If you haven’t seen this picture yet, you’re in for a ‘viewing’. While I’m all for the offbeat style, personally, I say this is good for a laugh. I just can’t imagine anyone doing this on their wedding day or renewal of vows. One, it seems incredibly narcissistic; and two, it’s creepy – and now you may eat the bride, ummm YUCK! But, hey, she made the papers and I’m sure many blogs, so her 15 minutes of fame is complete.
Here’s the pictures and the original article as reported by the Daily Mail:
Bride has wedding cake made into life-size model of herself
Last updated at 13:35 10 January 2008
For one bride, her perfect wedding had to have that extra layer. So American Chidi Ogbuta had a life-size wedding cake made in her own image.
Standing over 5ft tall, the spectacular cake, made up of butterscotch and polymer clay, was an exact replica of the bride in her wedding dress.
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Good enough to eat: Bride Chidi Ogbuta and the cake made in her likenessThe six-layered masterpiece was a dream come true for the Texan, and took pride of place when she re-newed her vows to her husband of ten years, Innocent.
“Growing up I have always wanted a doll made in my likeness,” explained Chidi, 35-year-old mother of four.
“So, when we started planning for our church wedding I told my husband that I wanted a unique, personalised wedding – a wedding where my dream will come true.
“I told Innocent that I wanted a life-size cake made in my resemblance – as I would look on my wedding day. He gave his consent without reservations.”
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You may now cut the bride: Chidi and Innocent slice through the 5ft cakeInitially Chidi wanted giant cakes made of both her and Innocent, 35, but the bakers, ‘Absolutely Edible Cakes’, didn’t have enough time before the big day.
It took five weeks to make the cake of Chidi – with the cake itself butterscotch and the body, head and arms made from polymer clay – after she supplied them with photographs of herself wearing the dress.
Given its size, there was plenty to go round the guests at the ceremony last September.
“We had over 500 guests and even after we had dished it out there was still plenty left,” recalls Chidi. “We brought the rest of it home and a week later it was all gone.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507390/Bride-wedding-cake-life-size-model-herself.html#ixzz0bxbaPGFM
