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Mirassou Contest Winner Will Receive $10,000 Towards a Dream Wedding

  • March 13, 2010 at 9:17 pm

The ”I Do with Mirassou” Contest requires that you be 21 or older to enter and that you be in the United States (except CA, TN, UT, PR and where otherwise prohibited by law). If that’s you, definitely apply because you could win $10,000 !

The Grand Prize winner will receive:

  • $10,000 toward a dream wedding
  • The opportunity to meet with Celebrity Chef Aida Mollenkamp, host of the popular Food Network show “Ask Aida” as well as David Mirassou, wine expert and sixth-generation member of America’s oldest winemaking family, to create a custom California-inspired wedding menu, complete with wine pairings
  • A trip to San Francisco and northern California wine country
  • A wine tour and dinner hosted by David Mirassou

Five lucky finalists will receive: 

a Mirassou gift package and be featured at www.mirassou.com for an online vote from July 16 – August 8, with the winner selected in August 2010.

The contest is open for entries through June 27th.

We urge you to read the contest rules before applying to make sure that you are eligible and to make sure that you understand how this contest can be won.

To go to the contest page, click this picture:

Mirassou and Cake

Good luck! We hope you win!

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Honeymoon Budget Planner Extraordinaire!

  • November 26, 2009 at 8:37 pm

Many of you have come to love our wedding budget calculator. It has greatly simplified how brides and grooms plan their weddings while providing full flexibility to match your exact wedding planning needs.

Now  we want to announce the release of our honeymoon budget calculator. You will love how easy it is to use this super smart honeymoon budget planner.

It applies all the beloved features of our wedding budget calculator and adapts them to the special needs of honeymoon planning.

While you are over there checking out the honeymoon budget tool, be sure to also check out all the other great tools and information available at our new honeymoon website:  Best Honeymoon Deals

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Wedding Budget Spreadsheet Just for You

  • August 25, 2009 at 7:51 pm

We have created a super-handy wedding budget spreadsheet to help you in your wedding planning.

All you have to do is enter how much you want to spend on your wedding and the spreadsheet will automatically tell you about how much you should spend on each part of your wedding.

You can start using the wedding budget here>>> My Wedding Budget

If you prefer to create your own customized wedding budget spreadsheet, you should follow a wedding budget creation tutorial such as this one:

But in all honesty, you will probably find that the wedding budget spreadsheet we have created for you is flexible enough to meet all your wedding planning needs. You can enter new titles and you can change how much of your wedding budget is assigned to each part of your wedding. This makes our wedding budget calculator very user friendly.

Let us know what you think and please recommend any ways that we can improve this wedding budget tool for you.

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Who Got the Marriage Starter Books that You Gave Away?

  • July 15, 2009 at 6:24 pm

We recently did a blog giveaway of our three marriage starter books. Today we want to share with you the results of the book giveaway so that you can get to know the winners.

Every participant was a winner.

Newlywed GuideBy posting a comment to the blog entry sharing why they needed to save money and what they were doing to save money on their wedding, each respondent received a set of three prizes including our book The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage

Meet the 2nd Place Winner

Our 2nd place winners are Steve and Anne who plan to get married this fall.

They are on a super tight budget for their wedding with an allowance of just $2,000.

Their tip to other brides and grooms on a tight budget is to use Craigslist for your wedding purchases. Anne writes, “So far, I have bought a wedding dress, shoes and veil, all unused, off of Craigslist for a total of $125!”

Steve and Anne’s lucky entry has won them The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage and the wedding planner’s perfect companion Wedding Planning on a Budget.

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And the 1st Place Winner

Steven and Mishia are the very lucky winners of our complete set of marriage starter books.

Mishia writes of their love story: “We met in Junior High and were best friends since! A few years ago our friendship became something more and I could not be happier! He proposed on Valentine’s day last year and it has always been my dream to have a Winter Wedding!”

This romantic couple will be married on December 19th of this year.

Steven and Mishia hope to plan their dream wedding for less than $5,000. As Mishia says, “I need to save money so that we can have money for other things such as bills!”

The set of books they won should help them meet their wedding planning goals. They are receiving a full set of our three marriage starter books Wedding Planning on a Budget, The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget, and The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage.

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Congratulations and Thank You!

To each and every one of our book giveaway winners, we give a hearty congratulations and heartfelt thank you.

The comments you posted about your experiences in planning your dream weddings on a budget will be helpful to everyone who takes the time to read your comments.

We wish every reader of this blog post a beautiful, dream-come-true wedding. You don’t have to be a winner of our book giveaway to get your hands on our books. You can download the books for yourself and learn how to start out your marriage right while saving money.

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Hawaii Wedding Giveaway Worth $10,000 for ‘The Reckless & Romantic’

  • June 19, 2009 at 9:56 pm

This one isn’t for everyone but for the right couple it will be a dream come true!

Sweet Nothings by Blue together with Blueline Weddings is offering one Reckless & Romantic couple a complete wedding package in Hawaii.

You just have to be willing to take care of your flight expenses and be, well… a bit reckless – Be willing to throw your wedding plans to the wind and hop a plane to Hawaii to get married on Thursday, August 6th.

If you are The Reckless & Romantic type, then you should consider the following Hawaii wedding package giveaway.

The Reckless and Romantic Hawaii Wedding Giveaway

The complete Hawaii wedding package includes all of the following:

  • Full Wedding Day Coordination and complete design consultation with Bride and Groom
  • Wedding Day Photography by Blueline Weddings
  • Video coverage of ceremony by Blueline Weddings
  • Album
  • High Resolution CD of all images
  • 2 nights stay in Hotel
  • Bridal Hair and Makeup
  • Champagne for after ceremony
  • Reckless Photo Session
  • Ceremony Site
  • Officiant
  • Paperwork help and payment
  • Bridal Bouquet and boutonniere

This is worth over $10,000!

Winners will be responsible for travel expenses to Hawaii.

Winner will be announced first week of July.

To be considered for this wedding package send Erin your entry at erin@bluelinestyle.com and answer all the questions below as well as send a picture of the both of you!
 
Include both Bride and Groom’s information.

Send your favorite picture of yourself — both bride and groom.
 
name:
phone number:
email(s):
 
Why do you want to elope?
 
What do you consider the most important part of your wedding day?
 
What are your favorite things to do together?
 
How would your friends describe you as a couple?
 
Do you have a favorite wedding picture you’ve seen before?  If so, send it to us!
 
Do you both like getting your pictures taken?
 
Have you checked out Blueline Weddings? 
 
Do you dig a higher fashion feel to photography?
 
Are you ok with someone else planning your wedding?

Erin plans to announce the winner the first week of July, so you will want to send your entry ASAP.

Our understanding from talking to Erin is that there haven’t been many applicants yet even as the deadline is quickly approaching so we think anyone who applies has a good chance – your chances will obviously improve if you take care to submit a high quality application.

We wish you luck and encourage you to contact Erin with any questions at erin@bluelinestyle.com

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Wedding Planning on a Budget Book Giveaway – Everyone Wins!

  • June 18, 2009 at 7:43 pm

Ever since this recession started last summer, we have had an amazing outpouring of interest in our book ‘Wedding Planning on a Budget’ as well as our new book ‘The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget’

As a way to thank everyone for their interest in our books and as a way to help each of you to have the opportunity to benefit from the savings made possible by our books, we want to end this month with a book giveaway.

The best part is that everyone wins!

Prizes will be as follows…

1st Prize

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A set of our three books Wedding Planning on a Budget, The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget, and The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage.

2nd Prize

wedding planning on a budget  Newlywed Guide

Two of our books Wedding Planning on a Budget and The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage.

Participation Prize

Newlywed Guide

Everyone who enters will win something. All participants will receive The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage and a coupon for 25% OFF the price of Wedding Planning on a Budget and The Ultimate Honeymoon on Any Budget.

How to Enter

To enter, respond to one or both of the following questions by posting a comment to this blog entry:

  1. Why do you need to save money on your wedding?
  2. What are you doing to save money on your wedding?

Deadline and Other Details

All comments must be posted by 11:59:59 EST July 1 to be included in this contest.

One entry per person is allowed. If you must post more than one comment, all of your comments will only be considered one entry.

All entrants who follow the rules of this contest will be included in a random drawing to select the 1st and 2nd prize winners.

1st and 2nd prize winners will be  notified by July 10 and announced by July 17. We will ask the 1st and 2nd prize winners to submit a photo and give us a few basic details to share in the winners announcement blog post. If we do not hear back from a 1st or 2nd prize winner by July 14, a runner-up will be given the opportunity to win the unclaimed prize.

All participants will receive their prizes by July 17.

Good Luck!

We wish you luck and hope you take a moment to post your comment. Remember, everyone who responds to one or both of the above questions by July 1 will be entered for the drawing and receive the participation prizes. If you know anyone who is engaged, then you should let them know about this opportunity too.

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Chance to Win $10,000 towards Wedding Will Be Over After Friday, June 19th

  • June 16, 2009 at 8:20 pm

If you are over 21, from any of the United States other than CA, TN, UT and PR then you should take a moment and enter this contest before 11:59:59 PM EST on June 19, 2009.

