Although Wedding Paper Divas doesn’t currently offer holiday cards, you can find a range of fun designs for couples at our parent site, Tiny Prints! You can even log in with the email and password stored as your Wedding Paper Divas account information to place your order. It’s a fun, easy and stylish way to celebrate the upcoming holiday season!

When you get married, whether the groom changes his name, the bride changes hers or neither of you change anything, you are bound to run into problems. If you don’t change your name, people get confused. But if you change your name, people will still be confused.

Changing your name is fairly easy if you file the paperwork right, but changing people’s perceptions isn’t so easy. You will become one of those Jane “Anderson” Smith people on Facebook. Your work email will have to change. You have to practice a new signature. You will need a new driver’s license. Your mother will probably cry.

Given all of the social problems associated with changing your name, do you still think it’s worth it? Does changing your name make you want to rant or rave?

Are you recently engaged? If so, congratulations! Know that being engaged is a tradition that has started as far back as the year 1215. This is when Pope Innocent III decreed that marriages must be publicly known. And the tradition of giving an engagement ring began in 1477 when a royal emperor gave his beloved a diamond ring as an engagement present. Aren’t we lucky that he did?

Traditionally hosted by the bride’s family, couples today are hosting their own parties. A great way to get your families acquainted before the big day, it’s also a good excuse to celebrate your engagement and commitment to one another.

Usually a few months following the proposal, engagement parties should only include guests that you are planning to invite to the wedding. Any way you do it, make sure to make it comfortable, fun and special for everyone! One of my friends had the event at her future in-laws. A lawn filled with friends, family, homemade food, and festive lights decorating huge white tents made the event memorable!

Here are a few engagement party invitations to make your perfect party complete.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement