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We used a random number generator to select a winner for this contest, and the lucky winner is…. #743 Johnny D! Congratulations Johnny D!
Stay tuned for the 10 runner up winners of the MAC Office 2008 software!
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We’re teaming up with Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit to bring you our biggest contest ever — we’re giving away $1000, a new MacBook, and copy of Office 2008 for Mac to one lucky bride or groom! Plus, 10 runners up will receive a copy of the Office 2008 software!
Everyone is trying to save a little extra money in this economy, and Microsoft Office for MAC offers some nifty tools to DIY save the dates, invitations, budget trackers and more. For tons of tips on things you can create with the Office Suite, go here!
To enter the contest, please tell us why you should win this amazing prize package. Get your fiances to enter too! Good luck! 
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Oh man — because every computer I touch seems to self-destruct soon thereafter? So having a new one would be amazing!
OMG!!! I would love to win this as it will help with all things like preparing the invitations, programs, menus etc… One of my short term goals is to learn Photoshop and having the Mac would totally help in doing that.
Thanks!
because my fiance is in grad and we are broke as a joke…
and because he would L.O.V.E a mac and has been begging for one for ages!
we’d love a new computer as we start our new life together!
AMAZING! This is incredble!! We would love to have this because right now we are using a very old PC at our house which we share. It takes about 15 minutes for the machine to power up so I do most of my computer related things at work (shhhh don’t tell!!) This would help tremendously in finding the perfect accents for our wedding, planning with a budgeter, and posting more on wedding bee!!!!
Wowee! This would be great to help with all aspects of planning, but especially designing invitations! And I could really use a new Mac… by old Macbook has all there mysterious black spots on the bottom, like it is slowly self-destructing from the inside! Yikes!
having a new computer would totally help me to DIY my menus. Plus, I’m still in school & FI and I only have one computer. We’re always having to share, which can sometimes get tricky!
Because my computer broke, with ALL my wedding stuff on it!!! Because I <3 macs and had one all through my childhood! But no matter what, this is an AMAZING contest!!!
Wow what a great giveaway! My husband and I should win because we desperately need a new computer! Ours is on its last legs. Thanks!!
This would be incredible! I know that Macs are the way to go for grqaphic design, something I am anxious to try my hand at with invitations, save the dates, table numbers, etc. Not to mention that this would be ideal for helping me to get through grad school before the wedding - what a load of stress off that would be! Fingers crossed!
I need need this mac because without my own computer at home, it’s impossible to look at weddingbee all the time or to find inspiration online! Also, Microsoft Office is the greatest to do all the last minute organizational work. Love it!
We should win this because I LURVE Macs… I’m on one and have a broken-down old school iBook sitting next to me… it desperately needs replaced!
how do we participate in this contest?
Awesome! I’m newly engaged and planning to fully DIY all my invitations, STDs, menus, programs and more! That being said, I’ve never actually done this stuff, lol, but I’m so excited to try! I just got my requisite Gocco off Ebay, and would really love to convert to a Mac since it’s so good for design! (I’ve been a PC girl all my life, and I think it’s time for a change!)
I am a total MAC convert and right now my fiance is getting just a little tired of me stealing his laptop to do all of my wedidng stuff! This would be fabulous
Wowwwee what a great giveaway! FI and I have some seriously antiquated computer equipment between the two of us. It’s getting a little sad, especially with both of us in school.
Speaking of school, in undergrad I learned how to use photoshop and Quark Xpress. I loved the software and know I could make gorgeous stuff for the wedding with it. However, paying for grad school has made a mac cost prohibitive and put the Quark software package out of the question. A mac is on the list of things I want to buy after the wedding, but before the wedding I could design gorgeous things and save some serious money!
ooh we could use a new comp bc my fi had his remaining family move to a new country to live with him so he could take care of them (after his dad passed away last year) and we could use another computer in the family with the new additions!
I am a self proclaimed tech geek. I have ALWAYS wanted a MAC but couldn’t afford one. This won’t just help me with the wedding but for many years after as well.
I fell in love with mac in college, after I decided to switch my major to Media Arts and Design. I went through almost a year of mac “bootcamp”-learning all the products and features. I haven’t been able to afford a new mac since, and have always wanted to continue my passion for design. And what better time than now, with an upcoming diy budget 2010 wedding!! Thanks for this opportunity!!
Wow, amazing giveaway! I would love it because my laptop is 5 years old (from when I graduated high school) and does NOT work anymore. I would looove to have a computer of my own again instead of mooching my fiance’s
Please, please let me win this for my fiance. She just lost her job and would be so thrilled to have a new fancy machine for all her projects!
This contest is amazing! Because I will be able to make our programs and menu and thank you cards with this and because my budget has nothing even remotely like this in it! This would make our month!!
How awesome!
I would love to win this because my laptop and I have been having more and more fights lately, and it retaliates by not working for me 
What an awesome contest! This would be a huge help for programs, thank you cards, and designing graphics for the invitations and paper products! Wow– and the software is fantastic for budget tracking too
I would love to win, for so many reasons. (1) I am a law student (read I use my computer for everything from taking notes, to exams, to wedding planning), and my computer is one trip away from conking out on me (too may trips in my back pack plus lots of use= the screen has funny lines in it, and stuff). (2) My fiance and I are both graduate students paying for our own wedding, so money isn’t something we have an abundance of, so if my computer does conk out on me and FI and I are forced to share a computer, that might be really bad for our relationship. (3) I LOVE Macs. I think they are fantastic. (4) Macs are great for graphics, and I want to design everything from invitations to programs, so a Mac would be inffinitely helpful.
Because I think we could basically plan our whole wedding using a MAC from invitation design, to music, to charts, to website design and then a place to store all our wonderful pictures. It is the whole package. This is an amazing contest!!
My computer is almost dead - I’m scared to turn it off, because what if it never turns on again! I know that a mac is the way to go with the next computer, if only I could afford one. The slow/dying computer is making it very difficult to plan the wedding and read blogs like these (and then there’s always the non-wedding work that I should be doing..) I promise I’d spend the $1000 on the wedding, like maybe on a cheesecake martini bar!
I would be so over-the-moon happy if I were to win this giveaway. I have been a Mac lover ever since first using one in my college video editing course in 2002. However, we dont have the $$ to purchase one of our own. My fiance and I currently share a 10 year old Dell that is slower than a turtle, and surpsingly still booting! It only has 256MB of RAM!!! Needless to say this would be an amzing help during my last few months of wedding planning and even after. I’m a photographer trying to break out on my own and this gift package would help me out tremendously with my startup, being that all the money I have currently is going towards our wedding!! I have been a dedicated Weddingbee member for over a year now and this is definitely the best contest yet!
I would love to win this because I need a new computer and office 2008 would be a dream to own and work with for almost every aspect of my life!!! this contest is awesome!!
I’ve always wanted to design invitations from inspirational photography I find, but my work doesn’t allow me to tinker like that on my work computer
I don’t think I’ll be able to “afford” (as in, charge) a new computer til they come out with holographic screens!
I’d be thrilled to win this contest, but also equally thrilled to know that no matter what, someone out there who really needs a new computer is going to get one!
Way to go, weddingbee!
What a great give-away! My laptop is not long for this world. I’ve backed everything up and am just waiting for the day it finally kicks it. =( This Mac would be amazing!
Best contest ever! My MAC is about to break any day now, and were just trying to get it through our wedding coming up in 2 weeks. However, I wanted to help other brides with invitations, escort cards, etc. and start my own little business, so this would be major for me!
*Gasp!* What an amazing giveaway! I’ve always wanted a Mac but have not been able to afford it!
I have been a loyal Mac user since I started using computers! I would love to have a new one because my current one is quite old, and I know having a faster one would really help me do more for the wedding (and life in general!)
This would be an awesome prize to win! Having graduated with a degree in Graphic Design and now wanting to create my own paper products for my October wedding, the WANT/NEED for my very own Mac has greatly intensified! I just haven’t been able to afford one on my own, and this contest would totally solve that problem! This would allow me to be able to create in the comfort of my own home and continue my learning of design. I would love, love, love a new mac!
Wow, what a contest! I could use this prize because I am a 3rd year graduate student who will graduate in 2010. My current laptop is from from way back in my undergrad days and is riddled with viruses, has spots on the screen, keys that stick (My “colon” key doesn’t work so if I want to make a smiley face I have to copy and paste the eyes- ugh!), is a pro at shutting down at inopportune times, and has way outdated software. I just haven’t been able to afford or justify a new computer just yet. It would sure help to be able to enter the professional world after graduation with a new computer that doesn’t add another bill to the student loans I will be paying back. Not to mention all of the ways I could use the new software for my own wedding planning and upcoming weddings in late 2009 and throughout 2010 where I will be a bridesmaid. My friend would love me even more if I could use my new computer to make her save-the-dates!
Whoa - I want to win this so badly! My old laptop is super heavy and it’s a pain to carry around. My friend has a mac laptop and it is so lightweight. I would love the convenience of a lightweight laptop!
What amazing timing! We’re actually sending out our computer for repairs today. The Mister’s computer died last year and we’ve relied on mine for everything from schoolwork to wedding planning to the everyday photo and music tasks. It’s scary to send away your computer (which we rely on for everything) not knowing when it will be returned to you, or if it will be fixed even then.
I have heard nothing but phenomenal reviews on Macs from all my musician and artist friends who use them every day - and we would be so ecstatic to have one of our own! Not to mention the convenience of this computer being a laptop. I’m an excel addict, and coupling the computer giveaway with the microsoft package is a great idea - fingers crossed that we can win!
How wonderful! And it’s so timely. My Mac, which endured law school, 2 moves and a masters degree, that has 5+ years worth of pictures on it is DEAD. So dead that the screen is cracked (whoops!) and hardly turns on. The devastating parts are that we 1) can’t afford a new computer 2)have all of the music to make the playlist for our wedding on that MAC and 3) can’t get to A-N-Y of my pictures to make the blurb books we were planning on for our bridal party. Sorry for the sob story but this computer is wildly NEEDED!!!!!!!!
wow. this is incredible.
as both me and my fiancee are physics graduate students, we spend 80% of our waking hours on our laptops. his is on its last legs, and i’ve been trying to get him to get a mac (like mine) so that we can share more files and have fewer compatibility problems. also, it’d be awesome for all of his work. however, as grad students, we don’t have enough money to get a new computer, let alone a mac. this would be INCREDIBLE for not only doing wedding stuff (which it is necessary for), but also for doing our every-day work-related activities. microsoft office is necessary for everything we do - a couple of presentations a month, several applications and proposals each semester… it’s just necessary. plus, i’m designing all of our own paper (invitations, thank-you notes, etc), so this would be perfect.
oh please oh please!
What a dream to have a Macbook of my very own! This would beat the pants off what we have now. Amazing contest!
This would be amazing to win! We’ve been wanting desparately to convert things over to macs - but, we haven’t been able to afford it! And now with wedding, losing a job and more, we definitely can’t! This would be amazing to win and would help with all of our wedding needs!
Because me and FI are sick of PC and want to move on to the bigger and better MAC. FI has been eyeing the MACbook forever. Also we’re a couple on a budget so the MAC would help ease our budget with programs, menu cards, STD’s etc.
What a dream to have a Macbook of my very own! This would beat the pants off what we have now. This is an amazing contest!
I would be one happy girl if I won this prize package and there are a few reasons why I should win:
1. Our home PC just died on us… and I haven’t even completed all of my DIY wedding projects yet like our programs!
2. I’ve always wanted a Mac, but was never able to afford one.
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3. I would have so much fun with a Mac… photo/video editing, animation, DIY projects. The possibilities!
This would help soooo much with my DIY invitation dream. The macbook can do great things. Plus the money could go towards an amazing photographer that we cannot quite afford now. What a great contest!
I’m a future groom here, posting after my fiance Michelle showed me the contest. We should be selected because we are both graduate students and can hardly afford an updated computer when we are budgeting things like dinner each week. A big wedding to involve all of the relatives is tough on a shoestring, and this prize would certainly help with the planning and life beyond the wedding as newlyweds.
Because I’m a poor student and can’t afford one otherwise!!!!
what am amazing giveaway!! I should win this wonderful prize because I’d love to start a small side business helping people DIY stationary and blog templates. I’m a web professional by day, but I haven’t upgraded to a mac at home yet, so this would be a huge step in making my creative little dream a reality!
Ooooh! Awesome giveaway! I used to work on a Mac at my old job and ever since then I’ve wanted one.
I’m a passionate Mac girl and I really want to design our parent and grandparent albums on the latest version of iPhoto! I would also use the new laptop to make thank-you cards, address labels, and anything else we can use to start our life together as a couple! (Plus, it would be amazing to have a new Mac laptop when I’m job hunting next year.)
I’m a graphic designer, but unable to afford equipment to work from home. This would be a BIG help.
My fiance and I are paying for our own wedding and this would help immensely.
We had talked about having children and wanting me to work from home to take care of them. This would definitely permit me to do so. =)
I would love this prize! I am DIYing my invites, place cards, programs, table numbers and I know that Mac is great for designing things! My current computer is about the die after using is for 4 years during grad school!
I love how many parts there are to this giveaway! I would use the $1000 gift card to spend on our honeymoon or maybe alleviate some of the wedding bills. I would give the MAC to my mom, a self-employed graphic designer who is in desperate need of a laptop. She spends her time driving between her two houses in CA and ID (she just bought a little log cabin there to be her ‘get away’ - no running water or heater - it’s amazing). Every time she makes the trip, she packs up her tower, monitor, cords, cables, and printer. I would LOVE to be able to give her a laptop!
I haven’t had a new computer since my college years! My fiancee does all his work on a Mac and is always telling me how great they are to use! I’d love a computer at home so I could try DIY Invites!
The Visa Giftcard would also be a huge help to us!
My fiancee and I are paying for our own wedding and thanks to the economy it’s turning out to be much tougher than we thought.
Thanks for running such wonderful contests!
my fiancee would be so happy if we won this! she’s been eyeing Macs and this would make a great wedding day present for her. i can just imagine all the photo editing that she’ll be doing with this.
Wow, best prize ever!!
All my fiance talks about is the freaking Mac he wants to buy. He’s saved up a bunch but I know a *free* one would be VERY much welcome. Plus, we’re designing all of our wedding paper, so this would be so amazing to use. You guys do have GREAT contests!
Egads - our laptop broke a few months ago, and our Mac desktop is sick and we’re not sure if she’ll make it! We could really use this to help get our family back on the tech track, and ease the pressure of only having one computer in the house, since we’re always fighting over the one we have Fingers crossed!
Wow. What an amazing prize! We would love to win this because a few months ago our computer completely died on us! That computer is where we did our save the dates, website, invitations and picture collages. We now have to come into my office on the weekends or use a office computer whenever we need to work on projects. This would be an amazing gift to two very active DIYers!!! We still have welcome bag inserts, menu cards, these amazing place markers (from old polaroids), table numbers, rehearsal dinner menu cards, and thank you collages…it would be amazing to be able to do all that in the comfort of our own home. You are the best Wedding Bee!!!!
We are DIY-ing everything. From invitations, to menus, to favors. Everything needs tags and this would be the most amazing tool to get the job done right.
I would love to win this. My laptop is about to die..I just transferred my files to an external drive this weekend in preparation for the inevitable death.
Also, I’ve recently decided that I want to try to be a little more DIY and a Mac is really the best way to do this…clearly!!
And my fiance would like to win because he wants us to reenact old Journey videos (seriously) and video editing would be much easier on a Mac
You are right when you say this is the biggest contest ever.
I need that Mac for a number of reasons but I’ll narrow it down- I bought a brand new computer 2 years ago before coming to law school because people told me to be afraid of Mac’s. Halfway through law school most people have gotten sick of our PC’s and switched to Mac’s. I’m poor so this isn’t an option. Also, i would save so much money by editing my super awesome wedding music video with the Mac and by using photobooth for my guestbook. Plus, the fact that microsoft office for mac is included means its a much easier transition for me.
And of course, that gift card means more money I’ll be saving my parents. They need that
This is incredible! (MacBook + Office + DIY) - crappy old computer = Awesome Wedding!
Because I’ve been using the same computer since forever!! I’ve always been a diehard PC fan (mostly because I couldn’t afford a new computer anyway) so this would definitely convert me. My family might disown me, but it would be worth it!! Money is tight but I use my computer for everything from designing the save the dates to ordering stickers for our candy buffet.
Oh wow! I could really use the help right now. We’re paying for the wedding all by ourselves and we’ve been saving the past four years. We haven’t let ourselves splurge on anything for a long time and both his computer and mine are about to die on us. Mine was attacked by a hundred spywares and a handful of Trojans recently so I really want a Mac. They are so much safer and better to use! At this point of the wedding, it’ll be a long while before we can get a Mac but this giveaway would help us out so much!
Three important reasons I should win!
1) i foolishly bought a pc last year which runs on vista…which means that it barely runs.
2) because I’ll be fired from my job (where we work on macs) if they realize that i spend all my time at working on wedding stuff (at which point the wedding will be called off due to lack of ‘operational computer’).
3) with a mac, I’ll be able to talk to my graphic design SIL who lives across the country about how i can save money doing more for my wedding DIY style-while looking at the same screen! Oh, what a joy that would be!
Oh Oh Oh… I would soooo love this prize (as would any bride out there!!). I have completed my DIY invites, but the macbook would NOT go to waste… I am currently finishing my PhD and need need need a new comp to finish my thesis on… my laptop at home is biting the bullet, and my fiance’s computer is even worse! BUT, the $1000 would be the most amazing gift EVER!! We have just been going over the wedding finances, which have stayed surprisingly on budget, but our honeymoon is costing much more than we anticipated… please help us have the trip of our dreams (marathon in France followed by wine in Italy!!).
Tiffany!!
WOW what an amazing prize! We could really use a new computer, my fiance loves MACs and I want to convert, as my PC is slowly dying.
Oh gosh, where to begin! I’m a graphic designer with no computer! I browse the internet at work. I have an old Mac at home but it won’t even run Firefox anymore, at this point I use it to keep the cat warm! I have all the Adobe suite and skills to DIY all my wedding stuff Invites, Programs, you name it but no computer to run them on! With a new computer, I can get back on my game and not only do my wedding but also go back into Webdesign.
I also am a crafter and while I’ve been coming up with projects for my wedding I keep looking at all these people selling their stuff on ETSY. I’m dying to start my own side business, both for extra income and for a safety net to fallback on with the job market being crazy the way it is. So with the Gift Card I would buy a scanner, A good printer, and a digital camera (a have none of these) all of which I can use for the wedding! And all of which I need to Start a successful etsy business.
This package costs more than the budget for my wedding. So winning this would be the most amazing thing ever!
I bought an iBook right before I started law school, and that poor thing has been through so much in the past three years - I use it CONSTANTLY, and can only think of a handful of times when I’ve left it at home for more than a few hours. Now that I’m just a few weeks away from graduating law school (yay!), it’s time is just about up. It’s been dying a slow death for a few months now, and I’m just praying it can get me through exams. But soon after that, I know, it’s going to be time for a new computer, and the MacBook is seriously the only computer I’d even consider. Between not being able to work because of studying for the Bar in July, followed by the expense of our wedding two weeks later in August, followed quickly by a move to a new apartment and the need to buy tons of new furniture, it would definitely be a huge help to win this contest and not have to worry about how to afford a new Mac!
I have never had a mac, but I want as DIY a wedding as possible. I have a low paying job and my finacee is in law school. I really want to design everything, but the computer we have currently doesn’t really allow for much creative design and we don’t have any extra money to buy more sophisticated programs. I would love a new computer so designing my wedding doesn’t leave me in tears.
I am definitely one of those brides who falls into the category of needing all the help she can get. We have no money and will be doing a lot of diy. It’s been so stressful up to this point and I just found out my blood pressure is sky high. So now I’m battling that as well. What a relief this prize package would be!!!!!!
Because our computer is infested with viruses and about to die. Because I LOVE MACs and considered eloping to save money so I could buy one. Because my invitations, website, everything will be so much better if they are done on a Mac. And… because the $1,000 would be a HUGE help since we’re paying for the wedding ourselves. My family struggled long before the economy took a plunge, but my Dad always did what he could for me. In spite of all he’s done and knowing that he’ll soon be laid off, I couldn’t ask him to pay for the wedding. I’d love to use part of the extra $1,000 to buy him a suit for the big day.
We could really use this prize because planning our wedding (or pretty much doing anything) with 1 computer has not been a walk in the park. It would be a real boon to both of our careers on which we rely heavily on our aging computer.
My fiance and I are both still in school, and I recently had to invest in a new computer (a mac that I LOVE), but his computer is also on the brink of dying. Having a personal computer is essential for him since he is constantly doing schoolwork. Winning a new computer for him, especially a laptop, would be so amazing because it is one less HUGE expense that we would have to pay once we are together.
this is great! i studied graphic design and dropped it when i got into a mundane job. now being engaged, i’m attempting to get back into it for all things DIY. plus, this would be great to help me get through college while planning a wedding @ the same time!
Because our home office computer and monitor recently imploded! We could definitely use an upgrade and have been wanting to switch over to a Mac! Not to mention we are paying off our wedding so this would be great to ease a bit of our financial burden!
I need a new Mac because although we have 3 computers in our apartment, 1 is my fiancee’s desktop computer that I’m “not allowed to fill with wedding stuff” and the other 2 are our work laptops.
Because of all the data going in and out of my work laptop, she is pretty prone to crashing. In fact, just before New Years, I lost EVERYTHING on my work laptop, including the Guest List I had slaved over.
If I won this laptop, I’d finally have a place to keep all of my “wedding stuff”!!!
Because my laptop died in a cloud of smoke. Not kidding! (It was on my lap…. scary)
I can’t afford a mac but always wanted one - I looove apple products.
oh, because i am addicted to my dying powerbook, but can’t justify the expense of buying a new one. i recently graduated from library school and was doing a lot of new media instruction until i got a job doing electronic archives work for a year. i can’t bring myself to spend money on a new computer when i’m not sure how hard it will be to find a job come november and may be unemployed (project ends then and there is no money in the university’s budget to extend it). i’m hoping that the next job will involve some information literacy instruction for new media, and that the library will buy me a mac book to do it, but the odds are slim.
I am a Mac girl! Love them, go to the Apple Store just to drool and play:) This is a phenomenal contest, and I would love to update my computer and my software, I’m working on DIYing everything on my Mac currently, but with the software, I’m sure it would be even better and so helpful!
i am a huge mac fan…this would be the ultimate planning tool…perfect for organizing finances, contacts and any kind of design work!
I bought my Powerbook in 2003 — yes, six years ago — and it’s still going strong, but defiantly showing its age. I use OS 10.2 and Office 2003. My computer and operating system are so old I can’t get new software updates. Please, please with whip cream and sugar on top, help this crafty bee out with a new computer.
We need a new mac because our macbook sadfaced recently :(.
Oh wow! I would love to win this because it would be SO helpful with all of the paper goodies that are involved in a wedding. We love going into the Apple store every time we’re at the mall and play “if only.” It would definitely be a great way to start things off together!
My sweetie and I are looking to start a graphic design business. We could really use the portability of a macbook, as right now we’re tethered at home to the iMac. Our life is just getting started and this would be a real boost to our economic outlook!
I am still in school and sadly, my 13″ MacBook White (that I had nicknamed “Ringo” b/c in Japanese, “Ringo” means “apple”) which has been with me on 3 continents over the past 2 years and deserves its own passport was stolen when our apartment was broken into last semester, with all of the DIY projects that I had saved on it (luckily my schoolwork was just uploaded onto a USB drive the day before, but I ran out of space for the wedding related projects). Winning this would not only really really help in finishing my master’s thesis, but be able to get all of our DIY projects back on track!
I would give my right eye for this prize! I don’t have a computer where I work, yet…everything is computerized (attendance, grades, etc.)! I could do so many great things with my students using this computer! Right now, there is not a single computer in my classroom. How are my students expected to succeed in a technology-driven world without the tools they need? Even 1 computer as FAB as this would be a GREAT start! Not to mention, I could do my grades at home & wouldn’t have to share the dinosaur (our current laptop) with my fiance–that’s been no picnic let me tell you, especially where wedding planning is concerned! Thanks for the AMAZING contest–I hope I win! 
Well, I should win this because I definitely need a new laptop. My old one is missing keys! I’m a huge fan of Apple and have been wanting a MacBook for a long time. The money is an added bonus, but the Microsoft Office is a huge plus! One definitely can not live without Word, or at least until Apple comes out with something a little bit better. Wow, what an amazing contest, I would just love to win!
This would be awesome because 1) Designing all the DIY projects would be awesome and way better on a Mac. 2) Our laptop and computer functions are in severe need of updating. 3) $1000 would help so much in our low budget wedding. Our parents have helped us but we’re trying to take on as much of the expense as possible because it’s been tough for them but they give anyway. We’d love to use it to purchase their outfits for the day.
As my contest entry, I will tell you a story:
My Sony Vaio laptop (affectionately dubbed “Lappy” the laptop) that was near and dear to my heart aged along with me in college and, apparently, having a four year old laptop is not quite the same as having a youthful child turn four or even a puppy dog turn four. Sadly in laptop years four is very old, and even with a RAM replacement and an investment in a very nice cushy laptop case, my beloved Lappy died a peaceful death attempting to boot, and his last word was “iiiiiiiiiii” (his “i” key broke about a month before death, in a perpetual state of “de-pression”).
To make matters even worse, I do not have the funds to purchase a predecessor in Lappy’s honor, which means I can only access fun sites such as WeddingBee when I’m at work, which thusly does not allow me to do fun things like post pictures to my wedding blog or design awesome DIY invites like the ones Miss Beagel just blogged about. Please, my HP all-in-one printer is very lonely without a laptop buddy, and I long for the days when I could just pop into Starbucks and graphic design my free time away!
Thank you for your consideration, regardless of whether or not I win I think this is an amazing prize for any person to get and it is very generous of Weddingbee and Microsoft/Mac to give this away.
My computer just died and I am in desperate need of a new laptop! I had planned on DIY’ing all my invitations, but without a laptop, it is impossible!
I think that this would be a fantastic thing. I would love to win this because it would make life so much easier. My fiancee is starting grad school for computer science this coming September, and his pc is pretty much dead. He could definitely use this!
I’m a Mac-o-holic!! Love everything that has the Apple logo on it and would never ever go back to PC. Their software are much more user-friendly and creative, which is great for all us DYI brides.
We could really use a new laptop, that would be great, plus who couldn’t use another $1000 to spend on their wedding!
I would love to win this! It would be fantastic to use the Mac to organize our wedding photos and music, and produce stationery items. I currently do not have office and it would be REALLY helpful to be able to use Office on a Mac. Also, money is very tight and we are both at risk of being out of work soon.
I’m the owner of the above sadfaced mac.
My fiance and I are full-time graduate students who are paying for our own wedding. Having a computer with great tools for budgeting would be so helpful not only for the wedding, but also for life after. Additionally, I would love to have a computer to use while doing work for both my job and my volunteer work with local schools. Perhaps most importantly, my fiance is renewing his contract with the Army, and computers are an important part of our staying in touch during deployments. I have loved Macs forever, but pricing has prevented me from being able to purchase one. As my old computer is biting the dust, this would be the perfect time to make the switch.
This would be the best wedding present ever for us! I’m getting married on May 9th. I could design my wedding albums on that amazing computer. And we’re going to need the $1000 to help pay off the honeymoon!
Awesome! I’ve been a Mac girl since Mac classic and it’s about time to upgrade. iTunes has been such a help in organizing our ceremony and reception music.
Because my fiance deserves a new laptop for putting up with an old hand-me-down with broken speakers and auto reboot every 30 mins. he’s such a sweetheart and its time he gets what he deserves. oh and its about time he joined the mac-lover in me and got his own mac. and then maybe he can finally be better help in designing our save-the-dates.
Let’s see… Because I LOVE Mac & WeddingBee & I really want to DIY SO much that this is just PERFECT! Organization is key for me and this would allow me to have everything all together NEATLY which would definately eliminate some stress!
I would LOVE to have this! I’m crazy for wedding planning, when I didn’t think I would be. I’ve got ideas and plans bookmarked and saved everywhere. The gift certificate would no doubt be a HUGE help, every girl needs some help! AND I’m starting law school in August. Having a new computer would perfect my ability to plan and study! With out mention of course, so would Office 2008. **Fingers Crossed**
Because we are broke…and I’m starting my own business in this yucky economy, and my man is is being wonderful - supporting us and my business expenses while I get going. Our computer is about to die and I would love to surprise him with this huge gift! And then use the money to help my business. Thanks for setting up this incredible contest!
Oh man, I have been dying for a new macbook. Mine is on its last legs right now - can’t watch video anymore and everything is slow slow slow. Sadly as a grad student I have little money to save, and what I save is now going towards the wedding, so the only way I’m getting a new computer is if I win one!
we are both students and could really use a new computer!!
thanks!
Because my laptop died mid-wedding planning and I miss it! OHMYGOODNESS this is an amazing giveaway
I started out on a Mac, switched to PC and have been trying to get back to Mac for years. My fiance is a PC guy through and through. I’d love to show him up with an awesome new Mac!
I love all Apple products and with the Microsoft bundles who could say no!? Myself and my fiance would not have to fight over time with our current Mac! This would also help in the pursuit of new business opportunities and grad school!
It would make my fiance really happy as she’s going to law school and doesn’t have a computer yet! This would make the loans from law school a bit easier to bear.
What an AMAZING giveaway. I currently have a Dell, but I definitely WANT a Mac. It would be so much easier to schedule, and I’m an avid blogger (or trying to become one) and having this would be so much nicer to carry around!
What an amazing giveaway!! My computer is as old as the hills. I’ve had to rebuild it so many times, and I just don’t think it can handle much more. With the idea that I’m going to start a new business soon, winning this contest would be a huge start!
(Repeating, comment #88, I mis-typed my blog address, sorry!)
I am still in school and sadly, my 13″ MacBook White (that I had nicknamed “Ringo” b/c in Japanese, “Ringo” means “apple”) which has been with me on 3 continents over the past 2 years and deserves its own passport was stolen when our apartment was broken into last semester, with all of the DIY projects that I had saved on it (luckily my schoolwork was just uploaded onto a USB drive the day before, but I ran out of space for the wedding related projects). Winning this would not only really really help in finishing my master’s thesis, but be able to get all of our DIY projects back on track!
Wow, how amazing. We’re a young couple who has lots of love, but not lots of cash. We’re paying for our wedding in May, and trying to buy a home in this buyer’s market, all while trying to swing sending the Mr. to law school and figuring out if we can have kids in the near future. I’m in marketing by day but invitation/paper goods design by night. Please make my Mac dreams come true!
The love of my life lives in Europe. I am from the USA. Last year I quit my successful career and moved to his country so that we could be together. Finding a job there has been very difficult. I am running out of money and am starting to get scared that I will have to go back to the States. However, I have discovered this whole world of online work and am realizing that if I only had a computer at home (instead of borrowing here and there from a neighbor) then I could get one of these virtual jobs. Having this computer will allow my fiance and I to not have to be painfully separated for who knows how long. The money will help me pay stay afloat a little longer until I establish my online job. Finally, the software will be an incredibly helpful tool in my DIY wedding planning as we are on such a strict budget. Thank you so much for considering me!
Oh my, how do I begin?? This could not be more perfect timing…seriously it was meant to bee!! I spent 2 hours last Friday night at Best Buy (seriously by the time I left they were shut down, doors locked and they had to find the security guy to let me out) all to have them tell me that after working on my 1 year and 1 month old Dell for several days, it was dead. What??? And my warranty was for a year so that’s no good. So, now in order to update my weddingbee inspired, wonderfully organized wedding spreadsheets, I have to be at my office and I already spend to much time there as it is! Well I have learned my lesson, all I want is a MAC!!!
Ooh, please, please, please pick me! My last laptop died when the dog caught the cord and pulled it off the desk. But a Macbook cord is magnetized, so it would just pop right out! Plus, I’m in advertising so I can only use Macs at work. Please! I need this!
This is amazing! I’m a mac girl through and through and am trying to make my fiance a mac boy too! I’ve already been using what I can on my mac to create things like our save the dates and such but its hard with my lack of program choices since I’m a law student and can’t afford to drop $100s on nifty diy programs. This would be such a huge help for all my projects I have planned as well as keeping everything super organized!
My fiance and I are hoping to obtain a computer as a gift to her parents, as they’re spending a good chunk of cash on our wedding as opposed to upgrading their pre-y2k Mac.
