Last night, a movie called The Cove was awarded an Oscar for “Best Feature Documentary” film. It’s a gripping examination of a highly secretive annual dolphin massacre that takes place off the coast of Japan. The film was produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society, a non-profit organization founded by filmmakers, photographers, and eco-activists.
As animal lovers ourselves, we were astonished by the movie’s revelations about this horrific industry. So in support of OPS, we are launching a special “blue” March promotion! The Green Kangaroo will donate 5% of all blue sales for the remainder of March to the Oceanic Preservation Society.
Help build our fund by ordering something “blue” – literally! Blue orders contain one or more of the following:
• blue ink
• blue paper
• blue ribbon
• blue embellishments
We’ll feature some of the most lovely blue orders on the blog throughout the month, to provide you with inspiration! Just remember, to qualify for this promotion, orders must be submitted before March 31, 2010.
February is all about love! To celebrate, we wanted to send an extra special Valentines Day Promo your way. So, we asked ourselves, “What can we give our customers that they both need AND love?” Our oh-so-fabulous guest addressing service, of course!
For the vast majority of us who type far more than we practice our lovely penmanship, guest addressing is a gift straight from cupid! 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!
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. During the entire month of February, receive our guest addressing service (black ink only) FREE with your wedding invitation order from our Signature Collection or Frugal Collection! Or, upgrade to color ink for only $0.50! Save yourself hours of time! Simply select the guest addressing service of your choice in the Design Extras section when placing your order! Now what bride wouldn’t want to take advantage of that?
PROMOTION EXTENDED!
Due to popular demand, we’re extending this promotion for an extra week! Stay tuned for news regarding our charitable promotion for March!
Exclusions: Offer is not retroactive and is only applicable on orders placed between 2/1/2010 and 3/7/2010. Offer is only valid on wedding invitations in our Signature or Frugal Collections. Note: Once you have submitted your order, you will receive a guest addressing template from us. Please follow the instructions on our template carefully as we will print your guest addresses exactly as you’ve entered them. If any correction or manipulation is required to your template, a $25 fee will apply.
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!
A big, green, hopping congratulations to Allyson S. who is the winner of last month’s Save-the-Date giveaway contest! Allyson captured the win with her blog comment telling us why she and her fiance are getting married in October:
“October is our favorite time of the year to be in North Carolina for SO many reasons – the colors of the leaves changing, the NC State Fair, apple cider, comfort food, Halloween, and the most amazing and comfortable weather ever! Considering that we are a military family and will be living overseas while we plan our wedding, its so nice to know that we can look forward to our special day, with our families, in our home state, in a beautiful venue and during our favorite time of the year!”
The Grace invitation in black ink, with black satin ribbon, and optional reception card.
Allyson tells us she’s been eyeing our Grace invitation for several months and is using her $300 credit towards this customizable wedding invitation. We can’t wait to see what personal design elements Allyson comes up with in making the elegant Grace invitation her own!
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!
The Green Kangaroo is excited for the arrival of one of our favorite holidays- Thanksgiving! To celebrate and give thanks, we have decided that this November deserves to be all about YOU- our wonderful and loyal customers! For two weeks only, we are discounting EVERYTHING!
The clock is ticking! This promotion expires on Thanksgiving! Pay careful attention because there are tight timelines, and to be fair to everyone involved, we have to play by the rules. The promotion is a straight discount – a certain percentage off your order. However, the discount DECREASES every 5 days.
Here’s the Thanksgiving 2009 Promo schedule:
November 11 – November 15: 20% off your order!
November 16 – November 20: 15% off your order!
November 21 – November 25 : 10% off your order!
Other than the date you actually
confirm your order online (i.e. the date on your receipt), there are no strings attached to this offer! Simply use the coupon code below during checkout, and you’ll get a discount!
Coupon Code: TNKSGVNG09
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!
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This October is extra special- NBCAM is celebrating 25 years of awareness, education, and empowerment!
To support and promote breast cancer awareness, TGK wants you to THINK PINK!
For the next 3 weeks (until the end of the month) all pink orders will receive a 10% discount with a charitable match! That means that TGK will donate 10% to Breast Cancer Awareness/Research, and you get 10% off your pink order!
A pink order is one that contains one or more of the following:
- pink ink
- pink paper
- pink ribbon
- pink embellishments
Use coupon code thinkpink10 during checkout to apply your discount!
Offer is not retroactive and is not applicable on orders placed before October 13, 2009 or after October 31, 2009 – no exceptions.
Offer is only valid on orders containing a pink item as defined above.
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!
Remember those quirky grab bags you blindly stuck your hand into at your school’s Fall Festival or Spring Fling? This experience inspired our August Promotion… only ours is even more exciting! Rather than grabbing a random piece of candy or an odd, gimicky toy, we opted for the power of choice! Regardless of your wedding date or theme, there’s bound to be something here for you! We’ve created this very unique (and hopefully, motivating) offer for our equally unique, and wonderful brides.
Pick Your Promo!
- Free favor tags, place cards, or thank you notes with any Wedding Program purchase (make your selection under the “Design Options” tab when you Build and Buy)
- 15% off all Wedding Invitations & Save the Dates (including our Frugal Collection!)... coupon code: pypromo15
- Free Save the Dates, Rehearsal Dinner Invitations with any Pocket Invitation Order (make your selection under the “Design Options” tab when you Build and Buy)
As an added BONUS, we’re throwing in free thank you notes on all Autumn and Winter Themed Wedding Invitations! Just mention it on your wedding invitation order, and we’ll take care of the rest. Sorry, free thank you notes can not be redeemed in addition to any other free item in this promotion.
Invitation Giveaway!
We’ll be drawing one winner for our prize of 100 Floral Decor Wedding Invitations from our Frugal Collection!
Register for the Giveaway by creating an online account from August 1-31, 2009. Already have an account with TGK? Simply contact our awesome team and ask politely to be entered into the drawing!%
The lucky girl will be notified by email on September 1st, 2009.
Floral Decor not quite your style? That’s okay! If you win, you’ll get a $295 credit to be used on anything TGK sells! Pretty cool, huh?
It’s not everyday that TGK just flat out gives a discount, but this week is one of those rare exceptions!
We’ve been seeing a LOT of Fall-themed stationery walk out our doors lately as Autumn Brides have been inspiring our design team to create unique pieces for their seasonal celebrations! And we’re excited because the TGK crew loves the fall!
Regardless of the season for your celebration, be sure to take advantage of this short, but sweet, promotional offer.
Hurry! The offer expires July 31, 2009.
- $50 off orders of $500 or more… coupon code tgk50off
- $100 off orders of $1000 or more… coupon code tgk100off
Promotion Exclusions:
- Offer is not retroactive and is not applicable on orders placed before July 24, 2009 or after July 31, 2009 – no exceptions.
- Coupon cannot be combined with any other promotion
Our exclusive, hand-drawn Pinebranch theme is shown as a postcard style Save the Date... designed to save you even more with postage that costs less! This pinebranch design can be blended into any invitation in our Signature Collection.
