Classic Wedding Cakes

Article Written By: jamieturner09

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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There is an endless possibility when it comes to choosing wedding cakes. These days suppliers of these cakes can make almost anything.

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