Category — blogging

Big thanks go to Tiffany for her amazing guest blog week. Her wedding was absolutely stunning and we hope you enjoyed reading about it and drooling over the pictures as much as we did!

{Matt Faber}

This week we have Victoria joining us! Her fabulous blog, Victoria with Roses, is chock-full of wedding inspiration and she’s going to be giving us some great ideas on how to make our weddings unique. We also have some gorgeous real weddings to feature!

Last but not least, please don’t forget to send in your DIY projects for our November DIY month. All of your projects will be published on EAD, and the top 10 projects will be sent to our AMAZING expert panel of judges {Kathryn, Maria, the SW girls, Jenna, and Emily}, where they’ll have the difficult decision of choosing a winner to receive a $100 Amazon.com gift card (and bragging rights, of course).  :)  If you wouldn’t mind, please help us to spread the word of this contest by posting an announcement on your own blog.  All of the projects that have come in are so creative and wonderful and we are so excited for you to see them!

Happy Sunday night!

E.

Congratulations to Tina - she’s getting married today!

{Sarah Alair}

Hi everyone - run on over to Dana’s blog to comment on {this post} for a chance to win a $200 American Bridal Accessories shopping spree!

Contest ends Oct 19th at midnight so hurry. 

E.

Today is Blog Action Day, and the subject is poverty.  So we’re going to talk a little bit today about how our weddings and our blog community can help those less fortunate or contribute to changing our world for the better, in any small way that we can. 

I fully realize that this post won’t even begin to address the massive world issue of poverty and that weddings and poverty are an incongruent combination.  Rather, I hope that Blog Action Day and all of the posts that are being written provide us all with the impetus to research poverty and determine how we can make a difference and make a change in our daily lives, no matter how small that change seems in light of the mountain we need to climb. 

Some ideas:

• Donate unused food or cake from your wedding to local shelters or soup kitchens.
• After your wedding, take your centerpieces/floral arrangements to hospitals or convelescent homes - it will help to brighten someone’s day!
• Donate your gown and bridesmaids dresses to an organization such as Brides Against Breast Cancer or the Glass Slipper Project or resell on sites such as Once Wed so that each and every bride can have the dress of her dreams.
• Instead of spending money on favors, donate to your favorite charity.
• Sell or gift as many wedding items as you can to other brides - it will save on consumption and help everyone’s budget!  Yay for Bridesharing!
• Repurpose vintage/used items or family heirlooms in your wedding.
• Participate in Pay It Forward.
• Donate your time and talent to help another bride with a project. I’ve seen so many examples of this in the blog community and it’s so wonderful that we have bloggers, vendors, readers, and brides willing to help each other along the way!
• Work with vendors who volunteer their time and talents to help those in need - there are a lot of wedding elves out there, you don’t have to look far!
• Go on a honeymoon to a locale that needs tourism dollars, near (New Orleans) or far (Ghana, Nicaragua) - you’ll get more bang for your buck, help the local economy, and also see a place in the world you may never have had the opportunity to visit.

We all want to have (or in the case of the vendors reading this, help people have!) the wedding of our dreams, no matter how big, small, formal, or casual that wedding may be.  And the same people who have the desire to have the wedding of their dreams are also caring and contributing members of the world - it’s not mutually exclusive.  I’ve never seen a group of people who are more tolerant, helpful, creative, and good-hearted than this community!  So in light of that …

What are you doing to help?

E.

We received the loveliest email from Audrey Snow. In cooperation with the American Cancer Society, Audrey has begun to offer free boudour sessions (with images) to SW Florida’s breast cancer patients and survivors.

The best part?  Audrey is not simply doing this in celebration of breast cancer month, this is an ongoing opportunity for breast cancer patients and survivors.  Audrey, thank you for your incredibly good heart and for letting us know about this!

E.

Congratulations to Yvonne, the winner of two tickets to the Wedding Salon Show in Miami. Yvonne, you’ll be receiving an email from us shortly.

In the meantime, check out the venue they’ll be using for the show. Can you say wow!

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Thank you to all of our participants!
A.

Hi everyone! We are currently on the hunt for vendors, recent brides, or brides-to-be who are interested in a week-long guest blogging opportunity on EAD. If you’re interested, please email us at {elizabeth anne designs at gmail dot com}.

Also, don’t forget that November is DIY Month!  We want to receive as many projects from you as possible so please keep sending them in!

E.

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Our new blog of the week, The Dieline, is filled with the most innovative packaging on the market. It’s great inspiration for those of us looking for graphic ideas or trendy and fun ways to package our favors!  We know you’ll enjoy!

A.

I wanted to take the opportunity to thank LeeAnn for a WONDERFUL week of guest blogging! Her wedding was absolutely stunning and from the looks of things, you all loved hearing about all of the details.

{Jason Q Tran}

Coming up this week, we are excited to welcome back Davash, who is returning to EAD to show us the results of all of her hard work during planning.

{Peter Doyle Photography}

Her Central Park wedding was unbelievable and we can’t wait for you to read about it!

E.

PS - Not only is November DIY month on EAD (projects, people, SEND projects!) but we have a BIG surprise for you on November 3rd. Stay tuned!

Since we’re going to be all about DIY here in November, I thought I’d pass along this awesome blog I came across, One Pretty Thing.

Each day, links are posted to fabulous DIY projects from across the web!

All you crafty-types must check it out!
E.