Are you up to your neck in preparations and driving your guy crazy with details? Where is the love? Hit the road for a little relaxing couple time with the benefit of covertly knocking something off your to-do list. Incorporating local suppliers is not only great for the local economy and environment, it also showcases [...]
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Romantic Pre-Wedding Washington Wine Road Trip
Posted in Do It Yourself, Green Wedding, Seattle, Wedding Budget, Wedding Reception, tagged Avant Bride, AvantBride, budget wedding wine, Forgeron wedding, Green Wedding, L'Ecole No 41 wedding wine, local wedding wine, road trip from seattle, seattle to walla walla, seattle wedding wine, walla walla wedding, washington wedding wine, washington wine, wedding wine on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
DIY Potted Plants for Centerpieces
Posted in Do It Yourself, Wedding Budget, Wedding Crafts, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Reception, tagged cheap wedding arrangments, Cheap Wedding Flowers, Country chic wedding, DIY flowers, Do it yourself arrangements, Do it Yourself Wedding, lakeside wedding, original flowers, Potted Centerpieces, potted flowers, unique flowers, unique ideas on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love the concept of potted flowers for weddings and rehearsal dinners! So much of weddings is for one day only, it makes me happy to know that these flowers will continue blooming all summer long. It’s also charming!
Like the napkin ring idea I wrote about earlier, if you commit to potted plant centerpieces, make [...]
DIY Summer Wedding Floral Napkin Rings
Posted in AvantBride, Do It Yourself, Wedding Budget, Wedding Crafts, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Reception, tagged Avant Bride, Country wedding, Cute wedding table, DIY Wedding, Do it Yourself Wedding, Floral Wedding Napkin Rings, Napkin Rings Creative, Summer Wedding, Unique Wedding Napkin Rings, Wedding Chic, www.AvantBride.com on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this done at a wedding I went to recently and absolutely loved the concept. The event was actually the rehearsal dinner and the theme was country chic with a pig roast. The tables were covered with checkered tablecloths and had potted flowers for centerpieces. It was beautifully put together. My favorite part, however, was [...]
Seattle’s Safeway Announces Budgeting Tools for Thrifty Brides
Posted in Seattle, Wedding Budget, Wedding Cake, Wedding Flowers, tagged Avant Bride, Bridal Flowers, Budget Wedding, cheap seattle wedding cake, Cheap Wedding Flowers, do-it-yourself wedding seattle, grocery store flowers, inexpensive seattle wedding flowers, Safeway, Seattle, seattle wedding budgeting tool, seattle wedding cakes, seattle wedding vendors, Supermarket flowers, Wedding Flowers, wedding wine, www.AvantBride.com on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that supermarkets are catching on to the trend of thrifty brides purchasing more things for their weddings at supermarkets. They’ve long sold cakes etc, but now are attempting to make a do-it-yourself wedding a little simpler. I played around with Safeway’s “budgeting tool” and found it very intuitive to use. On their website they [...]
How to Cut Wedding Costs
Posted in Wedding Budget, tagged Avant Bride, AvantBride, budget florist, budget tips, Budget Wedding, Budget Wedding Cake, budgt wedding flowers, Cheap wedding, Cut wedding costs, frugal bride, help for budget wedding, wedding on a budget, www.AvantBride.com on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A couple of cost saving tips for your wedding:
Ranking Vendors: Arrange your vendors in order of importance to you. You can’t rank everything as a ten! Try to carve out more of your budget for the vendors most important to you. Maybe you’re really passionate about having good wine at your reception but don’t care [...]
