Yeah, what is it with this new vulgarity to push cake into your beloved's face?
I CRINGE -- no kidding -- I CRINGE every time I see that at a wedding reception. It really bothers me.
I could never imagine in a million years doing something so disrespectful to my wonderful wife.
When my son and his wife were preparing for marriage, I reminded my son that our family does not do the cake smashing routine. He told his future wife that they would not be doing that after cutting the cake. I don’t think she was happy about our “tradition”, but she accepted that it wasn’t going to happen.
I cannot even count the number of family and friends that came up to me later to tell me that they were so happy to see a non-cake-smashing event during the cutting of the wedding cake.
There are statics somewhere that show doing that to each other nearly guarantees a divorce somewhere upward of 85%.
On a related note, I've been to two Mexican kids' birthday parties within the last year. One was for a teenager and one was for a baby. At both they jammed the kids' faces into the whole cake. Now to be fair, the one for the teenager did have a separate cake for the guests thank goodness, but they didn't for the baby one. I don't particularly want to eat a cake that's had a kid's face jammed into it--call me funny.