Cakeless Weddings

The first time we photographed a wedding without a wedding cake, we were fascinated to see how little difference its absence seemed to make. The guests didn't seem to notice. Nobody went hungry. It didn't seem "wrong" at all.

We've now done four cakeless weddings, and at the last one I was interested to hear the banquetting manager's take on wedding cakes. What it boiled down to was that:-

1. They can be outrageously expensive for what is after all just a cake that's supposed to be eaten on the day

2. At most weddings, half of what's been sliced up and served at table actually gets left on the plate and ends up in the bin

3. That's because most people nowadays are not used to eating a three course meal, therefore they have no room left at the end of one for a piece of cake

4. Wedding cakes and the cutting of them are traditions that seem to be on the way out

All of which seems about right to me. I won't relate what he then had to say about bands at wedding receptions, but I did agree with every word of it ...