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Wedding Cakes

Here are a few guidelines to help you choose the wedding cake:

What sort of cake do you want? Chocolate, fruit, sponge or a combination of these.

How many portions (and how big they are) do you require to get out of your wedding cake?

Do you have a wedding theme that can be carried over on to the wedding cake?

Which type of icing do you want - chocolate covering, royal icing, sugar paste?

Make sure the supplier you choose is easily accessible or will deliver the cake.

Make sure you get references from happy customers.

Obtain a receipt for your deposit.

General information about Wedding Cakes

Throughout history - the wedding cake has been associated with marriage, fertility and bounty. The cake is the focal point of the reception wedding breakfast.

The top tier of the wedding cake is often kept by the couple to celebrate the christening of their first child.

Bridesmaids who place a piece of the couple's wedding cake under their pillow will dream of their future husband.

There was an old English custom, to place a ring in the wedding cake. - The guest who found the ring would be sure of happiness for the rest of the year.

Confetti is Italian for 'small confections' - In Britain the custom used to be one of throwing small cakes over the bride.

Some native American tribes have always used wedding cakes in their wedding ceremonies.

The three tiered wedding cake is believed to take the inspiration for the shape from a City of London church - St. Brides!

The first cut of the wedding cake is made together by the bride and groom - Symbolising their shared future.

Early British wedding cakes were round and flat, full of nuts and berries, that symbolise fertility.

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