#MKPDE June Newsletter Your #CakeMail has Arrived

The Cupcake Club Open in your browser The Cupcake Club Hi there, "June Bride" have to plan way in advance to get the venue, vendors flowers, etc. What about the cake? Here are some fun tips I like sharing with MK Pure Diamond Events "Brides". Cupcakes are a great way of getting a taste of wedding cakes without being hard sale pitch. Make it a lets go out for a cup of coffee, moment. Here is one of my favorite Martha Stewart Recipes. Coconut Cupcake 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup packed sweetened shredded coconut 6 ounces (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/3 cups sugar 2 large eggs, plus 2 large egg whites 3/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Seven-Minute Frosting 1 1/3 cups large-flake unsweetened coconut STEP 1 Make cupcakes as directed in Basic Cupcake How-To, adding sweetenedcoconut to dry ingredients, and using coconut milk and vanilla for wet ingredients. Once cupcakes are cool, mound frosting on tops. Sprinkle with unsweetened coconut. Serve immediately. IN THIS STEP: How to Frost Cupcakes Special Offer! Thanks for following us! Here’s a special offer for you! Sign-up with MK Pure Diamond Events to plan your Wedding or Celebration Event from beginning to end and we will purchase your cake. 20% not more than $500.00. Valid until December 31, 2014 offer is available with signed contract. Sign-up for our Newsletter on the Home Page. Check out the following Bakeries One of the ways I try to encourage brides who are planning their wedding a year in advance is to tell them to have fun with some of the decisions. Make a date with your groom to have a day where you pick three or four bakery and purchase cupcakes from. Taste the different cakes in a relax manner and enjoy finding out who likes what? Cupcake French Pastry Cafe 760.942.7891 Buy now Cupcake Yummy Cupcakes 760-452-8136 Buy now Cupcake 2 Good 2 B Bakery (760) 942-4663 Buy now Cupcake Hearing Wedding Bell Bridesmaids are. Cost: $97.00 Buy now Cupcake Lady Million I am sure the bride is worth more. Cost: $61.00 Buy now Cupcake Sinobi Lady's watches make for a fine wedding party gift. Cost: $76. 45 Buy now MK Pure Diamond Events Open for Business June, 2014 Cupcakes are just part of the things you need for you day. Check out some of the unique gifts in our Celebration Store: Cosmetics, Jewelry, Fashion, Fragrances, Cellular and Gadgets. #MKPDE Store Red Velvet Cake aka "Grooms Cake" Originally, the groom's cake was a British tradition where the cake was often richer than the one embodying the bride, since the addition of flavors like chocolate, fruit, and especially alcohol were better served to "the stronger sex" with the stronger stomach. During the Victorian era, the first groom’s cake was a very heavy and dense fruit cake that eventually became a flour cake, either white or chocolate. The tradition was to cut a piece of the cake and put it in a small box, and then give them to the unmarried women that attended the wedding.The cake was never eaten, but put under the pillow of the single woman giving them the hope that they would find a husband. Groom's cakes are traditionally served at the wedding reception but can also be served at the wedding ceremony. It is more proper and considered better etiquette if the Groom's Cake is served separate from the Brides table as not to take away from the Bridal cake. Traditionally grooms cakes are chocolate and most often garnish some type of fruit. Although, most are a reflection of the Groom's interest such as Golfing, Fishing, Hunting etc...Groom’s cake is a tradition most popular in the southeastern United States that began during the Victorian era, inherited from Britain. In the 1890s, a choice of cake had already been established in America. In the 1890s, the groom’s cake was referred to as the “Lady Cake or Plain Bridegroom Cake”.This recipe was published in the “The British Baker" in 1897.In those days the cake was cut by the bridegroom and served with wine to the bridesmaids before going to the church.In England neither practice was met with success, but in the United States, especially in the southern part of the United States, the two cakes did become very popular with the bride's cake being light and the grooms' being dark. Read more Cupcake of the week You should really try this cupcake recipe which involves fudge, chocolate and cookie crumbs. Yum! Read more Book your Appointment Today Free 30 Consultation! MK Pure Diamond Events Our Calendar is on the "Contact Us" Page!

1980's Weddings

1980's Weddings

FACTS about this decade.   Population: 226,546,000  Unemployed in 1980:  National Debt: 1980 - $914,000,000,000  National Debt:  1986 - $2,000,000,000,000  Average salary: $15,757  Life Expectancy: Male 69.9  Female 77.6  Minimum Wage:  $3.10  BMW was $12,000; Mercedes 280 E was $14,800  Attendance:  Movies 20 million/week   Daily 100 - Interactive quotes from the 80s

The 1980s became the Me! Me! Me! generation of status seekers.   During the 1980s, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire.  Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, and Ivan Boesky iconed the meteoric rise and fall of the rich and famous.  If you've got it, flaunt it and You can have it all! were watchwords.   Forbes' list of 400 richest people became more important than its 500 largest companies.  Binge buying and credit became a way of life and 'Shop Til you Drop' was the watchword.  Labels were everything, even (or especially) for our children.  Tom Wolfe dubbed the baby-boomers as the 'splurge generation.'  Video games, aerobics, minivans, camcorders, and talk shows became part of our lives.   The decade began with double-digit inflation, Reagan declared a war on drugs, Kermit didn't find it easy to be green, hospital costs rose, we lost many, many of our finest talents to AIDS which before the decade ended spread to black and Hispanic women, and  unemployment rose.  On the bright side, the US Constitution had its 200th birthday, Gone with the Wind turned 50,  ET phoned home, and in 1989 Americans gave $115,000,000,000 to charity.  And, Internationally, at the very end of the decade the Berlin Wall was removed - making great changes for the decade to come!   At the turn of the decade, many were happy to leave the spendthrift 80s for the 90s, although some thought the eighties TOTALLY AWESOME.

The 1980's the generation known for "Me" was about themselves?  Not believing that this was in tiredly true. 

  They were thought to be trying to find their own individuality. 

 Their need was to make their way in life.  The pervious generations were the ideals of the 50's the freedom of the 60's the dance era of the 70's the 80's used computers to print invitation.        Computers became part of education,                 Creativity, was a part, the Prince Charming arrived on a white horse, to take his bride away.  The world witnessed a Royal wedding.  Patterns were more available and people planned both home formal and informal weddings. 

  

                                                                       It was a time of celebration. 

         There were new magazines for brides to use as reference.

                                                                                                                                                 The world saw weddings from other Cultures,   Princess from other nations. The American way changes as we become educated on the other cultures, race, religion. Computers played a big part the beginning of Internet let people research their weddings and see how different marriages operate. 

       

 
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