Wedding Cakes

History Of Wedding Cake Toppers

Everybody love eating, admiring and photographing a wedding cake but no one truly knows the real story of the wedding cake and the wedding cake toppers. These days everyone assumes that a wedding cake topper is a miniature version of the classic bride and the groom figurine placed on the wedding cake. But let us tell the history of wedding cake toppers as they entered in our lives.




There is a vast cultural history of wedding cake toppers that dates since the late 19th century. Somewhere around the late 1890s the wedding cake toppers finally entered the scene of the weddings, but the 20th century is the real period of the bursting wedding cake topper trends. A different story of the first time when people included in discussions the wedding cake topper dates since 1927. Back then, people started to consider various ornaments, decorations and embroideries of the wedding cake. This is how it all actually began.

Everyone noticed that a simple wedding cake could use some embellishment work here and there and this is how they all pictured more and more floral motifs or other decorative elements for the wedding cake’s cover. As many classic traditional wedding cake toppers picture a bride and a groom kissing, the original wedding cake topper was composed from different bride and groom figurine poses. But with the passage of time, these standard toppers started to include more and more variations on the same theme. The bride and the groom figurines were not only kissing, but also hugging, sitting inside a heart shape, dancing and so on.

In the late 1900s, creators started to change the classical bride and groom figurine with a more interesting, distinctive and unusual one, composed from love birds – doves, swallows to different love symbolic items: bells, dolphins, cherubs, hearts, cupids, stars, initials and so on. All these unique decorative elements were preserved with any wedding until our days. A romantic and popular legend of the history of wedding cake toppers says that a bride asked her father who was a baker to make her a beautiful symbol of love for her and her future beloved husband and place it on the cake for every one to see. So the father created her a two-piece figurine symbol expressing the bride and the groom.

Unfortunately, no one can confirm this story and that is why it will remain a romantic myth. But it’s true that this story tell us something about the meaning of the wedding cake topper and everyone can admit that the topper is nothing but a romantic symbol of the love shared between the bride and the groom. Others say that the origins of the wedding cake toppers come from the ancient Romans when the cakes were beautifully decorated with wheat flowers.