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Here’s a cute idea for place card holders if you are having a beach themed wedding. Your guests can keep these mini beach chair place card holder as a wedding favor and it can be used later as a picture frame.  The are 4″ tall and 4″ wide and handpainted.  If you want to get more information about it just click on the picture.  If you want to see a bunch of other beach wedding accessories just click this link: beach wedding accessories

Sorry for the lack of regular posting but we’ve been pretty busy setting up our new online Wedding Shop!

Our Wedding Plus just went live with our new Wedding Shop packed with pretty much every wedding accessory you can think of.  Including bridal jewlery, bridal veils, wedding bands, wedding cake toppers, unity candles, bridesmaid gifts, groomsman gifts and a whole lot more!  The selection is gigantic but we have a lot of easy links on the main page and there’s also a search feature to help you find what you want!

We plan on making the wedding shop landing page prettier in the near future but we wanted to get it online as soon as possible. 

In response to my Pets in your Wedding article, someone let me know about a great website Petside.com and a great video to help those of you who want to have pets in your wedding or if you don’t think your pets would cooperate there’s some ideas on how they still can be a part.  Check it out!

I heard something about sponsored weddings about a year ago and didn’t really give it much thought. Trying to find vendors that are willing to give their products and services away for some advertising (maybe an advertisement in your wedding program or a banner displayed at your reception) would be next to impossible.

Well, I just found out about a website Weddings and Sponsors that is trying to facilitate the connection between couples and vendors in their area. They are brand new so I doubt there’s much of a vendor list yet, but do you think this concept will catch on? I can see some vendors willing to give discounts but getting an entire wedding free with multiple sponsors seems pretty farfetched. Will the sponsors really get their money’s worth in advertising?

I’m interested in hearing if anyone has tried this on their own or if any wedding professionals think this is something they could profit from.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived!  Thanks to everyone who participated in the Great Wedding Memory Giveaway!

I’d like to start off by thanking all of the entrants for the well thought out and very useful comments. I think this post will go down in history as one of the most useful wedding blog posts ever! Not that I’m biased or anything. Future brides will be able to look at this post’s comments and add quality, reduce costs, and reduce the stress of their wedding with the wealth of experience they will find!

I’d also like to thank the 12 great wedding bloggers for their participation in helping me judge this contest. They each took time out of their busy schedules to read through all the comments and selected their favorite. Bear in mind, these bloggers aren’t just bloggers, in many cases they are very experienced and very busy wedding planners, invitation designers, event designers, etc! I’m flattered that they helped me with this contest by judging and also by helping me spread the word!

Here are the judges!

Melissa from Masterpiece Weddings
Thryn from wedlog
Darci from With this Ring
Lynn from The Handcrafted Wedding
Saundra from planning…forever
Miss Purple from Miss Purple’s Diary of Destination Wedding Drama
Miss Polka from Polkadotbride
Monica from WhiteboxWedding
Liene from Blue Orchid Designs
Anne from perfectbound
Rebekah from Elizabeth Anne Designs
Nicole from NicEvents

Now, the thing I find most amazing and indicative of the high quality of the submissions…of all twelve votes cast by the judges, only two were for the same comment!

So the winner of the contest only had two votes, meaning we had 10 runners up. Since all the runners up were tied for second place, I’m going to give each of them a free Our Wedding Plus wedding website! So without further ado here are the results…

The overall winner with two votes (winner of 10 Cruzers & a Wedding Website):   Comment #35 - Shauna

Runners Up (winners of a Wedding Website):

#7 - Sarah
#10 - Mary
#12 - Lauren
#20 - Rachel
#22 - Kat
#23 - Tara
#33 - Le
#34 - Ley
#36 - Chantal
#45 - Erica

Congratulations and thanks for all the great advice!

Rhonda

Hang in there folks.  The votes are flowing in from your favorite bloggers.  We are almost there.  I will post results this evening.

Plus, there will be a special surprise for all of our finalists (those who recieved votes from the judges).

Thanks for participating!

Rhonda

This is your last chance to enter the Great Wedding Memory Giveaway!  Deadline is tonight, midnight Pacific time!

We have a spectacular group of wedding professionals / bloggers that volunteered to judge!   I hope to have the results posted by Monday night, May 5th.

 So check back in to findout who the winner is and who our esteemed group of judges were!

 Thanks to everyone involved!

Rhonda

I’ll be back to my normal posting schedule next week.

Here’s Your Chance To Win Prizes Totaling Up to $470!

 Looking for unique, meaningful, and not to mention useful gifts to give your bridal party?  Something that isn’t cliché and something they can use over and over for years to come?  And, do you want to us to give them to you for FREE?

Sandisk has come out with a stylish new USB flash drive called the Cruzer Gator on which you can give members of your bridal party pictures of the great times you had with them during your wedding planning, videos, wedding photos, share some favorite songs for their iPod, and then they can use the massive storage (up to 4G) for whatever they like for years to come! The cool thing about the Gator is they come in a stylish alligator skin style, in different colors. (Black and Red are 4G, Pink is 2G)

The Prizes:  The folks at Sandisk have donated 10 Cruzer Gators USB Flash Drives (see picture above), one for each member of your bridal party including both groomsmen and bridesmaids (10 max), total value up to $400!  Plus, I’m also going to throw in a free one year subscription to one of our Our Wedding Plus premium wedding websites worth $72!  All this will be given to one lucky winner!

