Cincinnati wedding cake traditions

Here are some photos of real Cincinnati weddings where brides found wonderful ways to honor tradition.

       This Cincinnati bride and groom surrounded the wedding cake with the cake toppers from their parent's and grandparent's wedding cakes. They were each labeled and dated, 1938, 1939, 1950, and 1956. The bride chose not to have a topper but to use flowers instead, following modern wedding cake fashions.

       This bride chose to have equal-sized bride and groom cakes, to honor her groom and all the chocolate lovers at her wedding. The groom's cake is a rich, dark chocolate with Bailey's Irish Cream filling, garnished with strawberries that have been double-dipped in white and dark chocolate.

The jewelry designer Cartier often suspended diamonds and pearls on his tiaras, "that they may freely tremble with every move of the wearer". This crown was inspired by a 1904 style from the Cartier collection. Many of the older families in England today uphold a long-standing tradition in which the bride wears a tiara that belonged to a family ancestor. By doing so, she marks her transition from one family to another. This bride chose to place a duplicate tiara on her cake top to honor that tradition.

For more information about wedding cake traditions, see:

• Wedding Cake Traditions. As everyone knows, two traditions have become standard in most wedding celebrations: cutting the cake and saving the cake top. In England it is saved for the birth of the first child, in America for the first anniversary. This site explores how to do both in detail.
• Irish Wedding Traditions This website presents the Traditional Irish Wedding Customs. These have been gathered up from all over Ireland and from all different periods..
• Discovering Historical Wedding Traditions.
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• Why a Bride's Handkerchief?
• Why the Honeymoon?
• Why Do the Attendants Dress Alike?
• Why the Blue Satin Garter?
• Why a Matchmaker?
• Why a Trousseau?
• Why Does the Bride Wear White?
• Why Does the Bride Carry Flowers?
• Why Something Blue?
• Why a Wedding Cake?
• The Tradition of the Bridal Shower?
• Why Carry the Bride Across the Threshold?
• Why Old Shoes and Rice?
• Giving the Bride Away?
• Why an Engagement Ring?
• Why the Third Finger, Left-hand?
• Why a Wedding Ring?