was traditional, if not mandatory.

 

[Bob Slydell]

I've heard of it and been to a couple weddings with one (often something non-wedding traditional like carrot or chocolate).

We didn't have one at our wedding -- not sure why, I guess I didn't ask for it?

 

[Mandabella]

Whenever I think of a groom's cake, I think of giant gray armadillo with blood red velvet cake.

Besides the above movie reference, I have heard of a groom's cake. It really is NOT common in my area at all. I think it may be more common in the South.

P.S. Every wedding I have attended has been in the North East and there has never been a groom's cake.

 

[Southern4sure]

Every wedding I have attended (including my own) had a grooms cake. I thought all weddings had a grooms cake. Usually it is all chocolate, but now the grooms cakes are becoming more elaborate. I have seen some grooms cakes that out shown the wedding cake.

Southern4sure

PS: Until a few weeks ago, I was a southern Alabamian...Maybe its a southern thing....

 

[alabamaalan]

Most weddings I have attended have a groom's cake, but then again..I am in the South.

It's usually chocolate and sometimes has a hobby associated with it. One of my roomates had rolls of film, etc. on and near it as a photographer.

I just had grapes on mine (no, drinking is not a hobby )

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

We didn't have one as the wedding cake was enough to feed an army.

The grooms cake celebrates something about the groom--say his favorite sport, his favorite team, or any other hobby or whatever. It's the one nice thing that the groom can have that isn't "frilly" . My hubby was cheap and didn't care if he had a cake or not.

 

[Fire14]

i have an idea what it is but i didn't have one. i'm from mi

 

[pearlieq]

I always assumed it was a Southern thing. I know what they are from seeing movies ("I can't even begin to think how you make gray icing") and reading books, but I've never seen one at a wedding here in Chicagoland.

 

[totalia]

I've never been to a wedding with a grooms cake and didn't know they existed until I started going to wedding web sites.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

Whenever I think of a groom's cake, I think of giant gray armadillo with blood red velvet cake.

I was going to mention this too.

I've never heard of one either.

 

[ilovedale3]

Yes, I think a groom's cake is more of a southern thing. I know that we had one at our wedding. It was (surprise, surprise) in the shape of Dale Earnhardt's car!

 

[Mary Ellen]

I'm a 4th or 5th generation Pacific NW and my grandmother made the Groom's cake for our wedding back in 1981. So it just isn't a Southern thing. It was similar to a (good) fruitcake and very moist (it had a LOT of booze soaked in) and served in small boxes to take home. As tradition had it - if an unmarried girl/woman slept with the box under her pillow, she was to dream of her future husband. I've never seen a Groom's Cake 'whole' - always in the little boxes.

 

[shatzjsl]

We had one at our wedding and I let the groom choose what it would be. He chose choclate with strawberry icing. I just look at it as an alternative to the wedding cake.

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

Whenever I think of a groom's cake, I think of giant gray armadillo with blood red velvet cake.

I think it may be more common in the South.

LOL!!! Steel Magnolia's nasty bleeding armadillo cake! That's what I remember too.

I live in and grew up in the south....I have never seen a groom's cake at a wedding.

 

[brerrabbit]

Last wedding I was at was an Aggie wedding (Texas A&M). The grooms cake was a replica of Kyle field (the Aggies home field) The thing was huge, and dwarffed the wedding cake.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I would've loved to have a giant red velvet armadillo cake at o ur wedding but we couldn't figure out how to make one.

We had one at ours, but I forget what was on it.

And yes..the groom's cake usually has something to do with what the groom likes (or at least at all the weddings I've ever been to). I've seen cakes done up to look like computers,shoes, golf courses and once, a guy sleeping in a bed.

TOV

 

[Southern4sure]

My sister is getting married in June....The grooms cake will be a deer head!

I have seen an airplane for a pilot.

Southern4sure

 

[Octoberbeauty]

It is typically a Southern tradition. All the weddings I've been to have had them. We actually had groom's pies instead. My ex wanted chocolate chip, pecan pies instead of a cake, so that's what we did.

 

[CheshireVal]

It's so interesting how different parts of the country have such different traditions-- it's looking like a groom's cake is really mostly a Southern tradition.

I'm having a chocolate cake but the topper is a surprise for my fiance and I don't want him to see it here. Wish I could tell you all though!

 

[lulugirl]

The more cake, the better the wedding....