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Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
That cake is absolutely gorgeous. I could tell it was pretty in the show last night, but the detail that went into that cake is amazing. Thanks for posting the link.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
here's Shawn's blog
http://www.bravotv.com/bethenny-getting-married/blogs/shawn-rabideau/never-let-them-see-you-sweat

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Texannie, I'm glad I'm not the only one. :-)

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
I haven't watched the show yet, have it on tape, but what is the deal with the cake? Why is the cake the most important thing about the reception. I think I must have missed when that came up.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
since she can't drink, she wanted the cake to be very good.

Debra
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11-20-2003

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
The cake bit was a little much for me. With two Assistants and a Wedding Planner, no one had time to bring her a sample of the cake?!?! I still really enjoy this show. The bride was beautiful, the venue lovely and the vows so touching.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Debra, in his blog he said it would be another week before he saw Bethenny after the cake-testing. He obviously couldn't bring her a stale piece of cake. The bakery was also in New Jersey.

Debra
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11-20-2003

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
Thanks Lex I hadn't read the blog yet. But I am still not buying it wasn't just manufactured drama.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I read the same thing in his blog about it being a week between visits. they don't seem to be manufacturing drama on this show, so i tend to believe him in his blog.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I also gather there was more to the cake story. IIRC, Jason and Bethenny love the red velvet cake at a cake shop near their apartment. However, that shop was already booked for that weekend and wasn't willing to take on another order. Shawn had worked with the Pink Cake Box before, knew they did a red velvet cake, so went with that one.

Also, Bethenny had had a difficult pregnancy earlier and was also sick around this time (in part, I suspect, from stress and running herself ragged). Hauling ass out to Jersey probably wasn't big on her list of things to do!

I think there is enough drama in being six-seven months pregnant, trying to finish a book, trying to run a business, and planning a wedding without adding the silly cake storyline.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Prisoner, you are correct about the cake shop where they live not being able to do the cake for the wedding, which is what led Shawn to the place in Jersey.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
and that increased Shawn's stress cause she had her favorite red velvet cake in mind, and red velvet cakes can differ dramatically from place to place.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I don't even want to think about any manufactured drama on this show! I am thoroughly enjoying it and will refuse to find anything negative about it!



Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 5:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
This is a great, half-hour long interview with Bethenny from last year. I don't remember seeing it before. She talks a lot about how she got to where she is.

http://www.popeater.com/2009/06/15/bethenny-frankel-on-obsessedtv/

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
Well how stupid was that cake store to not suck it up and make the cake for Bethenny - think of all the free publicity they would have gotten! Crazy!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 7:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
they were booked. these cakes are very time consuming to make/decorate. a bakery says they only make 'x' amounts of cakes a weekend because they know what they are able to produce and still maintain a high level of quality.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 3:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Bethanny is going to be on the Wendy show tomorrow with my boy Casey James. I think Wendy and Bethanny will eat that Texas boy alive!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
Bethenny's wedding was on a Sunday night, so I would have been up all night Saturday night making that cake if it was my business. To each his (or her) own.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
Clarification - I have actually worked in a bakery that made wedding cakes. You make the cake part a couple days in advance and fondant can be made well in advance. A lot of places buy rolled fondant rather than make your own but it is expensive and not that difficult to make. (I personally hate the look and taste of fondant and would never buy a cake with it.) So the day of the wedding it is more a matter of assembly. You usually spread the cake with some buttercream to make the fondant stick, but getting that fondant on can be a *itch, no question. You have to do a certain amount of fixing. But Bethenny's cake looked pretty simple compared to a lot of the types of cutouts that brides usually want.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 7:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Maybe the first bakery was worried that Bethenny would do some of her systematic bullying!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
LOL Huk! Good point!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, July 12, 2010 - 5:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I totally loved this last episode. I really wish Bravo would stop with all the manufactured BS (and the totally unlikeable people) on all the other HWs shows, and go back to something real. Bethenny and Jason are a great couple, flaws and all, and aren't afraid to let people know.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Monday, July 12, 2010 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Costa, I think that's where we find that Bethenny is a gem - how many would do that? go there?

not me - I've thought about our family drama on a show - -
hah no way would I want to go on tv - it would make a good show, but hell no, not in my world!! its why I watch tv - to escape!!

it does remind me of Jenna and how the first OC HW show came about - and look how she has no pulled back - and out of it even Dina on NY - pulled back -

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, July 12, 2010 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I think Bethenny's sardonic humor is also self-deprecating. And it works for her.

All of the other HWs on all other shows just take themselves too seriously. They really believe the BS that Bravo hypes about them. Bethenny, OTOH, has actually worked hard for her money, and her appreciation of having it all (career, husband, baby) just shines thru. Yes, she can be a royal b sometimes. But then she'll turn it around and laugh WITH the person she's berating.

I know her humor is a bit dry and doesn't appeal to everyone. But it's the REALNESS of her life, that I appreciate. Warts and all.

Frogichik
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06-11-2002

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 2:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Frogichik a private message Print Post    
http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=1064&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=5


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