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  • mywedding.com Trends and Ideas Weekly Giveaway: PosePrints

    Your wedding stationery says a lot about the type of wedding you will be having. From formal to casual to whimsical, your invitations can easily uncover the tone of your wedding to guests receiving the invitation. With many stationery designers in the industry, you will find only one that brings cute and playful to the next level. You will find PosePrints.

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  • Mind Your Manners: Why You Should Send Hand-Written Thank You Notes (And How to Get them Done Efficiently!)

    Photography by Whitebox Weddings- see more at www.whiteboxweddings.com

    We are saying "I Do" in an age where just about everything wedding-related can be done electronically, from the invitations to the photo album. Before we know it, couples will be text-messaging their vows to one another instead of saying them aloud, and will spend their honeymoons enjoying copious amounts of cyber-sex. Wait a minute…there is such a thing as too much technology, isn’t there? I would argue that there are at least two places (besides the honeymoon suite) where electronic communication should play no role in your nuptials: At the altar, and in place of hand-written thank-you notes for gifts. (All together now: "Do I haaave to?") Well yes, you must pick up the pen and here’s the short reason why: Because it’s personal, and a wedding is a personal affair.

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  • Addicted to Thanks!

    In the weeks after my wife and I got married, I began to loathe thank you notes. I like them in principle, but the quantity we needed to write was mind-numbing. I wrote the words “thoughtful” and “wonderful” and “just what we wanted” so many times that I thought I must owe the creator of those words some money for copyright violation.

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  • Love Notes

    “Married men make poor soldiers,” said Emperor Claudius II (AD 268-270) when he banned marriage for young men in efforts to build his army. But St. Valentine refused to follow orders and secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young couples. When Claudius discovered this, he had sent Valentine to prison, later to be executed.

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