I found something of Pinterest on the internet...

Surfing the zeitgeist, as usual, I discovered a brilliant resource for brides to be who are more visually inspired and less fond of making lists.

Pinterest is a website where... hold on I'll let them tell you -

Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard.

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.

So as you browse around looking for inspiration and suppliers to help make your day perfect you can pin images from their sites to your pinboard, thus creating a visual picture of the kind of stuff you like. You can create your own boards under different categories so, for instance, if you are looking for your dress you can pin images of the ones you love and then review them over a glass of wine or two later.

I've only just started using the site but have found it really easy to use. You install a little 'pin it' icon to your browser toolbar making it a simple click to add the things you like.

I've started a board called 'Wedding suppliers we like' and will be adding some great suppliers of all things wedding over the coming weeks.

To become a pinner you submit a request and receive an invitation, I suppose this keeps out spammers, within a few days. 

I hope you find Pinterest useful, for me it certainly beats staring at a big list and feeling a bit overwhelmed.   

Are you busy on the 14th of July this year?

I wonder how many of you have a ready answer and know exactly what you'll be doing on the 14th of July? Celebrating Bastille Day perhaps? Or if you happen to be getting married on that date you'll have a pretty good idea. But, given it's only January,  how many of your guests would have answered 'I'm going to a wedding'? 

With the majority of weddings coinciding with the peak summer holiday season, there is a chance that some of the people you want to have at your wedding may be considering catching some much needed sun and merrily booking a couple of weeks away, blissfully ignorant that they'll be missing your big day. And so it came to pass that the save the date card was born.

Essentially a save the date card is a neat little reminder to send to your guests to ensure that they don’t book a holiday in Italy the week of your wedding or equally to make sure they do book time off work to be available to attend your big day. 

If you are inviting quite a large number of friends and family the save the date card is really useful. You should send them out as soon as you have set a definite date, usually when you have booked your venue. If you are having quite a small wedding you can probably do without these and just let everyone know via facebook or good old fashioned telling them by using your actual face. 

Either way it's a good idea to let everyone know to save the date for your wedding as soon as you can.

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Planning a wedding... a bit like eating chocolate

If you are planning a wedding then first I bid you congratulations and second you are in the right place. Well, the right place for some advice on what may currently seem like a daunting prospect.


My first piece of advice is that planning a wedding should be approached in the same way as trying to tackle a huge bar of chocolate... it's best if you take it a piece at a time. That way you won't end up feeling sick and it should be a thoroughly enjoyable process.


Oh, I suppose I should introduce myself, my name is Richard and I run a wedding stationery site called com bossa Therefore some, but not all, of this blog will be advice on planning and buying your wedding stationery.
I'll also include links to loads of other resources articles and suppliers that I feel will be useful to you or that have a distinctive flavour that fits with the com bossa ethos.


What is that ethos? I hear you cry... well, in Rio if someone does something particularly well, it could be dancing, playing the drums, carving a piece of wood or anything really, as long as they do it well and in their own style they are said to do it 'com bossa'. 


In the next post I'll be having a look at save the date cards... what are they and do you need them?