wedding cake?

Question

what does a cake symbolizes during wedding ceremony and why does the couple share the first slice?

Answer 1

The cake cutting ceremony traditionally is one of the highlights of a wedding. Sharing the cutting of the wedding cake symbolizes plans to share a home. Feeding each other a piece of the cake represents the first meal together as husband and wife.....

Answer 2

A wedding cake is the traditional cake served to the guests at a wedding breakfast, after a wedding. It is usually a large cake, multi-layered or tiered, and heavily decorated with icing, occasionally over a layer of marzipan or fondant, topped with a small statue representing the couple. Other common motifs include doves, gold rings and horseshoes, the latter symbolising good luck. Achieving a dense, strong cake that can support the decorations while remaining edible can be considered the epitome of the baker's art and skill.

Tradition generally requires that the first cut of the cake be performed by bride and groom together, often with a ceremonial knife, or even a sword. An older, archaic tradition had the bride serve all portions to the groom's family, as a symbolic transfer of her household labor from her family to the groom's family.

Tradition may also dictate that the bride and groom feed the first bites of this cake to each other. Again, this may symbolize the new family unit formed and the replacement of the old parent-child union. It is also fairly popular for the bride and groom to shove the cake in each other's faces, rather than eating it.

Answer 3

wedding cake is normally make of eggs,sugar,cream n flour,the cream can be any flavor with some decoration on the top layer.so wedding cake symbolises sweetness n glory.as a manner the cake is 4 the new couple,so the couple share the first slice of cake.

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Answer 4

Good question - I'm not really sure. I've always thought of it is just one of those charming "traditions". My husband and I cut the cake with a dagger (we had a pirate-themed wedding), but we skipped the whole "feeding each other" part since I didn't like that particular type of cake, and was not about to get any of it in my mouth; it was simply served to the guests.

Answer 5

Traditionally the wedding cake was actually bread, it was symbol of fertility. the bread was broken over the brides head to make her more likely to bear children. Eventually it became cake that was shared with the groom to symbolize their shared happiness.