{"id":35192,"date":"2014-11-24T03:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/fiance-dont-like-cake-need-wedding-cake\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T03:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:33:37","slug":"fiance-dont-like-cake-need-wedding-cake","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/fiance-dont-like-cake-need-wedding-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"My fiance and I don't like cake. Do we need to have a wedding cake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My fiance and I don\u2019t have a sweet tooth and we don\u2019t like cake, any cake. Do we still need to\u00a0have a wedding cake? Why do couples cut a cake, anyway?<\/p>\n

There are many stories about the evolution of the tradition of newlyweds cutting a wedding cake and they stretch all the way back to ancient\u00a0Roman days right through to the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

The consensus, however, is the exercise is supposed to help ensure prosperity and good\u00a0fortune for the newlyweds. How? Apparently, the idea of\u00a0cutting a wedding cake together is a symbolic one. It\u2019s meant\u00a0to represent the first joint task of your new life together, one that is witnessed by your nearest and dearest.<\/p>\n

While we think it’s a truly lovely gesture, that\u00a0doesn’t actually mean\u00a0you must cut a cake – nor that you need even have one. It just means you have to cut<\/p>\n

The thing is, it’s a gesture, a symbol of your new unity, so if you like the idea – but don’t want cake, you could do what so many modern newlyweds do, which is ditch the cake and opt for something else, even a cheese wheel<\/a>,\u00a0where each \u2018tier\u2019 is made up of a different flavour of cheese,\u00a0surrounded by adornments such as crackers, grapes and quince paste.<\/p>\n

It still\u00a0looks amazing in photos and allows you to have a traditional joint cutting as your first act as newylweds, but it is more perfectly suited to couples with savoury taste buds! Of course, if cheese wheels also aren’t your thing,\u00a0there are plenty more alternatives to the humble wedding cake!<\/p>\n

By opting for a wedding cake alternative you both like, you still get to cut ‘something’ together as your first joint act and you still get one of the must-have wedding photos – but without having to munch on so much as a single crumb of cake!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12492,"template":"","au_article_tag":[304,432],"class_list":["post-35192","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-expert-advice","au_article_tag-cake","au_article_tag-etiquette-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/35192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/35192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=35192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}