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I've been snacking a lot recently and keep finding cakes, cupcakes and cookies to die for. It started innocently enough with a simple recipe search and has turned into hours worth of a confection addiction and no cookies of my own.
These beautiful and edible treasures are made by Cuppie Cakes
Ahhh, a passion for purples and lavenders!
Purple can feel overwhelming if not used correctly. Shades vary, complimentary colors can sometimes be in the eye of the beholder, no matter what the color wheel says.
Take these following inspiration boards for example of ways to work purples into your wedding.
Thank you shout out to these fabulous inspiration board designers/ bloggers: The Wedding Cabaret, finestationery on flickr, duwaxloolu.blogspot.com, stylemepretty.com, glamourousgowns.co.uk, theweddingdecorator.blogspot.com for reviva-weddings.com, nicholelynn on Live Journal and junebugweddings.com!
finestationery on flickr
Here is a wonderful online tool for after the wedding!
For a mere $29.95 (what is *your* time worth) you can have MissNowMrs help you change you name legally.
Once the wedding is over you may take a deep breath sit back and relax knowing all the details are handled. With this service you'll now all the little details, what you need to change what and in what order these things need to be done! From your social security card, driver's license and banking needs this service makes it easy and stress free.
From their site:
MissNowMrs.com is the premier online name-change service created to simplify the name-change process for newlyweds. Once you select our $29.95 name-change package, you will be on your way to changing your name the easy way.MissNowMrs.com will guide you through our three name-change steps:
- Questions
You will be prompted to enter your personal information, which will be used to auto-complete your Social Security, IRS 8822, United States Passport, United States Postal Service, and State Driver’s License forms. You will then be asked questions, which will be used to complete name-change notification letters for your banks, credit cards, mortgage providers, utilities, medical providers, insurance companies, professional license boards, and investment companies. If you are uncomfortable entering certain personal information, such as your social security number or account numbers, you have the option to personally write it on each form.
- Forms
Once your forms and notification letters are completed you will have the opportunity to review each form and letter to make sure that it is accurate. Upon approval of your forms and letters you can print them directly from the website or save them on you computer and print them.
- File
Each form will print out with an instruction sheet. The sheet provides the order of submission, fees, required documents, office locations, and mailing addresses for each form. Notification letters also print with a set of instructions and a checklist to help you manage your form and letter filing.
What you can take care of with MissNowMrs:
Social Security
IRS
U.S. Passport
U.S. Postal Service
Driver's License
Voter Registration
Bank Notification Letter
Credit Card Notification Letter
Mortgage Notification Letter
Utility Notification Letter
Medical Notification Letter
Insurance Notification Letter
Professional License Notification Letter
Investment Notification Letter
Certified Marriage Certificate(s)Certified Marriage CertificatesMany of the name-change forms require a certified marriage certificate to be included as proof of name change. MissNowMrs.com can provide you with an auto-completed form to request these certificates. Typically you only need to answer one more question to complete the request form. When you have completed the three MissNowMrs.com name-change steps you will be given the opportunity to purchase a marriage certificate request form for $4.95.
Since I have been introducing you to some great online resources recently, I thought I'd continue it this week.
See recent posts; My Wedding Websites, Wishpot Online Registry Service which are both free.
Today, another great and free resource.
I have recommended this site to all l the brides I work with at my venue.
As you know you can download a 'free wedding planner' at almost every wedding site on the internet. In my opinion these are a great starting point, yet hardly a planner. There are so many particulars that go into planning a wedding, it's almost insulting then you are given a 4 pages and wished good luck! These, my friends, are very very basic outlines.
EZ Wedding Planner however is all encompassing and is just fantastic. Kudos to the creators. Just take a look at all you can accomplish with this dynamic online service. There is no way I can describe their service better then they can. So from their site:
You have the perfect wedding in mind. But, with so many details to plan and track, how do you organize it all to pull it off easily and smoothly? EZ Wedding Planner can help! It's software you don't load onto your computer. It works from any browser, is password protected, secure and all your data is backed up daily. You always have the latest features and upgrades.Budget: An easy place to calculate all of the costs contributing to your wedding. No need to overspend your budget. You can enter estimates, actuals, and what has been paid so far, along with who pays for each expense and comments on each expense. Are multiple people paying for different portions of your wedding? All expenses can be sorted by category (like floral, attire, music, etc.) and by who pays (family of bride, bride, family of groom, groom, etc.), for concise reports and easy budgeting.
Plan: A guide to help you keep track of all the must-do details, organized by due-dates, based on your wedding date. Don’t let important lead-times slip away, creating a time panic and/or booking conflicts. Over 100 items listed, plus the flexibility to add your own to-do’s and display all items or only those left undone. This feature alone is worth the whole package. You can get an instant look at what you have already accomplished and what still needs to be done and by when – from 15 months prior right up to the day of your wedding. You can also choose to receive emails of your planned items as they become due, so you won't forget anything. Plan items and dates can also be modified or deleted to fit your wedding. You can even see a month-at-a-time calendar displaying your items to do. Click on the yellow light bulb
for great ideas and helpful hints about the Plan items. For example, Book organist and wedding soloists has lots of detail about ceremony music including over 400 suggested pieces.
