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Here at Bay Area Wedding Review, we sometimes go a little crazy with wedding items, forgetting what exactly we're getting and why we're getting it. Cakes are a great example. So, for this wedding tip we'll look at them.There are reasons, we spend more for a good cake as the following wedding cake tips, traditions and superstitions may show. And usually, unlike the funny video, there are differences between a good cake and your normal cake. So we're writing today to compile some of the best wedding tips and traditions concerning your wedding cake that you can use here in San Jose. No matter which tradition you follow you'll be cutting the cake so, click here for a list of Wedding Music Cake Cutting Songs.

The wedding cake is a very ancient tradition, which today is a focal point of many weddings. You can find references to it in many cultures throughout history in one form or another. In bygone years, it was customary to through many small cakes over the bride which may have evolved into the Romans baking a sort of bread that was eaten during the wedding ceremony, sometimes it was baked very thin and was broken over the bride's head after the ceremony to symbolize fertility. (Your wedding tip is NOT to break bread on someone's head!)

Wheat has traditionally symbolized fertility. In England during the middle ages, it became traditional to kiss over a cluster of cakes. The higher the tower, the better luck in their marriage. It took a french baker to combine the cakes into one large cake and to use icing. The shape of the modern tiered cake seems to be associated the spire of St. Bride's Church in London.

Cutting the cake is now part of the ritual celebration at a typical San Jose wedding reception. Traditionally the bride and groom make the first cut together and then share that piece between them. If the bride does not...

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