{"id":24715,"date":"2013-05-23T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2013-05-17T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T20:57:22","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-wedding-cakes-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-wedding-cakes-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why are wedding cakes so tall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/cake-pop-stand?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/23043_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cake Pop Stand | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/23043_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/23043_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/23043_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/23043_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Those hilarious videos you\u2019ve seen online, where hapless newlyweds accidentally topple their towering wedding cakes, are actually right in line with a centuries-old tradition. Before wedding cakes as we know them were developed, a tradition in medieval England was to celebrate a marriage with a towering pile of sweetened buns. The bread was heaped high on the table, and if the couple could reach across for a kiss without knocking any over, they were said to be guaranteed a life of happiness together. It seems likely that the guests would leave the stack just short enough for the bride and groom to succeed\u2014and yet, the entertainment value of seeing it fall must have been a sore temptation. So, perhaps all of these collapsing confections in the videos are not accidents, but exactly what the wedding cake was originally designed to do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/cake-pop-stand?source=blog\">Cake Pop Stand, $44<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For more great wedding tips and advice, visit <a href=\" https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2013\/wedding-week-2013\/ \">Wedding Week<\/a> on our blog!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The higher the sweets, the stronger the marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":24718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}