Shake hands with WeddingStand.com! WeddingStand.com is a Wishpot Vendor and offers everything (and we mean everything) brides need to prep for the Big Day. Their expansive selection includes bridesmaid gifts like bridal party tanks, jewelry, bridesmaid totes and more to reception and ceremony must haves such as wedding party favors and unity candles.
With such a great selection of wedding delights, picking a few favorites is a challenge. I love these cheery personalized bridesmaid totes because they pop with color — just perfect for summer!
And does it get any cuter than these Will You Be My Bridesmaid Cookie Cards? I’m pretty sure if you “propose” to your bridesmaids with these cookie cards, they’d say yes. WeddingStand also offers new Savor the Date cookie cards as a sweet reminder to your forgetful guests.
Every bride knows that it’s important to keep stress at a minimum – you don’t want your party favors to arrive 20 minutes before your wedding. What makes WeddingStand.com special is their wonderful customer service and fast, easy, and free personalization. So, rest assured, when you order those bridesmaid cookie cards, your bridesmaids’ names will be spelled correctly. What a relief!
Vendor Spotlight: GroomStand.com, Leading Purveyor of Personalized Groomsmen Gifts
When it comes to shopping, grooms need a room of their own: Introducing GroomStand.com – a Wishpot Vendor and leading purveyor of personalized groomsmen gifts and guy-friendly wedding accessories, at all price points.
GroomStand.com is the wedding website of every guy’s dreams. From popular groomsmen gifts like personalized flasks and pub signs to the kitschy customized bobbleheads featured on their site, GroomStand.com is the place for guys to kick-back, relax, and enjoy shopping without having to leaf through hundreds of girly wedding gifts.
Out of all the fun items on their site, I managed to find a few favorites. Most guys at least have some interest in sports and GroomStand.com has a variety of great sports gifts – we especially like the Licensed Personalized Sports Signs. This MLB sign is a crowd favorite with sports fans and a hit with grooms and groomsmen looking to spruce up their man caves.
Due to hit shows like Mad Men, more guys are ditching the casual duds for a debonair style. Finally ladies! Not everyone can be Don Draper but GroomStand.com’s fancy cigar humidors, pilsner glasses, and engraved cufflinks indulge their sophisticated sides.
When it comes to groomsmen gifts or gifts for your groom, you can’t go wrong with GroomStand’s versatile collection. Great job GroomStand.com! Does anyone have any gift suggestions on what to get the guy who has everything? What did you get your gift for the groom?
Our vendor spotlight today is on Dubnoff Photography. Check out the top 7 mistakes that couples make when picking a photographer for their wedding.
Over the past 25 years at Dubnoff Wedding Photography, I have had the opportunity to speak with well over a thousand engaged couples. I am always surprised by some of the criteria many of them use to choose their wedding photographer.
Top 7 mistakes brides and grooms make when selecting a photographer for their big day:
1. RELYING ON WEDDING VENDOR REFERRALS. This may be the worst mistake of them all. Many wedding vendors trade referrals with other wedding professionals with no real knowledge of the other’s work. And yes, many times it’s an honest referral based upon working a few weddings with one another. But how much can a DJ, for example, really know about the quality of a wedding photographer’s work? Often times this type of referral is just based on the fact that the DJ has worked with the photographer at a number of events and liked him or her. Did the DJ ever see the final result? Did they see the wedding album? Probably not.
2. JUDGING A PHOTOGRAPHER BASED SOLELY ON A "GREATEST HITS" WEDDING ALBUM PORTFOLIO. There is nothing more misleading regarding a photographer’s talent than looking at a sample wedding album that is a compilation of their best shots at 50 different weddings. An album such as this may be useful in understanding just how great an image they are capable of producing, but that’s really all it tells you. Ask to be shown an album of one entire wedding from start to finish. A good wedding photographer should be able to produce a number of complete albums, which will give you a better idea of how your own wedding will be photographed. Virtually anybody with a decent camera can get one great shot per wedding!
3. PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO THE SALES PITCH. Every photographer can tell you great things about themselves and so they should. But in your initial wedding consultation, look for photographers who are interested in YOU. A good photographer will want to know the types of photography styles you are interested in and what you are looking for in a wedding photographer. A photographer who asks you lots of questions about your wedding and your preferences will probably also be more likely to listen to you and have a better sense of what you want. If the wedding meeting is just one long lecture from the photographer, move on to the next photographer. Find someone who cares.
4. NOT ASSESSING THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S PERSONALITY. This is a biggie. You will spend the entire day with your photographer. If you don’t get along with him or her, it can ruin what should be the happiest day of your life. Rude and bossy photographers can also cause problems with your guests. Find a photographer who is easy to talk to and who you can establish good rapport with.
5. CHOOSING "UNCLE BOB" TO SHOOT YOUR WEDDING! With digital cameras now in practically everyone’s hands, there seems to be a lot more "wedding photographers" out there. The fact that a friend or relative is good with his new digital camera does not mean he can handle a wedding. And what about file backups? Does your family photographer know how to do a correct backup, or even have the proper computer hardware to do it? In my business, I bring a portable hard drive to every wedding and the images are uploaded and checked on the spot. When I get back to my studio, the images are uploaded to my main computer and then backed up on an external hard drive. Once that is complete, 2 back up DVD’s are burned. Only then will I erase the cards I used for the wedding. You don’t want your memories to go up in smoke along with a burnt out hard drive.
