You could hot glue the glasses to the perspex/glass separator plates to avoid slippage...
Maybe you could use a floating tier design ..the one with the central rod running right through and wrap the centre pole in a ribbon to match the colour scheme so it doesn't stand out too much.....
I would say that you want to make sure that you have a really good support system. I don't think bubble straws/wood dowels would even come close to holding up this cake! I would think that SPS would be able to hold up the layers, but other CCers might be able to offer more insight on that.
SPS stands for Single Plate Separator.
Here's a great thread that includes instructions on how-to use the system: http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-603925-sps.html
Hope this helps!
I'm sorry I meant the tall tier stand...not the floating tier stand...sorry
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30BB93-475A-BAC0-52555DC793C1FEC1&fid=3E33109F-475A-BAC0-514197B5E889D67F
A configuration like that would allow you to have the glasses in between without having to rely on the glasses as support.
I have never used the stand so I can't vouch for it but the general shape is what I was thinking would work.
The thing about SPS is that the pillars would show and I'm not too sure how that would look.
The thing about SPS is that the pillars would show and I'm not too sure how that would look.
I actually wasn't thinking about using tall pillars. I was thinking in terms of using the 4" pillars in the actual cake layers to hold up the weight of the glasses above. See if this makes sense:
-Bottom cake tier with 4" SPS
-Then a layer with the glasses in between two boards - the bottom board would sit directly on the separator plate, then then the glasses, then a sturdy board on top of the glasses which would hold up the next cake tier
-Then repeat with the next cake tier and 4" SPS
-etc
This is way harder to explain in writing then I thought!
The thing about SPS is that the pillars would show and I'm not too sure how that would look.
I actually wasn't thinking about using tall pillars. I was thinking in terms of using the 4" pillars in the actual cake layers to hold up the weight of the glasses above. See if this makes sense:
-Bottom cake tier with 4" SPS
-Then a layer with the glasses in between two boards - the bottom board would sit directly on the separator plate, then then the glasses, then a sturdy board on top of the glasses which would hold up the next cake tier
-Then repeat with the next cake tier and 4" SPS
-etc
This is way harder to explain in writing then I thought!
That's
what I was picturing, I think this would actually work pretty well, now I kinda what to do it 
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I get ya now Cindy........Though to ease my mind I would probably hot glue the bottom board to the separator plate....
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