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save the date

From when to send ’em and what they could look like… Save the Date to check out this archive. (Formal invitations to follow.)

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How to write honest already-married wedding invitations (when you’re already legally married, but having a wedding anyway!)

We sent out our Save the Dates. We’re having a pretty relaxed, but pretty big, picnic wedding in a park. I’ll wear a white dress, he’ll wear a suit, there may be speeches, there will be games. But we’re already married. So as I put together our Wordpress wedsite, and our Save the Dates, I thought a lot about wording, and about transparency, and about inclusion.

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Save The Date designs that people will hang on their fridges in perpetuity (+$250 Minted giveaway!)

We’ve been talking a lot lately about Save The Date cards… three things you need to include, when to send them, whether you need to do them at all. But what about the simple pleasures of gawking at some designs? That my friends I’m here to do today… and when we’re done, I have the details about how you could enter to win $300 from Minted.com toward ANY of these designs.

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Can you handle a Burning Man wedding? Use this flow chart to find out…

We’re having our wedding ceremony at Burning Man. At first I wrote out this really lengthy email, trying to explain what Burning Man is to a bunch of people who have no clue. It was a giant wall of text that got completely out of control (it’s so hard to explain!). I knew I had to trim it down to the basics. Here is the Decision Flow Chart I made for our friends and family to determine if they want to/are able to come to our Burning Man wedding ceremony…

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When to send out all those damn wedding cards and invitations

Save the Dates, shower and bachelor/ette parties, wedding invitations, Thank You cards… when do you need to send out all those damn wedding things? Well, first of all, you don’t NEED to send anything (except Thank You notes), and every wedding is works differently. But here’s a super-helpful guide to when to send out wedding info for maximum efficiency purposes…

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How to make broken mirror save the dates for your Halloween wedding (or even just parties)

Halloween 2013 means it’s a great year for superstition-themed parties! A save-the-date is a great way to establish the mood of your party, and since we’re going with superstitions, what is more superstitious than a broken mirror? Here’s how to make them yourself…

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5 ways you can rock your engagement photos AND save the dates

As a wedding photographer I pretty much love engagement sessions — for me, they’re a great way for me to get to know the couple I’m working with and for the couple to get to know me. For couples, they’re a fun way to capture a period in your life that DOESN’T directly involve the wedding — it’s just you and yours, doing your thing. Engagement photos also often serve a second purpose: you can make really amazing save the date cards using the photos from your session. That is, assuming you like the photos in the first place! So how can you make sure you love your engagement photos?