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A wedding is not a wedding without the cake, and a cake is not a cake without a topper. Logically speaking, your wedding cake should have a wedding topper. But did you know that the wedding cake and it's topper's root of existence is still an unproven mystery? Some says it dates way back during the Roman Empire where baking the cake merely consists of wheat flower. During the reception, custom dictates that the cake be broken against the bride's head! I'm glad I did not marry during those times! When the cake had been break, it would be shared with the guests for good luck. This sharing for good luck still exists today. The wedding favors usually consists of a portion or a sample of the wedding cake. Through time, it has evolved into something more lasting like trinkets and usable items.

Another story I heard on the origins of the wedding cake says that the wedding cake is baked and included in it is a glass ring. When the cake has been broken, still via the bride's head, shared with the guests and whoever gets the glass ring would be the next to marry. I am wondering what will happen if one swallows it? Or a married man happens to get the ring? If this story is ever true, I would understand why it would have evolved into the boquet throwing of the bride and the garter toss of the groom.

This one story makes me wonder how difficult it is to get a man to marry you during those days. Still when the cake has been broken, females will have a piece of the broken cake passed over to the bride's wedding ring then go home with it. What will they do? They will sleep with that small piece of cake under their pillow! Oh my, imagine the ants getting the scent of those cake. They believed that if they do this, they will be able to dream who their future husbands would be. On the other хэнд, remember those little ribbons that decorate the wedding cake usually running around the edge of each layers? There's a certain point in the reception program where all single ladies are called to pull out one ribbon. In it contain fortunes on love, much like a fortune cookie.

The wedding cake topper was said to be the request of a baker's daughter as a symbol of the couple's love for each other. Such story further explains its reason being placed at the center of the reception venue. This is also the same rationale for using a wedding topper atop your wedding cake.

Do you believe that if you spent time choosing and deciding on the appearance and taste of your wedding cake, you should also spend time in choosing your wedding topper, too? Philosophically speaking, the wedding topper symbolizes the bride and groom's love for each other. Basing from the folktale mentioned above, couples should always use their love for each other in whatever decisions in their married life - that love should rule their heads. Quite a reasonable philosophy if you ask me.

Jesse Vickers enjoys writing for Hqweddingfavors and Corporatesnobs which offers and as well as a host of additional products.