What an amazing giveaway!! Please pick me! My goal for after the wedding is to learn photoshop, and this would make it possible b/c I would use the $1000 to buy the Adobe creative suite and sign myself up for a Photoshop class!
I would love to win this! I am a full-time student with a hand-me-down (through 2 other people) laptop and with papers, projects, and tons of wedding images, my poor computer is on it’s last leg. For example, my USB port randomly decides whether to work or not, my ethernet plug in is broken, so i pretty much have to tape my ethernet cord in, and my battery won’t last but maybe 30 minutes without having to plug it in. Not to mention the fact that we’re both on college student budgets as we work on campus! This would be a dream come true! Thanks a million!
What an awesome giveaway! I used to have a Mac (from work) but had to give it back when I switched jobs. I do miss it! I would do EVERYTHING on a Mac if I had it!
What a great contest!! My fiance and I are doing a DIY wedding, all the way down to me building furniture from scratch for our little apartment to save money. Winning this Macbook would be such a help doing invites, programs, wedding video, website, DJ, etc. I also know that it would make my sweetie’s planning and DIYing(is that a word?) easier, and she has been working so hard on our wedding that I would do anything to make it a little easier.
So if I win, I will do the chicken dance, run around in my underwear, jump in a frozen lake, or any other embarrassing thing; I know how helpful this macbook would be for my honey.
So many reasons!
1) My fiance and I are both die-hard Mac fans, and spread the love to anyone who will listen. 2) We love our MacBooks but mine is showing its age…
3) We plan to DIY everything paper for our wedding: save the dates, invitation suites, programs, menus, thank-you cards, and more. It would be great to have the right software to help us out!
4) We’re both medical students… so that means major debt. Every little bit helps a lot - that $1000 might let us do our post-wedding dim sum brunch that we’ve been dreaming about.
Thanks!
I’ve been mourning my lack of computer since my old Sony Vaio laptop became a permanent doorstop (right before college graduation… REALLY convenient for an English major). Since, the Fiance (who was the Boyfriend at the time) has generously gifted me a third-hand, ten-year-old Dell, the wireless card on which is falling apart. I’ve had my eye on a Macbook for two years, but first I had to get a real job, then save up to move to Memphis to be near the Boyfriend (now Fiance), and now wedding/honeymoon! Immediately after, we’ll be saving to buy a house, so who knows when my little Mac dreams will come true!
If I were fortunate enough to be a runner up, however, I would probably re-gift the prize to my lovely and talented sister (who is a Mac while I am a PC) so that we could share ideas and projects more fluidly while planning HER upcoming wedding this fall (I’m a mere 3 months before her! Sorry, Mom).
Oh, where do I even start with how much I need this?? Right before I graduated for college last May, my trusty computer which I had had since I was 17 decided to up and quit working! Neither my FI, nor I have a computer right now, and it’s IMPOSSIBLE. We make frequent trips to the library, to our parents’, but still, it is way to hard to live this day and age without a computer. (Especially hard to get my weddingbee fix!) I’ve been to the Mac website many times since I lost my computer, and I take my order all the way to checkout, never having the nerve to tkae the last step, because we frankly can’t afford it. This computer would be a life saver planning our wedding!!!
I think my heart stopped when I saw this contest. I drool every time I see a macbook, but my budget keeps me in the “I’m a PC” category.
What a great giveaway! My fiance and I just finished school, purchased a home and are working everyday to make ends meet. We’ve DIY-ed (or delegated) as much as we can for our wedding to help save on costs. This would be such a great tool to help with invitations, programs, thank you cards, etc!
Our PC is very old and giving us lots of problems!! Everyone I know has a mac now and says it’s time for us to switch. This would make DIY projects so much easier. And since it’s a laptop, I could use it in the living room or wherever so that I could still be with my FI while I’m working on projects.
I used a MAC in high school for the first time and have been in love with them ever since! They are so easy to use and really allow you to go outside of the box and do whatever you want!
Wow wow wow! What a great prize. Of course I would love to win it…but do I deserve it? I’d like to think so. My fiancee and I are DIY-ing just about everything paper related for the wedding. I actually just bought a Gocco, and having a computer with such amazing graphics capabilities would make this whole process so much easier. Other than my DIY needs though, the computer would actually be for my fiancee. He is starting graduate school next year and he has to have a laptop (I’m speaking as a grad student with personal experience) so to be able to give him this as a gift would be wonderful.
What can you do with $1000? When your DIY-ing you can do a lot. That money would cover the cost of my Gocco, any additional Gocco supplies, paper, postage, everything! And I’m sure I’d have some left over for some other wonderful wedding detail. We are paying for this wedding ourselves and I would stretch that $1000 out to the very last penny!
Thanks for offering such a great contest!
this would be fantastic. would make managing our finances much easier!!
This is an amazing giveaway! I hope I win because I am still in undergrad and will be in grad school in engineering in the fall and my computer just crashed. I’m going to need another one, but I don’t have an abundance of money right now for one because I have to buy apartment furniture and save up for the wedding in December. Also, my fiance’s house just got broken into by a meth head and his and his father’s laptops, his wii, his playstation, and his briefcase full of all his teaching and school stuff (including lesson plans, library books, and textbooks) got stolen. He is still in undergrad and is student teaching in the fall so he won’t be able to have a job in the fall and save up money to replace these things, so having a new computer and the extra money would REALLY help us out. We are planning on having a winter wedding for less than $5,000, so anything would really help. I’m am DIYing all of our save the dates, invitations, programs, etc to save money.
I really need this…a new macbook, some cash and microsoft office would make our wedding planning, my grad school projects and life so much easier! Please Mac help me!
I hope, I hope, I hope! I would love to win this, especially since my trusty but aging Dell is dying a slow and painful death (painful to me, at least). Also, I’ve been having to scrounge around to make money- a part time job here, another there… the money and the computer would REALLY help me out here…
Amazing. We could plan and execute our wedding from now to well beyond the honeymoon. This would include designing and printing save the dates, invitations, and thank you cards (Word), using it to play our MP3 selections throughout the reception (iTunes), organizing our budget (Excel), and corralling all our emails and pictures throughout the process. We could even distribute a Power Point slideshow after the event, not to mention archiving everything on DVD. Fingers are crossed.
My laptop of 5 years recently died and I would love a MAC!
I need a new computer and don’t have the funds… our computer is jurassic! We need it for all the cool MAC programs like thier slideshow programs!
…that’s what my bruised and overripe (but much loved) computer is like compared to this shiny new Macintosh. The old girl’s battery is totally out of juice, too.
Wow, we could really use this! I have my own business and I could seriously use an upgrade on the computer and finally add Word/Excel! It’s tough starting out, especially in this economy, so any little bit would help!
I started a pet sitting business and so far so good!
I have been telling jG that we need to buy a new computer. Would be cool to win one instead! And make my life easier with all the photos we take.
i’ve never actually owned a computer of my own. i’ve realied on laptops from all my jobs, though they’re all PC. i can’t even go into the Apple stores because i really want a Mac and don’t have good self control. our finances don’t allow it as we’re currently planning a wedding on one income… it’s hard enough trying to live on that, more or less plan a wedding that’s 4 months away. we could use everything in this package!
Wow–this is incredible! What an amazing giveaway… and with such timing:
Two days ago my hard drive crashed and apparently my computer is ready to move on. I have always had PCs but always wanted a Mac–I use one at work and have fallen madly in love! (I’ve mostly never been able to afford a Mac!) I’d love to be able to use it to edit wedding photos and other photos from my life! Having a new computer would also help me get things done for the wedding planning! I have to recreate some things (which I stupidly didn’t back up) for our upcoming wedding and as my fiance is in grad school and needs his computer most of the time, it’s been really hard to research and enter things! I would also love to use it to video-chat with my best friend who is soon to be moving thousands of miles away! Oh I could go on and on…
I haven’t ever won anything here but I hope I can say differently after this!!
I would love to win this incredible prize package. I would never be able to afford a MAC book unless I won it and the gift card and software would help a budget bride like me create tons of wedding deliciousness! Plus, the contest ends on my birthday so it would make a great birthday present to me!!
I’m a Mac
he’s a PC
and I’m desperately trying to convert my PC husband to a MAC. His broke down sorry looking pc is riddled with viruses, and is a challenge to use. He’s an on the go guy and I know would love a MAC, if I could just get him to give it a go. And a free loaded up macbook would for sure be what i needed to get him to switch.
My fiance and I have been talking almost over a year about starting our own website and web-business! This would help us out a lot! We do not get any help from our families, my dad(65 years old) lost his job on New Year’s Day.
I heart Apple commercials!!! The only computer I use is the one here at work and it’s a PC.. Unfortunately, due to an overzealous puppy who decided it would be “fun” to show us how we failed at potty training, we no longer have a laptop (or any other computer) to use at home (happened last month)!! Thus, I have resorted to finishing our DIY Wedding Invites during my lunch hour and 15-min breaks!! I would love to win this and surprise my fiance!!!
I would want to win this for my fiance. He lost his job and is struggling to keep up with his new graphic design business from home. He’s constantly teasing me about how he want to buy any kind of mac to help out. I wish I made a ton of money to get him one but with my kitty’s illness, the wedding, our bills and mortgage it’s a no go.
This would be wonderful for me since my laptop is on the fritz and may need to be replaced, but since we’re paying for our own wedding its just not in the funds. Since I take classes online and work from home part time, I really have to have a computer. This would really save the day for me )
There are so many reasons. The fiance and I have been eyeballing getting a mac for sometime now, but just can’t seem to pull the trigger. This would be so awesome to win!
My fiance needs a new Macbook! His is getting old and taking a long time to boot up. The MS Office would come in handy too!
My fiance could definitely use a new computer - his law-school-recommended tiny Dell is on the edge of crapping out. We’re paying for our wedding ourselves, and between the uncertainty regarding law firm layoffs & start dates, moving in together and the expenses associated with that, my meager grad student salary, and Bar studying preventing my fiance from summer employment, we really don’t have any room for discretionary spending before our wedding. Having a new Mac would enable us to DIY our paper products (which I would love to do), as well as keep our budget ultra-organized! Of course the $1000 would be immensely helpful as well - I would probably use it to gift my sisters/his brothers their bridal party expenses to take the $$ pressure off them/our parents.
I’ve been reading wedding bee for quite a while and this is by far one of the best giveaways ever! This is a gift that won’t just help with our wedding, but it would improve our whole life, and keep on giving far beyond the day we say “I do.” I would love to win this prize because my old computer had a meltdown during my last semester of college, so for the last two years I’ve been without one. With student loans and the cost of the wedding I just haven’t been able to afford a new one. Sometimes I get on my fiance’s very old PC, but it is NO Mac! It’s slow and clunky, not sleek and chic like a MAC! Winning the Mac and the software would be a dream come true!
I would love to have this to help my wedding planning and keep me organized!
I bought my current iBook (yes, it’s that old!) when I was still in college and able to use my education discount to help with the cost. It’s dying a slow death and I would love to replace it, but that’s just not in the (wedding-stretched) budget! I’d love to win this prize package because it would go a long way towards helping with all the paper-related DIY projects I’m taking on to help keep our budget in check — programs, menus, maps, escort cards, you name it, I’m (trying!) to do it myself!
WOW!
How do I begin to tell you how GRATEFUL we would be to win this contest?? I’m not sure words can really express. But if you could see my face right now at the very THOUGHT of winning a new computer…
Currently we have an HP laptop that I’ve had for about 9 years! It has seen WAY better days, to say the least. If we were to purchase another laptop, it would be MAC all the way!!! I DREAM of what it might be like to click on a program and have it open promptly without any issues… without freezing… or without having to have an IT certification to run an update!
Unfortunately, we are paying for most of wedding on our own (along with a mortgage, school loans, car payments, etc.), and a new computer just isn’t in the budget.
Thank you so much for considering us for this contest! **crossing fingers AND TOES!!**
Anita B failed to mentioned that we’re both in grad school and her computer is the slowest thing on earth, it crashes after you open more than 3 windows. One vote for anita b.
I do design work both at the office and on the side. I would love the new MS Office for that. Mr. CP needs a new Mac, as his MacBook Pro has a palsy and expired AppleCare. We are Mac enthusiasts and this would make us so happy!
I was laid off 2 weeks ago so a new computer would be helpful to look for a new job so I can save money for the wedding.
My iBook died in November last year and I have been totally missing my Mac. Unfortunately, with wedding budget, I can’t afford one right now, so this would be GREAT to have.
I’m in desperate need of a new laptop because my current one is dying a slow dealth. I really want a Mac this time around but unfortunately with all my recent wedding expenses, this isn’t going to happen…. unless of course, I win one! It would be perfect for all those wedding projects on my to do list.
Best contest yet! I should win because I am a die-hard Apple fan — never owned a PC! This would go beyond wedding-related stuff and be really useful while writing my dreaded thesis.
amazing giveaway! I have an ibook from 2005 and it is on its last legs. sometimes i can’t even read weddingbee as it can’t load it:-( but i’m not able to replace it as we are saving madly for the wedding.
I’m a college grad student working on my masters of physician assistant. My computer is outdated, and my software is worse! I’m trying to put together presentations for school and resumes for potential jobs and create a fabulous DIY budget wedding at the same time using my dinosaur. A new computer and software would make my projects look amazing!
Wow, this is a great giveaway. I’ve been wanting a Mac for a long time, but just can’t convince myself to spring for one while my old computer continues to limp along. This would be a truly wonderful way to finally get rid of the bug-and-virus ridden machine I’ve been working with.
1) Because I love Macs and have been trying to convince my fiance that they are the best computers ever. This might do the trick.
2) Because I am moving to Chicago and leaving my job to be with my fiance. As a result, I will no longer be able to use my work-issued laptop, leaving me without any laptop at all. Small price for true love, but a new (and better) Mac laptop certainly wouldn’t hurt
I would LOVE to win this contest! What a wonderful wedding present this would be! My Macbook is about ready to die out, and this would be the perfect excuse to start trying my hand at DIY projects, plus probably the most practically wonderfu thing I could think of!
I think I should win because I would definitely put the computer and software to good use! I would use it for DIY wedding things (table numbers, signs, programs, etc). I would also use it for my classroom. I’m a first grade teacher and I’m constantly creating documents, flashcards, etc for my class. The computer would be an excellent vehicle for my creativity! I teach in a low income school, so I’m given $0 towards my classroom. I can get very creative when it comes to designing/making things on a computer rather than buying them!
I would love to win this because then we could donate one of our computers to an NGO in Cambodia which helps girls at risk for child trafficking to get an education. I volunteered with them a few years ago and those girls have been on my mind since. The NGO helps women and children who have been victims of violence, rape, or trafficking, but I am particularly in love with their scholarship program because I think it gives the girls such a brighter future! Not to mention that the first class of girls from the scholarship program is about to graduate this year…$1000 would give one of them the chance to go to college and fulfill her dream of being a lawyer, a doctor, or a future NGO organizer. Thanks for the great give-away!
because our computer (a pc) is on it’s last legs and cannot be unplugged from the wall or it shuts down (and then shows the dreaded blue screen of death); because we couldn’t afford wedding albums for our families and with the mac, I could design them and with the $1000 I could have them printed!
hooray for such an amazing contest!!!
I’m a graphic designer who STILL can’t afford a MAC and am struggling on my ancient PC at home….I would LOVE this, seriously!
This is so awesome! I would love to win because the laptop we have now just died on us. I have a desk top as a backup but its cumbersome to use b/c its tucked away in the back of our office. It has also recently started going on the fritz. I’m no computer whiz so I’ll have to wait till a friend can look at it. Ive been having to lug my work laptop to and from home every day to get any wedding related computer projects done at home. Ive heard so much good stuff about Macs.. id love to own one!
I would love to have a MAC. I’ve always wanted one but due to the economy and our upcomming wedding, it seems like my plan to actually purchase one has been pushed waaay back. So winning this would allow me to finally have one and experience what everyone is raving about! =)
I’m crazy obsessed with MAC products. My computer is a 15″ MacBook Pro, I love my iPod… I even have a big apple sticker on the back of my car! Here’s the shocker: my fiance still uses a PC. *gasp* He would love a MacBook, but as poor grad students we just can’t afford one right now!
And as far as the MS Office for Mac, I would love to give that to my dad. He’s been really wanting to get it, but since my parents are paying for the wedding, a lot of purchases are being put off right now.
Complete personalization of all my paper would be the best way to show that I care about the details!
And, I LOVE Macs.
This is such an amazing contest!
Having this Mac with Office 2008 would be a godsend. I love photography and DIY projects and a Mac would be phenomenal for all the creative projects I love to do. It would help me in doing all the DIY projects I have planned for our wedding, including our invitations, save the dates, programs, menus, and any other paper product I can dream up now until that day.
I’m also in law school and it would be wonderful to have a laptop that would be reliable, less prone to virus issues, and on which I would still be able to use all of those essential Office programs. My school life revolves around having a dependable computer and this Mac would definitely be one.
Finally, I love Macs… if I had the money to spend, I would go out and get one… but I don’t. I’m a full time law student who also works part time and the money that I make goes to household expenses for my fiance and me. What doesn’t go to expenses goes to savings for future expenses, the wedding, and having a little bit of financial security. Not only would this package provide the Mac and the Office 2008 software, but it would also provide a wonderful $1000 buffer which could help with so much.
This really is an amazing package! My fingers are crossed… best of luck to everyone!
Oh, a new computer would be a godsend for me! My fiance and I are getting married in May, but we just found out we’re going to be 300 miles apart for the next 3 years at least. I have a 3 year-old laptop and an even older webcam, and every time we try to start a video chat, I get a slow connection and a grainy image. A brand-new system with an integrated webcam would go such a long way for keeping me and my husband-to-be sane for the next 3 years!
Our computers both display the blue screen of death daily and with him in grad school, he REALLY needs a computer! This is one awesome giveaway!!!
I think I deserve this package, because, really how could you plan a proper wedding without one? I use a Mac at work and know how incredible they are for photoshop, video, and pretty much everything else under the sun. Not only would this prize give my fiance and I a chance to really organize our lives (and thus our marriage) but it would help us create a really unique, creative, and personal event for our loved ones.
I need to win this contest because I’m a graphic designer and I’m dying to design my own DIY wedding invitations, table cards, menus, programs, thank you cards, AND photo album I can’t wait to put me and Alec’s quarkiness into them!!
This is a great contest! Exactly what I need!!
Oh my gosh, I so need to win this! Why? Because my laptop is so old, the screen doesn’t work anymore–so my laptop is currently hooked up to a desktop monitor so I can still use it! I miss being able to take my laptop anywhere, and it would be great to have the latest and greatest from Office for Mac, since I am DIYing all of the paper goods for our wedding!
I am a designer for a nonprofit marketing company. We work with nonprofits carrying out the Texas Marriage Initiative, providing free relationship education workshops for premarital couples. Being so involved in the wedding and marriage industry is a very fulfilling experience. However being a nonprofit does not provide us with the most up to date tools. We work on old pc’s, and it is difficult to use design software on such limited machinery. Having a MacBook would greatly improve our efficiency in designing flyers and printed materials that drive the community to our workshops. This would be such a useful tool for our community!
OH MY GOSH!!! PLEEEEEEEASE pick me! I’ll never enter another contest again and I’ll be the most faithful little Weddingbee addict you’ve ever seen! It’s our dating anniversary on Sunday and my hubby needs a laptop so badly for work so I would LOVE to give this to him because he does so much for me!
I need this because Mac books are the bomb and I don’t have one! And it would totally help me stay organized and because I’m DIYing all the wedding stationery.
Oh man! What a great giveaway!
I am currently still operating on my 8 year old laptop from my pre-college days (yes, I realize that is like a dinosaur in the computer world). About a week ago it started making really loud noises, (sort-of like a jet plane trying to take off) and it has been downhill (on a seriously slope since then). I’ve got so many DIY projects planned that I NEED my computer for and according to my magic 8-ball, the ‘Outlook is not so good’ and since we are paying for the majority of the wedding ourselves there is very little spending money available for a new computer. Not to mention - how would I blog for weddingbee without it?!
What a great contest! I would love a new Macbook! Both my fiance and my computers are on their last legs, which makes it difficult/nearly impossible for the DIY projects like save the dates, programs, place cards, etc. that we have undertaken. This would really be an amazing win!
WOW, what an amazing contest! I’d love to win this - our home computer is about on its last legs and I could really use the ability to work on my invitations and programs from anywhere.
We also can’t afford a photographer, so we’re having an art student take photos and give us the DVDs, and having iPhoto would really help us edit all of them!
i figure since i love my ipod… i figure i will probably love a mac book even more!!!!
I would love a new laptop. Mine’s on it’s last legs since I dropped it onthe sidewalk when the strap on my carrying case broke. I could do lots of nice design work for my invies, table numbers and escort cards. Not to mention a safe place for all those digital photo files.
We just bought a new house and after the wedding our finances are a little low and I would love to win this for my wife’s birthday, which is next week! She’s such a HUGE computer lover and this would be such a great surprise for her.
Holy Smokes! I would luv this for my new pleasure! Not only could I take this on the go but ill look stylish too! who doesnt dream to have one of these beauties! My old laptop over heats to much and sure is heavy! =/
Oh man, this would be completely amazing. I’ve been a Mac girl through and through since my college years and sadly enough, had to sell my MacBook to my sister in order to afford a plane ticket to Colorado for a WEDDING I WAS A BRIDESMAID IN! I haven’t been able to save up enough to replace her since. This would be a complete godsend as the only computer I have regular access to is my horrible work PC that makes this noise, “WUUHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” all day long.
PLEASE, WEDDINGBEE! HELP!
Wow!! I should win because #1 I need a new computer. #2 my FI’s computer has gone down because the cat spilled water on it and #3 I really want a new computer!! I want to wiiiiiiin!!
OMG this is amazing! My poor dell laptop that carried me through college is having hard drive problems and I fear that it will soon reach its end! I need a place to store all my pictures and music (because Mr. Beagle won’t let me use up his memory :)). Plus…. I’ve always dreamed of having a Mac.
As I sit at home and leaf through the bridal magazines, I see TONS of wedding ideas that I would like to try DIY versions. However, that proves to be quite difficult when you don’t have a computer! Throughout college, I had to constantly bother my roommate to borrow her laptop or drive to the library on campus to type my reports. Now that I am a teacher, I have computers at school, but not hardly enough time to try tackle on such projects during the day. I yearn for my own laptop to create projects, etc. for my upcoming wedding.
The last few weeks I have been scouring the internet on my break at work for invitation/program/menu ideas but none are really ’speaking’ to me. I want to be creative and make my own unique DIY projects. Besides, all the invitations I see are ridiculously expensive…did I mention I am a teacher?
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my job, but between paying off student loans and going back for graduate school, I can’t afford my own laptop! I am a huge fan of Mac computers and could really see myself using it in all areas of my life. Not only would it be extremely beneficial in the wedding process (invites, programs, menu cards, candy buffet labels, ITunes for playlist, IMOVIE to create a video for the reception, etc), but I would also use the computer in other areas of my life! This includes: developing lesson plans at home for the SmartBoard I’m getting in my classroom, budgeting expenses (great tool for Hubby and I), storing/sharing photos from our wedding and honeymoon, keeping in touch with family/friends that live far away, etc.
In today’s world it seems strange NOT to have your own computer. I sometimes feel that I am the only one left who has never had their own!
Reminds me of a song…(to the tune of the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese commercial)
“I’ve got the blues,
need a Mac in some serious way!
The new-Mac blues.
If MacIntosh wants to please me-they’ve only got to choooose me,
I’ve got the blues!”
***Kinda silly, I know, but I am an elementary teacher. I also really enjoy Mac-N-Cheese
Because I am running my computer into the ground with all of this editing. And I could have a place to store my wedding photos and have them accessible all the time! Ohhh, and I could have a business computer and a school computer. So nice!
Wow. This is one amazing giveaway! My love for macs are endless! I would love to win this because I am a college student who happens to be planning a wedding so funds are a bit tight. It would be amazing to finally own one after going through 4 PCs these past couple years.
wow! im a student with a computer that hardly works and a new one would be amazing…
My fiance and I are both students, and the newer of our computers is over 3 years old still. We could REALLY use a new laptop because we’re both in technical fields in school. But we just bought a house, and we’re trying to pay for school so I don’t see us dropping any bucks on technology upgrades any time soon.
Oh man! I would looove to win this amazing contest because I am very interested in becoming a DIYer and having this great tool would be very helpful. More importantly, my laptop has been on the brink of death and since I just graduated and have the most dreadful school debts, it would a lifesaver to win!!!!!!
This is seriously the best giveaway I’ve ever seen on Weddingbee! I love Macs! I’m a Mac! I would love to win so I could get an upgrade on my mac and do all of the neat, new things offered in the most recent OS and iLife software.
The person who wins this will be one lucky duck!
What a generous giveaway! I could benefit from this so much.. my PC is getting a little rusty (aren’t pop’up blockers supposed to STOP popups?) and I haven’t gotten a new computer since grad. school.
More importantly, I’ve been laid off and need to get extra creative with some of DIY!
Why should we win? Because besides my guy, our son, and myself living off of school loans - which leads us to being in unbelievable debt - a mac would be an unbelievable saving grace for d.i.y.’ing all of our invites, etc. What more could we ask for with our under $4,000 budget?! Fingers are crossed!
What a fabulous giveaway! I currently have an HP laptop that I bought 3 years ago, with all the savings I had. It turns out that I got a lemon, because it must be plugged in, in order for it to have an internet connection. I sent it away so they could fix it, but they sent it back saying there was nothing wrong. I did a little research last month, and it turns out that my specific type of laptop had a defect in the wireless capability. I checked my receipt and I missed my 3 year warrenty by 3 days! It was very disheartening. I’m in the process of making my invitations and I will eventually will make our programs too, and would love to have laptop that actually works.
This would be so great! I am a grad student, and my computer is slowwwlllyyyy dying. Wedding budget won’t allow for me to get a new one, never mind a MAC(!!!!). I also plan on a lot of DIY, and I’ve heard that the mac’s make life sooo much easier.
Omg I am terribly unlucky with these things, but here it goes anyways. Because my computer has been acting psycho lately and my dad always has to fix it which takes like 3 days every time. I want to save up money for my future, so I don’t want to buy a new one. I also really like the diy help and budget tracker thing. Sounds useful =).
How amazing!! My fiance lost his job recently, and is bravely going out on his own to start his own company. He’s been using my old computer from grad school, but a new one would really allow him to do the kind of work he wants to. A laptop would allow him to be mobile and go out to meet with clients, and the gift card would help purchase the design software he needs to stay current!! Fingers crossed…..
I would love this- my desktop fried itself, my laptop is old and can’t handle pretty much anything, and I could do so much more for the wedding with a new swanky mac! This is the perfect wedding package.
We should win because like so many other people in this message board, we have too many expenses coming up and not enough money! And because we are people who handle their finances well but due to university loans and life’s ever-increasing expenses, we would love to have a little help! Thank you.
This would be such a huge help for me and my fiance! I moved to the United States 8 months ago, from Puerto Rico, to be closer to him (we had a long distance relationship - 2,000 miles - for 4 years), right after graduating college. We both graduated within the last year so we are both just starting out financially (and starting out in a brand new place with no furniture is not cheap as I’ve come to find out).
We got engaged two months ago and have begun planning our wedding. We will be paying for the wedding ourselves and we want to create our own invitations, save the dates, table cards, and just about everything that we can design ourselves. I love designing and love DIY projects and this would be a great tool (and help) to pull off our wedding projects within our modest budget, especially since my family is back in Puerto Rico and I can’t enlist their help with wedding projects. Our Wedding Project Team is me, my fiance, his mother, and my best friend who is my MOH.
We should win b/c I’ve been planning to buy a new Mac for a long time but I haven’t had to money… every time I save up enough I have to use the funds for something else. This giveaway is like a dream come true! The PC I have now is cwrap and I don’t want to have to buy another PC :-/
When we met, one of the things we kept talking about was Macs (I had one and he didn’t!). It was an excuse to chat every now and then. I would LOVE to win this!
As I’ve been using MS Publisher for my invites, I really miss using the Mac quark (4 yrs ago) in designing. I’ve found a new love for designing graphics. I will be applying to go back to school after our wedding to become a graphic designer. The mac will definitely come in handy. In these tough economic time, I’d be a very lucky girl to win.
We should win because, um, I really, really want a Mac! lol.
But really, my laptop screen has been broken since about a week after I met my fiance. I was so excited about going to see him, I grabbed my laptop bag when class was over, not realizing I didn’t zipper the darn thing. It came crashing to the floor and everyone around me went, “oooh, that sucks.” I’m lucky the screen is the only thing that broke. But I’ve been using it for the past three years like that now :O I’m too cheap to buy a new one!
This is the best contest ever! I have wanted a MAC for so long. I’ve debated over the Macbook or the iMAC. I got the iMAC but have no Office software for it, my diy’ing has taken a big hit!
My computer is so old that the CD drive won’t open on its own–I have to jam an unbent paperclip in the tiny hole next to the drive to get it to open! I would love a MacBook so that we’d have a sweet, sexy, portable way to keep track of our wedding documents. We are paying for our wedding 100% by ourselves, which has been challenging (but we are determined to do it without incurring any debt!).
I would like to make my own STD’s and invitations but my artistic skills are not great. MACs are like the ultimate tool when it comes to design and it would be awesome to be able to use some of the great MAC programs! And I would be able to use the money to buy all the paper I need and maybe even a new printer that could handle the invites!!!
What a fabulous giveaway! Why should we win? Because my fiance is a struggling sports writer and his laptop crashed and burned a little while back. He is only working as a correspondent since he got laid off his full-time job - and since I got laid off earlier this month, we don’t have money to buy him a new one. This would be such an amazing gift! He could really use this as he is constantly on the road, covering games. Also, I have ALWAYS wanted a Mac, just could never afford one! We are planning on doing a lot of things by ourselves for the wedding (invites, programs, place cards, etc) and this would be the ultimate DIY tool. Please pick us!!
Wow. What an amazing contest. Well my fiance and I both have four plus year old lap tops. His nearly exploded last night when I horrors of horrors had the audacity to try to book our honeymoon tickets. We both just found out we have to take a two week unpaid furlough, which amounts to an eight percent pay cut. So, a new computer is far from our future right now. I’m too poor for Illustrator and would love all these design features.
Since I have started reading WeddingBee, I have gotten in my head that I want to design some items for our wedding (invites, save the dates, menus, etc) and a Mac would be awesome! My FI is getting really into photography too and I know he’d be super excited by this. I haven’t jumped on the Mac bandwagon yet, but this would definitely do it for me!
I’m currently in business school and I’ve been wanting to buy a Mac Book for class for what seems like forever, but could never justify the cost because of our upcoming wedding. This would be great!!!
because i’m poor
We should win because we are trying to save money and will be designing our own invites, programs, rehearsal dinner stationary and everything else wedding related in the coming months! I’ve never won anything before so how exciting if I won this super awesome prize from my favorite site!?
I have been wanting to get a MacBook for a while but I was afraid that it wasn’t compatible with Microsoft! This seems like the perfect solution and I NEED a laptop because I’m in the military and always traveling! It would help IMMENSELY to be able to use this for all my wedding related to-dos!! Please pick me!
Pick me! We just got back from two weeks in Barcelona for our honeymoon and our laptop died halfway through trip, and now we’re praying the Apple store can at least salvage our honeymoon photos before scrapping the computer
This would be a lifesaver for me and for my fiance! Both of our computers are on their death bed and since we’re both trying to save money for the wedding we can’t afford to get a new one. As a mac it would be especially helpful for me since I work in the film business and the best software is all on the mac! Pick us! Please!
I hope that I can win this amazing prize! I am currently finishing up my intern year and will be starting residency soon. I need a new computer so that I can work more efficiently in the clinic next year and because of my *significant* medical school loan burden I can’t justify buying the computer I want - which is the exact one you are giving away. That coupled with the fact that my fiance has to give up his job to move with me for my residency makes money even tighter in the upcoming months.
Anyway, great giveaway. Hope I win!
My old macbook is on its last legs, and I could really use a new one! And since we are spending all our money on the wedding I won’t be able to get one for quite a while, and its imperative that I have one because I need it for grad school! Plus, I just think the new ones are so pretty.
Wow! Well my fiance needs a new computer for business school next fall. I will be supporting both of us on my teaching salary (yikes!!) and this would take a huge load off our shoulders!
