CLASSIC: What's the Deal with Smashing Cake at Weddings?
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Wedding Cake Cutting - A Quote Unquote Ritual
The custom of bride and groom shoving wedding cake into each other's faces is demeaning to women. Dear Abby says the four-step comedic ritual sustains masculine prerogatives in the very act of supposedly subverting them. Rachel Sylvester, associate real weddings editor with the knot: Ceremony has been replaced by this tradition that Noel just described.
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