Divalicious {dot} com

I love invitations, note cards, stationary, just pretty paper period. Finding the perfect invitation {letterpress of course} for my wedding was one of my favorite parts of planning. I spent hours pouring through samples. I soon learned that all brands are not created equal. So when I find a great printer, I stick with them.

Wedding Paper Divas {and their suite of companion brands...TinyPrints (love), et al.} are one of the most consistent, quality-driven, über design-centric printers I've come across. I think they have a wonderful selection no matter your person style/taste.

Their wedding invitations are so beautiful, I was excited to hear that they now offer a free coordinating website! There's nothing worse than a poorly coordinated wedding. Everything doesn't have to {and shouldn't} match exactly, but it should blend.

The Divas are offering a free wedding website to go along with over 40 of their most popular wedding invitations. This means that you can now easily create an ad-free personal wedding website complete with online RSVP capabilities and more—and keep it FREE for one year!

Some of the features of the website include:

• coordination with over 40 of Wedding Paper Divas invitation designs
• easy to design, just point and click
• custom domains
• unlimited photos
• music and video
• online RSVP
• blog
• password protection
• guest list manager 
• ....and did we mention it's free?

So what are you waiting for?!? You know you're not really engaged until you put up your wedding website ;-)

 

Thank You...No Thank YOU

I'm an old-fashioned girl and my mother taught me that all gifts require a proper handwritten thank you note.  However, this tradition can be a bit daunting when you are getting married.  There are thank yous for the engagement gifts, the bridal shower gifts and finally the wedding gifts.  And with wedding guest lists in the 2-300 range {or even in the high 100s} your thank you note list can easily reach 500.  Sure you could do electronic thank you messages or non-personalized mass thank yous.  But if you are having a formal wedding or are a traditional bride, you understand the necessity of a handwritten thank you.

I for one get hand cramps just thinking about writing 500, 300 or even 100 thank you notes.  So I was thrilled to hear about a new company called Thanks For Everything.  They will draft unique, thoughtful, personal messages for each gift you receive and will "hand write" {well using a printed script that looks just like real handwriting} each of your notes if you wish, AND will even mail them.  Doesn't get much better than that.  If your wedding budget is already through the roof, you might as well allot just a bit more for this time/image saver.

Sample of how the "writing" looks.