Eventually, they became edible, although they were broken over the bride’s head as a symbol of breaking the bride’s virginity and the groom’s dominance over her. (Was this the fore runner for smashing the cake into one’s face?) Based on an ancient London Church, Not developed by a baker, but his apprentice. Thomas Baker had a look at that church and voila! A wedding cake structure that we still follow to this day came up. Need I tell you the wedding was between him and his master’s daughter? Year: 1703.A loaf of bread came before the wedding cake. In the early days of the Roman Empire, cakes hadn’t become a wedding standard. So they used bread, a loaf of bread. They would get some barley bread and the groom would then break the bread into pieces over the bride’s head as a sign of fertility and the superiority of the groom. I think I’ve seen the loaf of bread somewhere on a wedding in Kampala.