Let Them Eat Cake

Today’s wedding cakes are often elaborate, gravity-defying creations that consume a healthy chunk of the nuptial budget. USU folklorists say the tradition had its modest beginnings in medieval England, where guests brought small cakes to the celebration. A traveling French baker came up with the idea of icing all the cakes together into a larger confection, thus creating the multi-tiered wedding cake.

For more information about Utah traditions and folklore research, contact Randy Williams, curator, Fife Folklore Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University Libraries, 435-797-3493.