FOOD AND FAMILY

1. In Egypt, the bride's family traditionally does all the cooking for a week after the wedding, so the couple can…relax.
2. In South Africa, the parents of both bride and groom traditionally carried fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newlyweds' hearth.
3. The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revelers broke a loaf of bread over a bride's head for fertility's sake.
4. The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.
5. Queen Victoria's wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.
6. Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of groom's cake under their pillows.
7. An old wives' tale: If the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never landing a husband.