2/28/2013

Wedding Reception and How to Decorate It

Many say that out of the two parts of a wedding celebration, the wedding ceremony is seen with more importance, and if we consider what it stands for (uniting the couple into the holy act of matrimony), then they are probably right. But let’s not forget that wedding reception is by far the most favored part of a wedding celebration, at least for guests, as it is time for eating, drinking and having fun. Sometimes the earthly things seem more important than the spiritual ones, as we are most of the times subjected by material aspects rather than by the mental ones.

This is why, as a future bride planning for the big day, you consider looking for wedding decorations for reception hall, to have these ones fit perfectly into the overall ambiance of your wedding unfolding. The way of organizing the wedding reception will be the thing that will be memorized in both your mind and your guests’. Before venturing into this tough task, you must take all the componential details and make a separate list with them after you have decided on the sort of wedding decorations for reception that apply the best for the theme of your wedding.

* For the reception tables – they are the first thing to draw your guests’ attention and in case you have many of them attending, you should create quite an atmosphere to satisfy them all and to make them feel welcomed. You should think of the invitees how they can be seated, in order to encourage their way of socializing with each other. Apart from the floral arrangements that you have selected as wedding decorations for reception tables, there can be small colorful notes attached to a delicate holder with the name of your invitees for each one to know where to be seated. When looking for their names they will be able to outrun the first moments when they enter the reception hall and thus communicating more freely among them.

If you plan to have an elaborately staged wedding reception, then maybe it would be a great idea to introduce the invitees to the evening program. It is a way to show them respect and also you can avoid the embarrassing pause when everybody will wait to see what is going next. The reception of your wedding must be perfectly composed in both finding the right wedding decorations for reception venue and displaying the program that will entertain the witnesses of your important event.

2/27/2013

Choosing the Wording for Your Wedding Invitations

Many wedding couples face a lot of issues when confronted with wedding invitations wording as they do not know for sure which tone they must adopt in this sort of written correspondence. There are other wedding couples who prefer handing over this task to their families, and in this way they can be spared of the issue of wording. In this way, their parents will be the ones to invite the guests and this burden will be taken off their shoulders.

But in order for the invitations to have the personal note and reach to the soul of your guests it is recommended to be printed in your own style as a wedding couple who feels happy and honored to invite the guests to witness their best and most important event of their life: the wedding celebration. Apart from this, the wedding invitations wording should be quite a great experience as you, as a wedding couple, will have to insert what you really feel and wish to take place in that special day with the guests attending your commitment for life.

But before even reach to order for the wedding invitations and before considering the wedding invitations wording, you must know if t here is a theme attached to the wedding event, as according to the theme, the design and the wording of the wedding invitation will come to you easier. For instance, a traditional wedding festivity will require for a more formal wording of your wedding invitations, whereas a casual theme that is planned to take place outdoor either on the beach or in the back yard of your house, would go better for a less formal tine and wording of your wedding cards.

Once you have decided upon this aspect of the wedding if it will be a formal or a casual wedding you can proceed into ordering the wedding invitations and then have them worded. There are however some rules that you should go by, such as for instance, never use abbreviations exception being made for Mr, Mrs., and Ms., as well as RSVP.

Another rule would go for the spelling of numbers and years. For the time it has to go the same with the spelling where the term “o’clock” is always mentioned next to the hour. The only exception here is the number of the street that should be written as a number in digits rather than in letters.

2/26/2013

How to Plan a Winter Wedding

When you have decided already that the day of your wedding is in the season of winter, then you should know that you should look for various winter wedding ideas in order to reach to a unique moment of your life. A winter wedding has something special in it, in fact the season itself is one of a kind requiring more inspiration and great ideas into planning such a big event in the life of a couple.

If you live in an area that has hot days of summer even in the season of Christmas, then winter wedding ideas shouldn’t lack the inspiration of these warm days when you can throw the wedding celebration outside in the garden, or on the beach. This really is not a problem, in fact all the bridal sites describe more of summer time wedding events sometimes even for the spring, rather than the ones for the winter or fall.

The winter wedding festivities that are organized in the cold days of winter need to have the perfume of intimacy and coziness when people gather around the fireplace and enjoy the warm atmosphere that is released by the joyful flames of the burning fire and the souls of the gathering people.

