{"id":498,"date":"2009-04-09T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2015-11-11T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:00:19","slug":"dreaming-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/dreaming-of-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wedding is complete without a wedding cake &#8211; whether they are eaten or not is another thing!\u00a0 What many of you may not have heard of out there is &#8211; The Groom&#8217;s Cake.\u00a0 This is a seperate cake to the main wedding cake and is usually decorated in a fun and quirky way, often in a theme that brings out the hobbies or personality of the groom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/04\/groomcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-499\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/04\/groomcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can be as creative as you want and some fun ideas include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Favorite football team logo<\/li>\n<li>Piece of sporting equipment (think football, surfboard)<\/li>\n<li>Beer can for the beer-minded groom<\/li>\n<li>Treasured guitar\/musical instrument<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just make sure you have a good cake-icer!<\/p>\n<p>The concept of the Grooms cakes started in Deep South in the States, all based around a superstition that applied to any single woman who attended a wedding.\u00a0\u00a0 According to the legend, if the woman took home a slice of the groom&#8217;s cake and slept with it under her pillow that night, she would dream of the man that she will marry while asleep and she&#8217;d know by morning who she would be spending the rest of her life with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/04\/dream_love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/04\/dream_love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRegardless of whether or not the superstition holds any truth, the tradition is coming back into style&#8230;and I think it&#8217;s a nice way to honour the groom and have another fun and unique element to your wedding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No wedding is complete without a wedding cake &#8211; whether they are eaten or not is another thing!\u00a0 What many of you may not have heard of out there is &#8211; The Groom&#8217;s Cake.\u00a0 This is a seperate cake to the main wedding cake and is usually decorated in a fun and quirky way, often in a theme that brings out the hobbies or personality of the groom. You can be as creative as you want and some fun ideas [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[2894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}