If you're planning a winter wedding in the Northern Hempisphere, you know how hard it can be to find ideas and inspiration for your snowy winter wedding, full of candles and romance and couples wearing boots and drinking hot chocolate. Today I'm going to put on my fuzzy gloves and collect a few of my favorite offbeat winter wedding ideas, plus a few of the coolest (HA! WINTER PUN!) winter wedding invitations from Minted... plus, announce a big ol' giveaway they're doing for $500's worth of free wedding invitations, place cards, table numbers, and more! Let's get scrolling...

We've teamed up with Minted to offer one of you $400 in FREE wedding invitations or save the dates. Two runners-up will each get $200 in FREE wedding invitations or save the dates. Click here or the image below to enter:

Giveaway ends at midnight PST, November 1, 2015. Sorry, international readers: we love you, but US sweepstakes laws make it so that this offer is only open to folks in the United States.