Our favorite gallery requests from the past week! Don't forget to send us your designs to be included next time!

Beautiful lilies!


Perfect wedding cake for Spring!

Love Gerber daises on a cake!


Classic Roses

And our bouquet winner for a free subscription to Bloom!

We're bringing in the New Year with a Bloom giveaway!!

1. Create an amazing bouquet on Designed by the Bride
2. Post your bouquet design on our facebook wall or email it to us at designedbythebride@gmail.com by Monday 1/10
3. We will select our top favorites and post them here on the blog on Tuesday 1/11
4. Vote for your favorite bouquet here on the blog from 1/11-1/14 (A poll will be posted)
5. Winners will be announced on Saturday 1/15

So what does the winner receive....
a FREE 3 month subscription to Bloom!

Email us with any questions!


So hurry up and start designing that bouquet! But you only are allowed one entry, so make sure it's the best you can do!

Winners!

Thank you designers for submitting your designs and for all of you who voted! We are happy to announce that is was a close race but Design A pulled into the lead and will win the 3 month subscription, but all is not lost for Design B as they will win a 1 month subscription. So congrats to both of you!!!

As always please feel free to post your designs on our facebook page, www.facebook.com/designedbythebride , leave us a comment here on the blog, or drop us a line at designedbythebride@gmail.com

Happy Holidays and Happy Designing!

Freebie contest

We have two very lucky ladies! It seems everyone was preoccupied this weekend and didn't get a chance to get their design posted on our facebook page in time... Your loss is the gain for our two submissions because they are now the guaranteed winners! We are still going to give our lovely readers the opportunity to pick which one should be the 1st place winner (recipient of free 3 months subscription) and who should be the 2nd place winner (recipient of free 1 month subscription).


How to vote: comment on this post with the letter A or B depending on which design is your favorite. The design with the most votes wins 1st place!

Design A

Design B

You have until Friday 12/10 at noon to cast your vote!

FREEBIE ALERT

For our facebook fans you have seen our second freebie alert announcement! So here's the scoop:

1. Create an amazing bouquet on http://www.designedbythebride.com/
2. Become a fan (like us!) on facebook if you haven't already
3. Post your bouquet design on our wall by monday 12/6 at noon est
4. We will select our top favorites and post them here on the blog
5. Comment with your 1st and 2nd favorite designs
6. Scores will be tallied and winners announced on Friday 12/10, so this means get everyone you can to vote for your design by noon on friday!!!

So what do the winners receive....
1st place- FREE 3 month subscription to Bloom
2nd place- FREE 1 month subscription to Bloom

What a great present for yourself! So hurry up and start designing that bouquet! But you only are allowed one entry so make sure it's the best you can do!

DIY Wedding Flowers

Everyone is always trying to save money when planning a wedding. The first question many of us ask is, "How much does it cost?"

It's never been easier to save $$ on your flowers.

Your first step, design your flowers online. Find out what flowers you like and in what colors and combinations. Even find out if they look good with your bridesmaids dresses or table linens... All without having to pay a florist or buy real flowers.

So now you know what flowers you want, do you still have to pay a florist to do it all for you? We recently found Angie Zimmerman who understands this problem all too well. She has created a DIY Wedding Flower Guide and DVD set.

Angie's Guide includes 5 DVD's each focusing on a different aspect of wedding flowers: Bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres, ceremony decor and reception decor. The fifth DVD includes instructions on how to process your flowers and what tools you will need.

Her "Flower Guide" gives instruction for various types of bridal bouquets, so you will know how to make the exact bouquet you want.

So if you are on a budget, use Designed by the Bride to test out some flower combinations before you purchase anything and then with Angie's help you will be able to create the wedding of your dreams!

Visit Angie at :

http://www.doityourselfweddingflowerguide.com/pages/products.html

http://flowerarranging101.tv/

Upgrade

So we are very excited to announce our latest website upgrade! We have added a new tool that allows you to change the background color of the space. This takes your virtual designs one step closer to reality. Now you can see if those flowers really will look nice against those bridesmaid dresses and if you really want a pink cake or just a pink linen under the cake... Check out the subscription benefits page for more info. Bloom is the name of the full access area where you can utilize this fantastic tool. We are offering the first 25 subscribers (minimum 3 month subscription to qualify) that sign up by 10/4 a free one year, 4 issue, subscription to the hottest new magazine, Get Married as seen on WeTV!!!

We can't wait to hear what you think about the latest changes and what you would like to see in the future!