As in so many other areas of Japanese culture these days, Japanese weddings combine traditional Japanese elements with modern Western touches. This is especially common during the reception, where a Western-style wedding cake is often the centrepiece and the cake-cutting ceremony is a popular photo-op.
Japanese wedding cakes are usually multi-tiered large confections created from sponge cakes with buttercream or sugarpaste icing like Western ones. They are generally provided by the reception venue rather than being bought from a specialist baker or decorator. Traditionally they are white with touches of red in their decoration, since red and white is an auspicious colour combination in Japan.
Sometimes plastic or styrofoam replicas are rented from the reception venue and used for the cake-cutting ceremony instead of real cakes, and the guests are served with slices of sheet cake or individual small cakes in boxes instead of slices of wedding cake.
The replicas are elaborately decorated but impersonal; instead, many couples these days are choosing cakes decorated with themes that have a personal meaning.
Although Japanese wedding cakes look very much like Western ones, their flavour is a little different. Like all Japanese desserts, wedding cakes are delicately flavoured and intensely sweet - another example where the Japanese have taken a Western idea and made it uniquely their own.
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