I think that wedding favors are usually a big old waste of money. They’re expensive, no one ever likes them all that much, and they either end up getting left at the reception or tucked in the drawer next to the broom closet.
Posts Tagged: Weddings
Wedding Money-Savers: Handwritten Place Cards
One of the many ways I made our wedding more affordable: I ordered blank place cards from Wedding Paper Divas (style: Natural Wildflower) and hand-wrote guests’ names on them.
Wedding Money-Saver / Bouquets As Centerpieces
A neat little money-saving idea that Kendrick and I used for our wedding (we paid for the bulk of our wedding ourselves, so I have lots and lots of these tips for you):
Wedding Money-Saver / Hors d’Oeuvres
One of the aspects of our wedding that I had the most fun planning was the hors d’oeuvre menu. I had some standbys (sushi bar, chicken skewers), but my favorites were peaches wrapped in prosciutto and tiny cups of lobster bisque (the wedding was held in Maine).
Wedding Crashers Ticket Giveaway
WEDDING CRASHERS TICKET GIVEAWAY!
I have one free ticket to the Wedding Crashers wedding fair taking place this Saturday at the Bell House, and I want to give it to YOU!
Just send me an email telling me your unique DIY wedding idea, and I’ll pick the winner by Friday.
(That’s a photo from my wedding up there, by the way. Go here to check out my DIY invitations.)
Bridesmaids Gowns
I LOVED my bridesmaids’ espresso Vera Wang dresses, and thought they were both sexy and elegant. When you’re going long with bridesmaids’ gowns, my suggestion is to choose a subtler color - vibrant colors on long dresses can be overwhelming, and you don’t want to draw focus from the bride.
DIY Bridal Bouquet
DIY BRIDAL BOUQUET by REBECCA SHEPHERD FLORAL DESIGNS
Semi-DIY Wedding Invitations
This makes me feel sorta shy, but lots of you have written me to ask about our wedding, so here’s the first of my wedding posts (don’t worry, I won’t saturate the market, as it were…I’ll just post about a wedding topic every once in awhile).
This is our invite, which I designed myself. I went to Papyrus to look over the invitation options, and quickly discovered that even the simplest designs (including an invitation, RSVP card, thank you card, etc) were totally out of our price range for the number of people we were inviting (about 150). Plus, I had a very specific idea about what I wanted in mind, and when it comes to weddings it seems that specificity = expense.
So Kendrick and I spent a night running around Brooklyn looking for old-fashioned photo booths (the booths in the first two places we tried were broken), and finally located one that functioned at Bushwick Country Club. I had my design-savvy friend Liz (who, along with Vanessa, was one of our maids of honor) photoshop the shots in a sepia tone, and then I worked with the Soho Papyrus store to pick out pale-pink recycled paper, a chocolate-brown typeface, and a dark-pink floral design. The whole thing ended up costing about $300 - a fraction of what it would have cost had we not designed them ourselves - and I was thrilled with the result. It was just…us.
So there’s no RSVP card? So what.