The bride and groom topper on a contemporary wedding cake often is made of plastic or sugar. But the traditions of wedding-cake toppers and even wedding cakes do not go back very far. The sweets ...

Let's help this reader find the perfect wedding cake topper! Writes Save the Date reader Daniella: I love the traditional bride and groom wedding cake toppers, but the ones I've seen in stores are ...

A tiny bride and groom live in a white bucket up in the attic of Betty and Jim Kasdorf's Wauwatosa home. They wait there so patiently for someone else in the family to fall in love seriously enough ...

Sue Wilson has been married to husband Bob for 46 years. She owns more than twice that many wedding cake toppers, including the tiny bride and groom that stood in the frosting atop her own cake in ...

At most American weddings, you can expect to see a wedding cake, usually covered in white frosting and often topped by bride and groom figures made of china, plastic, composition or even molded sugar.

Thanks to some young, venturesome companies capitalizing on the permutations of modern love, many of those keepsake bridal figurines that grace wedding cakes everywhere this time of year look ...