Wedding Memories

Weddings are unforgettable milestones—no matter the decade, they come with their fair share of chaos, comedy, and stories that only get better with time. In this episode, the buds take a nostalgic trip back to the 1960s and 1980s, sharing some truly over-the-top moments that perfectly capture the spirit of wedding day mayhem.

Ron kicks things off with fond memories of the music at weddings he attended as a kid. Back then, polka bands ruled the scene—but young Ron had other ideas. Whenever he requested a rock song, the band would reluctantly attempt classics like “Spinning Wheel” or “Proud Mary.” The results? Polka-fied versions that left much to be desired. Ron quickly decided they were better off sticking to what they knew best.

Kenn brings the drama with a wedding day disaster he’s never forgotten. The centerpiece of his reception was supposed to be a stunning, multi-tiered cake complete with pillars and cascading details. But as the evening dragged on, there was no sign of the baker—or the cake. When the baker finally arrived, it wasn’t the grand masterpiece they’d ordered. Instead, it was a mangled mess. Apparently, there had been an accident en route, and the cake didn’t survive the journey intact.

Despite the condition of the cake, the baker still expected full payment. Kenn refused—but his bride, determined not to let the situation overshadow their big day, urged him to let it go and pay. Weeks later, Kenn considered taking legal action, but once again, his wife chose preserving the memory over prolonging the drama. To this day, Kenn admits he still wishes he had followed through.

Once again, the Boomers deliver a perfect blend of humor and heartfelt storytelling—proving that sometimes the most memorable wedding moments are the ones that don’t go according to plan.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Average. So guys in their 60s who still think there's 50. Your host, Kat and Ron. Let's get started. Alright. Polka. Yeah. Hey. Oh, like sausage. Hey, you know, it's wedding season. It is wedding season spring upon us. Like the young people listening to this are like, and what does the sausage music have to do with the wedding? Well, this is typical for me. You know, when I was a kid, we're going to talk about being boomers and going to weddings in the 60s. Yeah. You know, this would be the music you'd be hearing at the wedding. It's like, you know, oompa, boom pa boompa, boompa.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Yeah, none of these um, what do you call disc jackets? Oh, no. Unheard of it.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Unheard of. You know, so you know, we're gonna talk a little bit, we'll probably have more opportunity to talk about weddings and the difference between weddings now. Uh, there's such big uh affairs and fancy and cool country clubs and expensive fancy weddings. Expensive. And anyway, but but uh I I uh for some reason it struck me today when I heard about that. It was like I started thinking about the polka music in these bands. And me, I'm I'm a drummer, so as a kid, I was always interested in you know, hey, you know, what the band gonna be today? And it was always the same, it was the polka band, yeah, and so these guys would be you'd be it's a 60s, and you're like, you as a kid want to hear like rock, yeah. And you'd be like, Hey, hey, mister, you're gonna play some like where's your rock? You know, and they got like a 10-piece polka band going here, you know, and these guys would be uh we will get to it, and it's like okay, and then it'd be it would always be the same. I was telling you earlier, it would always be the same, it would be either spinning wheel, okay, got to go round, or it would be proud merry, keep on turning, keep on yeah. So it would be like something like this. It would be like spinning wheel, spinning around. It'd be like this sucks. Oh okay. Now we'll do Prada Mary. It's like stop it. I don't even want to hear it now. Go back to the poker music. So anyway, Ken, you said you you had uh a wedding story literally about your own wedding, which would have been what in the 80s? Yeah, 84. I got married. So tell us a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

We did have, you know, I married an immigrant, and we had an ethnic band playing a live band playing at our wedding, and I think it was about a five five people or something like that in the band. Nice main singer and all that. So, anyways, but in the I was there, yeah. In the and you were in the wedding, yeah, but in the planning stages, okay, we had decided on what type of a wedding cake we wanted to get. Okay. Now my wife's gonna hate this story. Oh, okay. But it's okay because it's it's like cathartic, it's good for me to get it. There's no panty shields in this. No, no, no, no, none. Thank goodness. Thank goodness. Or so, anyways. So we had gone to my sister and brother-in-law's wedding, and um, again, it was uh an ethnic wedding, and they had the coolest looking wedding cake. Excellent. Okay, and this cake had a cool was it? It was this cool, it had a the the middle section was about, I don't know, three or four layers of cake. Uh-huh. And they were suspended up on these like Greek-looking columns, but they were plastic, but they're on these columns. And underneath of that, those you know, the the first layer of cake next to the columns is this little lit up like water fountain, right? And then picture this, you guys, to the left and to the right of this main column of cake are two other columns of cake, not as tall, but also up on these little like columns with waterfalls under those.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

And I thought actual water? Like water was running, you know, like it was it was kind of cool. Yeah, that is.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

And it was, and I think it was like I'm if I'm not mistaken, it might have been lit up as well. And like little pumps underneath or something. So, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

