English Victorian Wedding Traditions
February 10, 2010 4:03 am MiscellaneousThe classic style of the modern day wedding cake, are you familiar with it? It’s the one that has the distinctive design of smaller tiers as the cake builds vertically upward? Did you know that many believe this model was inspired by the spire of the 14th century Saint Bride’s church in London? How’s that for trivia.Victorian England has brought us many of today’s valued wedding traditions. For example, Queen Victoria herself is said to have had a cake that weighed in at 300 lbs. As confectioners and bakers became more daring and skillful, their creations became even more daring and elaborate. When England’s Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip were married back in 1947, their wedding cake weighed in at a whopping 500 lbs, and was 9 feet tall.
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