Were people fighting over the head piece?

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I heard the cake pairs especially well with fava beans and a nice chianti.

Creepy.

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Who was the first guest who cried out "off with her head!"?

Life-size is pretty impressive, but pitty to the person who marries someone who has an ego so big they don't object to this cake.

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Rather the ultimate "Eat Me!" statement, no?

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I just didn't feel compelled to serve a creepy, wax museum-esque doppelganger of myself to my wedding guests.

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Sleighboy, I'm a little less higbrow, I thought of the Tom Petty video with the Alice In Wonderland cake. Same concept though. Disturbing.

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I was reading up on wedding traditions before I got married and read that the cake is supposed to be sort of a double of the bride. You know, same shape and color as the gown. That idea sort of creeped me out, but in a sense, you could say that this woman is only taking it a little farther than the majority of brides.

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Oooh I just love Cellular peptide cake (with mint frosting)

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The "double of the bride" thing is one of those traditions that was made up fairly recently (probably while the book where Robyn got it was being written). Wedding cakes were iced fancily in white back when brides wore whatever their best dress was, and there's just no historic correlation between wedding cake design and bridal gown design (other than whiteness and MAYBE colored trim to match the bridesmaids' dresses or the bride's bouquet) at any era I can think of.

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Forget whatever historical correlation there is between this cake and the roots of wedding cakes in general... I just think it's weird.

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The front of the dress looks like a slice of combination pizza, I thought she was maybe a foodie when I took my first glance...Nope, just crazy.

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I just read the full article on this crazy thing. Now first, let me say that I just don't think I could eat a piece of that monstrosity. She said she wanted it to somewhat fulfill one of her childhood fantasies, which was to have a doll made in her likeness. (Talk about egos). Anyway, the doll never happened, thus the cake! I think she should have contacted Matell for the doll!
I would have liked to have been at the wedding just to hear the responses to the presentation of this thing!

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OMG! all i can say is, "get over yourself!" man-alive! big ego, definitely. not only it's weird and creepy... scary, even. no slice for me, thank you. YIKES!

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that is one half embarassing, one half delicious! you jsut have to be careful where you cut!!

i thought this game summed up the cake situation nicely:

http://www.fyrebug.com/displaygame.php?gameid=1294

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OMG this is horrible

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calamari: just to clarify, whatever it was i read wasn't advocating the whole cake=bride thing; more like pointing out the freakiness of it. i don't remember exactly if it was saying this was at some point done as a conscious choice or more subconsciously. (i wish i could remember where i read/heard this... bad scholar!)

in any case, most wedding "traditions" only go back to about the mid-20th century or so anyway right? regular folks couldn't afford all this crap for most of history... i guess my main point was the last part: that this is only going a step farther than brides that are seen as acceptable.

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She paid $6000 for the insane cake. (The bakery called into a local morning show earlier this week.) Who knows how much she paid the sculptor for the head! And.... what did they do with it once the cake was gone? Can you imagine if she has it on display, on a mantel or something!?!

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You people need to get a life. So she had a cake made in her likeness. Are you sorry you didn't think of it or better yet, you probably couldn't even afford it. Since this is what she wanted and could afford, so be it. And Ryan, maybe the foodie stuff on the front of her gown was a design of material of her African heritage.

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I'd be really annoyed if I paid that much for a cake and then the dress didn't even match the actual dress. Why is the "pizza" thing on the front not match her dress? Very strange indeed.

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It is amazing how stupid people are. People have a problem eating this cake but will gobble up the armadillo oozing with red velvet. It is even crazier that people can watch a pig roll around in mud and eat slop but they don't have a problem eating the high priced pork chops. Let not forget about the cow that lay around in his own shit but you people will eat a steak cook rare so that you can enjoy his blood and you will call it prime rib ($$$$$ for that). This bride fed over six hunderd people for $6000.00 but if she wanted to feed 600 people prime rib she would have spend atleast $30,000+++... plus she would have had to leave a tip. I refuse to mention the nasty little snail that you insist is a delicantessen. I guess I will go finish ROTFLMAO at you idots.

Be Sweet,
Nikki J.
www.absolutelyediblecakes.com

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