WEDDING BLOG

Here we are on our last day of Holiday Giveaways, and today’s prizes are all super fun wedding planning tools and extras. From helping you stay organized while you plan to saying thank you to your loved ones after the fact, we’ve got treats for every step of the way. Today’s lucky winner will receive… 

– A $50 credit with Cut the Cake Designs so you can choose your favorite modern guest book

– Two wonderful wedding planning tools from Mindy Weiss: the The Ultimate Wedding Organizer and the Mindy Weiss Bridal Emergency Kit

– Lovely letterpress thank you notes from Ephemera Custom Letterpress & Calligraphy

– Darling party favors from Acme Party Box Company, perfect for a wedding, engagement party, rehearsal dinner or day after brunch

To enter to win leave us a comment here letting us know what parts of your wedding planning have been the most enjoyable and the most challenging so far, and if you have any words of advice for your fellow brides. We’ll accept entries all day long, and randomly choose our winner this Friday, December 24th. Good luck everyone, and thanks for entering!

Cut the Cake Designs makes fun recipe card and Rolodex style guest books in fabulous color and prints that are sure to liven up your wedding decor and make for cherished keepsakes. Today they’re generously giving away a $50 credit to their online store so our winner can choose the guest book color and design that will best match their wedding day. Love it!

If you pay any attention at all to celebrity weddings, you’re sure to know the name Mindy Weiss. Wedding planner to celebs like Gwen and Gavin, Ellen and Portia and most recently Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, Mindy and her team can plan a party like nobody’s business! Today Mindy is sharing two of her very own wedding planning products – her The Ultimate Wedding Organizer and Bridal Emergency Kit, both of which we think would come in handy for every bride, celebrity or otherwise! Thanks Mindy!

With all the lovely gifts and help you’ll receive throughout your wedding planning, we think you can NEVER have too many thank you notes on hand, and these are just about as sweet as they come! Ephemera Custom Letterpress & Calligraphy created these “Love” and “I  like you” letterpress notes and is giving away a set of each to today’s lucky winner. Be sure to check out the Ephemera website to see even more of owner Tara Bliven’s whimsical wedding designs.

One of the most fun parts of wedding planning has got to be choosing the decor theme and details for all of your wedding events. We love the Southern California and online shop the Acme Party Box Company for all the wonderful ideas and products they have available, no matter what kind of party you’re throwing. Today they’re giving our lucky winner a selection of their most popular party favors – Lavender Sachets, Garden Seed Pops, Garden Lapel Pins, Organic Soaps, and their adorable fabric Flag Bunting. Nice! Visit www.AcmePartyBox.com to find your own version of party hostess heaven.

Don’t forget to also enter to win our Fashion, Food and Beauty giveaways here on What Junebug Loves, and our Photography Giveaway on Photobug! And thank you ever-so-much to Cut the Cake Design, Mindy Weiss, Ephemera Custom Letterpress and Acme Party Box Company for today’s giveaway prizes!

Our Junebug Holiday Giveaway week happily rolls on, and today we’re all about Beauty! On your wedding day you want to look and feel your healthiest and most beautiful, and who couldn’t use a little help in getting there? For one lucky winner that will be exactly the case when they win:

– A Here Comes the Bride Makeup Kit from Orglamix Organic Mineral Makeup

– A gift set of luxurious handmade soaps from Sweet Olive Soap Works

– A Home Ambiance Diffuser in Sandalwood Amber from Antica Farmacista

Read on to learn more about the prizes and to enter to win leave us a comment here telling us about the beauty products, philosophies and little luxuries you swear by or are excited to try out in preparation for your wedding day.  We’ll accept entries all week long, and randomly choose our winner this Friday, December 24th. Good luck readers! I can’t wait to hear all your beauty ideas and recommendations!

Orglamix makes organic mineral makeup in every variety and shade under the sun, and because it’s without any chemicals or artificial fragrances or dyes, it’s easy to wear for every skin type. We love its slight shimmer and light-weight feel which would be perfect for that glowing bridal look! The Here Comes the Bride Makeup Kit includes 1 Pure Organic Mineral Glow in Toss the Bouquet, 1 100% Pure Organic Mineral Blush in Rosy Future, and 3 100% Pure Organic Mineral Eye Colors in Champagne Toast, Honeymoon Sweet and Frosting on Taupe. Thanks Orglamix!

In my humble opinion there is nothing like a good bar of soap, and Sweet Olive Soap Works, a New Orleans soap company, lovingly makes luscious handmade soaps with traditionally nourishing and local ingredients. Skin healing fruits, flowers, and herbs gathered from their organic garden are combined with ingredients like olive oil and goat’s milk to naturally promote healthier, happier skin. Heavenly! Today’s giveaway gift set includes bars of La Vie En Rose, Auntie Bellum’s Magnolia and Goat’s Milk, and Louisiana Sweet Olive Blossom soaps. A perfect gift for yourself or your bridesmaids!

