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

Examples of wedding cake in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The soccer star and the Spice Girls member posed on oversized golden thrones, cut their wedding cake with a sword and dressed their then 4-month-old son Brooklyn in purple. — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026

Pick up the very large and many-layered wedding cake in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and schlepp it to the ceremony in Midtown Manhattan. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 July 2026

Swifties are pretty pumped (check out this Kansas City bakery's wedding cake) and are tracking any sign of what the bride will wear, what inside the arena look like and who's invited (or not). — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 July 2026

The ceremony featured pricey rare flowers, while the reception boasted high-end food from a pair of renowned Florentine chefs and a seven-foot wedding cake. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for wedding cake

• overtake
• rattlesnake
• shiitake
• undertake
• wapentake
• ache
• ake
• bake
• brake
• break
• craik
• crake