Wedding Cakes in UK and US

In the UK a traditional wedding cake is a fruitcake covered with white icing. It is arranged in three levels or tiers, with the largest tier on the bottom and and the smallest tier on the top.
The bride and groom cut the cake together and give pìeces of it to friends at the wedding reception. Some couples keep the top tier because it is traditional to save it until their first child is christened.
In the US the cake is also decorated with white icing and it is arranged in tiers but it is not fruitcake. The bride and groom cut the cake together and then feed a small piece to each other. It is traditional for the bride and groom to try to make a mess on each other’s faces with cake.