Bridal Pulse... Get Inspired by What You Love

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend! We're starting this week with the right foot here at Belle The Magazine. Today we're so excited to finally introduce you to a new app that we're a part of, Bridal Pulse! It is a handy tool that will change the way you find, save and share the inspiration for your big day.

With so many sources of wedding inspiration out there, sometimes it is hard to find the right ideas to help you create the wedding of your dreams, that's when Bridal Pulse comes in. Bridal Pulse is the first app that brings all your favorite bridal bloggers’ content and inspiration together in a digital magazine... and we're so thrilled to be part of it! 

Thanks to Bridal Pulse it is easier than ever to find us and many more of your favorite wedding bloggers sharing latest wedding information and trends, organized into popular wedding categories such as fashion, destinations, real weddings, DIY, hair & makeup, stationary and more!  

I'm already using BP to find all the newest content from my fave bloggers in one place, my phone: The Perfect Palette, Gray Likes Weddings, The Bridal Detective, Le Magnifique, The Wedding Chicks, Something Turquoise, and many more... I'm telling you, it is awesome!

 Download the App Now (it's free!)

The new BridalPulse app is brought to you by the innovative team at BrideClick and sponsored by Cuisinart.
 

Eversnap Your Wedding Day - with a special promotion

Our friends at Eversnap (formerly known as WeddingSnap) need no introduction here at Belle. Why? Because our readers love them as much as we do! So you can imagine our excitement when they let us in on all the fun to help promote their new brand!

In case you missed Eversnap last time, this incredibly awesome app has evolved from Wedding Snap, which solely focused on weddings, to Eversnap, which now focuses on all those special little moments that make life great. And now, you can share them with all your guests as your big day evolves from the ceremony to dancing the night away. Eversnap aims to deliver a premium experience for you and your guests on your wedding day. But, remember, it’s not only a premium wedding app. It will also help you share those special moments at your bridal shower or even your bachelorette party! How does Eversnap work? It is a marvelous app that helps you collect all your wedding guests’ PHOTOS + VIDEOS in one single place. In three simple steps your guests can share photos of your special day with you and other guests!

Eversnap in 3 Steps

1. Create an album
2. Tell your guests to Download Eversnap app (iPhone or Android) & Join your album with your unique album code (e.g. AshleyAdam2014).
3. Take photos & videos. As soon as guests enter the code, they'll be brought to the album, see who else is already there, upload their photos/videos or comment/like their favorites.

and wallah, you have a pretty incredible photo album!

What’s more is that Eversnap will give you 200 Customized Instruction Cards to let your guests know how simple and quick it is to download the app and upload all the memories!

Not to worry, if your guests do not use their phones for picture taking. They can always visit the Eversnap Website to instantly upload all the photos from a digital camera. We know you’ve probably come across something like this and you’re wondering, “how is it different?” Well, darlings it is completely unlimited. Guests can upload unlimited full resolution photos AND videos or even record the best man’s speech. It is truly limitless! What’s best about Eversnap is that it is virtually for anyone. There is no hassle, anyone can participate in all the photo sharing fun, from young children to your grandmother and it is accessible through iPhone, Android, Web, or E-mail.

As we mentioned earlier, the rebranding of Eversnap was created with YOU in mind. You are no longer limited to just wedding albums. You can now create albums for all your pre-wedding soirees, including  but not limited to  your very sweet bridal shower to a fun bachelorette party! Eversnap knows how important privacy is and they can assure you a sense of privacy when it comes to sharing on social media. Eversnap gives you the ability to create a “Secret” album which is only accessed by those who you invite to view it.

Eversnap also offers some pretty cool features that will have your guests laughing and guessing. With a live moderated slideshow your guests can see their selfies on live time and even play a little Wedding I-Spy or Photo Scavenger Hunt. Since it is a family friendly event, you’ll never have to worry about inappropriate photos making an appearance. Professional Eversnap moderator will track your photos for appropriate content. Your guests using your special hashtag on Twitter & Instagram will automatically have their photos uploaded into the live slideshow and of course, professional Eversnap moderator will check for appropriate content on these images as well.

The best thing about Eversnap is the lifetime storage you will obtain with their service. Even after your wedding you can continue to share photos + videos with your loved ones and even better when you can continue sharing those other little moments too, like birthday parties, baby showers, or even family vacations.

Eversnap offers what others can’t, reliability. In their first year they helped more than 10,000 weddings in 1,000 U.S. cities and they can do it for YOU, from an intimate 5 person guest list to 1 million guests, they have your wedding covered!

