Our friends at Exclusively Weddings are pleased to offer the very elegant and very beautiful invitation suite from renowned designer,  Anna Weatherley. The detail on these pieces are just amazing! You many know Anna Weatherley’s name from her dress designs or her collection of hand painted china that President and Mrs. Bush used in the White House!

More recently, for all of you Sex and the City fans, Charlotte was shopping for Anna Weatherley china at Bergdorf Goodman during one episode of the hit HBO series! Now you can channel Charlotte and add the Anna Weatherley touch to your special day with this exclusive ensemble!

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WeddingWire is excited to unveil our new online Save-the-Dates! In partnership with pingg.com, we now offer a FREE and easy way to inform your guests of the big day!

This new feature offers engaged couples yet another tool to simplify the wedding planning process. pingg’s invitation creation and event management platform allows users to customize their announcements, add event details (like Google Maps), attach a link to their registry, and upload personal photos. With pingg, users can send invitations and announcements via email, Web, social networks, mobile text and print (pingg will print, stamp & mail) all at the same time to part or all of the guest list.

Choose from stylish WeddingWire templates like the ones below:

We have also included a few designs that could be used as bridal shower invitations!

The WeddingWire announcements are customizable, so get creative! Be sure to check out the entire suite of WeddingWire Save-the-Dates in the Wedding/Engagement category of the pingg gallery at pingg.com!

Our friends at Wedding Paper Divas and Beau-coup have teamed up and are pleased to announce the launch of Resourceful Brides (www.resourcefulbrides.com). During these uncertain times, brides have found many ways to minimize cost without sacrificing important touches that makes their day special. Resourceful Brides is a great online outlet for brides to share information and real experiences that will help other brides-to-be save time and money for their upcoming nuptials. This exciting new site gives brides-to-be useful ideas for creating a fabulous wedding without an outrageous price tag.

Resourceful Brides is hosting a wedding ideas contest in conjunction with the launch of the site, asking brides and grooms to submit money-saving wedding tips for a chance to win a $1000 grand prize comprised of one $500 gift certificate from each site (Wedding Paper Divas and Beau-coup). Participants can submit their entries between now and July 20, 2009 after which one winner will be selected at random. The winning tip will be featured on www.resourcefulbrides.com. Good luck!

Are you still looking for your invitations? If so, you’re in luck because MyGatsby is offering WeddingWire users FREE SHIPPING on orders over $50.00! Simply use the coupon code WW063009 at checkout.

MyGatsby’s wedding invitations make your special day memorable. Mix and Match paper colors with our custom wedding invitations. They offer over 90 colors to create your own unique invitation that reflects your personal style. Or print your own invitation from their selection of printable invitations from names like Anna Griffin, Paper Prince and Rytex Weddings. MyGatsby has hundreds of invitations, wedding invitations, save the date cards and just about any other stationery you can imagine. Customize to your heart’s content!

While standing in the check-out line today I picked up the most recent Martha Stewart Weddings magazine to flip through. The first page I flipped open to I saw the most amazing idea – lace doily envelope liners! I immediately purchased the magazine and raced home to read what Martha’s newest idea was!

These doily envelope liners make the perfect DIY project for your wedding! They look great with a neutral colored invitation, or I thing they would look equally beautiful with a bright colored paper peaking through. I found easy instructions from Martha Stewart Weddings to make these liners.

To make, lay a 9-inch square doily face down, with a corner pointing toward you. Center invitation on top. Fold up bottom point, then side points, and finally the top. Insert into envelope. You can buy doilies in different sizes based on the size of your invitation. I found a 9-inch square butterfly doily from Artifacts Inc. I also found some square paper doilies online here.

I would love to find somewhere that sold lace envelopes! If you know of any let us know!

-Lauryn

It seems these days that people are getting save the dates in the mail almost weekly, and you don’t want yours to get lost amongst the others. So what can you do to set your save the dates apart from the rest? With a little creativity, there are a ton of fun options out there for save the dates. Some of them may be expensive, but not all of them have to be, and some of these you could even do a DIY version of!

Row 1

1. SCRATCH OFF – I love the idea of a scratch off save the date. . .it is similar to a lottery scratch off ticket, and is an interactive way to tell your guests when your wedding date it!

2. LUGGAGE TAG – What a great idea for a destination wedding! This save the date doubles as a luggage tag, and is a cute way to announce your pending nuptials.

3. PUZZLE – This is another interactive save the date. To find out all the details, guests will have to solve the puzzle.

Row 2

1. DOVE CHOCOLATE – Dove Chocolate can customize wrappers to say your message. I think this is such a great, unique way to announce your wedding. . .and I’m sure recipients will appreciate the free chocolate!

Row 3

1. AIRLINE TICKET – This is another great idea for a destination wedding. The save the date is printed to look like an airline ticket, definitely gets creativity points!

2. HANDKERCHIEF – I love this idea for a country themed wedding, it is a dainty way to announce your wedding, and helps set the tone for your theme.

3. BOOKMARK – Everybody loves a good book, and we all need bookmarks! Guests will be reminded of your impending wedding every time they open their favorite book.

Row 4

1. DISH TOWEL – I love this idea! It may be a little pricey, but I think you could easily create this as a DIY project!

2. BABY PICS – This is a little more of a standard save the date, but I love the 3D elements of the ribbon and baby pictures, and it’s more fun then a standard engagement photo!

As you can see, there are definitely some unique save the date ideas out there. There is also the standard, but of course practical, magnet options and sticker options for your calendar.

So what was the most unique save the date that I found?

That would be Erica and Sam’s 164 Days until they tie the knot save the date. This New York couple came up with a very creative save the date, comprised off laughs and lots of TMI. This is a cute, although time consuming way to share a little information about yourselves as a couple with your friends and family. To read the entire save the date card click here.

- Lauryn

As I was reading through BridalBuds last week, I came across this post by Plumeria Bud about invitations from Printable Press and I thought it was such a great idea! They have a ton of unique designs to match your event’s theme and style or they can customize an invitation that better suits your personality. And now for the best part, once Printable Press has designed the invitation set, you get the PDF so you can have them printed online or at a local print shop or even print them yourself at home!

Pleas note: Printable Press is not taking new orders until May 1st.