Having your cake, big-time
I think I'm in love with Chidi Ogbuta. Not only is she from my home state of Texas but for her wedding she commissioned a life-size cake that resembles her. This is a woman who takes seriously the mantra of the wedding industry: It's your day.
The cake-alike has a white tiered skirt, veil, pink bouquet and dramatic up-do. In comparison, Jordan and Peter Andre's cake was a mere five feet high with five tiers, white chocolate roses and hearts.
Naturally, you that you don't have to be a bride to enjoy outrageous parties. Whenever I hear of former Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski's over-the-top roman-style party for his wife's birthday - complete with toga-clad women scattering rose petals and an archer "whose flaming arrow lit up the message: 'Congratulations Karen & Dennis'" - I wonder if I could wrangle an invite to his coming-out-of-jail party, in case it reaches similar heights.
Of course Kozlowski's party was party funded with company money; Ogbuta on the other hand, paid for her super-sponge out of her own pocket (not included on cake).
There are two Emilys!
Posted by: Emily | 27 Jan 2008 21:47:25
uh, i think the bride - who is a native african - now lives in texas. you know, like a nigerian might also live in london, too?!?!?
Posted by: One Voice | 27 Jan 2008 03:07:43
uh, i think the bride - who is a native african - now lives in texas. you know, like a nigerian might also live in london, too?!?!?
Posted by: One Voice | 27 Jan 2008 03:07:07
P.S.
HATE the cake! Unfortunately am already married or it would have been a good joke to play on hubby...
Posted by: Emily | 25 Jan 2008 01:05:33
'The bride's name indicates she is African'...
Then how come the first paragraph of the article states she is from TEXAS? Was that Texas, Nigeria?
For someone masquerading as the PC police and criticising others for racist comments (not that I'm commending the troll) you might want to a) actually read the article and b) remember that the 'PC' term for 'American Blacks' would actually be 'African American', unless of course their descendants are not of African origin.
JT is just looking for a rise out of you people - get a grip and don't give him the satisfaction. Oh I'm sorry. That should have been HIM/HER. How sexist of me.
Posted by: Emily | 25 Jan 2008 01:03:01
Good question, but shouldn't be limited to just racists. Any type of bigot, really. By definition, almost.
Posted by: Lazy Mummy | 22 Jan 2008 09:05:26
why are racists always so ignorant AND unimaginative????
Posted by: One Voice | 20 Jan 2008 18:28:29
why are racists always so ignorant AND unimaginative????
Posted by: One Voice | 20 Jan 2008 18:27:20
It certainly is, J, and dick is about the level of insult I'd stoop to give him. And to think he couldn't even quote my accusation ("racist innuendo" not "lazy innuendo") accurately. Says it all, really. ;) Pathetic isn't it, that someone gets their kicks from such behaviour?
Posted by: Lazy Mummy | 20 Jan 2008 03:11:59
Well John Thomas is a slang term for d*ck as we all know.
Posted by: J | 19 Jan 2008 18:35:06
John Thomas: "These sort of people"??!! Your comments are ignorant and bigoted. Also "Toad in the Hole" is a British dish. So your ignorance is on all levels. Is there anyway we can report offensive posts like John's?
Posted by: Emily | 19 Jan 2008 13:08:52
Lazy Mummy
What you call "lazy Innuendoes" is only the truth. Although it is nice to see this type of people getting married, since it is not normal, you and I both know that 75% of their sort of children are born out of wedlock, we must both agree that nothing good comes of encouraging anyone who would create such a tar baby monstrosity of a wedding cake. Let us just both admit that the culture would be better off if we did not encourage such gaudy displays of ghetto life.
Posted by: John Thomas | 19 Jan 2008 01:05:03
The cake is rather fascinating, although not something I'd have. The foolish, racist comments also exhibit tremendous ignorance. The "fried chicken" and "watermelon" -- references usually directed at American Blacks, and offensive on any level -- are misdirected in this instance, even as a slur. This bride's name indicates she is African, and if one takes time to examine the photo, one can see clearly that neither the bride nor the groom are Americans by birth. But that takes observation skills, which are obviously among the things lacking in a few posters here.
Posted by: Sherri | 18 Jan 2008 19:10:05
John Thomas,
On AM we encounter a lot of different views & have some pretty lively debates about things, but I think we're all agreed that racist innuendos are not on, no matter where we stand on other issues. Kindly take your bigoted views elsewhere.
