With a clean and simple interface, this app allows you organize every aspect of your soon-to-be wedding! Features include a countdown, checklist, easy-to-use budget tool, and so much more! Take control of every detail in your wedding with this app. This is a must have for every bride to be!

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Appy Couple Features

 Photo Sharing

Appy Couple makes capturing your wedding memories easy with these features:

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A few things to remember when designing your own wedding invitations:  A good rule of thumb is to order 20% more supplies so, if you make a mistake, you have plenty of supplies left to fix the invitations.  Think about what type of paper you want to use, whether it be recycled, embossed, or if you want to include a colored backing.  Font, font size, alignment, and line spacing are all important factors in the aesthetics of the wedding invitations and will be critical especially if you decide to design and print the invitations yourself.  Inner envelopes can add a pop of color and style to the invitation and even match the theme to your wedding.  Ribbons, sashes, or frosted paper will give your invitations a beautiful finishing touch!

This short video will give you the tools you need to start creating your own wedding invitations.

Make sure to check out our Wedding Links page for resources and help for planning your wedding!

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 On a Wedding Dress Budget?

Want an affordable way to wear the most current and beautiful fashions at your wedding? Try to catch the sample sales!  David’s Bridal holds a sample sale in the fall and keep an eye out for Kleinfield’s sample sale (TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress). Another great way to save money on a wedding dress is to buy consignment.  Wore it Once, Once Wed, Encore Bridal  are all websites that link brides to already worn wedding dresses.  With Once Wed, you can find some of the designers list above for up to 80% off the retail value.  Encore Bridal has an easy to sort feature so that you can quickly and easily sort through the dresses that are in your price range, style you prefer, color, and much more!  Wore it Once is a bit more challenging to find a particular dress that you love, but is still worth checking out!  Now every bride can have bridal couture at their finger tips even if you are on a tight budget!

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Bridesmaids Dresses and Shoes: Give your bridesmaids something they might actually consider wearing again.  This season, fashionable, tea length, peach bridesmaids dresses are showing up in soft fabrics sure to not be pushed to back of the closet.  Peach colored shoes can be paired after the wedding with your bridesmaids favorite skinny jeans and flowy top!

Invitations:  Make your day stand out with peach colored, vintage or rustic styled wedding invitations

Wedding Cake:  Not only can your wedding cake be peach in color, why not have it peaches and cream flavored?  Or even stick a big, ripe peach right on top?!

Peach Bouquets and Hair Accessories:  Carnations, Roses, Orchids, Oh My!  You can arrange your bouquet with your favorites, as peach is a common color for many Spring-Fall flowers.  Use left-over flowers to make a gorgeous hair accessory!

Peach Cocktails:  Possibilities are endless here, but a few favorites are Peach Bellinis, Peach Margaritas, and Peach Mojitos.  Don’t be afraid to use fresh fruit to go with the sweet, juicy ambiance your wedding is sure to create!  Having a country peach themed wedding?  Serve your cocktails in Mason Mugs!  Want to make your Mason Mugs personal and special?  Have your Mason mugs engraved with you and your spouses’ names and wedding date! You can even customize them to have your bridal party or guests names on them!  Get them now! Mason Mugs

Peach Inspired Tablescapes:  Floating Unity Candle with fresh flowers make great table centerpieces.  Get your engraved:  Floating Unity Candles

Peach Makeup:  Look impossible fresh with some peach inspired blushes and lip glosses from Tarte

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1. Gourmet Food Trucks

Why spend money on a caterer when you can have a specialty, gourmet food truck?  Food trucks around the country are being booked as the main food feature of weddings everywhere.  With little to no cost to the happy couple, food trucks will park at your reception and make made-to-order gourmet dishes for your hungry guests.  Another great feature about food trucks is little to no clean up, saving you money with a serving and clean up staff.

2. The Roaring 20’s

Flapper inspired hair pieces, vintage wedding dresses, and the air of revival are all coming to mind when planning a Roaring 20’s wedding.  Designers are coming out with 20’s inspired pieces are are not only affordable, but breathtaking.

3. Online Wedding Registries

Gone are the days of big department store wedding registries and scanning endless amounts of wedding gifts.  At Wedding Republic, you can register for things you really want people to get you, not just another toaster.  You can choose from categories and lists of gifts, or customize your own list of gifts that reflect who you and your partner truly want to be together.  Best of all?  It’s easy!

