Here are some great ideas for your place/escort cards from various photography blogs!

Thanks to the photogs for some great pics and thanks to the brides & their planners for some fab ideas!

Enjoy all of the ideas! Happy Planning!


First pic is of paper doffodils! How cool!

Photo: Cheri Pearl Photography
http://cheripearl.com/

SlackerBride81 talked about shoes a few posts ago.

Which I totally LOVED the shoes....and think I might change my name to Slacker Bride....cause I've totally become that...or Slacker Chatty.

Anyways, I have these fabulous RED shoes...which I've worn several times to events and EVERYONE has loved them! My mom, like I've mentioned before is super traditional. If you have a white dress white shoes, Ivory--Ivory etc.

I'm going with the red shoes. Mom only has so much say. Plus they are already purchased, not like I'm asking for new shoes.

Who else is wearing bold colored shoes??

Hi Girls!

I wanted to introduce myself. I am super excited to be a part of this site - I have been browsing it for the past couple days and you all have such fabulous ideas!

I am getting married on February 28, 2009 - yep 90 days from now! I really cannot believe it is almost here - but I am so excited for the day to come and to see all the planning I have done come together. I know a winter wedding is not the norm - but my fiance and I are both cold weather people (probably something to do with me growing up in Alaska :))... so we are planning a February wedding in Columbus, Ohio. I know most of you Chatty Brides are from the northeast - however I do live in Boston so I love seeing all your engagement shoots and hearing of your shopping excursions!

My FI and I have been together since high school - over 10 years - and we are so excited to finally be husband and wife! There was never a doubt that we would end up together - but we both wanted to finish grad school and be in the same city before planning a wedding.

Now on to the proposal - after being together for so long I really thought I would have an idea when it was all going to happen; however it was quite the opposite. I was 100% SURPRISED! He surprised me with a trip to Vegas for my birthday...which was amazing enough all by itself! Then after a night of seeing the Cirque de Soleil and an amazing dinner we arrived back to the room to find rose petals EVERYWHERE, champagne, and a card with my name on it - and still I thought all of this was for my birthday (totally clueless!). BUT when I opened the card on the inside it said "Love you will all my heart" and he had written "Will you marry me?" It was honestly not until this point that I had any clue what was happening, and when I turned around there he was on one knee holding the ring. He said a whole bunch of sweet stuff and I said "YES!" as I had instant tears! It truly was PERFECT.

I will probably be posting a lot in the next couple weeks as I am very much a DIY bride and have completed quite a few of my projects (although it seems like there is still an endless list to do :)).

Looking so forward to reading about all of your amazing ideas!

Hello Chattys!! I admit it, I was a bad chatty bride during the last month. With my mom and lil' sister here from Portugal for such a short time it was extremely important to spend quality time with them. I wonder what the chatty rules are about posting projects post wedding? In the mean time my photographers Steve & Steve from Imagemakers have some fabulous teasers on their blog. They are awesome, I cannot wait to see the rest!! Enjoy and I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving !!

A shout out to those chic and fabulous short-dress brides! Love them!

HJT, Paperbride, Vegas Bride---we wanna see more of your short dresses!!!!!

Okay, here's our favorite two engagement pictures. We're using these as personal collection photos though, because no one other than a fellow bride to be will care to see us kissing!!

OMG I've been such a bad chatty bride! Work has been insane, I'm so beat when I get home it's all I can do to crawl into bed.
Couple WR things. I found, fell in love with & ordered my shoes. Once they got here, first of all, they look awful on my feet. And the more I stare at them, the more I hate the heel. Two things I refuse to settle on on my day: The Groom and the shoes. So..I'm so sorry Betsey, they are fabulous and will make some girl very happy. But they are not for me:-(

I can check off one of the things on my end of the year to-do list. I received our Save the Dates on Tuesday morning, addressed the ones that needed to be (a majority of them had pre-addressed envelopes), and went straight to the post office to send them out!

Less than twenty four hours later I am already hearing great reviews about them from our future guests!

Please welcome ChattyBride "WinterBride" planning her Feb 2009 wedding!!!