Kristin, Author at Southern Weddings

Mason-Dixon Madness 2017: The Round of 64

by Kristin in In The Office on March 7, 2017

While SEC football gets a lot of attention when it comes to wedding planning, the SW office is located in the heart of ACC Basketball country. So it’s pretty easy to see how March Madness takes over the office around this time every year, especially with an office full of Tar Heel Alums! While might not all agree on which basketball team to cheer for (ahem, Emily Thomas), we all agree that this time of year should be celebrated in high style: welcome to Mason-Dixon Madness 2017—a Southern food tournament!

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This year, our tournament begins with 64 of the best and brightest Southern food favorites, divided by course so that fried chicken doesn’t go head-to-head with mac and cheese in the first round. Each week, y’all will get the chance to weigh in on your favorite Southern delicacies until we whittle things down to the championship match-up on April 3rd!

Will there be some upsets in the first round? Will Cheerwine be take home the crown again or will my beloved sweet tea reign victorious? Need to brush up your Southern delicacies? Check out our past Southern Delicacy columns or call your mama. Educate yourself on Goo Goo Clusters and chow chow. First round voting will be open until March 12 when we’ll set the winners up for the round of 32!

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Invite your beau and your best gals to join you and help us decide what will ultimately be named the best bite or beverage in Dixie! Take a break from wedding planning and spend some quality time with your favorite people debating the finer points of pecan pie and banana pudding (my darling KPW considers himself an expert on both). Good chance you might learn a thing or two about your friends and family in the process.

Vote in the first round of 64 below!

Feel free to print your own bracket (download it here), fill in your favorites and see if you can pick our 2017 champion. I will be rooting hard for sweet tea and mac and cheese ;) May the best food (or drink) win!

Written with love by Kristin

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Tags: food bracket, march madness, mason dixon madness, pretty bracket, pretty tournament bracket, southern food bracket, southern wedding, Southern wedding ideas, Southern wedding inspiration, Southern Weddings

Allison March 7, 2017 reply

Oops! I don’t think one of the answers get added… moonpie vs. red velvet. I’m good with voting for both though! :)
Catherine March 9, 2017 reply

This just tickles me. So much fun!

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Southern Weddings 2017 Survey + A Giveaway!

by Kristin in Main on March 1, 2017

Each spring the whole Southern Weddings team gathers together in Chapel Hill for our annual retreat. We make plans for the year, sprinkling in some fun team building and spend an awful lot of time talking about each one of you. We talk about what you like and don’t like, how we can best serve you, and how we can get the best information in your hands.

We consider y’all friends and getting your personal and real-time feedback through our annual reader survey helps us make sure we’re on the right track and spending our days creating content that will best help you with wedding and marriage planning (something we take very seriously around here).

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As a thank you for your time, we’re offering a shop discount code to everyone who completes it, plus if you leave your email you’ll be entered to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card or a shop-a-pooloza prize pack (one of EVERY SINGLE item currently in the Southern Weddings Shop!!) The choice is yours!

The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete, and we have two versions:

– CLICK HERE to take the survey if you are a bride or groom currently planning a wedding.
– CLICK HERE to take the survey if you are a wedding professional, a family member or friend, a married lady, or just someone who loves weddings!

To be entered to win our giveaway, complete the survey by March 15, 2017.

Thank y’all SO much in advance!! We are grateful for you and want to do everything we can to make Southern Weddings even better!

Written with love by Kristin

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Bri A March 1, 2017 reply

I love it when brands reach out for opinions. Y’all are doing a great job and I can’t wait to see where SW goes next!
Emma Hayden June 29, 2017 reply

I love southern weddings for so many reasons. I am doing a mostly DIY wedding and it helps to be able to find inspirations, vendors, and venues all in one place.

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Memories of Us: A Prompted Wedding Journal

by Kristin in In The Office, Main on February 16, 2017

Moments after I finished the real wedding interview for the blog, I sent Mrs. Emily Thomas an email with a flurry of excitement and a million exclamation points. The process of filling out the questions brought me right back to my wedding day, and I immediately knew that I would treasure having these answers forever. I also knew that we needed to figure out how to give this gift of memory capturing to ALL our brides. While we can’t feature every reader’s wedding on Southern Weddings (gah, I wish we could), we want to give everyone the opportunity to remember and record this special season of life. Our solution? Meet: Memories of Us: A Prompted Wedding Journal

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This sweet prompted journal covers everything from your engagement to the emotional whirlwind of your wedding day, to your honeymoon, to the sweet early days of newlywed life. We know all these memories are precious and we don’t want you to forget a thing! The prompts are inspired by the real wedding interview from the SW blog and print magazine and encourage you to capture all the moments (both big and small) of your marriage journey. We hope that your journal becomes a keepsake for years to come!

Every single one of my girlfriends who gets engaged gets a Memories of Us journal as a gift from KPW and me. Why? Because as someone who self-identifies as an “anti-journaler’ I love this little memory keeper so very much!! The prompts make it feel less like a ‘journal’ (important for someone who is anxious at the thought of free-writing) and more like answering the best and most personal questionnaire. (There are also extra blank pages to capture your feelings and other details if you are a journal kind of gal.)

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After getting engaged, I was bombarded with people who told me “good luck, you won’t remember a single thing about your wedding day.” As a gal who had been looking forward to getting married since the ripe old age of four, this was less than encouraging. I knew our wedding season would be a whirlwind, but I was determined to remember as many moments as possible, and I want the same for all my best friends and for all of you. We have a limited number of journals available right here so snag one for yourself or a best friend who recently got a new left-hand sparkler!

I’m grateful that the Memories of Us: A Prompted Wedding Journal is one of my Southern Weddings claims to fame. And even more grateful that our future kids and grandkids will be able to flip back through our wedding memory journal and giggle over the missing candle incident and understand why the first few chords of Strawberry Wine always make me burst into tears.

Happy memory capturing, belles!

PS: Want a peek inside the pages of the journal? Don’t miss the fun video at the bottom of this page: Memories of Us: A Prompted Wedding Journal

Written with love by Kristin

Tu Nguyen February 16, 2017 reply

Many people would do a blog but I still love a good old journal <3
Bella Vita Montreal Wedding Photography February 17, 2017 reply

love this!!

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