Saturday, April 30, 2011

Free Printable Save the Date Cards!

Free is always fabulous! Free and cute is even better!
Loving these cute, free, printable, and customizable Save the Date cards!

 To download and customize, click HERE.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Happy Wedding Day!

Today is the big day (as we are sure everyone has noticed!)
Spend a few moments today soaking in the fairy-tale-like setting in England.
Everything is perfect for Kate and William!
We hope that, here at Grand Volute, we can create a fairy-tale-like setting for you, too!
While you watch the wedding coverage, keep your eyes peeled for the different traditions that the Royal Family is partaking in. They are surely setting trends for the next few years of wedding planning!

Eight West!

We will be on eightWest on WoodTV8 shortly! Keep your eyes peeled!! :)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Royal Wedding: Intimidated by your in-laws?

 We love following the Royal Wedding. Mostly because Kate is so down-to-earth!  We borrowed this story from ABC News.

Royal Wedding: Intimidated by Your In-Laws? Try Marrying Into the Royal Family!

Kate Middleton Seems To Be Taking It All In Her Stride

Kate is envied by many, but can you really imagine having royal in-laws?
"I think there's almost a maternal bond between Camilla and the soon-to-be Princess Catherine," ABC News' royal contributor Duncan Larcombe said of Middleton's future-stepmother-in-law, Camilla Parker Bowles. "There's a genuine friendship there."
When William was away on his recent trip to Australia, Camilla and Prince Charles invited Kate to the ballet.
Also, a short while back, Kate and Camilla were spotted lunching together. It was a very long lunch and full of wedding discussions.
A fellow diner heard someone say: "We can't have trumpets, the ceiling is too high."
Sometimes, Prince Charles' wife surprises us all. For example, her reaction to the engagement:
"It's the most brilliant news" Camilla said. "I'm just so happy for both of them. They are so happy. It's wicked!"
Prince Charles, we hear, is also very fond of Miss Middleton.
"I was quite nervous about meeting William's father," Kate said, "but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me."
And Charles has been helping Kate with wedding planning.
"You know he's over the moon, actually," little brother Prince Harry said when interviewed by ABC News on his recent partial trek to the North Pole.
"He's had a lot to do with the wedding, which is really really nice. And is so unbelievably busy yet he's managed to make time to help Kate out with the music and stuff like that, the processional music."
"He's obsessed with his music," Harry said. "So the two of them have been slaving away, getting everything right. So it's fantastic, really."
Kate seems like she was born for royalty.

Check us out on Eight West!

Keep your eyes peeled for us on eightWest tomorrow during their coverage of the Royal Wedding!! Mary Ellen is becoming quite the regular! We are so excited to be able to participate in the Royal Wedding festivities!!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Kate Middleton Admits Pre-Wedding Jitters

Radiant Kate Admits Royal Wedding Jitters

Kate Admits Pre-Wedding Nervousness in Visit to English Countryside to Open an Academy and Launch a Prince's Award

PHOTO Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton talk to youngsters from a local soccer club at Witton County Park, Darwen, near Blackburn, England, April, 11, 2011.
Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton talk to youngsters from a local soccer club at Witton County Park, Darwen, near Blackburn, England, April, 11, 2011. Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry at Westminster Abbey on April 29.
(Alastair Grant/AP Photo)
Before her wedding day, nerves are natural for any bride. Kate Middleton admitted her own pre-wedding jitters yesterday, during her final public appearance with Prince William before their wedding.
Despite the rain, Kate looked remarkably polished in her navy suit, while touring the East Lancashire town of Darwin and greeting members of the crowd of 5,000 who had gathered.
Amanda Wood, a 49-year-old Asda grocery store employee, asked the bride how she is feeling.
"I asked her if she was nervous about her wedding. And she said 'Yes of course I am.' Then I told her she's beautiful," Wood told The Daily Mirror.
A few weeks ago, ABC reported that William also admitted a creeping nervousness. "I was telling everyone when I did the rehearsals the other day and my knees started going, tapping quite nervously," adding, "It's quite a daunting prospect but very exciting, and I'm thoroughly looking forward to it."
In just 17 days, 2 billion people worldwide will watch as Kate walks down the aisle at Westminster Abbey to marry her fiancée.
Yesterday, upon greeting Margaret and Alwyn Davis, an elderly couple from Blackburn, Kate noted the rapidly-approaching April 29th date. Margaret recounted the interaction to The Daily Mirror, saying, "We said hello. And I said to her I wish you all the best with your wedding. And she said 'Yes I can't believe it's coming very soon now.'

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