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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The government bundled up before the fluted columns like an ice sculpture at a wedding--an impressive, preposterous construction molded to take one's mind off the reality that the in-laws loathe one another and that the formal wedding-cake couple will soon be sweating in the sheets.

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

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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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