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27 Amazing Celebrity Wedding Cakes

No expense is spared when cake is involved.

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You can't have a party without cake, but when a celebrity is getting married, everything is taken to an entirely higher level. From cakes taller than the groom, to elaborate sugar-flower displays, to a cake that cost as much as a down payment on a house, these are some of the most amazing celebrity wedding cakes we've ever seen.

Meghan Markle & Prince Harry

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By now, we know the Duke and Duchess of Sussex went super untraditional in terms of cake choices: Their unstacked, lemon and elderflower cake was unlike any other royal wedding cake before it ... and it looked delicious.

Khloe Kardashian & Lamar Odom

Kardashian and Odom's wedding cake — made by Hansen's Cakes in Los Angeles — was a five-tiered, sleek black-and-white creation, filled with chocolate buttercream and white chocolate chips. Oh, and bonus — it was even taller than Odom. Now that's impressive.

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Sofia Vergara & Joe Manganiello

If you fell in love with Vergara's custom Zuhair Murad couture gown, wait until you see her cake. Designed by Sylvia Weinstock, the five-tiered cake featured a quilted design, flowers over each tier, and was topped with a giant floral arrangement.

Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes

For Cruise and Holmes's Italian wedding, they chose a five-tiered white chocolate mousse cake covered in marzipan roses.

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Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie

The amazing thing about Pitt and Jolie's wedding cake isn't how many tiers it had or the intricate fondant craftwork, but that it was made by their son, Pax. Aww....!

Prince William & Kate Middleton

A royal wedding requires a show-stopping cake, and Prince William and Kate Middleton did not let us down. Their cake, made by pastry chef Fiona Cairns, was an eight-tiered traditional fruit cake with white icing, decorated with up to 900 sugar-paste flowers, garlands to mirror the architectural details in Buckingham Palace, lattice work, and piped leaf detail. That $80,000 price tag is making more sense now.

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George Clooney & Amal Alamuddin

Would you expect anything less than classic elegance from Clooney and Alamuddin? The couple cut into a four-tiered, square-style art deco chocolate wedding cake at their Venice wedding.

Kaley Cuoco & Ryan Sweeting

Cake or decor? For Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting's wedding, they opted to go non-traditional, commissioning an upside-down wedding cake hanging from a chandelier. Created by Kimberly Bailey from The Butter End Cakery, the cake took two hours to install, and had to be held upright by planks and sandbags. When it came time to cut into it, Cuoco had to be assisted by three people to make sure it didn't come crashing down.

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Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries

Like her sister, Khloe, Kim K. opted for a classic, tuxedo-inspired black and white wedding cake when she married Kris Humphries. The eight-foot tall cake weighed an insane 600 pounds, and was a chocolate-chip marble cake decorated with buttercream frosting—all for $20,000. NBD.

Hilary Duff & Mike Comrie

Naked cakes had a moment in the wedding world, and even Duff got in on the trend, opting to go for the more simple, rustic glamour in hers to give it a "vintage homemade look."

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Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds

If Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold's elegant vanilla-and-sour cream wedding cake with peach-apricot preserves and Earl Grey-milk chocolate buttercream wasn't enough, they also offered a pretty rad dessert buffet at their wedding.

Peta Murgatroyd & Maksim Chmerkovsky

The Dancing With the Stars pros had a four-tier, pink and white masterpiece for their summer 2017 wedding that also featured tons on tons of pearls.

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Penn Badgely & Domino Kirke

This "vegan, gluten free magic" featured rosewater, orange blossom, lavender, and chocolate flavors, which was spot-on for the low-key Brooklyn wedding Penn and Domino had. Also, it's gorgeous! That fruit!

Kevin Jonas & Danielle Deleasa

The oldest Jonas brother and his longtime love had a gigantic, fondant-covered masterpiece at their 2009 wedding. It had edible flowers and a tiara on top, which Danielle enjoyed wearing when they thawed the top layer of the cake out for their anniversary.

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Omarosa Manigault & John Allen Newman

This seven-tier (!) cake was ivory and gold and had jewel and flower embellishments throughout. Omarosa raved about the cake after the fact, calling it "divine."

Julianne Hough & brooks Laich

Because Julianne cares a lot about eating clean, this simple cake was fruit-forward. “Each tier was four layers of cake with a layer of strawberries and cream, a layer of blackberries and cream and a layer of raspberries and cream," her cake designer Kayla Carey told PEOPLE.

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Jedidiah Bila & Jeremy Scher

The View co-host's lovely cake was vanilla and chocolate and filled with mousse. It was five tiers and custom designed for the couple.

Elvis Presley & Priscilla Ann Beaulieu

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This six-tiered, yellow cake masterpiece (with Elvis and Priscilla's names written on it!) likely would've cost north of $20,000 today. It was filled with apricot marmalade and Bavarian cream and covered with more than 1,000 edible roses.

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Chelsea Clinton & Marc Mezvinsky

Clinton and Mezvinsky's nine-tier cake came in around 500 pounds and was vanilla with a dark chocolate mousse filling. Oh, and it was gluten-free.

Grace Kelly & Rainier III

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This magnificent thing (seen here at the 1956 royal wedding) featured an actual 3D replica of Monaco's Pink Palace as well as the royal family of Monaco's crest and two cherubs on top.

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