Tradition Of Saving Top Layer Of The Wedding Cake
Often you’ll see a wedding cake with many layers. The top layer (the mini cake or top tier) is usually reserved for the Bride and Groom only and is removed and stored for the future. The wedding cake topper is often saved as well.
This tradition mostly likely has it origins from Rome, where the groom would toss cake over the bride in a fertility rite; this later evolved to crumbling cake over the bride‘s head. Somewhere along the time line, the brides attendants started to take their cake pieces home and slept with them under their pillows, in hope of being the next to marry.
Near the beginning of 19th century, the tradition changed and the cakes became more grandiose; including a mini cake (the top tier) that was to be kept for a Christening, hopefully 9 months later.
But today most couples are postponing children; the cake tradition has evolved into a first anniversary tradition. The mini cake is frozen until the first anniversary when the bride and the groom eat it.
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