If you want to keep the majority of your wedding as traditional as possible while wanting to be original, one way to do so is to have an unusual wedding cake.
It will allow you to convey your unique personalities without compromising tradition.
Wedding traditions have come a long way since the concept of matrimony began.
Some parts have remained consistent, while others have radically changed.
Weddings are packed full of symbolism of love, commitment, purity, celebration, and unity:

• The heavy use of white indicating purity and class.
  
• The cutting of the wedding cake together as the first action that both do as a couple.
  
• The cutting of white icing together also symbolises the breaking of a pure bride's chastity together as husband and wife.
  
• The exchange of rings - a circle with no end

While the tradition of having a wedding cake and sharing it amongst guests has remained, the form of the wedding cake has had many variations.
During the 19th century it was common to see a pie used instead of a cake, it has been referred to as the "bride's pie".
Fruit cakes were then more common, with fruit symbolising prosperity and fertility.
They then became iced with sugar, these were quite dark in colour as white refined sugar wasn't yet developed.
When the ability to refine sugar was first introduced, only the wealthy families used it for icing which symbolised purity and virginity.
It was coined "royal icing" after Queen Victoria had it on her cake.
Now that there are many ways to create and sculpt food in a variety of textures, colours, shapes your options are endless.
Something as simple as choosing a different colour to white can make your cake standout as the unique centre piece of a reception.
You can change the wedding cake topper, you can make an unusual wedding cake by simply changing the main shape to squares, spheres, towers, cylinders, pyramids, you can have the cake sculpted into figurines, a shape of something you and your spouse enjoy doing.
Some examples of a few unusual wedding cakes are below - soccer, baseball, rock climbing, motorcycling, pet owner couples.
Some brides prefer to solely express their personality in special sculptures such as a princess's castle, flowers, etc.
If you want your cake to be the desert then you could look into a range of sweet ingredients, besides cake you may like to try ice cream, or eclairs.
A French tradition is to use croque-en-bouche towers, or you could try a fruit tower with a chocolate fondue fountain.
If you would like a more savoury flavour, then a cheese wedding cake with crackers could be an option.
If you would like to be completely out there with an incredibly unusual wedding cake then some have used a number of tiers of meat pies.
You could use a meat loaf cut into slabs with a gravy fountain.
Or you could have similar with a cheese fondue or gravy type arrangement.
Whatever idea you choose to go with, the uniqueness of your wedding cake will be surely remembered and enjoyed by all your guests.
It's one of the easiest ways to stand out from all other weddings.