Cake design hits a sweet spot at the centre of today’s weddings.
In the age of cake design, the wedding cake has become a key element of the wedding reception: it must impress for its visual impact, reflect the couple’s social status and mirror current trends as well as the personalities and relationship of the bride and groom.
Eating sweets to celebrate a marriage is an ancient custom, tied to wishes for fertility and happiness. In ancient Greece, brides were given a dessert made of sesame and honey, or quince.
In ancient Rome, the matrimonial rite of patricians was called the confarreatio, adapted from the name of the spelt cake (panis farreus) shared and eaten by the bride and groom to symbolise their future life together, while the mustaceum, a must-cake or laurel-cake of wheat or corn, was crumbled over the bride’s head during the actual ceremony.
At medieval English weddings the custom was apparently to pile small sandwiches one on top of the other: the marriage would be happy if the bride and groom managed to lean over from opposite sides of the small tower and kiss.
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In the age of cake design, the wedding cake has become a key element of the wedding reception: it must impress for its visual impact, reflect the couple’s social status and mirror current trends as well as the personalities and relationship of the bride and groom.
Eating sweets to celebrate a marriage is an ancient custom, tied to wishes for fertility and happiness. In ancient Greece, brides were given a dessert made of sesame and honey, or quince.
