So bride has given me this design for a May wedding:

http://imaginativeicing.co.uk/wedding_cakes/slideshow12.html#157

On Imaginative Icing website, she mentions pleating. Am wondering how to achieve that. Will do a practice run but would welcome inputs from yáll. Also the pleating is done before stacking, right?

Here's one tutorial:

http://www.keeponcaking.com/tag/pleats/