ETERNAL love, beauty and endurance... these are just some of the special meanings behind the lavish official wedding cake in honour of the happy couple.
The eight-tier cake, designed and made by Fiona Cairns, featured 17 different flower designs, each symbolising a particular quality.
The bride and groom cut the first slice of the magnificent confection yesterday afternoon as they celebrated their marriage with friends and family at the Buckingham Palace reception held in the picture gallery.
Among the 900 individually iced flowers were acorns and oak leaves (strength), myrtle (love), ivy (wedded love and marriage), lily of the valley (sweetness and humility), rose (happiness and love), honeysuckle (the bond of love) and daisy (innocence, beauty and simplicity).
Other flowers included sweet William (grant me one smile), apple blossom (preference and good fortune), white heather (protection and wishes will come true), jasmine (amiability), orange blossom (marriage, eternal love and fruitfulness) and lavender (ardent attachment, devotion, success and luck).
Symbolising the national symbols of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland were white rose, daffodil, shamrock and thistle respectively.
The cake was decorated with cream and white icing using the Joseph Lambeth technique – a style of decorating a cake in which intricate piping is used to create three dimensional scrollwork, leaves and flowers.
St James’s Palace said the method ensured “the wedding cake of choice for anyone who wants a traditional looking, elegant wedding cake”.
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