Please I need advise. I know there are a ton of size combos listed in the gallery but I can't get the search to work. I'm planning a 4,6,8,10 inch cake with the 4" being styrofoam. It serves about 75, and I'm doing sheet cake to make it 100. It has to be 4 tiers.

What would you do?? Anyone have any pics with sizes?? I've done the stacking cake pans thing, but would love to see a pic of a 4,6,8,10 or a 6,8,10. Thanks so much!!

Is there any reason not to do those sizes?

the pink cake with roses and the black wedding cake in my photos are 6/8/10 cakes. i think this combo looks fine together, and i wouldnt' see a problem with a 4" on top...

so is the sage cake with purple flowers...this seems to be a favorite of mine =)

I've made several cakes that were only a 2" difference in the tiers...one of the things that you want to take into account is if you need to put stuff around the "ledge" of each tier like flowers or fondant figures or anything that you need to sit nicely without fear of it falling off, you may want to go with at least a 4" pan difference between each tier in those cases.

I don't have it posted but I have a 4 tiered square wedding cake that was made recently and it only had a ribbon border so the bride was fine with 6,8,10,12" tiers.

Hope that helped in some way.

agree with fytar that it does depend somewhat on the decoration as the size difference does not lend itself to large decorations between the layers.

It's a spin off on a Lindy Smith cake. All white, with white, pale blue and silver stars, and stars on wire coming out of the top. I may try to have the stars on wire cascade around the cake, but that may be biting off more than I'm able to do. Thanks for the replys ladies, I really appreciate it.

Do you think it will look small?

it is a little on the small side if they are stacked directly on each other. on my blog icedcakesbycrissy.blogspot.com there is a picture of the couple cutting the black wedding cake so you can see the proportion of cake to people.

I just did my daughter's wedding cake for this past Saturday and the tiers were 5 inch high, and the sizes were, 12 10 8 and 6 and looked very nice.

This one is a 5,6,8
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I think you will just have the look of a tighter cake overall. No reason not to do it. I like the taller looking cakes.

This is really helpful, and all your cakes are wonderful!! I like the tall look of the tiers I'm just not sure on the size...it does seem a tad small. Ahh, I know...I'm soo indecisive. I just want it to look right. You guys are awesome!!

tinygoose, I was just wondering the same thing! Here is a pic I found of a 4", 6", 8" and 10". I think it looks just fine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29721812@N02/2857230049/
Hope that helps!

Thanks Emily that does help!! Wow, cool cake.