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Wedding guest issues stark warning after popular tradition leaves bride covered in blood
A wedding guest has shared a warning after she was left covered in blood after having her face smashed into cake.
Taking to Reddit, a wedding guest, believed to be from the US, shared the horror-filled encounter.
'The wedding was fine,' they said.
'Cake time, groom has a fork full, goes to feed it to his bride but drags his hand upwards to spear the cake on I guess her cheek.'
The guest continued: 'The fork tines end up cutting her upper lip a little and there's this weird five mins where they're holding a fancy table napkin against her face to stop the bleeding.
'I still remember the look my wife gave me, with a shocked 'what the f*** was he thinking?!'
Disturbed by what he saw, the wedding goer urged loved-up couples to avoid taking part in the trend.
'Guys, unless your fiancé explicitly tells you to "Do it!" for photos or the memory or whatever... don't do it!!,' he wrote.
Many in the comment section agreed the trend should be avoided, with many pointing out how - even if it causes no injuries - it can waste the painstaking time and effort taken to make the bride look her best on the day.
One even warned that they had known a marriage that ended in divorce following a cake smashing incident.
'My friend smashed it in her husbands face, they hadn't really talked about it beforehand. They got divorced one year in,' a Redditor shared.
A second had a similar warning message. 'My friends did. She took a tiny bit with her finger and wiped it on his nose and mouth. He got mad and smashed her whole face into the cake. They are divorced.'
The sentiment was felt by those who'd fallen victim to the trend too. 'I divorced her. I still recall the picture of when she did it. I was p*****. It shows a fundamental disrespect for your spouse when you do something like that,' chimed a third.
One even described an incident so violent that her groom ended up breaking her nose.
She wrote: 'He grabbed the back of my head by my hairstyle and slammed me into the cake and held me down. I'm not sure if it was the table or the cake plate that actually broke my nose. And yes, he was charged with assault but no jail time.'
It's not the first time that cake smashing has made headlines after causing major rifts between couples.
A recent clip of a couple taking part in the tradition saw one wife with her head slammed into a plate of cake, leaving her coated in bright purple icing.
In a video which went viral at the time of publication, the newlyweds were seen cutting into their purple wedding cake, enthusiastically holding the knife and slicing the cake together before he pushed her face into the bake.
Visibly shocked, the bride appeared in the video holding up her hands in disbelief while her new husband laughed hysterically and pumped his arms up in celebration.
Horrified, she raised her hands over her mouth while her husband cheered in delight, raising his hands in the hopes of high-fiving her.
While she was reluctant to return the gesture, her new husband appeared none the wiser, laughing in merriment at his cake-covered bride.
Viewers of the clip were left furious with most defending the bride, who had likely spent several hours pruning her appearance.
'I'd be getting that marriage annulled,' one user wrote in a post on X, (formerly Twitter).
'What kind of man humiliates his wife on their wedding day, and then forces her to high-five him afterwards?'
Another user said they would have 'picked up the whole cake and covered him in it,' while a third said the woman looked as through she was 'trying not to cry.'
'Stupid childish behaviour, no reason to smash a bride's face into a cake, when there's plenty of other ways to have fun and be goofy after a wedding ceremony,' pointed out someone else.
