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Thanks for visiting SuperNoVABride! Sit back and stay a while. Although this blog is no longer updated (Come visit me at my new blog, SuperNoVAwife!), I hope that future brides will still find the content useful!

On this page, you’ll find a consolidated list of (nearly) all of the blog posts I have written. I’ve organized it by category and I hope you’ll find it useful. Feel free to leave a comment on any of the posts. Thanks for visiting!

Attire and Accessories

When my wedding dress got lost	Ken’s $14.99 Wedding Band
Flower Girl and Ring Bearer Attire	The Evolution of my Wedding Dress Hunt
Kate Middleton Copied off of Me	About my Wedding Ring
The Story of my Wedding Dresses	About my Engagement Ring

Budget and Finances

Our Strategy for Selling Used Wedding Items	Planning a Wedding with a Job Loss
The Nebulous World of Wedding Expense Tracking	Planning a Wedding when you have Money, but your Family Doesn’t
Good Investments for your Wedding Planning Process	Paying Your Vendors in Dollar Coins
Where to Buy and Sell Used Wedding Items	Two Wedding Budget Tips you won’t Read Anywhere Else
Six Ways to Save Money on Wedding Expenses	Get your Finances ready for Wedding Expenses
Uber Inspirational, Uber low-budget weddings	Buying and Obtaining Wedding Decor
Our Budget, According to Wedding Wire	Combining Finances after Marriage
The 60/40 Wedding Budget Approach	How to Save $15,000 this Year and Pay for your Wedding in Cash
Tips and Advice if your Venue Allows you to Bring your own Alcohol

DC Specific

How to have a Budget Wedding in DC, Part 1	How to Have a Budget Wedding in DC, Part 2: Venues
How to have a Budget Wedding in DC, Part 3: Catering	DC Area Venue Visits Review
Selecting a Wedding Venue in the DC Area

 

Decor

Our Strategy for Selling Used Wedding Items	Centerpiece Proof of Concept
Shopping Haul	Buying and Obtaining Wedding Decor
Deciding a Color Scheme for our Wedding

 

DIY and Crafty

Wedding Invitation Reveal	DIY Escort Card Display
Unique Table Numbers	Assembling our Lego Ring Bearer Box
Wedding Guestbook Artwork Idea	Post-Wedding Projects
iPod your Wedding, Part 1: Equipment	iPod Your Wedding, Part 2: Setting up the Equipment
iPod your Wedding: Our Playlists	Setting up Helper Stations
Self Catering your Wedding (collection of links)	Our Wedding Self-Catering Plan
Our Lego Ring Bearer Box	DIY Wedding Flower Preservation and Pressing
Our Wedding Welcome Bags	DIY Wedding Day Makeup Lessons Learned
Ultimate DIY Wedding Venue Supplies Checklist	Finding Wedding Inspiration (in an online world of recycled ideas)
Our Wedding Guest “Book” Finished Product	Our Save-the-Date, Program, Favors, and Thank You Cards
Our Wedding Website	Making Art out of your Wedding Gift Ribbons

 

General Advice

Advice for the Newly Engaged (that you won’t read anywhere else)	Three Most Important Expenses for your Wedding
Compromise is okay for your wedding	Tips for Friends and Family of Couples Getting Married
Creating an “Important Box” for your Wedding Day	Even more Advice for the Newly Engaged (that you won’t read anywhere else)

 

Get Organized!

Tips for when you’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed	Planning a Wedding Done Right
Using Google Docs to Organize your Wedding	Finish 99% of Wedding Tasks Two Months before the Wedding
Systematic Way of Finding and Organizing Wedding Inspiration	Good Investments for your Wedding Planning Process
Wedding Day Timelines are for Schmucks	Organizing and Storing Items until the Wedding
Unique Search Options for Finding your Wedding Venue	My Wedding Mind Map
7 Ways to Get Organized when Planning a Wedding	Compiled list of all our completed to-do lists
Creating an “Important Box” for your Wedding Day

 

Good Buys

Good Investments for your Wedding Planning Process

Random Things You’ll Likely Need the Week of your Wedding

 

