The Budget Savvy Bride

If you’re new around here, WELCOME! Over the last several weeks we’ve seen lots of traffic here on BSB and that can only mean that a new wave of recently engaged brides have discovered our site! I thought I’d take the opportunity to give you a little tour around the blog and some different areas [...]

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I wanted to share a few photos that our photographer posted on her blog. We haven’t gotten the CDs of the rest of our photos, but when we do, I’ll share a few more of our favorites. All images via Gillette Portrait Arts, our photographer was Raye Gillette-Whaley. Getting Ready The dress Putting the dress [...]

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  Happy New Year, y’all! I just want to say HELLO and welcome to all our new readers and fans! Make sure to like us on Facebook for more updates and budget savvy ideas! I thought it fitting that I share this wedding today since I am currently in Florida on vacation. Y’all this wedding [...]

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One of the most fun parts of wedding planning is choosing your wedding dress, so of course I’d been thinking about what I was looking for. Lace, rouching, a full skirt, cap sleeves….all things I wanted in my wedding dress.  I wanted it to have a vintage feel but fall in the right places to [...]

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So, I have been engaged long enough to exhaust potential venues and be on the exhausted side of guest list planning.  But while there have been highs and lows, I just noticed one thing that is surprisingly missing. I have yet to buy a bridal magazine.  That’s right; I have yet to even pick one [...]

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Through my many months of blogging here on Budget-Savvy Bride, I have realized that I haven’t disclosed anything about a very important wedding component – food! Food was a very easy choice to make. I knew I didn’t want a formal sit down dinner. And I also didn’t want guests to stand in long buffet [...]

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When it comes to planning a wedding, we invest so much time and attention to all the details about that day. We obsess over a dress, and the perfect shoes to match. Then we drive ourselves crazy over party attire, centerpieces, bouquets and boutonnières.  It’s a riot (a fabulous one, but a riot nonetheless). Sometimes [...]

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Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! Today I have a lovely wedding to share with you today from the talented John Defiora. The images from this wedding really spoke to me for some reason- it feels like John and his additional shooters captured this day in a natural way and I really love [...]

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Hello BSB fans! Well the big day happened. The last couple weeks leading up to the wedding got very hectic, as you will all probably (and unfortunately) get to experience. I put my blogging on the wayside to get things done. But I definitely did not forget about you, the fans. The biggest change to our day [...]

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I had a hard time coming up with a good idea for displaying people’s escort cards for the tables at our wedding. I loved the idea of a tree and tags hanging from the branches, but thought that could make it really hard for people to find themselves. Since I didn’t think this would really [...]

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Hi dear readers! I hope this week has been a good one for all of you! I just wanted to pop in to share some favorite links from around the wedding blogosphere this week! Loving this sweet little engagement shoot on Le Magnifique! Have you been keeping up with the holiday inspiration boards over on [...]

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