WEDDING BLOG

Wedding planning involves lots and lots of details and decisions, so having great ideas, tools and resources at your finger tips can truly be a lifesaver. To help you plan your wedding-loving hearts out, we’ve got a great selection of items to give away today, the final day of our Holiday Giveaway Week! One lucky Junebug winner will soon receive:

– A Selection of Organic Chocolate Wedding Favor Confections and Your Choice of a Beer of Wine Chocolate Pairing Kit from Theo Chocolate

– A NeatDesk Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System

– A Copy of Junebug’s Book, Planning Your Wedding: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Perfect Day

Read on to learn more about each item, and to enter to win just leave us a comment here telling us what parts of your wedding planning you’re most enjoying, and what tools have been especially helpful. We’ll accept entries for the rest of the week and over the weekend, and choose our winner randomly on Monday, December 19th, 2011.

Theo Chocolate is one of my favorite businesses here in Seattle, or anywhere for that matter. Obviously because they make incredible chocolate (seriously, it’s insanely good!) but also because they are head-over-heels passionate about being environmentally and socially responsible while they do it. Theo is the first and only organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory in the country, which means they use only pure ingredients that are grown sustainably, they source ingredients locally whenever possible, they partner with their growers to ensure they earn a living wage and have access to education for their families, and they use green energy sources and sustainable packaging and printing methods. Nope, they’re not messing around! So if you’re looking to include chocolate as a wedding favor, gift, or dessert at your wedding, Theo offers a delicious way to do it while incorporating an element of true eco-friendliness at the same time! For today’s giveaway, Theo is generously giving our winner a selection of their chocolate confections which are perfect for wedding favors, dessert tables, welcome bags and thank you gifts, as well as your choice of a Beer or Wine Pairing Kit. These pairing kits come with enough chocolate for six people to taste with their favorite beers and wines, and instructions on how to put together your party. What a fun thing to do at a shower, rehearsal dinner or bachelor/ette party, or to give as a thank you gift to your foodie friends!

While you’re wedding planning, no doubt you’re collecting inspiration and information from every which way. So much happens online and electronically these days, but what about all those brochures and business cards you’ve collected, the gorgeous magazine pages you’ve pulled out to save, or the photos of your parents and grandparents on their own wedding day that you find so much inspiration in – how do you easily bring those together with the digital images and information you’re finding on websites, blogs and Pinterest? Well, an easy answer to that question is NeatDesk. NeatDesk allows you to scan your images, magazine pages, and other visual inspiration with the push of a button and save them in a super organized digital filing cabinet. You can also scan all your receipts, brochures and vendor contracts so they’re saved in one central, secure location, and ready to easily turn into budget spreadsheets and reports. Even other existing digital files can be imported into NeatDesk’s software, where all the key information is extracted and made searchable to you. What technology can do! And the lovely people at NeatDesk are excited to help one of you try it out, so they’re giving our winner a complete NeatDesk Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System. Pretty cool!

A few years back the Junebug team wrote a book all about wedding planning, Planning Your Wedding: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Perfect Day. It’s filled with stunning images from loads of amazing photographers, plus super helpful wedding planning information on everything from your ring to your venue to your fashion and your honeymoon. No topic was left untouched so that it would be a super valuable tool for any couple planning their wedding. Of course, we had to include a copy in today’s giveaway!

Thanks for playing along all throughout the week! You have until Monday the 19th, so don’t forget to enter yesterday’s Personalized Designs Giveaway, Wednesday’s Groomsmen’s Gifts Giveaway, Tuesday’s Bridesmaids’ Gifts Giveaway, Monday’s huge Bridal Fashion Giveaway, and all the photography related giveaways going on over on Photobug!

Your wedding planning months are a time in your life when you’re going to be surrounded by beautiful products and design, so embrace the opportunity to celebrate your new phase in life with these fun, creative items. We love anything with a personal touch, so we’ve put together a group of giveaway prizes that will help you have just that. One lucky Junebug winner will soon be taking home:

– 25 Foil Stamped and Letterpressed Enclosure Notes from Haute Papier

– A Custom Address, Personal or Holiday Stamp from Paperwink

– A Custom Oil Painting From One of Your Wedding Photos by Julia Hou

Read on to learn more about each item, and to enter to win just leave us a comment here telling us what creative projects you’re planning to make or purchase for your wedding. We’ll accept entries all week long, and choose our winner randomly next Monday, December 19th, 2011.

