April Coker, Author

Tag: bride

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: Make that Wedded Life Wednesday!

    I’m not chief wedding planner any more, and I don’t plan to be in the near future, so I am changing Cheap Wedding Wednesday to Wedded Life Wednesday.  Hubby and I just celebrated our 33rd—yes, 33!–wedding anniversary, so I thought I might make some observations about wedded life, a.k.a. wedded bliss.   I don’t like…

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: DIY Shower Invitations

    One of the neat things about being a bride is having a bridal shower.  Usually friends or colleagues or the church you belong to will throw one for you if you are the bride, but my daughter had no one in those areas available to do it for her.  As her mother I definitely wanted…

  • CHEAP WEDDING REVEAL!

    I promised that I would reveal just how much we had to pay for my daughter’s cheap fairy tale wedding.  Check out the photos below and see if you can guess how inexpensively we were able to pull it off. . .    The dress is from David’s Bridal and was the fifth dress that…

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: Almost there!

    It has been a crazy week trying to get last minute details done, including calls to the dee jay (free win from a bridal show!), tent rental place, florist, bakery, photographer, and tux rental place.  Today we started making the chocolates for the guest favors, and I finished spray painting some chairs.  I also finished…

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: Suspense builds. . .

    Yes, the suspense is building.  Will Natalie and Bryan REALLY tie the knot in less than two weeks?  Will all the friends and relatives who returned their RSVP cards REALLY show up?  Will the weather be beautiful as we are hoping?  Will there be enough food, music, favors, flowers, etc.?  Will Mama Wedding Planner be…