So you saw this at the sister-in-law's wedding, excellent.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

And I said, Okay, we gotta have that cake for sure. Yeah. And so we contacted those, the bakery, you know, that made that cake, and we, you know, uh contracted their services. So now our wedding day. Excellent. I get there. Oh, this is a little bit of a side story. My wife, and that's when they had these really weird horn-rimmed glasses, like tortoiseshell glasses, you know, really big ones. They were kind of, you know, they were they took over a lot of your face. And my wife said, Hey, Ken, you know, when we get married and and you know, we're gonna have a lot of this is what she wanted you to wear. Yes, she says, and when you're getting your pictures taken and stuff like that, do you think maybe you could take your glasses off? No, I'm off. Off. And I'm really nearsighted. So when I take my glasses off, everything's kind of blurry. And I said, just as long as when I lift up the veil, that's you under there, not someone else. But anyway, suffice to say, I left my glasses off to make her. Exactly. So spinning wheels, yeah. So, anyways, I um don't have my glasses on, and then um we show up to the hall. And this time, when you get to the hall, that's when people are walking around and talking to each other, socializing. And it's also the time when people would be enjoying how nice this cake is. Just like we had done at my sister-in-law's and brother-in-law's. And and so I look around and I don't see the cake. Uh-oh. And so, don't worry, I put my glasses on because I was blind at that point until I got the glasses on. Put my glasses on, I look around, no cake.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

And I said to my wife, where's the cake? She goes, I don't know, maybe the guy's late. I said, This is when it's supposed to be here. Right. And anyways, so it doesn't arrive. Dinner starts, and you don't typically, you know, where did you have delivering this, Rodney Dangerfield? Yeah, I think they were making it and delivering it. A typical, our typical wedding, you know, typical wedding I went to, it seemed like dinner was always about a half an hour, 45 minutes late. Same with us, dinner starts, we're a little bit later than normal. I'm saying to my wife, the cake's still not here. You know, what are what's gonna what's going on here? So they start serving our table and they're starting to serve uh everyone else. And I look in the back and I see my dad carrying a little icing blob. Oh no. Okay, and my brother, he's walking with one, and I think maybe the baker had one. And uh I'm like, what's going on? And then right soon after that, my wife's sister comes up and says, Um, I have to tell you something. She says, It's not good. She says, the baker got into an accident on the way here.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

So Rodney Dangerfield, he he crashed the van just like in Easy Money, the movie.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Yeah. And so they were doing their best to make this thing look like some kind of like no, like something. Something. Like a cake. Yeah. So they took this, the best looking of the icing blobs, and put it up on the plastic pillars. No waterfall. No waterfall, and they placed one of the other icing blobs next to it. Now I paid a lot of money for this cake, and I wasn't happy. So afterwards, I I was approached, and the baker wanted to get paid. I don't know, like five or six hundred dollars for this cake, and uh that was supposed to be a special deal. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

That's a long, long time ago.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

That was 84. Ooh, yeah, okay. For a cake. And I go, I'm not paying for that cake. Yeah. And my wife goes, We have to. I go, no, we don't.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Well, how did the guy think he's gonna get paid for his smushed up?

SPEAKER_01 8:40

I have no idea, but you know, so my wife says, Ken, we're paying. I said, Okay, because you know, I'm um the training is taking place as on day one. I'm listening to my wife immediately. I go, okay, fine. We have to go into like the the envelopes that people gave us with money and and pull out six hundred dollars for a bunch of smush, for a bunch of icing blobs. Okay. I said to my wife, this is wrong. And I said, We're gonna sue this cat, we're gonna sue this baker in small claims court. So she didn't want to argue at that point. It's her wedding day. After the wedding's over and things have settled down, I said, Hey, we gotta, we gotta, you know, schedule a law, you know, uh court hearing for this thing, you know, go to small claims. She goes, Ken, we are not suing the baker. And I said, Why? Yeah, why? She goes, Because I don't want to think back. Every time I think about my wedding, think about the next thing that jumps in my mind is the lawsuit over the wedding cake. Ken, it's just not romantic. And I said, Okay, okay, fine. But I'm gonna tell this story every chance I get for the rest of my life. And I'm really glad we're doing this podcast because now I can send it out to the world.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Yeah, and I was really pissed in the 20 countries that we go to.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

So when I think of my wedding, I think about my wife asking me to remove my glasses, which I couldn't see, and I think of that wedding cake. That's it. I don't even care about the music at that point.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

But but we're happily married, 41 years going on, 42, and madly in love with her still.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Well, we uh I have other stories about weddings, but I'm not gonna get into it right this second. But uh weddings are always full of little surprises, and it's it's kind of funny that way.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Yeah. But we appreciate that you guys listened in, and uh, we'll talk to you later.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

All right. Hey, thanks for listening. Talk to you later. Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge. We hope you'll join us again. And until then, have a great time. Thank you.