The wedding photos say so much! And what a surprise to find the white gown your grandmother wore in her wedding photo. Bride's cake, groom's cake, and a wedding cake distinctions were new to me (although I had known about black wedding gowns as the more traditional color before the Victorian influence). That the wedding cake was a fruit cake I found personally interesting. One year the love of my life Sam hadn't done any Christmas shopping and knew he'd better have something for me to unwrap by morning so he drove to the gas station and bought a Hostess Holiday Fruit Cake. I was pissed. I threw it in the freezer and gave it to him the following Christmas as a gift. The next year he gave it back. We kept up the tradition of exchanging the fruitcake and did not overspend on gifts. Since I refused to do the whole wedding thing, I guess this really was our "wedding cake." Sam surprised me our third Christmas together with an Ashford spinning wheel. We homesteaded in upstate NY and lived much the way our grandparents had - off the grid.
The wedding photos say so much! And what a surprise to find the white gown your grandmother wore in her wedding photo. Bride's cake, groom's cake, and a wedding cake distinctions were new to me (although I had known about black wedding gowns as the more traditional color before the Victorian influence). That the wedding cake was a fruit cake I found personally interesting. One year the love of my life Sam hadn't done any Christmas shopping and knew he'd better have something for me to unwrap by morning so he drove to the gas station and bought a Hostess Holiday Fruit Cake. I was pissed. I threw it in the freezer and gave it to him the following Christmas as a gift. The next year he gave it back. We kept up the tradition of exchanging the fruitcake and did not overspend on gifts. Since I refused to do the whole wedding thing, I guess this really was our "wedding cake." Sam surprised me our third Christmas together with an Ashford spinning wheel. We homesteaded in upstate NY and lived much the way our grandparents had - off the grid.
What a wonderfully unconventional connection to the wedding fruit cake lol. I love it!