What is a Groom's Cake?

Question

What is this and is it a must? I have NEVER heard of this before until I bought this wedding planner binder.

Answer 1

It's a total southern thing. Ever seen Steel Magnolias. Northern people who saw it first discovered a grooms cake when Jackson's Aunt Fern made a armadillo cake with gray icing and red velvet cake. (so they were literally hacking into it)

But usually the towering bride's cake is some form of yellow, white, buttercream, cake and the grooms cake is usually chocolate.

Answer 2

I have never been to a wedding that didn't have a groom's cake.  They are usually chocolate and sometimes in a design reflecting the groom's personality - my favorite was a pig!

Here, you usually receive a slice of the wedding cake and a slice of the groom's cake.  But this is Oklahoma, and we like to eat!

Answer 3

It's just a reg. cake i believe, you don't have to do it!

Answer 4

the groom's cake is a southern tradition.

It is usually chocolate and whimsical in design (I was at a rehearsal dinner in GA where the groom's cake was shaped like an armandillo--he was from TX--and it was a red velvet cake.  At my cousin's rehearsal dinner his cake was a tradtional chocolate sheet cake with a bride and groom figures--the bride was dragging the groom by the ball and chain shackled to his leg and he was gripping the side of the cake), but it can be whatever flavor the groom wants and it is usually served at the rehearsal dinner--although over the course of the last 10 years as the tradition has been moving to other parts of the country, I've seen them at the reception along side the wedding cake instead of at the rehearsal dinner.

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LOL.  I love non traditional cakes.  

If your honey wants a cake and it fits in your budget you can do it.  If not they really aren't necessary.  I saw a few weeks back in here some woman was upset because her groom wanted a turtle cheesecake for his groom's cake and the posters told her to give her man what he wants.

Answer 5

It is not a must. I have been to alot of weddings since my dad is a minister. I am 40 years old. Alot of the middle class to higher class weddings do have a groom's cake. It is usually chocolate. I noticed people who pay for their own weddings usually did not have one. If dad is paying, they usually do have a grooms cake. I have noticed through the years that 50% do have a grooms cake and the other 50% don't.

Answer 6

A groom's cake was a southern tradition (not sure if it still is). If someone has one, it is normally served at the rehearsal dinner, not at the actual wedding. It is not required, and most people don't have one. We had one at our rehearsal dinner just because my husband wanted an armadillo cake like they had in the movie Steel Magnolias.

Congrats on your upcoming nuptials!

Answer 7

It's a dumb tradition and waste of money. :)

Answer 8

In some parts of the country, it's traditional to have two cakes (I believe it's the American South).  The one we would consider the wedding cake is the bride's cake, and is usually white cake, and then there is a second cake that may be chocolate or another flavor that is the groom's cake.  Lots of times the bride's cake is what's eaten at the reception, while the groom's cake is cut and boxed up for people to take home.

Whether or not you have one is up to you, it's not mandatory. It might be cute to have a smaller groom's cake that mirrors the wedding cake, maybe is opposites in color or something like that.

Answer 9

it's a smaller cake decorated how the man likes it...like in the shape of a car or a golfing green, usually a different flavor than the wedding cake...only something wealthy people do, unless your fiance loves cake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom's_cak...

Answer 10

i never heard of it until last year when my friend in south carolina got married. it is a southern tradition. i live in new york and we do not do it here. but anyway, a Grooms Cake is for the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding. the bride has a cake made for her groom. for my friends in south carolina, the bride did a cake in the shape of a guitar since the groom plays in a band.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/d...

Answer 11

A grooms cake usually involves a theme that is something the groom loves ( ie my groom is a firefighter and the cake looks like a fire-truck) it is just a cute addition to the wedding cake and makes everything look better. It also gives you a chance to make something of that day planning wise about your groom...You can definitely add some humor in there too!