Ahhh we would love to win this!! I’m a first year doc student whose 5-year old computer just got two types of nasty viruses on it in the same week When I took it in to the tech office at school to get it checked out, he said it had 6months to live max. So sad! Especially since the wedding is right around the corner and our meager funds are going to that. What else did he tell me? That I should get a Mac because all of my work would be better supported and protected!! I use Microsoft Office for EVERYTHING, literally: Word for all my papers and notes, Powerpoint for class, Excel for my stats homework, Project and Access for my research team. In addition, my FI’s 4-year old laptop no longer holds a battery life of more than 15 minutes, and it’s too old to replace
In addition, if we win this we would pay it forward by donating our two old computers to nonprofit agencies in the area. While they’re not very useful to us, I would hope that they could be put to use by some deserving youngsters in the area.
And the $1000? Well, that would just be the icing on the cake. Or rather, it would be the actual cake…and the music…and the flowers…at our wedding
oh my goodness! i have been trying to save up for a mac since before our wedding. now we are trying to save up for a honeymoon since it’s been 6 months and we still haven’t had one, so the mac has been put on the back burner unfortunately. my current computer is from the mid 90’s and runs so slow. opening photoshop (which is necessary since i am an illustrator and need to use it all of the time) makes it freeze for at least an hour. i could save so much time and energy if i had a new computer. there is so much i want to get done but i always end up getting so far behind because my computer can’t keep up with me. this would be a huge lifesaver and mean the world to me!
This would be amazing!! I’ve always wanted a Mac, but my fiance (being the hard-core PC guy that he is) thinks its ridiculous. I’m sure if I came home with my flashy new MacBook, I could convince him otherwise. And, well, who couldn’t use $1,000?
Wow - I had been planning to buy a Mac - my first one!! as my current computer is getting old and starting to fail. I really wanted a Mac because I LOVE photography and you can do so much cool stuff with it! but then, my happy day - engaged! arrived and now all of our “extra” money for the next 12 months + is going towards the wedding so no new computer for quite a while. Would LOVE to win this prize
Because I’m starting grad school in the fall and I don’t have a computer!
OH MY, I was contemplating getting a new computer after the wedding and winning this contest could help out so much!! I was the last person to get an iPod and I don’t want to be left behind with the Macbooks!
oh wow..where do i begin. i am making EVERYTHING for our wedding. this would be sooooo helpful. my computer is still kicking….but its no macbook!!
my sister is helping me out..and it would be so great to have a computer that works and that i could take with me. it would also be great for my fiance so that i can go in another room and do “wedding stuff” and not bug him. LOL!!!
My sister and I are also helping others make their invites, so to be able to have a laptop would be key!!
Pick me! I am in desperate need of a new computer as mine is really old, and with the wedding I just don’t have the money! I would love to win this!
Because I don’t have a laptop or money to buy it…and It woul be a great thing for a bussiness idea I have…
My fiance had been saving a little money each month in his “new Mac fund” for atleast a year before he proposed. I found out after he proposed that he knew he should only buy my engagement ring OR a new Mac… and he decided on my e-ring! I am grateful for his decision and sacrifice, and I’d love to give him the Mac that he wants. With all the wedding costs though, I can’t fit a new Mac in the budget. Oh, the things a guy will do for love. Winning this Mac would let me give back to him in the same way he gave to me!
This is such an incredible prize!!! I am constantly feeling broke due to the economy, our wedding and the fact that my FH and I are trying to purchase our first home this year! Yikes! We can use all the help we can get and these generous gifts would be AMAZING to win!!! Fingers crossed!!!
Oh. Mah. Gah. You have NO IDEA how much I want this!!! I personally have no computer of my own and my hubby-to-be’s computer is so frustratingly slow, it’s almost not worth fighting with it! I was hoping to get a MacBook after the wedding, but with our ever-rising budget, it’s just not in the cards. I would use it for photo storage and editing, making my own thank you cards, editing our wedding video . . . the list goes on . . .
Oh PLEASE!! PLEASE!! Pick ME!!
i just realized i did this as a guest..so here’s my OFFICIAL entry! LOL!!
i am making EVERYTHING for our wedding. this would be sooooo helpful. my computer is still kicking….but its no macbook!!
my sister is helping me out..and it would be so great to have a computer that works and that i could take with me. it would also be great for my fiance so that i can go in another room and do “wedding stuff” and not bug him. LOL!!!
My sister and I are also helping others make their invites, so to be able to have a laptop would be such a great help for us!! what a great contest
we would love to win this because macs are so much better than pcs. we are looking to start a business in the future and a mac would be more beneficial than a pc for the business.
My fiance and I have been wanting a Mac forever but due to us both being a student- cant afford it. I am wanting to do design after graduation and he is going into seminary so the use of a Mac would be so helpful!
This would be great! I am a recent college grad obsessed with all things wedding and special events. These items would be great in helping me get my career going!
Our lappie is old, small and missing the letter “D”.
We are in serious need of an upgrade! Good luck to the SPIDERS!
We have about a year and 2 months until our wedding but the computer I was planning to print our invitations on just died!
Help!
My shift key just fell off and it is so slow! I haven’t had a new computer since college! Thanks people, this is a great contest!
So my new wife can follow her dream of photography.
Pre-wedding, we live with my sister. She is currently moving out, and the computer is going with her. Planning my wedding has opened my eyes to several areas I have learned i LOVE! DIY, design, photos and editing, and blogging. I’d absolutely love to win this to allow me to continue on perusing my new passions.
Awesome giveaway! My grad program and dissertation require programs that run on Windows but my Powerbook doesn’t have Boot Camp capabilities so I’m stuck doing all my work on campus, sometimes late into the night. Having a Macbook that can run Windows would help me finish my dissertation faster and help me finish all those DIY wedding projects, too!
My shift key just fell off and it is so slow! I haven’t had a new computer since college! I always wanted a MAC of my own, I currently work on an eMac at work, which is ancient but special to me Thanks people, this is a great contest!
Where to start! A new Mac would go to my husband to be to replace his crappy Dell. That means not only will he stop complaining about his crappy Dell, but he’ll have MS Office with all the cool new tools to help with our invites, programs, etc. The $1,000 would go directly into our wedding budget, which was reduced last week by about 75% when my much loved dog needed ACL surgery. Cross your fingers for us that we can still pull off a decent wedding by August ‘09!
I love MAC! My old Mac is ancient and very slow…and I would love a new Mac to be able to create DIY save the dates, invites, TY cards, menus, etc…the possibilities are endless!
Oh wow…. I love Macs… I had to give my old iBook up a few years ago because of hardware issues and now I have a PC. The mac would give me a better chance to be more creative with the invitations and other things that I need to design for the wedding. There is alot more freeware and cool apps to use with macs than PC’s.
Oh my gosh! This would be absolutely perfect for us. I was planning on getting a MacBook a few months ago to be able to DIY things for our wedding. The laptops at the Apple store were so perfect, and my current laptop is, well, hobbling along the side of the information superhighway like a dinosaur. The battery on it has long since died, rendering it more of a “desktop” than a “laptop;” I can’t run multiple programs at once — evidently my laptop is not a multi-tasker and thinks 1 program at a time is more than sufficient; and it freezes constantly. The blue screen of death? We’re close friends. We’ve shared many late nights together.
The economy being what it is, we’ve had some budget cutbacks (and honestly, who hasn’t?) so we decided we weren’t able to swing a new laptop at this point. It ended up being a good decision, because we recently found out that the electric in our house sorely needs to be updated (who knew that our kitchen light, microwave, and garage door were all wired on the same circuit?), and our gutters need repair (what, they’re not supposed to leak like waterfalls when it rains?). Oh, and did I mention our washing machine recently broke, too? I only found that out when I walked into the basement and was standing in a pool of sudsy water. I wish I was making this up, but let’s just say that FI and I have had our share of “for better or worse” moments and we haven’t even walked down the aisle yet!
So, needless to say, the laptop isn’t even on the list at this point. This would be an absolute lifesaver — we’re planning on DIY’ing almost everything that we can for the wedding. Programs, invites, save-the-dates, favors … you name it, I’ll be designing it. Plus the organizational software would be key for keeping everything wedding-related straight — I am pretty sure the memory required for that would cause my computer to go up in flames.
Because after three years of law school, my HP is on its deathbed… and FH has been trying to convert me to a Mac girl for 9 years now.
I have ALWAYS wanted a Mac but have always been worried about not having the Microsoft suite of products…now I don’t have to! Now I can have the best of both worlds! Please pick me!
What a fantastic contest! I was just laid off and this would be great for job stuff and wedding stuff!
My fiance and I are computer science geeks and a Mac would be the PERFECT addition to our nerdy family. It would really mean a lot to us considering the fact that we are on a REALLY tight budget too.
I would love this! My current iBook is about 5 years old and on its last legs (crashes constantly), which is not good when one is trying to design her own wedding website, monograms, Save the Date cards, wedding programs, and all sorts of other DiY goodies! In addition, I just started teaching myself photo editing and it’s basically impossible to run Photoshop or Lightroom on this laptop with anything else open. It’s SO slow! A new laptop and MS Office software (I’m still on the 04 version) would be awesome!!
This is such a wonderful giveaway! I would absolutely love a new mac! My poor little powerbook is pretty much on it’s last leg (I got it almost 6 yrs ago) and this would really really help me out!
Just like everyone I’m sure but we NEED this becasue it would help us tremendously financially. FI just got demoted and the funds for the wedding have come to a complete hult.
This is a super-fantastic giveaway. My fiance would love a Mac laptop, she would probably use it exclusively. It would be amazing to be able to use it for iPhoto and iLife.
My fiance would love this
wow! what an awesome giveaway. my laptop recently crashed with all our wedding data as well as all of my thesis research. that hurt.
luckily i backed up recently, but still!
OMG! What a great contest and at a better time. My PC laptop fell victim to the conficker worm and then a whole bunch of viruses hit all at once. While the viruses and worm seem to be gone, my laptop hasn’t been operating the same since. We were just contemplating getting a new laptop - potentially switching to Mac since it is better suited for my needs.
Wow, a new computer would be such a blessing. My current one is giving me so many problems!
Oh my goodness, this could just convert me to a full mac user. We got Mr. Onion a Macbook Pro for Christmas, and I use a laptop for work (owned by my company). I don’t have a personal computer and if I switch jobs, I’m out of luck. I’d LOVE a chance to get comfortable on a brand new MAC of my own. Sign me up!
We currently don’t have a computer, although it would help us tremendously! We are trying to save for a house so a comp. isnt in the budget right now! The only access I have is at work, and I want so bad to make my own invitation desing and monogram but can’t and we’re getting down to the wire, I will have to outsource it soon! We could really use that!
yes, yes, what a stellar giveaway! it’s actually my boyfriend’s sister who’s getting married–but we’d love a Mac to help build a website, touch up photos, etc.
thank you!
What a great giveaway!
If I won, I’d give the mac away to my Dad (who just lost his job and his laptop in the last few months), Officemac to my kid sister (the budding urban planner) and use the $1000 to pay for the wedding my fiancee and I are planning for 2011. A thousand dollars isn’t much, but we’re hoping it’ll cover a little garden afternoon tea wedding for 30-40 people.
What a great giveaway!
If I won, I’d give the mac away to my Dad (who just lost his job and his laptop in the last few months), Officemac to my kid sister (the budding urban planner) and use the $1000 to pay for the wedding my fiancee and I are planning for 2011. A thousand dollars isn’t much, but we’re hoping it’ll cover a little garden afternoon tea wedding for 30-40 people.
This is a GREAT giveaway! I’d use this to create various DIY wedding projects. pick me! pick me!
this is really is a great give away! my future hubby and i do not have our own computer!! we go to the school library or use out friends…we are planning a wedding that it 6 hours away from where we live and it is really hard to communicate with vendors and the bridal party when we have to travel to get use of the internet!! having our own computer would really help us to make our day the best that it can be!!!
This is amazing!! We have been saving our pennies for a Mac at home. I have one at work and every now and then I do wedding stuff on it- and it just seems that much easier!!
We are broke, his computer’s a joke,
we’re getting married in June.
My Mac has no Word, it’s quite absurd,
documents cause me to fume.
This prize would be sweet, like a chocolate treat,
I hope we are entered to win.
For sorting out money, or letters to honey,
This prize would help me to grin.
We deserve to win because we plan on doing many diy and blogging experiences in our future…with our wedding…with our jobs…with our future babies…and this prize would ensure that we have the capabilities to preserve our precious memories in an increasingly digital world.
Because I’ve always, always, always coveted a Mac but could never justify the extra money over a PC. What a wonderful contest!
What an amazing prize!!!
Okay, my Mac Book Pro is great and I looove it. I work in television and use it constantly to edit together packages on Final Cut Pro. However, it’s six years old and I would reeeally love a new one! I will be getting married in two months and starting graduate school in the fall, that leaves me little to no money to purchase myself a new one
Dear Bee Bloggers, please keep this a secret, I’m trying to surprise my fiancé. Shhhhhh! I don’t normally check wedding bee (I leave that to the soon-to-be Mrs.) but I happened upon this and it’s too good to be true. Having a MAC as the first addition to our new family would really make our special day and our lives complete! My fiancé and I have been trying to incorporate as many DIY projects as possible for our wedding. Although we’ve had a few misses, many have been hits. From save the dates to invitations, from seating charts to budget spreadsheets, and don’t forget memorable slide shows, having a MAC equipped with Microsoft Office would help keep us on track for the wedding and beyond. Plus, my fiancé has always wanted a MAC but we’ve never had the extra cash to get one (We wouldn’t be having a big wedding without our parents support). Hopefully, this will MAC her day!
Wow, I have no idea how you will ever outdo this contest!
As for why I should win: I have friends who love their MacBooks but I have always been a PC fan since I associate macs with intro to programming class where they always crashed on me (due entirely to my mistakes while learning. Apparently computers don’t like infinite recursion?) This would give me a chance to learn again with something a bit more manageable. I think I can handle Office. 
bc i am apple obsessed and can’t afford to spend and buy new.
Reasons why I should win the DIY Microsoft Office for Mac:
1) I’m Silicon Valley born and bred - I’m hardwired to operate on PCs and have been desperate to jump on the MAC bandwagon - how great would it be to have access to what I view as comfortable (Microsoft Office) in a Mac package? Just AWESOME.
2) I stalk the Apple Store. Not because I don’t already know all of the options available to me. Because I want one THAT bad.
3) I just received the new PURPLE iPod for my birthday and I don’t have a personal laptop to have my own iTunes Library…(I was waiting for the day they would release it in PURPLE, which is, by the way, our WEDDING COLOR!!!)
4) My fiance would be able to donate his older laptop to the “One Laptop per Child” program
Pick us! =)
We should win the MAC book because we are starting our own business and it will be so useful for the design tools and programming capabilities-and so needed to keep the entrepreneurship alive!
Great contest!!!
I would like to win this because my fiance is such a mac daddy. Ok… he doesnt really like being called that, but his middle name is Mackenzie… its a family name. So, owning a Macbook is our destiny!!!!!! Thanks for the opportunity for such a great prize!
My laptop died last spring. We were planning on buying another one jointly after we got hitched, but the recession hit and the Mr. has been jobless for a really, really long time. I can’t imagine a better way to say “Hurray! We made it through this crappy year, and I still love you so much” to eachother
My fiance, which I did not find out until later, sold his laptop last year so that we could have the security deposit for our apartment, when we moved from Maryland to Washington DC. He sacrificed that for us with a smile, but I have never been able to pay him back for it, and since then he has not had a computer to call his own, which is sad because he’s an IT guy. He never complains, but I know he’s sad about not having his own computer. I have one, but it’s about to die, and I’m on it constantly for schoolwork.
That sacrifice is one of many reasons why I’m marrying him, and it would be nice to be able to give something back to him to say thank you to the man I’m going to marry, especially since he does so much, just because it’s right, without searching for thanks in return.
Pick us! We are PhD students too who use our sad old, Fiance-put-together-from-scraps computer to email our students and write our creative writing pieces all day long (we’re also instructors). While we do get a very small stipend each month, we literally live check to check…every penny goes back to bills. Plus, we have to provide food for our two doggies and birdies, as well! Also, as if that wasn’t sad enough, the computer we DO have recently had to be “fixed” as it wasn’t running properly. Unfortunately, “fixed” meant they deleted EVERYTHING we had on the computer (think: STD proof, templates, photoshop which I’ve been doing all our rehearsal invites, day-of-timelines…etc. on) leaving me in tears and poor FH stunned. (He picked up an extra job writing a blog for the Missouri Review to try and save up a little more money). I could go on, but this is getting depressing. We would just really appreciate a stroke of good luck and a computer we can trust enough to do work on instead of being in the school lab to all hours of the night. Crossing our fingers!!!
I’d love a Mac… always wanted to learn to use it, and maybe this way I would actually be able to help with some of the wedding planning!
Oh…oops. That blog I mentioned my Fi writing…the reason why the computer crashing was so stunning to him=he wrote a few blogs in advance to try and get ahead so he could help out with wedding planning…etc…and when the computer crashed, the blogs went with it Anyhow…pick us! Please???
my fiance would LOVE this so she can create our invitations heself, and track our RSVPs!
HELLOOOO!!! I need this, I am a full time student, and my lap top (7 years old) video card just went!!! I can no longer use it for school purposes because it only projects blue and white colors… it gives me headaches when I use it @ home! We had all of our wedding addresses and info on there.. luckily i was able to recover it, and place it on a travel drive… but now i need a new computer to load it on! My fiance is also a full time student… a new mac book would BE AMAZING!! It wold truly help us so much, I wold be able to type notes in class instead of trying to keep up writing, and then not being able to read my writing because i wrote to fast and sloppy!! Our wedding is November 21st, and all of our funds are strictly for wedding savings… please help us out!!!! *I also purchased DIY invites to try and save money… but I can’t do it now by myself… I need to go to my soon to be sister-in-laws home when its time 2 print… PLEASE CONSIDER us… it would be a huge asset to our school work and wedding planning! THANK YOU! <3
this would be such a perfect, invaluable tool for us to use; my fiance is in design and is working on our invitation/website design - and we would be OVERJOYED to be able to use such awesome software/hardware. like pretty much everyone else, we’re scrimping and saving by making almost everything ourselves, so of course, a new macbook would make that ride a lot less rough!
Both my fiancee and I have a Mac. There is NO WAY this wedding could have ever come to life without our trusty Macs. From budgets to emails, folders of inspiration photos, design files for our invites, and lots of WeddingBee surfing! Seriously, a Mac should stand in as our best man. We’d be thrilled to add another to our family.
I should win this for my fiance. He’s a self proclaimed computer nerd but his computer is on its last legs and he has so sweetly volunteered to handle the design work for our wedding - save the dates, monogram, etc. He is currently a PC user but I keep trying to get him to switch over so this would be the perfect way to replace his old desktop and thank him for his design help.
I would LOVE to win this! I am going back to school for my associates degree in graphic design this fall. A Mac would definitely help with all of the upcoming projects I will be doing! Also, I used to work at an invitation company and would love to start taking on fun printing projects of my own!
Man oh man. I would loooooove to win this. We probably wouldn’t keep the computer, Matt and I both have laptops, but I would love to be able to give it to my sister for college since she can’t afford to buy her own. I would love to be able to help her out that way!
The 1,000 dollars would be used towards either wedding related stuff, or towards my schooling since I’m starting the teaching credential program at SDSU this fall!
This is everything I’ve been needing for so many reasons :)
To be able to win this would be a dream come true. I have heard of all the cool and amazingly easy things you can do with a mac that would just be hard and almost annoying to try to do with a normal PC. I would love to use to design invitations, save the dates, table numbers, to editing photos, etc. It would seriously make me the happiest girl alive to win this totally awesome giveaway.
Because I need a mac…
Wow! I would love this prize. I am wanting to get into the photography biz and this would be a great aid!!
I am also going to be going back to school so it would help me with that also!
My fiance and I were just trying to brainstorm ways we could save money to buy a new laptop! He’s a graduate student and I’m an entry-level advertising executive and aspiring photographer, so we spend nearly all of our time on computers! We have one working one between us and it’s on it’s last leg. It’s six years old, a PC (when we’re both Mac lovers) and the monitor is no longer attached to the bottom part! (It sort of lossely hangs, you have to prop it against a wall to ever use it.) We would love to win this giveaway! I’ve been wishing and hoping for a Mac to use so I’d have a better photo editing system and also because it’s so much easier to design things on Macs! We’re planning on designing our invitations and save-the-dates ourselves, so this would be most definitely helpful! Then, we could use the gift card to splurge on letter press printing! Please pick us!
I have (foolishly? kindly?) offered to act as planner for 3 different friends weddings in the next 7 months, and I know that there are more coming after that. On top of that, I designed my own invitations with InDesign, and I know that they would have been EVEN BETTER if I’d had a mac. I’ll be able to design some amazing invitations for those friends, and also to keep everything organized and lined up properly for these upcoming weddings!
Am I supposed to do this signed in only??? Oh no…here goes, again…just copy/pasted, though!
Pick us! We are PhD students too who use our sad old, Fiance-put-together-from-scraps computer to email our students and write our creative writing pieces all day long (we’re also instructors). While we do get a very small stipend each month, we literally live check to check…every penny goes back to bills. Plus, we have to provide food for our two doggies and birdies, as well! Also, as if that wasn’t sad enough, the computer we DO have recently had to be “fixed” as it wasn’t running properly. Unfortunately, “fixed” meant they deleted EVERYTHING we had on the computer (think: STD proof, templates, photoshop which I’ve been doing all our rehearsal invites, day-of-timelines…etc. on) leaving me in tears and poor FH stunned. (He picked up an extra job writing a blog for the Missouri Review to try and save up a little more money and the extra blogs he wrote when he actually HAD free time one Saturday, were all on the computer. AKA-gone). Because of our issues with computers, we never get to see each other much…and all our planning is at a fourteen hour distance back east so the number one way we communicate with our vendors is via email… I could go on, but this is getting depressing. We would just really appreciate a stroke of good luck and a computer we can trust enough to do work on instead of being in the school lab to all hours of the night. Crossing our fingers!!!
Oh! This is EXACTLY what we need!! Last week I found out that my dad is losing his sales job and a furniture retailer this month and on top of that, yesterday my mom called to tell me the cable company call center let her go! I immediately drove my laptop two hours away to their house so they can use it to job search. Now I’m stuck without a computer at home which means limited wedding planning/DIY projects and even worse….limited WEDDINGBEE (only when I get a quick break at work)!!
With the prospects for jobs looking dim for the boomer set I’m thinking they will have my comp for quite some time and I’m not sure when I’ll be able to complete my wedding projects. This prize would be an absolute miracle for our family. I know there are MANY people out there struggling right now so I don’t expect pity, but I’d really love to be able to show my parents that sometimes good things really do happen to good people. Thank you for your consideration! This would mean the world to us!
Because I accidently threw away the key code for our Office MAC 2008 software and my husband couldn’t download it.
And because he bought himself a refurbished macbook when i got a new macbook air.
I personally believe that Macs are the best computers and have nearly worn mine out! I am an event planner by trade and a creative by nature! There are so many things that can be done with the prize that using them as wedding planning tools would be just the beginning. Please pick me!
OMG…it’s like you guys read my mind! Do you know what angels you are for having this competition?! I desparately need my own computer. I have to share one at work, as well as at home, which makes doing ANY work (be it for the wedding or my job) infinitely more difficult. I feel as though I spend half of my time just scheduling time to use the computer!To make matters worse, my finace is laid off and I have picked up extra work with a publisher. Great right? Except all the work is done off site…you got it: on a computer. So much for trying to make ends meet.
And now I feel like a schmuck because there are some really tear-jerker stories on here. I’m so glad I don’t have to choose the winning post
I have a PC at home, and work in a Mac-based lab. My PI has been on my case to get a Mac for home, but I’m just a poor Ph.D. student (and my husband has $250K in debt from medical school) and I CANNOT afford to purchase a second computer for home use. This would solve all my compatibility problems and help get me one step closer to earning my Ph.D…. thereby shortening the length of time of my long-distance marriage! Help me finish up so I can move closer to Husband in his ResidencyCity!
Oh my! What an AMAZING contest!
I could definitely use this computer. I’m in medical school where we were forced to buy these awful IBM Thinkpads. I have never had such a horrible computer. Parts of it chip off, the battery stopped working a month after the warranty was up, and it weighs about 300 pounds. The worst thing about it was that we had to pay $2,500 for it! I have never felt so ripped off. I know that it won’t last me much longer, but since I’m in school I don’t have the money to pony up for a new computer.
And aside from all of the practical issues…this could help with some amazing wedding projects!!!
I would love this so much because I want to make the switch from PC to MAC and FI and I are paying for our entire wedding ourselves! This would be the most amazing wedding present to each other because our current computers are on their last legs and we can’t afford to get each other a wedding day gift. Also, it would a great way to finish off the final details like designing programs, thank you cards, and keeping in touch with everyone after the wedding!
Oooh how exciting! I’ve been telling FI that if I had the extra funds I would buy a Mac. I switched to PC years ago when I graduated college and I long to go back. No more so than ever because trying to layout invitations on PC is a pain in the ear!
Because my FI told me to (and perhaps even filled out this entry for me while I shook my head at her goofyness)
My fiance is starting dental school in the fall and needs to buy a new laptop. It would be such a relief to know that we won’t have to fork over more money to make such a large purchase!
My fiance and I are Mac people and his iBook is in dire need of upgrading… but funds are, of course, pretty tight right now. I’d love to win him a new MacBook.
I don’t wan’t to say I ’should’ win this more than other people. Everyone else has some great reasons. But just incase I have a slight chance…. here is my reasoning:
my 12 inch Powerbook (that’s right…. pre-Mac Book Pro) is on it’s 5th year, and last legs, and there just isn’t money to buy a new computer at the moment. I will not buy a PC, because my heart belongs to Mac. But she’s a very pricey mistress, especially when one is broke. (She’s worth every penny, it just makes it more difficult)
She’s been a very trusty companion throughout all of my wedding planning. I’m using Photoshop, and my trusty ’side-kick’ is helping me design our invites, save the dates, menus, programs, thank-you cards, and everything else.
I have the old version of office for mac (2001 I think?) on my computer, and our guest list is in excel, it takes five minutes to load!
My lappy has also sustained several boo-boos throughout the years:
- she’s missing her delete button (I just have a rubber ‘nubbin’ where the button once was)
- the metallic finish to the right of the track-pad has been worn through to black speckles
-the bottom front right-hand corner top-casing has separated from the bottom casing, and there’s a small gap
- there are burnt out pixels in the ‘apple’ on the front cover
-the battery doesn’t sit flush in it’s mount anymore
-I’ve ‘chipped’ the corner of it, back left corner (my brother tripped over the powercable, and it yanked the laptop off the coffee table)
- I have to tape the powercord into the laptop for it to stay in place, because it’s not magnetic and it no longer ‘grips’ properly
- the battery only holds a charge for 30 minutes, absolute maximum
I’ve taken my laptop to two weddings I’ve shot, to several band promo shoots (hobbyist photog) and on several vacations. It goes with me everywhere and it breaks my heart that she’ll be dead soon. I’ve replaced the hard-drive on it once, as the original one failed (it cracked in half due to the heat, which was probably caused by the battery recall a few years back)
The budget-tracker would be great, because we are planning a wedding with a budget of 8 thousand dollars, for 150 people, in a very expensive metro city area, and it’s quite difficult and discouraging. We had to postpone the wedding for a long time (been engaged for over a year) due to layoffs at work. We made it through the cuts, but we don’t want to spend any more than we have to because there may be another round and we don’t want to have too much debt. My parents are putting up 5 K and we will be putting up 3k and since his haven’t offered any sort of assistance, that will just have to do!
I’m in the process of starting up a small secondary business selling stationary, and have also been designing my products on my computer. So this package would give me a nice kick-start in that area as well!
I never win anything so please please please pick me! *bats eyelashes furiously!*
But, if you don’t pick me - congrats to whoever gets it. I’m sure you’ll make great use of it either way
Oo! I could totally the visa card and laptop! Haven’t had a laptop in years due to financial contraints and paying for my own tuition so this would totally help!! It will also help me spend more time at home with the SO instead of at the library
Oh what an awesome contest!! I have an old version of Microsoft Office but I heard the new Powerpoint is really good at making wedding slideshows! And I love MACs!!!!
Because I’m a poor student and could so so so use this right now
I have really wanted a mac since my fiance broke it almost a year and a half ago. Since then we haven’t replaced it because we are saving for the wedding. It would help me with the rest of my diy projects! So I guess I’m saying please pick me!
We love all things mac and my SO has a cute quirk of pointing out macs in commercials, tv shows and movies. He’s freak out if I won this!!!
I would LOVE to win this contest. My fiance is a computer genius and we are trying to do as much as possible by ourselves to save costs. Having the money and the materials to do our invites, website, and photo editing ourselves would be simply an amazing gift and bright spot in our stressful, last minute, budget wedding planning.
because I need all of the above and Apple makes the best computers! (3 in the family, total of 5 over the years).
Oh my gosh, I would LOVE to win this contest. I want a Mac SOOOOO bad! I currently use my work computer for most of my personal stuff because my other computer is like 7 years old and has a virus that I can’t remove. I would love to be able to use this Mac and all of its tools to design my invitations for our wedding, and hopefully to help me start up a little business afterward!
OMG. Not to sound overly dramatic, but winning a new Macbook- not to mention Office and a grand!! - would make a huge difference in my life. My first computer was a Mac, and that’s all I’ve been willing to buy ever since. I purchased my Macbook almost 5 years ago now, and although she’s old, she’s still a beauty. But she IS slowing down, and there are things she just can’t do. For example, her operating system is so old it’s not compatible with my new iPod (which I also love). Believe me, I’ve gone online to the Apple Store a hundred times and come so close to clicking the order button on a new Macbook. But I just can’t afford it right now. It’s simply not in the budget. But with dozens of DIY wedding projects looming - from invitations to escort cards to thank you’s - I’m worry about whether my old girl will make it through the six months left before the wedding. The vintage printer I bought along with my Macbook died while printing my save-the-date cards. I just hope the same thing does happen during a DIY invitation print job. Please, please, please pick me. I love you, Mac!
Wow… what an amazing giveaway! This is really something I would like to win since the only computer I have is at work, so 9-5 is the only time I can visit Weddingbee! Unfortunately, with a new home and an upcoming wedding, any kind of extra expense is unheard of. Mr. Dan has banned me from unnecessary spending since I spent major $$ buying wedding stuff from another Bee and it never came….
Plus, I really, Really, REALLY want to be a DIY bride!
How amazing would it be to win this!! I am desperately in need of a laptop - my old clunky desktop is on its last legs and this would be a Godsend. Thank you for running this giveaway!
Like so many of the lovely people commenting, I would love to win this as well… I’m a grad student trying to make it through on the cheap and I’m living on ~12k/year in lovely (but expensive) San Diego after my tuition is paid… This new computer would be so fantastic and a total blessing for me and my honey… Thank you Bee for the opportunity!
I just bought my first mac (an imac) and would love to have a laptop to be able to tote around on the go!
I would love to win this contest because I am in dire need of a new laptop. I am currently planning my May 2011 wedding and although I have a lot of time until then, I would love to DIY many of my ideas. This would truly help me out. I am also a student who will hopefully graduate before I get married. Since my Fiance and I are paying for the wedding ourselves, we just cannot upgrade our laptop just yet. I will keep my fingers crossed!!
What an awesome prize! We’ve been without a Mac since our dog (named Apple) jumped on my lap while I was typing and the screen got destroyed. My fi is dying to buy a new one, but we’ve been holding out because of wedding related expenses. I personally would love it to design the photo albums after the wedding.
How fantastic!!! I would really love to have a Mac to store my wedding photos on! Esp. with the Mac program to identify faces in photos!
I’ve always wanted to be a Mac girl!
I would love to win this because Mac’s rock my world but my fiance hates them and says he won’t ever buy me one … so how about I win one for free?!?!
We would totally make use of this, from designing our invites to storing our photos. We once had a MAC, and then it died I miss it.
My FI and I are in desperate need of a new computer. Currently we are both in the final legs of our bachelor’s degrees. Soon we will be applying to the masters program at our school and are both in debt with student loans. We really cannot afford to replace our laptops right now, and his just stopped working. Mine is literally falling apart (it is over 5 years old) and is in need of expensive repair. This means that soon we will have to do all our homework at the school lab!
