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How to get custom designed wedding invitations (including free mock-ups!) from 519 Weddings

If you’re thinking about custom-made wedding invitations, you’ll want to perk your ears up for this post. Our sponsor 519 Weddings wants to hook you up with custom wedding invitations so hard, that they’re giving you the 411 on the custom invitation order process AND a special offer that’ll help you get ’em made.

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Reader Round-up: Fuzzy cuteness, custom invites, and non-floral bouquets

Y’all, I’m bugging OUT over this photo that Dr Bojangles submitted to our Flickr Pool. But that’s just the tip of this week’s round-up… there are a couple furry wedding creatures, a sweet wedding ring set, and a romance novel-inspired wedding invite hand-drawn by a groom…

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Katherine & James’ barefoot eco-friendly forest wedding

This week we’re letting our hair down and getting back to nature in the wild, wild outdoors! Today we’ve got a barefoot couple in the forests of Piccadilly with rainbows, a teepee, and one very fun Kombi. They managed to make it all happen while compromising with a religious family, coaxing a van into carrying a clown car-load, and dealing with a very naughty bird at the ceremony.

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Gears, skulls, and bikes: Odd Lot Weddings has your wedding invitations

I’m excited about our newest sponsor Odd Lot Weddings because these invites hit the mark with so many of y’alls favorite things. Julie, the designer and owner of Odd Lot Weddings, creates awesome wedding invites specializing in Day of the Dead, rockabilly, goth, and steampunk aesthetics. But if any of those styles don’t resonate with you, she also offers custom design services… and she’s got work-arounds for the budget-minded.

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How I used Vistaprint wedding stuff for basically all my wedding printables

I have used Vistaprint for many years, ever since I needed my first business cards as a grad student. Here are all the different Vistaprint wedding things I ordered, including items that aren’t often billed as wedding products…

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Make playable 7″ vinyl records for your concert-themed wedding invitations

My partner and I saw that awesome video of someone else’s invites in which they made a record out of paper that was even playable! Both my man and I thought that was amazing… but how come the invitations couldn’t just be an actual record?