Wedding Cake Traditions Explained
When you attend a wedding, perhaps the most gorgeous sight to behold after the bride and groom is their wedding cake. As it sits in the place of honour as the centrepiece for the reception area, you’re forced to think how and why such majestic culinary masterpieces came to take their modern form. Legend has it that back in medieval times; buns were used instead of cakes during the cutting ceremony. But the underlying meaning behind the tradition remained the same. There are plenty of such old school wedding cake traditions that we practice more or less the same way. Care to find out? Read on below! Closing the ceremony Wedding cakes weren’t always meant to mark the close of a traditional wedding. According to ancient Roman tradition , a single-tiered wheat or barley cake would be broken over the bride’s head and she would eat the crumbs afterwards with the groom for good luck. Later, sometime in the 17 th century, bride pies were introduced. These ...