--- title: Pizza Wedding Cake PHOTOS description: In what might be the cheesiest romance yet, an innovative couple has gone viral after nixing traditional wedding cake for a pizza pie. canonical: https://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-31T13:48:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:24.413Z og:title: This Couple Traded in Their Wedding Cake for a Pizza Pie og:description: Relationship Goals og:url: https://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Couple Traded in Their Wedding Cake for a Pizza Pie twitter:description: Relationship Goals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Couple Redefined Relationship Goals By Serving Pizza Instead of Wedding Cake  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 31, 2017 1:48 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 31, 2017 1:48 PM UTC In what might be the [cheesiest romance](http://time.com/4628787/grilled-cheese-maryland-standoff/) yet, attend the tale of an innovative couple who decided to tie the knot and [celebrate with a pizza pie](http://time.com/4687790/weirdest-pizzas/) instead of the traditional wedding cake. According to an interview with [_Wedding Chicks_](http://www.weddingchicks.com/blog/beautifully-unique-miami-wedding--a-pizza-cake-l-14249-l-43.html), Jess Melara and professional baseball player Tony Sanchez were high school sweethearts who got married after 12 years of dating. While the couple’s Miami ceremony in December included a gelato truck and Funfetti cake favors, the real highlight of the nuptials was their four tiered pizza that they had in lieu of cake, since neither Tony nor Jess were particularly fond of the dessert. “Tony and I love pizza and aren’t huge fans of cake, so we surprised our guests with Pizza Cake,” Jess said. “It was saucy and delicious and what pizza dreams are made of.” Agreed. See Jess and Tony’s cheesy marital bliss below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/"},"headline":"This Couple Redefined Relationship Goals By Serving Pizza Instead of Wedding Cake","datePublished":"2017-03-31T13:48:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:24.413Z","description":"Pizza my heart","url":"https://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre","Weddings","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4718663/pizza-wedding-cake/","name":"This Couple Redefined Relationship Goals By Serving Pizza Instead of Wedding Cake"}}]}] ```