Keeping the top tier of a wedding cake is a common tradition in the West. Harvey and Inez Warninger were married on March 17, 1915, and decided to keep the wedding dessert as a keepsake. According to the belief, it should be eaten on the first wedding anniversary, and it will bring good luck to the young family. But the first anniversary passed, and then many more years passed, but the cake was never eaten.
The cake was remembered as Harvey and Inez’s 100th wedding anniversary approached in 2015. Their granddaughter called her brother and asked about the cake. Ronald said he had seen the cake in the freezer at his parents’ house in the 1950s.
He searched for the cake for days and found it in a hat box in the garage. The inside of the cake was hollow, but the icing on it was perfectly preserved. Attached to the cake was a poem that a friend had sent Inez in 1915. The words were, “Remember me on your wedding day and send me a piece of cake’.
The relatives plan to preserve the 100-year-old cake as a family heirloom.
