Doggy Style, and a Weekend of Insanity!

I'm trying to recall when exactly our weekend officially started because it's like one BIG, exhausting, yet beautiful, blur of events. Friday the entire day was spent working on cakes, emails, phone calls and preparing for the "I Love Kailua" town party on Sunday, which we participated in. Things started getting crazy on Saturday when we came into the studio in the morning and we both worked. Rick finished up cakes, did some sketches and I worked on emails and took some calls. We went back home to take a little nap before the marathon onslaught began. After napping, we picked up our wedding couple's bulldog groom's cake (shown above) and hawaiian-themed wedding cake and brought it over to the Mid-Pacific Country Club in Lanikai, which is a suburb located here in Kailua. After delivering the cakes and taking some photos we left and got a bite to eat then went home and changed and prepared for our all-nighter. We came back to the studio and proceeded to make batch after batch after batch after batch ... after batch ... of cupcakes, working through the night and into the early morning hours. Hundreds and hundreds ... and hundreds... of delicious cupcakes! for the 17th Annual "I Love Kailua" town party, which brings up to 10,000 people every year to our lovely little beach town, and we definitely wanted to be prepared. The "I Love Kailua" town party benefits the Lani-Kailua Outdoor circle, which is dedicated to preserving and beautifying Kailua by planting trees and making community improvements.

After making all the cupcakes, we got a couple hours of sleep before it was time for us to start setting up. The party officially started at 11am and ran until 4pm. We were allowed to start setting up at 10am and by 10:45am we already had people handing us scrip to purchase cupcakes. Running on adrenaline, motivation, and not much else, Rick and I proceeded to sell cupcake after cupcake after cupcake ... after cupcake ... We had a great response and people were blown away by the cakes we brought. Since our reputation is already pretty solid here, we met a lot of people who knew about us and came up to introduce themselves or commented to Rick how much they liked his work. We also saw quite a few of our clients, which is always nice! The temperature was about 80 degrees and SUNNY and we worked hard through the end of the event. Even after 4pm people were still wanting to buy cupcakes, but we had to break down our booth and leave right away because we had another event!

Back to the studio to drop everything off, started feeling a little worn out, and prepared to leave for our evening wedding at Lanikuhonua at 6pm. This was a wedding long in the works that we knew would be just gorgeous and we would see a bunch of vendors that we often work with. In this case that included Weddings by Grace & Mona, Angel de Armas, Chrissy Lambert Photography, Yvonne Floral, Showtime DJs and more. I should probably mention too that the wedding cake was 3 and a half feet tall! We arrived at Lanikuhonua, still running on adrenaline, and immediately saw the bride and groom. The bride looked at the cake and said "Oh my god, you guys, are you KIDDING me?!!" and both the bride and groom started gushing about the cake. As we walked over to the cake table, which looked amazing (thank you, Yvonne!), Chrissy Lambert was excited to photograph the cake and Rick had an immediate crowd of the couple's guests surrounding him. They were just blown away and Rick fielded question after question about the cake. Most of the guests were from L.A. and had seen awesome cakes before, but many said it was the coolest cake they had ever seen! It was colorful, fun and tall, and we are planning to show it as a Featured Wedding soon. On a day like Sunday when we were working almost around the clock with barely any sleep, it was a lot to take in, but we also agreed that it was a day unlike any other and making that many people happy with our cakes was definitely worth the effort. We took yesterday off (a rarity for us) and played and paid for it dearly today with cakes to work on, lots of emails and calls to answer, and another event tonight. It was a weekend of insanity but oh so worth it!!