It’s your birthday. Your friend brings out your cake. You blow out the candles and — smash! — they shove your face into the cake. It’s all fun and games until you lose an eye — which is, apparently, a ...

Planning a wedding can be stressful, especially with all of the long-held traditions and potential ceremonies a couple can include. The cake smash is one wedding tradition in which the bride and groom ...

A Reddit user shared the story of a wedding cake smash gone wrong; the groom cut the bride's face with the tines of the fork during the ritual, and she spent several minutes bleeding during the ...

An Ask Reddit post may close the debate on whether it’s a good idea to smash wedding cake into your new spouse’s face at the reception. Long a subject of viral videos, this newlywed prank could ...

"I still remember the look my wife gave me, with a shocked ‘wtf was he thinking?!’ ” one guest recalled on Reddit Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Not all family traditions are things that need to continue. Sometimes, they’re awkward, or other times, they’re just silly. When you form a new family, it’s easy to want to find ways to make the new ...