Collection: What is the symbolic significance of wedding cakes?

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This illustration comes from "Girls' own magazine", which is published between 1880 and 1908. The picture depicts the wedding scene. The bride is distributing the cake to the guests.

The tradition of cutting cakes at the wedding originated in Europe. During this ceremony, the groom and the bride must hold a special knife together and cut the cake together.It is believed that the wheat that makes cakes symbolizes fertility, and the debris of the cake also represents luck.Therefore, a cake must be made during the wedding, letting the newlyweds sharing together, so as to symbolize the future life of the two people is happy, sweet, and happy, and the cakes are also divided to the guests, so that everyone can feel the newlyweds and wifeHappiness.

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