Wow! It’s so exciting to be guest blogging this week for Elizabeth Anne Designs. I starting planning my wedding on April 28, 2007 and got married on May 3, 2008 and I’ve loved reading this blog to find inspiration for our big day. The images, the ideas, and the advice were so valuable to me throughout the process!

I am going to start by introducing myself. My name is Erin and my new husband and I live in Columbia, South Carolina. We love South Carolina, but I’m a Louisiana girl at heart. I have a blog (Blue Eyed Bride) that turned into a wedding blog shortly after I started it. I have loved catching up with other brides and can’t believe the great big world of wedding blogs that I never new existed!

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A. and I are so excited to bring you a fantastic guest blogger this week, Erin from Blue Eyed Bride.  Erin was recently married, and it was fabulous, but I’ll let you see that for yourself during this week as she takes you through her planning process all the way up to her big day!

Welcome Erin, we are thrilled to have you here!

E.

Ooh, yummy!  It’s how-to month over at Etsy.  Right now I’m most excited for stencils (July 21st), glass etching (July 25th) and paper boxes (July 31st).  Head on over to see the full schedule.

A.

A. and I read so many different amazing blogs that we thought we would begin sharing our favorite posts/ideas/links of the week.  We hope you enjoy and if there is anything you would like to see featured in our “Around the Blogosphere” column, please send us an email to {elizabeth anne designs at gmail dot com}.

TWIB (this week in blogging!):

• Southern Weddings has extended the deadline for the Design Carrie’s Wedding contest - so if you haven’t already, run {here} and enter…
• Wordle is everywhere, thanks to Design for Mankind…
• Amazing guest posts this week on Design*Sponge by Mackenzie, mastermind behind Kenzie Kate and author of the fabulous Something Old, Something New blog…
• Check out An Atlanta Bride - one of my favorite new bride-to-be blogs…
• Blu.Sky.Designs is holding another monogram giveaway!  If you’re on the hunt, comment on her blog for a chance to win…
• Jessica + Michael’s engagement session shot by Perez Photography is fabulous…
• Jenn + Abel’s real wedding shot by Jamie Hammond and featured on Snippet & Ink is absolutely gorgeous…
• With This Ring, I Thee Obsess is planning a Chicago Brides and Blogs happy hour…
• Lovely idea for one-year cards at Melissa’s Smitten…

On a sad note, our hearts go out to Jessica Lynn of Tying the Knot for the sudden passing of her father.  She is an amazing person and we are saddened by her tragic loss.  Please offer her some strength and kind words and keep her and her family in your thoughts.

E.

…We now return for the thrilling conclusion of “How to find a wedding venue in 7 months!”

If I were to give you all the details on every place we researched, contacted, obtained proposals from, and visited, this blog would go on forever and the only remaining readers would be zombies. So, we’ll just cut to the chase, shall we?

For a long while, I had ruled out restaurants because of our desire to marry outdoors. But desperate times called for desperate measures and we figured that we could always do an outdoor ceremony with an indoor reception if we found the right place. So, I hit up the ol’ internets with fresh eyes, and there it was… a beautiful gem had been right under my nose all along.

{Image source: The Bungalow Club}

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Hello readers!

We’ll be posting on issues of etiquette all next week.  So comment below with your biggest wedding dilemmas and we’ll be sure to answer them next week!

A.

Happy Fourth of July! I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend.

Since this is a holiday, I thought I keep it quick and show you how I’m planning on styling my hair for the wedding. After selecting my dress, and knowing that I’ve always wanted to wear one of those large flowers in my hair (ever since seeing Molly Sims wear one in a Cover Girl ad!), I knew that I wanted my hair pulled back. I wasn’t sure if I wanted it up a little high, or low and loose… at first. I made my mind up quickly, though, after seeing this picture of Michelle Williams from the Oscars a couple years ago:

{Image Source: People}

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Happy Independence Day everyone!  To celebrate, here is a board of red, white, and just the softest of blues. 

Top row: Lovin Sullivan Cakes via Weddingbee, Whitebox Weddings via With This Ring…, Nicole Hill via She Walks In Beauty
Middle row: The Green Vase, Wedding via Nibs via {frolic!}, The Bride’s Cafe
Bottom row: Millie Holloman, Artfool via The Bride’s Cafe

Hope you’re enjoying the holiday!
E.

Inspired by this crazy couple in Paris….

{Image Source: Brides.com}

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We have a stunning one for you today.  James and Glenn tied the knot in a gorgeous Florida affair, photographed by Shari Bare and orchestrated by Kelly McWilliams - what a team!  On top of that, James is an interior designer, so as you can imagine, not a detail was left unfinished.

The setting - South Seas Resort on Captiva Island, FL:

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