Wedding toppers: 98 happy collected couples

Sue Wilson is married to husband Bob for 46 years. She has more than twice as many wedding cake toppers, including the little bride and groom are the icing on the cake of your own roof in 1965.
The groom wears a white coat and handsome little like Bob did. And the bride is a line with a ball gown skirt with tulle collar, a character very similar to Sue cheap wedding dress.
"Once, when we moved, I broke," said Sue, turning on the numbers to show that halving "the".
She created the couple at the dinner table of his home near Wallops Iceland, where today, the 98 figures in his collection of wine racks and have been collected, all facing the front of the room as if waiting to say their vows before the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, known for their ceremonies of the Unification Church mass wedding.
The numbers on the table were an international ring that places that have made, or a lot of stains Wilson traveled or lived during their years together. Most are on the cake came with two bowers of flowers, others are pictures of the bride and groom, who broke into the collection because Sue could not say no.
"It came from Gettysburg. This is what is 25 cents in Bradenton, Florida had," said a few small only three quarters of an inch in height, he said. "My husband worked for the Service (U.S.) Fish and Wildlife Service before retirement, so they moved a lot."
Topper is 30 years now collected enough to buy a couple of times and goes home to find a duplicate. The one who loves more than ever - the bride and groom Kewpie sells it to an antiques dealer in Pennsylvania.
"It was his and was in the wedding cake when she married in 1929. What we sell, because they knew it was going to a good home, he said," Sue said.
Another series of candy that was accompanied by two mini-Kewpie bridesmaids.
Finally, when Wilson moved to Accomack County, Sue has taught culinary arts at the School of Chincoteague. Cake toppers are a perfect fit.
Therefore, other manifestations of the couple as salt and pepper shakers and two girlfriends, paper plates, which served as name tags wedding his mother-in-law in 1929. In one sharp cut of paper, wrote "Dorothy" and "Richard" other.
It has a bride and groom in quilling, paper crafts curly. You must keep a game in marzipan, too heavy in the heat and humidity.
"At first I was side by side, but he kept it," said Sue, gently holding the semi-reclining marzipan bride and her partner yet.

Somewhere in the house, the couple, the wedding cake grandparents Bob "in 1898 has been exceeded. That was the wax hands, very soft, warm them. Sue, she knows how to put in a safe place, but can not remember her life, where.
When she discovers quilts in shops, is checked for clues to its age. The style of dress might suggest a figure in his time: the type of new setting in the 1920s, when large flaps, thin and groom digits long for 30 years, brides and complete say in short dresses and groom costumes that were made in the 40 and 50. This is not an inexpensive hobby among couples, sometimes costing $ 100 or more.
Sue is a sentimental person who can explain this passion.
"I still I have my wedding dress and the dress of my mother and my daughter's dress," he said. "I would like my grandmother's dress. She was a beautiful seamstress. Oh, and I dress flower girl wearing at the wedding of my aunt when she was 5 years old."
She loves the diversity, history and romance of his collection - the way the characters are so promising, so many hopes and dreams, so many memories of that special day.
Often, there is always an ice stick figures, or their legs are available in the lap of being in the given dyed icing on the cake.
"This is a set with a minister in the hands of the bride were married in the castle," he said. Many involved in an eternal embrace, some have devised a flat bottom, to be a cake level and not at all made up the top.
She comes from a black couple, but not for lack of research.
"You will not find very often," he said.
People have given as gifts of the cake first in recent years. His daughter brought him a pair of hideous face with the skull of the Festival of the Dead in Mexico and even a tissue in the power of the Japanese-style peas called Mochimochi.
You padded occupied Japan, a pair of felt in Spain, which may or may not apply to the top of a cake, a few Japanese fabrics, pairs of celluloid, cookies, chalkware planned, including some wooden pipe cleaners with heads of accounts, crepe paper cheap wedding dresses. Some are still padded original box, which is worth more to them, says Sue. It has the plastic from the 1950s, a hippie couple and their 60 favorite of all time, a pair of porcelain, in which the groom extruded hair and striped trousers.
Sue has to choose his daughter Jenny, a wedding topper of the collection by your own cake, when they married. Jenny then-boyfriend, Michael Stumpf, is of German origin, so Jenny took some cookies are here and stay at his home in Richmond.
Sue cake until four main branches of military service.
"I love the service," he said. "My father was in the army. I found most of them, then I read somewhere that the military pie is very difficult to find."
Could it be that they are victims of repeated movements?
Cakes age usually are rare, he said. Flea markets and antique shops used to be a good place to be looking after them. But no more, he said. Brides lay flowers on the cake today, whether real or sugar.
Icing flowers are a touch sweet, but somehow not the same as a bride and groom, like the real thing, but smaller, always smiling and always young.