Name Change Advice

Looking for name change advice or some tips for newlywed life? The MissNowMrs experts have created state-specific name change articles and checklists for you. We’ve chronicled our recommendations for how to travel while changing your name AND how to handle voting during the transition.

We’ve also compiled our best guidance for how to handle difficult sister in laws, holidays as newlyweds, the ever-annoying baby questions, and much more. Why? Because, while we are name change experts, we’re also newlywed wives, moms, and sisters.

We hope our name change advice articles help smooth your transition to your new name, and a whole new phase of life. Congratulations and best wishes from the entire MissNowMrs team!

Newlywed Giveaway:Win 101 Quizzes for Couples!

Engaged or Newlywed? You probably think you know just about everything about your partner…well guess again. Wait till you try 1010 Quizzes for Couples by relationship expert and writer for Cosmopolitan & People Magazine (to name a few), Natasha Burton.

This book has over one hundred unexpected quizzes to help you uncover fascinating facts about your partner and learn more about your relationship. Who doesn’t love to take a quiz and get the scoop on things like hidden talents, childhood crushes and the worst lie they ever told?!

Tell us a fun fact about your partner/spouse in a comment below to be entered to win a free copy of 101 Quizzes for Couples. We’ll announce our randomly selected winner on the blog and Facebook next Tuesday!

If you love quizzes, you should definitely play the Married Name Game! It asks a series of questions and then uses an algorithm to determine your ultimate married name. If you find your perfect name, MissNowMrs is happy to help you with the transition!

Cheers to Engagement Season!

Cheers to engagement season…which will be followed swiftly by wedding season! Did you just get engaged or know some lucky girl who’s about to have the question popped? If so, it’s time to celebrate. Break out the champagne and wedding magazines ladies!

As a newlywed, you are an invaluable source to your engaged friends during engagement season. You’ve planned your Big Day, dealt with budgets and wedding vendors and said “I do” to happily ever after. Be sure to pass on your knowledge and save your friends from preventable hassles. Tell her about the best and worst parts of your planning process. Help guide her down the aisle and of course give her the scoop on name change.

If she’s considering changing her name after marriage, send her the Married Name Game as a fun way to find out her options. Then as her wedding draws near you can gift her a MissNowMrs gift card to save her 13 hours of hassle on her transition from Miss to Mrs. If you’re not her matron of honor…you should be!

5 Ideas For Creating A Holiday Moment Together This Year

Creating a holiday moment together is SO important! Whether you’re planning your wedding or celebrating your first Christmas as newlyweds the holidays hold a host of parties, activities, family gatherings and maybe a few stressful questions. What are you buying your spouse? Are you now in charge of his/her family Christmas gifts? Where are you spending the holiday this year? Who’s traditions will be honored? What is your holiday budget?

In the midst of the shopping, baking, wrapping and traveling, I have one piece of advice for you. Plan time for just the two of you to make a memory. If you don’t plan to do this now, the holidays will have already whirled past before you have a chance to connect.

Short on ideas? You could go ice skating, make out under the mistletoe, take a walk through holiday lights, make an ornament to remember your first Christmas or have breakfast in bed together as you exchange gifts. You can also surprise your spouse with a name change. We’ve had clients slip their new driver’s license showing their married name into a card. So cute!

Whatever you choose, you’ll be able to look back over the years and remember “your holiday moment” as a nearlywed or newlywed!

We’d love to hear about how you’re creating a holiday moment together! Please leave a comment below.

A New Free Way to Handle Wedding RSVPs

Wedding RSVPs…. ugh! Certain aspects of wedding planning are fun, like dress shopping and cake tastings. Other aspects of wedding planning can be a total headache, especially getting your guests to RSVP.

It doesn’t make sense…you’re inviting friends and family to an amazing event (your wedding) but they can’t complete and mail back the RSVP card?! Personally, I had one guest invite a date (he was not a plus 1) and then not attend our wedding…leaving 2 empty chairs at our 80 person event. That fact still irritates me!

Instead of stressing, hounding, calling & emailing to figure out how many guests will be at your wedding you can use RSVPify. This nifty new service allows you to solicit guest RSVPs online via your current wedding website or a custom one you make with RSVPify. Aside from simplifying and streamlining the RSVP process, you can also use their drag and drop seating chart to organize your wedding tables (2 birds, one stone)! I also like their real-time guest number widget that lets you know your exact number of accepts and declines at any given moment. One more important fact about RSVPify…it’s FREE!

Have you used RSVPify or had any guest RSVP incident(s) that made you wish you had? Share your experience in a comment below!

SnapKnot: The Free Way to Find Your Perfect Photographer

Have you heard about SnapKnot? Photos are becoming increasingly important in our lives thanks to social media. Wedding photos and finding the photographer that captures your big day are honestly one of the most important parts of wedding planning.

Brides don’t want to settle for the “standard” group and family portraits. We want artistic pictures of intimate moments and feelings as well as photos that capture our friends “being themselves” at the reception. The challenge is finding a photographer in your area that has the exact style you are looking for.

Great news! SnapKnot is now ALL NEW! You can easily search thousands of wedding photographers in your area, get quotes sent to you securely and find wedding photo inspiration… All for FREE! Get started at: SnapKnot.com.

I love that you can literally type in the number of miles from your event city and your budget to receive customized results. No more finding your perfect photographer and then learning that they live in another country or charge three times your budget!
Readers…have you or a friend used SnapKnot? We’d love to hear your experiences in a comment!