Weddingbee Blog

You know how much I love cake. It shouldn’t be a surprise that our cakes were one of my favorite details.

It was beautiful. I absolutely loved it. Three tiers of vanilla buttercream pink creamy goodness…sorry, I started salivating there for a second.

The groom’s cake was just as wonderful. Two tiers of chocolate cake, with chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache and chocolate-covered strawberries. Check out the bride and groom strawberries on top!

Wait, what is Mr. Hyena doing with a sword?

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About two weeks before the wedding, MIL Hyena gave us a call asking if we’d like to cut our cake with the family saber. We didn’t know that we had a family saber, but we agreed it would be pretty cool. As the wedding approached, we learned the history behind it: Mr. Hyena’s great-aunt’s grandfather had fought in the Spanish-American War in 1898, and this was his sword. After his death in 1917, it was passed down through the family and has been used to cut wedding cakes since the 1940s. MIL and FIL Hyena used it to cut their wedding cake, and when SIL and BIL Hyena got married at the beginning of July, they used it as well!

It’s hard to finagle a saber!

We fed each other nicely. That cake was going in our mouths, not on our faces!

It was delicious! We moved on to the groom’s cake.

I promise Mr. Hyena wasn’t stabbing the cake! I was, however, licking frosting off my fingers. I’m dainty like that.

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Mr. Hyena took his last moments of playing with a sword on our wedding day to stab a strawberry.

And of course I tried to eat it.

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Then Mr. Hyena’s aunts converged on the table to cut slices for everyone else! (With an actual cake knife. This saber thing is difficult!)

Are you incorporating any family traditions in your wedding?

unless otherwise noted, all photos by Danny Boyle Photography

Previously on A Life Full of Laughter:

• “The One Where We Get Practice Married”
• “The One Where The Girls Put On Their Faces”
• “The One With The Beautiful Words”
• “The One Where The Dudes Get Sexy”
• “The One With The Big White Dress”
• “The One Where We Smize”
• “The One Where We Don’t See Each Other”
• “The One With All The Walking”
• “The One Where It’s Official”
• “The One After The Ceremony”
• “The One With Our Wonderful Families”
• “The One With The Bride and Groom”
• “The One Where We Dance”
• “The One Where We Mix ’n’ Mingle”
• “The One Where Everyone Else Dances Too”