“Not an effort to be unique, but an effort to be us”
The New York Times recently ran an article called Your Hand in Marriage, and Offbeat Bride got a nod for our DIY posts. That’s cool, but what really caught my eye was this quote from a bride named Lauren Ireland:
“I felt like there’s such a movement to homogeneous wedding styles with Pinterest and Etsy, which are wonderful tools but do seem to make things seem very similar,” she said.
Her wedding, she added, represented “not an effort to be unique, but an effort to be us.”
3 ways to chase down RSVPs from lazy guests
I’m five weeks out from my wedding, and I’m still missing about 30% of my RSVPs. We won’t get into why it’s so hard for people to send in a pre-addressed stamped card, send an email, type out a text, or make a phone call, but we all know it is. Lucky for you, I’ve learned a couple of things in the process of thinking about how to chase people down…
Put your wedding’s hashtag on the back of your place cards
You know what’s awesome? Your friends taking awesome photos of your wedding, and sharing their fun moments online, where you can see ’em. You know what’s not awesome? Missing those photos and tweets because you were distracted in the days surrounding your event.
Post your Instagram hashtag at your wedding reception
Bobbie and Mario knew a ton of their guests would be using Instagram at their wedding, so they posted a little sign letting everyone know the easiest hashtag to use, making it way easier to collect guest photos after the fact. That’s just one of about a million clever things these guys did at their wedding (wait until you see their wedding arch!)… check out Bobbie & Mario’s family-centric ranch wedding.