Name Change Advice

Looking for name change advice or some tips for newlywed life? The MissNowMrs experts have created state-specific name change articles and checklists for you. We’ve chronicled our recommendations for how to travel while changing your name AND how to handle voting during the transition.

We’ve also compiled our best guidance for how to handle difficult sister in laws, holidays as newlyweds, the ever-annoying baby questions, and much more. Why? Because, while we are name change experts, we’re also newlywed wives, moms, and sisters.

We hope our name change advice articles help smooth your transition to your new name, and a whole new phase of life. Congratulations and best wishes from the entire MissNowMrs team!

Announcing Our Awesome Art Giveaway For November!

As a newlywed, you probably have a metric ton of fabulous photos. There’s the digitals from your wedding photographer, the pictures that your friends and family took of your Big Day as well as all the images of you and your love on your honeymoon. So what’s a girl supposed to do with all of these photos besides make an album?

Art.com is giving one of our newlywed blog readers the chance win an 18×24 printed canvas image (or 25×31 framed image) valued at $150 to hang in their home! The Photos to Art feature on Art.com will allow our winner to upload an image of her choice (be it wedding, honeymoon or even a favorite family photo) and translate it onto high-quality photographic paper or artist-grade stretched canvas.

It’s really this idea of “making” a great photograph that is the inspiration behind the new Photos to Art service at Art.com. A great photograph starts with the image but how it’s printed, personalized and finished makes all the difference. Photos to Art makes it easy to transform your digital wedding, honeymoon or family images into high-quality, large-scale, beautifully-finished and ready-to-hang wall art.

Unlike mass photographic printing, Photos to Art images are individually inspected for image quality and then printed, either onto high-quality photographic paper or artist-grade cotton canvas. For photographs on paper, a wide variety of mouldings and acid-free mats are available to create beautiful, custom-framed pieces that will last a lifetime. Photos on canvas are stretched onto 1 ½” wooden support bars, museum-wrapped with hand-painted black edges and covered with an anti-UV acrylic finish to protect the image from dust, fading and moisture. Custom packaging ensures your personalized artwork will arrive at your doorstep in excellent condition, and all products are backed with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Ready to win our awesome art giveaway? Leave a comment on this, or any of our Newlywed Art Posts on Mondays this month and you’ll be automatically entered to win. Tell us all about the photos from your wedding and honeymoon. We’d love to know what image you’d want to have printed and where you plan to hang it. The randomly selected contest winner will be announced on November 30th!! If we don’t hear back from the winner within 2 weeks, we will randomly select a new winner to make sure someone ends up with this great goodie!

**If you tweet this giveaway by clicking the green retweet button below, you’ll receive an additional contest entry!**

Our October Newlywed Blog Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to our October newlywed blog giveaway winner, Caroline!! You read our newlywed blog, left a comment and now you’ve won a custom 11″ x 14″ shadowbox flower preservation from Keepsake Floral!

Now you get to save your fabulous bouquet, choose the frame, the background and if you want, to add any items (like your wedding invitation or a favor) to your prize! However you customize your shadowbox, we’re sure it’s going to be something you treasure for the rest of your life! Please check your email for the details on how to redeem your prize from Keepsake Floral.

Once again, thanks to our friend Dana, of Keepsake Floral who provided October’s custom giveaway!
Bummed that you didn’t win our outstanding October newlywed blog giveaway? Stay tuned to see what amazing giveaway we have in store for our readers in the month of November! Hint: it’s something else you can use as decor!

Pennsylvania Name Change Form Update

Heads up, there’s been a Pennsylvania name change form update! As a newlywed going through the married name change process you are trying to figure out the answers to many questions? Thing like: Who needs to be notified of my name change? What information do I need to provide them with in order to receive new documents? What forms do I need to complete?

Whether you are a customer of MissNowMrs.com or not, we want you to know that there is a new Pennsylvania Driver’s License form for name change that has been modified by the Department of Motor Vehicle Office.

The good news for those of you who ARE our customers is that all you need to do is log into your account, and re-print your PA Driver’s License form again. The new form has already been updated within our system. Hope this update helps you!

If you’re not a MissNowMrs customer, we’d love to help you save 13 hours on your name change. Purchase our name change app, or online service today.

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Newlywed Advice for the Holidays: Shop Now!

