New York, NY, February 11, 2008 — BRIDES Magazine and Gartner Studios are introducing the BRIDES Magazine Wedding Collection for the DIY bride available today nationwide exclusively at Michaels craft stores.
 
The BRIDES Wedding Collection is a stationery and accessories line that includes print-your-own wedding invitations, programs, save-the-date cards, place cards, favor boxes, and other related wedding accessories.  Reflecting the creative and stylish design ideas of the editors of BRIDES Magazine, the collection also includes tips from the editors on etiquette, wedding themes, and other helpful advice the bride-to-be can use to make her wedding unique.  

 BRIDES editor in chief Millie Martini Bratten says “The BRIDES Wedding Collection was developed with the expertise of the BRIDES editors and more importantly with what we knew brides-to be want - affordable current trends, designs and colors, so she can really put a unique and stylish stamp on her celebration.”

The BRIDES Wedding Collection will first be offered in ivory, black and white and chocolate. New designs will be introduced in April, Fall and Holiday 2008. The collection retails from $7.99 - $34.99.

Additional products under development include bridal accessories, party ware, and wedding and reception flowers.

BRIDES Magazine
Since its founding in 1934, BRIDES Magazine has been America's primary source of advice and inspiration for women who are planning to marry. BRIDES Magazine is published by Condé Nast Bridal Media; a unit of Advance Publications, which includes twenty-six consumer magazines and their websites, eight uniquely branded websites, the Fairchild Fashion Group, Parade, the Condé Nast Media Group, and the Shared Services Centers.

Gartner Studios
In 1998 Greg Gartner started Gartner Studios with a spare bedroom as an office and a 2,000 square-foot pole barn as the warehouse. At the time, the popularity of home printers and desktop publishing were exploding.
 
With an initial line of self-print Christmas cards, Gartner Studios emerged with high quality stationery, invitations and greeting cards, designed to enable consumers to print their own customized, professional-looking products. The company has grown to be a nationally competitive creative design studio and stationery company.
 
With a solid business strategy, expanding product line and established client network, in 2004, Gartner Studios was selected by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 500 fastest-growing private companies in America.

Gartner Studios currently provides stationery products, print-your-own products and related categories for all major mass merchants, party suppliers and office super stores. With office locations in multiple U.S. states and countries, the company’s headquarters is in a 100-year-old post office building in Stillwater, Minn.