While browsing blogs this morning, I spotted a post at Aisle Be Your Guru with the most adorable jewelry made by Kathryn Riechert! Aren’t these pieces just charming? And so affordable! Get yourself some diamond earrings, or have a custom ring or necklace made for your sweetheart! I just love them all!

[via Aisle Be Your Guru.]

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I was so excited this week to learn about Bride$hare™, the fantastic creation of Dana LaRue, the bride behind The Broke Ass Bride. If you’re looking for tips on planning your wedding on a budget, well … as you can guess, the Broke Ass Bride has them!

The inspiration for Bride$hare™ started like this:

Way back when, Rebecca saw a blog post of mine lamenting the desire for paper lanterns to spruce up the space at my venue, and she contacted me to suggest we go in on them together and share them. That was just the beginning. Together, we were able to co-purchase and recycle many items from our weddings, which went perfectly with Hunter and my mission to both save green and be green in our wedding plans! In fact, the reception venue owner likes them so much, she might even buy them off of us after the fact and keep them up, which means future brides can benefit from them, too! My bridal karma meter must be off tha charts, son!

Hunter & Dana were married back in May, and in early July they went back to their same venue to enjoy their decor all over again – as guests at Rebecca & her husband’s wedding! Dana & Rebecca shared $4000 worth of expenses – saving them each $2000, AND doing something good for the environment by not buying duplicates of the same items!

Dana knew a great thing when she saw it, and has since set up the BrideShare™ site as a way for other couples to save money on their wedding plans and have a wedding with a smaller carbon footprint at the same time.

The Bride$hare™ site is described as part social networking and part wedding planning. Bride$hare™ offers brides the opportunity to team up and share the daunting task, and costs, of wedding planning while creating less waste – addressing three top priorities of brides’ current economy.

While Dana is getting most of the mad props in this post, I want to share some with her fabulous husband, Hunter, as well. Because he has to be supportive and wonderful to stand beside her as she took on creating Bride$hare™, but also because this video he made cracks me up *every* time I watch it. He is mad creative, I tell you!

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When I discovered today that Not Martha is getting married, I knew her wedding blog Planning to Elope would be full of unique and interesting wedding finds!

How awesome are these I Do Wedding Bands that I found over there? Japanese artist Sakurako Shimizu actually uses the audio pattern of you saying “I do” as the design for the ring. It is like you’re saying “I do” over and over again! (Also available are cuffs, cufflinks, earrings, and a variety of other jewelry options.)

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