Free, free, free! Want to win 200 Custom Postcards?

Hi all,

In case you aren't yet getting the new Globetrotting Bride feed, I wanted to let you know about a great contest I'm hosting where two lucky winners will get 200 free custom postcards.

Be sure to change your bookmarks to www.globetrottingbride.com and update your RSS Feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/globetrottingbride/KQVo

Good luck!

Happy Monday!

If you haven't heard, the new and improved Globetrotting Bride is live at www.globetrottingbride.com.


If you're an RSS subscriber, please update your feed to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/globetrottingbride/KQVo

And, if you link to the site, can you please update the link to www.globetrottingbride.com (without the blogspot)? Thanks!!!!

Red, White and Blue Wedding from Eat, Drink, Marry!

In honor of July 4th weekend, I leave you with some photos of my favorite red, white and blue election themed wedding from Eat, Drink and Marry. I love how Maggie incorporated her patriotic theme in so many cute ways. Check out her fun blog for more pics and scoop on her wedding weekend.







Have a great holiday weekend everyone!!!

Are you a Recessionista Bride?

Weddings are expensive but The Broke-Ass Bride just launched a cool new site called Bride$hare to help out today's Recessionista Brides!


It's a fabulous way to hook up with other brides to share the cost of rentals, decorations, gowns, bridal accessories and much more. Or maybe you're just lazy and want someone to plan everything so you can just show up. Either way, recycling is good for the environment!

Cast your nominations right here!

Hi there all my Globetrotting Bride fans!


If you have a second and want to nominate GlobetrottingBride.com for the WeddingChannel.com Bridal Blog Awards, I'd be forever grateful!

Just click here and add a comment to second my nomination. The nominations end on July 8th and then the winners will compete for final honors!

Thanks soooo much!!!!!!!!

Want to win a wedding website makeover?

Everybody's getting a new look, you should too!

Prima Donna Bride, my favorite South African wedding blog, unveiled her new look last week and it is fabulous, just fabulous! She's hosting a contest where one lucky winner will get a website makeover from thatWindow, the young energetic designer who did hers!


If you think your site needs a new look or if you're just starting out in the wedding industry, you'll want to check out the details here.

You have till Friday to enter so don't delay!

I've got some big news!!!!

Some of you fabulous readers might already know but for those of you who haven't heard...

The Globetrotting Groom and I are having a baby this fall!! And, we just found out this week that...its a GIRL!!!! A little future Globetrotting Bride!

Here I am with my first ultrasound pic:

And here is my ever growing belly:

Don't worry, the Globetrotting Bride blog isn't going anywhere. In fact, its getting a brand new look so stay tuned. And, feel free to pass along any pregnancy or parenting tips.

Have a great weekend!!!

Are you a lazy bride? Help is just an email away!

Feeling lazy? Strapped for time? Need fast answers to your most pressing wedding questions? Don't have time for the zillion bridal chat rooms and message boards?

Lazy Bride 411, a new service connecting brides, vendors and wedding media, is here to save the day!


Sign up to be included on the mailing list. Then, once a day, you'll receive a list of queries. If you're able to answer any of them, email the inquirer directly. If you cannot be of assistance, hit delete and go about your day.

Have a wedding question? Fill out the Query Form and they'll include your question in the next email out. Then sit back and watch for the answers to arrive in your in-box.

Everyone and everything wedding related is welcome. From the bride looking for a reception site on the water in Seattle to the recently-married gal in Texas looking for a buyer of her 300 IKEA votive candles to the wedding magazine writer looking for a couple with a Star Trek wedding theme to feature in an article, Lazy Bride 411 is the avenue for you to find what you need, fast.

And no worries - your name and email address will never be shared and will never be used for anything other than Lazy Bride 411.

So join the community and help make everyone's day just a little bit lazier! And be sure to check out the Lazy Bride's Blog for great planning tips and wedding inspiration.

Globetrotting Bride Wins Best Honeymoon Blog Award!

Here's some happy Friday news...

Globetrotting Bride was named Best Honeymoon Blog by the Wedding Blog Awards! Click here to read the story. And, if you have any great blogs you'd like to nominate, email them at weddingblogawards@gmail.com.

And a special thank you shout out goes to Amy at ABCD Design for teaching me how to make a screen shot!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Calling all grooms!! Hey, it's about you too!!!

Kudos to The Grumpy Groom, one of my favorite male wedding bloggers, for being featured in The New York Times last week. If you didn't see A Wedding Plan for Men, it talked about grooms getting more and more involved in the wedding planning.


I pretty much planned our entire wedding but the Globetrotting Groom did have some feedback when it came to the videographer, band and food. How involved are your guys?

In case your groom is interested in getting more involved with the planning, here are some guy-friendly sites.

The Grumpy Groom

GroomGroove

The Man Registry

Just don't blame me if he turns into a Groomzilla...

Top 100 Wedding Blogs and Twitters

Here's some exciting news for a Monday...according to Bride Tide, I'm among the Top 100 Wedding Blogs (and Twitters) to follow in 2009! So very cool to be listed among some of my favorite bloggers! A big thanks goes out to all my readers! Check the comprehensive list for full details.

And, if you're on Twitter, and want to follow me, I'm @travelbride.

Want to just pick up and travel the globe????

I've got just the inspiration you need! The Lost Girls are a threesome of gals who left their New York City lives (bye bye jobs, apartments, families and boyfriends!) and embarked on a yearlong round-the-world journey. How amazing is that?

Check out their blog to read about their exciting trip, get some travel inspiration, find some cool travel links and read about other cool Lost Girls around the world. You'll also get some amazing honeymoon ideas from their travels (um, Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Kenya, Brazil, India, Thailand, anyone?).

Oh and you might even spot a familiar face -- The Lost Girls did a really great feature on yours truly yesterday. Check it out here!

Snap, snap. I've won the picture tag award

The lovely Jane from In the Waiting Lane tagged me with this fun Picture Tag Award. Here are the instructions:

1) go to your pictures on your computer

2) go to your 6th folder

3) choose the 6th picture in that folder

This not particularly flattering picture of me and my friend Eric is from April 2005. We were having dinner with our then newly engaged friends Beth and Isaac at Spice Market in New York's Meatpacking District. Eric is definitely one of my more fearless friends when it comes to trying new foods. We had a delicious meal and for dessert Eric ordered this pungent Durian ice cream. It was absolutely awful and I don't think we took more than a bite each. I checked the menu and they no longer serve it so the coast is clear.

I pass this along to the following six bloggers:

Amy Jean at The Relentless Bride

Ellen at To The Max

Jamie at It's a Jamie Thing

Jeana at My Dream Ring

Nina at According to Nina

Rachel at Rachel's Ramblins

For my fellow fabulous bloggers...

Thanks to the following fabulous blogs for picking me to receive this award for being a blog with great attitude/and/or gratitude:

- Wishpot Wedding Blog
- Bridal Inquirer Blog
- Always a Blogsmaid
- Prima Donna Bride

I'm flattered to be included among such fabulous bloggers and now I'd like to return the favor and nominate 10 blogs that show great attitude and/or gratitude...

This is how it works:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show GREAT ATTITUDE and/or GRATITUDE!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received the award.

In no particular order, here's my list:

- Grumpy Groom
- Love Notes from Pacific Weddings
- Gettin' Carried Away
- The Lost Girls
- Diary of the Purple Passport
- Budget Trouble
- Cpaphil Vintage Postcards
- Jane in the Waiting Line
- Sugarblossom Weddings
- The Cinderella Project

InStyle Weddings! What exciting news.

InStyle and InStyle Weddings are two of my favorite magazines. So, I guess its no surprise that their wedding blog Style School is one of my favorite daily reads.

I'm thrilled to report that Globetrotting Bride (and five other amazing blogs) has gotten its second shout out in their weeky What's Hot in Weddings on the Web.

In case you missed the first mention, just click here.

Have a great weekend everyone!

It's as easy as ABCD!

Not only is Amy of ABCD Designs one of my favorite bloggers and Twitters, she's also an extremely talented invitation designer! She's got amazing style, a knack for envisioning, a keen sense for details AND shes also a worldly globetrotter!

Check out this elaborate invitation suite she designed for a Nicole and Michael's destination wedding in the Bahamas:

This funky and modern design is actually inspired by vintage damask (see the pink kissing couples pattern? That design is made from an actual photo of Nichole and Michael kissing).

Wish I was invited! The couple arranged chartered flights and hotel rooms for all their guests.

Amy works mostly on custom (or bespoke) designs but she's also got an off-the-peg (ready-to-write) collection loaded with great designs. Check them both out here. And keep in mind that her invitation suites can be as minimal (invite and RSVP) or maximum (directions, programs, table cards, place cards, menus, etc.) as you want. Oh an if you want to see some of Jeremy Lawson's photos from Nicole and Michael's destination wedding, click here.

Help Broke-Ass Bride Win a Costa Rica Honeymoon!

Ok ladies, Dana from The Broke-Ass Bride is one of the Costa Rica Honeymoon finalists for the Green Wedding Contest sponsored by Trees Instead. Remember their great eco-friendly wedding favors and gifts?

It's a super close race so please help her out with your vote! The deadline is Thursday. Click here for the most up-to-date contest answers.

Betcha didn't know this...

I've been tagged by Once a Bride, to tell you 10 random facts about me! In no particular order, here you go....

1) I'm often called a hypochondriac.

2) I took 100 engaged couples to Jamaica to test drive their honeymoon for a day.

3) I can write backwards with my left hand. Yup!

4) I once swallowed a marble playing Chinese Checkers.

5) I am named after a red-headed cheerleader my mom knew in college.

6) I ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch daily from elementary school to high school. Every. Single. Day!

7) Even thought I drive maybe 10 days a year (this is normal for a New Yorker...), I can drive a stick shift.

8) I am not afraid of powertools, even after the emergency room visit.

9) I was once a serial dater!

10) I learned how to play croquet from Robin Leach (yes the one from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous!)

I'm tagging five fabulous bloggers with this one:

- Lemiga Events - One of Atlanta's most creative party planners
- Classic Bride - Your everything wedding planning site. Don't miss her new calligraphy shop!
- Veiled Vows - Inspiring thoughts from an almost-bride-to be.
- The Wedding Decorator - For oodles and oodles of decorating ideas.
- Well-Heeled, with a mission - In search of financial stability and great shoes.

Your Blog is Fabulous!!!

Many, many thanks to Allison at Charmville for awarding Globetrotting Bride with the fabulous blog award! Yippie!!!

The rules: List 5 obsessions/addictions that you have, and tag back to the person who gave you the award. Post the rules. Tag 5 more people!

My obsessions:

1) Hair accessories (Headbands right now)
2) Shoes (particularly boots and sandals)
3) Having my Passport stamped (I hate when they overlap)
4) Keeping a neatly folded underwear drawer
5) Gossip Girl (see item 1)

I'm passing this fabulous award along to:

1) The Broke-Ass Bride
2) The Relentless Bride
3) ABCD Design
4) Single Gal in the City
5) Prima Donna Bride