Monograms are not usually front and center in our modern lives, until an occasion like a wedding or sometimes a birth. Seeing as I write about wedding gift ideas, I thought I should get around to the topic! Monogram etiquette is a complicated matter with a lot of fuzziness on current accepted practice. For a […]
Wedding Decor: Aka Outdoor Christmas Decoration
There are a few folks out there in the blogosphere who are plannings weddings, or about to have them quite shortly. In fact, it seems like it’s a recurring theme in the Personal Finance world. If you want to vicariously share the joy, you can pop over to Mo’ Money Mo’ Houses, My Alternate […]
The Best Gifts I’ve Received – Jessica
[Photo – CC Attribution – FutUndBeild] The Best Gifts I’ve Received My love language is quality time and touch. [Anne’s note: If this sentence confuses you, check out The 5 Love Languages] It’s not gifts, acts of service, or words of affirmation. Lucky for me, my husband is in the same boat. This is […]
Taking a Carriage to the Ball (aka Transportation Savings)
(Photo – CC Attribution – falcon1961) Today I have a guest post up at Modest Money, where I provide some awesome wedding savings tips (or anniversary party, or homecoming, or reunion) all around the theme of Transportation. Read it here: Taking a Carriage to the Ball You should definitely come check it out. If that’s not what […]
Ways to Save on Weddings Post-Christmas
Wait, what?? This post applies to both wedding guests and people holding weddings! Christmas is decidedly the strongest consumerism push in our society, so much so that Hanukkah has been elevated from a minor Jewish holiday to a widely recognized one. So, if you will be attending a wedding or two, or if you are […]
20 Beautiful Cards for a Gay Wedding
So you’ve been invited to a same-sex wedding… Great! But there’s only a couple of different choices (if any) at your local greeting card place… Not so great. I’m sure your gay friends wouldn’t mind 20 copies of the same card but only you can stop yourself from being number 21. Try these alternative […]
10 Beautiful Ways to Use Gift Bags at Your Wedding
If you’re like most brides and grooms, you spend months – possibly even years – planning exactly what your wedding will be like. The food, the music, the venue, the guests, the colors … everything has to be just so. And fair enough: You only get one shot at this, right? One of the best […]
Pie Wedding Gifts or Wedding Gifts for Economists
Wedding gifts for economists you say? Yes, yes indeed. In shocking news, I get a lot of my ideas from looking at the wedding gift registries of my friends’ and seeing if anything pops out at me. One of my friends from grad school was getting married and I was perusing the list. I […]
10 MORE Expensive Wedding Gift Ideas
Weddings are an occasion where the floodgates seem to be unleashed in terms of gift giving. Maybe your only child is getting married and you want to bless them with an expensive wedding gift. Perhaps your children have refused any monetary help with the wedding, but you had already put aside savings and still want […]
10 Expensive Wedding Gifts
Sometimes in life, you want to purchase expensive wedding gifts. Perhaps it is the wedding of your grandchild, or your best friend. Maybe you have been asked to register for some things which would work well as group wedding gifts and are looking for some inspiration. Here I present some fairly common expensive wedding gifts, […]