The Paper Cafe Giveaway
October 30th, 2007 @ 7:03 pm by Contests
Congratulations #41 Christine! You’re the winner of the Three Desgining Women custom stamper and accessories!
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The Paper Cafe is giving away a custom stamper, ink set, gift tags and note pad from their popular Three Designing Women collection. There are so many great designs to choose from!
To enter, click over to the Paper Cafe website, tell us which custom stamper you’d select for yourself, and one lucky winner will receive it! You have until 8 pm EST Tuesday to enter. Good luck!
Smith and Niemeirko
October 30th, 2007 @ 5:38 pm by Mrs. Bee
For a unique take on centerpieces, check out these beautiful vessel-less creations from London based luxury event coordinator Smith and Miemierko.
Chicago: Belle Vie and Vera Wang Sample Sale
October 30th, 2007 @ 4:53 pm by Mrs. Jasmine
I just received this information via email and wanted to pass it on to my Chicago brides-to-be:
Vendorzilla
October 30th, 2007 @ 4:21 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
I’ve been engaged for almost 3 years. Yup, I know it’s a really long time, but when I got engaged, I wasn’t really ready to take the plunge both for monetary reasons and because I felt I was still too young. Nonetheless, I started planning my wedding a good year and a half if not two years in advance. I know that’s a long time, but I’m a very organized person and I wanted to get everything done as soon as possible from choosing my theme, to my colors to my vendors.
I started calling vendors left and right to book appointments, and I wasn’t lucky when it came to some of the people I called… so I have labeled every single one of them a vendorzilla! I even made them an official logo!!!
Here are some of my vendorzilla stories:
09.08.07 - Getting Ready
October 30th, 2007 @ 3:55 pm by Mrs. Emerald
I just love our wedding date… personally, I think it is just as cool as 07.07.07! 
It stormed the day before our wedding, so I was seriously worried about our outdoor ceremony. But apparently all my finger-crossing worked! I think I got less than 3 hours of shut-eye the night before… I was too excited to sleep so some of my out-of-town friends came to visit and we hung out in my hotel room until after 1 AM. Then I kept tossing and turning and at 6AM finally decided that I couldn’t take it anymore and got out of bed. I woke my sister, who was staying with me, up at 6:30, but she was a good sport about it as she was excited too! We waited until 8 AM before we went down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast with my friend K, visiting from England (the lone redhead in my pictures).
Snippet & Ink
October 30th, 2007 @ 3:29 pm by Mrs. Bee
Snippet & Ink is a cool new blog that posts a themed inspiration board each day. Today’s board features images that invoke a Home For The Holidays theme. Check it out for a daily dose of visual inspiration!
Hidden Treasures
October 30th, 2007 @ 2:56 pm by Miss Chickadee
I love finding things I forgot I owned!
A couple months ago, Mr. Chickadee and I had his parents over dinner. This, of course, meant we had to spend all day cleaning the apartment. For the first time in a while, all the surfaces of our apartment were cleared of the wedding magazine and half-crafted invitation clutter, revealing my savvy decorating scheme… which is less savvy and more like all the picture frames we’ve been given over the last 4 years. (We are slowly converting pictures of us to pictures of other loved ones, as we realized it’s awkward to put up 50 pictures of just yourselves all over the house).
Almost exactly a year ago Mr. Chickadee and I were in NYC with his parents for a week. In preparation for the theater we’d be seeing, I went out and doubled my fancy dress wardrobe. Mr. Chickadee’s mom picked this particular dress out for me to wear to Wicked, and though I wasn’t in love with it at the time, it’s sort of grown on me. Plus, I found it on major clearance for $14 at Von Maur. This picture is currently framed and gracing our dresser:
(Yes, with all of New York City at our disposal, this is a picture of us inside the darn hotel room!)
I Scream…. You Scream…
October 30th, 2007 @ 2:14 pm by Mrs. Canary
We all scream for… GOCCO!
{image from www.savegocco.com}
Since there have been so many discussion board posts on Gocco, I thought I’d share my journey to acquiring one. Before deciding to buy one, I researched for weeks and found great Gocco resources.
The Proposal
October 30th, 2007 @ 1:50 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
How this all started…
It was September 2006. He was adamant that we stay at the all-inclusive Le Blanc Spa Resort, the #1 rated hotel on Tripadvisor, and I was pestering him that it was a waste so money to spend so much for a “regular” weekend getaway. We had been going out for over 5 and 1/2 years at this point. When the driver heard we were staying at Le Blanc, he asked if it was our honeymoon and I bitterly said, “No” and gave Mr. Lovebird a mean stare, jokingly of course.
The moment we stepped into the hotel the concierge greeted us by name, which I found a little strange, but I figured that’s what service at the “best hotel” in Cancun is like. We got an ocean-view room on the top floor without even asking; I figured we just lucked out. The concierge also asked if we were celebrating a special occasion and once again I replied with a “No.”
Hot Thread: Living Together Before Marriage
October 30th, 2007 @ 1:30 pm by Beehive
Just wondering…how many bees out there have lived with their FI’s before tying the knot? For those that did, would you go back and wait if you could?
My hubby to be is planning to move in with me before the end of the year and to be completely honest…I’m a little scared freaking out!!! I’ve been on my own for a little over 2 years now and I LOVE it. I love having my own place/space and I’m really afraid of losing that. Is this nomal? Or could this be a major warning sign?
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