Wedding Cake Toppers - The Centerpiece Of Your
Wedding Reception
By Donald Saundersr

The wedding cake has long been the focus of attention at the
reception and for many years now it has been customary to have
a three tiered white wedding cake which is elaborately
decorated and which includes one of a number of traditional
wedding cake toppers such as statue depicting the bride and
groom, a pair of doves, a pair of gold rings or a horseshoe.
 
In medieval times guests would each bring a small piece of cake
to a wedding and these would be stacked together to form a tower
or pyramid. The newly married couple would then kiss over the
top of the cake if they could to bring good luck to their
marriage or, more often than not, would end up falling into the
stack of cake much to the amusement of everyone present.
 
Over time the tower or pyramid formed from individual pieces of
cake evolved into a single cake and the tiered design is thought
to have been based upon the unusual tiered spire of the medieval
church of St Bride's in London.
 
It was also customary for cakes to be made from fruit which was
readily available and to be covered in a layer of fat and sugar
to preserve the cake in the days before refrigeration.
 
Nowadays it is traditional for the bride and groom to cut their
wedding cake together and often to feed each other with the
first bites of the cake as a symbol of the establishment of
their new family unit. A section of the wedding cake (typically
the top tier) is then often removed and stored so that it can be
used at the christening of the couple's first child.
 
While many people today still follow the well established
pattern when it comes to planning their wedding, a growing
number of couples are choosing to depart from tradition and, in
particular, to look for ways in which they can make their
wedding day truly unique and memorable for their guests.
 
As a result it is common today to not only see wedding cakes in
a variety of different shapes, sizes, colors and flavors but
also for couples to use wedding cake toppers as a central focal
point for their cake.
 
Today wedding cake toppers come in all shapes and sizes and can
range from exquisite and unique works of art which are specially
commissioned by the bride and groom to statues depicting the
couple in various hilarious poses which can be purchased quite
cheaply from any one of a large number of suppliers.
 
As couples strive more and more to make their wedding day stand
apart from the crowd we will continue to see attention focused
upon the design of wedding cakes and, in particular, upon the
development of increasingly unique wedding cake toppers.
 

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