How Many Days Could You Live Off Your Wedding Cake?

Sometimes ordering that delicious, buttery, expensive wedding cake with the trendy Amaretto filling is the pits.

Because you pour over the portfolios. You force yourself to trudge through all those key lime frostings and raspberry fillings. You match the design to the Alençon lace on your gown or your caterer's fine china. You pay anywhere from $500 to $1500 or more.

But on the big day, you find yourself so keyed up (and so busy working the room) you barely get to nibble.

The only way most couples would really get to enjoy that three-tiered temptress would be to find themselves whisked away to a desert island with no distractions but the cake, a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, and each other.

I wondered how long two people could live on an island with one of today's luciously caloric wedding cakes (and a bottle of champagne) without having to resort to kelp snacks and bizarre hatchetfish breakfasts. Plug in some vital stats involving you and your cake, and find out.

Sources

This calculator uses the Mifflin equation to calculate the bride and groom's caloric needs.

Caloric values for popular wedding cakes was generated from data found at FitDay.com and AllRecipes.com.