4. Custom Wedding Favors

Want to give something to your bridal party and wedding guests that they will cherish even after the festivities are over?  Custom wedding glassware is the way to go!  Not only can you personalize the glassware with the names of the bride and groom, the wedding date, and a custom graphic; but you can also add the names of your guests specific to each glass.  A personalized gift will show your bridal party or guests just how special you think they are and how much you appreciate them celebrating your big day with you.  Get your personalized wedding glasses now from GlassMage!

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5. Wedding Dresses with Pockets

Look out traditional, pockets are in!  Pockets on wedding dresses are all the rage and wedding dresses designers are flaunting their pocketed creations in bridal magazines and they are showing up in wedding blogs all over the net.  Stylish and convenient, we agree that pockets on wedding dresses can add a little something extra to your big day!

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Want a wedding cake that your wedding guests will be buzzing about for weeks? Take your idea to your baker and have them turn it into a reality!  Not the creative type?  Your baker is!  Have them create a wedding cake that will push their creative skills to the max.  Take a look at some of the incredible wedding cakes handcrafted for each bride.

Grab more wedding cake ideas from Pinterest!

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The Mint Dresses

Give your bridesmaids something they will actually wear again!  This season’s mint colored bridesmaid’s dresses are light, flowy, and simply gorgeous.  There are styles to flatter every shape and size, so don’t be afraid to mix and match the styles of your bridesmaid’s dresses.

Have you thought about stepped out of the box on your wedding gown, but didn’t quite know how to do it tastefully?  Well mint is the way to go.  It is gorgeous on almost any skin tone and is a light, but stunning color.  If you will be wearing a mint wedding gown, pair it with white or cream colored bridesmaid dresses.  Since this color is already going to wow your guests, try wearing a tiara or a headband of flowers instead of a traditional veil.

The Reception

The possibilities are endless with a mint colored weddings.  Your guests will be minty-fresh mood with these great mint reception ideas:

Mint Chocolate Cupcakes	Mint Lemonade	Mint Signature Cocktails
Mint Green Mini Cakes	Mint Colored Tablescapes	Mint Macaroons

Invitations

Invitations are a great way to set the (pan)tone of the wedding.  Not only will the invitation stand out in the mail, but it could also stand out in smell.  Package tiny mints inside of your invitation to give your guests a minty surprise when they RSVP! Make yours stand out with some of these great ideas:

The Bouquet

Mint colored flowers are in this season, so finding the perfect bouquets for you and your bridesmaids may not be as hard as you may think.  Mint green parrot novelty tulips, mint green carnations, pale creamy green cymbidium orchids, and the giant hydrangea light antique flower are just a few of the beautiful flowers to add to your arrangements.

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Glamping Themed Weddings

Outdoor weddings are becoming quite popular, especially after celebrities, like Matthew McConaughey, had breathtaking glamping style weddings recently.  Glamping themed weddings are a great way to have an unforgettable wedding on a budget.  Because almost everything can be DIY, many brides are utilizing family and friends’ creative skills to craft the wedding of their dreams. Glamping themes are also great for brides that would prefer a green, Eco-friendly wedding.  Here are a few ways to create a glamping themed wedding:

• Outdoor Style Invitations and “Camp Site” Maps
• Trail Mix Favors for Your Guests
• S’mores Bar
• Picnic Bench Reception Tables
• Rustic Camping Style Tablescapes
• Upscale Camping Style Food (Gourmet Hamburgers, Fruit and Gourmet Cheeses, Picnic Baskets, Brown Bag Meals, etc..)
• Handmade “Directional” Signs
• Barn Ceremonies
• ATV Rides from the Ceremony to the Reception

Glamping Themed Honeymoons

Camping with your new husband?  This could be either incredibly romantic or an incredible disaster.  Not to worry, there are a plethora of ways to make this type of honeymoon a complete success, not to mention the closeness you will feel to your new spouse!  Pick an area where you feel you could get the most out of the time.  A camping ground next to a lake, for example, could provide a wide range of couples activities.  Don’t want to be completely secluded?  Find a camping ground that has a clubhouse, and group activities like hiking on nature trails. Also, don’t forget your tent and sleeping bag!

The possibilities for glamping style weddings are truly up to your wildest imagination.  If you love camping and want a wedding that is sure to be remembered and envied by your guests, then glamping themed weddings are the way to go!

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Cloud Parade

Shop and Design your own wedding on Cloud Parade!  Shop by Color, Category, and Style!  If you see things that you are dying to have for your own wedding, put them in a cloud.  Clouds are places for you to store what you love and view it anytime you want!  Need more inspiration for your wedding?  You can also view other bride’s clouds and even customize and buy that cloud to fit your own wedding buy hit the “I want it all” tab!

