What you may want to do, Christine, is to stack your cake, insert the straws for holding the flowers, place your flowers on he cake to decide the best position, then carefully remove them for transportation. Jiggling can cause the fragile edges of the petals to bounce together and chip. I carry my flowers, already wired into bouquets, in an open box filled with plastic grocery bags, crumpled up, for padding. I like the plastic bags because they do not stick to the gum paste or leave lint. Using needle nosed pliers make applying the flowers to the cake a lot easier and it is safer for the flowers.
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