Posted by: Lazy Mummy | 17 Jan 2008 19:03:47
'Toad in the hole'? So you're saying he dreamt the whole thing up whilst in solitary confinement for jacking Mr. Big's fried chicken. I can better understand the desire for a sugar coated bride after being deprived of fancy sweet treats in the can. However, I still can't understand why he went for a cake theme when surely a batter coated bride would have been more his thang.
Posted by: John Thomas | 17 Jan 2008 12:14:56
I guess "John Thomas" would have felt more magnanimous towards the cake (and the bride) if she had been fixated on "spotted dick" or "toad in the hole"?
Posted by: One Voice | 16 Jan 2008 21:35:04
It is not me who is fixated on fried chicken, as Gipsy suggests. It is the people who would go to a wedding with a life sized Aunt Jemima cake.
Posted by: John Thomas | 16 Jan 2008 19:23:11
It rather looks like we have a troll on this thread. John Thomas indeed. Rather fixated on fried chicken. No point in rising to the bait folks
Posted by: Gipsy | 16 Jan 2008 14:32:17
I wonder when he took the (affirmative) action to 'axe' her to marry him. I bet it was while she was talking unintelligible ebonics on her cell whilst stuffing her face with fried chicken.
Posted by: John Thomas | 16 Jan 2008 14:17:31
Personally, I'm really impressed by the cake. It is hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like it has been done really well. I wonder how it manages to maintain its shape? And how do you go about cutting it?
My favourite advert on TV is that one for the car, where they make it out of cake, jelly etc to the sound of Julie Andrews singing 'favourite things' (sorry can't remember real name of song). I don't think that I would ever splurge that much money on a cake, and I'd never want one of me, but to have something incredibly unusual like that really strikes my imagination. The whole thing about your wedding party is to have FUN. It is the one time in your life (well for most of us) where you are allowed to be extravagent and how many of us are ever going to have such a big party with all our family and friends again?
Posted by: Gipsy | 16 Jan 2008 12:57:17
Shocked - only Jeff's comment was racist! The others have just been 'taste-ist'!!
Posted by: Jane | 16 Jan 2008 12:38:40
I'm really shick by all these comments, especially the ones that border on racism.
It's their wedding day, they can do what they want.
Maybe you're all just synical, lonely divorcees...?
Posted by: Shocked | 16 Jan 2008 12:34:26
Only certain ethnic groups find it necessary to take weddings to such gawdy heights. Honestly, how GHETTO can you get! I am surprised that the groom's cake wasn't a 64 chevy impala with gold rims and a crown air freshener. What did they serve at the reception? Fried chicken and watermellon?
Posted by: jeff | 15 Jan 2008 20:32:20
As an American, I'll address Jane's question about "sav[ing] the top layer for the christening".
From my experiences, couples here do save the top layer of the cake, but it usually for consumption on their first anniversary.
Posted by: James | 15 Jan 2008 15:02:59
"cheapens the entire process as nothing more than a circus act or a bad reality show."
Agree
Posted by: Jane | 15 Jan 2008 06:31:09
Hmm, they should actually make the skirt a REAL cake, and when the priest says, "You may now kiss the bride," he can just say, "You may now lick the bride." Seal it with icing! Yes!
Geez. It's supposed to be a sacred day for the couple.
Posted by: Sinical | 15 Jan 2008 03:18:07
Since when did weddings all of a sudden start becoming egotistical, malignantly narcissistic events? Weddings are about unity. Unity in a couple, unity in both families coming together as a whole. Yes, this is a special event for the bride and the groom (often neglected as an afterthought), but this is downright stupid, silly and cheapens the entire process as nothing more than a circus act or a bad reality show. Just stop it already.
Posted by: Asmodeus | 14 Jan 2008 22:28:09
The thought keeps coming back to me that she had one of those little plastic bride and groom couples that you put on top of the cake.......under her big iced shoe.
Posted by: Wonderbra | 14 Jan 2008 19:02:07
I heard Nicole Brown Simpson had a cake like this.
Posted by: Mike | 14 Jan 2008 18:57:01
Wow, that's just horrible! What if the marriage doesn't work out?
What an ego!!!!
Why would someone even consider doing that? It's just horrible, on all rights
Posted by: K | 14 Jan 2008 18:44:27
Is it acceptable to laugh ?
Posted by: | 13 Jan 2008 14:15:01
The hairstyle on both is AWFUL. Real ghastly retro early sixties - utterly unflattering to a woman who is quite good looking otherwise (the real one and the cake!)
