Best Online Wedding Vendors

It's Wednesday again, and that means time for more of my faves!  This week, I'm featuring some of my absolute favorite online vendors- places I have found with unique wedding wares at competitive prices.  Read on to see what I'm talking about!!

Best Out of Town Totes: Inkhead.com

Inkhead is a downright fantastic resource for personalized items for your wedding.  My friend P. used them to custom print wedding tote bags for her out-of-town guests.  They even custom-designed a logo to coordinate with her wedding invitations.  While they are generally better for bulk items, with a little searching you can find great gift ideas for your OOT bags, or for your bridal party.  For example, P's fiance loves the customized playing cards, and she's planning to order custom bottle openers for his bachelor party.

 

Best Photo Books: Snapfish.com

If you're racking your brain trying to come up with a cheaper way to create photo albums for your engagement photos or guest book, Snapfish Photobooks are for you.  A quick google search will locate frequent coupons for these books, and I can personally attest that the quality is excellent.  Make sure to use your highest resolution photos for your projects though, otherwise they'll look better on the computer than in real life.  We got our album at 50% off by using a coupon, and uploaded digital images from our photographer to make ours- and it turned out great!  Of course, we'll buy a professional album for our wedding, but since we didn't want to buy an expensive engagement album, the Snapfish book was a perfect solution.

Most Killer Wedding Videography:  Well Spun Weddings

Ok, I admit, this isn't technically an internet vendor, but it was found on the internet, so I'm counting it.  J. and I are not having videography (we had to prioritize, and sadly, videography didn't make the cut) but if I had the budget, this would be IT for me.  Their philosophy is that they create films, not videos,  and they use tools like high definition and 8mm film to customize a video you'll actually want to watch!  Hopefully my friend R. who turned me on to this place, will select them, so I can live vicariously through her!

Best Gift Bags: Dunwoody Booth

I've blogged about this before but it bears repeating because they are such a great deal!  Dunwoody booth sells high quality gift bags at really reasonable prices, and you can even get 5% off the price of your order if you join their "preferred program."  In addition, they frequently offer gifts with purchases, and who doesn't love a little something extra for free?

Most Cost Effective Save-The-Date: Vistaprint.com

Sign up for those email updates (but expect a lot of email) and you too can get 100 postcards (custom-design them yourself!) for about $6.  Which will leave you plenty of money leftover to design your own Photostamp for them!  (I swear Vistaprint is not paying me, I just really like them).

Best Place Cards: Chefsresource.com

My friend P. also turned me on to this great website, where she bulk ordered ceramic place tiles (typically used on cheese trays) as escort cards for her wedding.   Chef's Resource was, by far, the least expensive on this item and shipping was free!  She also had good things to say about the customer service, and everything arrived as promised and unbroken.

Best Cufflinks: Groomstand

This is THE place for affordable engraved cufflinks.  Sure, you could go higher end, but depending on your crowd you may not need to, because these come in many price points.   Plus, they frequently run free shipping specials, and you get a discount if you order 6 or more! 

Best Place to Shop Offseason: Pottery Barn

When you think wedding, you probably don't think "home decorating store" but Pottery Barn is great for offseason finds.  For example, I found wonderful miniature christmas ornaments in green mercury glass, originally intended as vase filler, for $2.99 a package of 18 in the off season.  I'm using them as part of our favor packaging.  And these lovely galvanized metal containers you see pictured left are a mere $7.99 each.  I'm thinking you could fill them with spring tulips or summer daisies for a sweet, cost effective centerpiece, or throw some ribbons on them and use them to gather cards in lieu of the traditional mailbox. 

 

All images sourced from their respective websites, except for the video camera image from clicr.com