Alright I know I'm going to drive everyone on this site nuts, but this is only my second real wedding cake and 5th tiered cake, so I just want it to be right.

They are having 100 guests, and they want the Lindy Smith fun flowers cake in all white, but with round tiers, not contoured. The set up Lindy has is for 4,6,8,10 inch cakes which gives me about 75 servings. The 4,6,9,12 will give me 100 servings which is what they want, but will it look funny? I thought of a 6,8,10,12 but that gives me 130 servings which is way too big. They are also ordering cupcakes and other desserts for the reception.

Here's the pics. One of Lindys cake, one of my stack of 4,6,9,12. I ran out of styrofoam, and that's a 12" ruler in front of the 12" pan. I think the 4" will have to be styrofoam, I can't see it really being cake with all those flowers coming out of it. BTW-How many servings do you get from a 4"? Wilton servings. Thanks all.

Not sure but if you look at the topsy turvy in my photos that's a 12,9 and six. It might help get you a visual. The 3 inch rim is bigger than what we're used to on a regular stacked cake and may not be pleasing to everyone. If you think it could be an issue with the bride could you do one or two satelite cakes to get the right number of servings?

I don't mind giving a few extra servings but 30 is a few too many huh. But this is why I have the odd sized pans. I could not function without the odd siozed pans, worth their weight in gold to me.

And to me, the graduation of the tiers (in the silhouette of the final product) is more improtant than keeping the exact servings. So I'd do a 4x7x10x13 or a 5x7x9x11--I mean I'm not saying those serve 100 I'm just showing you how much easier it is to size things pretty with the extra pans. But actually the 5x7x9x11 serves 107-ish, bingo.

And a 4" is probably about 4 servings.