Etsy Weddings

Etsy has everything you could possibly want for your wedding from veils, dresses and accessories to invitations, wedding favors, and decor!  Have it all delivered right to your inbox by signing up for the Etsy Wedding Email!  Plus, you can have a wedding registry in Etsy for vintage and homemade wedding gifts!

Dresses

Lace is making a come back this Spring, with iconic wedding dress styles to fit every beautiful bride.  It is showing up in appliqués, trims, and overlays.  Here is a collection of gorgeous lace gowns: Brides.com
Sheer Overlays and Peplum skirts are also on their way back in.  View the Top 10 Spring Wedding dress trends for 2013: The Knot

Wedding Snap

Get rid of those old throw away cameras you set on the table and step into the future of social wedding photography!  Wedding Snap is an IPhone app that can be downloaded by your guests for real-time photo snapping (well, almost real-time! 5 minute delay for unwanted photos!)  Once you sign up your wedding on the site, your guests will be able to upload an unlimited amount of photos and albums, be able to download the photos, and buy prints and even retouching.

Plants Instead of Flowers?

The hottest new trend for a Spring wedding is swapping your wedding flowers for plants!  Putting flowers in your undo?  Swap it for a gorgeously green Succulent plant!  More ideas on how to swap your flowers for unique plants.

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Looking for great ideas to help plan the wedding of your dreams? 100 Layer Cake has almost 30 different categories of wedding ideas, sure to help you with ideas for almost anything!  Plus, they have categories on almost 10 different colors and real weddings!

Have an idea for a niche wedding and need ideas on how to pull it off?  Look no further, Polka Dot Bride has a category for you!  This blog has ideas for every aspect of your wedding from the groom’s unique tie choices, all the way down to that Hot Pink wedding dress you have been dying to wear!

Plan an Eco-Friendly Wedding with Green Weddings.  This blog features green locations, green dress ideas, and even ways to have green food choices and green flower arrangements!

In need of more visual stimulation to get the creative wedding planner juices flowing?  Style Unveiled is  a great place to not only see great wedding ideas, but also see them at REAL weddings!  See real weddings through tons of gorgeous photos! See something you love and want to incorporate into your own wedding?  There is list of the wedding’s vendors at the bottom of the page!

Are you a Do-It-Yourself type of bride? Then Oh Lovely Day is the wedding blog for you! From wedding favors to menus and decorating ideas, you can find how to do just about anything yourself to make your wedding day just as creative and fun as you are!  Do-IT-Yourself weddings are also a create way to stay on budget!

Ok, so you have read and kept up with all of the great ideas on these blogs, now what?  There is a new wedding ‘social media’ platform that lets you organize and store all of your wedding ideas in one place!  According to Lover.ly: “We’re on a mission to make wedding planning simple and more fun. Discover ideas, things to buy, and people to hire for your wedding.”  So not only can you store and find tons of wedding ideas, you can also shop for your wedding needs right on the Lover.ly site!  So easy!

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Unity Candles

Unity Candles and Floating Unity Candles are extremely popular additions to the traditional wedding ceremonies in the United States.  The unity candles are usually engraved with the names of the bride and groom, the wedding date, and a symbol or inscription that symbolizes the love the couple has for each other.

Generally, it is performed with two lit taper candles, with the bride holding one candle, and the groom holding the other.  The bride and groom use their candles to light the middle, white or ivory unity candle to symbolize the joining of two beings, two families into one unit.  It symbolizes the union of two individual lives becoming one.  Mostly, once the unity candle is lit, the two taper candles remain lit and are placed beside the middle unity candle, to symbolize that each person has not lost their individuality.  In some cases, the taper candles are blown out, signifying that the newlyweds lives have been permanently merged.

It is customary to keep the unity candles as keepsakes after the wedding and relight them on anniversaries as a reminder that your lives have forever been merged into one.  This tradition is similar to sand ceremonies, in that, they both are used to symbolize two individuals lives coming together through marriage.

Floating Unity Candles are a unique twist on the traditional unity candle.  With the floating unity candle, the vase is filled with water and the candle floats at the top of the vase, allowing for the engraving on the vase to be displayed beautifully.

At GlassMage, each unity candle is hand engraved and comes with your choice of a white or ivory floating candle.  Each vase is beautiful engraved with the bride and grooms name and graphic and inscription of your choice.  GlassMage makes it easy to choose from one of their 37 graphics and 18 fonts.  You can even contact us directly and we will use a custom graphic of your choice!  GlassMage also offers a wide variety of custom personalized wedding favors and accessories to make your perfect day shine!

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