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16 May

Astoria Road: A wedding registry that lets you add gifts from any store

Store based registries can be nice, but isn’t it such a bummer when you realize that you can only add gifts from that one store? Creating a wedding registry is the perfect time to shop for everything you want… that vintage glassware set you hearted on Etsy, those patterned dish towels from Anthropologie, the gold flatware you’ve been eyeing at West Elm, the list goes on. Well, say hello to Astoria Road: The perfect wedding registry that allows you to add gifts from any store!

Astoria Road wedding registry | 100 Layer Cake

A few sweet perks that come with creating a wedding registry with Astoria Road…

* Create a registry that’s completely you. Add products from any store, add your favorite charities, or even create your own gifts… ahem… a honeymoon or grad school fund.

* Straight forward design. You can feel proud to share your registry with all of your guests (no matter their web skill level). Astoria Road is easy to use and navigate through.

* Check out process is easy peasy. Guests won’t have to go through the hassle of being redirected to other stores to complete the checkout like with other universal registries. On Astoria Road, the entire transaction takes place on the website (so helpful!).

* Running over budget with your wedding planning? Here’s a little secret tip… just discretely cash-out some of your gifts. Your guests will not find out about this. You can even do it after the guests purchased the gifts. Astoria Road will ping you to ask if you still want gifts or rather get cash.

* Astoria Road is the Pinterest of wedding registries. We know, that can be dangerous, right? It doesn’t just have the look & feel of Pinterest, but also curated sample registries from which you can find inspiration and can just “repin” gifts. Here, give it a shot with the 100 Layer Cake wedding registry we created. You can “repin” anything you like from ours onto yours!

Astoria Road wedding registry | 100 Layer Cake

Sounds pretty awesome, right? Dan, Muse, Miki and Jake, the two founding couples got so fed up with existing registries during their own weddings, so they created a registry they wish they had themselves. So glad they did, because now you get the pleasure of registering for anything your heart desires!

Pop over to Astoria Road and get started. Now that you know you can add any item from any store, we’re sure you’ll keep busy for the next few hours!

13 May

Virb: The easiest way to build a beautiful website

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Wedding websites should be pretty much mandatory for all weddings now, no? Aside from being the perfect hub to store all your engagement photos, there’s a lot of information you can give your guests to get them prepared, and excited about attending your wedding. Creating a wedding site using Virb is the easiest way to build and customize your site. Friends and family like to make a mini weekend vacation out of your wedding, so let them know where to sleep, play, and eat. Test things out with Virb’s 10 day free trial… you’ll get hooked!

Virb Build your own website | 100 Layer Cake

Virb’s customizable themes are already gorgeous as is, and we love how they allow you to display your engagement or wedding photos in such a beautiful and artistic way.

Virb Build your own website | 100 Layer Cake

Want to see a sample of a real couple’s wedding website? These folks were sweet enough to share their wedding site (please no crashers!). It’s the perfect example of how much information you can share, how you can add your own custom domain name, and if you really want to keep things safe, and keep those ex’s from showing up unannounced, Virb gives you the option to password protect your entire site of just certain pages if you’d like. Nice little touch, right?

Ready to give your site a go? Pop over to Virb, enter promo code LOVE3 and get 50% off your first 3 months!

6 May

Mobile Wedding App by Appy Couple

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Apple and Android users, your phone screen, plus those of your wedding guests is about to get a whole lot prettier. Appy Couple is the new super easy (and foxy) way to keep everyone in the know of all the excitement you’re planning around your big day- give guests everything they need in the palm of their hand- literally!

You create your own app (and matching website in one shot) and add any and all deets related to your day (so much more than you’d have on a website, and now on a handy mobile). You can announce your wedding party, complete with photos and profiles of your maids, update scheduled times for activities and events, have your guests RSVP and pick their meals, and have guests upload and share fun pictures, messages and stories all the pictures they take!

apply couple wedding ap

Appy Couple has thought of everything, including some really great designs for you to choose from. When you sign up to create your app at www.appycouple.com, Appy Couple will walk you through step by step on how to customize all your info, how to notify your guests of any updates and more. Their package also includes a matching website, and emails!

Pop over to Appy Couple now to start your app. And don’t forget to use our special promo code 100LC to get 30% off when you create your account!

25 Apr

Minted wedding invitations + giveaway

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Remember when we announced Minted’s return to letterpress wedding stationery (along with a whole flurry of other goodies they were releasing)? Well, they are at it again. They’re always thinking of the best pretty paper goods couples, brides-to-be, party-goers, or just paper lovers like us want to get their hands on. So what’s the new goodie we know you’re going to love from them? Minibook™ wedding invitations, save the dates and special giveaway for one lucky 100 Layer Cake reader. Take a peek!

minted wedding invitations | 100 Layer Cake

Check out these Minibook™ wedding invitations and save the dates! They’re good looking, right? Here’s all you can do with them:

* Personalize seven pages with photos, travel information and details about your big day to help keep guests informed of your entire wedding weekend!
* Perfect for destination weddings or multiple wedding events
* Versatile – use for save the dates, invitations, weekend activity guides, programs and more
* A great way to highlight your bridal party for your programs as well as thank your family!
* Unique designs on matte paper, bound with chic grommets

minted wedding invitations | 100 Layer Cake

Giveaway alert!

Minted is giving away a $250 gift certificate good for any Minted wedding stationery to one 100 Layer Cake reader. Click here to enter the contest and read the deets. You have one week to enter the contest, ending May 1st at 11:59pm PT.

As if you needed another reason to love Minted, here’s a few points worth noting…

* Their wedding stationery is created exclusively for Minted by their community of independent designers

* By shopping Minted you support independent designers. Everything available at minted.com is designed by an independent designer, and a portion of every sale goes directly to the designer

* Variety of paper options to choose from including; luxurious Signature Paper, 100% Recycled Matte Paper, or gorgeous Pearlescent Paper to add a subtle shimmer finish and rich look to your cards

Update: Congrats to Nancy Choi, the winner of the $250 Minted gift certificate!

8 Apr

DIY milk bottle ideas

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Milk bottle wedding ideas

We partnered with American Bridal to create a few really cute ideas using one of their many, many, many cute and inexpensive wedding favors, the vintage milk jar. Crafty brides, you’ll love this! You can take a modern approach by painting them, like we did here, and use them as decor, or you get a little more clever and create a cute package of essential oils for your bridesmaids. Aren’t they a super cute gift idea for showers or a day-of bridesmaid gift?

Milk bottle wedding ideas

Turning the bottles into wedding decor is super easy. Grab a few paint colors that go with your theme and have at them. You can add festive tissue paper flowers like we did here, or use this DIY storybook paper roses tutorial and fill the bottles up with those. Cute, right?

Milk bottle wedding ideas

When you buy the vintage milk jars off the American Bridal site, they come complete with cute cork stoppers. All we did was drill a hole in the center to hold a dropper in place, add a simple label and voila!

Milk bottle wedding ideas

In the end, wedding favors are always fun to personalize. Your guests appreciate it, and really, it’s a fun time for you to get together with friends & family and make a crafting night out of it. A few other of our favorite wedding favors from American Bridal that you can totally get creative with:

Lip balm favors - great for a bridal shower, and all you need to do is design a personalized label

Ceramic jar favors – we see lots of couples giving homemade jam or honey as favors, so how cute would they be in these?

Apothecary jar favors - lavender infused salt? Totally!

There really are endless wedding favors to choose from, so pop over to American Bridal to check ‘em out!

Photos by Scott Clark Photo