Wedding Cake -A simple of Love -

WEDDING CAKE - A SIMPLE OF LOVE

Do You Actually Know how the Wedding Cake became a Symbol of love

Transformation of Cakes through Histories

Actually the wedding cake transformed from Ancient cultural rites to modern symbol of love and prosperity. They are developing throughout centuries from ancient Romans via medieval period to Victorian period and to the Modern Period. Transformation of cakes from broken bread to the icing frosted cakes had taken the span of thousands of years

Romans, the Formation of First Wedding Cakes

The First Wedding Cakes was formed by Romans where the Groom broke the cake made with barley or wheat above the bride’s head and sprinkle the crumbles to the head by which the guest would scramble to pick it for they believed it for good fortune. This act is done by the belief of sharing prosperity and meant to bring good luck to the new couple

In The Medieval Ages

Compared to previous traditions, wedding cakes started to become sweeter and more decorative during the Medieval Ages in Europe especially England. Guest who came would bring small sort cake buns or sweets to the wedding . they were arranged as tall stack. Bride and groom in an attempt have to kiss the cake over the stack without knocking it down.Successfully doing so was believed to bring prosperity and good fortune to their marriage.

Sweetness of Seventeenth Century

As sugar were more wider and cakes are made more sweeter than ever before in ancient times. While in 1703 an apprentice , who had fell in love with is master’ daughter, wishing to impress her bride, made an amazing tier cake inspired by tower of St Bride’s church. This was the first recorded tier cake in the history of wedding.

Royal Icng Era of the Victorian Period

Victorian period is the era of purely white iced cakes are a part of wedding, popularised by Queen Victoria in her wedding weighed 300 lbs. While refined sugar were expensive at that age most cake use white icing symbolises purity and love. The displayed white cakes also symbolises wealth and status. Many cake also created as multi-tiered cakes for wedding

Symbolism of the Modern Era

Today, in the modern era wedding cake represents the essential element in cople’s wedding. They no longer symbolises wealth but expressions of love and unity.Cake cutting in eedding symbolise first joint task of shared ha[ppiness and joy. Receptions of wedding are often started with prayer follows with cake cutting ceremony. Each cake cutting is the servong each other with a romantic gesture bite representing their commitment to look after one another with mutual understandings. And sharing with community often represents their happiness of shared love of cute couple.

The history of wedding cakes symbolises wealth and status in longmedieval period to the symbolism of love and purity to the modern period. Every Bite tells a story of sweet history.

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