“After the betrothal meeting, both families will make wedding announcement to their relatives and friends by sending out “Double Happiness Cakes” along with wedding invitations. This is the Chinese style wedding cakes also known as “Dragon & Phoenix Cakes”. These are baked cake with dragon and phoenix imprint on the surface. Some styles have fillings made of lotus seed paste, red bean paste or green bean paste.
The wedding cakes are usually presented to the bride’s family by the groom’s family as part of the proposal gift. Bride’s family will then present some of the cakes to worship their ancestors and send the rest of cakes to friends and relatives along with wedding invitations.”
- Source: http://www.chinabridal.com/etiquette/guide.htm
Instead of giving out “Dragon & Phoenix Cakes”, young couples these days are giving out westernized cakes like these! These are what my cousins gave out to our family!
Note: This will be the last post on weddings for the time being. HAHA. I am experiencing wedding-fatigue with all these wedding talks going on
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