Fruit cake at weddings seems like an English tradition. I don't remember seeing one at the dozen-or-so American weddings that I've attended over the last 10 years. The closest that comes to mind was at my wedding, where one layer of the cake was flavored with lemon, with a stripe of Raspberry jam in the middle. But that cake was light and fluffy, in contrast to the dark-colored mass of nuts and dried fruit that I think of as "fruit cake".
Oh I didn't realise it was something only we did. Here cakes for weddings are always the very dark and dense fruit cake that this thread is talking about. Then covered in very thick marzipan and then icing.
