Concerning wedding cakes vs. wedding pies

Saw this article over at the Wedding Camera Rumours blog about wedding cakes and photography: The thing with wedding cakes is that they are good too look in wedding photography, but they don't necessarily taste too good. Wedding cakes, much like generic wedding photography, are good to look at, but lack substance. Common wedding photography looks good, I'll admit. But common wedding photography's downfall is its lack of substance, or more acutely, it's focus on the superficial display of happiness: wall to wall laughter. Certainly, weddings are happy events, but more so, weddings exhibit a gamut of human emotion, as well as a gamut of displays of happiness. Happiness in wedding photography can be seen through tears, smugness, smiling, hugging, quivering lips, and etc. But back to wedding cakes: common wedding cakes look good on the outside, but the inside is frequently flavoured spongecake and nothing else. Spongecake is perhaps one of the worst dessert inventions of all time. At times I wish that wedding cakes were inedible. Some of them are so elaborately constructed, sculpted, decorated, and layered that it is a shame that they will stand as ruins by the end of the happy evening. Why don't we see more photographs of these remains of wedding cakes? Isn't that part of the narrative of the day as well? Is wedding photography, like wedding cakes, too focused on the superficial beauty of the day that it forgets about the story? About photographing the unfolding of the wedding day? I long for the day when wedding cakes will be replaced with real cakes, the unspectacular yet delicious creations of master bakers. At such a point in the future, the role of the beautiful wedding cake will be relinquished to the tiered and themed "wedding sculpture". Wedding photographers would love that. So would master-sculptors.