Hello.
I'm going to be doing my first wedding cake for 80 people. I have looked over several serving charts but I'm still struggling with what size round pans to use. She would like 3 tiers and I'm thinking the top tier really should be a 6". Any suggestions for the combination? 12", 10", 6" would that look funny?

Help!

This link will show you how to gauge what size cakes you need to serve 80 guests.

http://www.earlenescakes.com/ckserchart.htm

Bluehue

Yes, I have looked here and the 10 - 8 - 6 won't work for 80 and it seems like a 12 - 10 - 8 would look funny with an 8" for the top layer. Would 12 - 10 -6 look funny?

You can always do the 12-10-8-6 and make the 6 a dummy cake so that it will not look funny. When they get ready to cut the cake they can just remove it.

Did they not want the anniversary tier? Normally, you wouldn't count those servings.

Oh this whole situation is really funny! The bride is the sister of a friend of mine and really didn't even want to have a wedding. So my friend has basically thrown this all together for her sister who in her words is "hands off". So, to answer the question about the anniversary tier, nope, she doesn't care about that

So, maybe I'll do the 4 tier suggestion with the 6" dummy on top or maybe do a 12-9-6. If I do that, I have to go out and buy the 9" pan. Oh well, can never have too many pans!

Thanks!

10/12/8 would not look funny in my opinion. You could do a floral arrangement on the top to break up the big space on top of the 8". Flowers are SUPER easy.

Well, I'm still waiting to hear on the topper part. She wants an all black and white cake, which I'm okay with but hasn't said anything about a topper. I would actuall like to do white flowers for a topper so if I get the go ahead then I agree, the 12/10/8 would look fine.

Thanks!