To enter, visit www.mirassou.com/sayido for a chance to win $10,000, a trip to New York for a wedding planning day with Brides.com senior editor Anne Chertoff, and eight elegant place settings of Reed & Barton dinnerware, flatware and crystal!

We announced this contest before back in February but want to give this Last Chance reminder to any qualified brides and grooms who haven’t entered yet.

Here are three short videos offering a taste of the valuable advice that Brides.com editor Anne Chertoff has to offer the winner of this contest:

Wedding dress trends from Brides.com and Mirassou:

Wedding flower trends from Brides.com and Mirassou:

Wedding cake and wine pairing trends from Brides.com and Mirassou:

To enter, visit www.mirassou.com/sayido

We wish you the best of luck!

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Watch Tim and Lisa Spill the Beans on their Wedding Planning on a Budget Secrets

  • June 11, 2009 at 8:37 pm

wedding plannersHey Tim and Lisa here with an exciting update…

We were interviewed the other day by Marriage Guru Interviews

They are putting together a really nice product that gives you access to valuable interviews with top wedding and marriage experts.

In our interview we share the story of how we planned our dream wedding on a tight budget and reveal the strategies that led to our success.

Marriage Guru Interviews is a new website and will continue to add many more valuable interviews with leading wedding and marriage experts.

Since they are just getting started, they are currently allowing free access to all of the interviews including the interview with us.

This is unbeatable value and you could save a fortune on your wedding planning as well as learn how to have a very happy marriage by getting in on this now while it is still free.

Get Your Free Pass: Marriage Guru Interviews

Enjoy and let us know how you like the interview.

Tim and Lisa Spooner
Authors of ‘Wedding Planning on a Budget’
www.WeddingPlanningOnABudget.com

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Honeymoon Planning Just Got Easier

  • May 22, 2009 at 10:57 pm

Wouldn’t it be nice if all the best honeymoon deals from all over the web were presented on one website?

Planning the Best Honeymoon Just Got Easier

How would you like if there was a place to go for all your honeymoon planning tools and resources?

And what if that same place also gave you all kinds of great honeymoon planning tips and advice so that you can enjoy the best honeymoon possible?

Finally, it is here! Best Honeymoon Deals is our website entirely dedicated to your dream honeymoon.

It is a brand new site but it already has a lot to offer. We hope you are able to benefit from what we have been putting together. We also hope you stick with us as we grow this honeymoon planning site to fulfill our vision of making it the best place to go for all your honeymoon planning needs.

Visit Best Honeymoon Deals and let us know what you think!

We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions for making this honeymoon planning site more helpful.

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The Book Giveaway Contest Winner is…

  • March 23, 2009 at 8:18 am

Thank you everyone who submitted your comments for a chance to win a copy of “Wedding Planning on a Budget”

Our congratulations go out to Sierra. She and Jeremy will be getting married on September 26, 2009.

As winners of “Wedding Planning on a Budget” they will receive a copy of our book plus our 6 bonus gifts to help them plan their dream wedding without exceeding their wedding budget.

Anyone else who finds that their wedding planning is being cramped by these tight financial times should be happy to hear that we are currently making our book available to everyone at a price quite affordable to anyone. Couples who live in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and any other country where weddings typically cost thousands of dollars are guaranteed to see our Wedding Planning on a Budget program save them thousands of dollars. Take a look at the book and see if you don’t find it to be the smartest choice you could ever make as you begin planning the best wedding possible to make your dreams come true without spending a penny more than you feel you feel you can afford.

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The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage

  • March 17, 2009 at 10:27 am

Tim has just published a freely downloadable book called The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage

It reveals how we have stayed happily married all these years.

Newlywed Relationship AdviceYou will discover:

  • The Six Values critical to building an unshakable foundation to your happy marriage
  • Your marriage’s competitors and how to prevent them from overwhelming your marriage
  • How to be truly free and happy together
  • Your romance toolbox
  • How you can be overjoyed together even when things aren’t going your way

It is completely FREE for you to read and the relationship advice found in this book will certainly help you have a happier marriage.

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Three Wedding Contests You Don’t Want to Miss…

  • February 26, 2009 at 11:22 pm

There are three wedding contests that we would love to see our blog readers win. Each of these contests is featuring outstanding prizes…

The ”I Do with Mirassou” Contest requires that you be 21 or older to enter. If that’s you, definitely apply because you could win $10,000 ! And the age restriction should really help elliminate a lot of your competition.

Besides the prize of $10,000, you could also win a trip to New York City for a 4-hour dream wedding consultation with a Brides.com editor; and an elegant Reed & Barton 5-piece dinner service for eight, 5-piece flatware for eight, and 3-piece crystal stemware for eight.