As far as the wedding goes, we have a really small budget, but I would LOVE to design all of our wedding stationary myself, which would be amazing. If I won, I would use the gift card to buy a new version of Photoshop and Illustrator (I have a version that is 10, yes TEN years old) to help me put my design on the computer and make it a reality!
I don’t think I’m any more deserving than any of the other people who have commented on this, but it would be a GODSEND to win this AMAZING package!
Oh man, I would love love LOVE to have a new computer. I have the crappiest luck ever with computers… my first was Windows ME, then after 3 failed mother boards on my Dell, I upgraded, just in time for Vista! I have finally decided to go Mac, but getting it for free would make my life… I mean, you know, after the wedding excitedment and all.
I would love to win this prize so I could finally open up the Etsy store I have been thinking about for a year now. This would be just the jumpstart I need plus it would be perfect timing since I will be finishing up my graduate program this summer! Thanks!
I am in love with Macs. Our old desktop PC has crashed and we would love to convert to a Mac household!
Thanks for the offer Mac and Weddingbee, that is very sweet!
My beau and I should win because:
-He’s a starving artist with a Lamborghini worth of student loans.
-We love our parents very much and are trying to eliminate additional financial stresses on our parents especially since they’ve lost money due to the economy.
-We’re good people who volunteer, help friends and I provided a gocco tutorial to help others!
-Because my brother is not here on Earth to celebrate my wedding, and I can donate some of the prize money to his scholarship foundation instead of party favors.
-And because I love MACs and can’t have a puppy yet
Good luck to whomever wins!
Really?!? What an amazing giveaway! I was just laid off and am now trying to start my own photography business. Finances are extremely tight, and this Mac would be a real blessing.
I am in need for cash and my laptop needs an upgrade! Pick me please!~
My fiancé is starting graduate studies and he really needs a good computer to run all of his graphical software. This would help us so much, since most of our available funds right now are being put toward the wedding.
Thank you!
OH MY GOODNESS!! *squealing in delight* I would use this for everything: Invitations, programs, seating cards, thank you cards, make my own wedding video, make photo books galore, and so many more random fun things! My FI built our computer and it’s time for an upgrade . .. PURRTTTYYY PLLLEEEAASSSEEE!! Okay i’m going to stop begging : )
omg omg omg! i totally need a new computer. i’ve had my laptop since 2001 and my FI is ALWAYS complaining about it. i’m due for a new one.
*crosses fingers, toes and eyes*
I’d love to win because we actually don’t have a computer at home. I have work laptop which I take back & forth with me each day, but we NEED a home computer to call *all our own.*
I come from a Mac family– my dad converted me about 5 years ago and I loooove everything Mac.
because my fiancee is going to school for graphic design and our one home computer is not the greatest. Being a young couple we can’t afford what she deserves. This computer would be an incredible gift that would be meaningful and purposeful.
Why should I win? Because it would make my fiance’s YEAR!!! Or maybe LIFE! He’s been dying for a MacBook to record his own music for the past few years and literally drools every time we pass the Apple Store in the mall. What’s in it for me?? Well, you can shoe shop on a laptop, or with $$ = ) Pick us, pick US!!! Thanks Weddingbee!
The little last minute wedding expenses are creeping up on us and the $$ would be great to take care of the things that we didn’t think to budget for (who knew stamps for invitations would add up so quickly!)
I’m a long time PC user who has many friends that are devoted Mac fans…. i might be swayed if I won this prize!
I would love to convert to being a Mac user! I didn’t even know that they even have microsoft office for Mac too! This would make it easier for me to switch and make my wedding planning soooo much more creative and fun. O the infinite DIY possibilities! cross my fingers i win!
I could not think of a better giveaway! I would use it for so many different things, planning my wedding has taken a toll on my poor computer which is close to death. I would do so many DIY things on it and get together my finances using the Microsoft office tools. I would love to convert to Mac because I know that all of my friends LOVE it and make fun of me for still using a PC. sigh…this would be the most wonderful thing to win!
I would love to win because I am a Mac lover through and though and my current Mac is having issues….winning one instead of having to buy a new one and the new software would help the pocket book so much!!!!
one of the things on my “mighty life list: 100 things to do before i go” is to learn how to graphic design. this would help with my goal, no? besides, with easter coming up, i’ve been thinking a lot about GRACE. if grace is defined as “receiving something you don’t deserve” i think this prize would fit right in!
My future mother-in-law’s laptop died and she needs a computer to do her speech therapy, and my fiance gave her his brand new laptop.
I would love to win this for my fiance who will also be starting business school this fall.
Having a new computer would SOO help with the rest of my planning… we’re doing everything ourselves… planning, invites, coordinating… EVERYTHING… anything would help out at this point!
Umm, I should win because that would be amazing!! I really need a new computer since my mac is heading towards it’s 5th birthday and death simultaneously! Since we’re wedding planning we don’t have a few thousand for a new one! And I’m planning to design our STDs and our Invites to some extent so it would be amazingly helpful. What an awesome contest!
…because my partner and I are going to finally commiting to a lifetime together either through civil union or hopefully soon gay marriage. My parents aren’t helping us financially so we are doing everything ourselves! Paper flowers for the ceremony, hand made invites… the whole deal! Having a new Mac would make it so much easier to produce everything we will need to honor our commitment to one another properly! Plus Im way too broke to ever be a cool Mac person…. I would LOVE to have one!
I would love to have this computer to help out with my business of graphic design and technical writing. My fiance is in the Marines, so a mobile computer would be great for our mobile lifestyle! I would love to win this computer and be able to publish a blog from it so my family knows what we’re up to and to explore my talents.
….because this would give me the organization tools that I REALLY, REALLY need. I’m going to DIY it all while finishing up my doctorate degree. I need some HELP!
Plain and Simple– I am finishing up Grad School 15 days before my wedding… and my laptop took a dive!! Luckily I saved my dissertation on a zip file… but I have had nothing to work with for the last month…frustrating to say the least~
Not only would I LURVEEEE a MacBook– but I absolutely need one!!
Omg!! I would totally love this package. I would be able to do so much work on it. Give me the motivation to actually create invites, table cards, and all the fun wedding stuff. And hello… it’s a MAC!!!!
I know sharing is caring, but sharing one aging computer is no fun; it would be amazing to have a new MacBook…essays and research and wedding planning, oh my!!
What a wonderful giveaway!!
I am a mac lover already but I really need this computer to convince my fiance to become a mac lover also. Also I am a avid do it your selfer and the program would let me create the best invites ever! I would also be able to buy some great papers for the invites and not have to worry about every penny since I will be buying the invite materials myself and OMG we just bought a HOUSE!
I work in media production, so Macs are my life. I don’t have one of my own yet (…sniffle…) and would love to get one. At work, I have a MacBook Pro, and it is by far the best and nicest computer I have ever worked on. Getting a Mac of my very own would really help with my freelance work, which is one of the major sources of our wedding funding. It would be an amazing tool which I would otherwise not be able to afford since all of our resources are dedicated to wedding expenses. Please, Weddingbee, pick me!
This is an awesome contest! I need this computer because I am designing my own invitations and printing them all on my own. Having a new computer would make that all the easier! Plus, the visa gift card would extremely help with the budget since we are paying for half of the wedding ourselves!
I have always wanted a MAC! This laptop would help me stay on budget and I would be able to so many DIY projects like save the dates, invitations, guest list, etc..
I would like to win a new Macbook because my fiance told me about this and I was so excited I came on to see it. Winning a new Macbook would make my life much easier. My current computer is about 5 years old and is not doing very good anymore. I just found out that I got accepted to go to grad school for computer science in the fall, and it would be very nice to start off grad school with a new computer.
I would love to win this Macbook as I have been longing to switch my personal computer from a PC to a Mac - but have a PC laptop issued through work and just cant swing the cost!! I am also working as an event coordinator and could get LOTS of use out of the various creative-focused programs!!!
I would love to just get the Office 2008 software! I could use it for work, wedding stuff and my personal crazy organization needs.
I would love the new MacBook simply for the ichat camera and software. I am moving after the wedding, so ichat would be awesome for keeping in touch with friends and family! I especially enjoy 3-way-chats with the two best friends from high school!
My FI and I are both students and I desperately need a new computer (I made a big mistake and brought an Acer a few years ago - steer clear), but really can’t afford one what with the wedding and everything. My FI has a Mac and it is so much better. We’ve been using it to design the invites, but as he is in another country I can’t help design it as I don’t have a computer worthy of designing it. Having a Mac would not only help my wedding designing but also my studies.
I am trying to budge my way into the world of photography. This laptop would help me out a lot! It could be used to touch up what are already some memorable moments I hope to be capturing of my fiance, friends and family!
This would be wonderful! I would love to have a computer in our home so we wouldn’t have to do our wedding things on our currently borrowed family machine or after work! What a stress reliever this would be!
Well my old Mac Book recently just took a dive and isn’t able to recover. The hard drive went out and nothing can be recovered. On top of that, it always needed to be plugged in when being used cause the battery was shot. I’m starting my Master’s program in July so this computer would be great!
because we are both grad students paying for our own wedding (seriously no money :(..i have no job!) and since i decided to DIY all things paper for my wedding (invites, STD, menu cards, seating cards etc.) with no computer, it would help a million!! HELP ME!
my fiance is planning our wedding at her parents house because she has no computer… her dad lost his company so we are now paying for our entire wedding on a budget coming from 2 grad students!! she doesnt work because no one is hiring. help her make our invites, stds, menu cards, and seating chart from home!
While I’d love the new mac so I wouldn’t have to fight my BF over mine. I’d really be just as happy with the mac office, because it would be so nice to have the programs to be organized.
My husband and I got married this August and I started med school 3 days later (talk about a honeymoon.) He was supposed to be transferring within his company to MA, but with the upheaval in the economy they canceled his transfer and so he is stuck in NYC trying to support me in MA (I’m living with my parents) and himself! Everyday he looks for jobs and since we used to live together we only have one computer. He generously let me have the new computer for schoolwork and pulled out an old Dell I saved from high school. It takes him hours and hours to apply for jobs because the computer is so slow, but we’re so broke right now that we can’t afford another computer. This is EXACTLY what we need. It’s so hard starting out a marriage apart. All I want is for him to get a job near my medical school and this could help!
Because I sorely need a new computer, as my just… died… in transit, when moving from apartment to apartment. I’ll give it a good home, I promise!
I want to win this because I need a new laptop! Plus I’m a Mac Addict! I would really appreciate this win!
Me me me! My ancient powerbook is sad and broken. And I overloaded it doing all my wedding tasks, so now dissertation writing is a b#&$h!
10.17.09…These are the most important numbers of my life–my wedding date. Like most brides, I spend tons of time thinking about these numbers every day. For example:
10–The minimum of minutes it takes for my computer, a trusty old PC from ‘05, to awaken each morning…
17–The average of minutes for my computer to open any file or log into email. My computer likes to think caaarrreeefffuulllllyyyy before hastily acting…
09–The average number of times per day I get jealous of my friend M. M has a Mac. M can open multiple files on her computer at one time. M can open all of our school lectures and assignments without any major freeze-ups. M, who is also getting married, created an amazing invitation design…and a custom monogram…and a wedding planning calendar…and a cookbook…all in the same amount of time I spent writing this sentence. I bet you are jealous of M now too…
I would love this Mackage (Mac + package). I’m not just a bride-to-be but also a student of pharmacy. This new Mac would help me in keeping track of the flowers (dahlias or daffodils?), cake (vanilla or chocolate?), and guest list (Anyone know how to cut 100 people…?) along with helping me track down info on the newest cancer therapies, FDA approvals, and hypertension guidelines.
I both want and need this Mac. Help me turn all of my wasted time into wedding time…:)
I would love to win a Mac book. I admit, I am currently a PC user, but I envy every Mac that I see b/c they are so much better than PC’s. Mac’s are just so much better
Oh wow, this give away is amazing.
I’m graduating May 9th and this could be the best graduation gift ever!
I’m getting my undergrad in graphic design and I cannot wait to make it my career. Unfortunately almost all design work is done on computers and on a Mac format. I love macs and use them daily at school, but have not been able to afford one. I have an old PC to get me by for home work and some other assignments. It’s missing an F6 key, and if you plug anything into one of the USB ports the whole computer shuts down. Recently, my computer totally crashed and I had to pay to get an entirely new hard drive because I couldn’t afford to get a new computer.
Regardless, I am graduating in May, but my job search is not going well either.
I’m crossing my figures for an amazing wedding in 2 years, but with no job prospects in the future, I’m not sure how we’re going to start saving.
But, on a lighter note, I am so excited to design all the Invites, STDs, and programs! A nice new computer could be the best inspiration ever!
What an AMAZING giveaway!! I would love to win this because I am trying so hard to DIY as much as possible and still pull off a beautiful wedding, and I know this amazing prize would totally help make that possible.
My fiance and I could really use both of these things- our laptop’s monitor doesn’t work right now and we don’t have the money to get it fixed or buy a new one! She wants to make our invitations, so getting a Mac would be just about the best thing ever. I know their design software is really good. We could use the money to have them professionally printed. Please pick us!
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Winning the Mac Book would be a great for us. I work as a freelance sports writer and am getting into graphic design as well. Recently my lap top died leaving me using my old desktop and trying to wrestle my fiance’s lap top from her to complete my work. And I do mean wrestle thanks to all the time she spends on this site.
Wedding Bee owes me because your advertisers are getting their money’s worth from my fiance and all the time she spends on this site. So Wedding Bee, it is time for you to scratch my back like we have yours and since you have the affection of my fiance so much, I need the satisfaction that a new Mac Book would bring.
We love Macs! And the additional software would be so great to help us get our budget nailed down and stick to it!!
I would LOVE to win the MACBOOK! There is no way my Fiance or I can even think about buying one because we are paying for our wedding on our own. Plus, as a teacher, with all the layoffs going on, a new laptop for us is nowhere in the near future. Thanks!
I’m an elementary technlogy teacher and I’ve been trying to convince my school to gt some Macs! This will give me the first hand knowledge (as I use it for all my photography and wedding related needs) that I need to convince the powers that be that Macs are superior to pcs!
I have a really old PC that is very close to dying. I recently looked into getting a Mac, but quickly realized I cannot afford it until after the wedding. This would be so helpful, since I am trying to make my own invites, and I don’t have any useful software, other tham word!
I’ve been a Mac girl ever since high school when I first used one when I was on yearbook staff. I actually got to see Steve Jobs speak at a convention, and he’s honestly the only speaker I remember from the many conventions I attended during high school.
We’re a DIY kinda couple, and this package is the perfect combination for us - I’m a die-hard Mac fanatic, and my fiance can do things I didn’t even know were possible with MS Office on his computer (a PC). Not only would this combo give us both something we love, it would also be something for us to do together once all the wedding planning craziness is over - I could teach him about the wonderful world of Macs, and he could teach me how to do some of that snazzy Office stuff. Heck, maybe I’d finally understand how the heck to make a spreadsheet! My only concern would be how we’d share “custody” without fighting over whose turn it is to play!
Pick me! Pick me! With our wedding just 3 months away we have SO MANY projects that this computer and software could help us with…invitations, menus, programs. The list goes on and on!
I had to use someone else’s Mac to make my invitations, STD’s, and RSVP cards… I’d love to have my own Mac to make programs, thank-you’s, and such! I really hope I win
Because I just spent 5 hours today getting my Mac “fixed” at the Mac store … only to get in the car and find that they hadn’t actually fixed it at all. Most of my wedding inspiration and projects are stuck on there. I’d love to start over with a new one!
My beautiful and loving wife would so appreciate a new computer in the house as all of our existing computers are in horrible condition. This is for my love.
this would be super handy in helping with my DIY wedding! and plus the portability would allow me to work on stuff while at my fiance’s place.
This would absolutely make my fiancee’s year! (since we got engaged in ‘08 and will be married on ‘10 - something life-altering must happen in ‘09, so why not this package???)
I would love to win! It would mean so much because I just got laid off and my FI job is starting another round of cuts and our wedding is only 52 days away! We aren’t going to be able to do anything special for ourselves for a while, so winning this would be amazing!
Let’s see, my guy is in the military and has a personal macbook (an old one that is making some funny noises) that he has to use for work cause they won’t buy him a new one, and when he is deployed, we would be able to ichat without any hassle. It is going to be bad enough that he has to be away for such a long time so soon after we are married, but knowing we could still connect makes the seperation seem less hard.
A Mac would be great to make videos of our honeymoon and the money would help spoil us while over there!
I would love to win this! My fiance and I have wanted to trade in our PCs for a Macs for years, but price has been the only thing stopping us. I love photography and would love to make cool videos of my travel photographs. A Mac would make this quite easy! Oh I hope we win!
we love mac and it would be great for the video productions, making save-the-dates and invitations, and keeping track of all the necessary files.
Gosh, What an amazing turn out this contest has had. Why do I need a MAC? To create lovely crafty things post wedding, of course! My creativity is being suffocated by this little PC I work from! Oh to have a MAC!
My beloved mac (henry) is dying after many loving years together. As someone who is still in school, I can’t afford to buy a new one, so I would be forever grateful if I could be the lucky one.
This would be great to finally convert my teacher-man to the way of the Apple!
Because I am a poor med student and my fiance and I both find Macs super sexy. Fiance needs a computer so that he can be a pivotal part in helping with wedding planning/organizing!
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I have been wanting to get a Mac book for at least a year now. Between a long distance relationship now (Georgia to Seattle) and long distance wedding planning (The wedding will be in Ohio), graduating from graduate school in May, finding a job in a crummy job market, and moving myself across country (from Georgia to Seattle soon!:), expenses are high and funds are low. Buying a Mac is just not a first priority! I have even been looking at the refurbished mac books. Winning this would save me money not only on a computer but I would being able to DIY Save the Dates, Invites, and More!
Bee-cause Mac is the way to go! Simple as that!
I love to win it cause mac pages was way better to design my invites than office for mac. HA microsoft. I still use your excel though.
Awesome, I would love any prize since I’m a MAC addict. It would be very helpful in my 2nd job to have this great computer or software!
Let’s be real here… I’m a 24 year old guy about to marry to love of my life and enter into the poorest years of my life! And I can’t wait! Don’t you think a brand new Mac book would look great in our dinky old apartment?
My computer got ruined in a flood about a year ago, i’ve been borrowing his since then (taking it to work daily)… this would actually be a gift for him!!!
I won’t just give you the reasons why my bride and I need the Mac, I’ll give you reasons why E.V.E.R.Y. bride and groom should use a Mac for their wedding DIY:
1. Video editing software! Macs have the best and easiest to use stuff!
2. Picture editing software! Combined with Microsoft products, Macs can do amazing things with pictures!
3. The Microsoft Office Suite can help you finish all those projects you only thought the pros could finish like:
a) MS Publisher: Making save the date cards was never so easy
b) MS Powerpoint: Because inspiration boards are easy to create and print
c) MS Excel: How else would you keep a budget? Checklists?
d) MS Visio: Great for the reception set up and seating charts.
e) MS Access: Everything you need to organize your guest lists, from A to B-list!
f) MS Front Page: Because I don’t have time to learn about “HTML” before the wedding
And best of all Microsoft products work with Macs! So bust the myth y’all and buy a Mac! Load ‘er up with all the MS products you can, and be happy.
Oh and PS-Yes my fiancee told me to get on here and write something. I did it because I love her and because if we don’t win she’ll kill me. And make me wear that tan suit. PLEASE don’t make me wear the tan suit!!
My daugher and her fiance are getting married in July, and every penny they have is going towards the wedding and starting their life together. They’ve talked for years about getting Mac books, but those definitely aren’t in their budget! I would love to win a Mac book for them, and give it to them as a wedding present! Maybe they could keep track of their expenses on it, and put all of their honeymoon pictures on it. I know they would absolutely love it!
My future son-in-law loves Mac books. He’s been looking at them for quite some time, wishing he could get one. I figure it would be a great “welcome to the family” present for him… he doesn’t know what he’s getting into ha ha.
We are getting married this year and would love to welcome a Mac to the family, especially since our age old PC is on its way to a slow demise. With the Mac’s portability, we can set it up to play ceremony/reception music and start building a wedding website to share photos from our soon-to-be special day.
My finance and I should win this prize for many reasons. First, mine and my parents’ home was broken into about a month ago. Nearly all my belongings, computer, jump drives, briefcase, video game consoles, rifle, and etc., along my parents’ computer were stolen. While all of these things being taken is bad, the worst part of all of this is ALL of my school work was taken. I am currently working on obtaining a bachelors degree in history with social studies teaching certification, and in my program we do not turn in assignment for classes as we complete them but rather turn them all in at the end of the semester. As a result, I am having to redo half a semester’s work while also completing the work for the other half of the semester. This means I am spending many hours in my school’s computer lab, which is an hour from my home, since I no longer have a computer, so winning a mac would be the greatest thing to happen in my life since my engagement. Adding to my stress is the fact I will have to go from August to December because I will be student teaching in the fall. My finance and I will be getting married on Dec. 19th, so the money would help out tremendously towards the wedding/honeymoon.
This is the perfect prize for us because I’m an avid Mac user, and as we speak, my PowerBook G4 (who has gotten 1000’s of hours of tough love) is trying to give up the ghost, though hanging in valiantly! We’ve designed our invitation, Save the Dates, archived our photos, made a fabulous video, picked our music, and blogged about the whole process right here on this beloved Mac. I’ll be lost with out her, and am ready to open my heart to adopting another.
I finish fellowship in June, and there would be nothing better than starting my career and our marriage with a new Mac… (it would be our first baby!)
Please pick me. Our computer caught a virus, luckily after we were done with our Save the Dates!! We have it at the computer hospital being fixed. Hopefully this visit will cure its sickness! My fiance just signed up for Photoshop classes to improve his skills for the rest of our DIY items (Invitations/Menu cards/Signature Cocktail Menu for the bar). He just said to me, maybe after the wedding we can get a MAC, PLEASE! I haven’t agreed yet but, that would be wonderful if we won this MAC! This would be the perfect Groom’s Gift!! Please Pick Me!!!
I recently bought a MB and have no software. So I am jumping between my mac old PC lap top to do things for the wedding. It’s frustrating, HELP.
I would love to win this prize! Why? Because my current iBook G4 is nearing its fifth (5TH) birthday and slowly dying (i.e. dead battery, keyboard falling apart, not enough memory). Also, getting married and graduating college at the same time tends to put a damper on my financial funds. The worst part? My Appleworks program (which Apple has since discontinued) quit working and I’ve lost nearly all my work (wedding and work related) including two scripts I’ve been writing for the past three years. A new computer would be a life-saver to me!
What an amazing giveaway!! I would LOVE to win this because 1) my current computer is dying a slow, painful death; 2) i’ve been doing a lot of wedding consultant work for friends & would love the software to help with organizing; and 3) i’m just finishing veterinary school and $80,000 in debt- every little bit helps!
I’m in love with everything apple and have been eying macbooks lately but haven’t yet made the leap to switching from my pc - also I have become totally obssessed with DIYing everything i can for my wedding and would love to try out the DIY tools available on Office
this would be great not only for wedding planning, but also for grad school, life, etc!!! i just want to win!!!
This would be the perfect surprise wedding present for my hubby-to-be! His current laptop is old, battered, and missing some keys (due to our precious but evil kitty cats!)… and the company no longer produces the charger for it, so if anything happens to it (kitties…) he’s out of luck! With all of our budgeting for the wedding, it has been hard to justify spending money on something that he sort of already has… but I know he has been coveting the new Mac-Books, and he’s been so good about not splurging and keeping us on a budget. After the wedding, we’ll be moving out of state for grad school, and he has promised himself that if he gets accepted to his dream MBA prgram he’ll buy himself a new laptop then… but wouldn’t it be nice if his new wife came through for him with the best surprise present EVER!?
We both need new laptops (it was a miracle and a crazy gamble that we even used them to take the Bar exam, talk about praying that something will stay on lol).
Mine is okay for the most part, but my sister accidentally dropped it so I have to touch it in a special place for it to turn on, so only I know how to turn it on.
His laptop spazzes out and has lines running through the monitor that even the computer fixing gods at Geek squad couldn’t fix.
We have always wanted to convert to Macs but can’t afford it just yet.
My Mac is on its last leg and I’m a big diy-er. I’ll be printing the invites myself and this would make my life so much easier and more organized. Plus Macs are the best thing since sliced bread anyway.
i would love to have one for school!
We NEED this because the newest computer in our combined household is a 5 year old laptop! FI is headed to grad school in the fall, and unfortunately our ‘new computer’ savings account was raided when I had to fly cross-country for a funeral last month. This would make our daily lives so much better and easier!
Thank you so much for providing the opportunity to win this, WeddingBee!
I’m a mac. My fiance is a PC. And together…I’m trying to convince him to be a mac
because my future husbands laptop is on the fritz and this would help us with long distance wedding planning.
I have always wanted a Macbook to design graphics for paper printing and to design photo pages for album. The Macbook screen has high color quality that will help me in editing pictures/graphics to show more realistic and consistent color than using other computers. I use iMac at work, but I do not have a Mac at home. I hope to win this prize package so I can use it to make my own invitation, wedding album, and vacation albums. Thanks!
We totally deserve this because my fi and i are hardcore DIY lovers whether it be from technology to building things around the house. We use the computer all the time when we design stuff and our computer now is about the die We’re currently planning our wedding this summer with a theme from start to finish. This MAC would help us create, design, and complete what we need for our wedding.
I’ve heard so much that once you become a mac, you never go back. I want to experience the magic of the Mac! Especially since I have to create my wedding invitations, it would be nice to have something that is specially designed to be for creativity.
My fiance and I our a DIY couple, from our save the dates, invitations, flowers and the list goes on and on. We love being creative, and it doesn’t hurt that doing almost everything DIY saves money. Winning this prize would help us be more productive. =)
What a wonderful giveaway!!!!! Every time I got to the mall I go and play with the macbooks! I would love to have this computer to do all the paper crafts (yay Office!) as well as the photo/video editing after the wedding (yay imovie!) I still have my old desktop from college and would love a shiny new Mac!!!
Ooohhh! What a great prize! My fiance and I are just out of school and trying to save money however we can. We do plan on making all of our own paper wedding products, and this prize would give us the tools we need to make it happen!
OMG! Where do I start? My fiance and I have been stalking the MACbook since before we got engaged. I was laid off back in October (a little over a month after we were engaged.). I have since then been forced to take a jobe paying 60% less than I was making before. Unlike my previous job I have NO internet access during the day. Winning this MACbook would REALLY help with my wedding planning. I work so many hours and such a crazy schedule it makes planning close to impossible. Also I am one of the many DIY brides. It’s hard to create all of the little details with Microsoft Office. My Microsoft office suite was wiped off of my computer due to a virus. My old office suite is on a DVD and my dvd drive is broken, so I am unable to reinstall it. I haven’t purchased a new suite because with the wedding we simply can’t afford any additional expenses. Pleas pick us!
My fiance and I are like the Apple Mac and PC commercials- I’m the mac and he’s the PC. I would love to prove to him how much of the wedding planning we could do on a Mac as opposed to his PC…
Oh geez. My fiance has been stalking the MacBook for at least 3 years. Let’s talk about his computer he owns now. It’s a piece of junk Dell Inspiron that he paid $1500 for in 2003. It literally has a 40 GB hard drive, and well…let’s just say he just paid this baby off LAST MONTH. That’s right. A completely obsolete computer. He was still paying for as of last month.
But to make it even MORE awesome, last month EVERY USB port on this POS decided to just stop working. So now we can’t even use peripherals on it. Including the iPod. Not a printer. Nothing. I mean, really.
The CD-ROM drive decided to stop working about a year ago…so seriously, we just need to toss this thing. But it takes us to the Internet? I guess…that’s about all it’s good for. LOL.
We really don’t have the money to smack down on a new compy for him…This would just rock.
Please select me because I’m absurdly poor yet I have a fiancee more deserving than anything I could possibly ever provide her. I think she is the best thing that has ever happened in my life and if I could give her these gifts she could have at least a glimpse into a tiny fraction of what I wish I could give her.
As I am embarking on a lifetime with my one true love, one thing that will help us in our life together is the success of my fiancee’s blossoming business aspirations (not surprisingly, related to the wedding industry itself), which would benefit tremendously from both the economic booster shot and technological upgrade this competition would afford her.
I think the fact that if I won it through a contest I discovered while using one of her favorite blogs about the “world of marriage,” in efforts to connect with her and her passions at a much deeper level - will let her know how madly in love I am with her.
My FI is a musician - I would love to gift this to him! He would be so ecstatic and not have to use hand me down computers to create his music anymore. He is currently in a band and i love being the band fiance
How about because my wedding budget has killed my new computer budget, and since I’m starting grad school a mere 3 weeks after the wedding and my current computer literally DOES NOT TURN ON, I’m a bit…up the creek w/o a paddle?
I happened upon this contest while looking for some creative ways to propose to my beloved - because, try as I might, I lack the outward romantic presence that I truly feel on the inside for her. Whenever I try, I feel like a volcano of love and feeling is being filtered through a terribly inept lover boy - yet the insurmountable feeling I have for her remains stronger with each passing moment. Things like this may be something to show her that side of me, whereas before I’ve simply failed miserably to find the words to describe how blessed I am to be entering an eternal commitment with an angel.
Two starstruck lovers embarking on a new life, far from where they met, in order for me to pursue a graduate degree. My beloved has sacrificed so much for me, gambling on her…our future, taking a leap of faith to follow true love and certain difficulties to reestablish herself in a new surrounding while I work feverishly to complete my graduate work. Love will get us through - no matter what. A financial cushion and a computer would be a Godsend. I don’t know what determines the factors going into this drawing, but if “giving a blossoming love, a chance to grow into something stronger than the mightiest redwoods” is one of the considerations - then I think you will be tough pressed to find a more deserving, loving, couple than us.
Wow! I love Macs and my old one is on its last legs (as my life is stored in there!)… I have used my Mac, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint to make all our wedding paper products! I would love a new Mac as my soon-to-be husband and I start our new life together.
Because I love Macs! I have now converted my husband to be as well! Would love, love to win this contest!
This is awesome. We could be a full Mac household with the addition of the second one and would definitely help in the launch of our businesses.
I would love to win this contest!! I can not wait to get started with creating my own invitations and many more wedding related items and a new macbook would be great!!!
I deserve being awarded a Macbook with Office for Mac several reasons. My fiance, Edward, and I will be working on saving in all areas of wedding planning and execution. Edward and I are planning and organizing the wedding at a distance. My work (the military) and his job reguire us to be far away from the site we chose to get married at. We chose this location because it’s closer to our friends and family (my grandparents wouldn’t be able to come if it were much farther away). The Macbook would enable me to better coordinate all the wedding planning, organizing and execution.
- First of all we’re leaving open the option to making our own invitations (I know it takes a LOT of time to DIY invitations). The Macbook package has the proper software and capabilities to allow Edward and myself to save money on invitations, RSVP cards, thank you notes, and the wedding programs.
- Edward and I are cutting down on decorations that we will have at the wedding ceremony and reception site. We don’t need a fancy wedding to have a memorable wedding. All we want is to have our family and friends present. Having them around to celebrate this moment.
- I’m currently in the military; yes, the Bride-to-be is in the Army and she is deployed. I’m in OIF working and trying to do wedding planning. My current laptop is a used laptop I bought, which my brother put together, because my last laptop broke. This current laptop weighs around 10-12lbs and will be pretty much shot after the Iraqi sand finishes having it’s way with it after being here for 15 months. A new Macbook with Office compatibility will allow me to do anything work requires of me (since we only work on PCs), and the macbook can allow me to try out my deisre to explore photography and music playing.
- My fiance and I have been dating since my freshman year of college. My senior year, Edward moved to California to work in his desired career field of Aviation, where he still is currently employed. A year later, I commissioned into the military and was stationed in Oklahoma then Texas (not anywhere near California). Edward and I have been maintaining our relationship throughout the long distance. We hope after I return from the deployment that Edward and I will be able live in closer proximity to eather other, and the to eventually live together after we get married. Edward and I have amazingly maintained our friendship and relationship throghout the hardships of long distance. Mosy of my friends are amazed at our ability to stay together and stay loyal to each other throughout these years of being apart. Email and phone have been the life-savers of our relationship. That is way I feel I deserve a new Macbook
I would love to win the Mac because my own laptop has already passed away and I’m about to begin my MBA in August. On top of that, I am trying to start my own photography business and would love to have a Mac in which to load all of the photo editing software. I haven’t been able to find gainful employment since receiving my undergraduate degree so I can’t afford to repair my old computer, let alone buy a new one. This giveaway would be a financial lifesaver for me!
oh man! i would love a new mac! mine is practically ancient and (even worse) my power cord connection is nearing the end of its life.
