Show trace wedding ca cake ki to old roman custom the wedding cake ja Is be believed to be the survival of an old roman practice when the bride and groom oot not only ate together as a sign of their kins kinship pip and mutual lave alove but feasted the guests as wel well IC at this time alin C it was good etiquette to break the eake cake over the brides head as ia a sign of I 1 falness ful ness in the mair marriage lage ceremonies of lie ho earby anglo saxons huge baskets of dry crackers were employed after tile the feast each guest took a cracker home with him and the remainder arwas distributed distribute t to the poor later ItI It became the custom for the ru guests ests themselves to bring to the wedding small email richly spiced buns which were plied piled in one huge mound loundon mo on the table it wap waa a common occurrence for the bride and groom to attempt to kiss each other over this mound mouhe and it if they succeeded they were assured lifelong prosperity it Is said the wedding cake of today Is due to the genius of a french cook who while traveling in england observed the inconvenience of stacking hu hundreds 0 of f these small cakes in a mound and conceived the idea of cementing the mound into inid a single huge cake with icing at the wedding feast it was the duty of tile the newly married man to whit walt on hla bride at the table able whence came tle name bridegroom signifying ang one who serves the bride |