The Wedding Cake

In medieval times, guests to a wedding brought bread or cake along to gift the couple getting married. It was placed before the couple, who had to kiss over the pile.

Currently, every wedding features a multi-tiered cake, and that tradition is believed to have originated from the 1882 wedding of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Over the next few decades, placing pillars between the tiers also became a thing – but originally those pillars were made from chopped broomsticks covered in icing.