TGK is busy, busy! In the coming months we are participating in several bridal shows and we would LOVE for you to come and visit us!

We will be at The Carolina Inn Bridal Fair in Chapel Hill, NC on January 31. Want to drop by? We have a limited number of FREE TICKETS for the first few blog readers who post a comment! Be sure to leave your email address in your comment so we can contact you! (Tickets are first come, first served with a limit of 2 per commenter.)

The Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, NC will host Wedding Secrets on February 18. This event is “a constructive seminar aimed to educate brides on everything you need to know before you say I DO.” TGK will be one of 10 vendors chosen to share behind-the-scenes tips on what you really need to know when planning your wedding. Be sure to register early for this one!

And on March 4 we will be at The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, NC for Cary Magazine’s Elegant Weddings Gala!

We hope to see you at one (or all!) of these wonderful events!

There is a lot going on in the studio this week! First, we have to alert our blog readers to our very limited time offer. Starting today, for 5 days only we’re offering super big, flat discounts on your orders!

From January 13th through 17th:

- Take $150 off your order of $1000 or more (coupon code TGK0110-150 at checkout)

- Take $100 off your order of $750 or more (coupon code TGK0110-100)

- Take $50 off your order of $500 or more (coupon code TGK0110-50)

Hurry, hurry! We know you made “getting organized for the wedding” your top resolution for the new year! This is our way of helping you kick that resolution into gear by getting those wedding stationery orders complete.

Also, be sure to check out Kristen and Melissa’s latest contribution to the Wedding Aces blog! They explore choosing a Cool Wedding Date (10-10-10 will be a popular one for this year!). We’ve done some creative invitations playing up eye-catching dates and would love to hear some of the neat dates our blog readers have chosen!

Last week, the in-studio crew took a field trip to Jay Andrews Salon to participate in the Pink Hair for Hope project. Everyone got some rock-star worthy pink hair extensions to show our support for the 25th anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We had a ball and have been generating lots of interest on the streets of Cary, NC! We guess folks don’t normally see a lot of pink hair around here.

Want to join in the fun? Nearly 400 salons around the country are participating in the Pink Hair for Hope campaign. Click here to find one near you. Send us a picture of your pink hair extensions and we just may have a surprise for you!

And even if pink hair isn’t your bag, you can still help The Green Kangaroo mark National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by participating in our Think Pink promotion. Just incorporate ANY pink element into your next order in October and not only will you receive 10% off, we will also donate 10% of the cost of your order to a local breast cancer charity.

Our friend Christobal – who just so happens to be an amazing photographer – tagged along to photograph the pinking out. We will be sure to post those photos next week and give you a blow-by-blow of the hair extension transformation!

Bliss Holiday Card in Cocoa

While The Green Kangaroo is best known for our wedding stationery, we also have an extensive line of festive, personalized holiday cards. Nearly every one of our holiday designs incorporates a photo image, making them extremely popular with brides wanting to share a wedding-day photo with friends and family during the first holiday season following their wedding. These cards are also a great choice for save-the-dates, enabling you to save money by sending a holiday greeting and informing guests of your upcoming nuptials at the same time. Snowflake Holiday Card in Green

Throughout the month of October, we are offering a FREE set of holiday cards with any purchase of $750 or more (a set being the same number of holiday cards as invitations ordered). Just use coupon code free-holiday09 during check out. Think of it as an early Christmas gift courtesy of a large, green marsupial!

Josie Holiday Card in Festive Red

We have been on pins and needles with excitement about our very first giveaway on the TGK blog! Back in August, as part of our monthly promos, we decided to give 100 of our new Frugal Collection invitations (or a $295 TGK credit) to one lucky winner. All you had to do was register for a new online account through The Green Kangaroo to be entered into the drawing …

And the winner is (drum roll please …) Kelley Meadows! Congratulations, Kelley!

Be on the lookout for more fabulous giveaways. The fun is just beginning!

Take ½ off (that’s 50%!) our guest addressing service with any invitation order!

It’s fall. It’s football season, school’s starting, and there are a million-and-one things to be done – especially if you are in the thick of planning a wedding! So the gals at The Green Kangaroo thought we’d help you out with that monstrous must-be-done list and offer a sweet deal on our oh-so-fabulous guest addressing service.

For the vast majority of us who type far more than we practice our lovely penmanship, guest addressing is a gift from the wedding-planning angels! Just imagine your invitation order arriving with the names and addresses of your guests already neatly and accurately printed in a beautiful complementary ink color and font. Voila! Your invitations look totally gorgeous and all you have to do is add postage and greet the maillady at the Post Office!

Understandably, guest addressing is one of our most popular services! Normal rates for guest addressing start at just $1 per envelope set (that’s printing on both the inner AND outer envelopes) and $1.50 if you’d like us to use colored ink. And with September’s deal, you can save yourself hours of time starting at only 50 cents per invitation! Now what bride wouldn’t want to take advantage of that? You’re welcome!

This offer is good for brides who place any invitation order by midnight on September 30, 2009. Standard set-up charge of $25 applies to guest addressing services.

We are developing scads of winter themed wedding invitations in the studio at the moment as brides getting married in December, January, and February finalize their invitation orders. Winter weddings tend to lean toward the sophisticated, elegant side and our brides love working with the cool color schemes and intricate graphic motifs that are the signatures of the season.

This year, one of our most popular winter themed wedding invitations is our new Modern Snowflake from our recently launched Frugal Collection. Shown above in silver and black ink, this design also looks amazing in aqua and even lipstick pink!

Since we’re featuring the Modern Snowflake on the blog this week, as a special gift to our blog readers, we are offering you a FREE sample (a $5 value). All you have to do is leave us a comment below this post by 9/9/09 with a valid email address, and we will contact you to find out where to send your sample Modern Snowflake invitation!

Calling all Fans & Followers!

The Green Kangaroo is now on Facebook and Twitter and we’re preparing a special promotion, just for those of you who become a TGK fan or follower! (Just click on one of the links or images to the left and become a fan/follower.) We’ll post the details on how to receive a special discount just on Facebook and Twitter on August 17th, so be sure to sign up before then. We’ll be planning additional special promotions and discounts for our followers down the road, and you can keep up with what’s happening at TGK. We’ll see you there!

Yesterday, I was chatting with Kristen and Melissa (TGK’s owners) and they mentioned what a great deal one of their customers had scored earlier this month by using TGK for both her save-the-date cards and her wedding invitations. Intrigued, I learned that TGK sends every customer a loyalty coupon good for 10% off her next order when they ship your completed order. This smart bride had received her 10% off coupon with her $200 save-the-dates order and then turned around and applied it to her $1300 invitation order. She nearly paid for her save-the-dates with the savings she racked up on her invitations! Now that’s a good deal!

10% off your next order is a nice bonus for everyone, but especially for brides who are looking at cutting corners to save money on their weddings. Of course, during the month of August, TGK is running an unprecedented promotion where you can earn FREE save-the-dates (or rehearsal dinner invitations) with any pocket invitation order. So there’s no reason not to have your wedding invites and your save-the-dates too! Let us know in the comments section if you’ve found any particularly creative ways to maximize your wedding budget!

Now through the end of November, TGK is offering

FREE Thank You Notes

with all pocket invitation orders! Your note cards will be customized and personalized to match your invitations! Simply add “Free Matching Thank You Notes” to your order (under the “Design Options” tab), and our design team will take care of the rest!

The samples pictured here match the Floral Decor Claire Pocket.

Don’t need thank you notes? You can substitute Free Gift Tags or Free Place Cards instead!!!

Hurry! This offer ends November 30, 2008!