wedding cake
noun
1
: a usually elaborately decorated and tiered cake made for the celebration of a wedding
2
: something (such as a large building) resembling a wedding cake especially in elaborate ornamentation
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A Real Treat After the couple recessed down the runway, assistants wheeled in a seven-tier wedding cake.
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Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Ashton Kutcher, Grohl, Fred Armisen, and Bill Hader all reunite at Armisen’s daughter’s wedding to ride one more time — but mostly to tip over table settings, crush the wedding cake, and break poor Kenan Thompson’s tray of champagne glasses.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
Guests enjoyed a watermelon salad for an appetizer, then chose between a filet mignon, chicken breast or mushroom risotto for their main course before diving into slices of a four-tier vanilla wedding cake and spoonfuls of mango sorbet topped with Tajín.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Cake Pulling – Peru circa 1945: Still-life of a three-tiered wedding cake decorated with figurines of a bride and groom standing beneath a wreath on the top layer.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
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Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Ashton Kutcher, Grohl, Fred Armisen, and Bill Hader all reunite at Armisen’s daughter’s wedding to ride one more time — but mostly to tip over table settings, crush the wedding cake, and break poor Kenan Thompson’s tray of champagne glasses.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
Guests enjoyed a watermelon salad for an appetizer, then chose between a filet mignon, chicken breast or mushroom risotto for their main course before diving into slices of a four-tier vanilla wedding cake and spoonfuls of mango sorbet topped with Tajín.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Cake Pulling – Peru circa 1945: Still-life of a three-tiered wedding cake decorated with figurines of a bride and groom standing beneath a wreath on the top layer.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Wedding cake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wedding%20cake. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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