Adams Morgan is a great neighborhood

Hello readers! The following deal is for a hotel stay in Adams Morgan for $65! That's a great price for downtown DC. You can check it out by following this link: http://www.groupon.com/deals/ga-f-adams-inn?c=all&p=0

Adams Morgan is a great place to go out and have dinner or drinks, and it has a great vibe and energy. If you're coming to visit DC for my wedding or for any reason, this is a great neighborhood to be in. Don't forget to get jumbo slices of pizza while you're down there! They're famous for it :)

Spa Day with the bridesmaids

Living social has a DC deal today for Spalon in Dupont Circle. Maybe all the bridesmaids could go together the week before? You can see the deal for yourself here: http://livingsoci.al/oQc2nP

Here's an even better idea - buy the deal for the mother of the bride and make her an appointment to get her out of your hair! That'll make everyone more relaxed :)

Groupon + Alcohol = a brilliant idea

So here's a really good deal for anyone having a rehearsal dinner, shower, or event where you have to buy your own wine. Maybe your wedding venue lets you bring in your own bottles?

http://www.groupon.com/deals/jackies-wine-bar?c=dnb&p=6

That groupon is for 6 bottles of wine. These can be the fancy bottles, and you can buy 3buck Chuck from Trader Joe's for the rest :)


Also happening today is a groupon for a limo ride to the airport. If you are a bride or groom who wants to getaway from your wedding in style, you get snag this deal: http://www.groupon.com/deals/northern-virginia-towncar-limo?c=dnb&p=5
You don't have to tell anyone you got a discount!

Get your hair did!

This is a great deal for any engagement parties, photo shoots, showers, or bachelorette parties you have to go to. For $50, you can get totally pampered and look gorgeous: http://gr.pn/rsGQar

This particular Groupon NOW! Deal has been up for a few days, but there's always a great deal that's similar. So snag one and get beautiful!

New Source for Great Deals!

Hello again,
I'm sorry for the double post today, but I discovered recently the Wedding Channel deal site: http://deals.weddingchannel.com/deal/washington-dcva/arthur-murray-dance-studio-6

This means that I can reach out to other locations (not just the DC area). Today's deal is for dance lessons. So go get the deal and start dancing!

Photobook!

Hello readers!
Here's a deal I'm probably going to get: http://dealsfordeeds.com/deals/todays_deal/335

This is a $15 photobook of pictures that you provide! What a great price and a professional looking album! Crazy!

Getting Fit for the Big Day

Are there any brides out there? Do you want to get fit for your big day? Cause I definitely do. Here's the link to an LA Boxing deal: http://livingsocial.com/deals/104371-one-month-of-unlimited-boxing-classes

You can take unlimited classes for a month straight for $49. To get your money's worth, you probably will have to commit to going every week because that would bring the per-class cost down to about $12, which is definitely what you would pay for a drop in workout, dance class, or yoga class.

In addition, if you don't really know if you would like the class or not, you can take one class free on the website of the studio. For example, I would probably go to the one in Bethesda so I would sign up here: http://laboxing.com/bethesda/

Enjoy!

Staying in DC?

Hello everyone,
Check out today's deal: http://dealsfordeeds.com/deals/todays_deal/290
You can stay in a fancy hotel in Washington, D.C. for $79 a night. That's pretty great.

The hotel is the Asante Sana Guest Quarters, and it's in northwest DC. Of course, with everything, you have to watch the expiration. It expires 6 months after you buy it. Since my wedding is in April, it would only be useful for my guests if they were coming to a shower or bachelor/bachelorette party. But for some other couple out there getting married before me, this is perfect!

I worked hard to get a room block at a hotel in Bethesda and I only got the cost down to $110 a night - so you can tell how good a deal this is!

Travel, travel, travel

Even though my wedding isn't a destination wedding, it still means people are going to have to travel. We have friends coming from the Boston area and Geoff's family is coming from California, New Orleans, and Michigan. So I've been searching for good deals for everyone. This has led me to a new discovery: Deals for Deeds. It's just like Groupon, except every time you buy a deal, a charity receives a portion of the proceeds.

Amazing!

So here's today's deal for my airport travelers: $30 for a ride from Washington National Airport to anywhere within 10 miles of DC. This is perfect! Check it out here: http://dealsfordeeds.com/

Safe travels :)

Project!

Why hello! What should I do with all those pictures after the wedding? Definitely: http://www.groupon.com/deals/picaboo-washington-dc-2?c=dnb&p=2

Maybe it's a little tacky to make photo collages and calendars, but this is my WEDDING, after all :)

Ah... it's time to talk about photography...

Well, although we are many months away, it's still a good idea to start thinking about photos. I'm not the artsy-scrapbooking-come-look-at-every-picture-in-my-photo-album type, but I still want some quality pictures. I mean, who knows? Maybe one day I'll be a crazy grandmother who makes my grandchildren look at my pictures while I knit! Periodically, groupon has great deals for prints, like this one: http://www.groupon.com/washington-dc/. I've also seen deals for the actual photographer, which I think might end up being a better deal. Unfortunately, some of the deals expire around January, so I'll have to keep checking back later to find one I can use in April. Wish me luck!

Too early to talk about the Honeymoon?

I didn't think so either! I'm going to be continually searching through this website: http://www.groupon.com/washington-dc/getaways?d=travel_countmein. Hopefully something will show up in Hawaii!

Geoff has been to Hawaii and he has told me about the different islands - which has too many tourists, which has the best island culture, which has the best nightlife - and I completely forget. So I won't buy one of these until I talk to my consultant, I promise :)

Invites

Hello,
Here are the two main styles I'm choosing from based on the invitation groupon. Thoughts?

Weddings are Expensive!

Hello all,
I've been dealing with how expensive my wedding is getting, so I've been looking for ways to cut costs. I discovered that Groupon has deals that I can use!
Check out this one:
http://www.groupon.com/ch/home-and-garden/deals/earthy-invites-dc?c=dnb&p=4
So if I buy $200 worth of invitations - which I surely will - it will only cost me $99. The website also happens to be eco-friendly. The invitations are made from post consumer recycled papers and soy ink! Cheap and green! What could be better!

My wedding is in April, so as I go forward, I will be posting more and more about how I am saving money!

Thanks for reading.