Wedding cakes have come a long way from the stacks of sweet rolls and fruitcakes of centuries gone by. Meant originally as a wish for prosperity and fertility to the happy couple, what we see now as (generally) a single cake originally started as two cakes. One cake was for the groom, and one for the bride. The tradition turned and changed over the decades, and according to geography. In some cases what is now a cake was once a pie, which was considered bad