The tradition of a bride and groom cutting a wedding cake at their wedding reception is a custom that dates back to the time of the Roman Empire. The groom would break a loaf of bread over the bride’s head to symbol the dominance he had over her.
In the present day, this would be deemed deeply inappropriate and many couples now choose between serving a traditional tiered wedding cake or the increasingly popular trend of wedding cupcakes.
Here are 7 reasons as to why you should consider serving cupcakes over the traditional tiered wedding cake.
1. With wedding cupcakes, you can have as many different flavours as there are cupcakes, whereas with a traditional wedding cake, you’re normally limited by having a different flavoured cake per tier. So the wedding cupcake offers more variety.
2. Although it’s technically still possible for the bride and groom to complete their first task together, that of cutting the cake, why not feed a cupcake to each other and create a much more entertaining photo opportunity?
3. Rather than settle for the traditional cake which is decorated in white icing to symbolise purity, with wedding cupcakes you can match your wedding colour scheme more easily to the icing on your cupcakes.
4. You can personalise each cupcake, either with a name or symbol that means something to each of you and give the wedding cupcakes as wedding favours.
5. Cupcakes can often be a more affordable alternative to the traditional wedding cake.
6. Some venues actually have the gall to charge a cake cutting fee if you opt for a traditional wedding cake. Get around this outrageous policy by serving wedding cupcakes instead.
7. If you like the idea of having a tiered wedding cake, there’s no reason why you can’t achieve the same effect with a mountain of wedding cupcakes. You can display your cupcakes on one huge wire cupcake stand, or on multiple cupcake trees scattered throughout your reception venue.
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