A wedding venue was left baffled when the cake turned up with an unfortunate message written on the top - but the bakers insist they were only following orders.
The cake is often one of the central features of any big day, needing to be picture perfect for the moment the happy couple share a knife and cut into it.
Many bakers allow the cakes to be personalised to ensure it's just right, but a picture of one wedding cake was shared on Twitter after it appeared the instructions had been taken too literally.
The cake was decorated with white icing and a border, but in the middle bears the message: 'No inscription please!'
It was shared on Twitter by @Jen_Royle, the owner and chef at the restaurant Table in Boston, US, writing: "The wedding cake arrived for today’s event @TableBoston. Yeah so..."
However, workers claiming to be from the bakery who had prepared the cake replied to say that it was exactly what the bride and groom had ordered.
Posting an image of the receipt for the order for a 10 inch carrot cake, it shows they had answered 'yes' as to whether they would like an inscription added.
In the instructions, the person who took the order had written: "**'No inscription please!' - this is what they want on the cake as the inscription."
It wasn't clear whether it had been done by the couple as a joke, or had simply been a miscommunication, but Jen added an update to say once the cake reached the venue it had been pre-arranged for a florist to remove the writing and instead decorate it with flowers before the big moment.
Either way, it left people laughing on Twitter, as one person joked: "There are simply no words, or there shouldn’t be."
A second said: "This can’t be real. I’m a cake decorator and never have I ever been that obtuse."
And another added: "Totally missed a comma, embarrassing."
