http://blog.myweddingfavors.com Helpful Tips and Advice about weddings, bridal tips and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:00:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/11/01/congratulations-to-daniel-the-winner-of-the-kensington-collection/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/11/01/congratulations-to-daniel-the-winner-of-the-kensington-collection/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:13:53 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=3496 The Announcement You’ve Been Waiting For! If your name is Daniel, and you entered our giveaway of the entire Kensington collection, you’re about to make your fiance an even happier woman! You’re our giveaway winner, and she’s going to love everything in the set! We’ll contact you shortly for all the details. Meanwhile, thanks to [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/11/01/congratulations-to-daniel-the-winner-of-the-kensington-collection/feed/ 0 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/10/31/kim-kardashians-halloween-horror/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/10/31/kim-kardashians-halloween-horror/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:14:45 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=3486 When I got to work  this morning, I was going to blog about a totally different subject. Then came the announcement that Kim Kardashian is filing for divorce. Had we had one, I would have won the office pool! From the beginning, I’ve said her marriage won’t last more than two months. One of my [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/10/31/kim-kardashians-halloween-horror/feed/ 0 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/10/18/mmmmmm-chocolate-diamonds/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/10/18/mmmmmm-chocolate-diamonds/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:40:35 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=3460 I was in a Jared’s jewelry store the other day to get my anniversary band cleaned and inspected. (Yes, he went to Jared! Actually, I went to Jared and picked it out. He paid…) While I was waiting, I checked out their phenomenal display of jewelry (particularly wedding bands and engagement rings) featuring chocolate diamonds. [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/10/18/mmmmmm-chocolate-diamonds/feed/ 1 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/04/18/karen-getting-married-the-growing-guest-list-dilemma/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/04/18/karen-getting-married-the-growing-guest-list-dilemma/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:59:17 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=2836 When Karen came into the office last Monday,  she asked how my weekend was, and I told her my weekend was lovely. Stupidly (and uncharacteristically, I might add), I failed to ask her the same question, but to my utter delight, she told me how her weekend was anyway. Her news blew me away! I [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/04/18/karen-getting-married-the-growing-guest-list-dilemma/feed/ 0 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/04/04/does-the-love-of-your-life-watch-the-office-stay-tuned/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/04/04/does-the-love-of-your-life-watch-the-office-stay-tuned/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:45:37 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=2788 I don’t know if you caught the latest episode of  “The Office”, in which dimwitted office manager Michael Scott proposes to his girlfriend Holly. Before he pops the question, he shows the ring he purchased to Pam, the receptionist, whose jaw drops open when Michael opens the ring box.  To put it mildly,  the diamond [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/04/04/does-the-love-of-your-life-watch-the-office-stay-tuned/feed/ 0 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/03/21/does-a-poor-proposal-predict-a-menaced-marriage/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/03/21/does-a-poor-proposal-predict-a-menaced-marriage/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:01:24 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=2747 I guess I’m writing this more for women who are expecting a marriage proposal shortly, but brides-to-be should pay attention, too.   Did you happen to read the results of the survey conducted by Men’s Health magazine and TheKnot.com about marriage proposals? The survey discovered that one in four women hated her proposal.  Really? There are [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2011/03/21/does-a-poor-proposal-predict-a-menaced-marriage/feed/ 1 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/12/08/what-would-you-say-to-this-creative-marriage-proposal/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/12/08/what-would-you-say-to-this-creative-marriage-proposal/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:19:34 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/?p=1042 Too bad they don’t give awards for creative marriage proposals. This  guy would be the hands-down winner in the high-tech category! High Tech Wedding Proposal from Brett Culp on Vimeo. If any of you speaks Japanese, can you tell us if she said “yes?” I imagine their wedding favors would be tiny robots that will [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/12/08/what-would-you-say-to-this-creative-marriage-proposal/feed/ 3 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/02/09/weirdest-wedding-trend-ever-divorce-fairs/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/02/09/weirdest-wedding-trend-ever-divorce-fairs/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:19:09 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/02/09/weirdest-wedding-trend-ever-divorce-fairs/ Oh, those wacky Europeans! I don’t know if it’s their droll sense of humor or their entrepreneurial spirit, but the diametrically opposed version of the Bridal Fair—the Divorce Fair—is taking place in cities all over their continent, where more than 800,000 marriages end each year. Can you imagine the overall mood at one of these [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/02/09/weirdest-wedding-trend-ever-divorce-fairs/feed/ 0 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/01/09/are-real-women-on-the-way-out-get-ready-for-robot-brides/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/01/09/are-real-women-on-the-way-out-get-ready-for-robot-brides/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:31:33 +0000 Karen Sullen http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/01/09/are-real-women-on-the-way-out-get-ready-for-robot-brides/ Well, I never would have thought it, but it seems as though a “new and improved” woman is on the way. Thanks to a Canadian man, this female robot named Aiko could soon be the wave of the future.  It began with a quest to build the “perfect woman.”  Now, two years and $21,000 later, [...]]]> http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2009/01/09/are-real-women-on-the-way-out-get-ready-for-robot-brides/feed/ 0 http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2008/11/13/celebrity-couples-renew-vows-quickly-whats-that-about/ http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2008/11/13/celebrity-couples-renew-vows-quickly-whats-that-about/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:44:54 +0000 Susan Hawkins http://blog.myweddingfavors.com/index.php/2008/11/13/celebrity-couples-renew-vows-quickly-whats-that-about/ Somebody needs to help me get to the bottom of this. I understand why married couples might renew their vows on a 20th or 25th or 50th anniversary, but we’ve got some celebrity couples who renew their vows before the ink is dry on their original wedding license! So what’s up? 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