Posted by: Jane | 11 Jan 2008 17:37:29
i think the cake is better looking than her. its sad but true!
Posted by: jenjo | 11 Jan 2008 16:30:08
I read today in the Metro (my oh so intellectual commute read!) that the head, torso and arms were actually made from clay. So they won't be bringing them out to have at the christening - maybe she'll keep them on the mantlepiece instead?
Posted by: Emily | 11 Jan 2008 09:50:11
Must say, the cake is very lifelike (or maybe the bride is very cakelike...)
Wonder if the groom is thinking he should have married the cake, not the woman....
Who knows, maybe the minister made a mistake and he DID marry the cake!
Posted by: Jane | 10 Jan 2008 09:03:18
I don't think Americans do the "save the top layer for the christening" thing because they usually have sponge cake of some sort with buttercream or whipped cream for icing. I had the same thought about the stripper jumping out. Would have been really funny if it was the bride!
Posted by: Lazy Mummy | 9 Jan 2008 23:27:14
I keep coming back to the image of the head saved for the christening..what do you reckon she will save up if she is thinking of twins?
and as for the idea that it is horrible to eat the human bit above the waist but the sub-human bit below doesnt matter..oh dear, what a bad way to start a marriage.
Posted by: j | 9 Jan 2008 22:08:15
It gives a whole new meaning to the adjective "statuesque."
Posted by: Kieransmum | 9 Jan 2008 21:17:18
St Tropez icing!
Posted by: Jane | 9 Jan 2008 15:04:37
If you tried to do this and you were white it would look exactly like one of Jeff Koons' Michael Jacksons. In drag.
Unless you had WAG tendencies, in which case the icing would be bright, bright tangerine.
Posted by: Loll | 9 Jan 2008 14:59:37
I think you can only do this if you are black, becasue then you can have chocolate icing. Vanilla flavoured icing would be yukky in comparison. Guess you could have lemon flavoured if you were Chinese....
Gosh, the opportunities for being utterly politically incorrect are rolling in! Wonder if this will get bleeped?! But then the entire thing is so silly/gross/daft that I don't think one can comment seriously on it at all!
Hmm, just thought, maybe the whole cake could be hollow, and then a stripper could jump out from the inside!
Posted by: Jane | 9 Jan 2008 13:46:46
As someone on Jezebel.com pointed out, you put the head in the fridge for the baby's christening, traditional style.
Posted by: bowleserised | 9 Jan 2008 13:11:50
Well, the whole plunging big knife into pure white cake palaver is symbolic of doing the dirty isn't it? This is just taking that symbolism to a whole new, very disturbing, level.
But I can't imagine that anything above the waist is intended to be eaten. That would be so... cannibalistic. Perhaps they're intending to pop the torso and head into the freezer as a reminder of their special day whenever they need some peas.
Posted by: Loll | 9 Jan 2008 12:52:28
her mum probably made it..is it just me, or does the poor bloke look as if he is having second thoughts..about the WHOLE family?
Posted by: j | 9 Jan 2008 12:19:05
That is hilarious and gross at the same time. I don't think she thought through cutting it up (or perhaps it will be wrapped up in one giant paper tissue and put in a huge doggy bag...)
Posted by: mumoftwo | 9 Jan 2008 11:18:34
Surely the head can't be edible? That is just too weird to consider. I can just picture the shock on the elderly relatives face when they receive their piece of cake (too frail to make the big day) and they open up the box to find the severed head! Eurgh.
Posted by: Tamsin | 9 Jan 2008 08:48:56
It's unbelievably egotistic, isn't it? Who is this woman anyway? I'd never heard of her before this.
Posted by: Lazy Mummy | 9 Jan 2008 00:22:25
i agree - she really didn't think it through, did she? will she be nibbled from the base up? or beheaded, sliced and diced? yuk
Posted by: rivergirlie | 8 Jan 2008 22:33:29
I think we should be told if it is anatomically correct underneath all that icing.
Posted by: j | 8 Jan 2008 17:09:10
Yes, jane! everyone in the office keeps asking, who eats what?
Posted by: Jennifer | 8 Jan 2008 16:57:56
Yes, jane! everyone in the office keeps asking, who eats what?
Posted by: Jennifer | 8 Jan 2008 16:57:54
Hmm, I'm not so sure about the advisability of this - what about when the cake is hacked to pieces by her new hubby weilding a ferocious knife?!!
Posted by: Jane | 8 Jan 2008 16:47:52