Dear committee picking the winner,
I would love to win this package because we desparately need it. My FH and I are currently going through an immigration process right now, so most of our wedding budget is actually going towards lawyer fees and immigration fees from the US government. The $1000 gift card will help us either with wedding expenses or the expenses of starting our new life together (we need dishes…)!
The MacBook and Office 2008 software would greatly help me. I have an old old laptop that probably has the Conficker worm on it. With saving for FH’s impending arrival and our wedding, I really haven’t had the money to buy a new one. The ‘08 software would allow me to keep some of my old files as well as prepare new ones like wedding save the dates and thank you cards! The MacBook’s iPhoto would easily allow me to organize my photos and to choose the best wedding photos for our and our parents’ future albums.
Thanks for reading!
My fiancee and I would really make good use of this Mac because we are currently planning a wedding in the mountains and we could use the Mac to help us organize and edit pictures. Both of our computers are on the way out and we are not sure when they will leave this world but we are hoping for the best. Her laptop offers her no sound and she frankly has to stand on top of it and jump up and down just to turn it on! My laptop is at the point where it will randomly decide to cause my all the letters I type to be written in all Caps.
We have both looked and planned to eventually convert to Mac as soon as we can afford it. It would be great if Weddingbee gave us a shot at winning this contest. We promise to send some of our new pics from our Mac to the site.
I would like to show my fiancee, tmari, that now matter how incredible her Mac is… it’s still a Mac!
But the only way to accomplish that is if she has a Mac comparable to my awe-conjuring PC.
My current computer, the first version of the Macbook Pro, is 3 years old and has NO MEMORY LEFT. Everytime I need to do a project on Illustrator or Photoshop, I need to drag files to my external hard drive and delete them from the computer. ANNOYING! This new computer would totally help in my freelance work and for me to design our invites!
Since the fiance and I are combining our finances, the budget program on Office would be a perfect way to do this. So much better then me just writing everything down and adding/subtracting it in a little notebook!
oh wow what an amazing giveaway!!! I would love to win this because the computer that we had was ruined when hurricane ike hit our house and damaged over 12k worth of possessions in addition to all the damage to the house itself. We can only access the computer while at work. It would be amazing to win this!
My fiance and I should win because we are both still in school and can’t afford a new computer. I’m about to be in grad school in engineering so I have to have a good laptop to run all the engineering programs. Not to mention the fact that I would love a new laptop for all the wedding stuff I could make on it! The $1000 would be great because it could help us with our honeymoon. We weren’t going to be able to have a very big honeymoon otherwise.
Because my lap top just broke and my FI’s is on the fritz! I want to spend less hours at work and a home office by MAC would be perrrrfect!
I’m writing this for my niece and her fiance. They really need this prize, her fiance’s computer was stolen a few weeks ago and he really needs a new computer. The MAC is also a great computer for graphics and would really help with DIY invitations, announcements, programs etc. They are both graduating from college soon and could really use the money to set up their new household.
My Macbook is starting to loose it’s life. I’m going to need a new computer to replace her soon.
I love my mac but it’s ancient - I’ve been saving up for a new one but it’s hard when I’m also saving up for a wedding which we are trying to pay for entirely on our own! Winning this contest would help with both the elderly computer problem and the wedding budget problem at one fell swoop as I could design all the stationary myself.
I’m a closet MAC lover. I used to use them in college but now at my job it’s PC or else I would kiss the ground to win a MAC!! Plus as the world knows MACS beat out PC’s every time in the graphics department which would come in totally handing in creating fun wedding stuff like programs, place cards, and table numbers!!!
I absolutely cannot believe the contests that this Web site offers. They’re absolutely incredible. How nice to be offered a bit of a break every once in awhile -especially considering the current economy added to the stress of planning a wedding on a tight-belt budget.
When my fiance and I got engaged in July 2008 we immediately started searching venues for a perfect ceremony. We’re from different parts of the country so we decided to do a destination wedding to make the travel time for both sets of friends and family a bit more even.
I fell in love with a beautiful little island in Mexico where a company hosts affordable, elegant weddings. Immediately, we put our $1,000 deposit down to save our spot.
Last month, because of the mounting tension in Mexico over the drug war, we were forced to cancel our wedding. We weren’t too worried ablut the travel but many of our family and friends that had been planning on attending pulled out of the trip.
We decided to relocate the ceremony to Newport Beach, Calif. Humiliated and upset about wasting money, we had to send out a second wave of Save the Dates.
The original company in Mexico that we booked with refused to return our deposit. For the past year I had scrimped and saved to buy myself a laptop and had finally reached $900 when we found out that we wouldn’t be getting our money back.
So…we used the computer savings and a bit extra to put down a new deposit. Having our wedding is definitely worth the sacrifice, I can’t wait until that day, but it still stung a bit. Even with the second job I’ve gotten to help pay for the wedding that we’re funding ourselves, I won’t likely be able to put back money for a computer again until after the ceremony.
I’m a newspaper reporter and not having an at home laptop makes my job pretty difficult. I stay late in the office a lot of times when I would like to be at home to finish up work that’s due for an upcoming edition. I have literally been drooling over MacBooks since they first came out and would love the chance to win this contest.
I would love to win this MAC package for our family. It would give my son the tools he needs for homework and my fiancé and I would be able to work on our DIY wedding with a lot of handy MAC tools. From learning to research, to printable wedding suites, table numbers and seating cards, thank you notes, creating photo and video memory items. Who wouldn’t love such an amazing giveaway.
I would love to win this package because not only would it help with all the details that come after the save the dates go out (invitations, menu’s place cards, escort cards, etc. and even after the wedding - thank you cards, etc) but it would also take me back to my roots as a MAC girl. A MAC desktop was my very first computer as a child!
I’m not going to lie, I’ve been wanting a MacBook for a longtime and a $1,000 gift card would be amazing!! I can’t even begin to describe how incredible it would be to win this contest and how much it would enhance my wedding.
However, after reading other entries for the contest I realized that some people don’t just want the MacBook, they NEED it.
This contest helped me realize that fiance and I are very lucky. Our families are happy, healthy, and still doing alright in this crummy economy.
I hope the MacBook goes to someone who truly deserves it and will put it to good use for their wedding and to help others in the future.
I would love to win because wedding planning has nearly destroyed my current computer. Now it is very slow… And the $1000 gift card would be an amazing supplement to print out my DYI invitations that I would create on my new mac!
I have been yearning for a MacBook for over a year and just haven’t had the finances to purchase one. My current laptop is out on loan to my brother who is in college. Without a laptop, it’s impossible to do my work and volunteer work at home. It would be wonderful to win this fabulous prize!
I have no home computer…it’s killing me! I can’t keep doing all my wedding projects at work! Ahhhhhhhh! Winning this computer would AMAAAZZZZINGGGGGGG!
I’m dying to learn photo shop and this would be such a help. I love working on DIY projects and I’d really love to be able to create my own designs!!
I have a limited wedding budget and winning would help a lot! We’re also looking into buying a house given all the good deals and offers available, but it’s pretty stressful when you don’t know if you’ll have a job tomorrow. Can’t Macs predict the future too now? Ha ha.
This reminds me of the mattress give a way last year!
Anyway, I need this because our home PC is dying and I’d love to get a Mac. Post-wedding I want to go back to school for interior design, so this would be perfect! Maybe do some wedding planning as well!
Ooh! this could not come at a better time. My beloved 17″ Powerbook G4 is starting to go–doing nifty things like shutting itself off. I use it for everything–from our household budget to photoshopping our centerpieces (luminary-inspired vases). I’ve been eying the new iLife suite, and would love to organize all our wedding photos and order albums with that gift card.
I was once a proud Mac owner…but my old iBook crashed 3 weeks after the warranty expired, and I couldn’t afford another one at the time. Fast forward to now…and I still can’t afford to buy a MacBook…but I’d love to have one! My FI is a youth pastor and DROOLS over the MacBook’s amazing graphics and web publishing capabilities. Also, we make a lot of videos for the kids and editing video on a Mac is soooo soooo sooo much easier! (We could also make a killer wedding slideshow in no time flat!)
I’ve been coveting a MAC for FOREVER! A friend of ours has been making her cards and they’re BEAUTIFUL. And I may make an effort to plan my wedding finally….I hope anyway.
my fiance and i are moving in next week to a small one bedroom and we need a new laptop! we wanted to get a mac but we’re both unemployed (we got laid off a day after one another) so that goes out the window!!! we have programs to make for the wedding as well as a rehearsal dinner invitation perhaps. good luck us!!!
cuz we need something warm to sleep on!
After I decided to go back to school, my man stood by me and gave up his dream job to move with me and take a job that he didn’t like, but would support us, all so that he could kiss me goodnight every night and not be cities apart. Putting his life on hold for me so that I could finish school was the biggest sacrifice anyone has ever made me. Due to our tight budget, I don’t have a laptop with which to do my schoolwork and I trek to the library everyday, doing work while my love goes to work and then comes home alone. Winning this laptop would allow me to do my work at home and be able to spend time with the one I love, justifying his sacrifices and repaying him with time that would otherwise be lost at the library!
I need a mac to replace the laptop I bought in 2004, which bit it last year. Since then I have been stuck using my fiance’s desktop, but he’s a programmer and certified Windows-hater, so he only has unix on there. I can’t do any designing on it, which is no fun! I did my STDs on my parents computer but I don’t know if I’ll have a chance to go there to do invites. $1000 dollars would go so far for us too! We would be able to take the honeymoon we really want.
I would design my invites
This is an amazing giveaway! I live on my mac and on Microsoft Office I couldn’t have planned my wedding without them… but unfortunately both belong to my job! it would be so amazing to have my own! I would finish all of my DIY wedding projects. and help all of my newly engaged friends with theirs!
I would love a Mac! I’d DIY invitations, menu cards, tags—everything paper. With the economy taking a slam to my savings I would save money by using the Mac to edit my own wedding video. With Final Cut Pro I can add music , create memories and personalize our video in a way no hired professional can!
I have a Mac, but its getting old and for some reason it randomly shuts off for no reason. I totally plan to make my own invitations and I LOVE doing things on the computer. My boyfriend and I are still shopping for rings, but will be engaged any day. ….This would be such an amazing addition to the already happy year we are having.
Pretty much our entire wedding has been planned online or using a computer - all of our research, most of our communication, all of our invitation, favor, and program design have been done with the computer. We’re using our computer to play music at the reception and we’ll be compiling and photoshopping all of our wedding photos instead of having the photographer do it. We’re both graduate students with older computers, so we’ll probably have to replace at least one of them, if not both, in the next year or so.
Oh my goodness. My darling sis-in-law/bridesmaid just had her best friend Mac stolen (ugh! sucks!!) so I would love to win this and give it to her.
I, and by I, I mean WE, would LOVE a new MAC!! I had never even used a Mac until I met her, and now I can say I am fully converted! Adding a new baby Mac to our family would be a great way to pitch/recycle my antique dinosaur PC!!
My fiance is an officer in the US Navy. I will be leaving my job in marketing which I LOVE to move to a different state to be with my new hubby. Although I can’t wait to be with him everyday, it’s completely scary to move to a new city and find a new job (in this economy), before we move again about 10 months after the wedding when he gets transferred to a new duty station. I would LOVE a new Mac to be able to take on some freelance marketing work. This would help us get our marriage and my new job life off to a great start!
My sister is usually the one to set the trends, but for once I did it! We used to have all PC’s but once I got my macbook we were all quickly converted. Now my poor Mac’s getting a little old and I’m not sure how much longer it will last. A new macbook would be a fantastic early wedding present. My sanity and our invites would be very thankful!
My hard drive was lost last week with ALL my hard work. Wedding is 4 months away. Over 300 people invited(big families). 16 bridesmaids and 16 groomsmen on 2 teacher salaries, over 100,000 in student loans and a new house. Trying not to freak out so winning would make the freaking go away.
What a fantastic contest!!! My fiance is a mac lover and his old one from college has seen better days. This would be so amazing for him!
My fiance and I are trying to decide between going on a honeymoon after our wedding…or getting a new mac. Our tight budget and current economy prevents us from doing both. We’re currently leaning toward the mac…but if we win, we can do both!! We’ll even bring it with us…
This is a great contest! I would love to win. I have been trying to create really special and cool DIY invites and other projects, but with an ancient Dell things just don’t seem to come together jjjuuusssstttt right…..Winning this contest would be such a blessing!
I have been dreaming of a new MacBook for years. $1,000 or Office 2008 is pretty freaking sweet too! What a great contest! I’m crossing my fingers
My first computer was a Mac, but I’ve been stuck in PCs for forever–would love to go back! My computer is 11yrs old and I’m ready for a new one. Would be so so thrilled to have a new Mac–I’m moving cross country (from DC to HI) for a new military assignment 2 weeks after our wedding, and my fiance is staying behind. Would love to have something reliable to email him with, and organize all those wedding photos with the extra time I’ll have on my own!
Oh, what a fantastic contest! I can think of so many reasons why I need this thing: my ancient desktop PC takes forever to boot up and has nowhere near enough hard drive space; I love Macs for their graphic design possibilities; my fiancee and I would have another computer for movie editing; I’d have a laptop, which I’ve always wanted!
Long story short, I would just love to win this contest!
I would love to win a Mac because
a) It would be great to use it for all the wedding DIY projects
b) The $1000 gift card would go towards purchasing the Windows Platform for the Mac. Which would be great for my job. Allowing me to remotely access my work computer and provide me with even greater ease to work from home. And because my firm is becoming a Mac company. All project managers have a Mac Laptop & Apple iPhone.
I have the iPhone. Now I need the Mac Laptop!
Thanks so much!
Great contest! My fiance is in desperate need of a new computer, his causes way too much frustration, I don’t know how he deals with it. This would really help us out!
I’m in my second (of ten million) year of grad school with a horribly unreliable, slow computer. Trying to get school work and wedding planning done on it is so frustrating. A new computer would make my life so much easier!
WOW! I would absolutely love to win this! I am currently a graduate student and NEED a light, easily portable laptop to be able to have on campus. Mac’s have SO many amazing features that I would love to take advantage of, but with school, wedding/honeymoon plus moving expenses; buying a new computer is simply not an option right now.
My fiance and I are just finishing up four years of college and have both managed to keep our laptops running for just as long…barely. We back up our hard drives weekly and his computer recently decided it no longer wished to display a toolbar. So when he needs to write a research paper and the like, he needs to keep part of each window showing because he can’t minimize them to said toolbar, it is thoroughly tedious. It would be amazing to have a new laptop. I would become wedding planner extraordinaire!
I would LOVE this. I could make invites, table cards, escort cards, programs, and SOOO much more! Oh man, I hope I win!
I would love a Mac laptop because I am graduating next semester and starting my own event planning business! I have been working with wedding planning and different clients for 2 1/2 years now–but my 9 year dell old laptop just isn’t cutting it with the limited creativity it offers What an awesome giveaway!!
Awesome giveaway! My fiance and I would be ecstatic to win since we are both students - he’s in grad, I’m in nursing for a second degree. We are crazy for attempting this, but the wedding is happening halfway between our schooling and since we’re both taking summer courses, we’re squeezing it into a 2 week break period! Having a MacBook and Office for Mac would make getting some of the wedding details easier since I could work on it outside of home and dare I say - during lecture Please consider us as we could truly use this - before and after the wedding
I have been a mac user since I was a little kid, with one of those little square desktop apples with the green screen. My whole family is full of devoted mac users, and my fiance is ready to convert!!! But… we don’t exactly have the extra money for a nice new mac laptop right now. Help me convert him!!
I would be so thrilled to win this generous giveaway. Our October wedding is a total DIY affair, but my old PC does not have the capacity to handle the kind of stationary design work I would like to do. I would love to upgrade to a Mac, but do not have the financial resources to do so right now. Plus, the $1,000 Visa gift card would cover all of our printing costs! Thanks so much for the opportunity to win.
i am a pc user
and have been wanting to switch to a mac for a long time!
macs are awesome
especially in making home made movies
So exciting!! I am attempting to be a DIY bride, but my stupid Dell doesn’t allow me the creative freedom I so desperately need. I am getting giddy about all the fun, creative projects I could make with my MacBook!
God freakin’ bless the folks over at Macintosh! Look how excited we all are about this possibility. I know I don’t deserve this computer more than anyone else, but the possiblities for DIY projects on a mac are endless. Hmm…here’s a compelling reason: a snazzy computer means I can log on to WeddingBee a hundred times a day and not worry about my laptop crashing??
What a great contest! We’ve been needing a more portable computer for awhile now. It would be a great present for our wedding!
I am a hairstylist and I am self-employed. My fiance and I have been looking around for a laptop to help balance our lives out a little! I need to have a more reliable way to track my expenses and appointments! (Enter Laptop!) Plus, we ahve been trying to find ways to keep our personal finances under control! We feel like a laptop would benefit us in SO many ways! To be able to take it from the Salon to our home would be a great way to keep our personal and professional lives in check! pICK US PLEASE!
Anna and Travis
wedding: 06/06/09
All I can say is WOW! This is one of the most amazing giveaway ever! My fiance and I both need a good working computer really bad! He just crashed his laptop, I’m graduating and planning our wedding which is in the next few months, having a mac means I can do lots and lots of DIY for our wedding and I can definately use this for my job hunting! Thank you weddingbee and Mac!!
I literally just told my fiance that I need my own laptop and then I see this AMAZING contest. Could this contest be the answer to my prayers??? I sure do hope so. I can just imagine making beautiful invitations with this laptop and getting our seating chart organized. I would love to win this prize. Wish me luck!
My fiance and I have been doing everything for our wedding DIY. We’ve created our save-the-dates, invitations, website and soon our table numbers, menus, seating chart, “kissing menu”, signiture drink menu, dessert bar labels, wedding programs and the list goes on and on! We’ll finally have ONE computer that we can store everything on, rather than going back and forth between our church office, his home computer and my home computer (which is definitely running towards it’s end). I love the internet and the resources it’s provided me for wedding planning. I only hope all brides can learn what an awesome planning tool the internet and blogs can be-and it can’t be done without a computer. I’m hoping when my wedding is done I can help my friends and other brides (including my sister) with their DIY projects that involve paper/stationary with the new knowledge I’ve learned by doing ours!
Because we are creating everything ourselves, it would be great to have an awesome MAC and all it’s great tools to use! Thanks for this opportunity!
This is exactly what I would love to have to add some creative elements to our wedding this October. I have been searching for little ways to implement some creativity into our invitations, programs, menus, etc and the Mac with the Microsoft Office suite can help me do just that. The Mac is so versatile when working on creative design projects and would be the perfect thing to help me add my own artistic touch to our wedding details. Plus, Microsoft Office is the perfect tool to keep me organized when dealing with vendors and especially keeping me on budget!
I can’t even fathom all the wonderful, personalized touches I’d be able to create with this amazing gift! I want my weddig have have lots of unique little details and this would certainly help me do that - AND allow me to save a bunch of money, which I could then use on other things I can’t do myself! Thanks for the opportunity!!
My fiance bought a Mac while he was in grad school and it was such a great computer. But it crashed a few months ago, and we have been thinking about investing since then. Given all our other expenses, it’s not feasible. I have been doing most of the paper designs (for menus, place cards, invites, programs, etc) on our old PC using an old version of Illustrator. A Mac would REALLY help me out!!
I would love to win this because I have been without a computer for months. My fiance and I are each fighting over one laptop when we are at home. I usually win since I’m applying for jobs and he already has a job. But we really need two so we can work simultaneously.
Actually, I want to win this computer for my amazing mom. She was recently laid off and is in desperate need for a new computer, but can’t seem to justify going all out for a new one. My fiancee and I will be married in October and plan on moving to London soon after, and it would be just perfect for her to have this so we can video chat from such a far distance.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Because my fiance and I are both writers, we are always vying for computer time. It would be great to have a computer that we don’t fight over!
Huh? Did you guys know that my computer won’t crap out on me yesterday?!?! Weddingbee does know all!!! This prize is AMAZING!
trying to plan a wedding on a tight budget in new york is not an easy feat! a brand new mac & the new microsoft office would be perfect to handle all the little details. and even better that the boy and i would be doing it ourselves!
I want to win this for my maid of honor. She has been through some horrible, horrible stuff in the past year and has been so good to me during that time as a friend, and I can never repay her for that. She’s currently a grad school student and has been working with the same computer since the end of high school (6 years). She and her boyfriend have talked about getting married in the future, and so while I was able to do all my wedding stationery on Office, I want for her to have the choice to do the same…plus organize all the rest of her great big party, when the time comes.
Thanks so much Weddingbee. I’m going to email her now and remind her how much I miss her!
I would use this computer to do all of our invites, signs, ect. My computer is a little outdated and not nearly as awesome at this one is!
Oh wow this awesome! I would totally use the $1000 to buy photoshop to retouch all of my fabulous photos and the computer would be helpful in so many ways especially with Office 2008 as I have no office suite. I adore Macs. I really want to get better at photo editing and Macs are the best computers for that.
We’re so excited to build an awesome DIY wedding complete with photobooth. I’d love to drive the photobooth off of this awesome Macbook.
i am going to grad school in the fall, and i really need a new laptop. my fiance and i have pretty much been freaking out, trying to figure out how we’re going to afford me being in school full-time (after previously being employed full-time), but he’s so amazing because he understands that i have a calling for my field and this is something that i need to do. also, he is a photographer, and having a new mac where he could better run the new version of photoshop would be sooo helpful! our old computer has gotten so slow, it’s nearly impossible to do anything anymore. we love macs and are total mac junkies. please, help us!
I am currently- running my own business, planning my wedding and returning to graduate school this fall! Sharing the old family computer just isn’t working! If I won this little gem, maybe I could actually enjoy all of the things I “love” doing
Wow! This is an incredible contest! I would love to win the computer for my fiance! His current laptop is about to die, with plenty of weird symptoms popping up on a daily basis. I know he’s been lusting after a Mac, but it’s hard to justify the expense when we’ve had to put so much of our savings toward our wedding. Plus, his car died earlier this year, so getting new wheels was another huge expense… Life adds up so quickly!! Although we’ll be getting married this May and won’t be able to use it to design invitations, it would be great to start our new life together with such a top-notch organizational tool. That way we can plan for our upcoming big expenses: a home, a family… Thanks so much!
My fiance recently returned from Iraq and without the MacBooks we wouldn’t have been able to see each other via Skype!! Because we’re from different coasts (NY and AK), we’re planning on throwing 4 different wedding celebration parties in addition to a destination wedding so we can have everyone who’s been there with us through it all to celebrate without breaking their bank! Have tons of ideas for DIY invitations but don’t have the artistic skills to do it on my own!! Neither of us are savvy enough to use our old Mac programs to make our own STDs and Invitations! Great contest!
Because my fiance’s in Washington state working full-time in habitat restoration and applying to grad school while I’m in New York finishing my degree? And that we’re trying to host a three day reunion of all of our close friends at a major gaming convention so that they really enjoy the party?
I’m in Seattle, my fiance’s on Long Island, and we only see each other every other month at the moment. We’ve basically planned out our simple wedding, but it won’t happen until after I start graduate school, so while we originally planned for 2009 it’s looking like we’ll go for 2012. I’m crafting all of the decorations, the invitations are being handwritten by us, I’m hoping to get a thrift store dress and give everyone devil ducks!
Oh, and we’re saving up for it ourselves. $1,000 would definitely help our small budget. Maybe we could bake more cookies for our friends when they arrive.
Because after throwing two wedding receptions since our families live across the country- one starting medical school- and the other just graduating- as well as having to move- we are a little poor. And something like this would be nice.
I would LOVE to win the new MacBook! I could video-chat with my family that lives across the country from me. My old mac does not have software advanced enough for video-chatting….
I would like a new MacBook because I have never used a Mac before and would love to switch over from a PC.
I definitely would love this and want this package because…
I bought HP laptop with Vista last year, and Vista has failed me from the day one. The computer screen turns blue and crashes randomly, even from just surfing the internet. I have a 3 year warranty with tech support, but they would not roll my program back to xp or fix the problem, because it’s the software, not the hardware issue. I’ve had enough!
Also, I am in graphic design program right now,and I’m the only faithful Windows user (for 12 years). They require certain fonts to be used in my typography class, but if I dont have a particular font, nobody can share with me. This could get very expensive, especially for a student considering how much fonts costs.
I know that you can run PC prgrams on Mac these days, and I’m curious to know how well integrated it is.
Lasstly, I am having a destination wedding, and I would love to have Mac Photobooth for my wedding reception. I’m looking forward to taking silly pictures from my friends who I rarely get to see!
I would LOVE to have this! I use Macs only at work and have a dumb PC at home…help me be consistent!
Such a generous giveaway!
The $1000 giftcard would really go a long way for us since our families are on opposite sides of the country and we really struggled with the decision to have the wedding on the west coast. This means some of our family in the east simply can’t afford to be there. I think the $1000 would be best put to use at the second “reception” we are trying to throw in the east. It will really be a pretty modest picnic, but we want to do something nice for them since we know they want to be involved in the wedding and feel bad they can’t make it to the real one. $1000 would really help to make this special for them (especially since the wedding, reception and second reception are coming out of our own pockets).
The computer would be a lovely prize for us to win as well since I will most likely be traveling back out west this summer before the wedding to not only plan the wedding but look for a job. My fiance has to stay in Ohio and work and we may be apart for over a month before the wedding. I could certainly use microsoft office to help me keep my interviews and follow-ups in order and the macbook with the webcam would be wonderful to help us communicate and still feel close while I am away. We’ve been apart for much of my undergrad and hate the thought of being apart again this summer but know its a necessary evil. I have a feeling the webcam would really go a long way in keeping him involved in the planning as well as keeping my heart from breaking since I won’t see him.
There are so many deserving people who are entering, so It’s hard for me to say “we need it more than them”, but it certainly would be nice and make this summer (and beyond) a little easier for us.
Good luck everyone!
I love Macs, and have used them over the past decade. My current iBook is 5 years old (I can’t afford another due to wedding costs) and is on it’s last legs, but I would love a new one. Having looked into getting Microsoft Office 2008, I know I’d be able to organize guest lists, create fantastic wedding invites, place cards, save the date and much, much more - there are lots of fabulous and free templates at http://www.artofoffice.com to poach, which would make wedding planning so much easier. With a faster computer, I’d also be able to spend more time on Wedding Bee - what a glorious prize!
Because I’m working on a 5-year-old eMac that runs so slow I can’t keep up with my favorite wedding blogs, even after installing additional RAM. And hello — I don’t even have Word, not to mention Excel. And lord knows I can’t do ALL my wedding planning from my work machine!
This is an amazing giveaway…almost too good to be true!
I should win because a new computer is greatly needed in our house! I’m attempting to do all of my wedding elements myself… totally fun but a lot of work. Also, my fiance and I have jumped into a business endeavor and are creating our own magazine and a MacBook would be a huge help!
Thanks so much for this offer!!
I just completed all of our STDs and layered (Accommodations/CeremonyReception/RSVP) invitations using Microsoft office and I’m truly inspired! I used columns, tables, downloaded a new font etc. for this project! We are moving in two months and I am working on plans on how to create some great “we’ve moved!” announcements to hand out at our wedding in 5 weeks. I have an older laptop and having a new Mac would be wonderful. I have a studio art degree and would love to go back to school to get a design degree while my husband-to-be is in his residency. A Mac would make the work effortless!
Oh wow! What a great prize package!! I would love to have this; my fiance has already made the jump to the Mac world for work, leaving me behind, jealous, with my old PC that has no CD burner, non-working USB ports, and takes minutes to open up a single program!
i am a total diy wannabe and this would totally help me accomplish all the cute things i’ve ever imagine for my wedding!
I would absolutely love love love to win this. I am planning a wedding within 2 years. We aren’t sure on the date yet, because our finances keep getting in the way. I hope this Mac will keep us organized so we can keep our finances and other things on track for our special day. Also, I am a very busy busy girl. Working full time and go to school full time is rough so I’m rarely ever home. And having a Mac will definitely let me blog whenever and wherever. Its one of my new found passions because I love sharing my thoughts, perceptions, obsessions and objects of affection with the world! Thanks for this opportunity! Hope to hear from you guys soon
My fiance’s PC has totally died on him and will cost a fortune to fix… money that we don’t have with buying a house and wedding planning. He’s never even thought about going to get a new computer and says that having one isn’t worth taking money away from planning our future. So, I’d hand this Mac right on over to him as a wedding gift!
I don’t have a computer at home and I’m trying to make my DIY invitations by staying at work late and coming in early. My fiance is a muscian and his computer is central to the fantastic music he creates, but its on its last legs. I’m so worried that his laptop will give up any day now and we don’t have the money to buy him a new computer.
My little sister could really use this. She is planning a wedding herself AND is studying to be an Event Planner (Wedding Planner). She is about to graduate from college and wants to start her own Event Planning business. This could REALLY help her out. Her current computer sucks. This gift would be AMAZING for her in so many ways!!!!!
Thank you for giving away such a wonderful gift!
Who wouldn’t love a new Mac! I love Mac’s, I love everything about them. I’ve been a fan since the first introduction and I would never go back to a PC. Unfortunately, my little baby’s on her last leg, as I’ve been using and abusing her for the past seven years. I’ve been dying to get a new one with all the wedding planning and the list of DIY projects, but with the cost of the wedding we can’t afford any sort of luxury.
Wallets are tight, especially in this economy, and “dream weddings” are a thing of the past, but $1,000 could definitely go a long way. We’ve had to scrap a lot of ideas as the costs add up. We toggle between sticking to the budget or throwing it on the credit card. But with most of our friends and family coming from out of town to celebrate our big day we’re trying to make it as special and intimate as we can afford… a lot of extra touches means a lot of extra charges on the credit card. Needless to say, we could use a little dough!
My fiance uses his mac to design and create all sorts of goodness. But it’s about to die on him. We’ve been looking at new ones, but can’t afford it right now. Why are jobs so hard to come by? Our wedding is August 1, and this would be such a sweet gift to surprise him with!
This would ROCK! I have been dying to buy a Mac but haven’t been able to afford it. I have such Mac envy of my friends and family.
I’m to be wed to my best friend in May, and both of our laptops are on the edge of breaking down. We’ve had these since college! Although he and I are both hard-core pc fans, we would love to give the Mac Book a go. This would help with all of our budgeting and blogging needs. Budgeting - so much easier to keep track of finances with the computer. Blogging - keep up with blogs and create a blog to chronicle our married life :). Thanks!
This is such a great giveaway! My fiance and I would love to win this! His laptop is starting to die and I know he would love to get a Macbook! And I would absolutely love to use Office 2008 to do our save the dates, invites, and menus. It would help us stretch our budget Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
My parents 9 year old Mac JUST died yesterday (no joke!). I would love to win this contenst so that I could give them a brand new computer. They deserve it. They are amazing parents and have been incredibly supportive and helpful through all of the wedding planning.
This is an amazing giveaway! My fiance has been craving a mac and this would be a great opportunity!
Is this for real? What an incredible giveaway. This would be the most AMAZING gift. My fiance and I are BOTH mac lovers. My current mac was purchased from the school I was attending several years ago and it’s just hanging on by a thread. We are getting married in less than 3 months and have been trying to figure out if we can fit a new mac into our budget…we cannot. We will wait until mine completely crashes. But then came this giveaway…I HOPE HOPE HOPE I win this! Thanks for hosing this fun giveaway!
My fiancee and I are on weddingbee all the time looking at great inspiration from all the bloggers, so this may run me the risk of being caught in a terrible situation if she reads this post (I’ve been avoiding telling her).
Anyway I’m a full time graphic designer during the day and a freelance designer by night, so needless to say I have been designing all of our materials for the wedding on my old shaky laptop and wouldn’t you know it as im about to burn a final disk of art for the printer the hard drive eats it’s self and i LOST EVERYTHING! I know, I know I get the back up speach daily at the office, but at home i don’t think of it too much, but wait that’s not the worst part, on that very same laptop WAS almost half of a completed freelance project (4 months of work) that i’ve been working on to pay off the engagement ring, and now that’s GONE too!
