A Florida couple married 60 years are still enjoying a tradition from their wedding day.
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After 60 years of marriage, this couple celebrates each anniversary the same way – by taking a bite out of the cake from their wedding day.
Her and her husband find the dated dessert to be quite tasty, adding that it has never made them sick. A local bakery covered it with a hard shell so the fruit wouldn’t bleed through, then a layer of butter cream frosting was applied. What makes their tradition especially unique? Fruit cakes were popular as wedding cakes at the time, she said. The two lived in upstate New York after their wedding and in 1968 they moved to Satellite Beach, where they’ve lived ever since.
KEN FREDERICKS says: ‘Take a piece.
The cake has been wrapped and placed back into its container – a Maxwell House coffee can – and stored in a closet for the next anniversary, Ann said.
“We’re hoping we can do it again next year”, Ken said.
Ken, 85, worked for 23 years as a music teacher at Central Junior High School in Melbourne, Fla. Ann, 81, worked for 27 as a nurse at Holmes Regional Medical Center, retiring as nursing supervisor in 1996.
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“We just never thought of this as being unusual… hopefully we’ll be able to do it for a few more years”, Ann said.