People: After the Bride and Groom, the most important people at your wedding are your guests and attendants. Easily generate guest lists, track RSVP counts for wedding, reception and other planned events (like shower or groom’s dinner), and track gift lists and thank-you notes sent. Having a calligrapher address your invitations? Simply print out your invitation list with names and addresses and you’re ready to go. You can even enter birthdays, anniversaries, and other important information about your guests. Then view/print a report by date of these events, or choose to receive email x number of days before, so you will never forget to send those cards again. Your guest list is also automatically shown in the reception seating section, for taking one of the biggest headaches out of your reception planning. You can even specify if your guests smoke or not, for seating preferences.
Seating: The Seating feature simplifies one of the most complicated and tedious jobs a bride faces. Here you assign your reception guests to tables. You can select either to display the names of people who have rsvp'd yes, or to display the number in the party, regardless of if they have sent back an rsvp or not. You specify how many tables you will have, how many people can sit at each table, and the shape (round, rectangle, etc.) Table numbers will be assigned to each configuration. Then, you can "seat" each guest at a table. It's a snap to add or delete tables or to modify table data as well as moving guests to other tables, or off completely. You can even designate people as smokers (in their person profile) and a cigarette will show up after their name. So, you can easily group smokers vs non-smokers if you wish. Then, when it comes to making table cards, simply print your seating page and you will have all the names and associated table numbers in one handy list.
Vendors: All those people who help make your wedding so special will be kept in one handy place. Musicians, caterers, flowers, limo services, photographers and videographers, cake bakers, ministers, and anyone else of whom you want to keep track. Then on the day of your wedding, you will have a list of all of your important contacts, using the EZ Wedding Planner Vendor List. Did you have a wonderful experience working with your photographer? You can share your favorite vendors and venues with the other users of EZ Wedding Planner and look up vendors and venues from our master list.
Events: A convenient place to gather all of the details of those important locations (wedding, reception site, groom’s dinner, showers, or any other planned events.) Locations, dates, start/stop times, estimated and actual number of people attending, and notes for each event can be tracked. Have a bridal gown fitting at 4pm on the 22nd, meeting with a minister at 2pm on the 5th and then a hair appointment at 5:30pm on the 5th? Here’s a great way to organize these key events by scheduled times.
Options: This includes such items as allowing a change in the wedding date to automatically recalculate all of the Plan due-dates. You can choose to have email reminders sent to you reminding of plan and event items as well as guest birthday and anniversary dates. Your password to use EZ Wedding Planner can be changed here. The Wedding Day Timetable allows you to keep track of each scheduled event on the actual day of your wedding. Keep in one printable report details like when is your hair appointment, what time the photos begin, when the cake should be delivered, what time the reception hall is open for your guests, and a myriad of other details. Also, under options, you can assign a page where your guests can see details about your events, gift list, registries, bride and groom email addresses, your wedding day timetable and any personal notes you choose to tell them. You decide how much detail to show, assign them a password and specify if you want to be emailed with information of who looks at your guest page.
Lists: Printable worksheets for ease in organizing your wedding include: budgets by category and by who pays, including balances remaining. See your invitation lists alphabetical by name, sorted by address or by those who haven’t RSVP’d. Vendor lists with vital phone numbers and contacts, photography wish lists, event schedules and your wedding day timetables are included. You can list your registry preferences along with specific gift lists, both of which can be displayed on your guest page. Then track the thank you notes you have sent and those yet to be done. One of the items in the List category is the automated reception seating plan (or click on the SeatingList selections are an invaluable resource in wedding planning. icon). Here you can assign your guests to tables, of which you control the number, size and shape. Guests are easily moved around or deleted from tables. There is also a free-form notepad area to jot down anything you like. Overall, the
Gifts: Maintain a list of gifts needed and received along with details of patterns, sizes, colors, stores, models, etc. Select the gifts you would like from a large, categorized suggestion list containing hundreds of typical household needs in 25 categories. You can also specify at which stores you have registered.
Registry: This selection allows you to add and remove store names where you have registered. This list can be included on your guest page (selected under Options).
Advice: Over 50 major topics discussed, including advice on wedding invitations and programs, hair, music, flowers, caterers, reception details, seating, budget tips, and much more. Dozens of questions and answers are listed both on general wedding questions and on EZ Wedding Planner program operation. These questions have been emailed to us from brides all over the world who are using EZ Wedding Planner.
Log Out: This will drop your connection to your EZ Wedding Planner database. You will have to log back on to access and move around your EZ Wedding Planner data. This will ensure that anyone else using your computer will not be able to edit any of your data without first logging onto EZ Wedding Planner. If you are the only one using your computer, or this is not a concern to you, it is not necessary to log out.
After showing you how to add a some non flame 'candlelight' with Throwie DIY LED lights, we thought we'd share some fun DIY votive and luminary holders you can make yourself!
Use these to inspire you to light your wedding aisle, line outdoor pathways, hang from trees, or use as centerpieces. With the use of LEDs, no worries about fire restrictions! Get the candlelight like glow you had always visioned for your wedding day!
If you want to drop a couple of LEDs in these, it's safe and economical! Shred a little bit of pearly cellophane and top your LED light with it in the container to mask the light source just a little if someone peeks inside and you don't want the source so very obvious ;)
Jar Votives Ellen Allen on HGTV
"Stained Glass" Painted Fish Bowl With Votive by Courtney Clark on HGTV
Candle Chandeliers How-To from Martha Stewart
Hanging a set of miniature glass lanterns from Martha Stewart Living
Fourth of July Votives
1. Lacey Luminaries 2. Beeswax covered luminaries
Shimmering Holiday Votives on Krylon
Pearly Garden Party Candles
Wedding Votive Trio from Krylon
Papermints Fun festive and fresh invitation. Loving the trend of the brown with bold primary colors.
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