Poinsettia Dude & I have lived together for almost 3 years, which means that we are not in need of the typical registry items such as towels, sheets, pillows, silverware, dinnerware, etc.  Because we don’t really ‘need’ anything, it makes it difficult to set up a registry!  What do you give a couple who has everything?  Money! But of course, it is tacky and rude to ask for money…everyone knows that!  So we registered for the next best thing!  Our Honeymoon!

We found a honeymoon registry called HoneyFund!  I set up an account and designated gift contributions so guest can easily see what their cash contributions will go towards.  Instead of handing over $50 in a card, they would choose to pay for a portion of our flights or an excursion or anything else they wanted to help with.

Here is a sample of the “registry”:

(Source: honeyfund.com)

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Our Save the Dates were emailed out and were a huge hit!  Poinsettia Dude & I worked for months on a stop-motion video to send to our guests.   To see our finished product,  Click Here!

We decided to send a funny card from someecards.com to all of our invited guests.  When they received the e-card, this is what they saw-

Within the e-card, we typed up a sweet message asking our guests to save the date for our wedding!  We then inserted a link to our Stop Motion video that we had posted to YouTube and included the link to our personal wedding website.

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Ooo another great online store that I found that has a lot of great bridesmaid potential dresses!  It’s a lot like ModCloth but even cheaper!  Almost 90% of the dresses are under $50.  Another great find!

Store: RUCHE

something to smile about lacy one shoulder tunic $42.99

citrusy sweet blossoms applique dress $36.99

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I don’t know about you, but I love it when couples incorporate anything with chalkboards into their weddings.  So I decided to give it a shot and design my own frame chalkboards.  I originally designed it to be used as favors, but we shall see.  I decided to go with all different sizes of wooden frames just to see how it would turn out.  Luckily, each frame was $1 at Michaels each!  Here are the results…

Here’s the final product with my magnet felt corgi’s I made a while back.

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I just bought a pair of dyeable shoes for the wedding on Shoebuy.com. I like their website because it actually tells you the height of the heel in inches, not just “high” or  “mid”. They also offer free (ground) shipping in BOTH directions, so if they don’t fit you can exchange for the right size.

Right now they’re also doing their 20% off Winter Sale (SAVE20) and if you’re a member (as in you register at check out) you receive another 10% off. AND, here’s a link for 10$ off. 10$ off a pair of shoes at Shoebuy.com

Here’s the shoes I bought: (Touch Ups Abby)

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Yes, it is here!  The Vera Wang David’s Bridal Collection has just come out this month.  These dresses are absolutely stunning.  Not only are they stunning, but they’re affordable!  Most of Vera Wang’s Dresses cost around $5000-$10,000+.  At David’s Bridal, the Vera Wang collection ranges from $600-$1400.  They’re more on the modern chic side with a touch of the vintage look.  If you love lots of layers and tulle, you’ll love this new line. Sooo beautiful.  drool…

If you know me, I absolutely love anything vintage!  I was shopping at Anthropologie one day and I discovered this vintage glass (listed below).  I fell in love with the design and I knew I had to get something like this for all the guest tables.  Unfortunately, I’m probably having 30+ guest tables and I don’t want to be spending $6 for each glass.  I found ones from Pier 1 for under a dollar, but I’m not too crazy about the design.

Do you have any suggestions where I can find each for $1 or less?

Anthropologie: $6.00

Pier 1: On Sale for $0.98 each

My Attempt to do a Wedding Veil

“Back in the day,” when I was trying on wedding dresses, I discovered how ridiculously expensive wedding veils were.  The typical cost of a 2 tiered wedding veil is $150-$500.  You probably can get a super cheap wedding dress for that cost!

Well, to save a couple hundred dollars, I decided to make my own wedding veil.  Overall, it only required some basic sewing skills.  I didn’t even create the veil from scratch!  I got a pre-maid two tiered veil from Joanns Fabric Store.  It was a lot simpler then I thought it would be.

Wedding Veil

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We booked our July 2011 honeymoon in August 2010. Choosing our honeymoon destination was quite the long, elaborated story for two people who want to travel the world (practically). So I’m going to do this in segments. Today: how we chose!

Mr. Magnolia and I decided to prioritize the honeymoon, allocating quite a large budget to it. It will be the first time we take a proper trip together – if we exclude road trips, of course. We decided to give ourselves two and a half weeks for our honeymoon.

So we started thinking about where to go. With our budget and time frame, we could go to Europe.

Oh, Paris, how we long to visit thee.

I went to Europe in August 2009. I knew that Euro trips are a lot of sight-seeing, walking around, and as gorgeous as they are, they are also exhausting.

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