Are you ready to knock $500 off your wedding budget?

If you’ve been following along with me here for the last three weeks, you’ve heard all about Nearlyweds!, the snazzy new wedding website service that has rockin’ web templates that can come with matching paper invitations.

And now, Nearlyweds! and Carciolfi Design want to give you the most fab, non-froofy wedding website and invites EVAR. They’re giving away a free website and 50 coordinating diy paper invites from Carciofi — that’s a $500 value, my budget brides!

Entering is easy-peasy …

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Dearly beloveds, we are gathered here today to poke under the hood of Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November.

Alright, so let’s review, shall we? Nearlyweds! is a wedsite service provider with cool features like guest maps, non-barfy templates, and the option to order invites that match your website.

This week we’re going to talk about the wedsite feature that pleases four different kinds of offbeat brides: geeky, green, budget, AND lazy dwarves. Er, brides. That wedsite feature would be online RSVP, of course.

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Let’s steal a bottle of champagne from the buffet table and sneak out back with Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November!

Y’all are familiar with my loathing of traditional wedding website aesthetics, which usually seem to include lots of doves and bells and pink and BLEAH. I may have pink hair, but I am not into pinky-pink over-femmey wedsites.

It seems that Nearlyweds! is one of the first to finally really get it — not all brides want frilly, froofy websites!

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Aww, who’s that adorable little tot wobbling down the aisle with a basket of rose petals? Why, it’s Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November! Join me as I get elbow deep in the Wed 2.0 geekery of the Nearlyweds! wedding websites.

Ok, let’s start with the basics: Nearlyweds! is the wedsite service for those of you want great wedding website designs, total control over your website content, absolutely no ads anywhere, and lots of slick features like interactive maps, blogging with comments, etc. Dude, your guests can add their own wedding porn, even! Let’s just call it Wed 2.0 and get the pun out of the way.

Nearlyweds! is fellow Seattle-based wedding biz, and you know how you can tell?

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