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A wedding cake is the traditional cake served at wedding receptions following dinner. One of the main events of your wedding day will be when you get to cut your wedding cake in front of all your friends and family. Your wedding cake will sit beautifully throughout your wedding reception and will be gazed upon by everyone as you cut that very first slice as husband and wife. The national average cost of wedding cakes and desserts will be $451 in 2013, jumping to $466 in 2014, up from 2012’s $437.

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It is traditional for a new bride to wear a white wedding dress at the ceremony, often with a matching veil. The white wedding dress is typically used as a symbol for virginity. However, the color white is also associated with innocence and happiness. Over time, as women from all stages of life are wearing white to their wedding, The white wedding dress has lost the connotations of virginity, and is merely associated with a new bride.