Love the customized wine labels you can buy from Northwest Cellars as a favor for your guests.  You can choose from a variety of reds, whites and even champagne for a very reasonable price per case. And I LOVE  a favor with a purpose!  Save your money on the framed photo keychain of you and your [...]

There are a lot of things in life that people won’t offer up their unsought advice about.   I think most people would tell you that they wouldn’t get involved with telling a friend what they should and should not do about their finances, or their career, or their lifestyle choices.  Most people might not feel compelled [...]

          There is this great commercial out on TV now where a man gets on a bus and sits down next to this woman, and begins speaking to her in discombobulated English about how she is his long lost cousin, and only she can help him retrieve his lottery winnings (or some such thing) by [...]

Okay so it’s not completely novel. Loads of people do the “make a donation in lieu of favors” thing.  And I’ve clearly already addressed the fact that you can donate your old wedding dress to breast cancer research.  But this little site I found is really about going above and beyond.  The I Do Foundation’s [...]

Trash the Dress Donate the Dress! After our wedding, I took my disgusting wedding gown to the cleaners to go through the preservation process.  My husband saw the bill and told me I was crazy to spend all that money to keep “some material” in a box in our closet for the rest of our lives.  He [...]

If you’re a wedding junkie like me I’m sure you’ve seen at least some of the wedding shows that are now on nearly every channel. I happen to be a big fan of “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?” on WETV. Each episode of the show focuses on a planner helping a bride with [...]

As of October 27, 2007, I am officially married! Hooray. After two (short) years of planning, Joe and I managed to finally have a wedding, and it was FABULOUS if I do say so myself, and I do. I’m not even sure where to begin. Our wedding was at [...]

  Mr. Palercio, my former junior high teacher, loved to use this phrase with students who’d forgotten to turn in assignments on time.  “A day late and dollar short,” he’d say when you approached his desk long after the bell had rung with your attempt at last night’s homework done in the hallway between classes. As [...]

  …because, like me, you failed to hire a planner.  Yes, yes, of course you can do the whole thing by yourself.  Sure you get married all the time, you watch tv, you’re good at organizing, who needs a planner? Well, as it turns out, I do.  Yes, we all know that it is lovely for [...]

  Last week I had the following conversation with Joe, my husband-to-be:Joe: What’s left to do for the wedding? Me: So much, I need an aisle runner for one thing. Joe: What do we need him for? Me: Him who? Joe: A runner, why do we need him? Me: You have no idea what a runner is do [...]