Apart from the fact that you will need to look for that special winter bridal gown and the accessories to go with it, there is also the venue that will host the winter wedding celebration. You can choose a place that can hold both the ceremonial and he reception as in this way you can save more money on renting the place.

The place can be inside the dining hall of a restaurant that must have a fireplace to complete the ambiance of warmth that you need to create for your guests and your wedding as well. The place can be greatly decorated with various wreaths that are not so expensive as the winter flowers are, considering that there are greeneries to stay forever green, such as the pine branches that can create beautiful and cheerful decorative plant items for the wedding venue.

Apart from this the variety of colorful ribbons and balloons can as well welcome your guests in an ambiance of celebration and again they are not so expensive being at the same time easy to adjust to any situation. Use choices of silver colored ribbons, red, green and white as these ones relate very well to the winter moments allowing your guests to enjoy better the feeling of coziness that the decorations and the choice of venue bring inside the wedding un folding.

2/25/2013

Decorations for Tables at Wedding Reception

The reception of your wedding is the part that brings all the fun to the seriousness of the ceremony, therefore couples, especially brides look for diversified ways to arrange wedding decorations for tables, walls, window sills, doors, and any other place that is empty and dull. This goes for weddings that are organized as happy events without the presence of a certain theme. In case the theme is present there must be the decorative style to coordinate with the theme creating the harmony that lies inside every themed celebration.

Choosing the wedding decorations for tables and for the other objects that populate the reception hall of an indoor wedding is a great experience for the future brides, especially for those who organize in a DIY style of celebration. The online pages of wedding websites are filled with ideas to choose from, in fact they are so many that sometimes can be quite overwhelming to decide upon the most appropriate ones.

But the factors in choosing the right wedding decorations for tables and your reception place will depend on the following:

* Theme of the wedding – if it is for instance a theme based on the feeling of love, then you can opt for hearts and wedding rings to be used as card holders for the occupants of the reception tables. Along with blooms that relate to this wonderful feeling, these ones together can make quite a great idea for wedding decorations for tables.

For a fairy tale themed wedding the ideas can be taken from the theme itself, as many of these fairy tales carry within various symbols that can be used as decorations for the tables, window sills and other spots that can hold the presence of such decorative items. If you have chosen for instance, the Cinderella theme you can order for glass slippers that can be beautifully decorated with floral arrangements that cascade over the table surface, and so on.

* The reception venue – if it is an outdoor organized wedding, then the decorations for tables can be in the form of candles placed among floral arrangements; this will bring a certain intimacy to the overall ambiance of your wedding reception. Bowls that are filled with water and have floating burning candles are again commonly chosen wedding decorations for tables as they are quite cheap and full of great effects on the overall atmosphere.

For the indoor receptions, the choices are plenty, as previously mentioned: online images in this matter will display various ideas as long as the theme is not present. But no matter what decorative items you choose to use, flowers should be present as they are imprinting to the overall ambiance a touch of freshness and happiness.

2/24/2013

Selecting the Uniqueness of Your Wedding Favors

Choosing the unique wedding favors for the celebration of your wedding will ensure you and your guests that the wedding day will live for long in everyone’s memory. To make sure that this will happen, you must select unusual tokens that through their design to say a sincere thank you for the guests participating to the whole event, the most important one of your life. You should therefore leave aside the option of edible wedding favors, as long as candies for instance will be instantly eaten and the wedding pretty soon forgotten.

Although candies can signify a sweet token of appreciation, you do not have to consider only these ones. You can put them inside the favor wrapping as additional surprises. So, a gift will be better regarded by your guests, something that can be used for instance as a curio that finds its place on the shelves in the living rooms, or something functional, such as wine bottle openers or coasters that come in various shapes and designs.

Another idea could be to find a certain format of a pen that can be inscribed or carry a symbol of the marriage, such as a pen holder for the desk that can have a popular saying written on it. All these unique wedding favors come as functional items that can be used further by anyone, and at the same time remembering the day of your wedding as something very special.

In case there is the money issue here, you should definitely come with cheaper items that can be easily converted into your unique wedding favors while you spend some time personalizing them with really unique notes. These notes can be written on computer using the Word’s fonts and colors and after that printed out to obtain a quite uniquely created wedding favor for your guests. For the more creative brides who plan the wedding within the limits of restricted budget and a number of guests that can allow the bride to have the things done by herself, there are various ideas to be put into practice, many of them inspired also from the images displayed online.