So long sob story short, a new laptop at home would keep me from being at the office all night re-working all the materials for the wedding and my massive freelance project, and the $1,000 would surly help with paying off her ring, but for let’s just hope she skims right over this post, if she doesn’t… Sorry sweetheart!
would love to win this! i’ve been wanting one for awhile, but macs plus software can add up very fast! I hope to build our wedding website using the mac. As well as designing invites, programs, name cards, menus, and well everything i can diy!
I believe I should win this package because although I have the skills and passion for DIY design, I don’t have the resources.
Due to company policy I cannot download any software to my work computer and I don’t have a personal computer or laptop at home. I have been borrowing my brother’s laptop when he visits and working on the only program I have access to, Paint, to create my Save The Dates.
Having this suite and a laptop of my very own would make wedding planning a lot less time consuming for me.
a new mac book would allow us to use our own computers at the same time, i could read wedding blogs and he could read sports blogs. it would be a wonderful addition for wedding planning and easy to take around when we travel. thank you for the opportunity to win this awesome prize.
macs are just mad cool and i needs me one
Wow my PC is moments away from death - and it was going to be our DJ! A new Macbook would be fabulous, we just don’t have the money for one right now. Oh and how helpful would that software be - our DIY invitations, menus, etc, are more stressful than anticipated to design, so this would help for sure! The $1000 would allow us to relax our budget a bit (another stress reducer!!). Ooo, and my FI could work from home on it, since the work he does requires a Mac. What bride wouldn’t love that!
I love the notion of hand-made wedding items. However, I don’t like that “made it myself” look. With the right tools, really beautiful things, that appear professional, but feel personal, are very possible. This is a fantastic prize to get those creative juices flowing. Thanks for the opportunity.
Well… there are several reasons why we need this lovely prize:
•Chris likes Macs so much that he plans on getting the trademark apple as a tattoo sometime in the future. (I could continue with a laundry list of things that illustrate his enthusiastic devotion to Macs but I think that you).
•Our hand-me-down mac laptop died about 2 weeks ago (after living a very long and fruitful life) and we are still grieving the loss.
•All of our wedding preparations started on a mac and they should continue on a mac
•We enjoy creating things together- We would love the $1,000 to spend on supplies for our DIY wedding projects and we would love the Macbook or software to help make our next DIY project, (hanging leaf-shaped place cards for our wedding).
•We are both full-time students who could really use computers and money.
• Chris has never won anything in his entire life and I imagine that when he does eventually win something that he will do a really dorky celebration dance.
• If either of us had been asked what the prize is that we could imagine winning we both would have said, without hesitation, a mac laptop and money.
-Kerrie & Chris
(sorry to repeat I couldn’t edit and resubmit)
Well… there are several reasons why should win this lovely prize:
•Chris likes Macs so much that he plans on getting the trademark apple as a tattoo sometime in the future. (I could continue with a laundry list of things that illustrate his enthusiastic devotion to Macs but I think that you get the idea).
•Our hand-me-down mac laptop died about 2 weeks ago (after living a very long and fruitful life) and we are still grieving the loss.
•All of our wedding preparations started on a mac and they should be completed on a mac
•We enjoy creating things together- We would love the $1,000 to spend on supplies for our DIY wedding projects and we would love the Macbook or software to help make our next DIY wedding project, (hanging leaf-shaped place cards for our wedding).
•We are both full-time students who could really use computers and money.
• Chris has never won anything in his entire life and I imagine that when he does eventually win something that he will do a really dorky celebration dance.
• A mac computer and $1,000 are the best prizes that either of us could have hoped for.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Because Im a MAC and not a PC!
Because I love garageband for all my original music masterpeices!
Because I LOVE that cool web cam they build in!
Because MAC’s are the thing in the world, the computer and kissing (my mom calls kissing, getting Mac lol)
Because me and my fiance are still poor college students, who fight over my laptop now
BECAUSE we cant WAIT to get married even if we will be soooooo poor
Thanks for a shot Wedding Bee
We should win this contest because if we rely on our borrowed PC to accomplish wedding related tasks and projects, we may be forced to delay the wedding date.
Please pick me. I love getting creative but with a sony computer than is now 9 years old and has no graphic software, no photoshop - it is very hard to work on my own stationary. I actually thought about purchasing a Mac after we got engaged but after budgeting out this wedding which we are paying for solo and with what this economy did to my field (real estate) - I just could not do it. I would love to be able to design out programs and placecards and to edit photos. This would be a blessing. I have never owned a MAC but my graphic designer friend swears by hers. Plus, I could use the gift card to get an awesome printer to make all my DIY dreams happen. What better way to personalize your wedding than to create your paper items yourself! I am also trying to redirect my careeer - maybe I could take a few classes on the Mac and help others with their wedding! Please pick me for this great win!
Wow! This giveaway would benefit my soon to be husband as he works on his PhD… not to mention cutting wedding costs and easing the move to a new city that will hit RIGHT after the wedding.
We would absolutely love to win this prize, because my fiance is a die-hard Mac user, and I’m a die-hard PC! I was supposed to start a new job in a few months, but it has now been pushed back until January because of the economy. We are paying for the wedding ourselves, so we are doing almost everything DIY. We did our wedding website on his Mac, which turned out to be amazing! We would love to be able to do our stationery ourselves too. This software would be perfect. AND with Office for Mac we would finally be able to email documents back and forth to each other without totally screwing up the formatting.
Thanks for such an amazing contest!
I would love to win this giveaway! My laptop has been with me for a while now. You can even see the shiny spots on the laptop where my hands rest when I type. The characters on the keys are all fading and I have to use a power plug because the battery won’t last longer than 5 minutes. Every time I open the laptop, I have to pop back in pieces of the frame since the hinges pull them apart. Since we are scanning our own baby photos and putting the slide show together, I would love to use Apple’s editing tools. The Mac would be great for designing the programs, menus, place cards, and all the other paper crafts we still need to do. Plus having computer to keep our spreadsheets in would be great!
We’d love to win this because a Mac could help tackle the more creative parts of our planning.
I’m helping mu bestie with her plans for next summer. I’ve done so much internet footwork that I’ve worn out my “Apple” key! Keep me planning!
Great contest — my fiance and I have pc’s that die. regularly. we’ve been jonesing for a mac, especially since they seem great for design-y things like save the dates, invitations, etc.
Because I’m…..
A) Starting graduate school in the fall
B) Planning a wedding and would love the computer and software to keep me organized
C) I would look so hip!
Thanks!
My fiance and I are both in school, and his computer is AWFUL and basically dead I would LOVE to get him a new computer since he needs one sooo bad and needs any easy one to use (MAC would be PERFECT!)…but since I’m in school AND paying for a wedding, there’s just no way. We have already made our own Save-the-Dates using Microsoft Publisher and plan do do our own programs and more! A new computer would more than motivate us to get to work!
My fiance and I are gearing up for a lot of big changes; we are planning a wedding we are paying for ourselves, moving across the state and my honey is quitting his job to go back to school for a more meaningful career as a social worker. When he quits his job he will need to return the laptop his office lent him and will be going back to school computerless! This prize would be AMAZING, and help us start our new life as newlyweds on better financial footing!
Dear Weddingbee,
Here is why my fiance and I should be your pick over all the other lovely deserving brides and grooms to be…
1) we currently share a mac, which won’t be so fine and dandy after i go back to grad school in August!
2) oh, office 2008 for mac, how i long to take advantage of your DIY applications…i’ve got ideas for invitations, ceremony programs, and placecards just longing to be given life!
3) the fiance just started working as a music PR rep - a web-based job he took so he could move with me from portland to new york so i could attend the masters program of my dreams! but like i said…just one computer between us.
4) he’ll be splitting time between nyc and portland because his band is portland based, or they’re on the road touring…these soon to be newly weds would love to be able to skype with each other during those times apart!!! can’t do that with just one computer…
Thanks! So! Much!
This would be sweet!! My laptop is an old Toshiba and is almost dead…Half the time I need to restart it a few times just to get a program to work.. I would love this!!!
As a “layman” bride-to-be (with no design or IT background), I have loved finding out a variety of ways to use Microsoft Office programs for our wedding DIY projects. So far, I’ve tried creating simple graphics (using their Draw tools in Word), typing and laying out the text for our programs, and keeping track of a budget and the guest list in Excel. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of Mac-based wedding projects that I would love to try out (if given a chance to get my own MacBook–my dream of buying a MacBook had to be put on hold in favor of paying for our own wedding and routing funds to get us by through this recession). I would love to take a crack at some of the projects I’ve seen other Weddingbee brides make! I would like to try creating a wedding website using iWeb, a DIY blog using blog.mac, and a guest book (and maybe a photobook for after the wedding) using iPhoto. Thank you Weddingbee and Mac for this contest–it’s surely a God-send (keeping my fingers crossed!).
My fiance & I will be having a very simple wedding(totally DIY) and we need all the help we can get. He got laid off from work after he bought the engagement ring and we just had a baby. I am on maternity leave and the majority of it is unpaid. So this prize would be such a great help! And it would be so appreciated!
because my fiance’s computer and camera were stolen!
Because my laptop died and I just bought the Adobe suite so I can play with designs! All I need is a good computer! Now I have to squeeze my practice design time in the few minutes that my fiance isn’t working on his school computer.
I would be so elated! Please choose me!
HUGE Mac fan and always will be! Though I love my current set up it’s sadly out of date and this would be a fantastic upgrade. I’m a designer and do tons of freelance work from my home. This lovely laptop would make working that much more enjoyable and convenient.
oh! because I went diy crazy on this wedding and completely relied on Microsoft Office on my mac. . . right up until my poor macbook died of unknown causes. Fortunately, I’d sent the files to my Mom and she was able to resurrect them when it came time to print everything out! Please, please, pick me!!
This computer would be a tremendous asset to me for my work as a wedding planner! MACs offer so many programs for people working in creative services and this would take me to the next level. Thanks for having this contest and for creating such a great resource for weddings!
i would love a new laptop b/c i just dropped and broke mine.
my fiancee has been begging me for a new macbook for the longest time now because her powerbook is now so slow and ancient (she has spent many a night crying in frustration from all the extra wedding stress her computer has given her). i would loove to buy her a new one, but our budget is tight as it is with the wedding and all. she would be so happy if i could surprise her with this!
I should win this giveaway because I am 5 months away from my wedding, realizing the “budget” is not going to cut it, and doing most of the planning myself, and to top it off, my computer just got a virus and died!!!!! I need H E L P. And winning this contest is just the help I need!!!
Oh wow, what an amazing contest! $1000 would pretty much double our wedding budget, and a new Mac would be invaluable starting grad school in the fall - education that my fiance and I decided was more important than our dream wedding, hence the meager budget!
What an incredible contest! Winning this Mac would mean so much to us. We are huge Mac fans and broke grad students. We would be so grateful.
OMG! Someone came into our house and took almost everything that we worked so hard for. Winning the laptop will mean so much to us, with a cry. Planning on a low budget money, but then at the same time I am scrabbling pennys to see that I get atleast a wedding for a chance. The $1000 would be a blessing to us and we can even use it towards our reception.
I need this because my laptop is slowly dying. A cabbie dropped it last year and the screen is a little messed up, but I’ve managed to keep it alive until now. Lately, it’s been refusing to start up and I’m worried I’ll have to buy a new one after only 3 years! I’m also a poor student, so any amount of thousands of dollars is supremely welcome. I have to eat!
I would love to have this MacBook and the money because I am just starting my own wedding planning company in a bad economy with few resources. I’ve been using my personal laptop so much that most of its hard drive is full of pictures for my blog (www.triedandtrueweddings.com) and I really need a computer I can devote solely to my company. Plus the programs would be such an asset to my business development and design of so many materials for my clients. So if I get this, really I’ll be helping so many women out there get married, not just myself.
Wow, this is such a great promotion. Thanks so much! I currently have an ibook G4 –it’s been so great these past 4 years, but lately, it’s been a bit ill. I would LOVE a new MacBook. My ibook can’t handle the design software I’m using to create my wedding suite. And the whole Microsoft Office suite would be so very useful! I have all my labels, stickers, etc to format. As with all DIY brides, I use my computer for everything — research, design, and blogging! I’d be so grateful to have a new, Office equipped MacBook. Thanks again!
My fiance has been talking about getting a MacBook and now I’m wanting to convert to Mac too! I am all about DIY with our wedding and he’s been wanting to learn how to use photoshop to fix up pictures and create other nifty projects!
If you pick us, we’ll share our crazy love story with you! How crazy is it you ask? Well, our very first kiss will be at the altar…that’s right folks! Not even a kiss on the hand! =)
I’ll be starting my first year of law school a month after we get married and have been running my laptop into the ground through a deadly combination of undergrad term papers & attempts at DIY wedding projects. My fiance just graduated so, like so many people right now, we’re trying to conserve money. A new laptop would be of use not only in beginning my legal education, but also in finally reaching the level of creativity and gorgeosity (yes, gorgeosity) I hope to have for our programs, our thank-you cards, and several smaller projects.
My fiance used to work for Apple! Before I met him, I was a PC girl all the way. Now we are a couple made in Mac heaven.
Times are definitely hard and I’ve been going back and forth for years about purchasing a MAC. I love graphic design and would love to do more freelance work, but without a great computer to use…I have to work around staying late at the office and coming into work on the weekends at my office to finish all the wedding projects I daydream about each night! This win would be such a blessing!
We should win this giveaway because my fiance and I are awesome. Mac’s are awesome. Seems like a perfect match
Well, we should win, because we don’t NEED anything. My fiance, Aaron, has transformed the way I view money the past year. I am a sale-addict, a spend-a-little-here sort of consumer, never really dropping down my school debt, and never really saving. He’s shown me how freeing it can be to go a whole day without spending any money, how not being a slave to my money allows me to really invest in worthwhile purchases! And so, purchases such as a Mac are much more likely in the long run. And I would love to get him something better than his current PC, which crashes constantly and lost all our pictures from our first year of dating.
Well… Where do I start? I stopped using macs when I was 12 because I started assembling my own computers. Then I started working for a company last year that only uses Microsoft products to build/design/and run our products, and it is so frustrating to me when we run into the problems weather it is with windows or the pc itself.
Now my old lap top is dying and so is my finance’s (hers is a mac, mine is an IBM) and I am ready to convert back to to light side. I just want a computer that works and is reliable.
Oh and did I mention that I will need it to finish our invitations, yes I am the soon to be husband making our invitations with GIMP.
I am a MAC.
I am recently engaged.
I am a DIY kinda girl.
My puppy recently knocked my current lap top off the desk and I can now see its insides from the outside.
I am taking the bar exam this summer.
I love editing other friends wedding videos, and can’t wait to do my own.
I love making picture books!
We need a computer then we can rely on to play our music at the reception!
We are getting married, so it would be helpful with that but more importantly we live in a small mountain town where our major link to the outside is our computer which is super slow. We would love to have a faster computer and the extra money would help us buy a much needed new bed!
Always been a mac user, and was SOOO happy when Microsoft and apple started to work together!!! what a team!!!
So, what is more important than compatibility in organizing/planning/and streamlining a wedding….not much! But doing it in style NEVER hurt!
Bring this beautiful unity into mine, please!!
i fell in love with Mac’s after my school/work (i’m a teacher) converted all of our desktops to Mac computers. my laptop broke after 6 years of everyday use and so i’ve been using the school computer to do all my wedding related research and DIY paper stuff. it’s pretty sad when my 8th graders see bouquets and invite samples mixed in during their class slideshow! i would love to be able to use this package for my summer wedding, AND for work-related things as well. what teacher couldn’t use a new laptop and office suite?
Because I’m getting married and throwing off the fetters of my job, moving across the country and finding a job in New York. Because I hope more than anything that we can make it in that frantic metropolis. Because every rare once in a while, something so spectacularly random and so flabbergastingly magnificent happens to the most unsuspecting of us.
My current laptop is dying and my fiance’s only holds about 45 minutes of battery! I have a desktop from 2001 that works but can’t load just about everything on the internet so I’d love to have a working computer!
As for Office, I do tons and tons of Powerpoint for work and often have to stay late or borrow a work laptop to get things done since my computer can’t handle it. As much as I love the idea of OpenOffice it just isn’t the same in a professional capacity.
we should win this amazing package because it will allow me to do my DIY wedding invitations using MS office (which i have been a fan and supporter of since grade school (writing papers)) and have been a fan of the apple computer also since i was in grade school (played stickybear typing with an Apple IIgs which taught me how to type!) it would be an awesome blessing for my fiancee and i, as well as our 20 month old daughter in the years to come, especially since we cannot afford a computer on our own- maybe she’ll learn to type on the macbook and will write her school papers with MS office! (i’m getting WAY to ahead of myself) thanks!
Because my fiance has been lusting after my mac ever since we met…if i win this one, I can finally give it to him
It would be great to win this because my laptop is practically dead (screen’s out, runs terribly slow, and shuts down quickly after starting it because it overheats). My fiance has to use her laptop all the time because of school, so hers has taken a lot of wear and tear as well. It would be nice for us to have a great Mac to rely upon… it would be much better than my Toshiba (for what it’s worth anymore) and her Vaio which has had quite a lot of use for the past few years.
My FI and I are on a super tight budget and we don’t have a home computer. I’ve been doing all my wedding research and planning on his work laptop. Because of your tight budget I’m planning on doing just about everything DIY! I just need a computer to make it all happen! I’m not able to download any programs on his work laptop (photoshop, etc.) so I’m not sure how this will be possible with out winning this MAC !!
it would be great to win a MAC!! - my fiance is writing his thesis and in the few moments that he’s not staring at that screen of our slow PC, i jump in to do wedding-related stuff. my sister has a mac - i have mac-envy…
I am in grad school and my computer is about to give out at any moment. I am thinking about converting to a mac but can’t afford to right now with school and the upcoming wedding costs (5 weddings to attend this year in addition to my own!) I would also LOVE to play around with creating my own invites and this computer would be great!
I’ve recently moved from Australia to Canada in order to be with my fiancee. After paying for air ticket, visa and insurance, I could not afford to ship any items to Canada. I could only bring what did not exceed my luggage allowance.
My computer was one of the items I had to leave behind.
Having my own computer would make it much easier to communicate with friends and family at home through the wonders that are Facebook, MSN Messenger and e-mail. I have access to computers at work, but it’s not always possible to talk about private matters with friends and family when you’re worried your boss is peering over your shoulder!
Plus, as we are having a small, budget DIY wedding, it would be fantastic to make our own invitations. Along those lines, I would use the prepaid Visa card to pay for the wedding or the fees associated with permanently immigrating to be with my fiancee.
i would love to win this! im a cake maker and my fiance is just starting out as a photographer, this would be great for us! fingers crossed.
I would like to win this first of all, because my fiance and I are paying for our own wedding, trying to keep everything budget-friendly. We’re choosing to do an iPod wedding instead of hiring a DJ, and I’ve heard that using an actual Mac computer is a better option than an iPod, because the screen is bigger and you can switch up songs more easily or even download guest requests on the spot. It’s our dream to have a Mac for our wedding, but with saving every penny for our big day, it’s just not in our budget!
I’m also going back to school to get my master’s degree in web design, so this baby would get a ton of use for both fun AND scholarship.
This would be great for organizing wedding plans, making our own invitations, and to use long after the wedding!
A MAC would be extremely helpful in creating our favors, keeping track of our budget, and basically everything else! Especially since our desktop just went kaput!
I would love to have a new computer that could make my life so much easier at school!
… becauseeee I’m a graduate student in need of a new laptop! My current PC is useless, breaks down every few months and it’s costing me so much money to fix! I’ve heard wonders about MACs. It would make my life so easy right now! There are so many ways in which this could help me with school and upcoming work and even planning for my wedding (still 2 years from now but hey, the early bird gets the worm!). I would be utterly happy if I won this, it would mean so much! Oh and my fiance shares my laptop with me too. lol. So it’s pretty difficult when we both have assignments to do (he’s also in graduate school!).
Winning would be wonderful for anyone! For me in particular, not only would it allow me to design my own wedding stationery with a snap (engaged Dec. 1st!!!) it would also help me finally fully launch my line of custom invitations that I have been dabbling in for what seems like forever! Having recently moved in with my fiance to help take care of his 5 nieces and nephews he has custody of, this computer would also be a homework helper. Macs are superior machines, hands down!
Less worry about viruses! I know many girls who planned their DIY stationary, guest info, and pretty much everything else and lost everything, something you rarely hear about with a MAC. I am a teacher and just starting to plan my wedding. I will be making my own invites, STD’s, thank yous, and of course, will be making a wonderful slide show of all my pics, which I hear, is totally easy with a MAC (and I can’t forget about the fun-fun-fun- graduate school work it would be a great help with). After viewing all the artistic things you can create, I am ready to throw this Dell out the window and hopefully will get the chance to prove my students right, that MAC’s totally rock!
I was raised on Mac’s from my dad’s influence. When my boy saw me cry after the logic board in my powerbook failed, he spent hours on ebay searching for the perfect replacement. When the first choice was never shipped, he got a refund and started all over again. Totally unbeknown to me, he had spent months working on this and then one day, managed to sneak it into our apartment and surprise me with it, totally randomly. Sadly, it was an ebay purchase and it is slowly losing reliability.
I’m so excited to be getting married to such a great guy, winning this prize would really help us out on our tight budget and with our lives into the future.
Yay great prizes!
I would have thought this contest was part of your April Fool’s Day shenanigans (that fake Bee fooled me!) because it’s just too much. This is a long shot, but you can’t win if you don’t try! This prize would be my own personal wedding planner as it would keep me organized and inspired!
We would love to have a laptop not only for everyday use but then I could access wedding details no matter where I am. When you on a very tight budget the more information you have with you the better. It’s so much easier to compare prices of everything with spreadsheets.
Instead of using my big pink wedding planning binder I would love to use a laptop. I think my fiancee would be open to carrying it around, there’s no way he would ever touch my binder. We could compare colors easily, and pull up endless spreadsheets. We plan on making our own invitations, programs, and escort cards so the Microsoft office program would be great.
The $1000 gift card would help us more than you could know. Our budget is only 4k so that would mean we could get a caterer and invite my second cousins. I have over 40 second cousins who are all children. We just couldn’t invite them because of our budget. We love them and want them at our wedding.
We have always wanted a personal laptop and both have never owned a mac. We love the operating system but it’s always out of our price range. This would be amazing to win and to own.
Oh goodness. I FINALLY graduate next week with my masters (YAY!), and my poor powerbook has been dropped more times than I can count, and whirs and screams through most classes. I have convinced it to stay alive until after graduation, but I’m not quite sure how many days she has left.
Now that I’m graduating and trying to get a real job, a REAL computer would be SO SO great! My photog hobby would flourish, too!
I would LOVE to win this. I’m getting married next year, and as finances are tight, I really want to make my own invitations and other stationary. Also, I want to create a video of us to show during the rehearsal dinner.
I’ve always been a die-hard PC girl, but now I’m thinking I could be a convert. I AM more like the MAC guy than the PC guy!
I am in terrible need of a new laptop! My HP finally surrendered and can no longer boot herself. Lucky my honey is a computer Geek and new enough to back up all my data onto his external hard drive just incase this happened, or in case I deleted it to myself!
I would love to win the Macbook with Microsoft Mac Office plus the $1,000.00 card for so many reasons. I’ve just started my photography business and could use all the help I can get. My current laptop I think is ready to die on me (just bought a new battery). And, I’m planning on doing a lot of my own business and wedding stationary. Plus I’ve always wanted a MAC just haven’t been able to afford one. I know it would be so much better for my photography than my PC! Thank you for posting this awesome prize!
Shortly after the love of my life asked me to marry him, I thought we were sitting down to have one of those talks about how we planned on raising our children (when that day comes). Most couples have the talk about which religion or religions we plan on raising our children with, but not my man. He wanted me to agree that we were going to raise our children with MAC computers rather than PC. Being a PC girl all my life, I admit this was a difficult talk to have. But in the end I agreed. Our children were going to be raised in a MAC household. I have yet to actually follow through and use a MAC since I still am plugging away on my tired PC until its very very last breathe. But every and each time I look over with sad eyes for my man to ‘fix’ my computer from some problem or another… he just reminds me of my ultimate promise to him. I would love to win this prize because the look on his face if he were to see me with a MAC one day… would be akin to the face I made when I first saw that ring. Thanks for the opportunity!
oh my goodness because we don’t have much money to splurge anywhere and this would help us out like crazy!
My fiance has been eye-ing a Mac for a year now, but it’s just not in the budget with the wedding. A prize like this would be great not only to complete our invitations, but keep track of our budget, costs, and keep up on the many ideas on weddingbee.com!
I would love to win this for my fiance so she wouldn’t have to complain about her crappy laptop anymore
i’ve dropped my current macbook so many times…it’s beat up and looking to retire!
I would LOVEEEE to win this macbook! I would use it to contact Steve Jobs and thank him for inventing the macbook for me to win. I would then dance around singing sMACk that, you know the song by Akon? Except I would change the words to “Don’t sMACk my mac on the floor, don’t sMACk my mac NO MORE!” Just because I love to sing when I’m excited! I would use some of the $ on itunes. People PLEASE don’t steal your music, that’s thieving! Oh and I would use the macbook to peruse weddingbee too, of course
I desperately need a new laptop, especially considering the zillion DIY projects I have planned! The Microsoft Word 2008 would be super helpful in order to be compatible with our computers at work, and to help me with some of my projects (for example, I plan to make table numbers in PowerPoint and table name cards using Word). On top of that, I desperately need the Excel to keep track of my guest list and budget! Thanks so much, Mrs. Bee!!!
Simply because I decided that my love for my fiance was greater than my love for my Mac and therefore let him take it back to School with him over 4 hours away from me. Then he proposed, and I have been left to do all of my DIY on my work pc!
because i’m a writer, and he’s a musician, and both of us direly need a Mac for our work!! Mac has the best programs for recording music (for him) and any starving writer in a starbucks knows you’re not a writer until you write on a Mac (for her). We’ve never been able to afford one due to school, and now a wedding - and if we could’ve gotten away with it, we 100% would have registered for a Mac and accessories (family input got in the way of that one). We love our plates and duvets, but there’s a hole in our hearts where only a Mac will fit. Like a prince riding in on a noble steed, one day our Mac will come!
same as my fiance above, all we’ve ever wanted - besides each other - is a Mac. Looking forward at our finances, its going to be a long, long time before we’ll reach that goal - unless we win one!
Oh wow, we definitely need this! Our computers are all over-burdened and badly in need of replacements!
My fiance has been eyeing a Mac. Right now she’s struggling designing with our old PC. A Mac would make our lives so much easier and you cant go wrong with $1000 towards something in our wedding bill!
Because I keep lusting after Macs and then talking myself out of it because PCs are cheapier. But not as sexy (sigh)
because my boyfriend-the-teacher received a pink slip and will have to return the school laptop he uses!!!
This would be such an amazing gift to win! I am beginning the process of starting my own photography business, but my old laptop is dying and I don’t exactly have the money to spend on a Macbook. It’s really difficult to edit photographs on my current SLOW slow slow one, and that makes the business aspect a little frustrating!
Winning this prize would really be a relief to us right now, and would help us out in our new life together!
What an amazing contest!
This laptop would mean so much to my fiance, whose computer routinely makes a deathly sound and crashes while he’s in the middle of doing something (often, wedding related, like securing group hotel rates — he’s such a good guy!). I have a beautiful MacBook that I received as a graduation gift, but he’s working on my 6-year old Toshiba and it just isn’t cutting it! He’s also trying to get into working as a casting director and it would be amazing for him to have a laptop he could take to work!
This would be a wonderful gift as I have a computer that I have to use for school, but my fiance could use the access to pursue a teaching job for next year!
whoa! this is amazing! fiance and i could REALLY use this! because we’ll both still be in school when after we get married, we are and will remain broke as a joke for quite sometime. this would be a huge blessing for us!
S-W-E-E-T Deal!!!
Because I’m a mac but the fiance is a PC, and he needs to get on bandwagon!
Plus, raise your hand if you’re a poor college student, (hand rising)!
Because my current computer is so old it’s about to self-destruct ! And what better way to relieve wedding planning stress then to get organized with a fabulous looking new laptop!
I love Macs!! I had one a couple years ago, but gave it to my brother because he really needed a computer. And I miss it so much!
I’ve never owned my own computer, believe it or not! I just got laid off from my job and was relying on using my work computer after hours to design my invitations, but that’s no longer an option. Winning a new MacBook would make things a whole lot less stressful!!
My fiance and I would love to have this MacBook. I’m in my final year in college. He is trying to get back into school. Together we have five children who all need a computer. Due to final hardships the we currently don’t have one therefore all online communication goes on via my cell phone. Can you say teeny tiny screen?
As far as our wedding goes. It will be a complete DIY down to the invitations and programs. This would TOTALLY come in handy. Not to mention keeping me on budget! Hope I win… THanks
Why should I win? I’m probably no more qualified than anyone else looking to win free stuff…BUT I have yet to venture into the world of the MAC for the simple reason….I can’t afford it. It’s a simple luxury that husband and I simply can’t afford after buying our house, paying for our wedding, vet bills galore, and parental thank you gifts that included an all inclusive vacation package on our credit cards because our parents have raised us to be such wonderful people. So while I’ve heard wonderful things about the MAC I haven’t been able to afford the luxury…this would make all our sacrifices so worthwhile! *crossing fingers
because both of our computers make strange noises when we boot them up- we’re SO over pc’s
I currently have a brick for my laptop. A new computer would be very nice!
Because I dont have a computer. I only use my husbands MAC computer whenever he’s not using it. Plus we are trying to start a part-time business and winning these cool stuffs would be a good start for us.
I may be the only man doing this. Here goes.
Because I’m using a sleepy old PC that sometimes operates verrrry verrry slowly. And I cant afford a new one.
We would LOVE to do our own designing of invites, programs, monograms but have no idea what to do since we do not own a MAC. Being able to design these things would put a much more personal touch on the wedding.
Being a recent grad, having a Masters and still being unemployed sucks major rays of sunshine. Having a new mac would be amazing. I’d use to look for jobs, revamp my CV, find freelance work for my writing, work on writing my second novel (hello, Office for mac!) and of course i’d use it for wedding inspiration and projects! And the $1k? Ahhhhmazing!
thatwemightfly AT gmail DOT com
What a great prize! I think my fiance and I should win because I’m still a poor student who wants to switch to Mac, but can’t afford to do so! I love the aesthetic and the ease of use, but I just can’t afford the actual switch!
My MacBook works just fine- but my fiancé has been coveting my Mac for months ever since I got it last year.
He has a PC that tends to cause him headaches with viruses- and always jokes about switching his PC with my Mac.
I love my Macbook too much to make the switch!
But this year with the help of weddingbee, I hope to get him the ultimate birthday present he will love! ☺
AHHH! What an AMAZING prize!! i am a macLOVER and it would be helpful for sooo many things, especially since cash is tight! I would use it for DIY projects, music, powerpoint presentations for fellowship (since i’m working on educational presentations practically every month), photos…i could go on and on! It would be helpful to have a laptop where I could take it out so i wouldn’t be stuck at home working on the presentations! I would LOVE IT!!
Ohhh I’d love to win! You can pick me because I’m not engaged but I STILL check out wedding/bride blogs all the time. Feel sorry for me and pick me! LOL
Thanks for the chance to win!
Everytime I buy a laptop, it dies shortly after. But when people give me laptops (as a teacher) they last forever, even when they are ten years old! It would be great to be able to work on the guest list or programs wherever I am, without worrying about transferring between computers and platforms (my home is PC, school is all Mac).
I’ve had my laptop since 2004 and it is making a lot of noise these days. I back it up every day.
I made my favor tags and mailing labels in word and I maintain my guest list and budget in excel. I would put this suite to use right away. I also plan on helping my friends with their future wedding planning as well as housewarming and even baby announcements.
Thanks!
I would love to win this for me and my fiance!
We would love to win this awesome computer! My fiance was laid off from his job, and since we have decided to be silver-lining people, he is now going back to school at 37 to get his degree in his true love…computer networking. We have had several visits to the
Apple store to swoon and wish. Please pick us!!
My fh and I would love this so much! We have a passion for photography and we don’t have the resources to make this passion become more than just a hobby.
Wedding planning would be a breeze with a mac!!
Being a student theres no way I would be able to afford a mac either right now.
This is an amazing contest and we would totally love this computer!…we are still making do on relics that can’t fit any more pictures or files. I had consigned myself to do the programs during my lunch hour at work or with paid time at kinkos.
