When a couple gets divorced, their friends might admit they saw red flags popping up throughout the relationship. However, some wedding industry professionals can tell if a marriage is going to last from day one. According to several wedding photographers and videographers, the longevity of a relationship depends on how newly married couples cut their cake. Yeah — seriously.
At the beginning of April, Reddit user HHS2019 asked their fellow Redditors who work in the wedding industry if they have developed a “sixth sense” for being able to tell which marriages will last. And boy, did the wedding photographers and videographers of Reddit come through. In fact, HHS2019’s post has received over 6,600 comments and over 50,000 upvotes in under a month.
“Photographer here,” Reddit user kylesford said. “I swear that all of the couples that have split up have smashed the cake in their SOs face. None of the nice cake couples have. Just my weird anecdotal experience. Maybe it’s a sign of respect for each other.”
It’s the unexpected cake smash that usually dooms couples, as kylesford notes in a response to their initial comment. “The blatant smash in the unsuspecting other seems to derail a happy persons special day,” they write.
“I’ve found that the microcosm of how the couple feels about each other comes usually comes out during the cake cutting,” Mojoyashka, a wedding videographer, wrote. “When I see a new bride or groom aggressively smush cake into the other’s face I usually feel like that’s a strong sign of an unbalanced relationship.”
“Sometimes they’re both having fun with it and you can tell it’s cool,” Mojoyashka continued, “but most of the time you can tell that the person with cake on their face is either shocked or angry about it.”
A couple Redditors even vouched for this theory based on their own cake-cutting-gone-wrong experience. “I warned [my husband] multiple times before the day NOT TO FUCKING DO THIS,” _My9RidesShotgun responded to MorgaseTrakand. “We lasted 2 years and he’s now my ex-husband. So I can definitely attest to the accuracy of this lol.”
Another Reddit user commented, “Not a wedding photographer, but my parent’s wedding video is a tell-all story.” They said their mother specifically told their father not to smash cake in her face, and yet… Dad did just that.
“Mom smacked him across the face, dad said “f*ck this” and stormed out of the reception.” Nice going, Dad.
The moral of this story is to make sure your spouse is chill with cake smashing before you do it. Otherwise, you’re looking at surefire divorce — at least according to this handful of wedding industry professionals, that is.
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