Brides Village Coupon Codes!

With summer just around the corner, this is the perfect time to order your wedding unity candles. The warmer months may damage your candles during transit as the heat and humidity can soften and even melt the wax.

To help you beat the heat we're offering a BridesVillage coupon code on our unity candle holders! For a limited time only, receive a 25% discount on any of our gorgeous unity candle holders with your purchase of one of our unity candles! Enter coupon code holder25 when you place your order to receive your discount!

Featured Left: Our Sparkling Entwined Unity Candle

From May 1st to October 1st, candles are only shipped if we know they will arrive prior to the weekend; this avoids your package being damaged in a hot UPS warehouse. To avoid having to incur the cost of upgraded shipping, order your candles now before the summer heats up.

Wedding Purses - The Ultimate Accessory

What can we say? We love purses! Aside from providing a home for all our little necessities from our car keys to tissues for those pesky spring allergies, no fashion accessory says quite as much about our sense of style, our outlook on life, and how we define ourselves as women.

Handbags are such an important part of our daily lives that at Brides' Village we've even created a special section devoted to bridal purses so you can incorporate your favorite accessory into your big day!

(Left: Our Retro Bridal Handbag)

As much as we would like it to, life won't take a break just for your wedding. Nails will be chipped, noses will be runny, and makeup will need a little last-minute touching up; and that's what makes wedding purses so important. Nothing else allows you to keep everything from a "bridal emergency kit" to spare change close by and act as a beautiful highlight to your wedding dress, your bridesmaids' dresses, or even a prom gown!

(Right: Our Pearl Wedding Purse)

Purses, in fact, have always been with us. They are not only the oldest fashion accessory in history, there is also evidence they were invented before clothing! You can learn all about it in our brief, fun, and informative history of bridal purses. There you will discover why until a few centuries ago purses were designed for both men and women (and why someday soon you may see guys sporting purses of their own). You will also learn how the first wedding purses were actually gifts from the future groom to his betrothed--a tradition we fully support reviving.

Whether you stop by to learn, to shop for yourself, or are looking for some great bridesmaids gifts ideas, we know you will love browsing our carefully chosen selection of some of the most elegant, trendy, and breathtaking wedding purse designs available today!

Attendants Gifts: Go Beyond the Ordinary...

Amidst the hustle of wedding planning, many brides treat shopping for their attendants like just another task on an ever-growing checklist. But with a little bit of foresight, you can make searching for attendants gifts one of the most enjoyable parts of the planning process.

We offer a broad and exciting range of gifts for your attendants to make shopping as painless (and fun!) as possible. We are also adding new products all the time, so you can always visit us for fresh ideas (hint: many of our attendants gifts our great for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions as well).

Featured here (above right) is our new Velour Comfort Robe. If you're looking for a completely original idea for your attendants, it doesn't get more creative (or comfortable) than this. Your bridal party may not regularly visit the spa, but with this robe they won't have to! This also makes a great Mother's Day and Father's Day gift.

Another creative addition to our collection that we simply adore is our new Personalized Photo Box (below) Some of the best gift ideas are the ones that include a personal touch, and this box is a great way to combine something meaningful, whether it's photos or keepsakes, with something anyone would be proud to display in their home.

Still Feeling Overwhelmed?
You and your friends may be feeling a lot of pressure with the approach of your big day, but in centuries past being a part of the wedding party meant a lot more than just planning the bridal shower. Don't miss the fun, informative, and surprising history of the wedding party on our Attendants Gifts section. Learn why the groom traditionally stands to the right of the bride and the real reason the couple's families are on opposite sides of the aisle. We also have some great tips to make your shopping experience a breeze!

Time for a Little Country Flair!

The Country Flair Collection features some of the most popular accessories for Western themed weddings, and you can find it here! Our greatly expanded selection of new products includes the Country Flair cake top, guest book, favor boxes, and more.

Distinguished by their rustic charm, brides love the traditional wood grain finish and stylish design that is the hallmark of the collection. The Country Flair Guest Book, for example, features two trail-worn cowboy hats beneath a heart lasso.

For our full selection of Country Flair products check out our Western Wedding Accessories.

We've Expanded Our Selection of Wedding Programs!

No one understands how every aspect of your wedding should look better than you, which is why we are catering to the do-it-yourself bride with our dramatically expanded selection of wedding programs and wedding program paper. In just the past week we’ve added over twenty new wedding program styles featuring some of the most colorful designs and best artwork we’ve seen in a long time.

Our new Wedding Programs section even includes some useful tips from our staff writers on how to make creating your own program as relaxing and stress-free as possible. If you’re entering some of the final stages of your wedding planning, you won’t want to miss this.

Click to view our new Wedding Programs section and our own Program Writing Guide!

An Important Note:

Every ton of paper that is recycled in the United States saves 17 - 24 trees. You can help preserve our forests and our environment by setting up "recycling stations" at your wedding reception for guests to dispose of their wedding programs and other recyclable material. Also, the back of your wedding program is a great place for including a special note or message -- consider writing a reminder asking your guests to be conscious of what they do with your programs. Old wedding programs are also wonderful for wedding albums and scrapbooks!

The Joy of Flu Season

If you ever buy the new Zicam Multi-symptom Cold & Flu TO GO medicine, be aware these are disposable spoons of medicine, "virtually tasteless when added to any beverage".

Be advised of the following drug contraindications (or is that "contradictions"):

1. The lid to the spoon is almost impossible to tear off without spilling the medicine; often forcing you to wipe up spillage with your fingers (see trauma from lickage below).
   
2. They don't tell you that half the medicine stays in the spoon so you have to lick it off, and...
3. "Virtually tasteless when added to any beverage" means this stuff tastes so bad you have to mix it in a beverage, which you will desperately need after licking the aforementioned spoon and / or fingers. When mixed in a beverage, however, rest assured the virtually awful taste is virtually diluted thereby causing virtually few effects worse than the original illness. And then you get to that last swallow, which is where all the medicine's hiding, and then you virtually only have one or two body shivers as your taste buds desperately try to ask, "What were you thinking?"
   

Valentine's Day Is Just Around the Corner!

The tradition of Valentine's Day dates all the way back to the time of courtly romance and Medieval kings; when courtiers would present flowers, candies, poems, and gifts to their loves. While the holiday itself honors two Christian saints, the expression of love associated with February 14th can be attributed to none other than Geoffrey Chaucer, the first and one of the greatest authors of the English language.

While Chaucer and Christians of this period may have correctly envisioned the enduring symbol of love that Valentine's Day would become, they never could have imagined gifts like these beautiful real roses preserved in 24k gold!

Yes, these are real, fresh-cut flowers! For a memorable Valentine's Day gift, we offer a glorious single stem red rose -- each rose is hand-picked and painstakingly opened to reveal the most perfect details of the flower before being preserved forever in shimmering gold or copper trim.

We also offer a selection of gold roses as well as a magnificent array of colored roses and a even a stunningly preserved three-blossom blue orchid!

Not Just for Valentine's Day

While our selection of preserved flowers are great for the upcoming holiday, they're also perfect for Mother's Day, anniversaries, your bridesmaids and, of course, weddings. From Christmas to your daughter's high school graduation, these gifts are true expressions of love that would do Chaucer proud!