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Tomorrow is the first day of December, and you know what that means! Engagements galore!
Did you know December is the most popular month to get engaged? December accounts for about one in every five proposals. A lot of times grooms choose Christmas Eve to pop the question, and of course others wait until after Santa arrives and ask on Christmas Day.
Maybe you’ve noticed or maybe you haven’t but there is currently an infatuation with the mid-1960s. The era’s influence is everywhere from fashion to home décor to design and of course television with AMC’s Mad Men pretty much pioneering the movement. With the holiday season naturally lending itself to decking out your home, sporting more dapper duds than normal and most importantly entertaining; it’s the perfect opportunity to throw yourself a holiday shindig that any Kennedy-era advertising exec would feel at home at!
I’ve never been engaged, but I’ve watched enough wedding television shows, had enough friends plan a wedding, and witnessed my own little sister start to plan hers to know that weddings are insanely expensive. When you take into consideration the dress, tuxedo rentals, flowers, transportation, music, food, location, wedding invitations, wedding party gifts (sheesh, the list never ends!) you suddenly realize you’re talking thousands and not hundreds. Thousands.
No matter whether you think the sales are really all that spectacular or not; the one thing you have to admit is that Black Friday is primo for people watching! It’s also the perfect opportunity to act ridiculous and mess with people’s heads! This is particularly fun to do if you really could care less about shopping but you end up getting dragged out of your turkey-induced slumber to freeze your butt off before the crack of dawn by someone who supposedly loves you.
Some people may argue that gift cards or gift certificates to someone’s favorite restaurant, clothing store or electronics store is a copout when it comes to Christmas gifts. It’s often argued that giving a gift card or certificate is a no-thought, lackluster, spur of the moment way of solving the annoying “what to give” dilemma. Get these thoughts out of your head, everyone. This is so not true.
We’re a few days from Thanksgiving which usually marks the point when trees, greens and other Christmas festiveness starts to get broken out and the whole family takes time to be together. It’s also when winter outfits have secured a space in the front of the closet and you start feeling like it wouldn’t be so early that people would think you were weird for sending Christmas Cards. That also makes it the perfect time to wrap up the Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait series!
Choosing colors may seem like a simple decision, but with all of the choices it can frankly be an overwhelming one, especially if you want to really stand out with a cutting edge combination. After all, most people do not even consider wedding trends let alone stay atop of them until they start planning their wedding. Lucky for you the design team here at 123Print is not most people; our team of talented designers lives and breathes trends like these! They’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of ten wedding color trends to watch in 2012.
If you’re a business owner, your head is probably swimming with numbers right now. You’ve got your 2012 budget to finalize (if it’s not done already), worries about how Q4 is going to turn out, Holiday discounts and sweepstakes, employees putting in for time off to spend the holidays with loved ones, and if you’re in retail… a lot of customers that are in a hurry.
Most experts agree that social media has revolutionized the way people interact with one another. Yet, for all its benefits, it has a dark side: creeping addictiveness. It often starts at a young age, with nothing more than a harmless, occasional status update. Upon adulthood, however, it explodes into a full-blown debilitating condition
If you’re like most people, regardless of the style of Christmas card you chose, you’ll opt for a fairly traditional verse for the inside. However there are some amongst us who are a bit more daring, who live life a little more on the edge, who like to stick things in a lion’s cage and see what happens, who have been on Santa’s list for coal more than not!
