Sandy Pony Donuts, a Chincoteague favorite, coming to Bethany

If anyone saw the news that Sandy Pony Donuts was coming to Bethany Beach this summer and was wondering why the truck has been parked and unused for two weeks on Coastal Highway, owners Ben Wang and Brea Reeves have a pretty good excuse.

The couple is to be married Saturday.

The honeymoon, of course, will have to wait.

The pair, friends since elementary school, are aiming for a Friday, June 9 opening of the wildly popular doughnut shop, their third location.

Wang and Reeves, both 27, started with an idea in 2014 and turned that idea into a doughnut truck on Chincoteague Island in the spring of 2015, where Reeves, a Salisbury University graduate, was working as a NASA photographer at Wallops Flight Facility.

The truck on Maddox Boulevard, with its 24 creative doughy concoctions, saw so much success that Reeves and Wang opened a brick-and-mortar location in Annapolis, their hometown, in less than a year.

Now, they’ll test new waters in Delaware.

What started out as “two kids selling doughnuts,” as Reeves said, has turned into rapid success.

“Just knowing how Ben is, that’s when I knew this was going to keep growing,” Reeves said. “When he has an idea, he’s going to make it happen.”

The truck is located at 33230 Coastal Highway near the Dollar General. Wang will be relocating to Bethany for the summer and Reeves will mostly be operating the truck at Chincoteague. To start, though, the newlyweds will spend the first few weeks together in Bethany. They say they haven’t hired anyone yet but are accepting applications.

Sandy Pony — named for the horses and shores around Chincoteague — sells fun flavors like the Charlie Brown, a peanut butter glazed doughnut with mini chocolate chips. The Porky Pony features a honey glaze with cinnamon sugar and bacon. Traditionalists are safe. Sandy Pony also offers powered sugar doughnuts, cinnamon sugar donuts and honey glazed without wild toppings.

But if a honey glazed donut with Fruity Pebbles is your thing, that’s available, too.

Each Sandy Pony location also offers something in addition to donuts. At Chincoteague there are snow cones. Bubble tea is offered at the Annapolis store. In Bethany, acai bowls with toppings like nutella, peanut butter, honey and mango to top the fruit and granola bases will be offered.

“Doughnuts for the morning and acai bowls for the afternoon,” Wang suggests.

Hours will be from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the plan is to be open until late September or early October, similar to the Chincoteague truck. Annapolis is open year-round.

Wang and Reeves said ever since they opened they’ve had people ask about franchising. Right now they’re not interested.

“It’s a small business but we like to own and occupy everything,” Wang said.

“We want quality food going out,” Reeves said. “I’m glad that we are where we are but I don’t want it to get too out of control. But I’m definitely happy with the progress we’ve made.”

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The pair said they’d be worried about the product if they were to franchise. And also the relationships that come with being a small business.

“Do they truly care,” Wang said, “about the product like we do? Do they truly care about the consumer like we do? In Annapolis, we see the regulars every weekend. That’s a big thing with Bethany, starting Bethany, we both aren’t going to be in Annapolis where everybody sees us. We have conversations with customers like they’re our friends.”

Some of them are.

Wang said there are some customers who will be at the wedding Saturday.

“You see these families grow and the kids get older and bigger and bigger and they remember you,” he said. “You start to realize we’re not just a doughnuts shop.”