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CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY:
I must confess. I did very little wedding planning during August. I don’t know why. I guess because we have bought, ordered, and altered the dress, tasted and paid for the cake, ordered and received the Save the Dates and invitations, mailed the Save the Dates, reserved the tent, arch, and chairs, lined up…
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CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: What to Eat?
Aren’t Jimmy and I cute? When I got married 32 years ago (I can’t believe it, either), standard reception fare among my family and friends was very simple. You had a three-tier wedding cake, a chocolate groom cake, some mixed nuts, and some party mints. I don’t recall attending any wedding where we were treated…
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CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: On Thursday! Best Burlap Deal Ever!
If you have done any wedding research at all, you have seen it everywhere. Burlap is the thing for wedding decorating these days, and it’s not just for weddings, either. It may be cheap at $3.99 a roll, or $2.99 at Walmart, but that wasn’t cheap enough for me. I want to combine burlap with…
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AT HOME MONDAY: *Psycho theme playing. . .*
Imagine the theme music from the movie “Psycho“–you know. . .the part where What’s His Face in his mother’s dressshows up in Janet Leigh‘s motel bathroomand slashes her to death witha butcher knife. . . Okay, I admit it isn’t quite that bad. . . but my house has some pretty scary places. My daughter…
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CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: Save On, Mama!
When my daughter finally realized that she needed to relinquish wedding planning to someone else, ME, I began scouring the internet for everything from flowers to reception ideas to tent rentals. You might recall that I was singing the praises of Oriental Trading for wedding supplies in a recent post (read that blog post here). Well,…
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