Help-My niece has requested for her wedding cake very thin vertical stripes-in royal blue! She would like a 3 tiered stacked cake. I was thinking of not having the stripes on top of the tiers. She also is requesting no topper. If anyone has any suggestions on this I would love to hear from you. Would you make different shades of blue-different widths? I also plan on making a dummy layer for her to verify this is what she wants. Thank you.

You could do the stripes like the cake in the attached picture, only vertical.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7518775@N04/4484185877/

Wow, that's an amazing cake!!!!

Stripes aren't much of a problem. I cut them out of fondant and slap them on. If you need a guide, get a laser level and project a vertical line onto the cake.

Thank you for the laser idea and the pictures!