So what are you waiting for loves? Make Eversnap a part of your big day and for the first 20 readers who activate an account with Eversnap will receive 20% off purchase! Just use the code Belle2014

 This post has been sponsored by EverSnap, but concerns our own opinion.  

5 Best Wedding Apps of 2013

This is a guest post from our friends at Wedding Snap

Whether you’re simply looking for inspiring ideas or have a specific goal in mind, like finding an easy way to capture all of your guests’ photos, chances are there’s a wedding app that can help you do just that. But with so many great ones to choose from, how do you decide which apps are actually worth checking out? Here to help get you started is a list of five top apps for 2013 that we think are making couples’ lives easier, not to mention a whole lot more fun! Give them a try, and don’t forget to also share a few of your own favorites, as well. (Image Credits ~ Photography: Elizabeth Messina from Kiss The Groom via Loverly)

1. Wedding Snap 

Want to conveniently capture all of your guests’ photos and videos in one place without any waiting or begging? Check out Wedding Snap, a unique iPhone and Android app that allows you to access and share all of your special memories in real-time from your engagement party all the way through to your wedding day itself. Along with being the only photo-sharing app that allows guests to upload videos along with photos, Wedding Snap also offers a live slideshow during your reception and photo-retouching by a professional photographer in the weeks following your big day. Have out-of-town relatives and friends who can’t be there for the wedding? Thanks to Wedding Snap, your loved ones can now watch your wedding happen in real-time, no matter where they are!

2. Loverly Weddings 

When it comes to gathering ideas about everything from dresses and cakes to décor and invitations, Loverly Weddings for iPhone is your one-stop-shop for inspiration. Save and share your favorite ideas, upload your own photos as you plan, and have fun searching by color, theme, style or category. This app also integrates with Loverly’s website, allowing you to access all of your top picks in both places whether you’re at home or on-the-go. 

3. Fun Wedding

Looking for a convenient way to create and organize your reception playlist? Download Fun Wedding, an iPhone app that gives you access to music charts compiled from millions of song requests at real weddings around the world. Whether you’re looking for the most requested songs from a particular decade, trying to find out which songs are notorious for being overplayed or are in the process of choosing the perfect song for your first dance, this app makes putting together your playlist fun, not stressful. After listening to samples, save your favorite (or most hated!) songs to your personalized request list to share with your band or DJ. 

4. Gift Registry 360

Setting up your registry can definitely be a lot of fun, and now, with the help of Gift Registry 360, it’s also easier than ever. Simply use your iPhone to scan a product’s barcode and see the item instantly uploaded to your list. Seriously, that’s it. You’ll love the ability to update and review your list on-the-go from anywhere, and your guests will also love being able to view your entire registry in one place by visiting Gift Registry 360’s website. 

5. Appy Couple

You were already planning on creating a wedding website, so why not go ahead and create your own personalized app to go along with it? With Appy Couple for iPhone and Android, you can keep guests up-to-speed throughout the entire planning process while also showing off your theme in style. When you use Appy Couple to create a beautiful wedding website and corresponding app, it’s a cinch to do everything from sharing updates via Facebook to managing your guest list and providing details about your registry.  

And there you have it – five fabulous apps to help make planning and celebrating your wedding even more fun. Have you tried any of these apps, or are there any others you especially love?

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Gather up Your Wedding Memories in One Easy to Use Location | Wedding Snap + New Features + Discount

You might remember us raving last October about Wedding Snap, a seriously-does-it-all wedding photo sharing service that proves collecting pics from your guests can be seriously simple AND fun. Well, we’re still crazy about it, and we’re thrilled to announce that Wedding Snap has new and exciting features! In addition to letting you gather up every glorious image of your wedding, now Wedding Snap also lets you collect VIDEOS of your big day and all in one easy to use location. Yes, all these photos and videos get saved to the same place.... You get unlimited photo & video uploads with unlimited albums - all the albums you need to capture your wedding story from beginning to end (Gown, Bridal Shower, Bachelorette Party, Rehearsal Dinner, etc. And you share only the albums you want to share). You will obsess over how easy and organized everything is with Wedding Snap! (We are!)

I mean, let’s face it, your wonderful photographer and videographer will capture all the beautiful highlights of your event, but your friends and family will capture the subtle, the fun, the surprising and the unexpected moments… and you can’t wait to dive right into all of the magic. The only problem? Gathering up those memories in one easy to use location.  Enter Wedding Snap, a service that makes it easier than ever to collect  all those precious wedding memories instantly, with the one device you know all your guests have on hand – their cell. We love them. Wedding Snap has quite a few wonderful features that we know you will appreciate. Read on to learn more.