My fiance would love the opportunity to have a brand new Mac with Office 2008 as her current computer is a 1997 Gateway which freezes up on her almost every day. My fiance Elizabeth has spent the last seven years of both undergraduate and graduate school with her archaic computer and forced to complete all her research single handedly at the library.
It is a large understatement to say that a brand new Mac computer would be a significant improvement to my fiance’s current computer. More importantly however, a new computer would be an enormous luxury that would help her not only with work, but also with her daily life and tasks.
Thank you for your consideration!
Jon
A DIY Girl needs a Mac for all of her projects! Apple computers are perfect for those looking for a creative edge!
I would love to have this because after 5+ years of grad school (plus my fiance is in school too) I need a new computer and don’t know how I can afford one! And I am excited to do DIY projects for our December wedding!
I would love to have a MAC to do my design work such as the map, programs, and placecards. Office 2008 will help me get organized with my budget and rundown for the whole planning process. After the wedding, I can use the MAC to create my albums as I’m only getting digital images from my photographer. All this is much better done on a MAC than a PC.
I would love to win this Mac because my husband and I are moving to Chicago (he is going to business school there) and I will be doing all my work from home so I really need to update my computer. Since I do a lot of artsy stuff on my pc, I’ve heard that macs are great for that kind of stuff.
My fiance is sorely in need of a new laptop (and a new car), but the money just isn’t there right now. We’re still in the beginning stages of planning, but a new Macbook and Mac Office would be super helpful for research and designing invites, etc.
We’re in the beginning stages of planning our wedding as it’s not until June 2010, but we’re already getting concerned about how much everything is going to cost. I’m extremely tech savvy but being held back by slow as molasses pc. This suite would allow me to express my creative tendencies and create our invitations, save the dates, programs, and table cards. Thanks!
my poor hubs’ (DELL) laptop is on it’s last leg, go figure, and he’s just about to finish up his last semester of law school - and we’re just praying it doesn’t crash before he goes to take the CA bar in July (3 days before our 1 yr anniversary)!
plus the new software would help me with my business which caters to the wedding industry!
thanks for the FANTASTIC give away!
What a wonderful giveaway!! My fiance and I both just got into grad school and are in desperate need of a new computer! I have an ancient PC (it was refurbished when I bought it 6 years ago), and he has a 5 year old mac pro. I will need a laptop to take with me to class, but buying a new one before we move is not going to be financially possible. We would be most grateful!
Wow! My daughter is on this site all the time. She tells me all about it! When this giveaway came up she couldn’t wait to tell me about it! She is graduating from college in May, looking for a job, and planning her wedding. I am so proud of her. She is very creative and wants to design her own invitations for her big day. A new computer would help her immensely. She is graduating with a degree in graphic design and will also need a new computer to help her with her life after the big Wedding Day! She would be using it all the time and I am sure her word of mouth would make your website even more popular! Please consider a plea from a loving mother!
Wow! This is such a generous giveaway! I have always loved the stylish Mac family of products, and was fortunate enough to be spoiled on them in college. (The creative juices just seem to flow better on them!)
I won’t go into a sob story — because I feel my fiance and I are quite fortunate in our current positions. Sadly, we just don’t have the sort of flexible spending that would allow for such a beautiful addition to the fam.
However, I would be most grateful if we were selected as it would certainly help with the creation of our personal monogram, wedding site, and tracking of the guest list and budget. Heck, it might even get him excited to help out! (A girl can dream can’t she? :-P)
Are you kidding me?! I am looking at buying a new Mac and printer…this would be PERFECT! I have an OLD Mac laptop (about 7 years old) and need to upgrade. Plus the boy cluttered it with all his music.
Because my work involves a lot of graphic design and I don’t, tragically, own a Mac. I may be the first and last designer who can say this.
This is such an awesome contest! okay, here I go…
I think this would be a great investment in my passion and interests in creating works of art that represent my joy and love for DIY projects. I am a teacher who is always on the go with DIY projects both for my students and myself. I’m always looking for websites and tools that would help enhance my ability to create DIY projects.
Just this past year I began investing more time into my side-business as a wedding coordinator/planner. I think the MAC would be an awesome tool to promote and develop my side-business called All the Little Details. In addition to that I can use the programs to create and develop products (i.e., invitations, etc.) for my clients.
I would love to win this contest…as I’m sure many of the other bees do, too!
This is amazing!! Ohhh what I would do for a MAC - my current laptop literally died last week and there just isnt any money in our budget for a new one!! This would be PERFECT!
I am actually entering for my daughter. She is planning her wedding, and I couldn’t be more proud of any other woman in my life. She is strong and accomplished and I am pleased that she has found the love of her life with a man who compliments her independence instead of trying to control it.
She is a teacher, a volunteer tutor, a book club mentor, and a great friend to all who know her. She is in grad school and is working with a computer that is on its last legs. With a new laptop, her life could just be a tad easier.
If you are trying to sift through entries that have virtue and honesty, you can put this one high up there in the contenders.
Thanks,
Marti
We are working our home based business (selling on ebay), trying to increase our profits to fully support us. This would be an amazing way to help us out, we are doing everything with NO credit!!!
I’d love to win this for my fiance because she is extremely creative and has worked very hard to make a lot of our own wedding designs and plenty of crafting do-it-yourself projects, but I feel she can do so much more with the MAC book pro meant for design and creative work. This package would help her achieve her goals of possibly starting her own business, which she would be great at.
I’ve been looking at the white Macbook for a while, and it’s high time I started using something much much easier on my intuition. There are these ads out now saying that Macs are sexy but they don’t stack up for the price. Well, what they fail to mention is the OS. Mac OS is the main reason to have a Mac, because it’s intuitive. I’m ready for the switch.
Because my computer could seriously use updating–and it would be great to have a new mac to organize all of my wedding materials!
I’m a budding photographer, and while I’ve sunk money into my shooting equipment a series of unfortunate events has kept me from upgrading my computer! I need the ability to post-process my photos quickly and store them safely, and winning this Mac would be an awesome way to get me there 6 months sooner than I had thought feasible! Just in time for me to pursue shooting a wedding or two after mine in June
My fiance mentioned this contest, and I wanted to add to her chances of winning! She’s an amazing woman, has a very outdated computer, and would get a lot of use out of this as she finalizes the details for our wedding this summer!
Thanks, Bees!
If I were to win this computer it would make things so much easier. Right now, I can’t shut my lap top because it turns off and won’t turn on for a couple of days. I have an external fan that I had to buy because the internal fan died and my computer will shut off as it over heats.
As a court reporter, I need a lap top at all times of the day to take with me to depositions, and right now I am borrowing a lap top from the firms that I work for, which is not very professional looking. Puleeease pick me and make my wedding planning and work so much easier!!!!!!!!!!
I absolutely adore my fiance. a-DORE him.
BUT…
(There’s always a but…)
Our most common argument is not about planning the wedding, finding a home, or any of the usual topics. No, it’s about who’s computer is the least desirable.
I say it’s mine. Its keyboard smiles a snaggle-tooth smile, with its three missing keys. Best of all, “going wireless” is impossible with my dear old laptop. The battery has fizzled and sizzled - and is useless. In order to operate it, it must be plugged up at all times! Every time I turn it on, I am greeted with a dire warning. “YOUR BATTERY IS NO LONGER ABLE TO CHARGE. PLEASE VISIT THE MANUFACTURER’s WEB SITE AND PURCHASE A BATTERY THAT WILL COST MORE THAN THE WORTH OF THIS PIECE OF CRAP.”
OK, so the message doesn’t use QUITE those words, but you get the point.
And then there’s his beat-up, worn-out computer. It can’t connect to wireless internet. It has a large, distracting, black lines running up and down its screens. When you use the keypad to scroll through documents, the computer goes cRaZy and starts zooming up and down.
The worst part about BOTH of our pitiful excuses for computers??
They’re PCs. Ick. Ick. Ick.
It wasn’t until we were exposed to the wonderful world of Apple Computers that we realized just how inferior (and yucky) any other kind of computer really is.
Please consider us. We solemnly promise to SHARE this amazing new computer … and we’re willing to include that in the wedding vows if need be!
What a great prize!! I wish I had a mac, and could never afford one, so if I win this I would be super excited and use it for my future wedding planning! ^_^
Perfect timing! I totally need a new computer. Since I have a PC for work, I wouldn’t mind trying out a Mac for home use!
This is like the Perfect Contest for me! I’m currently planning our wedding and starting a business in a rough economy. My computer is on its way out and hanging on by a thread. This computer would help with so many things. we could use instead of having a dj to save some costs for the wedding, as well as edit videos , and photos from our big day, which you really only can do with the technology from a Mac. This would be the most awesome wedding Gift!
Oh, what a lovely prize. I would like to win because I’m currently typing at a huge desktop and would love to plop down on the couch and surf weddingbee with a new laptop next to my hubby.
I’m one of those freaky grad student, TAs who, when she mentions she doesn’t have a laptop so she can’t play a clip for the class, give a powerpoint presentation, etc. etc. gets lots of funny looks.
Yup. It’s time for me to get with the times and play my professional role!!
What a fantastic giveaway! My fiance and I have been working hard to try to save up as much money as possible since we are paying for our own wedding and since I’m a recent grad in a time where jobs aren’t easy to find and the fiance is still in college, this has been incredibly difficult. In an effort to save money we had hoped to make and print our own invites but with a lack of a printer and lack of funds for one we haven’t been able to do this. I am also in desperate need of a new computer as mine is several years old and is seconds from death it seems. This giveaway would be perfect for us because it would help us so much in creating beautiful paper goods for our wedding via the new computer, helpful software, and a new printer purchased with the gift card. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway and for inspiring me with your beautiful weddings and wedding tips!
Our 5 year old beloved ibook G4 is holding onto life by a thread and we whisper loving words of encouragement to it and hold our breath that it will hold on long enough for us to afford to replace it. Despite the duct-taped power cord and bulging iphoto account (yes, it is backed-up!) our apple laptop is such a hard working powerhorse– we both use it for all of our work at home. My fiance is a director of an educational nonprofit and he uses it for all his staff database/hirings. I’m a blogger and photographer and my mac is my baby. Any day now it will be no more and I CANNOT express what an enormous relief and gift a new macbook would be!!!
I’ve had my computer for almost 6 years. It’s on it’s last legs and the fan makes this funny sputtering sound. Been wanting to get a new computer for ages now but wedding expenses have been crazy. I never enter contests but it’d be so awesome to win this one!
It’s obvious that I’m a Mac girl at heart but have been using a PC due to economical purposes and haven’t been able to afford a new MacBook ever! This would be incredible to win!
My fiance has been dying for a macbook, but it just isn’t in the cards this year since we’ve been saving for the wedding. I would love love LOVE to surprise him with his dream laptop!
How awesome would this be? I need it because I have had two laptops stolen in the past 9 years, so the one I have now was pretty cheap and doesn’t work so well. I’m starting up my own business, along with planning my wedding, so having a working computer is key. Last, but not least, my fiance has a mac, and loves to tell me how his computer is superior to mine. I would love to have a computer that can match his!
As a teacher, I need to have online access nearly constantly. But when my college laptop finally kicked the bucket over a year ago, I didn’t have the money to get a new one.
I’ve been sharing Boy’s laptop, but now even that one is starting to turn off on its own and needs to be reformatted constantly. With all of the important planning details (spreadsheets, budgets, and more spreadsheets) that we need to keep track of, I just don’t trust leaving them on that laptop.
My old school district provided a powerbook and I fell in love- I have been longing for one ever since. Please reunite us and save our planning!
This would be an amazing prize! Our current laptop is 5 years old (and dying) and needs to be replaced soon but with our wedding coming up, we do not have the money to replace it. My fiancee has been lusting for a Macbook ever since her old school gave her one to use (she had to give it back when she left for another district). These are awesome computers and it would make our planning so much easier!
What an amazing giveaway! I’d want to win it because I’m a hard core Mac-o-phile and have been using my old Macbook for my projects. Winning this would be fantastic!
Wow! My partner and I are getting married in the fall and doing a lot of the design ourselves. She has an old laptop which is on the way out (and we really can’t use because it needs to hold up until she turns in her doctoral thesis(!) in a week or so). Once the thesis is in the wedding planning will (hopefully) feel like a breeze… and that much easier if we had a reliable computer! Congratulations to all the couples out there getting married!
I’ve always favored Macs ever since I got my first all in one computer 13 years ago. Now I’m using my old G4 tower for all DIY wedding projects (invitations, tags, programs and favors!). We are tracking our invites and budget with excel and it’s been pretty dificult without having an laptop. It would be such a blessing to win this contest!
I love Microsoft Office- from Excel to Access to Word, I have used all of them personally and professionally to organize my life. I’m pretty confident I have my job simply because of Microsoft Office for Mac. I have designed a few invitations for friends and work events on Microsoft office but my computer is starting to die (after five years and a trek through Europe and a move to New York). I would love to use it on my own wedding!
This is by far the best giveaway. My computer crashes all the time and needs to be replaced. I would love to go wireless.
I need a new computer so bad!! I cannot afford one due to our saving for the wedding. All my diy projects have to be done on my fiances work laptop, which is not home most of the time when i want to work on things!
This prize would help out so much!
I would like to win this package not for myself, but for my wonderful Fiancee. My Fiancee will be graduating the first week of May from Illinois State University. She is a Graphic Designer and I know that Macs are pretty much it when it comes to the Graphic Design world. Right now she has an old Dell laptop that does not keep up with her ever budding talent and she has wanted a Mac since I met her Freshmen year. If I could win this and give it to her that would be the best thing ever.
Why I want to win this Mac for my fiance:
1. With our wedding months away, she was laid off from her graphic design job, this would be great to help her work as a freelance designer!
2. She’ll be so impressed I was listening when she mentioned Weddingbee, and figured out how to register and post to a blog all by myself!
3. With everything going on, she’s been feeling down, I just want her to be happy and see that sometimes luck does come her way!
Wow!!! This would be an answer to prayer! Through the course of planning my own wedding, I have discovered my true passion, and what I feel called to do as a career….event planning! I have made a decision to start my own business, and am even consulting on a family member’s wedding. This giveaway could really help me get my business off the ground! Please pick me!!!
After months of wandering into the Apple store knowing that purchasing a laptop could potentially spiral all budget plans into a black hole of death, we decided to pass on purchasing one of our very own, at least for the time being. However, since my trusty laptop has now refused to stay on for more than 10 minutes (about the time it takes to boot up), we definitely could use a computer. Planning a DIY wedding and working full-time keeps me busy, and my FI is a youth pastor so he’s constantly on the go. This would be the perfect tool to plan the wedding of our dreams!
This would be great for my daughter’s MAC
I want to win this for my fiance. He deserives it because he is a journalist and freelance writer- his computer is his work tool. But, his beloved Mac was dying right around the time he decided to propose to me- and he chose to get me a ring INSTEAD of getting a new computer for himself. Now, he is working on a borrowed, old PC that shuts off all the time- but he never complains! We are saving up to get him a new computer for work, but with wedding budgets and whatnot, it doesn’t look like he will get a new one until waaaay after we are married. I guess I want to thank him for choosing me over a computer by winning a new Mac for him! Thanks!
This would be perfect for my me and my fiance! In addition to plans to DIY all of our stationery for our wedding we are both in grad school and we are both using seriously outdated computers and praying that they will see us through our last year of school. My fiance’s computer is gasping its last breath and has been into the genius bar more times than I can count and my laptop is slowing down and the control key fell off at some point. Help!
Pick me! I read weddingbee religiously…at my mom’s, my friend’s, my FBIL’s, the library. I need this computer so I can feed my obsession in private!
Eeeek! For the past 5 years, I’ve been the designing-bridesmaid for all my soon-to-be wedded friend’s DIY projects - everything from menus and seating charts to matching bachelorette tees and beer labels. It would be SO nice to not rely on my work computer and have one of my very own at home!
Can I say it would be amazing to win this prize! A new Mac, what could be better? We currently have an old PC and it keeps crashing. A new MAC’s is just perfect for anyone planning a wedding, they are great with photos, graphic design programs for invitations and all the paper products that go with a wedding, in addition, the can really help with designing table layout design and guest lists. I couldn’t ask for more. Plus, I won’t be neurotic about losing all my hard work or my pictures. Please pick me!
yay best give away ever!!!! thanks so much for doing this!
I am a DIY bride planning everything using my computer. My HP computer just crashed on me losing hours and hours of valuable research and project that I started. So what a good time if any to switch over to MAC.
I am a new Mac convert - but with only one mac, lots of music and two of us in the house… we sure can use an extra computer! we’ve been DIY’ing most of our wedding stationery - STDs, invites, and soon enough place cards and programs… but what better wedding gift from wedding bee than a Macbook with Office! (our wedding is 5/23)!
This is a great contest! My fiance and I spend 4-5 months of each year apart, as I conduct research abroad part of the year. Over the last eight years, we’ve burned through phone cards, webcams, microphones and more to stay in touch. I am about to leave for another long season away (returning only 2 weeks before our wedding!) with a packed hard drive and barely enough RAM to keep my computer running. A new Macbook (plus funds to buy a second!) would definitely improve our long distance love and last minute wedding planning in these last five months before our September wedding! Thank you!
My fiance and I live in one state, are having our wedding in another state, our parents live other states, and the bridal party live in four different states. Due to no one living near each other, a lot of stuff is done via the computer so this prize would be so great since my computer is old and sooooooooo slow.
When I kindly took in my 15 year old cousin for the summer last year, I had no idea it would end up destroying my anniversary gift of a laptop from my hunny bunny. She broke it with a swift slam and now duck tape holds it all together. Seeing how my fiance and I are both paying for our wedding completely on our own, don’t have any local help (nearest bridal party member is 4 hours) and desperately would love to win, I think this would be the coolest kick off to the start of our forever.
My fiance would love it if I won her a macbook. We both would get a lot of use out of it, during the wedding planning and afterwards!
Should I resort to something as gauche as bullet points to illustrate why I should win the contest for my fiancée? I’m afraid so.
• My fiancée (Annui up there) and I are currently doing the long distance thing while I finish school. We use our computers every day to stay in touch and hers is on its way out. I can’t send her something as innocuous as a link to a video without her laptop going on the fritz.
• Considering I’m still in school, I don’t have much money to buy things for her birthday. I’m working and still have to sign up as a test subject for medical schools so I can pay the rent for my apartment.
• My fiancée’s old laptop is a pre-Intel Mac, so she can’t play Spore. She’s a biologist and it’s killing her.
• I can tell you right now what some of the $1000 is going to go towards: groceries. I’m going to be up with her for the summer, and I love cooking for her. We have enough money to feed ourselves, but I’d really like to be able to fix her something really special now and then.
• She’s really, really cute.
I would LOVE to win this contest… I am currently going to school for IT and it would be great to have a new computer and software for school! ( I take all of my classes online and it would be super helpfull to have up to date software and compter!!!) Thanks for the chance to win this great contest!!!!!!! Also, out budget fot our wedding is very very low so i would love to use some of the $1000 for our wedding and use the rest for our honeymoon( we are footing the bill for everything and i work part time and by fiancee works full time, so we don’t have alot of savings for our wedding!!!) I would be sooo sooo gratefull for this!!!
My fiancee’ is a graphic designer and she needs an awesome computer so she can work at home with me!
Hi Wedding Bee,
This contest has got me really excited and I hope you see why I should be the lucky recipient!
I am currently a law student looking at thousands of dollars in student debt. The love of my life and I are going to be in a long-distance relationship from St. Louis to Boston and a functioning computer, with web-cam capabilities will make the long days go by and make the distance easier; gosh, my old, now-non functioning clunker needs to go… Not only will the Mac be super speedy when sending love notes via e-mails to him, but I’ll be able to study, type, and succeed in law school with the help of a brand-spanking new Mac, which because of its cost, has been off-limits for many years now. (But, oh, how I’ve longed to feel the sleek keys clacking under my fingers!!) The thousand dollars will allow me to carve out a space for him in my apartment so that when he visits, he’ll know that, despite the miles, he’ll always have a place in my home (which we home to build together after I graduate). The Office package will get us started on designs for the future but this whole giveaway represents much more than designing invitations for a wedding. It represents a future and things that would not be possible otherwise.
Good luck to the other ladies (and men!).
My current computer is sad and old. While she still works up a storm, she just isn’t as fast as she one was. She used to be able to load programs in seconds, now it takes her just a few more and sometimes I think she even gets distracted by other stuff. Her programs are old and she never received any sort of updates. Even her wireless card is old and held together by glue just so that it works. She stays fit by getting cleaned regularly but still collects the dust. And while she can play music her speakers are cracking. It isn’t that she can’t go one for a little while longer, but I think a companion would help her out, keep her going. So hopefully you will gift me with a new Mac, a new friend, who will work just a little quicker and sit beside my old friend during her last years, keeping her company!
This contest is amazing timing for me! There are several reasons why:
1) I actually work in the digital media field, but am ridiculously inept at Photoshop. I want to make all of my paper-related items for my wedding but that is proving difficult without PhotoShop skills & a mac (which is obviously more designer friendly). I am completely lost about how to make something nice without learning Photoshop well.
2)I learned how to edit video at my old job where I had a Mac, but I do not have one at my current job. I even video taped a good friend’s wedding last summer and have not been able to edit the video for them bc I don’t have a mac to edit it on. Its so sad to have all these wonderful memories & not be able to share them with everyone! If I had a mac, I would get Final Cut Express on it and finish that video straight away!
3) and finally…I have been hoping to get my own mac for a while now, but recently found out that my division is being dissolved & I may be out of a job within the next month. That obviously puts off any major purchases for me. Its quite the Catch-22 because I now have to make my wedding even more ‘economical’ since I won’t have a job (& my parents are retiring so I don’t want to ask them to spend their retirement savings on a wedding!!) but that is beginning to prove to be difficult if I don’t have the right resources (aka a macbook!).
Please pick me as the winner for the mac! You will not only be helping a new bride to be, but also my entire family and of course my friends who will get a wonderful wedding video out of it!
I’d love to win this package - my fiance and I were both laid off in the last few months, and are moving forward with our wedding and moving in together. I’ll be leaving my computer behind (with my folks) and it would be awesome to have a fresh start, and something sparkly and new to help with the wedding planning and keeping track of things. We’re trying to cut costs by doing as many things ourselves, we’re even going to try our hands at the invitations.
Plus we wouldn’t have to get out of bed to use it, we could lounge around on Sunday mornings, looking for new jobs and planning our wedding on our new laptop.
I would love to win because I’m trying to design our own invitations. Right now I don’t even have a computer because mine died last month and I haven’t been able to purchase a new one. So I’ve been trying to work on my invites over my lunch hour at work but that can be very difficult!
I love doing graphic design so much and I know that Macs are very powerful for design. In the future I’d love to start my own wedding graphic design business and I know this computer could really help with that!
Thanks for having a great contest!
This is SUCH an awesome and amazing giveaway. Please please please pick us!
Both of our computers are dying and have been for awhile! My fiance’s laptop’s screen hinge is broken so the screen goes flopping everywhere. On top of that, it doesn’t really charge anymore! We can sometimes get it to charge if we hold the cord in, but it doesn’t work that often.
My computer (same brand as my fiance’s) is also terrible. It randomly shuts off when I’m in the middle of something! It overheats, gets super hot and then all of a sudden shuts down. The other problem? My “e” key doesn’t really work–it pops out almost every time I use it. When did I find out about this problem? Oh…the week before I took the bar exam…can you imagine dealing with the stress of the bar exam PLUS not having a properly functioning “e” key? It kept popping out while I was typing up my exam, so I ended up having to think quickly to avoid using words that used this letter.
We can’t really afford to buy new computers because, despite being lawyers, we can’t find jobs in this economy! We found temporary fellowships that put us well below the national poverty line–and we live in San Francisco where cost of living is high. Our fellowships are quickly coming to an end, too…I also have huge law school debt. We would forever be grateful if we won this contest. Seriously. Forever grateful.
Because my honey is in the Army and will be sent off to Iraq 4 months after our wedding and we really need the built-in iSight camera so we can see each other everyday for the year that he is gone.
Not to mention, Macs are awesome and he wants one.
I just got accepted to the UW Evans School MPA program which I’ll be starting after our wedding. Winning would be amazing because then rather than having to think about getting stuff ready for school I could just focus on planning my wedding. Also, it would be amazing if I could open our guest list Excel spreadsheet with my own computer. Sadly my current one is so old it makes horrible death noises whenever I do open it.
My laptop died not too long ago and now I’m computer-less. Help a girl out, please!
how perfect! my fiance’s computer just died over the weekend and with the wedding, we don’t have the extra money right now! what a great wedding present!
I’d love to win this giveaway because the ancient computer that my fiance and I share is probably weeks away from dying, and I’m paying for my own wedding on a very tight budget - so having the ability to do a lot of the things myself on a new computer would be incredible!
Eek! this would be so awesome - i’ve always just gone with the no-frill pc while drooling over the pretty mac b/c of $$…
I would LOVE to win this for my fiance–she totally deserves an updated laptop to work on all the wedding details she’s been planning so carefully. Not to mention our current one has seen its days throughout our long distance relationship. The 1000 dollars would be awesome–we’re trying to be careful with wedding planning so we can buy our first place. Hoping we win.
My macbook was stolen over a year ago when my fiance’s apartment was burglarized. I LOVED that computer and lost all my pictures, music, and lesson plans for school (I am a teacher) along with it. I would use the macbook for wedding stuff (invitations, thank-you notes, seating arrangements, etc) as well as work stuff (lesson planning, powerpoint presentations, grading). I know my fiance won’t be able to replace my computer any time soon and it would be such a great wedding present!
Why should I win? I should win because I am stuck to my current computer constantly because I am trying to have the best wedding that I can without spending a lot of money! How does that equate to giving me a computer, gift card and office? Well, I need to have a functional computer to locate these amazing wedding ideas, a gift card to buy the wonderful products I find and last-who can live without office windows???!!! Office windows has two different programs to help me make my invites, monograms and anything else. It will also help me write my thank you letter if I win it!
OMG! What an awesome giveaway. The stress of wedding planning just hit me this last weekend when I realized I am only six months away from the big day! All that time I thought I had is now gone! A new Mac would help me with all of my orginization as well as some of the DIY stuff I hope to work on for the wedding. Oh and the extra cash would be nice for all of the things I am realizing I need for the big day!
I have a love-hate relationship with my current laptop…well to be honest, it’s mostly a hate relationship. Shortly after buying this “custom built” computer from a local computer guy, we found out (from our local news channel) that he got arrested for running an electronics theft ring. So in short, my laptop is most likely a very old stolen computer in a new-looking shell. It shuts off randomly often, and overheats after only a few minutes, and does not even have the capacity to watch a video clip online
On a happy note, I am in graduate school to get my teacher certification so it would be amazing to have a dependable computer on which to work on my lesson plans. Having the new office package would be great too
Who couldn’t use $1,000? My fiance and I are building up our savings so we would definitely put it in there to save for our down payment on our future house…we’ve learned from the mortgage crisis that it really is important to put a big amount of money down when buying a house!
I would love to win! I would use the new computer to do DIY wedding stuff.
This would be a great start to our own tax and bookkeeping business. In addition, it would be great to use for diy wedding invitations!
i was laid off at the beginning of the year, before our wedding, and now i need a computer set-up to get back on my feet. having an amazing mac like that could really help me with my dream of starting my own business! and the money would obviously help me pay rent for awhile longer.
I would love to win because a new computer would be a tremendous blessing for my fiance. His laptop broke and as he will be going to law school in the fall he will need one. Plus, macs are sweet.
This would be a wonderful prize to win. This would not only help me with law school, taking the bar and staying organized with all I have to do, it will be a great new item for my new event planning business.
Wow, what a great prize! My fiance and I need this mac because the newest computer we have is the one he bought in college back in 2002. It is dying a slow death! We can’t use it for long because it overheats and shuts itself down-which makes keeping up with the weddingbee, wedding research and contacting vendors a big pain.
We are getting married in June, and we only have one computer between the two of us. Problem is that my fiance tends to hog it whenever we are together, he is letting me keep it right now because I am in school and mine bit the dust a while ago. If I ever want to use the computer I will have to try to bribe him to let me, usually with cookies.
More importantly, I need to win this because right now we have a pc and I have always wanted a macbook. My fiance won’t buy one because he doesn’t do change very well. This may be the only opportunity for me to get my macbook!!!
This would be great to win for my DIY projects, our up and coming event designing and planning business and staying organized at work and school. I hope I hope I win this for us.
As someone starting a new business (Public Relations and Advertising for small businesses and non-profits) and trying to plan a wedding on top of a full time job, a MacBook with Office would make so many things so much easier! Transferring work from my office computer (a Mac) to my dying Windows-based laptop from college in order to work at home is not an easy task! Since I currently work in the auto industry, spending any extra money right now is a big no-no, which makes it hard to get a business off the ground! Throw in a wedding and it’s impossible! Being able to design my own invites, programs and other wedding related materials in addition to items for my business without having to stay late at work to use Photoshop there would allow me to spend more time with my fiance too!
My fiance and I are both part-time students so we are always fighting over the computer. This would be so wonderful to have not just for school but to work on wedding related stuff and getting organized. What an amazing prize!!
My Mac is long overdue for an upgrade and if I win, I can kick Mr. Lovebird’s PC booty.
This would be a wonderful prize to win. This would not only help me with law school, taking the bar, my blawg and staying organized with all I have to do, it will be a great new item to get me started on my new event planning business (of course after planning my special event).
I am just desperate for this! The MAC would help me create the photo montage required for our rehearsal and reception - and save me the $$ of having our photographer do it! I have made several attempts to start his on my old Toshiba laptop - it just can’t handle my picture files. The MAC also is much more compatible with my iPOD/wedding DJ (we are going with my iPOD as our reception DJ) and the MAC has a program that allows you to manage playlists for an event. And $1000 - well that will go straight to the wedding (probably our late night food and a signature cocktail - we have to take care of our friends and family!).
The MAC would be amazing! I’d use it for wedding related designing & my husband-to-be will be starting law school in the fall & desperately needs a laptop.
We could really use a laptop as we move across the country, plan a wedding, start our lives together, and begin new jobs/grad school!
I would love a MAC. I’ve always been a PC girl but my laptop is on its last leg. The keyboard doesnt work and every time I turn it on it overheats! I’ve designed all of the paper pieces for my own wedding and I’m thinking of starting a wedding invitation business. Designing with a MAC would make my life so much easier. The $1000 gift card would go straight to paying off our credtit card bills from the wedding. Crossing my fingers!
Oh my goodness, what a fancy contest! I would LOVE something like this; my trusty PC broke after about 5 years, and I cannot seem to get it running again. I would use this for EVERYTHING; to help plan my best friend’s upcoming wedding, to edit MY wedding photos that I still haven’t had the chance or the computer to get to… as well as just keeping my life a lot more organized! Fabulous!!!
Pick me! My future bride is on here stating she lost her hard drive. I just got a phone call to fix everything will be over 700 bucks so it wont be happening unless we win!
This would be SO helpful for all my DIY wedding plans! Not to mention for finishing up school next year. I’ve always wanted a Mac!!
I started Grad school and could definitely use a faster computer! I’ll have to learn how to use a MAC, but I’m ready and willing if a MAC book falls on my lap!
This would be wonderful for grad school; I’m going back starting this summer, and I don’t have a computer. This would be wonderful! Pretty please?
Wow! Well, I just lost my job, which means I lost my laptop, so this double bonus would be awesome! You ladies are great!
This would be great so my husband and I wouldn’t have to fight over our one, outdated computer! Plus, I LOVE iPhoto!!
To start, I am NOT a PC:-) I like Justin Long, and a MAC could help me be the creative girl I’ve always dreamed of becoming!
What an awesome contest!
My husband and I have been trying to save up for a new computer for a while now since the laptop we currently share is on its last legs. We paid for our wedding ourselves, and my job has cut my work hours fairly drastically, so buying a new laptop keeps being pushed to the back burner. Winning this contest would be amazing.
My wife would love this–she’s been begging me for a Macbook for years! Her birthday is coming up, so this would be a perfect gift.
I would LOVE to win the MAC! It would be so helpful in all the graphic projects I still need to complete. And even if I don’t win this contest, I still think it’s an awesome giveaway.
My current computer is a desktop, which was fine when I was a student but now that I’m aspiring to be a novelist it would be amazing to take my laptop to local coffeehouses! Soaking up the vibes, using the gift card to buy a lifetime’s worth of coffee, writing novels, and enjoying the wireless freedom!
