Have fun and give freely with these charitable wedding favors
Buffalo Exchange has a program called Tokens for Bags where, if you bring your own shopping bag, they’ll give you a 5-cent token to give to one of the three charities they’ve picked. I thought I could use that concept for wedding favors: instead of giving people a physical favor, I gave them $3 to donate.
One-lowmanship and luxury shame: one more way you’re supposed to feel bad about your stupid wedding
I know from the our reader survey exactly how many of you are trying to plan economical weddings with budgets under $10k (or $5k… or $2k). It’s a lot of you. But I also know exactly how many of you are planning weddings over $10k — and even over $30k. And I know how many of you are feeling weird about it.
Charitable weddings: Using your wedding for good
Over on Offbeat Home, two sisters, Amy and Mistie, wrote an awesome guest post on how you can use your powers — and parties — for good. This is an idea that’s near and dear to my heart as Aaron and I used our shark-themed wedding as a platform to raise awareness about shark finning. I also immediately thought of other offbeat weddings that have added a charitable element to their parties…
Lotte & David’s games and dance DIY fête of love
Having a bad day? This wedding just might be the pick-me-up you need. With joyous dancing, lawn games, dinosaur puppets, choir singers, and a lots of choreographed dancing, I challenge you to keep a grin off of your face. Go on, try it. I dares ya!
My answer to the question, “So, what do you do when you’re not shooting weddings?”
Here’s a guestpost from a longtime sponsor, New York photographer Angie Gaul from Milestone Images. It’s a look into what (awesome!) photographers do when they’re not shooting weddings. Plus there’s a few wedding photography discounts and warm and fuzzy bridal party gifts ideas to be found as well!
A wookiee boogie Star Wars wedding
A screaming R2-D2 ring bearer, a bearded Leia, cave duels, and ritual sacrifice of delicious Jabba the Hutt. The force is strong with this wedding.