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

This included obtaining a wedding cake from a local bakery and finding a photographer, which ended up being a nurse in the hospital’s labor and delivery unit. —Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025

After decades of creating elegant wedding cakes, catering social and corporate gatherings, and turning out delicate eclairs and towering croquembouches, The French Gourmet is calling it quits after selling its Turquoise Street property to a Los Angeles developer. —Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025

Remember: drive slow and gentle, like there's a three-tiered wedding cake in the backseat and a pot of boiling water in your lap. —Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 29 Nov. 2025

Everything dripped with decorative frosting, more of an enchanted candy cottage variety than a Rococo multi-tiered wedding cake. —Alexis Benveniste, Architectural Digest, 21 Nov. 2025

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