This woman found a decades-old wedding memory buried in her freezer

For 55 years, a tier of wedding cake sat wrapped and largely forgotten at the bottom of Rochelle Marr's freezer.

But with last weekend's cold weather, Marr and her son Travis decided to do a deep clean of the freezer.

"I came across this cake that I had forgotten all about and it's been moved from different freezers along the way and so I thought I better look at it and I saw there was a date or a writing on the bottom of it."

The writing said "Do not open until 2018."

That year marked the 50th anniversary of her marriage to Brian Marr, a long-time doctor in the Salmon Arm area before he died in June of 2023.

There is a long-standing tradition of saving a section of a wedding cake to eat on the first wedding anniversary or upon the christening of the newlywed's first-born child. 

However, some couples save the cake for much longer.

Rochelle Marr's wedding cake — a fruitcake to be precise — was made by the mother of one of her bridesmaids for the 1968 wedding celebration. 

Rochelle's son Travis said he didn't even know the cake existed until they rediscovered it.

"We had no idea and almost seemed like they had completely forgot about it themselves," Travis Marr said. 

When he spotted the cake in the freezer and heard the story, he urged her to unwrap it. They peeled off the aluminum foil, thawed it out and steamed it up.

They agree the cake is in great shape.

"It looks really good and it smells delicious," said Rochelle.

As to whether it's safe to eat, Travis isn't worried.