Leave it to the wedding arena to add an unconventional twist to an age-old tradition. Couples are working with their bakers and caterers and replacing the traditional, formal, multi-tiered wedding cake with a more light-hearted and whimsical desserts. Tiers of doughnuts or, for chocolate lovers, brownies are stacked on top of one another to create the effect of a multi-tiered wedding cake.

No doubt these newlyweds consider themselves trend setters, but the truth be told, this is just another case of "everything old is new again." The traditional style French wedding cake is the croquembouche, a cone made of round cream-filled pastries which is dipped in hot toffee. When the toffee cools, it hardens to form a solid structure upon which decorations are placed. Each guest is served several pastries which are actually broken out from the main structure.

Even further back in history, in Medieval England, cakes were described as breads which were flour-based foods without sweetening. There are stories of a custom involving stacking small sweet buns in a large pile in front of the newlyweds.

Hats off to the creative, "trend setting" couples, whose ideas are actually rooted in tradition.

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