The origin of wedding cakes goes back hundreds of years. In ancient Rome marriage was effected by the simple process of the bride and bridegroom breaking a cake of bread and eating it together. This, in time, developed into the bride cake. The bride cut it because it was the duty of the woman to prepare food for the man. Everybody knows the superstition about sleeping on wedding cake. Country girls in England, even in this age of cynicism, look forward to the weddings, of their friends, so that they may get a piece of wedding cake, which, if placed under the pillow, has the power to produce in dreams the vision of a prospective husband.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 16
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