Most men hate to admit that they have been spending the last week before their wedding going through catalogues, visiting bakeries, and consulting professional confectioners for their wedding cake. But that doesn’t stop the concept of a groom wedding cake from being one of the top attractions at a wedding and a measure of your sense of style. A wedding cake is mostly associated with the bride. And with the layers topped up with miniature mannequins of the bride and the groom locked in an embrace or holding hands— it conjures up the typical Christian wedding in front of our eyes.

Traditionally a groom’s cake is supposed to be a simple fruit cake. Decorated with marzipan, this cake used to be placed beside the actual wedding cake. At the end of the ceremony guests would take little pieces of the cake home, and what’s more, single women who slept with a piece of the groom’s cake under their pillows, would dream of their future husbands! The tradition of wedding cakes for grooms originated in the Southern parts of the US but is now prevalent almost all over the world. Indeed from a simplistic tradition whereby close friends and family could have fun, the wedding cake has become a serious matter which serves many purposes: from symbolizing the groom’s character to upping the ‘It-factor’ of the wedding.

The hunt for the perfect groom cake should begin well in advance, unless you want to fret over innumerable trips to the bakeries and appointments with your personal confectioner just hours before the wedding.

Think of it in the same way as you did the engagement ring. It’s unlikely you just visited the 77 Diamonds website or the jeweller at the last minute to find one, chances are you spent months considering it. Your wedding is the biggest day of you life and you know just how important it is to get things right, so don’t let the groom cake let you down.