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Good morning and happy Monday all my budget savvy brides and friends! Posting might be a little light / different this week as I am in full-on paper-lust at the National Stationery Show! I walked much of the show yesterday and saw so many great designs and cards and overall papery goodness! I’ll share a [...]
Happy Friday friends! Hope you’ve all had a lovely week! I’m getting excited to attend the National Stationery Show starting this weekend- I’ll be checking out some budget savvy invitation and paper options for your big day! I’m excited to see lots of friends from the wedding and paper industries who will be in town, [...]
Sometimes a great way to save money is just right in front of your face. When I attended my first wedding event, just six weeks into our engagement, I thought I had found THE ONE. My wedding ring. A local jeweler had it on display and it was so lovely, and so delicate, and so [...]
I’ve got another cute printable today for you designed by Jessica Bishop Paperie to match the table numbers from last week! These are blank printable place cards in a striped pattern in three different color options – the PDFs have the cards placed 6-up on a sheet. You can import the file into Microsoft [...]
On Sunday, April 28, I was blessed enough to have had a simply lovely bridal shower. You know that word, “lovely”? Well, be prepared to hear it a lot. My shower, as it turns out, was also budget-savvy, from what I understand. So here is the low-down. My fabulous bridesmaid organized my shower. Unfortunately, my [...]
One of the major trends we see here on BSB is wedding with a rustic and/or vintage theme. For some reason, it seems that lots of budget brides love this style – maybe because it can be so easy to create a gorgeous look by thrifting and such – either way – we LOVE rustic/vintage [...]
Love that this couple was able to have their wedding for just $4,000 – and it was a destination wedding! They kept things intimate which REALLY helped saved them money! Check out the bride’s advice and experiences below! xoxo-Jessica Anthony + Jessica August 10, 2012 Neptune Park – St. Simons Island, GA What was [...]
Our friends over at Love vs. Design create gorgeous, personalized paper goods for your wedding and events! They truly have a plethora of amazing, high-quality designs to take your wedding from drab to fab instantly. After all, the save-the-date and wedding invitations are your guests’ first impressions of your wedding day- don’t you want them [...]
My favorite gentleman and I met when were 11 years old, and started out as friends. Early in our planning we decided to have some nods to friendship and childhood present at our wedding; our cake has in bold capital letters “FIRST COMES FRIENDSHIP” and our “guestbook” is an 11×17 sheet of paper with a rainbow [...]
Wow, I can’t believe I have passed the 1 year mark before mine and Kyle’s 2014 wedding! I’m pumped and so excited to get back into planning mode! I kicked started the one year countdown by re-asking my friends to be my bridesmaids. I didn’t do anything fancy, except send out a mass email. However, [...]
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Howdy BSB-ers! Hope you all have had a wonderful week! Another exciting week here at BSB – we celebrated our 5th Blogiversary, started sharing a new printable series, and I appeared on HuffPost Live yesterday (you can catch the segment here). Also I am SUPER happy because my hubby just got an offer for a [...]
