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30th July 2012
03:35pm BST
Cutting the cake is always a great photo opportunity at weddings, and is a symbolic moment for the newly-weds.
Hands clasped together, they cut the decorative cake to cheers from family and friends. "Till death do us part"...or not.
Recent trends have divorced couples celebrating the end of their supposedly wedded bliss with another cake. And this time the decorations are far more entertaining...
Designed as a centre-piece for increasingly popular 'divorce parties', the cakes are proving as expensive as the wedding cakes.
Some of the more outlandish designs include a bride burning at the stake, a groom being skinned alive and weddings rings in open coffins.
Elaborate designs include intricate "relationship graveyards" and family homes being broken apart.
A divorce cake designed by Pink Rose, a UK-based cake company.
In a less common male dominated cake, the groom pushes the bride off the edge, another one of Pink Rose's designs.
A two-tiered black cake features a bride throwing a husband over the side of the top. He lies in a pool of blood at the bottom of the cake. Another cake design features a black ball and chain with "I'm free!" written on the side in white. A more humourous cake shows a woman dragging her husband out to the bins and an inscription reading, "Bringing him out to the garbage."
A more colourful cake shows feet coming out from underneath a house and "Ding Dong! The psycho's gone!" written beside the house in red.
Another one of Pink Rose's cake designs.
One divorce cake baker, Fay Millar fom Sussex, told the Daily Mail Online some people love celebrating the life-changing event.
"Some people just want to shout from the rooftops that they are divorced and they are back on the market," she said.
"Others just want to end a turbulent period in their life and they mark it."
Another divorce cake design...
Elite Event Managements, an events management company based in Dublin, advertise the fact that they organise divorce parties online and an online Dublin cake compay, cakesonline.ie, make divorce cakes. Club Nassau advertise their help with organising any party for a night at the venue, including divorce parties.
