Decorated with globs of sugary confections, the traditional white wedding cake can be quite a showpiece, but more often than not, tastes awful. The word “saw dust” has been frequently used to describe ...

What I’m about to write may shock you: I bought my wedding cake at a grocery store. It wasn’t fancy, but it didn’t need to be—all I wanted was a small, simple confection that I could ceremonially ...

Wedding-cake history involves a lot more than taste tests and good-luck traditions. Here's how this wedding staple started. When I got married, I had exactly three criteria for the cake: 1) It had to ...