I have been asked to make my first wedding cake The bride and groom want a white cake with white buttercream and white buttercream roses. For aprrox. 150 people.

I am not sure where to start. I can't find any pictures, (I looked through the gallery). How much cake am I going to need? I have never made any thing this big.

When should I make the cake? It is need for Nov. 12.

Any help would be great.

do they what square or round? stacked tiers or pillars?

They want round two stacked and a pillar with the top one small.
To feed 150 should it be bigger than that? I was thinking three on the bottom.

Did they request a tiered cake? An easy first wedding cake would be using push-in pillars. Do you own any larger pans...like 12" and 16"???? That would be my first concern. Round are the most popular probably...the wisest investment. I would use 16", 12", and 6" pans. Wilton's chart says that this would serve 156 wedding servings from the two bottom tiers, and the top is not counted as it is given to the bride and groom intact. You could also to with smaller tiers and supplement with sheetcakes. Wilton has some good basic books that teach their buttercream rose technique and have the wedding/party serving charts in them as well. One of these would be a good investment for fundamentals. Feel free to PM me with questions. I'd be glad to help!

They asked for stacked and pillars. Roses I can make. That is how this whole thing got started. The bride loves the rose I made for another cake. I have a wilton book on hold at the library I am picking it up tomorrow.

Phoov- Thanks I am sure I will PM you!

Here are some BC wedding stacked cakes that might be able to give you a few ideas to builf off of! HTH!

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-53279.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-53279.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-73765.html

I can't wait to see pics of your cake!

Thank for the pictures. Those help alot.

I'm sure you've made a lot of cakes, but do you have a good recipe that holds well to stacking? You may want to start testing those now if you don't. Like phoov said, you could do the 16x12x6 I would add an 8" to make sure you had enough servings. or do a small version and serve sheet cakes. If you're going to do the latter run it by the bride because some people don't like that idea at all.

If you've never stacked cakes, practice and get the basics down, because a wedding cake is not when you want to practice. The larger layers can be tricky to work with, so if you know what to expect, Also, just check out the wedding cake gallery again, even tough there aren't a lot of white on white cakes, you can get an idea of rose placement from other cakes as well.

HTH