Show trace wedding cake to old roman custom the wedding cale la believed to be the survival ol 01 an old roman practice when tho bride and groom not only ate together as a sign of their kinship and mutual love but feasted the guests 03 well at this time it wag good etiquette to bleik the cake over the brides held as a sign of falness in the marriage ceremonies of the early anglo barons huge has bets of dry crackers were employed after the feast each guest took a cracker home with him and the remainder was distributed to the poor later it became the custom for the guests themselves to bring to the wed ding sm ill richly spiced buns which were piled in one huge mound on the it was a common for the bride and groom to attempt to kiss each other over this morud and if they succeeded the were assured lifelong crit it Is said the wedding cake of today Is due to the genius of a french cook who while traveling in england observed the in colv of stal sta l ing hundreds of these small cakes in a mound and con calved the idea of cementing the mound into a single huge cike with acin at the wedding feast it was the duty of the newly man to wilt on his bride at the table whence came the name bridegroom signifying one who serves the bride |