There are many different types of wedding cake and they come in all
shapes and sizes. A quick browse around the web is all it takes to see
just how many different styles of wedding cake there are and you can
find some that aren't even 'cakes' in the traditional sense. Don't be
surprised to find blocks of cheese instead of cake for instance, giant
biscuits, curries or other bizarre items – and plates full of
profiteroles are actually quite trendy and common.Classic wedding
cakes are the several layered design that are of course white and which
get larger with each tier. They have a thick icing and may have baby
blue or light pink coloring well and of course they then have the bride
and the groom standing on top.
The classic wedding cake is hard to beat
as it doesn't seem like it's too self consciously trying to be
unconventional or grab attention and it makes the love feel more 'real'
as a result (if the wedding is very quirky it makes you wonder if they
are trying to make up for something or convince someone). At the same
time classic wedding cakes have a heritage and a history and an
incredibly powerful symbolism.It is a tradition that actually
dates all the way back to the Roman Empire. Here the classic wedding
cakes were not white tiered cakes at all, but rather it was a loaf of
bread which was broken over the bride's head which was a symbol of
dominance over the marriage and her. Of course since then it has become
somewhat more romantic than that. Today it is white in order to
symbolize purity much like the wedding dress and this then right away
shows you why it can be such a shame to have a 'quirky' red wedding cake
which suddenly no longer symbolizes purity. At the same time the famous
cutting is designed to represent the first task that the two will do
together as a married couple and so this is a very important symbol that
should hopefully demonstrate the bond between them. Somehow it's not
the same knocking over a plate of profiteroles together. Then
there's the famous feeding of the cake to each other – and this is
supposed to show love and commitment too, and of course if you'd like to
read into this further it can be seen as helping each other out and
being there for each other.The classic wedding cake is what
everyone expects and so you don't have the strong likelihood that you
are leaving anyone out by choosing something more unusual that they
can't eat. At the same time it echoes the bride's dress and is part of
the whole paraphernalia of the wedding and part of the expectation. It
is almost as though having a wedding without a classic cake is akin to
having Christmas without a tree.
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