While most bride and grooms traditionally cut a wedding cake on their special day, fast food fans Tom and Kerry Watts enjoyed a huge burger complete with all the trimmings.

The mammoth 19kg (42lb) cheeseburger, which was nearly half a metre wide and weighed the equivalent of about 100 quarterpounders, was the highlight of the couple’s wedding reception at Zaks at the Swan, in Poringland, after they got married at nearby All Saints Church yesterday .

The American diner believes it to be the UK’s first ever giant wedding burger.

Mr Watts, a 36-year-old firefighter, said: “Not only did I get to marry the woman of my dreams but I also got to have the burger of my dreams in the same day…

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I wonder if they had a side of fries with that.

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After years of scouring the bookshelves for books relevant to African American brides, this owner of NY’s only dessert delivery company decided to write her own. The result is “Taking the Cake” the Ultimate Wedding Cake Guide for the Ethnic Bride.

Although the wedding industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, very little of it is geared towards women of color. The popular wedding magazines never feature a black bride, and only occasionally feature one as a bridesmaid. The expensive wedding books written by Martha Stewart and others contain fabulous weddings featuring Caucasian couples, and never address issues that might be found within the black community.
Regina McRae began Grandma’s Secrets 15 years ago with $10 and $9 pies at the urging of others who tasted her desserts and urged her to go into business.

As the business grew, she diversified from pies and traditional cakes into custom cakes, and eventually wedding cakes. While helping the brides design their cakes, she constantly encountered the same lack of information and dearth of available designs. “Even the beautiful cakes in the magazines featured flavors that we do not traditionally eat, such as wasabi infused ganache, and walnut genoise with key lime filling” she laments. Even when able to find resource guides for ethnic weddings, she found that they devoted no more than a few chapters to the cake…

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A big slice of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding cake is set to sell for more than £2,000 at auction. The 27-year-old cake – decorated with the royal coat of arms – was given to Moyra Smith, a cleaner at Clarence House, by a royal chef in 1981…

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Life certainly became a little sweeter for Kathy Scott last week when she became one of only seven people internationally to be named a Certified Master Sugar Artist. Kathy along with her husband and baker Dennis Scott traveled to Orlando Florida to vie for the certification awarded by the International Cake Exploration Societe at their annual convention.

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There are wedding cakes, and then there are really great wedding cakes — the melt in your mouth kind that leave everyone eyeing the cake stand for seconds.

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 A crisp autumn breeze swirls orange and red leaves on the steps of the church, just minutes before a glowing pair of lovebirds exit through the large wooden doors.As the leaves fall, love remains in bloom.While most people consider the wedding season to last from June to August, September and October are the next most popular wedding months, according to a 2005 report by the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Impossible, you say, since a wedding cake is something the bride and groom and guests actually consume and therefore cannot be returned in exactly pristine condition.Think again. Love makes all things possible, apparently.

These days, a beautiful, towering wedding cake that is rolled out and put on display for guests to ooh and ahhh over might really be a fake cake made of foam and plastic and covered in fondant – which is similar to frosting. After the bride and groom perform the ritual of cutting the cake – in some cases, a slice of real cake is hidden in a secret compartment – the cake is rolled away.

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