Leah Walden, 59, said she saw about five fender benders on her drive from her accounting job in suburban Spring Valley to a wedding-cake tasting in San Diego. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The two wedding-cake pulpits and the organ case opposite are as grand as can be, and interior so bracketed is the ne plus ultra of American colonial church architecture, plain and crisp and white, with exquisitely classical proportions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The state of Minas Gerais is rooted in mining—its name translates prosaically as "General Mines"—and the gold and gems found there, including aquamarines and imperial topaz, built charming colonial towns like Ouro Preto, with its terra-cotta roofs and wedding-cake churches. ❋ Scott Mitchem (2012)
Unlike most New York apartment buildings of a certain height, whose setbacks sit at 90-degree angles, creating that famous wedding-cake appearance, this building's setbacks are sloped, which draws the visitor's eye upward. ❋ Dana Rubinstein (2011)
What nerve to present an "engagement cake" to wedding-cake queen Sylvia Weinstock. ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
And the colors: I was certain that Martha Stewart, who had recently featured Necco wafers on a wedding cake (historically apt; the pièces montées that made Marie-Antoine Carême perhaps the first star chef, in the early 19th century, were made of gum tragacanth, the base of Necco wafers and still the base of many wedding-cake decorations), would be designing a line of paints around them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Another problem: Many of the tall structures in midtown were built after World War II, when zoning laws were relaxed to allow modernist glass-windowed buildings to go straight up, with no frills or "setbacks," those wedding-cake layers on an earlier generation of skyscrapers that were thought to allow more sunlight onto the streets below. ❋ Rachel Dodes (2012)
Leah Walden said she saw about five fender-benders on her drive from her accounting job in suburban Spring Valley to a wedding-cake tasting in San Diego. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I first got interested in it because I saw great potential for it as an addition to our wedding-cake arsenal. ❋ Buddy Valastro (2010)
Inside, guests can sip on vintage port or local liqueurs made from fig, orange or carob beans amid the gold leaf and crystal splendor of the Sal ã o Nobre, a salon inspired by the Versailles Hall of Mirrors complete with lofty windows, wedding-cake stucco and a ceiling filled with cherubs flitting through cotton-candy clouds with a bare-breasted Venus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To make it interesting, Mr. Kaplan inverted the "wedding-cake" model of skyscraper architecture. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thursday, with a climate-controlled wine cellar stocking 2,500 bottles, an open-flame hearth oven baking artisan breads, a personalized birthday and wedding-cake service and flat-screen televisions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"No matter how big you think Elvis is, he always turns out to be even bigger," said Barbara McLean, 64, a custom wedding-cake designer from Ottawa who has returned for the past 15 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fearful of taking the step toward the alter myself, I can say that nothing could assuage the fear marriage more than a zombie wedding-cake. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sullivan seemed to take forever to recognize what was apparent to the statues on Easter Island statues, that the Republican Party is hostile to gay marriage and gay identity, eager to support homophobia for political gain, and that the only gays it's comfortable with are white men and women who look like wedding-cake couples and stay discreetly in the closet. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)
Similarly unappetizing is her account of visiting a modest suburban shop specializing in cake accessories -- she goes all huffy about the lack of wedding-cake figurines "designed for the interracial or homosexual couple." ❋ Unknown (2009)
