I'm starting to order some cake pans for my home-based business, but I'm having a hard time deciding which size to buy - 2 or 3 inches? I've looked at some of Wilton's cake decorating books and most pans' size are 2 inches.

Why there are pans that are 3 inches? Which size would you normally use for your wedding cake?

Just wondering..

i usually bake wedding layers in 3 inch pans. I have both now though.

My Wilton Instructor suggested 3" high for wedding cakes OR baking 2" cakes twice to get a nice 4" high cake just be sure to charge accordingly.

I could be totally wrong on this but it seems like I heard somewhere that wedding cakes in Canada are only 3" tall and most wedding cakes in America are 4" tall so we bake 2-2" cakes. Like I said, I could have been dreaming that but seems like an instructor somewhere told me that.
You could always order both sets and use the 3" for those brides who don't want quite so much cake but still want the same size diameter cake, if that makes sense. Just some thoughts!! Good Luck!

If most bakers use 3" high, then why Wilton cake decorating book (for example "Wilton Tiered Cakes" - the one with pink and white that has globes teirs) recommended 2"???

this is my take on the 2 or 3' pans. Looking in the wilton books most wedding cakes are made using 2 2" layers, tiered party cakes are made using a 3" cake torted, making it just slightly shorter than a wedding cake. Therefore in my opinion a tiered party cake using a torted 3" cake should be priced differantly to a wedding tiered cake, but i think that is another discussion for another time. I myself use 2" pans for weddings and 3" pans for my sheet cakes. haven't done any tiered party cakes.

I called my Wilton Instructor and she said it's a personal choice - 3", 2" the choice is yours. Her business is here in Toronto, Ontario Canada and she always bakes 2 - 2" cakes with no complaints from her clients.

So that mean there's no difference in cake batter measurement? Let's say one batch of cake batter in 2" and one for 3", right?

there is some difference in cake batter amounts for using 2 and 3 inch pans. I think the wilton books have pretty good batter amounts. For example a 8 inch x 3 inch round pan takes 5 cups batter and the 8 inch by 2 inch round pan takes 3 cups (therefore you would need 6 cups for 2 2 inch pans)

I had all 3 inch pans, but recently I bought some 2 inch pans. I have to say I really like the height that the 2 inch pans give.