8-8-8 Preparations and KITV video

When Rick made our wedding cake back in 2004, he woke up at 3am the morning of the wedding to finish it. Today, on 8-8-8, we arrived at work at 4:30am so Rick could finish Jennifer's cake (above photos), in time to deliver our bride Ati's wedding cake later this morning. Ati's cake will be followed by Michele, then Jennifer, then Cat, and finally, Sunny. This makes for a long day, but we love all our 8-8-8 brides and had a blast making their cakes!

Here is the link to the video on 8-8-8 on KITV's news last night. We were called only 2 hours before they came to film at the studio. The pink and green cake in the video was from Carly's wedding last night and the blue one is Michele's cake.



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8-8-08 -- Infinite and Lucky

article on 8-8-08

A couple weeks ago I was interviewed by Mary Kaye Ritz of The Honolulu Advertiser newspaper who was working on an article about the wedding date 8-8-08. When she asked if we had weddings that day, I impulsively said "are you serious?", probably not the best way to answer that question, but just that morning I turned away another bride for 8-8-8, the trend since the beginning of 2008. It's actually quite painful to turn people away who seem to really want to hire you. Now that the venues are booked for 8-8-08 we're getting more brides inquiring about 8-7-08 and 8-9-08 -- sorry, booked. Last year for 7-7-07, which was just as busy, I started a waiting list, but none of the weddings cancelled (which is very rare anyway) and this year I decided to forgo the list altogether. Those who booked their vendors of choice early got lucky. One of the lucky couples was Jennifer Frazier and Mel Ona, who booked us in 2007 for their 8-8-08 wedding cake. They were also interviewed for the Honolulu Advertiser article. They have a spectacular cake planned for their 125 guests!

While all the action seems to be around the 8th day of the 8th month in 2008, the rest of August is turning out to be insanely busy with some really cool cakes in the works. No rest for the wicked next month!