Here Come the Brides

The best thing about selling a book about cake to Simon & Schuster (read the news here) is that it's like getting a license to investigate all the oddball cake toppers, like this one—really a wine bottle stopper—found in a shop in Rehoboth, Delaware, an Eastern Shore beach town known primarily for its Nic-o-bolis (a trademarked stromboli) and homosexuals (neither trademarked nor strombolis).

Even though it was $20, I couldn't resist the two brides. I think they look a little like me.