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Tim and Mo’s Garden Wedding Vites and Site

The Glö-Bride: Melissa, Educational consultant

Her Glö-partner: Tim, Landscaper

Celebration Date & Location: August 2010 in Melissa’s sister’s backyard in Junction City, Oregon/Lane County, USA

Tell us how you got engaged:

I have been friends with Tim’s sister for over 20 years. Tim and I recently met again after many years and sparks flew. He proposed over a picturesque bridge on bended knee, and I, of course, said yes.

What’s the overall ‘feeling’ you’re aiming for with your celebration:

We’re celebrating in my sister’s beautiful garden with many, many lush blooming plants. The overall “feeling” we’re going for is casual garden party.

Are you adding any fun twists on tradition:

We have wonderful cooks in the family, so we’re doing potluck.

What was the inspiration behind your Glövite and Glösite design? How did you make it?

My sister’s garden and her cats were the inspiration for the invitation and website. We also threw in an eagle to honor Tim’s totem animal.

I have to confess, I had to do a bit of research to learn that a totem animal is a personal spirit that helps watch over and guide you. Pretty cool stuff! I took a little quiz and found out that I am either a Horse (neigh!) or Dog (woof woof!)

My friend, Merisha Lemmer, designed our invitation. (You can email Merisha here)

Now show us your vites and site!

Any good planning tips and tricks:

Get e-mail addresses early. Also, have a plan for those who have yet to join the twenty-first century and don’t do e-mail or can’t access the Glösite.

If you have guests who aren’t on email, consider sending paper invitations that match your Glövite designs. If you choose a Glö design, we can arrange for you to have matching paper invitations printed. Just contact us at Glö!

I discovered that Melissa and Tim were using some other nifty tools to help with their planning. The first is a travel booking site called Hotel Planner where you find group discount rates on hotels. A SUPER big help if you have numerous guests coming from out of town. You can even specify that the event you’re planning is a wedding. After the hotels are chosen, you have a landing page on the site that lists all of the hotel options for your guests. What a great way to make it nice and easy for them! Melissa and Tim simply included a link to the site on their ‘Travel’ page.

Melissa and Tim also registered for their honeymoon using Travelers Joy. And although the google map couldn’t seem to find Mexico (??), I’m sure the pilot will have better luck! Registering for a honeymoon is a great option for those of you who have what you need for the house already.

12 Aug 2010

Lindsay and Graham’s Big Celebration!

The Glö-Bride: Lindsay – Teacher, Head of Dept

Her Glö-partner: Graham – Whizzkid @O2

Celebration Date & Location: 29 October in Staffordshire, UK

Tell us how you got engaged: We had just been travelling around the world for 3 months after being together for about 3 and a half years. We got back to the UK and found another place to live. Graham SAID he was going to work the Monday after we moved in, but he really went to Hatton Garden in London to buy a ring! He came home, told me to put on a nice frock coz we were going out to dinner – and then popped the question!

What’s the overall ‘feeling’ you’re aiming for with your celebration: We really want to have a fun, relaxed, happy atmosphere, and we certainly do NOT want a circus, with mega money and gluttony. Graham is part Scottish so is going to wear his family kilt – so there’s a bit of highland fling going on!

Are you adding any fun twists on tradition: It’s a bit of a secret – but we are having personalised favours which are things that come from places we come from. We are also going to put a ‘one-liner’ or ‘interesting fact’ about each person sitting at each table to get some funny stories/conversations going during the meal.

Now show us your vites and site!

Save the Date Glövite

How does your Glövite and Glösite design fit with your celebration: We wanted the site to be very user friendly as we have a very mixed demographic using it, from young professionals with iPhones to Aunty Flo and Grandma Freda! It needed to show our character (simple tastes but fun at heart) and also be informative for guests. The design fits with the celebration with the colour blue.

Any good planning tips and tricks: The Glövites are quite simply an absolute GOD SEND!!! We are both young professionals with very little spare time – and the last thing I wanted to be doing with my very little spare time was cutting and sticking things to invites to send out in the snail-mail! Our guests have been really positive about the experience of our Glövites and Glösite and think the idea is really cool – but best of all, we love the fact that you can track and see who has opened the invite from their emails, and also see who has RSVPed. Plus you can ask tailored questions to suit your own needs.

Aw shucks guys…we’re so honored! One more thing we had to share was this super cool little widget from Jajah that Lindsay and Graham added to their ‘Contact Us’ page. It lets guests call you for free.Very clever.

6 Aug 2010