Weekly Wedding Tip
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"Welcome out-of-town guests with a customized travel guide full of your recommendations for restaurants, shops, museums, nightlife, and places to pass the time between wedding events. A laser-printed listing, mailed ahead or left in their hotel room, is perfect."

Here's a great idea if don't want to create a travel guide yourself - Beau-coup now offers blackbook city guides that are exclusive to their site. These guides are pocket sized and include detailed maps and carefully researched information on the best restaurants, cafes and nightlife. These guide books are perfect for welcome baskets and at Beau-coup, you can personalize your guidebook with your names and wedding date on the cover. Currently, there are 6 titles to select from: New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami and the their popular Jet Set Guide which covers New York, Paris and Los Angeles. You can choose your font and the placement of your text to make your own special edition.

Of course, your options are unlimited if you choose to create and print your own travel guide for your wedding guests. I love handmade guides that are tied together with ribbon like the samples shown above. Adding a scalloped edge to the guide pages will add an elegant finishing touch. Will you be providing your wedding guests with a customized travel guide? I'd love to hear your ideas.

Handmade programs and guides as pictured:
Left: from clared23's flickr gallery
Right: from Lana Stewart's flickr gallery

Wedding Paper Divas, known for their modern wedding stationery has quickly become the preferred online destination for brides-to-be. And now, Wedding Paper Divas has partnered with William Arthur (one of the world's finest producers of luxury stationery) to bring you a Letterpress Collection in conjunction with their already popular Signature Collection. These gorgeous letterpress wedding suites have been designed by the very talented Wedding Paper Divas designers and are printed by fine stationer William Arthur on their signature luxury paper. The entire collection launches today.

The Wedding Paper Divas Letterpress Collection includes: wedding invitations, response cards, reception cards, direction cards, place cards, and thank you cards.

The Wedding Paper Divas web site couldn't be easier to use - you can quickly see your invitation and coordinating items in a new color scheme simply by clicking on a color swatch. And personalization is easy and fast. Either use the pre-formatted order of names and event details, or start from a clean slate and create your own custom invitation and coordinating items with the wording of your choice. Once you've entered in your information, you can see an online preview and then modify the personalized text as you wish.

Special Offer from Wedding Paper Divas:
Save 5% on your order thru March 31st (Code: NEWS)

Moo.com is a unique printing company that allows you to use digital photos in unique ways to create personalized print products that are perfect for wedding announcements, greetings, gifting and more. The prices are affordable and while they are based in the UK, global shipping is available. Depending on where you are in the world, you can view the correct price for your location in either $, € or £ currency.

Here's just a few ideas on what you can do with the products at Moo.com:
MOO Postcards ($19.99/pack of 20)
Greetings Cards ($24.99/pack of 10)
Notecards ($24.99/pack of 16)
Each of these products are the perfect way to announce your engagement or wedding day. Include a photograph of the happy couple on one side and add personalized text on the other. Or, select different images for each card, based on the recipient.

MOO Minicards ($19.99 for pack of 100)
Create unique invitations, save the date cards, name tags and/or party favor gift tags with MOO Minicards. Select the photo of your choice or choose one from MOO's extensive design gallery. Make up to 100 different cards that feature up to 100 different messages. An idea from Moo.com suggests punching a small hole into several MiniCards and tie together with a pretty ribbon. I think this idea would also be perfect for wedding programs as well.

MOO StickerBooks ($9.99 per booklet with 90 stickers)
Sending and receiving thank you's just got even more personal. Seal your note of thanks with personalized MOO Stickers containing photos from the wedding or from the happy couple's own collection.

Image Credits:
Moo Mini Album: Yellow Craft Chick's Esty Shop
Save the Date Mini Card Album: Moo flickr gallery

With personalization being so popular for weddings we wanted to let you know about a great site that will create your wedding monogram or logo for you. The company is called true•love•logos and was created by the mother-daughter team at Firefly Creatives, LLC. They currently have 5 distinct collections (with almost 200 designs total) to select from. The styles and themes include:
• Casual (fun, laid-back, relaxed
• Classic (elegant, traditional)
• Contemporary (clean, modern, unique)
• Imagery (symbolic, cultural, location)
• Monograms (timeless, historic)

A wedding monogram is an affordable way to add elegance and individuality to your wedding - and at true•love•logos the cost is $50 for a b&w/grayscale digital file that can then be used for DIY projects and/or professional printing. If you would like a color version of your wedding logo, it's only $25 extra. The typical completion time for a wedding monogram is 1-5 days and online ordering is easy with their short order form.

Some ideas for wedding monogram uses include: thank you cards, personal wedding websites, place cards, favor gift tags, and coasters. If you plan on using a wedding monogram, please leave a comment and let us know where you will be implementing it to create a memorable wedding experience.

Also, be sure to come back next month to enter our wedding contests when true•love•logos will be giving away one wedding monogram to a lucky bride