Our wedding was pretty North American, except that instead of the usual tall, architectural cake, we had "cultural desserts". My mother-in-law made a Norwegian ring cake (decorated with little Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Italian flags), a family friend made Ukrainian wedding bread (I forget the name, it was decorated with leaves and birds), and another family friend made Sardinian sweets (piddu da mongia/gueffusu/nuns' farts, and amaretti), which were served in Sardinian baskets (now hanging on our multi-cultural wall).
The interesting thing was that both the Norwegian and Sardinian treats were almond-based. My aunty actually had to bring bitter almonds from Sardinia because we couldn't seem to find any in Canada. I read some sort of explanation somewhere about bitter almonds and marriage, although I can't remember the details just now.
