Weddingbee Blog

A ten-hour car ride up and back to collect Sammie Sister from college left me with way too much time on my hands. Forced family fun can make a person do crazy things! Which is why I used those 10 hours to create a bridesmaids’ newsletter.

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This was a project that, prior to my half a day in the car with nothing but the scenery to occupy my time, I would have thought was totally unnecessary. I actually had a good time making it, though. I hadn’t been in contact with my bridesmaids for a while, so I had lots of things to tell them. Enter the newsletter!

I first started by hunting through all the wedding blogs for inspiration. I found tons of ideas, but they ranged from the simple to the out-of-control elaborate. I know my limitations, though, and decided to stick with the simple MS publisher document. MS publisher has a neat newsletter template, and I could change the colors and move things around to my heart’s content.

After I had my design the way I wanted it, I brainstormed different content that I wanted to include. I didn’t want to update them on everything I had been doing because a) that would fill more than a four-page newsletter, and b) I want there to be some surprises. I picked topics to include in the newsletter that directly affected them.

The one section that I “borrowed” from another bride is the “How Can I Help?” section. I thought this was a fantastic idea because I know when I was a bridesmaid I was constantly asking how I could help. I do feel a little awkward assuming that they want to help, but I figure, hey, this is what they signed up for. Also, since it is in the newsletter and not me telling them, they can just selectively ignore it if they are so inclined.

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