6. CARING ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS TYPE OF CAMERA EQUIPMENT. In this day and age, a photographer can make great images with any medium to high quality camera. Wedding photographers who spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the type of equipment they use may not be the right person for you. What you really want to know is what type of images they can produce and if they can show you plenty of samples. It’s the final result that matters. If you are happy with what they show you and everything else checks out OK, you can assume their equipment is adequate for the task.
7. CONFUSION OVER PRICING. If you can’t understand the pricing or packages, keep looking. Package pricing, if flexible, is the best way to go. It allows you to have a better idea of what your final bill will be. Ala carte pricing can confuse and be misleading. You may assume that something you though was included in their coverage costs extra. Like a wedding album! However, a photographer who only offers strictly structured packages should also be avoided. Ultimately, you want to find someone who will work within your budget and give you exactly what you want. If you don’t see a package that fits your needs, ask the photographer to let you design your own.
This list should help you understand what’s important. Find a photographer with a style you prefer and who shows you images that you love. Use that initial consultation as a way to get to know your photographer and develop rapport. Talk to some former clients to get a sense of how the photographer behaved at the wedding. If everything looks good, you are ready to make your decision!
For more Dubnoff work samples check out their Wishpot profile with online brochure. I especially agree with #4. I’ve been in too many weddings where the wedding photographer was rude, pushy, and made everyone feel uncomfortable. Not exactly ideal. Anyone else had any bad photog experiences either at their own wedding or in a wedding they were in or at?
Thanks Dubnoff Photography.
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We are soo excited to be posting our first blog as a Wishpot blogger! WeddingCollectibles.com is an online retailer of wedding cake toppers and accessories. Our website is fairly new (4 years); however we have been involved in the wedding industry designing bridal products for almost 15 years now.
Most of what we do revolves around traditions: cake toppers, flower girl baskets, garters, guest books, favors; therefore, a lot of what we like to write about in our blogs is very product driven, rather than service driven. We are here to answer your questions regarding what’s available for you to buy, how you should approach shopping for your wedding online, things to think about.
Here is a featured product from Wedding Collectibles: Unity Sand Base
If you are not having a religious ceremony but would like to incorporate the symbolism of the Unity Candle you can use a Unity Sand base as a fun new option!
The awesome thing about shopping for your wedding nowadays is that there is an incredible amount of knowledge, creative ideas, and valuable information available at your fingertips. The Internet allows you to google just about anything whether it’s colors, styles, traditions, or themes. It gives you a chance to develop your own unique wedding style, while finding new ways to implement them into your wedding.
Traditions used to really be the only driving force behind what was available, regardless of your own personal taste and style. As a bride now, you have the full opportunity to host an event and ceremony that reflects your individual style, your relationship, and how you want to spend it with the people you love most. Incorporating those wedding traditions that you find most meaningful into your special day is what it is all about.
A Great Inspiration Board for a Beach Inspired Wedding!
As we write our first blog for you, our first piece of advice would be to google away, search through magazines, and wedding boutiques and try to get as clear a picture as you can of what you like. Make note of different color schemes, themes, traditions, etc. that you come across. Rip out ideas you find in magazines and print out things you find online (etsy.com is one of our favorite websites for handmade wedding ideas). Maybe try and compile all of your ideas in some sort of book, notebook, or album. You can use Wishpot to bookmark any graphic from any site and save it all in one place. That way you will have a great look book to go back and sort through some of your favorite ideas. Another great idea is to create an inspiration board composed of all your favorite colors, flowers, dresses, themes, or basically anything that catches your eye. This will make it much easier for you to not only shop for your wedding, but also help your vendors create the wedding of your dreams!
To get more great wedding ideas, don’t forget to check out our website at http://www.weddingcollectibles.com/!
Great wedding ideas. I agree collect as much wedding inspiration as you can! It makes it easier for your vendors to help you get exactly what you are looking for. Thank you Wedding Collectibles.
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Wishpot is happy to announce that now not only can you get a shop-all-over wedding registry, or save all your wedding inspiration in a wedding wish list but you can also find great wedding vendors too! And one such wedding vendor is Vista Print!
VistaPrint Limited (Nasdaq:VPRT), is the online printing solution that makes it simple and affordable for engaged couples to custom design wedding materials. The company’s wedding product line includes fully-matching invitations/envelopes, save the date cards (or magnets) and thank you cards offered at a great value.
Plus what i like most is that it’s really easy to use. Even novice designers like me can design quality materials in a few simple steps. Choose from design templates, or create your own, pick colors, fonts, images and the message you want.
Vista Print is a quick inexpensive way for you to get personal beautiful looking wedding materials that are unique yours.
Plus if you are in a rush your online invitations can be designed, ordered, and delivered in as little as three business days! That is tough to beat.
Check out their Wishpot profile.
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