So you are in the process of getting a wedding cake topper to sit on top of your wedding cake. Toppers are certainly a hot wedding accessory these days. In regards to an example, consider the following keyword phrases that many people are typing into the most popular search engines:

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Do you have any idea what a wedding cake topper is? You have asked a very valid question. Not many individuals know what they are, but they are those small "figures" or "statues" that position themselves on top of a wedding cake. They seem to yell out "Notice Me...I'm Something Special...I Matter!". From their extremely humble beginnings there is a tremendous variety of cake toppers available in the marketplace today. Let us spend a few moments learning their story...

After the description a brief history is next. Although no accurate records exist of the very first time that someone put a little figure on the very top of a wedding cake, we do have a number of traditions. One of the most popular traditions around states that a young woman was getting married, and she was trying to determine some way in which she could depict the love that she and her husband to be shared for each other. Her father happened to be the town baker, and she gave him the assignment. Due to the fact that he was a baker he naturally baked a wedding cake, but he went ahead and added a little model to the top of the wedding cake. He put a figurine of his daughter and her future husband on on the top of the wedding cake. This was to exemplify the extreme love that these two young individuals shared for each other as they started their new life together.

Did this actually happen? Perhaps. Is it fictional? It could be. Does it foreshadow the prominence that the cake topper would have on not only the wedding cake but the big day? Undoubtably. This humble baker probably had no idea what a trend he had begun. What we now call the wedding day would never be the same again...

When you think of the 1950's what do you think? The King (Elvis) and Good ole' & Roll right? Well cake toppers were to become more popular than ever during this decade as those soldiers returning from WWII started to settle down and develop a family.

In the world today we see that cake toppers are just as popular now as they have ever been. Styles have changed somewhat to reflect the changing times, but they are very popular none-the-less. In this world in which we live you can get cake toppers that depict mixed race marriages, and same-sex marriages as well. Many funny toppers are being offered these days. One such model depicts the happy grabbing her new groom by the scruff of the neck...preventing him from running off. Another depicts her dragging him back to the minister after he has run off. Some toppers even depict the various things that the happy couple can enjoy together. Sue Tapley