To go to the contest page, click this picture:

The “Do it Yourself Invitations” Contest is a chance for you to show off your creative side and get rewarded for your frugal creativity.

This contest  features some great prizes plus a couple of random drawings as well. The prizes go to the top three handmade wedding invitations, and it runs until May 31st.

Again, we feel like the odds are in your favor, because most brides who hear about this contest don’t make their own invitations and even those who do may not enter the contest. There are a lot of prizes being offered and we imagine that those who are proactive and enter this contest have a good chance of winning — especially if they have made some nice-looking invitations.

To go to the contest page, click this picture:

The final contest we want to tell you about is our “Wedding Planning on a Budget” Book Give-Away Contest.

Anyone reading this post is eligible. All you have to do is comment on this post. On March 20th, we will randomly select the name of one of the readers who posted a comment. On March 23rd, we will announce the winner.

Since the drawing will be random, it is not important what you say in your comment. But we would all be interested to hear what you are doing to save money on your wedding.

Enter our book give-away drawing by commenting below…

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How to buy a wedding dress and save money

  • January 24, 2009 at 8:37 pm

Finding the perfect wedding dress can be very exciting. Knowing a few tips for finding your perfect wedding dress can make the process of selecting your dress much easier.

After watching the video, read on to learn some valuable tips for saving money on your wedding dress.

Wedding Dress Savings

We have created a free wedding planning guide that among other things reveals how to get your perfect wedding dress for just $200. Just get the Free Special Report called “Seven Wedding Planning Secrets For the Bride and Groom on a Budget” and discover how to get your wedding dress for just $200.

On the same webpage you will also have the chance to read about how we planned our dream wedding and the strategies we used to save over $22,000 on our wedding. You will also have the opportunity to learn how you can have your perfect wedding dress custom-made for you at a cost of just $200. Start discovering how to save a fortune on your wedding planning today.

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Wedding Budget

  • October 15, 2008 at 3:04 am

For some time now the readers of our instantly downloadable book Wedding Planning on a Budget have been enjoying the wedding budget tool that we created for them.

Now, for the first time, we are sharing this wedding budgeter with anyone planning a wedding.

Extremely easy to use, this wedding budget combines the value of a wedding budget calculator and planner with the value of a wedding budget tracker.

We invite you to start using your wedding budget today.

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Aprenda a Como Ahorrar una Fortuna en la Boda de sus Suenos

  • August 4, 2008 at 8:59 pm

We recently found a great article about our wedding planner at a blog for readers whose primary language is Spanish:

Deje de malgastar su dinero, aprenda a como ahorrar una fortuna en la boda de sus sueños. Wedding Planner le brinda brillantes consejos para tener la boda perfecta. El producto lo podra adquirir por solo $19.95. Tiene un periodo de prueba de 49 dias, si usted no esta satisfecho puede devolverlo y recibira el 100% del importe que abono. Antes de hacer la compra del producto usted puede registrarse en el sitio y recibir un mini curso gratuito, previo a la compra del producto.

Que se ofrece:
Wedding Planner - Wedding Planning on a Budget es un ebook que se descarga de Internet con los mejores consejos de wedding planners expertos y los autores del libro, Tim y Lisa Spooner, que le ahorraran tiempo, dinero y le daran grandes satisfacciones en el dia mas especial de su vida.

Que va a aprender:

  • A hacer su ceremonia de casamiento super especial
  • A que el dia de la boda no sea estresante
  • Ahorrar fortunas en las flores
  • A tener la boda de sus sueños
  • A hacer que su boda funcione a la perfeccion
  • A ahorrar mucho dinero
  • A que su vestido no sea caro

Nuestra opinion:
Wedding Planner - Wedding Planning on a Budget es un libro excelente que le brindara todo lo que necesita saber acerca de como planear su boda. Ademas le ahorrara tiempo, dinero y malos tragos en ese dia en el que usted quiere que salga todo perfecto. La experiencia de los expertos lo ayudara hasta en los mas minimos detalles, con ejemplos de la vida real y testimonios. El producto esta a la venta a un precio razonable y puede recibir gratis en su mail un mini curso gratuito, por lo que le recomendamos que haga la prueba.

Pros:

  • Conocera todos los detalles para la boda perfecta
  • Ahorrara mucho dinero y tiempo
  • Quitara presion al dia de la boda
  • Conocera los 7 principios para una boda perfecta
  • Entrega inmediata
  • Garantia de satisfaccion o devolucion de su dinero
  • Leera testimonios reales y ejemplos de la vida real

Contras:

  • No posee

Sitio: www.WeddingPlanningOnABudget.com/savings/

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