Saving the cake?

We plan to just buy another cake on our anniversary. One of the bakeries that we tasted said they would give us a cake on our first anniversary. It may be something you could negotiate with your baker.

We even talked about doing something wacky for our first anniversary cake like ordering a cake from Carlo's Bakery from the TV show Cake Boss. I would be happy to go back to get a mini cake in the same flavors as our wedding cake.

We are eating ours on our minimoon, or when we get back to our room after the wedding since I am sure we will be starving. I would rather have fresh cake on our anniversary.

Elizabeth's mom here. My husband and I have been married almost 20 years now. This is the question of the ages. We were married in The Big D and my husband, then fiancé, was living in Seattle and his friends there were not able to come to Texas for the wedding. What we did was wrap the cake really good and took it and the topper along with the video of the wedding and had a wedding watching party with his Seattle friends. We had a great time reenacting the wedding vows for them and they didn't feel like they missed out on anything. Even better, the cake was only a week old and still tasted great. I really think they should do away with the tradition of eating one year old stale cake. But that's just my opinion.

We are participating in that tradition, but hopefully the cake does taste good because we picked out a special flavor for just the two of us to enjoy on that one year mark! Key Lime Pie flavored cake**

We have decided to pass on this one. I don't eat leftover food out of the fridge, so no way am I eating a year old cake. Besides, my baker is giving us a free anniversary cake.

We're saving the top tier for our honeymoon. we will be staying in a cabin where we have to cook so we have desert too

That's a great idea Soon-To-Be Mrs. Clark! Mama

Thanks Jaemi and 2d Bride for the explaination.

We opted out of this tradition, niether one of us is a big fan of cake, or leftovers.

You guys could always refrigerate it after the wedding, and wait to freeze it until after the move. You can put it in one of those plastic cake containers that lock shut, and place it in a sturdy place until your arrival. Freeze when unpacked, no harm done.

I'm not sure if this is a British thing but I know the tradition to be keeping the top tier for your first child's christening. This is what we're doing. Top tier will be fruitcake (the rest will be Krispy Kreme donuts :-D) that will have plain white icing and a cake topper of us on it. We won't cut into it as the inside of the cake will go mouldy then. Preserve it by putting it in a tightly sealedtupperware box. When it comes to taking it out again you would probably remove the icing and get fresh.