Wedding Blog

I have already spoken about the traditional wedding cake being a white iced fruit cake – but what if this is not your favourite? On your wedding day you are marrying the one you love, so shouldn’t you have a cake you love too?

Stephanie, who lives in London, takes up the story: “When we were planning our wedding, to begin with we were going to go for the traditional sort of cake, but the trouble is, iced fruitcake is not really my favourite – at Christmas time even, I don’t really go it that much. But what I really love is carrot cake, so I thought, why not have a rather fancy carrot cake as the weddding cake? My husband-to-be was absolutely fine about it, but my mother-in-law was the one who was a bit surprised! In the end, everybody loved it – there were hardly any slices left, it went down so well. It was nice to have a really tasty cake at the wedding, instead of something that is just a bit too sweet.”

Cynthia from Yorkshire also had an unconventional wedding cake – her and her husband love cheesecake, and they both decided that their wedding cake had to be a cheesecake, and they had one made that even included the traditional tiers of the wedding cake. Cynthia says, “It was a lemon cheesecake, so it was a pale creamy colour, that went very well with the overall wedding style. We even had it decorated with the traditional wedding decorations in silver, so it actually looked very similar to the usual type of wedding cake.”

The interesting thing about traditions is the way in which people adapt them to changing times and individual taste. So a wider variety of wedding cakes may be a thing of the future?

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