Our Contest: Are You & Your BFF Both Engaged? Tell Us Your Story, Get Featured on ABG, Win DVD!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Are you a bridesmaid and a bride? Or perhaps, you decided that being both was just too much and will only attend each others weddings. Tell us your story and win a feature on ABG and a copy of the movie Bridesmaids on DVD!
Lauryn and I are great friends! I was engaged last October and she was engaged in May. Mostly, Lauryn was super encouraging when I would get stressed about wedding planning. But as she is my husband's boss, she would also help as Blake bounced ideas around at work. The day of my wedding, my planner wasn unable to be at the reception, so Lauryn acted as the organizer. For Lauryn's wedding, my husband is acting as the DJ and I am acting as her "day of coordinator". It has been a fun give-and-take! She even used our graphic designer for her save the dates!
Who Should Enter
With our story contest, we want to hear all about how you and your friends ended up mutually engaged (brides and grooms). How did it happen? Were you surprised? Is being engaged at the same time good or bad news? Are you battling bridezillas or are you relishing in having a planning buddy? One way or the other, you have a story and we want to hear it!
As the old saying goes “love is in the air” and once you get engaged, suddenly not one or two but sometimes three of you are all engaged at the same time! Who gets which date, how do you pay for your wedding and her bridesmaid dress? How do you not overlap dates?
Simple, unbelievable, ironic, exciting, outrageous – send us your stories of being two or even a crew of crazy wedding planning girls, helping one another through this amazing, yet overwhelming experience! Whoever has the best story will be featured here on AshleysBrideGuide.com; the more details (and pics) you send us, the better!
Robin and Emily are sisters and were engaged at the same time. At the end of May, Robin was married and just two months later, Emily was married. Can you imagine having two weddings in one family that close together? And they were both lovely! Of course, both girls were bridesmaids in each others weddings. (Photo by Julie Harmsen Photography)
How to Enter
1) Send your Bridal BFF story to us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
2) Like our Facebook page and tag us with BFF pictures; have your engaged BFFs do the same so we have pics of you together and separately
3) Extra votes: have your BFF post additional details about your unique story; mutually follow us on Twitter; have your friends/family comment on our wall or this blog post with their comments/vote!
See rules for more info
Contest starts: Today, September 20, 2011 (start emailing those stories!)
Contest ends: October 11, 2011
Winners will receive:
A full story about your friendship and engagements on AshleysBrideGuide.com
A DVD copy of the movie Bridesmaids for each engaged friend that participates in the contest!
Winners will be announced via the ABG blog feature
Rules
You and at least one of the friends must be currently engaged
Your engagement cannot have been previously featured on ABG
At least one of the friends must be located in the Nashville area
“Like” our Facebook page (this means you + whomever your story involves)
If you have more than one engaged friend, include them all in the contest/feature
Stories will be judged based on content – not on grammar/spelling, this isn’t school! It’s fun!
Story Ideas
The ups and downs of planning together; engaged the same weekend/time; experience of sharing engagement parties or joint bridal showers; fights over who stole the others idea; crying on each others’ shoulder from the stress; taking engagement photos together; and on and on…
Sarah (right) and Carol (left) are roommates who were engaged just a month apart. It was the perfect situation! They were able to plan together every night. How great to have a close friend to confide in your wedding planning each night? Both girls are also bridesmaids in each others weddings. They was also engaged at the same time as two of their other friends from church - Heather and Anna. Sarah took a class with the two other girls, "Before You Say I Do", to prep for their weddings. So many engaged girls!
About the Author:
Megan
I’m new to the wedding industry. Before getting engaged I literally avoided any websites for weddings only because I knew, once I delved in, I would become obsessed…. And it’s true. Once I got engaged, I did become obsessed and luckily, about that time, I started working in the wedding industry. So my interest increased on two levels. Now I am a newlywed and still enjoying the industry. I love writing, social media and connecting to people; happily, I get to do all of this with ABG.
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Posted on September 20, 2011 |
Filed under: Contests, Giveaways, Specials, Engagements & Proposals
