Good question! I never heard of that before!
Good Luck and Fertility
With the knife turned upside down for luck, they cut the first slice together. (The caterer must cut the icing first to prevent the cake from falling off.) "Cut the cake" was advertised by the toast maker or best man and drizzled with champagne or sparkling wine.
A Russian wedding
It is not improper to bake your own wedding cake. It is your decision because it is your special day. Baking your own cake may go against tradition and is rumored to bring bad luck, but many disregard that. Do whatever you want to make your wedding day perfect!
It symbolizes the new life that the marries couple will have together and wishes them the best of health, luck, and times to come.
Cake! It is a common tradition to have cake on birthdays, and "cake" rhymes with "luck."
No, it is not bad luck to make love in your wedding dress after you have become man and wife.
Knives have all kinds of superstitions concerning them. To give a knife as a present is said to result in the severing of the relationship - not a good wedding present. If you receive a knife pay the giver a penny to ensure you will remain friends and that the knife will not "turn on you"and cut you. A knife falling from the table foretells of the immediate end of a love affair. or the arrival of a stranger. "Stir with knife, stir up strife" is a common old saying. Finding a knife in the road, or pretty much anywhere else is extreme bad luck... the only way to make it worse is to pick the knife up.
The Christians' wedding cake is one big affair which originated primarily with lots of little wheat cakes. These little cakes were broken over the bride's head to bring good luck and fertility. The present guests then eat a crumb to make it ensure good luck. The vogue of three tier wedding cake started off after the bizarre shape of the spire of Saint Bride's Church. The cutting of the cake together implies that the "just married couple" would share their life together. Tradition has it that the top layer represents them as a couple, while the bottom layer represents the couple as a family. The layer in between represent the number of children the couple would have.
No, it's not bad luck.
I don't know what culture thinks its bad luck to rain on the wedding day but apparently it's good luck. if it rains on your wedding day then it means you're going to be rich !
It is bad luck to break a mirror. There is no not bad luck in breaking a mirror.