But no matter upon which idea you have stumbled, do not forget to put the print of your wedding day, having these unique wedding favors personalized with details of the date of the wedding together with your names and maybe a logo of the wedding or a famous quote on love.

2/23/2013

Spending Your Honeymoon in Bora Bora

In case you look for spending your honeymoon in Bora Bora, Tahiti, you should know that you have taken a great decision for this period of your life, when you are meant to intimately celebrate the new passage towards a new life: the married life. Bora Bora is a lagoon that once you come across its images in your quest for your honeymoon destination is impossible to pass by it without falling in love with it.

It is said that not only honeymooners, but also the romantics of all times have chosen this heavenly place to spend their moments of romance claiming it to be the most fascinating place on earth. Tropical slopes that are lush in vegetation, valleys that are filled with the delicate hibiscus plants all of these culminating with the motu covered in palm trees that circles the lagoon like a beautiful necklace. There are white sand beaches that end with the emerald waters where animated colorful fish show their swimming grace.

Browsing the websites in search of various places that Bora Bora has to offer to honeymooners you come across the most popular resorts for honeymoons in Bora Bora :

*  Le Meridien Bora Bora – is a five star location with 85 bungalows built over the water with glass floors for their bottoms and also 15 bun gallows that face the beach side. There is also the Polynesian art that populate the inside of these bungalows that are quite uniquely built as in an attempt to enjoy genuinely the presence of nature, to be more precisely, the presence of water underneath and all the  show that it offers.

* Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa – another five star location that sets the new marks for elegance and great service. 84 bungalows that are built over the emerald water lagoon come equipped with all the elements that comply with the most demanding traveler. Next in line comes the rest of the resort that includes 120 luxury suites that are situated on terraced hillside as well as on the water of a private cove. Reaching in these places you are welcomed by discreet and refined service, along with the natural beauty that is breathtaking inside this exotic, secluded retreat.

* InterContinental Bora Bora Le Moana – another luxurious and exotic retreat situated in a location that is spread with the Bora Bora white sand and emerald-like water. The five star resort specially designed to spend the honeymoon in Bora Bora consists of 64 bungalows out of which 50 are situated over the water with the glass coffee table inside the rooms to look straight into the natural aquarium that populates the waters of this peaceful lagoon.

2/22/2013

Wedding Gowns on Budget

Planning the day of your wedding will always include an aspect that is perhaps the most exciting g on e for you as a future bride: finding your bridal gown and for your DIY wedding celebration is better said the budget wedding gown for your big day. Why the budget gown? Because unlike other brides, you are limited to a rather small amount of money in the preparation of your wedding, and it would be a waste to spend more than $300 for your wedding dress when al the rest of your wedding planning is considered under strict budget expenditure.

Before being involved in the wedding planning process you had no idea that there are not so many bridal collections available online, nor did you know that there are many of them at quite affordable prices and quite qualitative both in style and fabric. Thus you have soon realized that you can afford looking like a princess without needing to spend a fortune. Now there is however one tiny detail that you have to deal with: the online order.

When browsing online for the budget wedding gown you have come across several options of prices, designs and styles that are contained within the various websites collections of discount wedding dresses or wholesale wedding dresses. But how can you find the real bargain for your budget wedding gown? The key factor here is to use the method of prices comparison and as such you can reach to various options, you would be surprised to see how many of these options you will find available.

There will be simple wedding gowns that can bring back the fashion of the 40s which by the way it seems to be again trendy. You can find as well the fashion trends to introduce the straps for the bodice or halter neck style of the bridal gown with so many inspiring ideas that can belong as well to fashion designers and elegantly introduced in the style of the wholesale wedding dresses.

You can locate as well entire collections that have the aspect of the bridal gowns embellished by several details such as simple, yet feminine embroidered patterns, or lace accents that display the sophisticated look of the bridal attire. There are literally thousands of budget wedding gowns available online and as mentioned before you can run a comparison price after choosing 4 or 5 designs of the ones you have seen and determine which should be the one to adorn your aspect in the most beautiful day of your life.

