Having Our Cake

After finding a snapshot of my parents sharing cake at their wedding, I thought it would be fun to see how my husband and I looked performing the same ritual.

We didn't bother with forks, but just grabbed a slice of cake by hand. And clearly, nobody had advised us about the importance of small portions. I was afraid to look!

Amazingly, we both got fed without getting crumbs in his beard or frosting on my dress.

By the way, it was a fabulous cake. Traditional white frosting on the outside, dark chocolate with amaretto filling inside. Yum!
 

Let Him Eat Cake

What a surprise to find this snapshot in a box of junk I retrieved from my mother's house.

Here are Mom and Dad on their wedding day, sharing their first meal as husband and wife. They are so young! So thin! (Mom weighed less than ninety pounds that day.) They look sweet, but very serious.

Dad is concentrating quite intensely as he bravely confronts the enormous chunk of cake Mom is trying to guide down his gullet.

When I mentioned this picture to Mom, she told me she learned an important lesson that day. When feeding someone, you need to make the bites very, very small.