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Wedding Cake Etiquette
Be sure to also read our Wedding Cake Article: Let Them Eat Cake! The Contemporary Wedding Cake  Wedding Cake Design Ideas Wedding cakes have become a great way to express your style and creativity. It is rare to find a plain, white wedding cake. Here are some wedding cake design ideas to create a delicious, edible work of art!
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Cutting the Wedding Cake  Best Wedding NJ Wedding Cakes New Jersey / specialty cakes nj: For the wedding cake of your dreams & service with a personal touch! Best Wedding NJ offers beautifully Customized NJ Wedding Ceremonies and Affordable NJ Wedding Services, Wedding Music, Wedding Photography & Wedding Video, Tuxedos, Wedding Cakes, Wedding Rings, Wedding Invitations, Wedding Flowers, Limousines, Ice Sculpture, Chocolate Fountains, and so much more! FREE wedding planner, wedding vows & articles! If you are planning the Ultimate New Jersey Wedding of your dreams, you have come to the right place! A History of Wedding Cake
The wedding cake has been part of the marriage ceremony ever since medieval times. Originally wedding cakes were made of wheat, which was a symbol of fertility and prosperity. As a relic of once performed fertility rites, the wedding cake was then thrown at the bride!
The Romans began baking wheat and salt into a small cake to be eaten. During the wedding ceremony, the groom would eat part of this barley bread loaf, and then he would break the rest over his bride's head! This was taken as a sign of good fortune, and a blessing for long life and many children. The wedding guests would try and obtain a crumb for themselves as they too believed they would then share in the good fortune and future prosperity of the couple. It was only the children born to the couple whose marriage had been celebrated this way, that could qualify for high office in Roman culture. Not only did the wedding cake give good fortune to the couple, the wedding cake insured a bright future for their unborn children. History also tells us that breaking the bread symbolized the breaking of the bride's virginal state and the dominance of the groom over her. As the wedding cake evolved into the larger, modern version, it became physically impractical to properly break the wedding cake over the bride's head. The tradition disappeared fairly quickly, though there were still reports in Scotland, as late as the 19th century, of breaking an oatcake over the bride's head. It was also reported that in Northern Scotland, friends of the bride would put a napkin over her head and then proceed to pour a basket of bread over her! In Medieval England, the wedding cake was described as a bread which was a flour-based food without sweetening. The breads were included in many celebratory feasts of the day, not just at weddings. No accounts tell of a special type of wedding cake appearing at wedding ceremonies. There are, however, stories of a custom involving stacking small buns in a large pile in front of the newlyweds. Stacked as high as possible the idea was to to make it difficult for the newlyweds to kiss one another over the top. If the bride and groom were able to kiss over the tall stack, it was thought to symbolize a lifetime of prosperity. Eventually, the idea of stacking them neatly and frosting them together was adopted as a more convenient option. It is told that later in the 1660's during the reign of King Charles II, a French chef, whose name is now lost, visited London and was appalled at the cake-piling ritual. The chef, who was traveling through England at the time, noticed the inconvenience of piling smaller cakes into a mound, and conceived the idea of constructing them into a solid stacked system. This earliest tiered wedding cake utilized short-cut broom sticks to separate it's layers. Since such an elaborate wedding cake needed to be prepared days in advance, and because of the lack of modern refrigeration or plastic wraps, the wedding cake was frosted in lard to keep it from drying out. The lard was scraped off just before serving. In later years, sugar was added to improve the taste of the lard and allowed the lard to be left on the wedding cake as a decorative icing. The wedding cake took yet another course correction when in the 17th century a popular dish for weddings became the Bride's Pie. The pie was filled with sweet breads, a mince pie, or may have been merely a simple mutton pie. A main ingredient was a glass ring. An old adage claimed that the lady who found the ring would be the next to be married. Bride's pies were by no means universally found at weddings, but there are accounts of these pies being made into the main centerpiece at less affluent ceremonies. The name Bride cakes emphasized that the bride was the focal point of the wedding. Many other objects also were given the prefix of bride, such as the bride bed, bridegroom and bridesmaid. By the late 19th century, the wedding cake became really popular, and the use of the bride pie disappeared. Early wedding cakes were simple single-tiered plum cakes, with some variations. There was also an unusual notion of sleeping with a piece of wedding cake underneath one's pillow which dates back as far as the 17th century, and quite probably forms the basis for the tradition of giving wedding cake as a gift. Legend has it that sleepers will dream of their future spouses if a piece of wedding cake is under their pillow. In the late 18th century this notion led to the curious tradition in which brides would pass tiny crumbs of wedding cake through their rings, and then distribute them to guests who could, in turn, place them under their pillows. The custom was curtailed when brides began to get superstitious about taking their rings off after the ceremony. 
White Wedding Cake  The Multi-tiered Wedding Cake The once simple wedding cake has evolved into what today is a multi-tiered wedding cake extravaganza! Multi-tiered wedding cakes were originally reserved for English royalty. Even for the nobility, the first multi-tiered wedding cake was real in appearance only. Their upper layers were mockups made of spun sugar. Once the problem of preventing the upper layers from collapsing into the lower layers was solved, a real multi-tiered wedding cake could be created. Pillars as decoration existed long before the multi-tiered wedding cake appeared, so it was a natural progression for wedding cake bakers to try using pillars as a way to support the upper tiers. To prevent the pillars from sinking into the bottom tier, icing was hardened to provided the necessary support. There are some brides today who can't resist saving the top layer of her multi-tiered cake. Couples freeze the wedding cake with the intention of sharing it on their first wedding anniversary. The tradition has its roots in the late 19th century when a grand cake was baked for christenings. It was assumed that the christening would occur soon after the wedding ceremony, so the two ceremonies were often linked, as were the cakes. With modern wedding cakes becoming more and more fancy and elaborate, the christening cake quickly took a back seat to the wedding cake. When three-tiered wedding cakes became popular, the top tier was often left over. A subsequent christening provided a perfect opportunity to finish the wedding cake. Couples could then logically rationalize the need for three tiers; the bottom tier for the reception, the middle tier for distributing and the top for the christening. As the time between the weddings and the christenings widened, the two events became disassociated, and the reason for saving the top tier of wedding cakes changed. Regardless of the underlying reason, when the couple finally does eat the top tier of their wedding cake, it serves as a very pleasant reminder of their very special day. Order your New Jersey wedding cake / specialty cakes nj today! |
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