So you are in the process of getting a wedding cake topper to sit on top of your wedding cake. Toppers are certainly a trendy product these days. For example, consider the following search topics that many people are typing directly into into the most popular search engines:

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Just what are wedding cake toppers anyway? That's a fair question. Not many people know what wedding cake toppers are, but they are those small "figures" or "statues" that sit on top of the tiered wedding cake. They seem to yell out "Notice Me...I'm Something Fantastic...I Matter!". From their extremely humble beginnings there is a great variety of cake toppers available in the marketplace today. Let us spend a few seconds learning their history...
After the description a brief history is next. Although no precise records exist of the very first time that someone put the first model on the very top of a wedding cake, a number of traditions do exist. One of the most popular traditions out there these days states that a young girl was engaged and getting married, and she was trying to figure out some way in which she could exhibit the extreme love that she and her future husband shared for each other. Her father happened to be the city baker, and she gave him the assignment. Because he was a baker he naturally baked a wedding cake, but he went ahead and added a little something to the very top of the cake. He positioned a model of his daughter and future son-in-law on top of the cake. This was to show off the adoration that these two young individuals shared for each other.

Did this actually happen? Perhaps. Is it fictional? It might be. Does it foreshadow the prominence that the cake topper would have on not only the wedding cake but the big day? For sure. This mere 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 50's what do you think? King Elvis and Good ole' & Roll right? Well cake toppers were about to become much more popular than ever during these years as those returning from World War II started to settle down and have a family.

Today we see that toppers are extremely popular. They have changed somewhat to reflect the times, but they are popular none-the-less. In today's world you can get toppers that depict mixed race marriages, as well as same-sex marriages as well. Many traditional toppers are being sold these days. One model in particular depicts the bride grabbing her new groom by the scruff of the neck...preventing him from getting away. Another depicts her dragging him back to the preacher after he has made his getaway. Some wedding cake toppers even depict the assortment of hobbies that the happy couple can enjoy together. Fran Tomlinson