Wedding cakes have come a long way from their humble origins. From the times of the Roman Empire (when the ancestor of the wedding cake used to be a loaf of wheat bread, crumbled and sprinkled on the bride as a sign of fertility and prosperity) to the most modern multi-tiered wedding cake – this blissful tradition has evolved along with the times. Today, the cutting of this cake is the high point of every marriage ceremony. Every woman has dreamed about and planned to the last detail exactly what her wedding cake will be like. Custom designed cakes with personal motifs such as toppings have become the latest trend in this long held tradition. A cake dressed up as two laptops connected to each other makes for a special tribute to the couple who found each other online. Monochromatic designer cakes work wonderfully when the bride, the bridegroom, the bridesmaids, and the wedding party are all dressed in black and white.
The weddings of today are massively detailed productions that require precision planning. This undertaking calls for a collaboration between a whole lot of different people such as wedding planners, caterers, dressmakers, decorators, photographers, videographers, and the families of the bride and the groom. In such a scenario, the wedding cake is perhaps the ultimate sweet spot that ties the whole event together. Choosing the right wedding cake is a really big decision and it cannot be made by simply flipping through magazines. In fact, designing wedding cakes is quite a big industry today.
So what does the future have in store for this wonderful tradition? Perhaps, it is the key that will shape how the structure of marriage evolves. Perhaps, wedding cakes will be reminiscent of the past era of romance or like everything else about a marriage, this tradition too will evolve. Nobody knows what the future looks like, but the wedding cake is the one tradition that simply will not fade away.
