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Ten of the Best Wedding Hacks We’ve Ever Seen

Dana — Thu, 28 May 2015 17:30:07 +0000

We’re all about wedding hacks this month on Glö, and today we’ve rounded up a list of our favorite ones, from all across the internet and our own experience in wedding land. From food to tech to some really simple ones to keep you comfortable in your own skin (and shoes), we’ve got all the wedding hacks you could ever need for saving time, money, and stress at your wedding. 1. Wedding Cake Hack from A Practical Wedding: This one is pure genius. It’s pretty much common knowledge that you can use sheet cakes in place of a fancy tiered cake to save major money on your cake, but here’s a way to turn even the plainest grocery store cake into something chic, cute, and totally on point using a few flowers and some ribbon. 2. Self-catering, Potluck, and Other Wedding Food Hacks: Speaking of food hacks, Bon Appétit has this handy guide for partially self-catering your cocktail hour by prepping good cheeses, meats, and dips ahead of time. This is a great way to ensure your appetizers are high on quality but not high on cost, which is pretty much the dream, right? A Practical Wedding also has this great guide to […]

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How to collect photos from all of your wedding guests

GloTaryn — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:14:12 +0000

It’s no secret that we all get really excited when technology makes yet one more part of wedding planning easier and fun! One thing that I didn’t think about for my own wedding, until it was too late, is how to collect all of the photos that friends and family took during our 4 day event. For weeks after the wedding, I received emails with links to various photo sharing sites – some saved here, some saved there. Of course in my post-festivity state, I wasn’t organized enough to create a directory of all the links. Now, I have no idea where most of the photos are. Epic Fail on my part. But yet again, a group of smart, young, insightful entrepreneurs have created a service that help us solve the problem even before we know it is a problem. Enter Wedding Snap – a new tech company focused on helping your guests collect photos of your celebration in one, streamlined place. Wedding Snap has just released their widget code, which makes it easy for you to incorporate their service right into your Glösite pages. Perfect for sharing all of the photos with friends after your celebration. I asked Michelle […]

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Cowgirl boot wedding shoes (and my saloon-girl ancestry)

GloTaryn — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:02:27 +0000

So if you and I have emailed, or if you follow Glö on twitter or facebook, you probably know that I moved from London to Colorado just about a year ago. I love it here! And I’m pretty gosh-golly excited to announce that I’ve acquired my first pair of cowgirl boots: The beauties came from the legendary Colorado store Sheplers. I have to confess…I feel pretty sassy when I’m struttin’ my stuff in them. Although this is my first time living in the Wild West, my family hails from these parts. In fact, my great-great Aunt Lizzie was a saloon girl in Wyoming in the late 1800’s. (The high-kicking, beer-pouring, put cowboys in their place with a glance kind of saloon girl – not the special-lovin’ in the back room kind – she was a happily married lady!) I’ve been told by my great Aunt (who was born and raised in Colorado and will turn 102 this Christmas Eve) that Aunt Lizzy was one independent-minded, strong-willed and all-around-awesome lady. I like to think I’m channeling Aunt Lizzy’s girl-power when my new boots are on my feet. My high-kick…that leaves something to be desired. In light of my new obsession with […]

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Dress shopping at ShopBop

GloTaryn — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:15:02 +0000

So to follow on from Kristen’s fab post about places to find your dress – she also alerted me to the fact that her favorite online shopping site ShopBop has a rockin’ new bridal boutique. I love that there are so many style, shapes and price points on here. Just wanted to share! (looks like the ship all over the world too – total score!!)

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Wear-me-forever wedding jewelry

GloTaryn — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:00:47 +0000

How many of us go crazy when we find the perfect pair of shoes / skinny jeans / sexy + comfy sweater that we know we’ll wear until the end of time (or at least until it completely falls apart.) For me, my wedding shoes definitely fell into that category. Yes, I fell in lust the moment I saw those perfect, strappy, gold, comfortable, goes with everything shoes. I even wore them twice before my wedding day, I couldn’t wait to get them on my feet. Three years on and those shoes have almost disintegrated but still sit lovingly on my shoe rack. Sigh – I should have bought two pairs! The super talented Neallie Walvatne knows exactly how this feels. Neallie’s euphoric discovery of her wedding earrings actually inspired her to start an entire line of knock-me-down-gorgeous pieces of wear-me-forever jewelry. It’s so beautiful that I want it all. I asked Neallie to share a bit of wisdom about choosing the right accessories for you wedding celebration – and here’s what she had to say: I bought the beautiful earrings I wore on my wedding day in a little shop in Paris. I found them while roaming the boutique […]

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Wedzu – for finding indie vendors and hand made wedding items

GloTaryn — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:12:26 +0000

A friend of mine who’s in the midst of wedding planning shared a site called Wedzu with me today. Wedzu is sort of like the Esty for Weddings – with indie vendors offering hand-made wedding wonderfulness. The company has only launched this year, but already has pages and pages of items, in the categories of: Accessories Apparel Bath + Beauty Ceremony + Reception Jewelry Design & Calligraphy Honeymoon And Wedzu is a couple-founded company! We love that (being one ourselves…) Here’s what the founders write: What is Wedzu? And who made it? Anne and Brett, two artists from Austin, teamed up with the creators of Supermarket HQ to create Wedzu, an online marketplace dedicated to indie and handmade wedding design. Anne and Brett are super excited to shop on Wedzu — and get married in November. So go check it out! We want to hear about what you find…

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Wish Upon a Wedding – Bid Your Wish for Wedded Bliss

GloTaryn — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:21:49 +0000

Hey Glöbies! I wanted to share some news about an organization that Glö is proud to support called Wish Upon a Wedding, which is the world’s first nonprofit wish granting organization providing weddings and vow renewals and for couples facing terminal illness and serious life-altering circumstances, regardless of sexual orientation. Here at Glö, we think this is a pretty big deal and so are thrilled to help spread the word. The best thing is that Wish Upon a Wedding has organized Bid Your Wish for Wedding Bliss. Until November 30th, 2010, you can bid on awesome product and services for your wedding and all of the proceeds go toward granting wedding wishes. That’s a deal that you can feel great about getting! Here’s some more info (it’s ity bity, so click on the image to view in full size):

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Invitation and Accent Designs from OneHeart Weddings

GloTaryn — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:46:58 +0000

So I’m always hunting around the web for different DIY design options. The other day, I happened across a fabulous resource from One Heart Weddings, which offers downloadable DIY designs. Their designs are super compatible to upload as Glövites, and you can print the designs at home if you need some extra paper invites for the older relatives. Plus, there are matching templates for Wedding Programs, Menus and Thank You cards. (as an added bonus, the first 2 downloads are free. yippee!) I also love that there is a “backgrounds and accents” category with icons and images that are perfect for making Glösite designs. To use a OneHeart Wedding invitation design as a Glövite, take the following steps: 1) Choose any OneHeart invitation design (I recommend using a portrait sized design) and clicked “personalize online” 2) Edit the text and click “download PDF” 3) To upload into Glö, you’ll need to crop the design and save it as a ,jpg, .gif or png format. You can either crop the PDF version and then save it as a JPG using a program like paint (PC), paintbrush (mac) or Adobe Photoshop. OR You can take a screenshot of the finished design […]

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