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A wonderful part of a traditional wedding reception is when the bride and groom cut the wedding cake together. But what sort of cake is the best one to choose for a wedding? First and foremost, a wedding cake should be pretty, and its style should fit in with the overall decor of the wedding. This generally means a white-iced cake, with flower decorations, and sometimes little silver decorations too, such as a small silver shoe, and silver horseshoe. Also bows and ribbons are very much in vogue, and many wedding cakes are topped with a small statue representing the happy couple.

As wedding receptions tend to be large affairs, you must have enough cake for all your guests, and this is why many wedding cakes are multi-tiered, which in itself, can look very appealing.

The wedding cake is usually fruit cake, and the icing is generally over a layer of marzipan, in a similar manner to a Christmas cake.

More recently there has been a trend to use individual cup cakes, instead of an entire cake, and these can be attractively stacked up in tiers in a manner similar to a traditional wedding cake.

Sometimes a piece of the wedding cake, or even the whole top tier, is saved to be eaten at the christening of the first baby.

Some superstitions have grown up around the wedding cake: one of these is that if a bridesmaid sleeps with a piece of the wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband.

Needless to say wedding cakes cost a reasonable sum because of the amount of work that goes into them: in the UK you can pay around £300 for a tiered wedding cake, and in the US the average wedding cake costs around $500.

 

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