Man Cleans Out Garage, Finds Grandparents' 100-Year-Old Wedding Cake In Hat Box With A Note

Aug 09, 2018 by apost team

If you're married, or have thought about your wedding, you might have considered how you would preserve memories of the wedding for your children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

Maybe you've thought of photographs, scrapbooks or even your wedding dress. Probably one thing you haven't thought about trying to preserve for a hundred years or more is a wedding cake, but one man found that his grandparents had done just that.

One wedding tradition is saving the top tier of these elaborate cakes to eat on the first anniversary. Ronald Warninger's grandparents, Harvey and Inez, decided when they got married on March 17, 1915 that they would do that. However, the first-year anniversary slipped past without them doing so, and then a whole lot more years went on by.

As a child in the 1950s, Ronald remembered seeing it in his parents' freezer. His parents had told him not to touch it.

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When March 17, 2015 drew near, their grandparents' 100th wedding anniversary, Ronald's sister phoned him and asked him about the cake. Although Ronald hadn't seen the cake since he was a child, he looked around in his basement for it but couldn't find it.

Later on, Ronald was cleaning out his garage.

He noticed a tell-tale hatbox and immediately knew what was inside, and he was right. There in the box was his grandparents' wedding cake.

You can see from the video that when it is turned upside down, it's been hollowed out. However, the frosting is perfectly preserved.

Accompanying the cake was a poem a friend had sent to his grandmother years before the wedding about eating a slice of her wedding cake. 

It reads:

"Dear Ivy, Remember me when far away, and only half awake. Remember me on your wedding day, and send me a slice of cake. Your friend as ever, Nellie Anderson."

The family has no plans to try and eat the 100-year-old frosting that has survived two world wars, but they do plan to keep it as an heirloom.

What do you think of this amazing story? Let us know in the comment section, and be sure to say what heirlooms you have or what you hope survives generations in your family!