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There are many styles of wedding cakes to choose from. The 'traditional' wedding cake is the three tiered cake with personalised decorations and colours to match or blend in with the colours chosen by the couple. This shape is based on the shape of the spire of St Brides Church in London. The iced and tiered cake was brought to Britain from France after the Restoration in 1660. The idea where the tiers are placed directly one on top of the other is gaining in popularity and both types are generally displayed in specialist cake shops for you to make a final choice.
They can be made with the rich fruit traditional mixture, plain sponge or chocolate sponge and decorated according to the couple's choice. The idea of having many small cakes placed carefully in layers is gaining in popularity as an alternative. It would be easy to distribute the cakes to the guests that way!
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Cutting the cake is a very important part of the reception and is traditional for both partners to cut the cake together, symbolising the joining of their lives. The cake is traditionally made of fruit and decorated with icing. The rich fruit and spices in the cake make it keep longer than a sponge cake and as it usual to send out portions of the cake to guests who were unable to attend the ceremony, as a way of including them in the celebrations. The top tier can be saved for the first Wedding Anniversary.
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The cake is usually served together with a glass of champagne at the reception, after the meal, when the "toasts" commence. Toasts originate from the sixteenth century when a small morsel of bread was put into a goblet of wine which would then be passed from guest to guest until it was finished and the person left had to drink the final drop and eat the crumbs left in the goblet.
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