Wedding Cake Fun Facts

FERTILITY

• During the time of the Roman Empire, the groom would break bread over the bride's head as a blessing for luck and prosperity. It is the grain that symbolizes fertility and has been featured in weddings for centuries.

• Fruits and nuts were added to cakes in Britian, where it was thought to enhance fertility as well.

HAPPINESS

• An old tradition from Britain was that of baking a ring into the wedding cake as a symbol of happiness. Whoever it was that ended up with the ring in their piece of cake it was said, could look forward to a full year of uninterrupted happiness.

• Another old British custom was to throw a piece of wedding cake on a plate out of a window the day that the bride first returned to visit her family’s home after the wedding. An intact plate indicated a happy future with her husband, but it was doom and gloom if the plate remained intact.Cutting of the cake

• Cutting the wedding cake together symbolizes the couple's unity and their life together as one.

• There is also a superstition that says that whoever out of the bride and groom has their hand on the top while cutting the cake is the one who will be more in control of the relationship.

• The traditionally accepted practice is for the bride to have the first bite; otherwise, she’d be childless and barren.

• The cake should be cut from the bottom layer and never at the top, unless you’d like a replica of the leaning tower of Pisa.