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Our Top Wedding Favors Ever!

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NO more candy in a mesh bag please and thank you!

We wanted to gather some of what we feel are some of the best wedding favors out there!

Ones that guests will be talking about, using and keeping forever.

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Custom Magnet Favors,

by TANNER GLASS.

$85.00 for 25 favors.

4 magnets to a clear plastic box.

Where to find it:

Emmaline Bride

The Handmade Wedding Marketplace

See this favor.

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Flavorful Memories Herb Favor

$1.99 per favor

You can choose your herb!

Dill, Basil, & Parsley

Where to find it:

Dream Green Weddings

All eco-friendly. All eco-elegant. All in one place.

See this favor.

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Asian Cherry Blossom Themed ChopSticks

$1.14 per favor

Each clear package, enclosed by a beautiful white satin bow,
houses a pair of cherry blossom chopsticks. Size: 9". Tags not included.

Where to find it:

Sunflower Favors

See this favor.

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Amore Stainless Steel Bottle Opener

Buy 20 for $2.39 each and save 15%

Buy 48 for $1.59 each and save 44%

Where to find it:

WeddingFavors.com

See this favor.

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"Reflections" Elegant Black and White Compact Mirror

For the female guests

Kate Aspen 2010 line of favors

"Destination Fairway" Golf Luggage Tag

For the male and femlae guests

Kate Aspen 2010 line of favors

"Reflections" Elegant Black and White Compact Mirror

For the female guests

$2.95

$1.95 for 96+ peices

"Destination Fairway" Golf Luggage Tag

For the male and female guests

$4.59

$2.79 for 96+ peices

Where to find it:

Daisy Days

Personal Products to make your special occasion memorable

See the favor for her

See the favor for him/her

Giving Photo LOVE.

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Pulling from some of our fan photos on our Facebook fan page. Enjoy!

To those featured: Thank you for being a fan and thank you for sharing your work!

Catherine Bligh Photography

Ken the Photographer

Christina Grassianu

Sara Mattison and her husband Brian Mattison.

Photography by The Portrait Gallery

Peter Sefton Photography

Winter Wonderland Inspiration!

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Colors we love for this winter.

Blues, warm browns, white, white, more white, and silver with a splash of sparkle.

its eco-friendly! what more can you ask for?!

Dream Green Wedding
1. Bracelet: Multi-faceted blue resin beads of many sizes are hand-crocheted into a copper wire chain creating this stunning bracelet. Handmade by Carmen Perez in the central region of Chile, this unique lightweight bracelet has a sterling silver claw closure and is approximately 8 inches long.

Dream Green Wedding

3. Soy Candle: These eco-elegant soy candles are hand-poured using 100%, FDA approved, kosher soy oil and burn cleaner than paraffin-based candles. Available in a variety of sizes and scents, these candles burn about about 40% longer than wax candles, are soot-free and do not emit any harmful toxins (like Benzene) into the air.

Charlotte Balbier

Boutique Collection 2010 - Havana

We love this dress! It is the epitome of white dresses. Beautiful, chic and just plain fabulous.

I Do. Weddings Guide inspiration image.

Colored glass is a great way to incorporate color into your scheme and vintage bottles are always beautiful. There are endless things you can use bottles for, flower arrangements, candles, or you can fill them with your favorite wine as a favor. There are fill own wine bottle places available out there, its something fun you and your loved one can do together! Fill em', label them, and cork them!

I Do. Weddings Guide inspiration image.

This is a pine tree covered in frost. There is no saying that your winter wedding will have guaranteed beautiful winter scenes, but you can definitely control you decor for the event.

You can get this look with artificial pine!

What you need:
Fake pine bundles (or any winter tree of your liking), spray adhesive and white and silver sparkle dusting powder! Do this project outside though! It can get messy.

Dream Green Wedding

Earrings: Multi-faceted blue resin beads of many sizes are hand-crocheted into a copper wire creating these stunning earrings. Handmade by Carmen Perez in the central region of Chile, these unique lightweight rectangles have sterling silver hooks and have dimensions of approximately 1 inch by 1.5 inches.

This Place Card: Dream Green Wedding

The planting, watering and budding of a seed into a wonderful garden of green has long been paralleled to the flourishing of love itself. Make this symbolic connection in a pretty, practical and eco-friendly way with these snowflake Please Be Seeded™ place cards that double as a favor. Include them in your wedding or wedding shower and your guests will have a beautiful array of blossoming wildflowers to enjoy as a reminder of your special day. That's because attached to each of these place cards is a removable white paper snowflake (made with recycled paper!) containing wildflower seeds ready to nurture. With the planting instructions and list of flowers printed elegantly on the back, everyone in your party will soon have the chance to show off their green thumbs. Guests names can be handwritten on each place card or printed on clear labels and affixed. Each card is decorated with dazzling white snowflake prints and the "Please Be Seeded" note cleverly directing parties to their tables. The best part is that this favor is environmentally friendly: The tent style place cards are made from recycled paper, and the detachable seed paper shapes grow into wildflowers. Your guests will love to plant and care for these wildflowers and will remember your special day each time they water them. Going "green" has never been so unique!

I Do. Weddings Guide inspirational image.

I always stress vintage because there is something about the beauty, craftsmanship, and uniqueness to vintage pieces. This silver bracelet would be a great addition to any brides look.

