The wedding cake, prepared by master pastry chef Francisco Torreblanco weighs 170kg (375 pounds) and stands nearly two metres high (6.6 feet).

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Mr Uribe's mother, Orquedia Garza, said her son had steered clear of the five-tiered wedding cake - a vow he made when he announced the date of his wedding at the start of the month.

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The summit, held at a wedding-cake hotel on the Baltic coast, brought a surprise offer from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.

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There is room for a billion-dollar wedding industry serving a generation of young people who, though marrying later than my generation did, have embraced the white wedding gown, a dozen attendants, the cake, the song, the speech and the party after.

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The building sits in the middle of Bucharest like a wedding cake would if wedding cakes sat on hills and had radiating arterial boulevards.

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From afar, it looks so simple - a pure white wedding cake rising up from the desert.

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But then there are the streets of Ragusa Ibla, a mad wedding cake of impenetrable, ancient alleyways.

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In the 1950s, Marino Auriti, an Italian immigrant and auto mechanic, created an architectural model for a mammoth, wedding cake-shaped museum he hoped would be built on the Mall.

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The guests were served an all-white, seven-layer white rum wedding cake that was covered in white fondant and sugar crystals, and adorned with crystal brooches and the couples' monogram on the top layer.

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The actress is 20 years older than her husband and had said that bringing forward the wedding meant there was little time to order a cake, flowers or outfits.

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