Haute Papier’s bold and beautiful letterpress enclosure notes may be small but they pack a big punch. You can use them as gift cards, thank you notes, wedding escort cards and more, and with the incredible array of personalized designs they can be ordered in you’ll want to use them for just about everything! We love the monogrammed options as well as the “signature” stationery option (letterpressed with your own signature!), and those envelope liner are to-die-for! To get our winner started with a set of their own, Haute Papier owners Sarah and Erin are giving our winner the set of 25 adorable red enclosure notes letterpressed with “xo” seen above! So sweet!

After discovering the products of Paperwink earlier this year, I’ve been obsessed with their custom address and personal stamps. Each and every stamp design Paperwink offers is so delightful that they would bring a little thrill to the most every day activities (really, who couldn’t use a little more excitement when mailing out the bills?) Paperwink also offers wonderful invitations, address labels, notebooks and accessories, but custom stamps are close to their hearts, so they’re generously giving our Junebug winner the custom address, personal or holiday stamp of their choice. Thanks Paperwink!

Artist Julia Hou creates custom oil paintings that are not your traditional portraits! Using one of your wedding photos she will interpret your image in the most modern way, inside the letter of your choice. It’s like combining a monogram and portrait into one! Each piece is absolutely one-of-a-kind, and painted on an 8″ by 8″ gallery wrapped heavy duty canvas board, ready to display. I’m thrilled that Julia is giving a custom painting to the winner of this giveaway – what a treasure for your home.

Thanks for entering to win everyone! And don’t forget to enter yesterday’s Groomsmen’s Gifts Giveaway, Tuesday’s Bridesmaids’ Gifts Giveaway, Monday’s huge Bridal Fashion Giveaway, and all the photography related giveaways going on over on Photobug!

Continuing with yesterday’s theme of gifts for your gals, today we have a giveaway full of gifts for your guys! No doubt your groomsmen play a huge roll in your life as well as in your wedding, so we found some fantastic and creative thank you gifts to show them your appreciation. One lucky Junebug winner will soon receive:

– A Muehle Safety Razor and Valobra Shaving Soaps from Kaufmann Mercantile

– A Handmade, Monogrammed Leather Wallet from Waskerd

– Custom Map Cuff Links from Tomato Made

Read on to learn more about each item, and to enter to win just leave us a comment here telling us what you love about the men in your wedding party and your ideas for showing them your gratitude. We’ll accept entries all week long, and choose our winner randomly next Monday, December 19th, 2011. Let’s hear it for the boys!

If the groomsmen in your life are connoisseurs of old-fashioned, handmade, high-quality craftsmanship and design, then take a look at all the incredible gift possibilities at Kaufmann Mercantile! This Brooklyn based Men’s accessory shop is dedicated to bringing its customers a thoughtful selection of products that last a lifetime, and today they’re giving our lucky Junebug winner a sophisticated shaving set of a Muehle Safety Razor and Valobra Shaving Soaps. Nice! Like adding a little bit of Mad Men style to your grooming routine.

Designer Derek Shaw from Waskerd is passionate about making the highest quality leather wallets, with the highest quality tools and materials, with his own two talented hands, and we love the results. Each wallet is one of a kind and made to help you keep things simple and de-clutter your life. Derek loves working with wedding parties too, so Waskerd offers a free wallet for the groom when he purchases one for all his groomsmen, and you can even get them monogrammed with your groomsmen’s initials! And today Waskered is generous giving our Junebug winner the wallet of their choice from waskerd.com, complete with custom monogram. Thanks Derek!

Got a group of guys spread out around the country, or buddies who love to travel? These super fun custom made map cuff links by Beth Holloway from Tomato-Made are the perfect gift for globe trotting pals. They’re made with a vintage map of the location of your choice, set in sterling silver and preserved under a dome of glossy resin.Grooms, groomsmen, fathers and grandfathers, who wouldn’t love this fun fashion accessory? Thanks to Tomato-Made, our giveaway winner will get to try them out for themselves!

Thanks for entering to win everyone! And don’t forget to enter yesterday’s Bridesmaids’ Gifts Giveaway, Monday’s huge Bridal Fashion Giveaway, and all the photography related giveaways going on over on Photobug!