Congrats to Jenna, who is our first winner this week!  Jenna signed up for the new Inspired Creations newsletter (have you signed up yet? The form is in the sidebar!) and has won a gorgeous garter from The Garter Girl.

Throughout this week Cyd and I are going to be randomly selecting newsletter subscribers to receive some great prizes. All …

Whew, it’s been a whirlwind last month for me ya’ll!  I’m excited to be home after three consecutive weekends away.  I plan to veg and watch lots of baseball and Grey’s Anatomy.

So have you started thinking about your entry for the Inspired Creations Contest yet?  Cyd and I can’t wait to see all of the DIY gift ideas you are …

Elizabeth Anne Designs and The Sweetest Occasion are back with the latest Inspired Creations Contest and our first annual Inspired Creations holiday gift exchange!

For this Inspired Creations Contest, we’re asking readers, bloggers, and vendors alike to get involved and we’re challenging you to create an original DIY gift idea. You can envision it as a favor idea, a bridesmaid gift, …

The weekly roundup is on hiatus this week as we unexpectedly decided to road trip it from Chicago to Atlanta for the Braves games this weekend.  Is driving 25 hours in three days crazy?  Perhaps, but I’m crazy for the Braves.  If you happen to see me around the Ted, please say hi or tweet me!

In the meantime, have a …

Happy Friday everyone!  I am headed out of the office early today to go to the ballpark, and I can’t wait for my hot dog.  Fall baseball is one of life’s great pleasures.  If it were only Turner Field instead of Wrigley, life would be perfect!

Here’s a recap of this week on EAD:

{Our Labor of Love/Smilebooth}

The lovely and sweet Kathleen …

Happy Friday everyone! I have already stepped outside of the office twice today to enjoy the gorgeous weather here in Chicago – I hope it’s as beautiful where you are as it is here!  Balancing work, EAD, and life gets really difficult when all I want to do is go outside.  :)

Get excited for Monday, because the next local wedding guide, …

Updated: Congratulations to our winner, Lindsey!

Everyone loves beautiful thank you notes, right? Well you’ve come to the right place, because Hello! Lucky is giving one EAD reader 150 digital-print thank you cards in the design of their choice!

There are so many awesome designs to choose from to match any wedding style; you can see them all right here.

For your …

I hope you all had a wonderful short week – I’m so excited to see fall weather descend on Chicago and am hoping for a beautiful weekend so that we can spend as much time enjoying it outdoors as possible. Are you as happy that it’s fall as I am?

I’m thrilled to announce that the next of the EAD …

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you all have fun plans for this Labor Day weekend.  I’m so excited to take a little break from posting and designing EAD and re-energize for fall (can you believe it will be fall already?) and think about all of the fun things I want to bring to EAD.  So many ideas, so little time!  I also …

I want to thank everyone for following along as I launched the new EAD local wedding guides! I absolutely love all of the new EAD bride bloggers and want to thank everyone who took the time to comment on their first few posts and get to know them. I can’t wait to follow their stories and hope you …

Good morning, lovely readers!  My name is Teresa, and I am a bride-to-be planning a Philadelphia wedding for the summer of 2011.

Perhaps you’d like to learn a little bit more about me?  Well, aside from my fondness for party hats, here are some fun facts:

My sister (an English teacher) is 11 years older than me, and my brother (a physicist) is 13 …

I am so thrilled to be blogging for EAD!

I’m planning my wedding for June 10, 2011 in the south Chicago suburbs. It’s going to be a vibrant affair with a lot of different styles thrown in. My groom’s style is modern, elegant, refined, subtle- I am colorful, loud, silly, and retro- we’re a perfect complement. Our wedding should be …