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 A contemporary White wedding cake A wedding cake is the traditional cake served to the guests at a wedding reception (in England, at a wedding breakfast) after a wedding. In modern western culture, it is usually a large cake, multi-layered or tiered, and heavily decorated with icing, occasionally over a layer of marzipan or fondant, topped with a small statue representing the couple. Other common motifs include doves, gold rings and horseshoes, the latter symbolising good luck. Achieving a dense, strong cake that can support the decorations while remaining edible can be considered the epitome of the baker's art and skill. Image File history File links Whitweddingcake. ...
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Photo of American couple performing the ritual of cutting the cake together. ...
Photo of American couple performing the ritual of cutting the cake together. ...
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A wedding reception is a party held after the completion of a marriage ceremony. ...
Confusingly, the Wedding Breakfast is not a morning meal (breakfast), but is the traditional name for the dinner given to the bride, bridegroom and guests at the Wedding reception that follows a wedding in the United Kingdom (and elsewhere?). The name apparently arises from the fact that the bride and...
Nuptial is the adjective of wedding. It is used for example in zoology to denote plumage, coloration, behavior, etc related to or occurring in the mating season. ...
Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing and other edible decorative elements to transform otherwise plain cakes into colorful and festive works of art. ...
This cake has an icing made with sour cream. ...
Fruit shapes molded from marzipan Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and ground almonds that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of total almond content by weight. ...
Fondant is a confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. ...
Modern horseshoes are most commonly made of iron and nailed onto the hoof. ...
Tradition generally requires that the first cut of the cake be performed by bride and groom together, often with a ceremonial knife or even a sword. An older, archaic tradition had the bride serve all portions to the groom's family as a symbolic transfer of her household labor from her family to the groom's family. Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century Look up Sword in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Tradition may also dictate that the bride and groom feed the first bites of this cake to each other. Again, this may symbolize the new family unit formed and the replacement of the old parent-child union.
Other guests may then partake of the cake, portions may be taken home or shipped to people who missed the festivities. (An old tradition held that if a bridesmaid slept with a piece of wedding cake beneath her pillow she might dream of her future husband.)
A portion may be stored, and eaten by the couple at their first wedding anniversary, or at the christening of their first child. The cake may be frozen for this purpose; the top tier of the cake might consist of fruitcake, which could be stored for a great length of time. Infant baptism (also called paedobaptism and pedobaptism), the baptism of the infant children of believers, is an ancient custom of much of Christianity, including the Roman Catholic church, the Orthodox churches, Anglicans, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Methodists, to name a few. ...
History
The origins of the tradition of the wedding cake date back to medieval times, when each guest at a wedding was supposed to bring a small cake, the cakes would be stacked on the table in levels and layers (If the bride and groom were able to kiss over the top of the stack it was considered good luck). These cake stacks would eventually merge into one cake and evolve into the modern wedding cake. Sweets are traditional at many celebrations for most if not all cultures worldwide. Ancient Roman records detail sweets distributed at weddings. The book Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain details the ancient Roman practice of dropping a wedding cake on the head of the bride. Medieval and Renaissance resources also mention large cakes at weddings. Such cakes may have been fruitcake. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ...
A slice of traditional fruitcake Fruitcake is a cake made of dried fruits and optionally candied fruit, spices and nuts that may be soaked in brandy or rum, with the richest versions (possibly iced and decorated) often being used in the celebration of weddings and Christmas. ...
A large cake can take a long time to make, and without modern refrigeration, a heavy fat and sugar frosting may have prevented spoilage by limiting moisture exposure. Another possibility is the use of sugar and fat required satisfying the need for conspicuous consumption for the families involved in the wedding. Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space, or from a substance, and rejecting it elsewhere for the primary purpose of lowering the temperature of the enclosed space or substance and then maintaining that lower temperature. ...
Conspicuous consumption is a term used to describe the lavish spending on goods and services that are acquired mainly for the purpose of displaying income or wealth. ...
The tiered design of the wedding cake originates from the tiered spire of a well known medieval church in London, England, called St Bride's Church. Spire of St Brides Church from Fleet Street St Brides Church Interior St Brides Church could well be one of the most ancient, with worship perhaps dating back to the conversion of the Middle Saxons in the seventh century. ...
Henry VIII of England enacted a law specifying the quantity of sugar a cake may have, possibly to control or tax this prevailing convention. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 - 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland, from 22 April 1509 until his death. ...
During World War II, sugar was rationed in Great Britain, so icing could not be made, and cakes were reduced in size. To overcome this cakes were often served inside a box, which had been decorated with plaster of Paris, to resemble a larger, traditional cake. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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Wedding Cake Toppers
 Not all wedding cakes are traditional - this is a novelty wedding cake depicting the newly married couple. Wedding cake toppers are small models that sit on top of the cake, normally a representation of a bride and groom in formal wedding attire. This custom was dominant in US wedding in the 1950s where it represented togetherness.[1] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (864x648, 111 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (864x648, 111 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
This symbol is still used though there is more variety in design and significance. Wedding toppers today are often figures that indicate shared hobbies or other passions.[1]
Personalised wedding figures can be created from edible sugar paste or from coloured clay, and can be customized to look very similar to the wedding couple or even the whole Wedding Party.
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The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ...
A Bride in a White Wedding dress A white wedding is a term for a traditional formal or semi-formal wedding in British and American, as well as Commonwealth, traditions. ...
A Cake Pull is a tradition at weddings in the Southern United States where tiny silver charms are placed inside part of the wedding cake. ...
A Stack Cake is a unique regional variation that replaces a wedding cake which can be prohibitively expensive in the ecnomically deprived area of Appalachia. ...
An American bride being dressed by her bridesmaid. ...
References University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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