From now until May 26th, Couples who send their Save-the-Date or Engagement announcement on pingg.com are entered to win one of four Wedding Invitation packages from designer Hello!Lucky. We love pingg! We use pingg.com for all our online event invitations.

Winning Prize package will include 150 digitally printed wedding invitations and reply cards of your choice! There will be four lucky couples chosen to win! pingg will announce a new winner every Friday in the month of May.

Check out some of the great invitation packages you could win:

Here is how you enter!

1) Send your Save-the-Date cards or Engagement announcements on pingg.com.  Choose a design from pingg’s Wedding Collection, from your favorite designer or upload your own design.

2) Select “Wedding Invitation Giveaway” for your Event or Card Theme when you enter details.

3) Send to at least three recipients and You’re Entered to Win!

Eligibility for prize packages will end at 12:00am ET Friday, May 27th, 2011. All winners must be 18 years of age or older.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING.

One winner will be randomly selected each Friday from the entries received. Claiming of prizes requires an email response to pingg from the winning sender email address. Winner may forfeit any and all winnings if verification cannot or has not been made within 7 days.

I just thought this was a great opportunity to win something great, but also let brides and grooms know about how cool pingg is in the first place. Enjoy!!

Here is a very cute, fun engagement shoot I did for my friend Autumn and her fiance, Chas! We went to Downtown L.A. and had a little fun around the FIDM Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising campus and park. Rain was in the forecast so I brought an umbrella, but luckily we missed a downpour and just used it as a prop. Since both Autumn and Chas are performers, they are really great in front of the camera. Makes my job easier! A big “Thank You” to Adrienne Trewolla for doing the beautiful makeup on this shoot.

Enjoy the Slideshow

So who doesn’t like cupcakes?

They are everywhere! But here is something cool and new to put around your cupcakes!

Dress My Cupcake makes these gorgeous little wrappers in a wide variety of styles and colors so that your cupcakes can look fashionable as well as yummy. They are perfect for weddings, as you can get any shade in the rainbow to match your color scheme. The wrappers are easy to use, they just fit around a cupcake that is already made and in its bakery paper.

So much prettier than what you usually get!

Thank you to Dress My Cupcake for sending me some wrappers, and a BIG thank you to Andrea at SUPERFINE BAKERY in Studio City, CA for making me some cupcakes to shoot!

Thats right you heard me right. Google got into the Wedding game by putting together a few of their much loved services like Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs, their newly acquire Picnik and Google Sites into Google Weddings. Its really a great way to share with everyone along the way from announcing the wedding, planning the wedding, and allowing all your friends have access on a special URL.

You can create a site and use themes that are already created for you, upload your pictures on Picasa, clean them up with Picnik and post them on your new site. Once again, like just about everything else Google has to offer us, its all free.

When you are planning the Big day you can go to Google docs and use their Wedding tools!

Browse through the Google Docs Wedding tools

• Wedding planner
• Address book
• Guest list
• Budget planner
• To-do list
• Seating chart
• Reception menu
• Music list

When you want to add more features to your planning try

More tools, more help

From customizable Google Maps to a new way to search for bridal shoes and dresses using Boutiques.com, there are many more Google products that can make the planning process faster, easier and more fun.

Just thought this was pretty cool worth passing along to all the new brides out there. Putting together a wedding costs money and free things like this are so helpful!

Greg — Barnett Lifestyles Photography in Tarzana, California