This was my very first wedding cake, made for my brother's wedding. 6",8",10" & 12" tiers of marble cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese filling, covered with all buttercream. Hubby made me a cake stand from a round purchased from Lowe's with a 5/8ths" dowel screwed and glued in the center; then drilled holes in my cake plates to fit over the dowel. We stacked the cakes (all beautifully smoothed) on site. We had trouble getting the 6" to settle into place and hubby got impatient and shoved down with his hand destroying my perfectly smooth surface!! I cried. A couple of times since it took me forever to fix that layer! But it all came out in the end. In spite of the frustrations I was actually pretty happy with my first wedding cake. And the bride & groom loved it!!