Images

Wedding Cake Trivia: Going Beyond the Icing

A perfect wedding is incomplete without a beautiful cake to cut during the reception. However, rather than stressing about the details of your wedding cake, such as what flavor to order or what design to choose, take a breather and enjoy the following wedding cake trivia.
Trivia #1: Throw it to the bride!
Want a medieval-themed wedding? To make it as authentic as possible, you’ll have to settle for a loaf of bread made with wheat and barley as a wedding cake. Moreover, be prepared to go through an odd tradition, because the loaf will be thrown at you, the bride, as a symbol of fertility.
Trivia #2: First, there was “pie”.
Back in the 17th century until the early 19th century, couples preferred a satisfying pie over an icing-covered cake. Inside this so-called “bride pie” is a glass ring that works in a similar way to the bride’s bouquet wherein whoever finds the ring first would be the next bride.
Trivia #3: Love for the bridesmaids.

Did you know that the bouquet isn’t the only way to foretell the future of your bridesmaids? In some parts of the U.S., it was tradition for single women to pull out ribbons from the bottom layer of the wedding cake. Whoever grabs the ribbon with a charm at the end should get ready for wedding bells. Another tradition involved bridesmaids placing a piece of wedding cake under their pillows so as to dream of their future husband.

0 comments: