I Want Your Address! (No Stalking, I Promise)

I think it's pretty typical for people my age to move around a lot and, quite honestly, I don't really need anyone's address since I only contact with people through email, gchat, or facebook.  However, my love of paper and pretty has forced me to not send out electronic save-the-dates (STD's ...hehehehehe).  However, the thought of emailing all of the guests and getting each individual address back, and having to copy-and-paste everything into one spreadsheet nauseated and exhausted me.  The solution?  GOOGLE DOCS (how I love thee).

I love using Google Docs spreadsheet for my wedding related items because I can work on them at home but also work on them during my lunch breaks at work.  When I was playing around with the spreadsheets, I noticed a "form" option.  I then a found great solution to just send out a form to my entire guest list for them to send me their address and Google Docs automatically places their address into a spreadsheet.

Step 1
Google Docs
You must already have a google account for this.  Create New: Form

Step 2
You need to then create the fields for the user to fill out.  I only had two fields for them - name and address.  That way whoever fills out the form will be always remember to add their name so you do't have to guess who lives where.  Here's how my form fields look:

You also can choose the theme of how the form will look to whoever you email to.  Just click: Theme

Here's how my form looks to whoever I emailed it to:

Step 3

Email the form!

Step 4

View responses.  Here's how all the responses will look

Then you can sort the spreadsheet however you like!

The only thing I wish I could change is a better way of keeping track of how many people responded out of who I sent it to.  I forgot who I sent the form to and really had to dig to find the list I originally emailed the form to.  But other than that, I love this form!  Nice and easy to get addresses!

Pretty Maids All In A Row

I knew Brian and I would be having a small wedding party so I automatically knew I'd be asking my 3 cousins to be my bridesmaids.  My two older cousins will be co-maids of honor.  I was g-chatting with my oldest cousin Alice when she asked who my maid of honor would be.  I then realized I had never officially asked anyone and just point blank asked her then.  So much for the plans of hand-making pretty cards...next best plan = gchat  :)  She then immediately asked if her sister Virginia could be a MOH as well which I hadn't thought of but said yes anyway.  The more the merrier!

I then started combing through the web for bridesmaid dresses that all 3 could wear.  I was a little concerned about finding a dress that would also be appropriate for my youngest cousin who will be 15 at the time of the wedding.  I also wanted to find the typical cliche wish for BM dresses: affordable and re-wearable.  That's why I by-passed the traditional BM dress designers and immediately went to Nordstrom.  I found a couple of choices I liked and turned to my trusted Google Docs to create a slideshow for my cousins.  (P.S. More on how much I love Google Docs to come)

I was REALLY relieved when they all said they liked the 2nd option the best by DeLaRue since it was the most affordable and also the one I liked the most.  As a surprise, I bought the dresses for them and gave it to them as a Christmas present.  Luckily, the sizes I bought for them just fit them perfectly but I have since forbidden any of them to lose/gain weight (KIDDING for anyone who thought I meant that - I don't care if they switch sizes with each other, as long as I don't have to buy a new dress - KIDDING again).  But here are their reaction's to the dress which I thought of as a positive reaction.  P.S. Please don't kill me for posting this pic!