What In The Whole Wide World Is A Wedding Cake Topper?

So you are planning on purchasing a wedding cake topper for your unique wedding cake. Toppers are certainly a popular little item these days. In regards to an example, consider the following search topics that people are typing into the various search engines:

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Do you know what wedding cake toppers are? That’s a fair question. Not many individuals know what wedding cake toppers are, but they are those tiny “figures” or “statues” that position themselves on top of a wedding cake. They seem to shout out “Notice Me…I’m Something Really Fantastic…I Matter!”. From their humble beginnings there is a tremendous variety of toppers available today. Let’s spend a few minutes learning their history…

Now that we are done with the description, let us turn our focus to the history. Although no accurate records exist of the first time a person put a little figure on top of a wedding cake, we do have various traditions. One very popular tradition states that a woman was engaged and getting married, and she was trying to determine some way in which she could exhibit the extreme love that she and her husband to be shared for each other. Her father happened to be the baker in the village in which she lived, and she gave him a task. Because he was a baker he naturally baked a wedding cake, but he one step further and added a little model to the extreme top of the cake. He positioned a model of his daughter and future son-in-law on top of the cake. He did this to show off the love that these two young people shared for each other as they started their new life together.

Is this an actual story? Perhaps. Is it fictional? It could be. Does it foreshadow the prominence that the cake topper would have on not only the wedding cake but the big day? This is a given. This humble baker probably had no idea what a trend he had begun. What we now call the wedding day would never be the same again…

What comes to the forefront of your mind when you think of the 50′s? The King (i.e.: Elvis) and Rock & Roll right? Well wedding cake toppers were destined to become much more popular than ever during these years as those returning from the war started to settle down and have a family.

Today we see that toppers are just as popular now as they have ever been. Figures have changed somewhat to reflect the changing times, but they are popular none-the-less. Today you can get toppers that depict mixed race marriages, and same-sex marriages as well. Many humorous wedding toppers are being offered these days. One such model depicts the bride grabbing her new groom by the collar…preventing him from getting away. Another shows her dragging him back to the preacher after he has made his getaway. Some wedding cake toppers even depict the things that the happy couple can enjoy.

We hope that you enjoyed this journey into the world of cake toppers. If you would like to learn more about this we invite you to visit our blog.

So you are in the market for some truly great wedding cake toppers? We will help you to locate all those floral wedding cake toppers to get you going.

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