first anniversary tradition?

The tradition predates freezers, and applies to the English style of wedding cake, which is a dark fruitcake soaked in brandy, wrapped in marzipan and sealed with royal icing. That kind of cke can be kept for years without freezing, just by packing it in an airtight tin with all the space that isn't cake filled in with fine sugar. Freezing an ordinary cake for a year certainly doesn't improve its texture and flavour, and you can see how a baker would not want his name to be associated with the result. The modern take on the tradition, where the baker provides an anniversary cake, is a great idea.

I've heard of that tradition - FH and I will be doing that on our first year anniversary; it's going to tempting to leave it in there for a year considering we both have "sweet tooth's". This is probably how the conversation will go:

FH: "I want something sweet. Ooh, we have cake."

Me: "But we're not supposed to eat that til our anniversary"

FH: "We'll just cut a little piece off - I only want a little."

Me: "No. Don't go in that freezer!!"

I have a feeling there won't be any cake to eat on our first year anniversary.

Absolutely!!!!!!

Nope. Many of my friends did it. But in my mind, it just sounds gross. No thank you.

FH doesn't like cake enough for us to bother with this. And I'd ALWAYS rather have fresh cake.

Get a new one. The old one will taste like dust, unless it's that classic rum soaked fruit cake, and pretty much no one likes that either, new or old.

Maybe save a bottle of wine instead, lol!

Knowing me my top tier will be gone in a week. I'm greedy. I might as well just cut the cake at the ceremony.

Our cake is to good to save a year So we will take the top back to our house and eat it that night and enjoy what we couldnt at the venue.

I've heard about it. I don't have a preference either way but FH has mentioned wanting to do it. Our baker will remake our top tier for us but FH said he'd rather just save it. From what I have heard from my married friends it's not so bad if you store it properly. You have to wrap it really good in layers of saran wrap and then put it in an air tight container. One of the bakers we met with did mention that fruit filled cakes don't thaw very well. I think a lot of people take a bite or two of it for "tradition" and then toss the rest.

I kind of love the tradition, but I don't think we're going to be saving ours. We just don't have the freezer space! We are going to be going on our honeymoon a few weeks after the wedding, so we are considering having our top tier as a "honeymoon sendoff" for ourselves. And possibly getting a new cake on our first anniversary.

The top layer of our wedding cake is in our freezer right now, and come Sunday, we'll finally get rid of it! We miss our freezer space

Don't let the preserved cake get smashed in your face like the earlier poster mentioned.