Review: Wedding Wire

Well, It's not wednesday, so Wedding Monday?
That works right?

From the beginning of the planning stages for our wedding we knew we wanted to do paperless RSVP.

1. It saves paper and is good for the environment.

2. It saves money and is any easy way to save in the budget department.

Therefore is became clear we would be doing a wedding website. 

If you have ever searched for a good wedding website then you know there are hundreds and a lot of them are crap.

When we began our search we were looking for a couple of things.

We wanted it to be a FREE service and we wanted to be able to customize it.

After searching around I realized this was going to be a tall order to fill.

That's when I stumbled across wedding wire.

I will start off by saying that this site is not perfect.

However, it does have a lot of really cool features.

First off there are a ton of designs to choose from and you can completely customize them to make them feel like your own.

I loved that.

Also, once you begin tinkering around with it you can see that if you get creative you can really make your site look really individualized.

The site also features a lot of tools besides the website.

Checklists, budget makers, etc.

To be perfectly honest I didn't use any of it.

So I can't really tell you anything about those.

But, overall I love the site and found this to be the best option when looking for a free wedding website.

Now, some downsides.

The major one is that the site can be difficult to edit.

More than once I found myself scouring the Help page looking for answers.

But if you are patient and put in a little time It's well worth it.

Second downside the RSVP set-up they have is pretty complicated.

They want you to add every single guests name.

That just wasn't that practical for us.

So we got creative on that end.

We re-named our "contact us" page to RSVP.

We then asked guests to write their name and the number attending.

This message then gets sent to a special Gmail account we have set up just for the wedding.

Although this seems a little complicated it works perfectly for us and we could not be happier with our website.

Here are some photos of our website:

If you want to check out our page leave me a comment below and I would be happy to share the URL.

Here is the note we left to guests explaining how to RSVP.

Happy Monday All!

Done Done Done

I just finished my last final for the year! 

Which means I am officially done with school for the summer!

Although my summer is filling up pretty quickly, (Work, wedding, trips)

I am looking forward to relaxing for most of it.

Here some photos that just scream summer to me!

What's your favorite thing about summer?

Countdown to Summer

With all the stress and craziness of the end of another year of college I decided to take a minute and get excited for whats coming up this summer.

June:

Finish off school for the year.

Make a trip up to Portland to work on some wedding stuff. Food, decorations, ect.

Moving into our new apartment.

July:

Bridal Shower.

Road Trip down to LA.

See Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z.

August:

Nathan turns 21.

Get Married.

This summer is going to jam-packed with things but I could not be more excited.

The only thing standing in my way is two more finals and a lab report.

Wish me luck!

Stressed Out

Have you ever been so stressed out that you feel like the world is caving in on you?

I totally have and this last week or so had been especially rough.

It seems like I can break out of it and It's one thing after another.

I do my best to try and live by the motto of Choose Happiness.

But at times my despite my best effort it still feel like giving up on life and just watching Say Yes to The Dress all day long.

As nice as that would be, sadly that is not acceptable as a permeant-everyday-thing.

So, because of that I have been trying to do my best to take time to do things that really make me happy.

I thought why not share them on here because I am sure I can't be the only one who feels this way.

So here it goes, my list of things I do when I am to stressed to function.

Go on a walk.

I thought this was pretty interesting. When I go for a walk I usually try to go for 20 minutes, put my headphones in and bring along some water. The fresh air and endorphins get me feeling relaxed in no time.

Eat some chocolate.

Does this really need to be explained? These guys are my favorite, you can pick 'em up from Trader Joe's. AKA Heaven.

Indulge myself in Say Yes to the Dress

Because if Randy can't help you, no one can.

The only issue is trying to stop myself after one episode.

What are your favorite ways to de-stress?

Happy Monday!

My twenites: day one

 

 

Today marks the end of my teens and the begginging of my twenties.

 

My twenties, to me, always seemed like the most magical age.

 

I remeber thinking how old and sophisticated I would be in my twenties.

 

Visions of me drinking out of cocktail glasses in pretty dresses and living in a big city.

 

Although the reality may not be as glamourous I still belive in a lot of way that your twenties are magcal.

 

You're twenties are the point in your life when you truley become and adult.

 

No it may not be the fairytale, sex in the city scene I have imagined in my head.

 

But, I still have faith that my twenties will  be very good to me.

 

Mostly I am so ready to say goodbye to teens and hello to twenties.

Wedding Dresses

I went in to go wedding dress shopping today.
Mainly because I wanted to get the pressure of that first time over with.
Also because I was tired of everyone asking me if I had gone yet.

So I went in with those two ideas in mind.
Thinking there was no way I would find my dress.
My plan was to try on a bunch of different styles, and find some that worked.

I ended up walking out of the store with a dress.
(Bet you didn't see that one coming.)

Well, I am still shocked.
I am also shocked by the style I chose.
It was not one I would have guessed myself to choose.
I am not going to say what it looks like or post any photos, because I know Nathan looks on here.

But I will say it is gorgeous and lovely.
And perfect in every way.

Also, side note.
I think I like vails.
Another thing I thought I would never like!

While I was trying on dresses I experienced one of those Oh My God moments.
I realized holy cow, I am going to get married.
Obviously I have known that all along, but when I tried the dresses on it sunk in.
I am a bride.

I then preceded to get all giddy on the inside and want the wedding to come tomorrow.
But alas I will have to wait another 7 months.