10 Old Wedding Traditions You Didn't Know Existed

The wedding cake had to be saved for the birth of the first kid.

When a bride and groom cut into their wedding cake, they often set aside the top tier to be whisked away and placed in a freezer for safekeeping. Today, many couples savor the saved cake on their first anniversary. But according to Martha Stewart Weddings, tradition once held that the cake should be retrieved and eaten (after hopefully thawing for a couple of days) in celebration of the birth or christening of the couple's first child, as that event was generally expected to occur within the first year of marriage.