To be sick to death of cake smashes?

[Noteventhebirdsareupyet]

I am so sick of this strange new phenomenon. It might even be worse than baby showers, at least you don't normally get people sending a million photos of those! What a ridiculous American (no doubt) thing to do - waste of cake, fake set-up pictures, expensive clothes bought specifically to be ruined...... ok rant over!

@fancynancyclancy - those photos you posted have me howling with laughter. Well worth starting this thread for! Thanks for a good laugh today everyone.

I had my baby photographed at newborn and am booked into a cake smash too but they are for my personal collection , I don't post them on Facebook and expect anyone else to be interested , other people's babies are boring 😂

Not my thing at all. Not a thing when I had my two DC thankk goodness. Nor baby showers or gender reveals.

Posed photos also a no. Especially with Dad lying on the floor and all the children sat on him, white background, everyone inexplicably barefoot. Babies in flowerpots-just why?

I would possibly have a baby shower if I was having a baby now. Any excuse for an afternoon tea though.

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You are not being unreasonable. They are awful.

I think the argument of it being a waste of food is abit pointless too , if you go to any sensory class there is piles of spaghetti , jelly and yoghurt to play with

My mam is a cake decorator and understands the time and effort that goes into making and decorating a nice cake. My Sil gave a canvas of DN smashing a nicely decorated cake. Least to say she wasn’t impressed but put on a fake smile and the picture goes up when they visit and comes down when they go. I think it’s beyond tacky and something I never done or would do with my kids.

Horrible, tacky, wasteful - sends a ridiculous message to children. The idea of perfectly edible food being used for this kind of shit really grinds my gears.

In these times where so many families are relying on food banks and living in or near poverty, seeing a ‘cake smash’ is just the epitome of the selfish society we have become.

No time for the ‘Its Just a bit of fun’ brigade either - there are a million NON WASTEFUL ways a small child can have a photo shoot worthy whale of a time without this chavvy excuse of an event.

No problem with ‘gender’ reveals or photo shoots per se - not my thing but each to their own -however the sheer wastefulness of a cake smash is just vile, unessacary and selfish.

How about a couples one?

I don't like these kind of photo shoots, cake smashes, naked babies etc, manufactured memories. Everyone's looks the same as everyone else's.

They smash up a cake rather than eat it?! heathens!

I don’t know... When you think about any event / photo opportunity. They’re all total bs. Just get on with the party! Everyone must stop for pictures / videos. It’s organized fun.
For me the worst is weddings. Imagine asking your best friends to dress up in matching outfits while you yourself are trussed up in net curtains. I also hate when little girls are dressed as mini-brides, full make-up & all, for Communions.

It's a fad. In particular, a social media fad. It will drift off in to obscurity along with planking and the ice bucket challenge once it eventually penetrates the collective social media consciousness that it is so 2019, and a waste of bloody good cake.

Vulgar and tacky.

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What happens if the baby shows no interest in wrecking the cake? does someone have to smash it for them and cover them in it?

I can't get worked up about them tbh. When someone I know had a cake smash photo done they took the cake home afterwards and ate the bits that weren't destroyed.

We had a few posed photos taken of our eldest as a baby. I think they're lovely and we still have them up on the wall 8 years later!

I like good, well-taken photos though and I do think there is a big difference between a photo taken under flattering lighting by a talented photographer with a decent camera and a quick, ill-thought-out shot by an average person with an iPhone, especially when they're to be printed, framed and displayed.

If you don't like them, don't have one done but there's no need to be so sneery about what other people choose to do.

ComfortablyGlum

Well said. The idea that people are teaching children that it's clever to waste food like this isn't a bit of harmless fun to me either.

I don't like the idea of deliberately wasting food for fun.

I like the idea of the gender reveal though. We've been ttc for 13 years with 4 miscarriages along the way and I'd love the excitement of the surprise reveal one day. My family would really enjoy it too.

I think purposefully wasting food in a country where people still go hungry and a world where many are undernorished and plenty starve is a bit fucking sick, tbh.

@Sparklingbrook usually the photographer or the parents smash the cake up anyway to show the child and for them to copy and then I think the cake gets rubbed on them and stuff to make them look messy

Oh I agree! Vile scam.

My DTs just turned one. I asked someone to price up two giant cupcakes thinking I would decorate them myself......

£40 - each cake!!!!

I went to Morrisons and bought two plain cakes for £6 each and stuck on some fondant.
Everyone thought they'd been professionally made.

Shame on the terrorist mothers who make salt dough or potato stamps for their children to play with or those who make crafts out of pasta shapes.
Don't even get me started on feeding the ducks!!
Shameful waste of food.... FFS

JustBeenNosey that sounds awful!