2/21/2013

Bridesmaids Dresses Colored Blue

Blue as a color has always been considered the most serene and peaceful one regardless on what it is used, either on the walls in your room or on the fabric of your favorite dress. The same can be said about the blue bridesmaids dresses – they can definitely attract the eyes of the invitees in the ambiance of your wedding celebration. Many brides will opt perhaps for other versions of colored bridesmaids dresses, such as light pink or cream, or maybe light green, but nothing compares to the distinct and serene aspect of blue color.

Blue in its lighter hues, will lead one to the image of sea water or a clear sky symbolizing as such the harmony and the balance of life. Therefore choosing blue bridesmaids dresses for your friends will create a great and refreshing look at the wedding.

In case you opt of the darker shade of blue you should consider the note of your wedding set in an elegant and classy one as the navy blue color for instance imprints the dress a sophistication through which the elegance can be fulfilled. If you have considered the bridesmaids dresses colored blue you should also know that this color matches with any skin tone.

Now that the thing with the color is settled you should take into account other aspects of the blue bridesmaids dresses, such as the style of the dress, the type of cloth and the design that should go with your bridesmaids’ personality. Maybe for the brides who are not very familiar with the trendy looks and how they must be found to suit every style and personality, the advice of a fashioner is very valuable.

In case you do not afford paying one for this issue, you should then consult the online pages of bridal attires and see what are there displayed. One idea would be to look online for simple design as in this way you can make sure that this one fits every style and personality.

Then looking for the fabric is another aspect that needs to be considered – for instance, the summer days will ask for silk, chiffon or georgette colored in one of these options of blue: pastel blue, sky blue and turquoise blue. As to the colder days, you should choose other sorts of fabrics that are thicker and stiffer colored in navy blue, royal blue or even electric blue.

Just keep in mind that whatever style, shade or fabric you opt for, the blue bridesmaids dresses should perfectly complement the entire wedding celebration both in color and appearance of the bridesmaids.

2/20/2013

Getting Inspired by Wedding Flowers Photos

When the accessories of your wedding ambiance need to be selected you could easily resort to the wedding flowers photos that are inside the portfolio of a professional florist. You should nevertheless agree with hiring a florist since they come with great ideas that can be incorporated within your own budget. The way their talent has combined with years of experience turned these professionals into real experts in floral beauty making your wedding day look in an impressive way that will be hard to forget.

If you look inside the online wedding florists websites and you find their fees rather high, you can resort to the help of a home-based florist. This one is usually asking for lower costs due to the low overhead. When browsing in general for the wedding flowers photos you can come across various websites some of them selling a bride bouquet for $150 and the rest of the attendants bouquets from $40 up to $50 per bouquet.

But when you look to have some costs cut, you should decide on eliminating the items that are not so necessary, such as aisle runners or pew bows. The bouquets will still look beautiful in the wedding photos, there is no doubt about it. Flowers, especially wedding flowers, have their various ranges of prices starting from affordable to expensive.

When looking at the wedding flowers photos available online you can find an impressive look brought in by flowers at reasonable prices, such as daisies, carnations, baby’s breath and alstromeria. From these blooms, carnations are all the time seen as very picturesque especially in the wedding photos, not to mention that they are very resistant and do  not lose their freshness without water.

The images displayed inside the online wedding flowers photos reveal three things that a bride needs to take into account: flower type, color and style. As long as you are  not very familiar with flowers type, you could focus on style and color and let the florist recommend the blooms advising also on their availability and the price, too.

In case you have some favorites of yours, you can say it to your florist and he will show how it is the best to use these blooms. Some of your favorite might not be that cheap and as such the cost of your bridal bouquet would reach hundreds, so you should know from the very start what your needs are both financially and esthetically.

2/19/2013

Choosing Your Ivory Bridal Shoes

Ivory bridal shoes are considered the most popular choice to go with whatever style of wedding gown you have selected to wear on the most important day of your life. Regardless if it is the traditional white laced wedding dress or the casual bridal attire, the ivory bridal shoes are versatile enough to complement perfectly the aspect of the gown. Not to mention that in recent years, the ivory wedding dresses are in great demand and this is a factor that has drawn the attention of bridal shoes designers into creating various styles and designs for these accessories. Apart from the fact that they are beneficial for the overall bridal look, they can as well be used after the wedding day ends as long as they are dye-able in various choices of colors.

Because ivory bridal shoes come as the most popular choice of color for these special shoes there are designs of these items in a wide range of styles: the classic pumps, the sling backs, the peep toes, the flat sandals, too. When choosing the style of you bridal shoes, you should definitely go for the shoes that reflect the fashion out there in the street. You can find the fashionable platforms shoes as well as the flat sandals that are preferred for the destination wedding in Caribbean.

Since you have already decided on the color, you should coordinate the venue of your wedding event with the style of your ivory bridal shoes. In case there is an outdoor wedding you should better consider the flat style in case you need to walk around in the sand or in the woods. There are plenty of low heeled shoes that are created having the fashionable bride in mind, so keep looking for this style in the celebration of your outdoor wedding.

The same flats can be favored in case you know that with high heels you are taller than your groom. This option is the best also for the reception part of your wedding where you are supposed to dance all night long and thus you should feel comfortable in your own shoes. If you consider that high heels look better for your ceremony moment you can pick a pair of ivory bridal shoes of this design and switch them for later in the comfortable flats.

The purchasing of your bridal shoes should be done soon after you have selected your bridal attire as you need to see how does the pair of shoes integrate in your overall bridal look. You should know that the length of the wedding gown will determine as well the format and style of your bridal shoes, but don’t worry there will always be someone with you to point out what the best is for your bridal appearance.

2/18/2013

Choosing the Wedding Ring in Accordance with Engagement Ring

When you finally decided to propose to your beloved one you should present her an engagement ring, but pretty soon will need as well to look for the wedding ring. So, what is better for you to do when it comes to both engagement and wedding rings choice? Many of the fiancés would try to look for an engagement ring to go the best with the future wedding rings, and maybe this is what you should do as well.

But before reaching to buy the engagement ring think a little of her preferences and then try to combine what she really likes with  the style of the ring that you find to order either online or inside the local jewelry store that displays types of engagement rings that come also with wedding rings in the same set. The choice of engagement ring is very important for both the future choice of wedding rings, but also to satisfy your lady’s desire of wearing a beauty on her ring finger.

As to the costs of both engagement and wedding rings, you should be prepared to pay quite an amount if you want to present your proposal with something unique as your love is for your fiancée. This is why you must be prepared and save the money in advance, option of which we are sure you have already considered prior to reading this article. In order to make the best of your choice within the limits of your budget, just take into account the taste and style of your fiancée and never listen to a jewelry shop assistant advice who will go first of all for the most expensive items knowing that this is a special occasion for you and you are as such ready to spend a fortune.

The best thing for you to do when looking for engagement and wedding rings is to first get in touch with this jewelry sector by surfing the internet’s options and find the online offers. You can get acquainted with the prices, materials, gemstones and last but not least styles and designs that match every taste and preference.

Try to stay focus on the style that characterizes your future bride and then you will see that these engagement and wedding rings will come to you when you are least expected. After you have spotted the ones and in order to be sure that your fiancée will be enchanted with your choice, make it happen for her to view this choice and check discreetly on her opinion. In this way you can decide better whether your choice will satisfy her or will make her feel indifferent.

2/17/2013

Choosing Your Wedding Vows

Well, there is one moment in your wedding planning process when the need to find wedding vows samples comes and as such you see yourself in the position of looking for inspiring ideas, in case you want to have your own wedding vows shaped differently than the traditional ones.

There are indeed various sorts of wedding vows that can be recited for your wedding celebration, and each one of the wedding couple is supposed to prepare on her/his own and surprise both the partner and the rest of the assembly. In case you want to have a clue on what the traditional vows are about, you can look for wedding vows samples online and get an idea from there.

Maybe you do not necessary like the ones that are displayed in there, but you still want to stick to the traditional ones, then you can adjust it according to your wishes but keeping that note of tradition that is imprinted in the vow. On the other hand there are those wedding vows samples that are funny, others are modern, others look more dramatic in style, but still emotionally shaped.

From this entire variety of wedding vows samples you have to decide which one to go for. If you are that kind of person who doesn’t want to go by the book, you can as well open the online pages of famous quotes of love, dedication and friendship and see if you can get your inspiration from there. It happens many times to have feelings inside that you can not simply utter them out, but you find sometimes, when  the least expected one person who knew how to describe those feelings in words and as such they can be found among the famous online quotes.

