Today is an exciting day! We have chosen 3 lucky couples that needed help in the registry and home decor department. All deserving. Don’t worry if you weren’t chosen, we will be doing this again, so you can re-enter later! Here are the winning submissions.
WINNER #1: ERIKA Since the day we got engaged, I have been overwhelmed by the thought of registering. We’ve owned the home we’re in since 2007 and have just about everything we need. When presented with a scan gun, I get nervous (we don’t need that, why are we registering for it) and, as was the case at Macy’s, left after a defunct scan gun allowed us to only scan a handful of items.
Also, my fiance, and I are in the early stages of finding a home for the next part of our life. As we both leave my first house and enter the first house we’ll buy as a couple, home decor is a huge issue. If we decide to move forward with the move, we want to make our current home as appealing to potential buyers as possible as well as make the new house as homey as imaginable. As you can imagine, I’ve rad tons of blogs and checklists on registering for wedding gifts, but beyond a bread machine, crock pot and china, I’m running at a loss! I’d welcome all the help I can get!
WINNER #2: ALANA My Fiancé and I could really benefit from help with registering and decorating our home. We recently purchased a home that was previously decorated in a ”jungle-esque” theme. Who knew you could create jungle in Wisconsin?! The walls are painted in dreary colors and there isn’t a lot of natural light. We’ve been trying to come up with ideas on how to cheer the place up and make it ours. We have ”grand” ideas in our heads but just can’t seem to bring them to life. We would absolutely love to register for things that will help us make the house our home but were hesitant because we just don’t know what we are doing! We’ve made one stab at registering and thought we were prepared. Oh man, were we wrong! I’ve never felt so lost in Target! We’d love some direction and would most appreciative of the help received. Thanks.
WINNER #3: BRITTANY I am desperate for some help. I just got engaged 2 months ago and my fiancé and I are planning on making my 2 bedroom condo in Memphis, TN our home after our wedding in April 2011. I’ve lived there for 3 years with various roommates and it has more of a post-college hand-me-down feel than a newly married home aesthetic. I feel like I can’t hone in and make decisions without guidance and therefore the space has absolutely no continuity from room to room. Please help! Thanks.
I’m honored…
Everyone knows me as the Editor-In-Chief of The Bride and Bloom magazine where I provide wedding information and inspiration to tens-of-thousands of brides on the newsstands every quarter; but now I am my sister-in-law’s MAID OF HONOR (well, really Matron of Honor). My sister-in-law is getting married this Summer to a wonderful guy and I have been honored to be asked to be her right-hand-gal!
I have never been a Matron of Honor (or Maid of Honor); this will be a NEW EXPERIENCE for me. The last time I was a bridesmaid was in my early 20’s, so I am going to need all the help I can get!!! I don’t want to become a Type-A BRIDESMAID-ZILLA where I over-step my boundaries, nor do I want to be completely unhelpful and too busy to make time for the bride. I have been a bride once in my life and that was in 2001 to my best friend, my husband. I had 2 Maids of Honor and 4 bridesmaids along with a gamut of personalities and skin tones (all the way from African American, Asian, Indian and pale-pale Irish). I remember some of my girls were beyond helpful, some I could not believe their attitudes and some were neither here nor there. I know what kind of support a bride needs and I don’t want to make the same mistakes that often times a bridesmaids makes unknowingly.
I am beyond excited and now I am trying to figure out where I should start on being that right-hand-gal. I think I am going to ease into the role by watching 27 Dresses with Katherine Heigl. I never got a chance to catch this movie on the big screen, so I am looking forward to having a date night with my husband and watching this chick flick. It should be fun!
I PROMISE over the course of the next several months I will be supportive and helpful to my sister-in-law and her wedding in whatever areas that she needs assistance in. To keep me accountable, I am going to open a part of my personal life and MOH journey with you. I hope to get some good advice along the way from everyone. This will be a fun read through the eyes of me, the Editor-In-MOH!
