Mother of the bride tries to switch out $100+ cake for a cheap sheet cake because she wasn't allowed to help plan, gets caught redhanded: 'Honestly, the bride's poise at the whole thing was impressive'

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  • "I reject your cake and substitute my own."

    This is a short tale about one of the wildest things I've ever seen at a wedding. Not the worst wedding I've ever been to but certainly the most About fifteen years ago I was a guest at a big New York-New Jersey wedding. I barely knew the groom, a cousin's cousin I'd barely met and mostly I was invited since I'd been living with my aunt at the time for college and she was close with the groom.
  • The church wedding service goes off without a hitch and the bride, groom, and their families are doing some quick groups photos outside while most of the guests head off the cocktail hour and reception. That's where the first sign of trouble starts. The bride's mother starts throwing a fit that the bride's family should have priority for photos. She actually physically stopped the photographer from taking a group shot of about fifteen people to make them wait for her family to be ready. The brid
  • looked mortified and the bride's father and groom's parents had to step in and keep mom from causing a scene. Somebody let slip that the bride and groom had paid for the whole wedding themselves and the bride's mom was furious that she had been cut out of planning after she had repeatedly tried to change things behind the bride's back.
  • With that smoothed over and photos done the reception gets under way. A lovely event at some reception hall with a garden, open bar, the works. An hour or two in, they're getting ready to serve food and suddenly there's shouting from the direction of the kitchen and entrance hall. A lot of shouting.
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  • The bride's mother had replaced the cake. In it's place she left a sheet cake and was attempting to move the original cake, a beautiful two foot tall number out of the building on a serving cart. Only a raised lip on the tile floor had kept her from wheeling the cart and cake out the door on a mad dash to the parking lot. One of the groomsmen going out for a smoke had found her struggling to get the cart over the small bump and raised the alarm.
  • Like some terribly heist movie, her whole plan was to steal a several hundred dollar gourmet masterpiece and replace it with a cheap Walmart-looking cake that had presumably been in the trunk of her car all afternoon and hope nobody noticed. All because she was mad she didn't get her way.
  • Suffice it to say, after much shouting in the hallway, the real cake was rescued, the imposter cake disposed of, and the bride's mother spent the rest of the reception sitting in her car sulking. Honestly the bride's poise at the whole thing was impressive but I gather this probably wasn't the first time her mother went a little crazy.
  • The rest of the reception was a blast, nobody seemed to miss the mother much, and it was certainly one of the most memorable events I've ever attended.
  • Faeidal I'm picturing mom in the car lookin mad eating an entire sheet cake MissRockNerd
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  • originalcinner There was a story on our local news the other night, about someone putting a Costco chocolate cake down on their porch for a moment while they got the rest of their shopping from the car, and in those few seconds, an opossum grabbed the cake, made off with it, and ate the lot. Wildlife people rescued the 'possum, who was said to be "panting, but otherwise in good condition, considering it just ate an entire chocolate cake all by itself". I'm picturing the mom sitting in the car, p
  • DogsandCatsWorld1000 That poor couple. I think you are right. The bride staying cool, speaks of years of dealing with this behaviour. The mother's gift was letting everyone know that the stories the bride has been telling about her crazy mom were not exaggerated.
  • krabbbby My mother also tried to replace my cake (she didn't go as far as STEALING the main cake though, wow!) and, among other things, was an hour late to the rehearsal dinner with 20+ other people waiting, despite having a 10-minute journey. I took it exactly as you described, as a gift that people could see my stories about here were true!
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  • ceecee720 It's because so many view motherhood as their source of status and power. They are desperate to hold on to control of their children and unable to move on. They often have no real friends, hobbies, volunteer work, or enjoyment of life.
  • MonkeyPaw Wishes OP I was on the groom's side so I'm not sure what the bride's family is like. The groom's parents are fairly chill people and they tried to be very accommodating with the photography incident but I don't know what was going on in the background with her family. The rumor later was that the mom wasn't used to anybody standing up to her ever and that was the reason she was freaking out about being cut out of the wedding planning. But again, that was just the gossip.
  • Yuki_no_Ookami Ugh. My family arranged for a second "surprise" cake because they thought it needed another flavor and I thought that was already unhinged. They claimed I was "forcing" everyone to eat wedding cake (which was wrong, we also had cupcakes and ice cream). Anyway, they got their reward when no one touched the surprise cake and everyone raved about the wedding cake instead AA

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