May 5th, 2008 — Groomsman Gifts, Bridesmaid Gifts, Unique Ideas
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
May 2nd, 2008 — Groomsman Gifts, Bridesmaid Gifts, Unique Ideas
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.
April 28th, 2008 — Bridesmaid Gifts, Unique Ideas
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!
April 28th, 2008 — Event Design
Wedding Planning is a very social activity. You will be spending a lot of time with your friends, family, and extended relatives that you haven’t seen in a while. So there are a lot of opportunities to have get togethers! Well, unless you’re Martha Stewart, you could probably use some help organizing these get togethers. So here’s something I found…
Pampered Chef and celebrity party planner Debi Lilly got together and put together a beautiful and very practical Party Planning Guide. Debi starts off by giving some general entertainment advice and then provides pretty close to a step-by-step guide on how to throw various types of parties such as:
Finally, there’s a great party planning checklist that will walk you through the process. The best part: It’s Free!
Check out here!
Thanks TimmyGunz for the picture!
April 24th, 2008 — Blogosphere
Boy, this week went by fast! It’s already time for the Top-5 Wedding Blog Posts of the Week! Another great line-up but first I want to let you know I’ll be running my first-ever contest very soon! This is going to be a pretty big one with prizes worth over $800! All you other bloggers out there, hope you don’t mind but I’m going to ask for your help in picking the winner. If you want to be involved leave me a comment. Don’t worry it won’t take much of your time. So now let’s get on with this weeks Top-5!
1. I liked this post because of the cool wedding theme and design elements Miss Flamingo over at Weddingbee chose. I also like how she’s working her theme into her wedding. In this post she’s working on seating cards or place cards. Checkout “Where do I Sit?”
2. Liene over at Blue Orchid had a great guest blogger this week. Kelly Ashworth of Kelly Ashworth Design gave her “do’s” and “don’ts” of having a stress free wedding taken from her own experience from her recent wedding. Checkout “Be Our Guest: Create a Stress Free Wedding.”
3. In honor of Earth Day, snippet & ink had an beautiful earth friendly inspiration board along with a list of 10 ways you can go green with your wedding! Checkout “Board #192: Earth Friendly #3, Garden Charm.”
4. Continuing on the green theme, do you want to do something really unique for your honeymoon? I’m not talking about your standard beach resort. Then checkout Thryn’s post over at wedlog, “Ten Green Getaways.”
5. Last but not least, here’s a question for you…do you think the groom is being left out of the bridal registry? Do you think the standard registry is to girly? Checkout Never teh Bride’s post over at Manalo for the Brides “Strong Enough for a Man, but Made for a Groom” and see what you think!
That’s it for this week. Get ready for the big contest. If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter we will announce it there too, in case you miss it on the blog. Sign-up through the link to your right!
April 23rd, 2008 — Wedding Ideas
It seems that the amazing Mindy Weiss is keeping busy and making a lot of headlines lately. Mindy is a celebrity wedding and events planner in
First of all, Mindy Weiss has teamed up with Paperlime.com, a division of the Gap, as a guest editor. You can checkout her first bit of advice concerning the proper shoes to wear at your wedding here.
I also saw on Masterpiece Weddings that Mindy came out with the “bible of all wedding books.” According to Melissa’s review it sounds like a great buy, checkout The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day
And finally, Mindy just recently started her own blog! If you want a bunch more advise from a celebrity planner check out her blog here!
Wait! That’s not all! Amazon also carries a bunch of Mindy Weiss wedding products. Alot of them you may find useful. Checkout this slideshow of all here products on Amazon.
April 22nd, 2008 — Wedding Invitations
I’m excited to announce that we just launched our new, expanded wedding invitation shop on Our Wedding Plus! We have teamed up with some of the finest wedding invitation providers to offer a gigantic selection of the best invitations on the web!
In our Wedding Invitations shop we are offering designs from:
Here are some of our wedding stationary selections:
Destination Wedding Invitations
Letterpress Wedding Invitations
We will be adding new options as we go, so happy shopping!
April 21st, 2008 — Unique Ideas
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 25th 2008 the lucky couple will get married live on the Today Show. So, if you are interested you have through April 23rd 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!
April 17th, 2008 — Blogosphere
Hi everyone! Hope you had a great week! We have a good lineup this week for your reading pleasure. So get your coffee, sit back and enjoy. Let me know what you think of this week’s top 5 and if you found any great posts that you think need to be highlighted.
1. Style Me Pretty had a unique week, actually it was unique wedding week over at Style Me Pretty! If you are looking for inspiration or you want to see something different. Head on over to Style Me Pretty and check out all the great posts this week!
2. Are going to have a rehearsal dinner? Are you going to have a rehearsal? If you’re not going to have a rehearsal should you have a rehearsal dinner? Well find out what you should do over at Always a Bridesmaid in the post “A No Rehearsal Dinner.”
3. Are you attempting to do your invitations? Well it may be harder than you think! I recommend you checkout Miss Purple’s Diary of Destination Wedding Drama post “Ding don’t, the witch is dead, er I mean the invites are done” for a bunch of great detailed tips that may save you some pain!
4. Okay, this one may be more for your guests if you decide not to send a response card with your invitations. But what are they to do anyway if you decide to do such a crazy thing? There actually is proper etiquette for this situation. If you want to know what it is checkout Event Ethos’ post “Q&A – No Reply Card.”
5. Finally, if you are getting ready to send out those invitations with or without response cards and you want to address your envelopes properly checkout Lucky Orchid Wedding’s great post “Envelope Addressing Tips.”
That’s it for this week! See you next week!
April 16th, 2008 — Women Interest
You may not be fighting too much yet, but, there probably will be a time in the future when you have to argue to resolve issues. This can go one of two ways, you can resolve the issues or you can end up damaging your relationship. So which one do you want?
Dale Adkins, author of Sanity Savers: Tips for Women to Live a Balanced Life
Here are some of their tips on the Right Way to Argue:
- Choose the Right Time
- Stay Calm and Respectful
- Stay on Topic
- Find a Workable Solution
For the rest of the story check out this clip from the Today Show!
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