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Are You Keeping Your Maiden Name?

I still can't decide whether to keep my name or take my future-husband's. I want t join his family, but I feel like abandoning my maiden name would be a disassociation from my own family. Plus... I…Continue

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Membership Category: Bride

A little about yourself and what you have to offer this wedding community?: getting married in june and want to do some untraditional things

Do you have a wedding website, blog, or registry link?: http://www.weddingsthenewway.com

State: Connecticut

Country: United States

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Join the Fold- Origami Centerpieces!

At $70 a table (and that’s a simple centerpiece), flowers are a $1500-2000

expense. And for money that can buy a Mac Notebook or a round trip

ticket to Greece, who really remembers the flowers? Flowers are lovely

and all, but I’d rather have the laptop. My PC’s about to bite the

dust, and this time, I’m going Mac.

But if you don’t want to sacrifice the floral idea altogether, consider origami flowers. I found a website that charges $3 a flower, but who…

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Posted on October 5, 2010 at 10:30am