It’s time to show off that ring of yours! Jen Williams Photography ’s currently having a fabulous contest to win a one hour engagement session and a $100 print credit. All you have to do is submit 1 photo of your ring and 1 photo of yourselves (non-professional images) and get your friends/family to vote for you. Keep in mind that you have to be engaged and living in either Edmonton or Vancouver (one winner will be chosen for each city) and submissions must be received by midnight March 5.

And for those of you who don’t live in Vancouver or Edmonton, check out Jen’s blog post to see if there’s a photographer in your area who’s also having a Flaunt Your rock contest.

Our regular guest blogger TheRingBearer.ca has some exciting news. They’re currently working with Kleinfeld (on TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress”) to send one lucky Canadian bride down to fabulous New York City to pick out their dream dress. I haven’t met a girl who hasn’t seen the show and I bet a lot of them would melt for this opportunity. All you have to do is share your love story and you could win:

- a $5,000 gift certificate to Kleinfeld*
- a private store opening in Manhattan, New York**
- personal styling services provided by Randy Fenoli (love him!) and a Kleinfeld Bridal Consultant
- free airfare and five-star accommodations

Entering into the contest is easy! Simply follow these three steps.

1. Submit your engagement or romance story to TheRingBearer.ca before February 14, 2010 by clicking on the link below.

2. The Top 10 love stories will be posted online on February 19th, 2010. You, along with the rest of Canada, will have one month to vote for your favourite!

3. The winner of The Kleinfeld Experience will be announced on March 20, 2010 after the nationwide vote has been tallied!

For more information, visit http://www.theringbearer.ca/kleinfeld

Congrats goes out to Ella for winning a custom thank you card design courtesy Dolcetto Designs. You will be contacted shortly!

Thanks Dolcetto Designs for doing this contest with us :]

I can’t believe how fast the weekend flew by! Super excited to share with you another giveaway opportunity in celebration of the new year (yes, it’s coming!). Here’s your chance to win one of two free CUSTOM thank you card digital designs from the fabulous Canadian vendor, Dolcetto Designs. Dolcetto Designs specializes in photo cards, creating wedding thank you cards, birth announcements etc and each order can be fully customized. Shari, the owner, can take elements from different designs and create a card that her client dreams of.

So all you have to do is provide the photos and your information and you’ll receive a custom digital design which you can print off yourself at your local printer. So easy.

I asked Shari, the owner, to give us a bit of insight as to how her company started and what she does:

We live minutes away from Niagara Falls. We moved to Ontario from BC just over a year ago so that my husband could complete his degree in oenology/ viticulture to become a professional wine maker. I was an elementary school teacher in BC with a love for the arts. We have a 20 month old daughter and a 2 month old son, it’s busy times.

Towards the end of this past spring I was feeling the need to do something for myself that utilized my creative/ creating side. With a young child at home and one on the way, my options were limited. I kept wondering if I could have an online custom card business, it would be something that I would enjoy and could mostly do from home. With the itch not going away, I figured I would create a simple website and give it a go. A couple of months later I realized the need for a better site, and Dolcetto Designs was born. It’s been a total of 6 months since I started from scratch, and I have already had over 200 orders from over 170 different clients from all over Canada and just had my first from the US.

I’m recently had a lot of brides visit my site to order thank you cards and some invitations and save the dates. What’s relatively unique about my busines is that I sell a customized digital image (& for a very reasonable price), allowing people to do their own printing. This is by far the most ordered item on my site. In the age of the DIY wedding and soaring wedding costs, this is extremely popular with brides. I am looking foward to growing my business, adding new designs and seeing what 2010 has in store.

THANKS so much to Dolcetto Designs for this giveaway.

Ladies & gents, to enter, all you have to do is visit the Dolcetto Designs site and leave a comment for this post telling me which one is your favorite design!. Winners will be chosen on January 4th, just after the new year.

{images courtesy Dolcetto Designs}

Congrats goes out to the winners of our most recent giveaway contests!

Photo Card Creations giveaway winner: Christina

Hello!Lucky giveaway winner: Samantha

Congrats ladies and thanks to Photo Card Creations & Hello!Lucky!

Christmas is near and we’ve got another fabulous giveaway opportunity for you all. Hello!Lucky, the vintage-inspired stationery recently launched custom holiday cards with styles that are perfect for recently engaged or married couples. Winners of this giveaway will receive 50 custom holiday cards from Hello!Lucky. Check out some of the stylish designs (love them!):

3 chances per person to enter!

• Comment on this post telling me what you want for christmas and/or

• Leave a separate comment if you follow wedobsession on twitter, indicate your username and/or

• Leave a separate comment if you are a fan of weddingobsession on facebook, indicate your username

It’s that easy!

