Comments on: “Redneck” Wedding Cakes and Getting Married Right

By: Mysticalblue

Mysticalblue — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:47:00 +0000

I think they are wonderful…. and the person that made them have a very artistic nature. I have a lady at work that is very proud of being aka redneck. She just got remarried to the same man again..lol And i will be making her something like this for work party. It is all in fun and if the animals are not real or it does not hurt anyones feelings it is what it is a way of thinking.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:08:11 +0000

the 5th cake so cool how made it

By: Sociological Images » DIVORCE CAKES

Sociological Images » DIVORCE CAKES — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:07:30 +0000

[...] Also in unusual cakes: redneck cakes. [...]

By: Melissa Jo

Melissa Jo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:02:38 +0000

I don’t much care what others thank. I just want to know who to call about making one of them Buck and Doe Wedding cakes.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:42:57 +0000

I love the truck cake!
I’d answer the family location question, but I am enjoying other people’s answers, and don’t want to give it away.

By: Shanno

Shanno — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:40:00 +0000

As creepy as some of those cakes are to me (my father is a hunter and I have been surrounded by disembodied dear heads most my life but on top of cake, it is a little much for me personally), what I liked about them is that they are different and shatter the traditional concept of a “tasteful” wedding cake. I was thinking about this the other day when I saw the show My Big Redneck Wedding…the bride wore work boots and a hard hat with a veil and everything about the wedding very much reflected the sense of humor and personality of the couple. It looked awesome and I think it is an indication of the same point that was being made, that people may feel like they have to openly identify as lacking class or being rednecks to “get away with” having a non-traditional wedding. Obviously, people have non-traditional weddings without their cake being surrounded by shotgun shells, but at least among the cottage industry of reality TV wedding shows, the only people who feel free to have fun seem to be the rednecks.

By: hypatia

hypatia — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:09:22 +0000

I’ll second altairian here. Cake wrecks often has subject matter “wrecks” most of the cakes in these categories are actually baby shower cakes that are usually highly disturbing such as pregnant tummies with attached breasts, babies popping out of stomachs like a scene from Alien, or babies actually coming through vaginas. Artistic? Maybe. But not something you want to cut up and serve for dessert.

The author of Cake Wrecks usually takes a line against super realistic animals or people. And seeing heads of deer on top of cake doesn’t make me think mmm yummy and I actually eat deer.

By: heteronym

heteronym — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:54:50 +0000

I’m not sure the issue is just wedding rules, but how an outdoors and/or rural lifestyle is perceived by others. Hence, why other alternative wedding cakes are praised but the “redneck” cakes receive some ribbing. I thought the post itself was tongue-in-cheek but some of the comments betrayed a little, dare I say, elitism. As a rural transplant to an urban area, I run into this mentality all of the time. “You’re from where? But you seem so normal!”

By: Adler

Adler — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:46:30 +0000

I think that the issue here isn’t whether these cakes are well made or not, or that wedding cakes need to be traditional, so much as they’re kitschy and amusing, and rather disturbing. Deer heads perched on top of a cake? A big stripe of mud up the side of another? A disembodied hoof on the table? Ew. Just lost my appetite. As someone who is a city-dwelling, mud-avoiding, vegan, these cakes repel yet amuse me. I think that’s what the author of Cake Wrecks is going for with these posts. Cakes like these are strange cultural artifacts to the majority of the audience for CW, and are humorous. It’s not like finding some trappings for some culture funny is boiling that culture down to something to be laughed at, and it’s not disrespectful to embrace and be amused by kitsch, whether it’s your own or someone else’s.

By: heatherleila

heatherleila — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:59:16 +0000

Here’s something I find interesting about the comments: people these days seem really offended when their elders suggest or even insist on traditional customs for weddings. We are so absorbed with a wedding being about two people, that we forget weddings used to be and still could be about an entire community. I’m guilty of this too. When I mentioned to my mother I was thinking about a square wedding cake simply because I liked how it looked, she became upset. When I listened to her reasoning and how, to her, a round wedding cake, like a ring, symbolized eternity…well, I went with a round cake. Americans often say they don’t have a culture, or we gravitate towards other cultures when we want tradition…because we reject what we already have.

That being said, I have a feeling these hunting-themed wedding cakes are probably well received in the communities where hunting is a cultural tradition. And while I tend to think hunting and trucks (and armadillos) belong on groom’s cakes, people can do what they want. But I do think the older generations have a reason to lament that traditions which hold symbolism are being left behind.

By: Dubi

Dubi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:32:11 +0000

Well, it’s good to see you allow at least SOME people to have a sense of humor. That’s better than usual…

By: instasilly

instasilly — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:22:49 +0000

as usual, you are conflating and exaggerating the “offense”. You clearly have no sense of perspective and no humor. And you are beholden to some crazy, invalid, fallacious academic theory. May your department be eliminated and may your children study something sensible like medicine or engineering.

By: Natorbo

Natorbo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:18:10 +0000

Is it Eastern Oregon?

By: Sabriel

Sabriel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:36:26 +0000

I phrased it that way because in the novel it wasn’t easy for them and it showed how it worked because they prioritized each other and put a lot of effort into the relationship. It was congratulatory for that reason. I’m sorry it rubbed you the wrong way, and I see how it would have sounded bad.

By: pratt

pratt — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:56:04 +0000

Sabriel, you say you’re not trying to make a statement about arranged marriages and then say “a couple who manage to make an arranged marriage work.” Shock upon shocks, lets congratulate them because it’s oh so rare for people in arranged marriages to stay together. Sorry for the sarcasm, that comment just rubbed me the wrong way.