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Visit the Wedding Store today and browse our favorite wedding book titles. And if you have a favorite book you'd like us to add, let us know!

Perfect Memories featured in list of Top 100 Wedding Blogs

I'm pleased to announce that Perfect Memories Wedding Blog was recently included in a list of the Top 100 Wedding Planning Blogs.

Check it out to see more--there are some great resources on that list.

Thanks for reading the blog, and keep coming back for more wedding ideas and inspiration.

Perfect Memories featured on Alltop Weddings

Perfect Memories Wedding Blog is now featured on Alltop Weddings! This site features RSS feeds from some of the best wedding planning blogs around the Web. Take a look to keep on top of all of your favorite wedding blogs.

IDoSugar: Get addicted

I was so excited to read yesterday that my new favorite site, The Sugar Network, announced the return of IDoSugar for the height of wedding season.

The Sugar Network features 15 lifestyle and entertainment blogs for women, and is also a social networking site. What I love most about their IDoSugar (which, according to the site, they published during last year's wedding season as well) is that it features entries about weddings from the different perspectives of the Sugar editors. So SavvySugar may add a post about budgets, BellaSugar about wedding day beauty, BuzzSugar about TV weddings, PetSugar about involving your furry friends and so on (for a complete list of the Sugar sites, visit TeamSugar).

I'm excited to see all of the content and ideas they share over the next few months. In the meantime, check out the site!

2007 Perfect Memories in review

As we start this first full week of the new year, take a look back at the ten most popular posts from 2007. Thanks for reading, and please stop back for more ideas throughout 2008!

• Fab 5: Halloween edition
• White wedding cakes
• Fall wedding favors
• Fall invitation finds
• Carb-o-licious wedding food
• Budget-friendly wedding gowns
• Winter wedding invitations
• Spring '08 runway looks
• Guest book alternatives
• Choosing your first dance song

Enjoy...and if you'd like some ideas on a topic I haven't covered yet, email me at lauren@perfectmemoriesevents.com and I'll gladly create a post.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season with your families and friends. It''s time to get back to the every day world, and here in Pittsburgh we've kicked things off a nice little snowstorm (not so nice driving back from Buffalo yesterday, however!)

The Perfect Memories Wedding Blog is back from vacation and ready for 2008. I'm looking forward to an exciting year!

Blog Action Day for the environment

It's Blog Action Day, a day for bloggers to post about environmental issues. Within the wedding blog community, however, it seems like it's been blog action week, as many have already taken the challenge issued by ready2spark: share how you are trying to minimize your impact on the environment.

DIY Bride took on the challenge today, and invited others to "tag" themselves. So I thought I would. Here are four things we currently do to help the environment:

1. We've made efforts to have a more energy-efficient home (admittedly, my husband gets the most credit here). About 3/4 of the light bulbs in our home are energy-efficient ones, and we'll continue to add more as our regular bulbs burn out.
2. My husband installed an automated thermostat that adjusts the temperature based on times that we are either normally not at home or in bed. This eliminates wasteful energy used on over heating or cooling our home when we don't need it.
3. We use energy-efficient settings on both our washing machine and our dishwasher.
4. We do our best to coordinate our schedules and car-pool into work on the days we both are going into the city.

Now onto some ways you can host an environmentally-friendly wedding. Check out these great ideas from the blogosphere:

• WeddingsInABox offers links to invitations not made from trees.
• Toast and Tables has information on green registries.
• Etsy Wedding also showcases some eco-friendly invites.
• Style Me Pretty shares some advice from Eco-Chic Weddings.

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Perfect Memories Blog Guide

Welcome to the Perfect Memories Wedding Blog! Here you'll find wedding planning advice and inspiration, specifically for brides in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.

New to the blog or blogs in general? Never fear, check out these helpful hints for getting the most out of the information here.

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