Sunday, October 31, 2010

Grooms Cake

Happy Halloween!! I’m sure on this date you and I will read lots of blogs and great articles on Halloween themed weddings…So, I wont go there! Instead I will talk about the Grooms Cake! I am not going to pretend to know a lot about grooms cakes (I know, bad planner!), but you and I will know alittle more by the end of this post!

According to an article from Ezines, “It seems that the first appearance of the bridegroom's cake dates back as far as the nineteenth century where it was made as a small cake sweetened with honey that included various kinds of fruit and nuts, These bridegroom cakes were packaged as small individual cakes and given to all the single women attending the wedding and they would then take them home and place them under their pillows while sleeping in hopes of dreaming of their own true love. Alternatively, the bridegroom's cake was one large dark cake that was created to not upstage the wedding cake, which is considered the bride's cake. These larger bridegroom cakes were then sliced and passed around to those in attendance along with a glass of wine for toasting the wedding. Although there has been a loss of interest in grooms cake in other areas, the cake is still pretty popular in many American weddings, especially in southern weddings and seem to be coming more popular as time passes".

Here are some pics that I’ve found online of grooms cakes!
  
So a Grooms Cake can be anything you, or he wants as long as it doesn't upstage the brides cake! 
Did you have a grooms cake at your wedding? Please send pics, we would love to hear from you and see your grooms cake!

Friday, October 29, 2010

Bad Blogger! :(

WOW!! Its been quite some time since I've posted to my blog.  I apologize to anyone who follows my blog and promise to do better starting today!  The reasons for my lapse are good; business is doing well and keeping me quite busy with learning new things and making time to meet new industry professionals and keeping up with current trends.  We also had a new addition to the family  - a new granddaughter, Ray'lynn, and I've been spending lots of time with her and my daughter.

I like to write my blog posts to keep people informed on what I'm doing and where All Occasions by JB is going; also to share new things that I've learned which may be helpful to my readers.

Blogging is very time consuming, but I believe I have relevant and fun information to share, and I vow to dedicate more time to this blog.

Having said that - I hope you enjoy future posts and please leave comments, I love to hear your feedback!!