My husband and I made our wedding cake which served 150 people. We found the recipes for the cake , frosting ,and filling in the Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. That book was perfect for creating a wedding cake. I really wanted to send pictures of the cake to her. I still regret that I didn't. One thing that really helped us was renting a cake stand, that had room for all 3 layers. So it had the traditional appearance of a 3 tiered cake, just the cakes were not resting on each other. One other thing i would recommend is to give both partners a chance. I had always baked and frosted cakes. However, I was very happily surprised when i handed over the pastry bag to my then fiance. Turns out the lines of how a basket weave goes together, made sense in his head. He did an excellent job. He had never used a pastry bag until we made one of the test cakes. There were many test cakes. One of the other big helpers was decorating the cake with real flowers. I had watched a friends mom make his wedding cake. She took a small glass and outlined it on the top tier. she traced around it and then basically cored the cake. she then put the glass in the hole and it served as a vase for the lovely flowers that topped the cake. I am so glad that we made our own wedding cake. We look back on it with great pride. Yes, it was a little stressful-but we did it together. Everyone told us we were nuts to make our own wedding cake. we are so glad we didn't listen to them. We would do it all over again--with Rose Levy Beranbaum's book.

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