Let Them Eat Wedding Cake

August is the month of weddings nowadays and with it comes endless helpings of wedding cake. This is the high point of any big day , even if the couple is just having a city hall nuptial. No matter how fancy or simple the nuptials are there's always a wedding cake. It symbolizes the celebration of love and all the sweetness that comes with it.

Wedding cakes are nothing new.They go back as far as the Roman Empire when some form of a sweet (probably a honey) bread was broken over the bride's head. The Medevial period gave us sweet buns piled up to be given to guests later on. The couple were expected to kiss over these and if they succeeded it meant many children for them in the years ahead.Tiered and iced cakes started coming along with the marriage of the English nobles. It trickled down to the lower classes and the American colonies. Early Americans favored a white iced cake because it the whiter the icing the more refined and more expensive the sugar was , hence symbolizing wealth. A white wedding cake also symbolized purity. The whole tradition of saving the top most layer. That came form having a couple's first child christening close to the wedding (they weren't all that uptight back then). and eating it then.

Nowadays wedding cakes can come in different shapes , sizes and flavors. If a couple likes the beach, the cake can be made to look like a sand castle.If the couple adore football, then it can be turned into a stadium. Flavors are also different. Chocolate, once reserved for the groom's cake - a Southern tradition- is now the most popular flavor for wedding cake.s Carrot is another popular one while vanilla seems to be up holding its' own. Wedding cakes also have cascades of fresh flowers coming done them too, a popular decorating idea first executed in the 1980's

If you're invited to an August wedding or several , sit back and enjoy the cake. It's a tradition that has held up for millenniums . Enjoy it as you celebrate the new couple.