Bride’s cousin tried to cancel her wedding cake as a prank, but it backfired after the bakery’s security policy saved the day: 'He fessed up'

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Isabella Penn
Jul 9, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

My best friend is deep in the trenches of wedding planning right now. She's about a year out from her big day, and the vendor search has officially begun. And there are so many vendors. Hair, makeup, florist, baker, DJ, photographer, videographer, caterer, photo booth, neon sign rental… it just never ends. Every time I check in, she's drowning in Pinterest boards, Instagram stalking, and vendor contracts, trying to make sure she's got everything locked down. Honestly, I don't blame her for being stressed. Weddings are basically just one big group project where you're the only one doing the work.

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  • Now, imagine spending months carefully researching and booking every single vendor, only to find out that someone tried to cancel them all behind your back. That’s exactly what almost happened to this bride. She thought everything was set for her big day until she got a phone call from her bakery about someone trying to cancel her cake order. And trust me, the story only gets messier from there.

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  • The one where my cousin almost cancelled my cake order as a "prank"

    This happened a few weeks ago, but it didn't occur to me that it would qualify as "wedding drama" because it got resolved quickly. That is until my mom let me in on what happened later on.
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  • I pre-ordered my wedding cake from a local bakery a few months ago. About two weeks before the Big Day, the bakery called me up and let me know that someone tried to cancel my order.
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  • I don't know if its the same for every bakery, but the one I went with requires that you have to have a "safe word" on file. That way if you cancel, the bakery can confirm it. by matching the "safe word." No safe word, no
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  • cancellation. If that's not clear enough, let me know. But basically, they've had too many issues with disgruntled in- laws that they had to put that policy in place.
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  • In my case, someone called the bakery to try and cancel my order on my behalf but didn't have the safe word. I made it clear that I never approved this and everything got resolved in one call.
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  • Cut to my wedding day when my mom said that she was happy to see the cake I ordered after what happened. That was when I found out my 20-something deadbeat of a cousin
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  • almost got my cake order cancelled by pretending to be me! My aunt, his mom, found out because she had noticed that a lot of calls on her phone bill were being made out to local florists, wedding
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  • dress stores and even bakeries. Apparently, it took a while but he fessed up. That was when my cousin admitted that he called around to cancel anything I might have ordered as a prank.
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  • So yeah, I almost didn't have a wedding cake because of the actions of my cousin. Which by the way, jokes on you Ryan because I DIY-ed most of my wedding.
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  • Sassy-Peanut Op-When you devise a suitably damaging revenge on Ryan for attempting this, please update us. The little j
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  • deserves something uber crushing after trying that. In your place I wouldn't have been nearly so sanguine about it.
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  • croptopweather I kind of wish you could've found out sooner so you could uninvite him! I'm glad he wasn't able to do any damage at least.
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  • Freaky_fiber I'm glad the bakery outsmarted him but I feel kinda sad that it's necessary
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  • FrizzWitch666 A prank? I would have had such a revenge he would have stayed away for the rest of our lives
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  • mzg72 Just tell him your husband is thinking about pranking him back. You won't have to do anything. Trust me
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  • tvzotherside I don't even get why someone would do this. If they're a deadbeat, I just assume it's because they're so bitter to someone having something going on in their life.
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  • atticdoor I mean, what was the punchline even going to be? The bride in tears because nothing for her wedding was there? How was it ever going to be funny?
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  • SafeWord9999 I'd tell anyone who wants to know 'If only he put the same amount of energy into getting a job and being less of a loser than he did into trying to ruin my wedding'
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  • misstiff1971 He sounds like trash. No surprise your spouse doesn't like him. Please fully eliminate him from your life.
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  • 4me2knowit Pranking is quite simply buying
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  • DLQuilts Had Ryan been successful, he would have never admitted anything. People like this can never understand why their lives are sh. Karma rains down on them and they still can't figure it out.
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