We have some newlywed advice for the holidays ladies! I realize that it’s still October, but a newlywed can never be too prepared for her first holiday season as a Mrs.. Your first Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa with your mate is a memory you will cherish forever, and planning ahead can allow you so much more time to truly enjoy it. Read on to learn our tips for saving time and money (and quite possibly your sanity) in the coming months!

The pros for shopping ahead of the holiday season are endless:

– You can take time to find just the right gift for each person in both of your families instead of settling on some last minute choices. Oh yes…there are instantly twice as many people to shop for now that you’re married, but the upside is there’s usually twice as many presents to receive!

– Early shopping allows you to take advantage of online private sale sites such as www.HauteLook.com, where you can buy luxury gifts at a fraction of retail prices. These sites usually have a one to two week shipping lag from time of purchase, so they work better for early bird shoppers than procrastinators.

– Starting early can allow you to make personalized gifts for friends and family. This is not only budget friendly, but can be really fun. Some ideas for hand-made holiday goodies include bath balls, flavored olive oils in fancy bottles or infused vodka for festive martinis.

-If you have gifts purchased well ahead of the holidays, you have so much more time to enjoy wrapping them. Imagine listening to carols and sipping mulled wine or eggnog as you leisurely wrap gifts over a few evenings instead of frantically trying to wrap fifty gifts in one evening!

– Extra time around the holidays can be used to decorate your home, go sledding, attend a cocktail party, hang out under the mistletoe with your hubby or to take care of others in need. Here’s a list of the Top 5 Holiday Charities where twenty minutes of your spare time can result in a huge difference in a child’s life.

The list could go on and on, but the main idea is that starting to think about what you’re getting who well before you need to has some definite benefits, especially for newlyweds balancing two families (or more) for the first time this holiday season.

Do you have any tips newlywed advice for the holidays you’d like to share with our readers? Please leave us a comment today!

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Newlywed Recipes You Will Fall In Love With!

Looking for newlywed recipes? I am definitely not Betty Crocker in the kitchen, so it’s a good thing for me that my husband enjoys cooking, and even more fortunate for me… he is an amazing cook! I have been getting much more comfortable trying out my newlywed skills in the kitchen, and I especially don’t mind when I’m exploring a new recipe cause then my hubby would never know if I screwed it up or not!

I have a few cook books at home, but of course they’re collecting dust since I generally turn to online suggestions such as cooks.com and of course the woman who makes it look so easy, Rachael Ray! I actually prefer getting recipes from my family and friends, so now that we’re enjoying the season’s fall foods, and (dare I say it!?) rapidly approaching the holidays, I wanted to share some of my fall fav’s with you, and I hope that you will do the same!

Let’s begin with Numero Uno: The Cocktail!
Pumpkin Pie Martini: Here’s my new BFF, and I hope she will be yours too!
Ingredients:

Ice cubes
2 ounces (1/4 cup) vanilla vodka
2 ounces (1/4 cup) crème de cacao
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Whipped cream, for garnish

Directions:
1. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice cubes. Add the vanilla vodka, crème de cacao, heavy cream and pumpkin pie spice and shake well.
2. Dip the rims of 2 martini glasses into a bowl of whipped cream. Strain the cocktail into the glasses and indulge!
Servings: 2 / Prep Time: 5 Minutes

Ginger Pumpkin Bread: Excellent for breakfast or dessert!
Ingredients:
1 ½ sticks melted butter (12 tablespoons)
2 ½ cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 can canned pumpkin (15 oz.)
3 eggs
Sugar glaze (optional, see below)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Butter and flour two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 loaf pans (or spray with Baker’s Joy). In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, ginger and salt. In a large bowl, whisk together both sugars, pumpkin, melted butter, and eggs. Add flour mixture and stir until just combined.
2. Divide batter evenly between the loaf pans. Bake 45-50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center of loaves comes out clean. Let cool ten minutes and invert loaves onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
3. Once cool, glaze if desired. Combine 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar with 2 – 3 tablespoons of water in a liquid measuring cup. Stir until glaze is smooth and thick, with no lumps. Drizzle over loaves and let set 15 minutes prior to serving.
Makes 2 Loaves
Butternut Squash Casserole: Don’t knock this one till you try it!
Ingredients

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