Today’s post comes courtesy of our friends at Next Day Flyers. They’ve got some helpful tips on place card holder and save-the-date savings — so pay attention!

So is your fiancée running around like crazy trying to plan every last detail of the upcoming wedding? Of course she is. She wants everything to be perfect. But that’s why you love her right?  Perhaps you could help her out with a detail or two.  It will make both your lives much more pleasant. Start with the printing needs. There’s a great online printer, Next Day Flyers, who is offering folded business cards which work great as place card holders.  The best part about ordering these cards is the low price tag. As we all know any product related to weddings is automatically given a higher price tag. A bit of a wedding markup is always factored in. These folded business cards however aren’t specifically marketed as wedding place card holders. They are nonetheless a card that’s the exact same size as a place holder but given a different name.  Thus you’re not stabbed in the gut with the high price tag. You can get a set of 100 for less than $40, which should help keep you aligned with your budget.

If you haven’t sent out save the date announcements yet, once again you should avoid going to printing companies specializing in wedding needs. Just find an online printing company offering postcards. The bigger name printers will have a tool on their site to allow you to create and design your announcement online. How hard is it to upload a photo of you and your significant other, add a personalized message and order? It’s not hard at all, and it doesn’t have to be expensive either.  A set of 100 4”x6” postcards can be purchased for less than $25.  So before your wife-to-be starts nagging you even further, take some initiative and get a couple things done. It will help her out, and you’ll come out looking like a hero.

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This post presented by Next Day Flyers.

Guys: are you getting involved with the design and printing of the wedding or rehearsal dinner invitations? Share your printing experience in the comment section below.

Yep, this is exactly what I imagined a wedding Save-the-Date from the mind of Wes Anderson would look like…

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We think this is pretty bad ass. What about you? Let us know in the comments.

As a serial entrepreneur, I’m a huge supporter of start-up companies. It takes real guts to go out on a limb and start a company in today’s financial climate — especially with no guarantee of stability in the economy. There’s no shortage of innovative companies on the rise in many industries,  — but what really interests me is discovering start-ups in the world of weddings.

This brings me to Greenvelope.com. Greenvelope is the brainchild of Sam Franklin — a student at Washington University in St. Louis that decided a heavy college workload at a prestigious university wasn’t enough. He also wanted to start a company. I dig that outlook on entrepreneurship and I also dig his idea: a personalized approach to paperless wedding invitations.

Introducing Greenvelope.com

Greenvelope provides clients an environmentally-friendly service to easily customize and send formal wedding invitations electronically (via e-mail). They offer three packages — including the free “bronze” package for your Save-the-Date cards.

To help celebrate their launch, Greenvelope is offering our readers a 25% discount on their two most popular packages. Users entering the coupon code “themanregistry” will receive:

• 25% off the Silver or Gold Package
• New Package or Upgrade eligible.
• Good for 3 Months
• Unlimited Use – Can even be used for multiple events within the same account.
• VIP support and guidance.

A sampling of what Greenvelope offers..

Greenvelope is easy to use because it was designed with the user-experience in mind. A few of our favorite features are:

• No ads! – Greenvelope takes electronic invitations to the next level, by introducing an unexplored level of formality: ad-free wedding invitations. Guests do not see pop-ups, ad banners, or receive spam.
• Organization – Your guest list will be easy to keep organized with the simple management tools that Greenvelope provides. Users are instantly notified when a guest RSVP’s, and the guest list updates automatically to show any changes.

For the full list of features, click here.

We hope that you’ll check out Greenvelope.com. For further information, you can follow them on Twitter and “like” them on Facebook.

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Readers – what do you think of Greenvelope? Would you consider going paperless with your wedding invitations and save-the-dates? In what other areas of wedding planning are you going green? Let us know in the comments.

Are you worried that none of your friends will show up at your wedding because they’re all nerds that would rather stay home and play video games? No worries. Just do what Brooklyn, NY couple Elizabeth Hoagland and Christopher Burris did and make your invitations out of old NES cartridges:

Nintendo Wedding Invitation

Here’s a few classic NES game songs I’d love to see on this couple’s dance list:

• Air Man Theme from Mega Man 2 (or any song from Mega Man 2 for that matter)
• Double Dragon
• The Legend of Zelda
• Nintendo World Cup Soccer
• Super Mario Brothers 2
• A Boy and His Blob

Sadly my favorite NES game of all-time, RBI Baseball, doesn’t feature a soundtrack worth dancing to.

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Suggestions on dance music from your favorite NES games? Tell us in the comments section below:

By Guest Blogger: OneWed

A common piece of advice given to couples is that you can safely over-invite guests to your wedding because on average only 75% will accept.

There are a lot of factors to consider when trying to determine how many invited guests will attend.

1. Are most of the guests out of town or in town? If in-town, more will attend.

2. Did you send out Save the Dates? If so, this will also increase your acceptance rate.

3. Is it in the summer? People are much more likely to already have plans in the summer, this can decrease your acceptance.

4. Winter? Bad weather area? Few people are going to be excited about traveling to northern Minnesota in the winter, on the other hand, a lot of people may go out of their way to make it to a Florida wedding.

Personally, I think the safer way to go is to invite only the guests you want. Send out Save the Dates, and send invitations 8-9 weeks before the wedding. If you get substantial “nos” in the first few weeks, you can safely send invitations to a “B List” 5-6 weeks before the wedding, without risking insulting them.