Wedding Planning Tools

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!

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!

Announcing Our Marrily Winners!!

We had the good fortune to give away 5 lifetime accounts with Marrily (a $100+ each) to readers who left a comment on our newlywed blog. Guess what?
Everyone that left a comment won a free lifetime account!!!

Planning your wedding can be fun, but it can also be frustrating (even if you’ve been married for years you can remember that). The list of to-dos seems endless and some doesn’t even want to remember about the pain they went through for the wedding. But there is a better way to stay organized and prepared for your big day. Marrily.com is a premiere online wedding planner that can help relieve your pre-wedding stress disorder or that of one of your best buds.
Winners, please check your email for the details on how to redeem your complimentary account!

Follow Marrily on twitter at @marrilyhappily, facebook at http://facebook.com/marrilyhappily, and check out their blog at marrily.com/blog

Eliminate Stress & Plan Your Wedding Marrily!

Planning your wedding can be fun, but it can also be frustrating (even if you’ve been married for years you can remember that). Quickly you’ll find yourself buried in all kind of details, from appointments, to-dos, expenses, tracking guests and RSVPs, etc. The list seems endless and some doesn’t even want to remember about the pain they went through for the wedding. But there is a better way to stay organized and prepared for your big day. Marrily.com is a premiere online wedding planner that can help relieve your pre-wedding stress disorder or that of one of your best buds.

The main differentiation between Marrily and the rest of the other tools out there is that Marrily is built for the couples, not for the advertisers or wedding vendors. Alex Le, the founder behind the site, had put a lot of effort into making an easy to use wedding planner to really save the couples’ time. Moreover, Marrily users enjoys great customer support via live chat, email, twitter, and phone. If you have any issue using the site, you can pick up the phone and actually talk to a real person. With an average cost of $25,000 per wedding, Marrily is a great and cost-effective way to stay stress-free when planning your big day!
Notable features of Marrily are:

Invite your significant other, friends, family members, or event your wedding planner to share Marrily with you. You can limit them to see just the right sections.
Simple guests list management to track RSVPs and Gifts.
Seating arrangement tools with drag-and-drop and printer friendly functions.
Ceremony and Reception Checklists to get new couples started
Plan unlimited number of events and guests so you can use Marrily to not only plan your wedding and reception but also your Bridal Shower and Bachelorette Party!
An iPhone app is in the works so that couples can access their Marrily account on the go.

MissNowMrs.com is giving away 5 lifetime accounts with Marrily (a $100+ each), so please leave a comment to enter in our 2 week contest. You can also use the coupon “missnowmrs2011” to recieve a 15% discount to any subscription plan (coupon valid till end of 2011).
What are you waiting for?! Enter yourself or a bride-to-be in your life in this great giveaway today!
Follow Marrily on twitter at @marrilyhappily, facebook at http://facebook.com/marrilyhappily, and check out their blog at marrily.com/blog

Webs 4 Weddings: The Complete Wedding Management Tool

The idea for Webs 4 Weddings came from Rusty and Beth Abston, a couple in love who wanted nothing more than to share every aspect of the biggest day of their lives with those they love most: their families and friends.

Their backgrounds and experience allowed them to design their very own wedding website where they did just that…shared the details of their story and wedding day. Once a friend (who happened to be an event planner) convinced them to mass produce their site, they came up with the complete management software called WedPro (version 3.1).

This unique software offers a management tool for the Bride and Groom, the Wedding Professional as well as the vendors in one location!

Webs 4 Weddings provides Wedding Professionals with a complete solution for all web, event and management needs. Some of the most popular features for Brides and Grooms include: a web site, Room Designer, Phone RSVP, Timelines, Checklist, Email Sync, BridalSites and a BridalStore!

Webs 4 Weddings and MissNowMrs.com are excited to announce that our Online Married Name-Change Service is now offered within their BridalStore. What more could you possibly need?!

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The Scoop on Weddzilla: What Is It & How Does It Help?

Have you heard of Wedzilla? As bride-to-be or someone helping with the planning process, there is a high likelihood that you will be inundated with wedding information: a flood of ideas, vendors and of course a million sites claiming to help guide a girl through the process. We had a chance to catch up with the folks at Weddzilla and ask them a few questions about what they do and what their benefits are to you. Read on to learn more…

1. What is Weddzilla.com?
Weddzilla.com is the first website in the wedding industry to really integrate the wedding planning process into popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Weddzilla uses the power of community to simplify the wedding planning process for our Nearlyweds. It’s all about connecting them with their perfect vendors and making their wedding planning easy, social, and fun.

2. How is Weddzilla.com changing the game for online wedding planning?
Planning a wedding is supposed to be fun. With a million sites out there focusing on selling brides something, Weddzilla aims to make their planning experience easier. We created each feature with the thought that if it didn’t simplify their planning process, it didn’t make it onto Weddzilla.

3. What is the one feature you would highlight for Nearlyweds to use?
Our Nearlyweds are loving how easy the Weddmark (a visual bookmarking tool) makes makes collecting and organizing inspiration from all over the web.

And of course they love the fact that each new item they Weddmark between now and September 30, 2010 gives them one entry in the “Weddmark Challenge” and a chance to win a $1,000 gift registry from Macy’s!

4. Do you host any Webinars or educational series to help Nearlyweds or Vendors?
Yes! We want to be a resource for brides and vendors alike. Our current educational series focuses on social media. I can’t tell you how many times I have talked with wedding professionals and heard them say “I know that I need to be engaging brides via social media, but I feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.”

5. Tell us about your gurus. How did you pick them? What will they be bringing to the Weddzilla community?
The Weddzilla Gurus are our team of celebrity wedding professionals that will be sharing their awesome expertise and experience with the Weddzilla Community. The Gurus are not only trendsetters in their fields, they’re also trusted names in the wedding industry.

Plus, they all have HUGE personalities and that comes through in their blog posts and interaction with our Weddzilla community. They are all seriously passionate about what they do…it’s inspiring! And it’s why they have all gotten where they are today.

6. What’s on the horizon for Weddzilla? Tell us what we should be looking out for from you guys.
Up first is the Guru Awards …this is going to be really cool. We are all about social media and blogs play a huge role in the wedding community and we can’t wait to award 25 great blogs our Blog Guru 2010 title!

Also on the horizon is an iPhone app for Nearlyweds…if you thought the Weddmark was cool..wait till you see the iPhone app…Its going to be addicitive!

We have a whole bunch of new site features coming soon like the Ideabook, a new twist on the store, and we will also be introducing our “Wedding Helpers” soon which allow our Nearlyweds to really get social and get their family, friends, and bridal party involved in the planning process.

Have you checked out Weddzilla recently? We’d love to hear your feedback on their site and services!