Ever wonder where certain traditions come from?  Well, the wedding cake has many different traditions attached to it.  The roman used to bake flour-based buns and rolls at weddings to ensure fertility. From there, the Elizabethans started to stack baked goods for the bride and groom to share a kiss over.  However, it was the French who decided to keep these buns and rolls together by frosting them with sugar.  Hence, the first tiered wedding cake.  As for cutting the cake, the bride cuts the first slice so that no one else can "cut in” on the happiness and sweetness that belong to her.  Some traditions have the guests then crumbling the cake and pouring it over the bride's head, while other traditions have the cake being cut and boxed individually for the guests so they may take home a piece of the happiness.  Either way, the very top piece of the cake is to be frozen by the bride and groom and left untouched until their first anniversary when they have a piece together, which, by the way, may be a very well-meaning tradition but as anyone who has ever had year-old frozen cake knows, it's not the tastiest!

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