Online Honeymoon Travel Planning Just Got Easier

Have you been visiting your local Borders or Barnes & Nobles bookstores lately so you can flip through travel magazines? National Geographic Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Budget Travel are just some of our favorites that can help inspire you to choose your honeymoon destination.

How many times have you gone to the bookstore? How many magazines on honeymoons and travel have you purchased? How many books about your honeymoon destination have you bought through Amazon? How many travel-related websites have you visited? IGoUGo.com and TripAdvisor.com are travel sites we frequent because of the amount of traveler reviews and opinions available to you.

What if I were to tell you about a new online service that will save you a trip to the bookstore and help keep all the honeymoon planning ideas you find online in one place?

According to Gusto, “the Gusto! Grabber allows you to easily save any web page to your been here/going here folders, whether you find it on Gusto! or Google. Travel Planning on your terms. Ever tear out a page out of a magazine so you could save it as a reminder of a place you want to visit? With Gusto Grabber, you can do that online. The Gusto Grabber lets you save and organize travel information you find on the Web. Your Gusto bookmarks are stored in folders, allowing you to share your daydreams, plans and memories with friends and family.”

See for yourself: http://www.gusto.com/gusto_grabber

So far, I’ve only posted some honeymoon photos from Giftpile.com registered couples who graciously shared some of the highlights from their trips. But I can’t wait to use Gusto’s “places I’m going” feature. I’m sure you will benefit from this awesome service.

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Give me a (Hershey’s) Kiss

Stamps perfect for sending out invitations, party invitations, save the date cards, and your thank you cards.
	Look what you can buy at the post office. The “With Love and Kisses” Booklet of 20 stamps ($0.39, self adhesive) for $7.80
	Look what you can buy at the post office. The “Love: True Blue Denominated” Booklet of 20 stamps ($0.39, self adhesive) for $7.80

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Go Ahead, Have a Seat with SimpleSeating.com

Putting off creating and organizing your wedding seating chart? Well, your reception hall manager and catering manager might need it pretty soon so you better snap to it! Don’t worry. SimpleSeating.com helps make this task less painful. For a limited time you can make a seating chart, up to 50 guests, free of charge. View the Video Tour of SimpleSeating.com Beta

Are you debating the open seating versus assigned table (assigned seating) scenario?

Here are some things to think about:

• If you’re having a small wedding of 75/50 or less, your wedding guests can probably seat themselves just fine.
• If you have a good number of wedding guests that are single, creating a seating arrangement would be nice so they don’t feel awkward. Imagine the single mixed with all married couples!
• You can group people by their generation, particular interests, if they don’t know a lot of people, those who grew up in the same area, based on what they do for a living, families that don’t see each other enough so they can catch up, and who knows who.
• Separate those that don’t get along.
• Assigning seats might be necessary for formal dinner receptions where your guests might have ordered a special plated meal.

You will need place cards. It’s not rocket science but creating a table or seating arrangement will take a bit of thought. What’s important to the atmosphere of the table is also creating a few elements of fun.

Maybe add an interactive element on each table like Table Topics that includes 138 conversational topics to break the ice. At my cousin’s wedding, they had fake mustaches that people can wear… just to be silly when the photographers came to snap their pictures.

Q U E S T I O N : Do you have any advice about seating arrangements or creating a fun, interactive table environment? Tell us about it. T A K E O U R P O L L : Are you planning a seating arrangement for your wedding reception? Post by The Practical Bride, Giftpile.com Honeymoon Registry