advice on stacking m&s wedding cakes

Depends on whether you have sponge or fruit - fruit is much more dense and can take the weight whereas sponge would need dowels pushed into it to help support.

We put ours onto a cake stand, which also helped give it some height as they are only a couple of inches deep.

I got married yesterrday and had an M&S 4 tier cake.

It tasted lush!

You are supposed to stack them with rods but we had none as they had sold out so just stacked them on top of each other (bottom fruit, vanilla sponge & then 2 choc tiers).

The biggest tier was on a cake board and then the other 3 tiers were on a thin plastic sheet. My caterer stacked mine though as i was behind schedule.

Have you seen the videos on the M&S website. They show you how they recommend you stack the tiered cake and a contemporary cake.

Here's the link in case you haven't seen them:- http://www.marksandspencer.tv/pop-player.aspx?bctid=62116396001

I don't think they are meant to be put on top of each other without the board as the bottom layer may not be strong enough to hold the weight. that is why the normal 3 tier cakes are more expensive as compared to those that use the dowel sticks. but well, Snuggle bum did it and it works for her, but i still feel it's a risk.

I'm having waitrose, stacking with dowel sticks with flowers between the tiers