Hilarious moment Colin the Caterpillar cake piped into wedding in viral clip
Jo and Will Dale decided to give their guests a laugh as they planned a Burns Night-style 'Address to Colin' with the cake carried in on an upcycled kitchen shelf.
This is the hilarious moment when a Colin the Caterpillar cake was piped into a wedding in a clip that has now been viewed over 1.5million times.
Jo and Will Dale, both 33, decided to give their guests a laugh as they planned a Burns Night style 'Address to Colin' with the cake carried in on an upcycled kitchen shelf.
The pair weren't fussed about have a traditional wedding cake at the ceremony on Friday, June 6 - so they instead had Colin carried in to the sound of bagpipes, before a friend read out a Scots poem written especially for the occasion.
Friends and family were left in hysterics - but the couple had no idea their idea was soon to be viewed by more than a million people around the world.
Jo, a vet who is originally from Montrose, told the Record: "I didn't really want to do a wedding cake but Will wanted to have something, so we decided just to have a Colin.
"A friend of ours does all of the Burns Nights and addresses the Haggis back home in Fife. He was coming to the wedding anyway so we thought it would be quite funny if we got him to address the caterpillar cake.
"We knew the Scottish guests would like it and we thought it would be funny to have it piped in.
"We just thought it would be funny and totally ridiculous - but we have America friends and half the party was English so I don't think they quite understood what was happening."
Will, who works as a contracts manager, says Colin has always featured at birthday parties since he was a child - and he didn't want the iconic caterpillar to miss out at his wedding.
"Colin is just a kind of institution", he said.
"We've always had one at birthday parties when we were kids so we just thought, let's mix the two. I knocked up a plinth from an old kitchen shelf a couple of days before the wedding and we had it spray-painted it gold.
"I got my groomsmen to put their sunglasses on to try and look cool - and they totally pulled it off."
The couple, who live in Morpeth in Northumberland, said the cake went down so well at the wedding - at nearby venue Wildings - they didn't even manage to get a slice for themselves.
Speaking from her honeymoon in St Andrews, Jo added: "Our friend did a personalised ode to the caterpillar Scots poem, addressing the cake. It was really good and it went down well with the guests.
"I don't think anyone was bothered that there wasn't a proper wedding cake. We didn't get a slice of Colin, it went down that well. There were lucky guests going round telling people they got a slice with a Smartie on it."
Speaking of their new found fame, she added: "We are not really on social media but our DJ took a video and posted it on his TikTok page but we have been told it's been viewed over 1.5million times on TikTok.
"It's absolutely crazy. We never expected it to go anywhere other than the wedding."
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