Wedding Channel

This website was my saving grace for wedding planning. If I could give it 6 stars I would! I used pretty much every tool on the site: wedding website, wedding budget, invitation/guest list/seating plan manager and I flipped through just about every picture on the site for ideas.....AMAZING & HIGHLY reccomended!!

Weddingchannel.com provides a free service that we could absolutely not do without. It helped us organise our guest list and to budget for costs that we had no idea existed. Priceless resource.

I ordered quite few favors from weddingchannelstore.com - although the products themselves were of good quality, their customer service is horrible as is their turnaround time. I would order elsewhere if you value customer service.

The wedding channel has the best new hair styles and accesories for the special day! It was nice to see what people's ideas are that all over the world.

I purchased wedding favors from the Wedding Channel store. They have some good sales – the prices really drop if you can catch one. I ordered picture frame coasters. They looked cheap and could tear easily- so be aware of quality issues, especially when ordering online.

Wedding Channel .com is always running special/sales for attendants gifts and favors. I found a unique favor idea was to have seeds embedded in rice paper. The paper can be soaked in water and then planted and as my *free* personalization says "Let our love grow!"
They also have the standard favors such as candles, personalized candies, cards, frames and coasters. However, shipping will add a significant amount to your purchase, and not all personalization is free.

Weddingchannel.com is a great resource for wedding planning. I got many ideas from that website. I also set up a personal wedding website for free that included links to my online registries. It is a very easy site to use. You can save photos and articles to your 'scrapbook' on the website so you won't forget the great things you looked at!

I ordered my cameras that I put on my tables for the guest to use. I got the cameras at a great price and they were shipped very quickly. My guests had a lot of fun with these cameras and I was able to capture things that the photographers were not able to get.

Cookie Cutter Favors

We decided on the favors early on so I waited until they were on sale before buying them and got 60% off regular price! The cookie cutters were backordered and took 3 months to arrive though. I'm really glad that I ordered them WAY in advance. The favors themselves were great! They come in packaging so you don't need to decorate them but I decided to use my own wrapping. The only reason they don't get an A+ is because it took so long to get them.


Reception Table Cameras
Grade: B+

I also waited until the disposable cameras were on sale before getting them. Unlike the favors, they came right away. They also come with a little sign to put next to each camera so your guests know what it's for and don't take them home. I had 14 tables and put 2 cameras on each table (total of 28 cameras). Out of the 28 cameras: I took home 25, a guest took home 1, and 2 were unused. Out of the 25 cameras, I should have had 675 pictures. I had them all put on photo CD's to save money on development and it cost about $200 at Target. I got back 424 pictures so 38% of the photos could not be developed. See the pictures here. It's still a lot of pictures and there were a ton of great shots of my guests. My main complaint is that quality and nearly all the pics are really dark, despite the built-in flash on the camera. Despite that, I would definitely do it again just for those great shots of my guests since those are things you hardly see in professional pictures from your photographer. However, if I did it again, I would find a way to encourage guests to take pictures of other guests and not take pictures of me and DH since that's what our photographer is for.

Good selection and very timley.