Now that you have that gorgeous rock on your finger, it is time for the wedding preparation and planning to begin!  It is always helpful to start your planning by searching online for ideas and tips.  For the most part, couples prefer to hire a wedding planner for a more professional perspective.  Your wedding planner will have the expertise needed to help to keep you on track and organized.

One of the greatest parts of planning your big day is gifts!  You will want to make sure you get yourself set up on some great wedding registries.  One of my personal favorites is JC Penny’s wedding registry.  When you register with them you will receive so many planning tools and advice to make your wedding planning process a little bit less stressful.  With the registry, you have access to a free online wedding planning website, OurWeddingDay.com.

Also as a part of JC Penny’s registry you get a free engagement portrait session from the JC Penny portrait studio, a chance to enter to win your destination wedding or dream wedding honeymoon, subscription to free wedding magazines, free shipping/handling and even gift wrap for your guests, bridal shower theme ideas, other tips and advice, and deals from David’s Bridal.  Your registry will remain active for up to 2 years after your wedding with other types of registries available for special celebrations such as a new baby, housewarming parties, birthdays, and anniversaries.

JC Penny’s wedding registry was really easy to use and literally had everything I needed at my fingertips.  There was also always someone available to offer me personal online or by telephone help when I had questions.  My favorite part of the registry was the advice and vendor listings.  I was able to get some creative and cute ideas from their tips and blog sections as well as a really great listing of local wedding retailers.

If you are looking to do something different for a gift registry we have some ideas for you! Now-a-days brides have a lot of the items that would typically go on a wedding registry. So what do you do? We have come across some different ideas for a unique registry.

If you are planning on going on a honeymoon but don’t have enough funds our first idea is for you. You can do a honeymoon gift registry. There are free sites such as honeyfund.com that allow you to pick different items such as meals, hotels, airfare, and fun activities that you will want to do. You can divide them into smaller chunks of money that your guess can afford and purchase for you. Guess can either pay by credit card, a paypal account, or they can choose to mail you a check. Best of all, this all just goes into one fund. So YOU can decide what you want the money to go to.  Just because someone gave you money for the expensive hotel in Paris, doesn’t mean you have to pick that if you don’t have all the funds for it.

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