10:00 AM today, I was shopping at D&G (my favorite cake store ever in Orlando) and I hear this lady say "will a 10", 8" 6" cake be enough to serve 60 people for a wedding?" The person working there pulls out a chart.

I look over at them chatting and I see she has some supplies:
1 each cake pan - 10", 8" 6"
(3) round cardboard cake boards
a tub of icing
(2) wooden dowels
Ribbon

Then I hear the following conversation:
lady at the register: "when is the cake due?"
puchaser: "tomorrow"
lady at the register: "have you ever made a tiered cake before"
puchaser: "no"

She is going to become very religious later today. I can hear her saying "please, God, please, God"

Oh crap!

Whadda ya bet she posts an urgent HELP ME!! thread on CC today?

Kidding. maybe.

If not here, then on Wilton's wedding cake forum!

...Courtesy of all those cake shows that make people think it so easy!

She's going to be baking all afternoon if she only bought one of each pan!! Plus with a 10" I use a heating core or large flower nail....hopefully she thinks of that! Should be interesting!

LOL, Wouldn't you like to know the outcome of that experience?

Actually, I would love to help them, I would love to be in their kitchen to guide them. They are going to have so many issues and it's going to be an all nighter.

hmmmm, i wonder which layer/half is going to get the TWO DOWELS?

Honestly, why do people do that? She admittedly has NO experience and yet she's jumping in with both feet on someones WEDDING DAY!! I mean, helloooooo, that is NOT the day to start practicing!

I cringe every time I read a story like this. I've been doing this a long time, and there are STILL (many!) days that I'm totally stressed out! I probably would have walked over, handed her my business card, and said, "You'll need this in a few hours. Call me."

I agree with the cake shows making this seem like a breeze. It doesn't help that the Cricut Cake promotions lead the general public to believe they can do it all in 1-2 hours.

See CakeWrecks on Monday.....poor bride!

My first tiered cake was sooooooo stressful!!

I still have people call me from the Michael's store I taught at (my mom is still a cashier there and calls me from the checkout when people have cake questions). I LOVE to help them....because it really is not healthy to be THAT stressed (or UNAWARE).

My cell phone number I think is still posted for the other checkout people.

Yeah...the whole "what are the dowels for" is a great starter question.

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LOL I gotta call once from a friend......it would seem she baked her cakes, iced them, then just put 1 cake on top of the other and called me to see why the tiers were all sinking into each other. I asked her what type of support system she used...reponse "what support system...what are you talking about?"

you know that windex commercial where the birds are laughing at people and dogs who walk into the clear glass door?

Well .... that commercial just popped into my head as I envisioned this poor woman struggling with these cakes.

Oh, indydeb, surely they have hit a wall. But my heart hopes they were able to pull something fairly decent off.

I work in a cake decorating supply store. If I had $1 (inflation you know, lol) for every person who walked in asking for help/info on making a tiered cake with absolutely NO EXPERIENCE IN BAKING, I would be retired! A lady came in a few weeks ago and stated. "My daughter wants me to make a topsy turvey cake for her grad party, and I don't bake. Am I out of my mind to try this?" And she was just one of many. Thank you FTV, TLC and WE!

JGMB.. I told her YES! She wound up doing a more straightforward tiered cake, after I spent almost an HOUR helping her with that! I would sooooo love to say, I will help you with anything. Lessons start at $60/hour.