Wedding Guests

Online RSVPs	Our Assigned Seating Merry Go Round
Asking Guests not to Take Pictures	What to Include in Wedding Welcome Bags
Our Wedding Welcome Bags	Our Wedding Seating Chart (and why it wasn’t difficult)
Tips for Wedding Guest from A Bride	Our Wedding Website

Honeymoons & Minimoons

We’re on our Minimoon!	We Decided on our Minimoon Destination
Minimoon Ideas	Honeymoon Ideas

 

All About our Wedding

All Wedding Recaps	The Story of our Wedding Venue Hunt, Part 1
The Story of our Wedding Venue Hunt, Part 2	The Story of Our Wedding Venue Hunt, Part 3 (final)
Our Best Wedding Decisions	Wedding Superlatives, Part 1
Wedding Superlatives, Part 2	Wedding Planning: What I would’ve done Differently
My Wedding Week To-Do List	Wedding Annoyances Three Weeks Out
Our Wedding Planning Schedule	Ditching our Venue
Why I’m Not Having Bridesmaids	Current Wedding Dilemmas
Our Wedding Invitations	What Happened to Our Wedding Cakes
Our Wedding Website	The Story of Our Engagement

 

Paper & Invitations

Wedding Invitation Reveal	Using Online RSVPs
Wedding Invitation and Save-the-Date Options	Our Save-the-Date, Program, Favors, and Thank You Cards

 

Pre-Wedding Parties

My Wedding Shower

 

Stress

Recap of the Two Days before Our Wedding	Ensuring Wedding Day Morning Calmness
Worrying Myself Sick about the Weather	Wedding Annoyances 3 Weeks Out
Rant on Inconsiderate and Unreliable Folks	A Fleeting Moment of Guilt: Should I have Involved Others more in Wedding Planning?
Planning a Wedding is not Hard	Finish 99% of Wedding Tasks Two Months before the Wedding
Focusing on Non-Wedding Tasks for Stress Relief	How We have Avoided Most Wedding Stress
Current Wedding Dilemmas	Is Wedding Stress Entirely Self-Imposed?
I Hate the Wedding Industry	First Wedding Planning Panic Attack
A Few Tips to Avoid Stress while Planning a Wedding	Six Lies the Wedding Industry Tells You (and how to handle them)
Why people try to convince you that a wedding should be stressful

 

To Do Lists

My Wedding Week To-Do List	Our Detailed To-Do List
Our Wedding Action Plan	Compiled list of all our completed to-do lists
More Tips for Avoiding Wedding Stress

 

Unconventional Wedding Views

What if I don’t just want to sit back and relax on my wedding day	Idle Hands and Wedding Tasks
Planning a Wedding is not Hard	Finish 99% of Wedding Tasks Two Months before the Wedding
Are all Brides just Full of Shit?	What is Wrong with “That” Type of Wedding?
Groom not Involved? Don’t Get Married

 

Vendors

I Hated Having a Day-of-Coordinator	A Totally Off-Putting Moment with our Officiant
DIY Wedding Day Makeup Tutorials	Our Criteria for a Wedding Photographer
Wedding Vendors are not your Friends	I Hated my Hair and Makeup Trial
Kick your Wedding Vendors in Gear	Ways to Make your Vendors’ Lives a Little Easier
We Decided not to have a Wedding Deejay	Best of the Web: Self Catering your Wedding
An Open Letter to Wedding Vendors	Eliminating Wedding Vendors: What to DIY?
Tips for Interviewing Wedding Vendors	Unique Search Options for Finding your Wedding Venue
Self-Catering a Wedding	Ditching our Venue
I Hate the Wedding Industry	(Yet Another) Open Letter to Wedding Vendors
What to do after you’ve decided on your Wedding Venue	(Even More) Tips for Interviewing Wedding Vendors
Advice and Tips if your Venue allows you to Bring your own Alcohol

 

Wedding Fitness

My DIY Get-in-Shape Plan

Thoughts on my Previous Weight Loss

 

Wedding Fun

Dance Lessons: Success!	How not to Register for Crap
What was on our Wedding Registries