Symbolically, it is the first joint physical act performed by the husband and wife.
It's when the bride and groom share their dessert together.
The bride and groom both hold the knife together to make the first slice in the wedding cake. This symbolizes the beginning of their life together. The cake is sliced after the wedding ceremony at the wedding reception. The rest of the cake is sliced without any special significance as the easiest way to serve the cake to guests.
The slicing of cake in a wedding typically occurs after the ceremony if there isn't food and after the dinner if there is food. Sometimes the bride and groom smash the wedding cake in each other's faces.
* At the wedding reception after the meal is served and approximately one hour after, the wedding cake will be cut by the bride and groom. The bride holds the knife and the groom's hand goes over hers and they make a small slice to feed each other a piece of the wedding cake before serving to their guest. Sometimes the bride and groom will have a little fun and push the cake all over the outside of each others mouths. Then the caterers came and cut the cake and either the bride and groom can serve the wedding cake or the caterers will do it if requested before the reception.
Slicing a cake at a debut party originated in Europe. The significance or cutting the cake at the party symbolizes a shared relationship prior to a wedding.
It depends on whether a bakery where you live would deliver the cake to the wedding reception. It might be quite difficult to transport the cake yourself.
It's for during the wedding reception to celebrate the bride and groom on their wedding day.
The wedding celebration would not be complete if you didn't include this tradition in your list. :) As a wedding consultant, it is a must for you to include this in your list because it symbolically means of having love, honor and respect one another.
The wedding cake is the cake eaten and presented at the ceremony / reception after the wedding has taken place. It is symbolically cut by the newly wed bride and groom, and then eaten. Tradtionally, the wedding cake is large (enough to feed all the guests at the wedding), and white or off-white in color. A groom's cake can be 2 things. It can be a smaller, more "fun" or "exciting" cake that is also eaten during the reception. Or, it can be a cake that is used at a party for the groom, like a bachelor party or something of the sort.
"Cake table" or "reception table" are the only names that come to mind.
I do believe that it means that you are uniting and cutting a piece of your new life together.
During the Reception, about an hour before the end of the reception.