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KRISPY KREME WEDDING CAKE !
Suspects leave 15-mile doughnut trail Krispy Kreme doughnuts take the cake at weddings By DON FERNANDEZ Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer JEAN SHIFRIN / AJC Sonya Jones puts the finishing touches on a wedding cake of Krispy Kreme dougnuts. Chuck the rice and garters. Go for the glaze instead. The betrothed are forsaking frosted, fluffy tiers at their wedding receptions in favor of a fried yet familiar cake base -- Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Typically a morning ritual or a warm, sinful snack, the popular pastry is emerging as a new core ingredient for wedding cakes and a souvenir from the ceremony. Doughnut-crazed customers conjured up the concoction last year, and the cakes -- along with the token gifts -- have been catching on ever since. "We have had people coming in who buy dozens as departing gifts," said George Ray, manager of the Krispy Kreme store in Marietta. "One woman ended up buying 35 dozen. She wanted to make sure when the reception was done, [guests] had a doughnut for the ride home." Neighborhood stores and corporate offices in Winston-Salem, N.C., are taking a flurry of calls -- as many as 20 to 40 a week -- as the trend simmers. They even have a sort of doughnut wedding planner who helps ease fears that go along with building a wedding centerpiece from a snack. "Most people are using their imaginations so when it comes time for the wedding they're doing it themselves," said special events coordinator Catherine Hawkins-Speller. "We're doing more than weddings; bar mitzvahs, birthdays." Amanda Albright of Atlanta will pass out a truckload of pastries after her "I do's" on Oct. 26. "We were looking for a fun way to end it and thought it would be fun to have the Krispy Kreme doughnut [truck] come up and add a little whimsy," said Albright, who's opting for doughnuts instead of an actual cake. "The plan is to have the limo drive away and have their Krispy Kreme truck pull up. If only they could deliver them warm." 
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