Calling all brides to be! Sunday September 25 the Perfect Wedding Guide Bridal Show is coming to Orlando at the Orlando World Center Marriot! SweetByHolly and Hollis Wilder are going to be attending and setting up a booth! We are teaming up with event planners Posh-Able Events at the booth and working with Max King Events to create the set design!

Here’s a sketch of our setup:

For more info on the show visit Orlando.PWG.com.

http://www.poshableeventsorlando.com
http://maxkingevents.com

Sweet and Hollis Wilder are one of the local sponsors for Winter Park’s Bash for Books Event. The event takes place on September 24, 2011 at the Winter Park Civic Center and starts at 7pm.

This year they are taking Bash for Books to a new level and celebrating Ian Fleming’s James Bond.

Bash for Books is an incredible night of fun, food, auctions and entertainment raising money to support the materials, services and programs of the Winter Park Public Library. Visit their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/BashForBooks

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This was a letter from Bridget who recently custom ordered Sweet cupcakes for her wedding. Congrats Bridget!

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UCF is welcoming the 2011-2012 students on campus with a week full of great events! They have invited Hollis Wilder and Sweet to the “CAB’s VIP Pool Party” which Hollis will be a VIP Guest at where she will be signing autographs/ taking pictures with students and handing out some free cupcakes of course!

With all the buzz swirling with the new store and Miss Holly’s book deal there are tons of great opportunities and doors opening for Sweet and Miss Holly. Here is an interview that Miss Holly did for a local blog!

View the full interview here: http://lifeanditsotherdrugs.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/are-you-sweet-for-cupcakes/

Miss Holly (Hollis Wilder) has been invited to speak at the Fascinate Me! Seminar/Event in Jacksonville on Friday September 30. Hollis will be sharing the stage with keynote speaker Sally Hogshead along with John Andrews, Nancy Hogshead, Lara Herter, Gary Chartrand, Mande White, and Michelle Chance – Sangthong. More information on the event can be found below:

FASCINATE ME!
A full day of top-shelf speakers featuring keynote Sally Hogshead
September 30 2011, 9:00am – 4:30pm

Top-shelf authors, leaders and champions will come together at the beautiful Florida Theatre in Jacksonville on Friday, September 30 for a unique and powerful event that reveals the secrets to being fascinating and how to put that power to use.

More info and tickets available at http://fascinateme.eventbrite.com.

Sweet! is teaming up with the UCF Arena and Cirque Du Soleil Dralion for their show at the UCF Arena on September 21-25. Come into the store, design a cupcake on our cupcake card (see below). The contest will be for customers to design their own Dralion themed cupcake, the Sweet chefs & Miss Holly will pick the winning cupcake on September 6 and it will be featured in store from September 12-September 23.

The contest is in-store only and ends on September 2, 2011.

The winner will receive 4 front row tickets, a backstage tour and have their cupcake featured in the Sweet! By Good Golly Miss Holly store at Waterford Lakes in Orlando, FL.

Also make sure you stop in and get a flyer at Sweet, they contain a discount code for all Sweet! customers to take advantage of!

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For more information on tickets visit UCFArena.com.

Just a Sweet! reminder to everyone who purchased our Cupcakes for a Cause Groupon deal last September. We are reminding everyone that it expires on September 22, 2011. However, we will continue to honor the $25 coupons but ONLY FOR THE $12 purchase price after this date. As an incentive for customers to use up their coupons before September 22nd, we are waiving the restriction on Mini Mania Mondays. Feel free to come in and use your coupons to purchase Minis for a buck ON MONDAYS ONLY until September 22st!

The Cupcakes for A Cause Groupon deal was a benefit for the Florida Hospital For Children and we appreciate their wonderful support in helping us raise over $20,000 for a great cause!

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Miss Holly has a book deal!! In Spring of 2013 Hollis Wilder will be releasing a cooking book centered around making mini meals with a cupcake pan! It was just officially announced on Publishers Lunch at publishersmarketplace.com – “The Publishing Industry’s Daily Essential Read”.

Official Announcement from “Publisher’s Marketplace”:

Two-time winner of the Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars,” Hollis Wilder’s SAVORY BITES: Making Mini Meals in Your Cupcake Pan, to Natalie Kaire at Stewart, Tabori & Chang, on an exclusive submission, by Alison Fargis at the Stonesong Press (World).

http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/

We’re sure to become regular customers of Miss Holly. Your cakes are truly the best anyone could find anywhere.