Beauty doesn’t just apply to your body, but to your surroundings as well. For a beautifully scented home, we love the Home Ambiance Diffusers from Antica Farmacista. Simply set out one of the lovely antique-inspired apothecary bottles and the scent in the oil is wicked up through the wooden sticks and into the air. No muss, no fuss! Today’s winner will receive a 250ml bottle of their newest scent, Sandalwood Amber – a complex and warm fragrance rooted in rich sandalwood with notes of soft amber, musk and vanilla bean.

A very special thank you to Orglamix, Sweet Olive Soap Works and Antica Farmacista for generously donating this giveaway. And readers, don’t forget to enter to win the Fashion and Food giveaways from Monday and Tuesday on What Junebug Loves, and if you love photography don’t miss out Photography Giveaway on Photobug!

Happy Tuesday! If you tuned in yesterday you saw that we’re all about gifts and giveaways this week on Junebug, and today we’re taking about about Yummy Food! Two lucky winners are going to receive some seriously delicious treats!

First we have an ingenious holiday gift that we received ourselves this year, and loved so much we asked if you could have one too. The very first person to leave a comment here is going to win …

– A Cake in a Jar Care Package from the brilliant Fantasy Frostings! UPDATE: A winner has been chosen! Congratulations to Julie – enjoy!

Yes, that’s right, we said cake in a jar. Trust us, it’s to-die-for! And as for the rest of you, leave us a comment here telling us about the special food, drinks and desserts you’re most excited to serve on your wedding day, and you’ll be entered to win…

–  A selection of premium organic chocolate from the famous Theo Chocolate

– The new cookbook Fried Chicken and Champagne by chef and caterer Lisa Dupar

– A Holiday Gift Set from renowned chef Tom Douglas filled with his amazing “Rubs with Love”

– A custom designed signature wedding cocktail recipe created just for you by Dress the Drink

Read on to learn more about the prizes. We’ll accept entries all week long, and randomly choose our winner this Friday, December 24th. Good luck everyone! And happy holidays!!! 

Fantasy Frostings makes some of the most delicious wedding cakes and desserts in Southern California, and when we received their “Cake in a Jar” box a few weeks back, we were reminded just why their reputation is what it is. YUM! For those of you in the LA area, don’t miss their newly expanded offerings that include wedding dessert buffets, and look for “Cake in a Jar” to be available on their website by Valentine’s Day! (images above by Cakes and Kisses Photography)

Theo Chocolate is one of our very favorite local companies here in Seattle, not only because their chocolate is crazy, crazy good, but because they are the first and only organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory in the country. Not a small feat. Theo is generously giving away their eight piece winter confection box, a box of their grey salted caramels and a box of their pink salted caramels –  all popular confections with couples looking for alternative wedding desserts and take-home favors that their guests will cheer them for! Check out their website to learn more and see all the wedding chocolate possibilities!

Lisa Dupar is a multi-talented chef and caterer, and with her new cookbook Fried Chicken and Champagne you can taste a little of her kitchen genius yourself. We’ve long been fans of Lisa, her food, and her restaurant The Pomegranate Bistro, and think this cookbook will make for some fantastic home-cooking date nights for you and your newly-wed.

Tom Douglas has made a huge name for himself in the food world (Iron Chef anyone?) and we’re so proud to have him as one of our home-town Seattle foodies. If you’ve ever eaten at one of his many mouth-wateringly good restaurants like The Dahlia Lounge, Palace Kitchen, Lola, Etta’s or Serious Pie or if you’ve been lucky enough to attend a wedding at the Palace Ballroom you know that his cooking comes from the heart. That’s why we adore his line of “Rubs with Love” and why we think that you too will have a blast cooking at home with the many different rubs that are included in the Holiday Gift set we’re giving away today.

Signature cocktails are a wonderful way to add some personalized pizazz to a wedding day, and no one does them quite like the company Luxurious Wedding | Dress the Drink. With this super cool package, Dress The Drink will have one of their premier mixologists create a custom signature cocktail and recipe for your wedding based on your theme, colors, interests, or wedding inspiration. They’ll provide you with a cocktail design consultation and recipe creation, the recipe and image of the cocktail named in your honor, and luxe cocktail garnishes for the bride and groom’s wedding cocktails. What fun! For more informaiton and lots of chic cocktail recipes, check out the Luxurious Wedding – Dress the Drink website and blog.

A very special thank you Fantasy Frostings, Theo Chocolate, Lisa Dupar and Company, Tom Douglas and Luxurious Wedding | Dress the Drink for generously donating this giveaway. You’re the best!