6 Wedding Cake Traditions You Can Incorporate into Your Wedding

Whether it’s the throwing of the bouquet, carrying the bride over the threshold, or making sure you have something blue, many couples love to incorporate various superstitions and traditions into their wedding day. It’s no different when it comes to the wedding cake, although you probably won’t be breaking wedding bread over the bride’s head like they did in Ancient Rome! Here are just six popular wedding cake traditions you may want to include in your wedding.

Cutting the cake together

Traditionally it was just the bride who cut the wedding cake, however, with increasing tiers and guests attending weddings, both partners now cut the first slice of the wedding cake. It’s a lovely, sweet moment that your friends and family, as well as your photographer and videographer will make sure they capture (along with your first kiss and first dance!). Additionally, your guests will get to taste your delicious wedding cake, and here at A Piece of Cake, we often have people choosing us as their baker after tasting their friend or family member’s wedding cake made by us!

Feeding each other cake

In recent years, smashing the first bite of cake in each other’s faces has become increasingly common, but everyone has their own views on it. Like any tradition, it’s completely optional if you take part in it, but most couples choose it because it gives you and your partner the chance to be playful during a day full of formality and seriousness. It also makes for a funny photo to include in your wedding album! Just make sure you’ve both decided whether to delicately feed each other a bite of cake or you’re going for the playful smash ahead of time.

Save your cake’s top tier

Going back to the 19th century, the top tier of the wedding cake was saved for the christening of the married couple’s first child. Nowadays, however, many couples wait longer to have children and the top tier of the wedding cake is saved until the first wedding anniversary. If you’ve decided to keep the top tier of your cake for your anniversary, remember that any garnishes, flowers, leaves as stems need to be removed first! You’ll also need to ensure that the cake is carefully wrapped to prevent freezer burn.

White wedding cake

Wedding cakes have been white ever since Queen Victoria had a brilliant white wedding cake. At the time, fine, white sugar was extremely expensive and it was a sign of wealth to have a white wedding cake. Nowadays, you can choose almost any colour or flavour for your wedding cake, especially with A Piece of Cake. Not only will we work with you to create a delicious wedding cake that looks and tastes exactly how you want it to, we offer modern alternatives to traditional wedding cakes, such as wedding cupcakes – perfect if you want to make sure everyone gets the same amount.

The groom’s cake

Originating in 17th century America as small fruitcakes the guests received as gifts at the end of the celebration, but now they’re made to be richer than the main wedding cake and provide the perfect way for the groom or the couple to show off their passions or favourite flavours if they aren’t included in your main wedding cake, or if you’re having a traditional wedding cake.

Multiple tiers

As far back as the middle ages, individual layers of cake were stacked as high as possible for wedding feasts. The newlywed couple then had to kiss each other over the stack of cakes without toppling them, and if they were successful, they could expect to enjoy a prosperous future together. Nowadays, tiered wedding cakes are exceptionally popular, and at A Piece of Cake, we regularly create tiered wedding cakes ranging anywhere from three to seven tiers for our happy couples. Generally, three tiered wedding cakes will cater for anywhere between 50 and 100 guests, and five layers will cater for up to 200.   For a wedding cake baker in Dublin who you can rely on for exceptional customer service, delicious flavours and beautiful presentation, look no further than A piece of Cake. For more information about how we can create your dream wedding cake, simply call us on 01 452 6271 or get in touch online today..