Invitations: Dream Green Wedding

These gorgeous invitations truly sparkle! Each wedding invitation is embellished with one Swarovski crystal. The wedding invitation is enclosed in a recycled, pearl white petal envelope adorned with a designer belly band. A classic pearl white outer envelope completes the ensemble. This extraordinary letterpress printing process gives these invitations a special distinction, but more importantly, makes them eco-friendly.

I Do. Weddings Guide inspirational image.

There is nothing more simple than a white rose. Elegant and timeless.

Charlotte Balbier

Boutique Collection 2010 - Willow

Feeling like you need to bit a covered up for a winter wedding. This is a great option to cover your shoulders and look absolutely stunning.

I Do. Weddings Guide inspirational image.

If you look hard enough in antique stores you will find treasures that can give just the right touch to your day. Even if it is one simple piece that you find. Maybe it could be used for your cake plate for both of you to share or it could hold your champagne glasses, the options are endless. Think out of the box!

Thank you for taking time to look at our winter inspiration!

Featured in this inspiration:

Dream Green Weddings!!

how to find them: http://green-wedding.net/

Charlotte Balbier

how to find her: http://www.charlottebalbier.com/

We said " I Do. "

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Hello to all of you newlyweds out there!

Coming soon to our first state website, www.IdoweddingsNH.com

is our real weddings feature.

This feature will also be on all the other I Do. Weddings websites once they are launched. It really is a great way to feature the vendors involved in their event, as well as get great tips on some of the DIY (do it yourself) stuff that they did. For vendors especially, this is a great way to receive recognition for a job well done and advertising for free!

The features will cover every detail of the couple's wedding, from how they met, how they planned, special touches of the day and more!

Please contact us at wesaidIDO@idoweddingsguide.com to receive a submission form for your clients. We are currently taking submissions from all 2009 weddings.

Spring Into Planning!

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For our New Hampshire Couples!

It's time to really get moving on Spring planning! Do you have a checklist? How much is left in your budget? Do you have your colors finalized? Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you?

There is a lot to do, don't get overwhelmed. Its all about baby steps, chipping away at all your little tasks, as well as giving away tasks to those you trust will really help!

Do you have questions on what the next step you need to take is? Give us a shout out and we can give you a quick tip! Place a comment under this blog post anytime!

In order to get going on your checklist, you need to make connections with your local vendors. Its really great to find the vendors right in your community. You can feel confident that the vendor is close to you, for easy communication and a simple thing called "seeing what you're getting".

On www.IdoweddingsNH.com you can search through over 5, 000 businesses. Sound like a lot? Yes, it is. However, search your town and zip code and go to those businesses close to you first.

In this economy, you should feel good about putting back into your community while planning the wedding of your dreams.

Need some inspiration?

Fun spring colors from

Pantone Spring 2010

A Little Personal

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There are major milestones in life that can really take you by surprise. What I mean is, that you think you know how you feel about an event, let's just say your sister's wedding, then all of a sudden its gigantically overwhelming. I thought all along, a great big party, Hilton Head, fantastic venue, fantastic dress, amazing this, amazing that, and then in the moment that you are waiting for your little sister to come down the aisle (well beach flower pedal isle) you realize how big of a deal this really is.

I wanted to share some really great photos with you from that day.

The cloud cover was breathtaking.

Amazing.. everyone moving but her.

The dress is bustled here, yet still stunning.

Right after the ceremony we wait to take thousands of photos!

You can see my eyes darting elsewhere,
too many guests were in the house!

At the reception.

After that weekend, I am even more motivated to have the best wedding resources possible. I want every couple and their families to have the best planning experience. Mostly, I realize how important this milestone is to thousands and thousands of people each year, and it is not something to be taken lightly.

In our October Newsletter

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Since this blog was created after our October newsletter went out I thought I would share some of the fun links that were in the email.

What's hot for Spring 2010.

1. Light airy wedding gowns like these from Vera Wang.

http://fashiondesigners.instyle.com/collections/photos/bridal/vera-wang/spring-2010-bridal/results.html?No=6

2. Great Spring Colors from the Pantone 2010 Color Report.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12223570@N07/3927104447/in/photostream/

3. Feathers. Many wedding gowns on the spring 2010 runway are embellished with feathers. Some only have a few and some are covered. There are other uses for feathers as well! Check it out.

http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/white-ostrich-feather-centerpieces-instead-of-flowers

4. Black Embellishments. No longer only for the rocker girl, black embellishments are making its way onto this season's wedding dresses. From floral motifs to intricate beadwork to sashes and ties, black is this season's best accessory. Great invitation ideas as well.

http://cool-invitation-ideas.com/category/embellishments-for-invitations/

5. Statement Jewelry. Designers showcased a variety of baubles with this season's gowns. Crystal bib necklaces, soft pearls entwined with hard metals and the ever-present chandelier earring are a must have for the Spring Bride. Vintage is always a favorite of mine!

http://www.brides.com/fashion/jewelry/feature/slide/191240/#slide_191980

First things first!

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Hello All!

We are really excited to launch our blog this week. The goal of the blog is to keep you all updated on our websites progress, wedding news, and current trends.

As for our websites, we will be going state by state to launch the I Do. Weddings website in your State. You can visit the first to be up http://www.IdoweddingsNH.com to see what is in store. You can also visit http://www.Idoweddingsguide.com to join our mailing list. We will send out just a few emails here and there for you to get up to information on the websites as well as cool trends and thoughts on what's happening in the wedding world! Believe it or not, spring wedding planning is here!