Instant and Unlimited uploads in one place:

With Wedding Snap you no longer have to wait for your bestie to email you those 300 photos she took – or tag you on Facebook.  Your guests can simply snap a photo with their FREE wedding app using their iPhone or Android and the image will be instantly uploaded to the Wedding Snap live album.  Yep – INSTANTLY.  That means your nearest and dearest can see all of the happenings of your big day in real time – no matter their location.  And for those that don’t have smartphones, they can upload their pictures from their computers straight to your album after the wedding. 

Store, organize, download, print, share, comment:

Upload as many photos and videos as you want (unlimited!) AND share on Facebook, your wedding website or wherever else you please. With just one click you can bulk download all the high resolution pictures or print each of them. And with Wedding Snap’s new feature you may also comment on the photos to let your friends and family know which photos you love most!

Perfect for friends and family that could not make it to your wedding:

Set up a “Fam Cam” at the reception with their Live-Streamed Moderated Slideshow feature, so relatives at home can follow every special moment! Seriously cool.

Customized information cards for your guests:

Wedding Snap will even print customized information cards so your guests know how easy it is to use - a 5 year old could use it!

Professional Photo Retouching: *new* 

All your Wedding Snap photos will be retouched by professional photographer and uploaded as a new album in your online gallery. We Love it!

What else can Wedding Snap do for you:

• Order Prints of your Photos
• 7 Fun Filters to give your photos a rosy hue or vintage look
• Offline Feature (in areas of poor connection, photos & videos will automatically upload when you return to an area with good connection)
• “Invisible” Albums

Check out some of the lovely images of a real wedding captured with Wedding Snap... gorgeous, right?  – and don’t forget to check out their amazing offer for Belle The Magazine readers before you go!

We love weddings already, but this just makes them that much more fun, doesn’t it? Text "Belle" to  415-659-987 and download the FREE app, you can try out their services with Belle The Magazine’s album code Belle206. And if that is not enough, now Wedding Snap is offering 30% off for the first 20 brides, just enter the promo code BELLE30. Happy Planning lovelies!

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The Tuxedo Builder App by Jim's Formal Wear

To say that I am totally loving the concept behind the The Tuxedo Builder wedding app by Jim's Formal Wear would be a huge understatement!   The Tuxedo Builder is a fantastic app that will solve every single one of your groom’s  and groomsmen’s outfit dilemmas with their easy-to-use (and super fun!) shopping experience and fantastic search features.

With so many  tuxedo and accessory styles and over 175 colors to choose from, it has always been  a priority of Jim's Formal Wear to give their customers the chance to mix and match items so they can create a personalized look. That's why -- a very popular feature on Jim’s Formal Wear website -- is now available as an iPad and iPhone App.  You and your honey can design the ultimate wedding tux whenever and wherever you want, and you can select the outfits for your wedding party before you even visit a store.

How does it work?  It is very simple.  First, download the FREE The Tuxedo Builder. Then, start having fun by mixing and matching tuxedos and accessories to create the perfect ensemble for your upcoming event. Once your tuxedo ensemble is completed, email the nearest Jim’s Formal Wear store (nearly 6,000 stores nationwide) with your selections to set up an appointment and speed up the ordering process.  
The app will allow you to share your groom's look with friends and family via Facebook, Twitter or email.  It even  has a feature to map out directions from your home to the nearest retail location and it also helps you find money-saving coupons.

Isn't this awesome?  But, the fun isn't over yet, my friends... The iPhone and iPad versions have another super-cool feature called "Add Your Photo" that allows you to see what your fiancé will look like in the tuxedo of his choice. All your  honey has to do  is simply take a picture of himself and attach it to his outfit... and voila!
The "Fitting Room" is another super helpful function for those brides who are planning a wedding where the groom, groomsmen, father-of-the-bride, ring bearer, ushers, etc. wear different looks. It allows you to save individual items or complete ensembles, so you can review or share them later.
Pretty great, right? Well, it gets better. With The Tuxedo Builder app not only can you shop by color and narrow your search results by items, but you can also shop by theme and choose the styles that best reflect your dream wedding. From black tie and traditional to destination and western, Jim's Formal Wear has something for everyone.
Any other reasons to love Jim's Formal Wear?  
Their consultants are experts at servicing out-of-town weddings. They offer tuxedo rentals to fit any budget and carry styles from the hottest designers such as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Tony Bowls, Jean Yves and more.  Plus, with over 175 fullback vest styles and over 385 tie styles to coordinate with any bridesmaid’s dress, Jim’s Formal Wear is the largest formalwear rental company in the world!

Ready to get started? Visit Jim’s Formal Wear to download the app. It’s FREE!




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