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Amazing Wedding Cakes Season 3 Update

Hello Happy Sugar Citizens!!  Great news, we've received the air dates WEtv for season three of Amazing Wedding Cakes!  

Now, these are still labeled as "tentative" so check your local listings or the WEtv website for all the latest, and of course, we'll put up any news we receive right here on the Merci Beaucoup blog.

 AWC Season 3

• Aug 29: Merci Beaucoup, Cake Girls, Christopher Garren
• Sept. 5: Cake Girls, Cake Alchemy, Christopher Garren
• Sept 12: Cake Girls, Cake Alchemy, Christopher Garren
• Sept 19: Merci Beaucoup, Cake Girls, Christopher Garren
• Sept 26: Merci Beaucoup, Cake Girls, Christopher Garren
• Oct 3:   Cake Girls, Cake Alchemy, Christopher Garren
• Oct 10:  Merci Beaucoup, Cake Girls, Cake Alchemy
• Oct 17:  Merci Beaucoup, Cake Alchemy, Christopher Garren
• Oct 24:  Merci Beaucoup, Cake Girls, Cake Alchemy
• Oct 31:  Merci Beaucoup, Cake Girls, Cake Alchemy
• Nov 7:   Merci Beaucoup, Cake Alchemy, Christopher Garren
• Nov 14:  Merci Beaucoup, Cake Alchemy, Christopher Garren

This has been a long road as we wrapped filming season three in the beginning of last Novemeber so it is great that these cakes will finally be on the air and we can talk about them.  Especially the one on Halloween which we did for some dear friends of ours and we cannot wait to show you the pictures!  Hope you enjoy them everyone!!

Love, Reva

* "I'm just gonna say it right now, Christopher's cake rules the first episode.  It's a theme we really wanted to do, and while our design would've been different, his is pretty spectacular!" - mic

Merci @ San Diego Comic Con!!!

Hello Happy Sugar Citizens!!  You might remember our comic book cake from season 2 of Amazing Wedding Cakes?  Well, we are nerds, especially Mic, and so I'm off with him to the world famous San Diego Comic Con this week!!  We go almost every year, but we took last year off, so I'm really looking forward to heading down there. 

And, if you're at Comic Con, and you spot me on the floor, in a panel, or walking the Gaslamp, Mic has made up a little special "I Met Reva" package just for you!!

There's only a couple dozen in my bag, so spot me early to get this keepsake featuring some pencil art from our dear friend CJ Metzger!!  Hint: we like to eat at Dublin Square, like a lot, like every morning fro breakfast;)  I'll also have some regular MB buttons and maybe a few other surprise, so shout if you see us!

Happy Con everyone!!!!

REVA

Silly (Cup) Cake News: Hockey & Cupcakes

Hey everyone, husband Mic here!  For those of you who don't know me, I am a big time hockey guy.  I've been playing my whole life and have been a coach for nearly a decade now.  So when I saw this little gem over on Yahoo! sports this morning, I knew I had to point it out.

The New York Islanders and their "official" cupcake?  Cup cakes are quite frankly, getting too big.  Reva and I were at a farmer's market last night and saw three different cupcake vendors all of whom said they were opening shops soon.  Seriously people, cupcakes are about to reach their tipping point.  And Cupcake Wars, don't get me started on that thing.  The best competitor has yet to win on any of their episodes, so who knows what shenanigans are going on there.  And since I'm pissing people off, owning a "cupcakery" does not qualify you as a pastry chef.  But that is me, Mic, and my opinion. 

Not to say there aren't great cupcake shops out there, because there are!  If you're in Northern California, just over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County (my home county), head out to Mill Valley and visit Frosting on Blithedale Ave.  So good! 

So, check out the hockey and cupcakes story, it is a pretty interesting little business model.

Silly Cake News: Couple Recycles Cans to Pay for Wedding

Things are status quo around Merci Beaucoup these days.  I'm getting ready to head out to Georgia to visit my family for 4th of July, so keep your eyes peeled peaches!!  I'll have buttons on me!!  So excited, even though I have a red eye flight, and Mic has to stay home, and I'll miss my kitties, and it will be oppressively hot and humid.... wait, why am I excited again?  LOL!  Can't wait to see my mom.

Last weekend we did a pretty awesome cake for a friend of Mic's.  I think he's gonna post some cool stuff from that next week.  But before I head to the airport, I spotted this story online and thought it was kind of cool.

Couple Recylces 400,000 Cans to Pay for Wedding

Well, it is cool, until you read it and see the mother of the bride owns a catering company, so naturally, I wanted to read about the cake but nothing exciting as her mom did the cake.  Also, some recycling company donated a bunch of cans and the harpist is playing for free and iPods and all that.  So, it seems cool and green and all that, but really it's not like they pulled off some amazing wedding with aluminum!  Still neat though I guess. 

Have a great Fourth of July weekend everyone and hey, post some comments and let's get a roll call going for the ICES convention in San Diego in August!!!  Hmmm.... should I get special buttons for that?  Enjoy your fireworks!

Love, The Reva