I truly hate those gross rituals. At one of my in-law’s SECOND marriage (on her 4th now), her husband did that charming and loving ritual of pushing her face into the wedding cake.
P.S.: I feel very sorry for you. That was really awful!
Recently, my wife and I were trying to explain to our 14 year old daughter that freshly married couples pushing cake into each other’s face is hugely disrespectful to everyone, and a horrible thing to do. She just wasn’t getting the point. Finally, I said “Look at it this way- 13 and 14 year old kids think it’s hilarious.”. The kid busted out laughing and immediately got it!
Reminds me of one of my favorite stories:
I was very close to my cousins as we grew up and one of my female cousins was an attractive young lady but, quite simply, “unbalanced”. So she meets a guy and they go down the marriage road. I am, very quietly, doing everything I can to get this guy (a really nice guy, BTW) to wake up and see the writing on the wall, but love is blind.
So at the reception he does the cake thing. Not in a major way, but just kind of smiles and wipes a small amount of icing on her chin. She goes completely berserk, calls this guy every nasty name you can dream up, and runs screaming out of the reception.
6 months later they divorced.
How I Predict Divorice Based on the Wedding Cake
The worst thing I ever saw at a wedding was a teary bride slow dancing with and kissing her FORMER BOYFRIEND. Predictably, the marriage lasted less than 6 months.