Because we are away from each other often (we’re both starving actors sharing ONE macbook for wedding planning), and sometimes a phone call just doesn’t cut it when you’re gone for months at a time. I would love if we each had one of these so I could see her beautiful face on iChat!
My computer broke and all the pictures from the last few years are gone! If need a new computer and I need to make sure I back it up often!
My computer is very old 13 years old. Doing all these DIY projects is becoming very difficult to say the least.
I grew up Mac. And my dad is the gizmo king! The newest one comes out, he buys it, his old one gets passed to my brother, my brothers gets passed to my mom’s, and I get my mom’s. Sometimes it sucks to be the baby. It sure would be nice to have my own NEW one!
We would love to win this prize. My computer is over 5 years old and on its last leg. We have decided to do our invitations and all paper products ourselves but we don’t have the software to do so. We would use the gift certificate to buy the paper products and then design the invitations with the Microsoft software. Also winning a new computer would be great for our bridal party. I would gift my old one to my sister (MOH) who doesn’t have any computer and then my bi-costal/bi-state bridal party can all communicate via email. What a great giveaway!
My work won’t go PC on it’s own. A few people have purchased MACs and used it for work. I’d love to do the same. I notice those who have MAC and travel don’t have to worry about viruses. I’m hoping with enough people oon MACs, my NGO will move in that direction.
My fiancee should win this because she’s a school teacher that works with kids with severe special needs and is so kind and giving and always thinks of others before herself. This would be a great gift for her!!!
We desperately need a new computer, but with all the wedding expenses, that purchase doesn’t look like it is going to happen anytime soon! We’d love to win…
Lucky 800! I love Apple, it makes wedding planning and managing life so much easier! It even fits in my big wedding errands purse! Please Please I need a new MAC!
My fiance’s laptop is busted, and we need a new one! I love my iPod and iPhone to get anything besides a Mac. Pick me!
this mac would be awesome not just for me, but for my fiance who is a computer programmer and website designer. not only that but he is also a musician and the mac would be perfect for recording his music.
I would love to use this new computer to do something creative and fun with my wedding pictures for my parents. They are such generous souls and we appreciate them so much for all they have done for us. What a great giveaway!!!! Please choose me!!
My fiance’s laptop just died on him right when we started our planning. I’m using my work laptop and it doesn’t allow me to install any program/software, so if I win this, it will be super helpful when we do our DIY projects. =)
Wow! My fiance is a MAC… and I am a run down old PC… this would be a great way for me to jump straight into his MAC world =)
If I am lucky enough to win this contest, I am pretty positive he would completely forget that I ever owned a PC!
I love to win this to organize our photos and put together our wedding video clips.
This would be a great tool for us to design and create our own invitations, thank you cards and programs. We also are planning on creating a slide-show/movie of baby pictures for the reception and a new Mac would help us out so much! Finally, I think this would be a great tool for playing around with our pics once we get them back from our photographer.
We really need a new computer, since we’re tired of sharing. It would help to end some bitter angry looks over computer time!
I also need to REALLY work on our photobooks and it’s hard to do that without a computer of my own since I don’t want to befoul his.
The computer I have now I paid 80 dollars and a case of beer for and it runs like Natty Lite! Help!
I would love to win this for my girl. We lost our computer when hurricane Ike damaged our home and most of our posessions. This would be a great pick me up for both of us.
Wow-this would be a great prize. My fiance and I are starting our own CPR and safety training company. Two things holding us back-designing marketing material (the Mac would so rock at this!) and, our laptops are awful!!
This would also make my wedding program project a dream!
i want to start blogging away!
Wow! Mr. K and I would love this! He has the SLOWEST, most archaic Dell laptop! I just asked him to look at our teaser wedding pic, and it took him like 15 minutes just to start up!
Holy smokes - I would LOVE to be the lucky recipient of this fantastic prize. My current laptop causes me much angst - at 5 years old, it’s running as slow as molasses. I was told by Best Buy that it was on ’sale’ because the memory couldn’t be upgraded in the unit - this was way after the fact, of course. No returns! I’ve made it work but it’s made struggling with invitations and save the dates that much more frustrating. Thanks for considering!
We could use it to put together photo slideshows and order albums using iPhoto of our wedding. Plus, with the built-in camera we could iChat with my in-laws who live in another country.
This would be so wonderful! I’ve been wanting a mac for a long time but with all the wedding expenses it’ll probably be a few years now. Hahaha. This would really help so that I can create spreadsheets and organize my guest list. Thank you so much for considering me in this generous contest!
my fiance and i would be estatic if you picked us. we’ve been meeting at barnes and nobles thats one hour from where we each live… the bookstore is right in the middle. we sit on the floor sometimes or at table near the coffee staiton if there is room… anywhere so long as there is a power outlet available. it would be nice for her to have a computer so that she doesn’t have to rely on me to do all the typing and organizing. i would let her borrow mine but i need it for work. women are so much better at that type of thing anyway… and afterall the wedding is all about them. all i have to do is show up that day. haha. thanks for considering us.
I would finally become a Mac user and make my husband so very happy in getting with the program!! I would love to make my wedding album in iPhoto.
My fiancee and I would love a new computer–she made all of our invitations on her Mac at work and she’s a total Mac devotee.
I really need a computer but haven’t bought one because we just got married and paid for the wedding ourself. I would use the computer at work and for syncing my iPhone.
What a great contest!
I would definitely use this baby ALL. THE. TIME.
I am always on the computer, working, email, planning, rading all the blogs I follow… So having a great laptop would be super useful!
And I could use the built-in webcam to skype with my family in France!
I’m crossing my fingers!
My laptop is making a rattling sound…. any day now I expect it to go, and that means no more daily weddingbee!!! I need a new laptop!
My fiancé’s laptop just went out and she is making the invites on it. This would certainly help.
As a poor graduate trying to make it through and planning a wedding this package would not only help me with DIY invitations, programs, and favors to stick to our very tight budget, but would also help me with my school work to ensure that both are in perfect harmony.
Thanks for doing these!
My three-year-old iBook G4 has disappointed me in so many unexpected ways. It’s like a teenager, rebelling against me just for the heck of it, doing the exact opposite of everything I ask it to do, even when those things are in its best interest.
I’ve lost my entire iTunes library more times than I care to count, and even now that I recovered everything, my computer never knows where to find half the songs on my hard drive. You’d think I was trying to hide them. But the songs never move; iTunes just doesn’t want to look for them. When I plug in my iPod Shuffle, iTunes takes a minute or two of tying up all my RAM to find it, and often can not find it at all. I can’t reorder the songs on my Shuffle; iTunes pretends its reorganizing them, but it never actually syncs the iPod after I have reordered the songs. And I can’t drag songs off the iPod into a playlist to reorganize them there. So I can only ever add songs to the end of the playlist I have on my iPod. Minor, I know. But it gets worse.
The optical drive rattles and whirs like a gas-powered lawnmower whenever I put a disc in. Most of the time, the computer can’t even read the disc, so I have to eject it and put it back in (sometimes I even have to bang on the keyboard a couple of times) before the iBook deigns to recognize my disc. Even when it does read the disc, I can’t listen to CDs or watch DVDs on my computer anymore, because the noise that the drive makes drowns out the sound from my speakers. Oh, and there’s no room on my hard drive for more music. So anytime I want to add something new, I have to delete something old.
Everything moves so sluggishly on this computer that my fiancée refuses to even use it. Even if I just want to check the weather, it takes a good fifteen seconds for my dashboard to even load, and then another twenty before the current weather actually shows up. You might think it would be faster to just look online, but you’d be wrong. My browser takes about twenty seconds just to open, and another minute to load a page. And this is with high-speed cable Internet access. I sometimes feel like I’m trying to watch HD television on a 1950’s-era black-and-white TV that only gets UHF channels.
Even now, as I type this, my stuttering, staggering computer is moving so sluggishly I can’t even see the words I’m typing. The display is at least five words behind my fingers; and I’m a slow typist.
I’m a writer, and I’ve been working for close to three years on a novel, almost since I first got this computer. I had the latest version of my novel saved on my hard drive, when my computer suddenly decided it didn’t want to let Microsoft Word open anymore. Every time I tried, the program would stop responding and I would have to force quit. Even if it was the only program running, my computer would freeze. This was a minor annoyance until I realized I couldn’t even get the file off the computer.
Obviously, I had a back-up copy saved on an external drive, but that wasn’t the most recent version, because the last time I had tried to save it, the iBook couldn’t “find” the external hard drive, whatever the heck that means. I pointed to the drive and yelled at the computer, but it still couldn’t find the drive. I wasn’t too worried, since I had the back-up, but I wanted to get the most recent version off my iBook.
I tried emailing it to myself, but Mail couldn’t handle the strain. I tried uploading it to a few different websites (Google Docs, Mediafire), but each time my browser would freeze about halfway through the process. I couldn’t break the file into small pieces, because I couldn’t open it. I couldn’t create an archive of it, because that would just cause Finder to freeze. One day I decided to take the laptop into work to see if my office IT guys could help, but their advice was just to get a new computer. When I got home that day, I discovered that our apartment had been broken into and, among the other things that were stolen, was the external hard drive.
So in addition to the fact that we no longer felt safe in our own home, we has lost some irreplaceable things, including much of the work I had done on my novel. I had to revert to a file I had saved to a CD a year ago. Which means I basically lost a year of work because of this crappy computer. And yet I’m still stuck with it. I only work on the novel on my fiancée’s computer now, but this is an annoyance, too, since she is also trying to work on her screenplay. We can’t very well both write on one computer.
For a while, my computer would start running smoothly if I restarted it, but now it can’t even turn off on its own. If I try to shut it down or restart it, the OS closes and then the computer just…hangs. It doesn’t shut down. But I also can’t do anything with it, so I always have to do a hard reboot, and then I hold my breath for the five minutes it takes to start it back up. It stopped making the startup noise months ago, so when I start it up I’m never sure it’s really starting up, and I always feel that same sick dread you get when a significant other tells you “we need to talk.”
“Could this be the end?” I think. So far, I have been spared, but the stress is getting to me..
As of two weeks ago, I had saved up $500, after about six months of squirreling away whatever money I could. And then we found out our cat’s gums were infected and I had to pay $450 for her dental surgery. So now I have enough for a mouse and a few blank CDs.
Please, please, please, consider awarding me this computer. I would be so grateful, and it would be extremely satisfying to tie together the fulfillment of my personal goals (meeting and marrying a uniquely wonderful woman) with the fulfillment of my professional goals (finishing and publishing my novel).
Thanks for reading my sob story.
I would love to win this for school, I’m in need of a new portable computing device..
why us? I say us, because it will be used by me and my fiance. Creativity comes from within. The tools we use inspire us. The MAC and applications will provide the inspiration to create everything that comes from within. I know we are creative as it is, but the right tools will take us to the next level - it will take us to SPECTACULAR.
We would LOVE to win this giveaway because are both poor PhD students AND rely heavily on computers to do our studies - I am in genetics and my fiance is in the computer science department - and a new macbook would be a total miracle! We are planning on making all our own . . . well, everything, but definitely all our own stationary, and the new office would be fantastic since we have the fossilized 2003 version. THANKS!!!
Right now, as I’m typing I have a walking boot on my broken foot. and it is aching a little as I should be on the couch with it propped up. Having a laptop would give me access to weddingbee all the time, anytime, lame foot or not. thank you.
I would love to win this package because it has always been a dream of mine to do photography. Winning this computer would definitely help me to progress my skills and utilize all of mac’s great photo software. Plus the $1000 would buy me the camera that I need to start taking quality pictures! I would love nothing more than to win this package and get no my way to taking great photographs!
Because my not very old laptop constantly shuts down without notice, the right Alt button doesn’t stay put, and the six key is broken off. It still works, but barely. Who knew how many times you used the number six…?
Need a new computer. mine is just about done. Still need to make programs
I was a media major in college and all we used was MACs so I completely miss having one…they are great! Please pick me
My lap-top is on the fritz! This would be so amazing to win. Plus, who couldn’t use $1,000? I may actaully be able to get the flowers I’ve been dreaming about for my reception with the extra cash!
Oh wow - this would be so awesome!
Why I should win: let’s see … I have a crappy computer where I can’t DIY my own invites! This would allow me to do that. The $1k would be to get the materials and print them! Thanks!
I should win this because I’m designing my STDs and invites on a laptop that won’t type “p” or “0″ or “c”!
I’ve always wanted a MacBook but could never afford one.
My poor little 15″ iMac is getting older and slower by the day. It’s so old, I can’t update it anymore, but I love it still! My fiancé has to fight me to get on to it lately…but let me tell you - our wedding invitations are going to be amazing when I’m done with them! When we moved in together, finacé had a pc laptop which we used daily. That is- until the cat knocked it off the couch and broke it. (That’s my story anyway and I’m sticking to it!!) So now he say’s I owe him a new laptop.
ahhh a MacBook! I have never been able to afford a laptop. It would help with school, work, and wedding planning. My little girl (im a single mom who doesn’t get child support) could also use it for her school projects! It would be a livesaver!!
I should win this because I am constantly on the go! I do a HUGE amount of daily tasks and errands using my computer, so the macbook can help with this. Plus, Hubby to be just got laid off so we could definitely use the visa card!
I would appreciate all these prizes so much. I am currently taking online classes to further my education to help support my family and to have a Mac would be so helpful being that my current Comp is always on the fritz. The money is always a great thing especially when you are trying to buy a home and have to furnish it. We will have to live with my mom for awhile after we are married until we are able to find out home and that money would work out great to add to our down payment. The Microsoft office will be extremely beneficial when we have to make payments and stuff. I am sure it will also help with my schooling as well. It would be great to win such a generous gift especially at a time like this when you feel that nothing ever comes your way.
I think I should win because I really really REALLY want to give my fiance’ a Mac as a wedding gift! He is a wonderful photographer and would love to have one of these to help start his photography business.
I’ll come out of hiding for this one. My job is doing away with our laptops and I am desperately going to need one soon!
I have a mac at work and stupid, terrible vista on a pc laptop at home. I would love, love, love to have the opportunity to make the switch!
I love Mac! I bought my first Mac (a G4) for college in 2001 and it’s still going strong! So, I can’t justify buying a new one, but I really need something portable for freelancing.
What a fantastic giveaway! Like many others, I am DIYing everything I can to keep my wedding on the inexpensive side. I’ve designed some amazing invitations on my current Mac, but it’s definitely tired after 4 years of heavy use, so each change I make to the invites, photos we’re planning on using, menus, etc, takes what feels like eons to process. Help! I don’t want to cover my computer-induced gray hairs for the wedding!
I’d love to win this Mac package, as a new laptop would be indispensable in my current post-wedding projects. Crafting, graphic design, photography, blogging - I can only dream about how much faster and easier things would be!
Wow what an amazing giveaway!! I would love this laptop for my fiance. He recently just got back from a year long deployment to Iraq and absolutely trashed his HP computer from all the travel and dust and sand. I have a MacBook Pro and have FINALLY convinced him to go Mac. With the wedding coming up, a laptop isn’t high on the priority list– and I know it would mean the world to him to have a computer this great that works well. Not to mention we’d be able to video chat again!
HOLY MOLY, I’d love to win this as a huge kick off to start a new business!! I’ve been wanting to make “The Switch” forever, and this would be awesome!
We need this giveaway because $1000 would help out a TON with all of the little expenses that you never think about, but that always seem to creep up. The computer would be a huge bonus and allow my new husband to jumpstart his photography business
There are so many reasons why I NEED to win this. I am a very loyal Mac girl, and unfortunately am still using a desktop Mac in blue since like 1996. Yes, you know the one. It looks like a bubble. I think many of it’s brothers have since been turned into a aquarium. Mine is still kicking, but I would love this program/computer OH! the things I could do! I could do all my wedding things, budget, design, plan and after that my fiancée and I are trying to turn our basement into a music studio, and MAC does the best with audio and music… SO PLEASE OH PLEASE!!
I’ve been trying to save up for a macbook for a while, but other expenses keep getting in the way! My current computer is a laptop from 2002 that runs on linux, because any other OS makes it crash! I love love macs and the accompanying software! Oh I dream!
A macbook, $$$, and Office would be super helpful in our wedding plans and beyond! I am a freelance illustrator/designer and plan to create as many wedding details as possible on my own. I have been dying for the Office Suite!!!!!!
Hi. Please don’t give me this prize, because I lied in my comment above. I don’t deserve this.
Thanks.
Alex.
I am currently planning a destination wedding in Hawaii where I grew up, and trying to keep it all affordable for everyone involved. I am researching options left and right, and it would be helpful to have a laptop that I could keep with me so I could create a spreadsheet and enter information as I receive it. Right now I only have a desktop at home, and I have scribbles on paper at work and in my purse from calls I receive when I’m not at my home computer. We are also going to meet with venues and vendors, and again I would love to have that laptop/spreadsheet in front of me so I can enter the info and weigh all of our choices. The Excel budget tracker would also be a big help to make sure we are on target. I am currently taking a design class so that I can save on paper costs. Having the Office software and laptop would allow me to save so much on paper costs with all of their DIY projects for invitations, place cards, etc. Mahalo for this opportunity!
This would be a great gift for us as a newly married couple. We could use it at home for all our personal and some work needs, keep up with our finances, and just simply stay organized. =)
Who couldn’t use an extra $1000 for their wedding, or even just in general! I love the apple products that I currently use, and would just be speechless if i won a new mac book. My current computer is going to be replaced soon, but it needs to hang on until after our wedding (June 2010), because of saving for the wedding!
Please pick me! Pretty please with sugar on top!
Because I recently left the non-profit that I was working for and went out on my own, and these items would make my life SO MUCH easier right now!!!
I would love to win this! I have NEVER owned my own brand new computer. Every computer/laptop that I have owned has been an hand me down from a friend or work.
The money would definitely come in handy for the wedding as well. We are paying for this ourselves, so every little bit helps!
I suffered from a long bout of unemployment in the not too distant past from which I incurred a mountain of debt. This had happened before my FI had gotten together. When I divulged to him about my debt we weren’t engaged at that point but we both knew how important it was to enter into a marriage as baggage-less as possible. Without skipping a beat he said that he wanted to help me pay it off. He had been putting money aside to buy a new Mac laptop but put ALL of that towards paying off my debt. It was such an incredible gift and weight off my shoulders! I’ve really wanted to pay him back somehow but seeing as we’re getting married so soon and all our money is going towards that it isn’t financially feasible and afterwards our finances will be pooled. I would love to be able to thank my wonderful and generous fiance with this amazing gift.
My dream to be a graphic designer/event planner with a Mac would be awesome. Macs are the computer to the creative types, and my fiance’s PC just doesn’t cut it for the awesome graphics. This package would allow me have the pants to LIVE THE DREAM and start my own business instead of working for the corporate drones!!
My fiance’s Mac met a tragic end recently (lightning, we think). Since then, he’s had no creative outlet. He’s a graphic designer, but design work is hard to find in our area, so he works in a factory. He barely makes enough money to live on, and I’m in grad school living entirely on student loans, so buying a new (even used) computer is out of the question. What a boost it would be to his self esteem if he could start working on design projects again! Heck, he might even be able to design something for our wedding!
I would love a new Mac! I’ve wavered between macs and pc’s for most of my adult life…let’s just say my fiance is embarrased of my old laptop, I got it just before medical school, and now that I’m done with school and almost with residency we’re finally getting married. i’ve been sharing the mr’s computer for our DIY projects…invites, pictures, etc. I’d love to continue our projects on a shiny new MAC and retire my old laptop. (and the gift card would be great to get more paper/supplies for programs, menus, table numbers, etc)
Because both of us are going back to school (graduate) in the fall and we’re down to one computer! Yikes.
My fiance and I use our work computers to do wedding stuff, but we would love it if we had our own personal computer to make all the DIY stationery on!!! =)
This is something we could really use. One computer in our household is simply not cutting it , and while it was a hope to get an el cheapo desktop the world got in the way. We are very lucky , we have food on our table, a roof over our hears , and most of all each other.
We could really use an updated computer FI just graduated and went into teaching, and I’m about to to the same. We’ve got loads of student loans, and honestly teaching isnt the highest paid job!
This would be put in use both before the wedding (with planning) and after… in the classroom!
My husband and I are BOTH starting business school in the fall, and we’re moving across the country to do it! It is wonderfully exciting, and I can’t wait to embark on this challenge and adventure with my best friend and biggest supporter. However, because this will cost us about 200k over the next 2 years, a new computer is a luxury we just can’t afford now. Winning this would be an incredible help as we embark on this journey together to strengthen our individual skills and build a successful future together.
Hi Hive,
with this prize i could turn my small little job by job graphic design business into something much more!
Fingers Crossed.
i need it! I just… do.
I would love to win this macbook!! The $1000 giftcard to put towards a macbook wouldn’t be too shabby either The creative bug has bitten me big time, and my old PC laptop simply can’t keep up!
The two of us are paying for our entire wedding ourselves, so finding ways to limit our budget is a big priority. A new computer would be great to keep all the details in order and to design our invitations
I would LOVE to win because I’m currently at the beginning of what will hopefully be a long and successful graphic design career. Unfortunately, neither FI or I have the money to get one of the staples of a career like that: a Macbook. We’ve put my college career on hold until FI finishes his degree since we just can’t pay for college for both of us at the same time. Something like this would go a LOOOOOONG way in ensuring that I’m able to pursue my dreams as quickly as possible!!
I want to win this prize for my fiancee because she’s been using my computer ever since she broke her PC two years ago (only a Mac would be able to withstand her abuse!). Since we aren’t able to afford a new one as graduate students, that not only puts constraints on both our workloads, but I want to finally clear my desktop of dozens of downloaded Weddingbee inspiration pictures! Please help, if only for my own sanity!
Wow, this would be amazing! My computer broke last summer and I just decided that I would wait to get a new one. With the wedding coming up in July it just seemed to make sense! So FI has been nice enough to let me use his computer all year =)
He even manages not to get annoyed with me when he’s on his computer (the one I’m on now) looking at sports stuff and I’m like “Hon….can I go do some wedding stuff on the computer?” and he gracefully gets off What a sweet guy!
-Mary Ellen
Wow..this is an awesome giveway! I’ve just started looking into getting a MacBook. This would be a great replacement for my 5 yr Dell Ive been using. Thanks so much!!!
We’re celebrating our PC’s 10 year old birthday. It’s taking over 10 minutes to wake up and even longer to connect to the internet. We simply would like to be able to get to weddingbee faster and wish to be able to work on our DIY projects more efficiently. We’re photo fanatics and as part of our “non traditional’ registry, we selected to put in $20 contributions towards a digital SLR. Having the mac would allow us to work on the photos and share them with our friends and family.
I’ve never had the privilege of owning my own computer before. this will allow me to edit pictures of my sweetie and surprise her with something special. shhhhhhh….
I would love to have a chance to use this brand new computer and software for some fun DIY wedding projects! We are definitely on a tight budget so this would be a big help!
Because my computer just broke down!
I’ve been a mac user since 1997. My last powerbook died when I was traveling through South Asia in 2005. I finally brought it to the mac dealer in Kathmandu Nepal, and even though my Nepali is pretty awful, the words “hard drive dead” is universal in any language. (But they had Apple IICs there– what a trip down memory lane!) In 2005 I was gifted a powerbook from a generous friend (long story) and I’ve used a mac to build our wedding website through .mac, and I’ve used the microsoft office software to make our budget, our guest list, our chart of gifts received…we’re even going to do our RVSPs by email to be more green. That is…if we have a working computer. Unfortunately, Brain (my machine’s name) has been on the fritz lately, and I’d love a machine that could run all of the new software (I had to make my website on a friends computer!) My fiance and I are paying for our own wedding, and as a teacher and wooden boat builder, there is NO way we are going to afford a new computer this year.
Please check out our mac made website and consider us for this very generous giveaway!
Thank you!
Leslie and Jeff
(PS. Jeff has a 5 year old PC which he puts mac stickers all over to pretend it’s a mac…a new mac would be a dream come true for him too!)
our wedding website:
http://web.mac.com/cushner
I would love to replace my 6-7 year old 12″ PowerBook with something zippy and new that has hard drive space!
We are designing all of the printed pieces for our upcoming wedding from save the dates and invitations to programs. Having a few Macbook would absolutely make the job easier — not to mention that it would make us a little happier.
-Annie and Ron
My fiance and I are absolutely LOVING planning our October 10 wedding, and we’re doing everything ourselves–designing and printing our invitations, writing our ceremony, decorating our wedding site, making the cakes for our reception…and my five-year-old powerbook has been instrumental in our process thus far.
However, this weekend, he (my powerbook) started to tick and sputter. He comes on some of the time, but then shuts off without warning. I think he may be in the hospice portion of his life…and he’s long past warranty, so I’m looking ahead to a computer-less life until I move to California to be with my husband-to-be in August (we’ve been long distance for two years).
I would be able to handle life without a computer, save for one crucial thing: planning a part of the wedding that is a surprise for my love. We are both singer-songwriters, and though he thinks that a classical quartet is going to accompany us down the aisle, I am in the middle of writing a series of songs to be played at our ceremony as a surprise to him. However, when my computer dies completely, I will have no way to record the songs and arrange them for our friends (who are playing for us). I am really heartbroken at the thought of having to abandon this part of our ceremony, and a new laptop would assure me that I would be able to give him that gift on our day.
Thanks!
Kate
This is an amazing giveaway that my fiancee and I would be lucky to get. We are both still in college as we had to slow things down with the birth of our daughter. I do online classes while he is working towards his RN and we share one computer. It is definetly hard because he takes the computer with him for most of the day and I have to rush and do homwork when he is not using it. If that isn’t bad enough the computer is dying on us. We had problems with it before and since it was still under warranty we got it fixed. Now we do not have the warranty and no money to fix it. I am just hoping it can survive for at least a year long. The computer would also be benefical towards DIY wedding things since I plan on making almost everything. We can’t really afford anything so cutting corners is what we have to do. This prize is amazing and anyone would be lucky to win it!
I need this prize for the same reasons everyone else does. =) I love Mac’s and the $1000.00 will really help make our wedding plans complete. Thank you for the opportunity. May the person out there who needs it most win. Good Luck!
I wish this opportunity was available when my computer died with all of our wedding plans on it. Even the Geek Squad couldn’t help.
My husband converted me. I’ve become a Mac user. How great to be able to have one for my very own!!
Getting married in exactly 2 months–eeeeek so the wedding prep is almost done but once it’s over I am wanting to put together a “multi-media package” of the wedding for my parents, bridesmaids and grandmother as a gift.
We had MACs in college and they are definitely WAAAAAY better for putting together professional looking mulitmedia. I would LOVE to give them a gift that I designed from the start, not something that someone had to create.
My fiance has been on WeddingBee everyday taking notes of ideas for our wedding next year. She got into making wedding invitations now too! If she had a Mac (her current laptop is pretty outdated) she would be able to design other graphics for invitations and would be better equipped in planning our wedding (with my help of course :p).
As with many Americans, and people world-wide, my fiancé and I as well as our families have been hit by the current economic recession. We count our blessings though as we are all still getting by okay. Despite the serious downsides to the current economic times, the recession has helped us to approach life with a stronger sense of practicality. This being said, we have just told our parents that we will be paying for our wedding ourselves as we don’t want them to redirect any of their finances to anything other than the essentials right now (i.e. mortgage, food, car payments, etc.). So as a young couple getting through our first recession, we would like for our wedding to be cost-effective but meaningful and stylish. What gives us hope these days are blogs such as Wedding Bee that share so many wonderful ideas on how to save money while still expressing one’s personality and style! Winning the new Macbook and Microsoft Office would be such a huge asset in realizing these cost-effective dreams and the $1000 Visa gift card would go a long way in helping us to secure other components of our wedding.
My fiance is in New Mexico, I’m here in Maryland, and we’re planning for our wedding in Boston this fall. Winning this macbook would be absolutely awesome! We’ve only gone home once for wedding planning/pre-marital sessions. And we’ll only go home two more times before the big date. Our jobs and finances don’t allow for us to go back more. So far our methods of long distance planning is through emails, phone calls, and video chats. He has a macbook. I have an ibook, which I love, but it doesn’t have an attached webcam like the macbook so I have to use his sister’s old Rocketfish webcam. I’m very grateful for it but it’s SO annoying. When we video chat it slows down my computer. I usually have to pause the conversation, look up the wedding details, unpause and resume conversation. It’s really frustrating because it slows down our wedding planning. Winning the laptop and its wonderful webcam would be a great way to stay sane during our long distance engagement.
I’ve already started with some wedding DIYs on my mac, such as the Save-the Dates. But I never knew about these programs like the excel budget form. I use the old wedding binders which I lug around when I do planning. I constantly reprint or cross out my budget worksheets. Having these wedding programs can help me to update files easily, send it over to my fiance, and stay organized! Plus, I’d save more money decorating the place cards with Word. Winning this laptop and all its programs would be a great blessing for the wedding planning.
I would give it to my daughter who is a college student. She is going into pre-med and most of the other students have one in class, but she cannot afford one. The government loans are not enought to cover tuition, books, and a laptop. This would help her in school a lot.
Hi! We would LOVE to win this My fiance and I designed our own invitations and save-the-dates. We printed them on recycled paper with a tear-off RSVP post card - all on our home printer. We wrapped them in twine and sealed them with wax. We only spent about $200 and they look PRO! I think we should win because we plan to make the invitations for all of our friends future weddings (they’ve already started asking!) and we will save them money while also setting forth an example of eco-friendly invitations (the entire thing is one sheet folded up three times with a perforated RSVP - and it acts as its own envelope!) My Mac Powerbook died, and his is on its last legs - and we want to be able to do this for friends and family in the future. Its a simple way to save money and trees, and a nice way to personalize invitations to move away from the boring styles that you see too often!
What a great prize for the DIY bride! I would use the Office suite to manage guest lists, mail merge invitations and create fun invites. You don’t need a wedding binder if you have it all in one place on your computer! Plus, it would make it way easier to share addresses and contact info with everyone involved.
I’m a huge Apple fan, but alas to afford one is another story. I fortunately have an older mac laptop, and since my main uses are documents for school work and surfing the internet, it still does everything I need. In face, I believe if I were fortunate enough to be selected in this contest, I would give the new one to my fiance, as her laptop is an older Windows machine that has certainly seen better days (I can’t read any of the ‘home row’ letters these days….lol).
And of course, Office would be a great tool for both of us as we pursue our degrees (she’s almost got her associates in nursing, I’m only about 1/3 towards mine in public administration).
Thanks for the consideration, and good luck to everyone!
My fiance made this beautiful Save the Date on his Mac, which stopped working two weeks ago! He spent hours writing in all of our guests’ names and used Comic Life to stretch and shape them into the trunk and leaves of the Giving Tree. Everyone asks us how we did it, and when we tell them that we used a Mac program, they are shocked that amateurs like us could pull this off. We need a new Mac with ComicLife fast so we can put our own touch on our invitations, programs and thank-you notes.
I just got my first mac and This would be a perfect addition to our household. My fiance has a PC (Dell) and he has had such awful luck with it, constantly sending it back in, not having sound, etc. And what a perfect way for us to be an even more perfect pair if we both had Macs
This would come in handy just in time for creating a lot of our diy projects we plan to do for the wedding as well
My fiancé and I would benefit in so many ways from this wonderful prize! Not only are we trying to be creative and save money on our wedding, but my fiancé is a first year law student. We are high school sweethearts and have been dating since our junior year. He has had the same laptop that he’s using now in law school since freshman year of college. While I am living in Richmond, he is in school in South Carolina and trying to transfer to Virginia this summer so that we can be closer and plan our wedding/start our life together. Not only would he be able to use the computer for school, we would both be able to use it to save money on our wedding by designing our own save the dates and invitations. Because we are a single income couple and will continue to be for the next three years, and also due to the fact that my parents are not able to help us out very much, the budget we are working with is very small and will more than likely use most of the money I’ve saved since graduating from college three years ago. I think the laptop and software would do a great job of helping me manage the budget as well as cut corners and be creative! I currently do not have a home computer (and the lap top is in South Carolina) so I often take time at work to manage the guest list/budget on my work computer. Being able to work on wedding related stuff at home in the evenings would save me a lot of worries! Lastly, we are constantly going into the apple store at the mall and drooling over the computers (if only we weren’t saving for a wedding and our first house!). I would love to surprise my fiancé with this unbelievable prize!
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