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We shop on Pinterest these days, don’t you? If I see the perfect room, then I make it my goal to use it for inspiration to decorate my house. What doesn’t work, however, is trying to do this with a standard registry. For example, my dream is to one day own a Michelle Armas painting. However, her artwork is outside the range of the standard purchase you might make on your own. What I love about SimpleRegistry, one of our favorite sponsors, is the fact that you can register for big ticket items like a painting, and let your friends and family go in together using your digital registry so you really can get the home of your dreams! We love not feeling limited by just a few stores–especially when this is one of the only times in your life when your loved ones will literally be showering you with gifts for the home. Plus, as an added bonus, your more stylish friends can even suggest other great finds for you to add to the registry, so it makes the experience totally community oriented! All the gifts are of course redeemed in cash, so no returns, exchanges, or hassles. Dreamy, no?

So check out our dream registry below, and if you want to find out more, go here to see other members’ stories of how they used their registry for the perfect wish list. Oh…and BONUS: one lucky couple will receive a $5,000 credit toward their registry on SimpleRegistry if they register before 4/30/13!

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Sources: Bedroom Inspiration // Pouf // Michelle Armas Artwork // Curtains // Rug // Gold Shade // Bedspread

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One of our all time favorite bridesmaid dress designers, Donna Morgan, has just come out with a new style that we are obsessing over! The incredibly popular Blaire style is a convertible due to added skirt panels. This allows the Blaire to be tied in at least 15 different ways. Blaire was just added to their core collection, which means it is available in all 15 core colors! Here you can see it in lemon and the new color spearmint. (The printed dress is their Rhea style). Donna Morgan Spring 2013 Bridesmaids Collection offers a style, color, and fabric to match every bridesmaid–we of course love mixing and matching, so Donna Morgan is the perfect place to outfit your bridesmaids in a variety of dresses with a similar style! Adore!

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Photography by the ever lovely, Trent Bailey Photography. Donna Morgan is a sponsor of Grey Likes. All opinions expressed are blogger’s own.

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One of the things we are most worried about during our wedding planning process is finding the right DJ. It’s so difficult to know if you are selecting a really rad DJ, or someone crazy cheesy. And because you can’t actually go to someone else’s wedding to try them out, it makes this decision feel like you are picking such an important element completely blindfolded. Which is why we have totally fallen for our newest sponsor, Scratch Weddings.

Scratch Weddings is a nationwide service that provides highly skilled and screened marquee wedding DJs (we’re talking pros that play for high end brands and recording artists). They offer tons of customization and account for style, taste and music vision for the night. I love that their DJs have an enormous breadth of experience spinning weddings, events, festivals, concerts and lounges that can help any couple execute their music vision for the night. Scratch Weddings DJs are experts at reading the crowd and building energy on the dance floor by mixing and blending a diverse set of genres to appeal to your taste and guest make-up. Even better, they offer the most affordable and experienced talent in the industry and even extend a 72 hour “change of plans” refund policy. If you are on the hunt for the musical element to your wedding, no matter where you are getting married, these guys should def be on your list to check out!

*This post was brought to you by Scratch Weddings, however all opinions are my own.

 

 

Ladies, is it unladylike for me to say that I’m REALLY excited about registering? And not really in a bridezilla kind of way, but more in a finally-I-can-get-rid-of-this-decade-old-flatware-I’ve-had-since-college kind of way. Anyone feel me on that one?

So obviously I’ve already done a little pre-registering online, just to check things out and as the crazy picky/design oriented gal that I am, I’ve found it tough to find everything I want in one place. And I think there’s some sort of rule that disallows me from registering at 20 different places, half of which are online. Additionally, there’s no way to know what I’m really going to need until we move, which makes it that much harder to pick out things ahead of time. So, in steps Wedding Republic!

Wedding Republic is an online registry that allows you to quickly set up a customized wedding registry, full of gifts you really want. Over the past months, the WR team has been working hard to include some amazing new features for the online cash wedding registry to make your gift registry perfect – for you and your guests!

With Wedding Republic, you can add anything; your house down payment, honeymoon, your favorite wine or charity – or just register for cash, it’s up to you. Nothing is off limits.

To ensure your registry goes smoothly, the WR team has created a Wedding Registry Guide with everything you need to know about setting up your registry, communicating with guests, and wedding registry etiquette. You’ll even have access to your own personal registry consultant that can answer any questions or concerns you might have about the process. You can read more about how it works here.

Creating your registry is easy, just add items from a gallery of gift suggestions or add your own gift ideas. Every gift is customizable, so you can add your own price and description, giving it that personal touch your guests will love. With Wedding Republic’s signature puzzle piece feature, you can break apart expensive gifts, say your trip to Italy, into smaller, affordable pieces so guests can each contribute to a portion of the trip. Check out a sample registry to see how it’s done!

Since Wedding Republic is a cash wedding registry, you don’t have to worry about return policies, shipping charges or multiple trips to the store – you simply collect the cash value of your registry. Some of my favorite benefits of Wedding Republic are that:

It’s Meaningful. Your registry is more than just a gift list. It’s a way to tell your guests how you plan to live your lives and make them feel as though they are part of the big picture. Whether it’s your house down payment, honeymoon, or your favourite charity it’s meaningful and fun.

We’re Here To Help. Your own personal wedding registry consultant is always available to address any questions or concerns you might have about setting up your registry, wedding registry etiquette or anything else!

Focus On The Big Picture. With Wedding Republic you can register for exactly what you need to build your life together. We’re not talking about toasters and tea towels, but the important things in life. The things that matter to you, as a couple.

If you are ready to get started and give it a try, head here!

*Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Wedding Republic. All opinions are my own. Image above styled by Lady Grey, shot by Jasmine Star courtesy of 31 Bits.

Alright darlings! So we are taking a poll. How many of you have your engagement ring insured? Do you know any horror stories about friends losing their rings???

I’ve asked several of our friends and was a bit surprised to find out how many couples DON’T have their rings insured. I also think one of the reasons it stresses me out is because while on a trip to Mexico, one of our close friends lost her engagement ring. Well, it disappeared out of their hotel safe–which is a scary thought! What was amazing is that they were insured separately through a specialty insurer like today’s sponsor, Jewelers Mutual® Insurance Company. Jewelers Mutual’s Perfect Circle® Jewelry Insurance makes it incredibly easy to protect your cherished jewelry pieces with the most comprehensive insurance around. Their ring was easily replaced!

We have ANOTHER set of friends who lost their ring somewhere in their house, and Jeweler’s Mutual was still able to replace it under the insurance policy! It’s also pretty surprising how affordable ring insurance is, which is why I think it’s well worth the investment to get that piece of mind. We’ve learned that many homeowner’s policies and warranties will not cover loss or theft which is why a specific policy is so dang important!

So we are dying to know–do you have your ring insured? Or better yet, do you know any horror stories about friends losing their rings??? Tell us the dirt!