So, this is another place where you can look into for defining the lines that can become your favorite words for your wedding vows samples. Then you can personalize them introducing your soft touches that relate mostly to nuances, but keeping at the same time the focus on the main idea of the quote. This operation can be done in writing the samples down on several sheets of paper and after that work on them with your additional touches and read them loud to see which one suits your feelings the best.

In this way you can make sure that you have obtained what you have wanted, the specific wedding vows that reflect the best your heart and mind, while you should be careful to keep them expressed in a concise form. It is no use to use wedding vows samples written in long interminable phrases. This is why reading them loud in front of your best friend and parents can help you to see the effect that these ones will have on the entire wedding audience, your partner for life included.

2/16/2013

Wedding Reception and How to Decorate It

Many say that out of the two parts of a wedding celebration, the wedding ceremony is seen with more importance, and if we consider what it stands for (uniting the couple into the holy act of matrimony), then they are probably right. But let’s not forget that wedding reception is by far the most favored part of a wedding celebration, at least for guests, as it is time for eating, drinking and having fun. Sometimes the earthly things seem more important than the spiritual ones, as we are most of the times subjected by material aspects rather than by the mental ones.

This is why, as a future bride planning for the big day, you consider looking for wedding decorations for reception hall, to have these ones fit perfectly into the overall ambiance of your wedding unfolding. The way of organizing the wedding reception will be the thing that will be memorized in both your mind and your guests’. Before venturing into this tough task, you must take all the componential details and make a separate list with them after you have decided on the sort of wedding decorations for reception that apply the best for the theme of your wedding.

* For the reception tables – they are the first thing to draw your guests’ attention and in case you have many of them attending, you should create quite an atmosphere to satisfy them all and to make them feel welcomed. You should think of the invitees how they can be seated, in order to encourage their way of socializing with each other. Apart from the floral arrangements that you have selected as wedding decorations for reception tables, there can be small colorful notes attached to a delicate holder with the name of your invitees for each one to know where to be seated. When looking for their names they will be able to outrun the first moments when they enter the reception hall and thus communicating more freely among them.

If you plan to have an elaborately staged wedding reception, then maybe it would be a great idea to introduce the invitees to the evening program. It is a way to show them respect and also you can avoid the embarrassing pause when everybody will wait to see what is going next. The reception of your wedding must be perfectly composed in both finding the right wedding decorations for reception venue and displaying the program that will entertain the witnesses of your important event.

2/15/2013

Should You Tip the Wedging Vendors?

The planning of your wedding include a lot of things that are related most of all to the available budget, this is why you should consider everything that is connected to money, tipping wedding vendors included. But with the tips is quite a delicate thing, as you can never know for sure whom you are supposed to tip and how much in order for everybody to be satisfied. When you do the accounting for an estimative overall expenditure, you could add on the list of your vendors, next to each service that they offer a small percentage in order to make sure that you got everything covered up when it comes to expenses.

When the actual planning starts and you will get in touch with each of the vendors involved in the process of the wedding preparation, make sure that you thoroughly read the contracts before signing and look for the tipping wedding vendors detail – is this one stipulated inside the contract or is it optional? Some vendors might automatically cover this monetary detail when they make their services offer as such making sure that the bill they will cut will cover the usual standard gratuity.

The following list will comprise the vendors that are involved in your wedding planning evolution along with the percentage that can be considered as tipping wedding vendors to allow you have an idea on how much you should put aside for this matter:

* For the rehearsal dinner – 20% will be more likely added at the total bills in most of the restaurants, especially if it is a large party.

* The manicurist, hairstylist and make up artist – they are usually tipped from 15 to 20% of the total expense and this amount should be handed over when the job is completed.

* Musicians for the wedding ceremony – the usual tipping goes from $20 to $25 per musician and this is expected to be paid at the end of the ceremony. It is customary that either the best man or the father of the bride to present the envelope to the band of musicians.

* The officiant that is hired to perform the wedding ceremony – usually the tipping here goes for $100 at least or you can choose to make a donation to the respective church or cult place where the ceremony takes place.

* All kind of transportation (both for the delivered goods and your wedding guests) – when it comes to the delivery of goods, this can include the floral set up, the wedding cake, the set up of the tent, the decoration setting and so on. Generally the tipping goes for $10 to $25 per individual, depending of course on the hardship of the specific set up.