How You Enter:  Leave a comment on this post answering one of the following questions:

- What was the most useful piece of wedding planning advice you have received?
- What has been your biggest “lesson learned” so far during your wedding planning process?
- If you could do it over, what would you do differently?

How You Win: I’m going to ask some other wedding bloggers to rank their top-5 entries, based on the usefulness of your comment to someone planning their wedding.  I will tally the results and pick the most popular comment.  This is obviously subjective based on each judge’s opinion and my selection will be final.  If I can’t get any help in the judging I will select the comment I feel was most useful, based solely on my own judgment.

Deadline: Your Comment Must be Posted by Midnight, Friday, May 2nd 2008. 

The winner will be announced by Monday, May 5th 2008!  I will also announce which wedding bloggers helped in the judging!

Good Luck!

It’s that time again!  The Today Show is taking applications for “Today Throws a Wedding.”  You may remember last year when Martha Stewart organized this event, this year it’s being called “A Race to the Alter.”  Not sure the significance of the name but the Today Show will pick several finalist couples.  These couples will have to compete against each other in some “fun, competitive challenges” and then the audience will vote on the winning couple.

The winning couple will have all the details of their wedding designed by the Today Show audience, who will vote on details such as the cake, the dress, etc.  Then around June 25^th 2008 the lucky couple will get married live on the Today Show. So, if you are interested you have through April 23^rd 2008 to apply and you might want to take some time to look at the application, there are quite a few questions to answer!

Good luck!

While at “A Soolip Wedding”  wedding show in Los Angeles last weekend I ran across something a little different.  The first table I saw when entering the vendor area was a wedding astrologer.  My first thought was this would be a good topic for the blog, but more as entertainment than anything really serious.  When it comes to astrology, I’ve definitely been a skeptic!  So my husband and I went to talk to the man at the table to see what this was all about.  The astrologer’s name was Jeff Harman.  He told us about all the people he’s worked with including Hollywood producers, directors, actors, and some examples of readings he’s done.  So just for fun, we asked him about our marriage.  Gave him the date, time, and location and thankfully he said that was a really good time and things are looking good.  But then, he began to pinpoint issues that occured in our lives during the last 9 years that were uncanny.  Lets just say things that I wouldn’t think he could guess including timeframes, subject matter, etc.  It gave me goosebumps!  So, am I convinced?  I’m closer than I was before.  But, I must confess, I spent the rest of the day thinking what important decisions I have coming up that I should ask Jeff to look into.   After all, astrology has been used by many kings, Presidents, and other very powerful people over the years.  Anyway, I’m glad I met Jeff Harman and now I’m lucky enough to have Jeff Harman’s wife Camille, guest blog with us today!  She gives her perspective on the use of astology for her wedding and what it can do for you.  So here’s Camille (this picture is of Jeff, Camille, and their son Aidon)…

In many parts of the world, couples wouldn’t think of getting married without consulting an astrologer. I am married to Jeff Harman, a professional astrologer who consults with clients all over the world, helping them with a myriad of personal and business concerns. He uses many types of astrology, including Vedic, Traditional, Kabbalistic, and Astro-location.

Jeff offers a bouquet of services for couples, most importantly, advice on the selection of the date and time for the wedding ceremony. This is called Electional Astrology. Believe it or not, the time at which you say your vows is like a birth time for your entire marriage. Jeff has amazed many a skeptic by showing why marriages and businesses have failed because of their time of commencement. A friend once challenged Jeff to tell him why his marriage had failed. Jeff typed in the ceremony time and place and was able to reveal the whole sad story, including that the guy’s wife was gay.

Jeff and I said our vows on a Wednesday morning at 10:35 am–and we actually had a lot of guests! But don’t worry, if you want your wedding to be on a Saturday afternoon, or within some other time constraint, he will work with you to choose the best possible moment for your vows.

Choosing a time is not a simple process. It involves analyzing the bride and groom’s birth charts and their current individual energies as well as the energies available for the ceremony time. Jeff works with you to look at several choices offering various compromises and advantages. You then select the date.

But lets back up a bit. Before you say, “I do,” perhaps you should check compatibility and see if marriage is in your best interest. Compatibility analysis using the ancient astrology is superior to the modern “love, light and clueless” astrology we read in various books and magazines that only use sun sign astrology.

Let’s say you have a burning question in your mind such as, “Is it in my best interest to marry X?” Using ancient Horary Astrology, Jeff will cast a chart for the moment you ask him the question. The answer will be surprisingly specific.

Diamonds are beautiful, but are they the best gems for you? For thousands of years in Kabbalah and Indian traditions, gems have been astrologically prescribed for individuals desiring to correct or strengthen planetary influences. Jeff offers natural, untreated gems and the protocols that allow you to create powerful wedding rings.

Astro-location Astrology lets you look at your personal geographic energies. It can help you decide where to live, where to honeymoon, and where to travel in the future.

After you’ve made it through the wedding and are thinking about creating a family, Jeff can tell you when your best child conception cycles occur and help you to consciously conceive your children on good dates. You can even choose the sex! It worked for us!

Jeff is available worldwide by phone or in person.

Jeff Harman
Member AFA, CVA, NCGR, ISBA
(310) 385-8459
(520) 743-1054
jeff [at] jeffharman.com
www.jeffharman.com