Fun StuffGot an idea for Fun Stuff? Send it along. If we use it on the site, we’ll give you credit and a free weddingchickie.com baseball cap. Julie & Julia
You may already be familiar with this blog-inspired memoir--the true tale of a NYC temp who decides, lacking anything better to do one year, to work her way through every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking (they're apparently turning it into a movie starring Amy Adams). It's worth a look even if you're not a foodie; the book is also a hilarious, unvarnished peek inside one couple's marriage over the course of a year filled with upheaval, redemption, and a hell of a lot of butter.
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Hello!Lucky 
Hello!Lucky specializes in vintage-inspired letterpress announcements, invitations, and other wedding stationery. Their designs are gorgeous and have received all kinds of press coverage, including on The Today Show and in print/web publications including Daily Candy, InStyle Weddings, and the mother of all wedding pubs, Martha Stewart Weddings. If you're looking for something unique, delicate, and expressive, check them out.
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weddingbee.com 
Very cute and very fun, weddingbee.com features regularly updated blogs by 20 real-life brides planning their weddings. The site offers lots of ideas, product reviews, DIY projects, pix, and plenty of sharing, venting, and camaraderie.
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Amelia Rose Design
 American weddings generally involve at least one ring, and usually a whole lot of other jewelry besides. Consider what will be adorning your ears, your attendants’ ears, your neck, your non-ring fingers, etc. When you start to think about jewelry, check out Amelia Rose Design. Amelia, a former lawyer, has clearly found her true calling in designing gorgeous handcrafted pieces featuring semi-precious stones in a variety of colors and styles. She also does custom orders for bridal parties, so that you can get exactly what you want.
View the website AstroStyle Wedding Planner  Is your wedding in the stars…or star-crossed? Don’t leave it to the fates—find out for sure with AstroStyle’s free and fun astrological tool. You may discover that “you have a tomboy streak and don’t need all the girly accoutrements of marriage” (Sagittarius), or that “you’re a highly original sign, and your wedding must have a quirky twist, like getting married by an Elvis impersonator” (Aquarius).
View the website Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day  Whatever you’re going through, take comfort: these brides have seen it all. Dictatorial bridezillas. Slippery falsies. Elusive rabbis. Hair traumas. Bad, bad wedding musicians. A great, fun book to give to your bridesmaids or keep for yourself and read when you need a reminder that a) it could be much worse, and b) things will all turn out fine.
Get the book Felicite.com  Maybe you’re an L.L. Bean girl marrying a Neiman’s
kind of guy. Maybe you want to register for linens and lanterns and lemon zesters and don’t want to have a separate registry for each. Maybe what you’d really like in lieu of wedding gifts is some help paying off your student loans, but you don’t know how to tactfully ask for that. Felicite.com may be for you—the site allows you to create a custom registry of desired gifts from any store, charity, or cause that’s important to you. It also has an exclusive partial purchase option that allows gift givers to make a partial contribution towards any gift—so you can feel less guilty about asking for that plasma TV.
View the website Penhaligon’s Scent Library  Fun for you or your wedding party, this little tin of ten fragrance samples (some for him, some for her, some—like Quercus—for both of you) is a good way to try out new scents without a big commitment (because, these days, you’ve got plenty of big commitment going on elsewhere). Order online, or pick up in person at one of their U.S. locations—New York, Costa Mesa, or Vegas, baby.
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The Commitment 
A funny and surprisingly poignant memoir by sex columnist Dan Savage about love, family, marriage, and expectations.
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 Proof that not all of the great stuff in life has to be expensive. Lands’ End makes these cute, indestructible canvas bags in four sizes and eight colors—fab for toting around wedding books and supplies, honeymoon beach gear, or small dogs
(if you’re channeling Paris Hilton). You can also get them monogrammed—one for every member of your wedding party, perhaps?
Buy the totes Mini-Time Travel Alarm Clock
 Don’t underestimate Magellan’s teeny-tiny travel alarm clock. It’s small—just shy of 2” square x 1” thick—but loud. Perfect for both light (so small) and heavy (more room for other stuff!) packers, and conveniently runs on a regular AA battery instead of one of those annoying, hard-to-find-but-easy-to-lose watch batteries. Also has handy glow-in-the-dark numbers and hands, so when you awake pre-dawn the morning of your wedding in a cold sweat, you’ll know exactly what time it is.
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