A winner will be drawn at the end of Sunday (Dec 6). Good luck!

Giveaway time! This is for all you brides out there who are thinking about ordering save the dates, invitations, RSVP cards or thank you cards. Make sure you enter this contest for your chance to save on these items and be sure to check out the discount you can use at the bottom of this post.

If you don’t know, I reviewed some of Photo Card Creations‘ cards when this blog first started. Since then, they’ve added many more designs to fit just about any modern bride.

To celebrate the launch of their new website, Photo Card Creations is offering all WO readers/viewers a chance to win a $50 Coupon towards the purchase of ANY of their cards. The coupon can be used once towards the purchase of 75 or more cards & cannot be combined with any other promotions. Since they’ve just launch their new & improved website with hundreds of new card designs, they’d LOVE your feedback!

Just leave a comment below telling us what you’d like to use the certificate for! Winner will be randomly picked & posted on Nov 30!

Good luck!

Everyone can also get 15% off any of their photo cards. The promotion is ongoing and can be used more than once but cannot be combined with any other promotions. Just enter “Link15” in the “Promo Code” field on the Checkout Page to receive your discount.

Congratulations Tina for winning the Kodak Camera giveaway!

Everyone else stay tuned for more giveaways in the future.

Here’s some really helpful tips on how to make the best of your wedding photos courtesy Judy Weiser. Judy is a renowned psychologist and world authority on Photo Therapy is working with Kodak to help people better understand the impact images can have on making people feel more connected to friends and family. Your wedding day will be one of your most memorable and photographed days in your life and to help you capture your entire wedding experience from the bridal shower to the honeymoon Kodak is giving away one Easyshare 10 MP Digital Camera (Z1015) valued at $280…Learn how to enter after reading the helpful tips below.

Capture The Small Stuff: Some of the most beautiful and tender moments happen “behind the scenes”. Whether it’s a small kiss shared between the bride and her father, or a candid spontaneous moment between groomsmen, (or guests!), these small moments tell a bigger story about the entire journey of this couple — and one that friends and family will later likely enjoy sharing (perhaps even more than the formal ones).

Mix It Up: Silly photos are making a comeback. Your big day can be stressful, so mixing in playful photos (even posed ones!) with formal photos can be a great way not only to keep the mood relaxed but also capture the “bigger picture” of the event. Make 10 the magic number: send love ones a mini wedding album afterwards with 5 of your funniest photos mixed in with 5 of your more formal ones. Your family and friends will appreciate the variety — and so will you!

Consider Your Audience: Guests like to remember that they were part of your big day too! Send them a heartfelt memento that captures their experience of the wedding. A candid photo of you with your guest is a perfect way to thank them for being part of your special day. And you can even put a small photo of the bride and groom into a tiny picture frame and attach it with a ribbon to the guest seat-assignment cards at the formal dinner — or a bowlful of these for people to take one from, as they sign the Guestbook.

Make The Photographer Your New BFF: Find a match made in heaven. Remember that the photographer is the storyteller who will render the permanent version of your special day forever, so it’s very important that she or he sees your “wedding story” the same way you both do! Form a relationship with your shutterbug: let them get a sense of your full range of being a couple, and the personality of your wedding party — in advance. If your photographer has a good sense of who you are (and have been, and hope to be in the future), then they can better capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of your big day — and not accidentally overlook people or moments important to you to be captured.

Until Death Do You Part: Call the shots! Remember these pictures will be with you (and your kids and grandkids) forever. Think about the photos you’d all like to keep looking at for many more dozen years. Will there be a photo that you later wish had been taken? Make sure you don’t miss any of those that day: give your photographer your “expectation list”, based on photos from weddings you’ve seen before (including those you don’t want your photographer to attempt!). Keeping this preferences a secret will lead to disappointments, so tell the photographer what your “photo-results shopping list” contains, and then they can always add other ones as the day unfurls, as long as your “direct assignment” has been met.

Express Yourself: Let your personality shine through! The pictures that are usually most treasured those which are truly unique rather than the “generic” predictable ones. The best photos reflect who you are and capture the sentiments of your special day, YOUR way — and YOU can do a lot to make this happen as YOU want.

For more tips from Judy Weiser, please visit www.kodak.com/go/smile or www.facebook.com/kodak.

To enter for your chance to win the Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera, leave a comment for this post. The contest is open to only residents of the United States and ends July 24th. Good luck!

Contest Ended - Congratulations Tina!

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Congrats to Mary Ellen for winning the 150 invitations courtesy VistaPrint!

Don’t forget to check the ‘contest‘ section often to see what you can enter to win =)