2/14/2013

How to Get Ideas for Winter Weddings

Planning your wedding is definitely one of the biggest challenge of your life as this is not only about you but also about the guests that you invite, the symbolism that this event brings within, and last but not least, the atmosphere that you can create to have an unforgettable wedding. With the winter season being the one to host your big day, you should put your creativity at work and come up with ideas for winter wedding that will reflect your style and personality, as well as your wishful thoughts regarding the new steps that you are taking towards a new change in your life.

The best thing for you t o do in this situation is to start planning earlier, as in this way you can be able to have the time on  your side with the best decisions that one can take not being hasten by the threads of sand in the sandglass of time. If you consider that you don’t have too many good ideas to choose from, you can confront with your fiancé, your families and friends to see who can come up with ingenuous thoughts and plans related to the celebration of your wedding.

While trying to reach to the best ideas for winter weddings, you should not ignore the possibility of talking g to your co-workers as you can never know where a good idea can come from, generally when you are the least expected.

Apart from this you can get inspired by the wedding planning guides that you can find online spread inside so many bridal websites or you can find as well the bridal magazines that come as editions for various seasons of wedding events. Several publications can be found in the specialized local stores that put at your disposal

Now with all these sources it is impossible not to have found at least a few ideas for winter weddings and making a list of them you should see which one is the most appropriate for the budget that you have available. This would require indeed a little bit of researches, to get approximate amounts of expenses and eventually to have them coordinated with your financial means.

Finding the best ideas for winter weddings will have to do with your style and expectations, with the number of your guests, too, and with the available budget that along the way will dictate you what to choose to have a great wedding celebration within the limits of your finances.

2/13/2013

Wedding Shoes Colored Blue

When you have decided to have a blue color scheme of your wedding celebration, you should as well consider a blue wedding gown and the blue wedding shoes to match your attire, in case you do not want to go for the traditional white ones. But OK, blue comes in various shades, therefore you should consider what sort of blue have you decided upon: the light blue, the royal blue, the turquoise or nay blue?

So the first thing to determine when looking for your blue wedding shoes is the color as you need to know what are you shopping for. It is a fact that not many brides choose to pay attention to the minor details that are integrant part of the overall bridal aspect, such as jewelry, hair accessories, pantyhose and shoes, considering that either design or color they have can work with the wedding dress. They do not consider that these details deserve in fact so much attention, not to mention to spend more money on these ones as well. Well, who can blame them if one sees the matter from their point of view with so much expenditure to make for this celebration?

But apart from the budget wedding planning brides, there are others who consider every part of the bridal attire of being of the same importance with the wedding gown. And wedding shoes are part of their concern, too. So, for the brides who have their blue colored wedding, the blue wedding shoes are of a great importance. This is why you should coordinate all the elements of your bridal aspects to fall into the same harmonic note, such as it is with the flowers. You should consider the flowers you are holding in your hand to match the blue of your wedding shoes.

This can be done in two ways: either you hold a bouquet that is made of blue and white (or yellow) flowers and the shoes should be of the same blue color with your flowers, or you can choose not to hold any choice of blue blooms, but rather deep purple with yellow and white and some greenery and blue wedding shoes to go with the same blue of your wedding gown. Make sure at whichever decision you come, to have the same shade of blue as in this way you can keep that harmony of your bridal appearance with the rest of the ambiance of your wedding celebration.

2/12/2013

Luxury Wedding Events and Popular Bridal Tradeshows

When talking about organizing the biggest day of your life, the first thought that comes into your mind is to find a team of professionals to lead the way, such as it is in the case of luxury wedding events planners who advertise online with their exquisite services. Many of the wedding event planning businesses are located in destinations that simply take your breath away, firstly because nature all around seems to be there for your romantic taste and secondly because many establishments and venues have been created to complement the pure beauty of the nature.

Luxury wedding events planners are the team of professionals who have known right from the start how to find the location and how to introduce extra touches of luxury that come as prefect additions to the natural beauty of the places. When planning a wedding celebration as a luxury wedding event planner you must be aware that wedding couples have high expectations, and you must live up to these expectations.

It is a certain fact that running a luxury wedding events planning business has come as a result of many years of working in the field, after many wedding celebrations experiences that have perfected your path into becoming a future independent and successful luxury wedding planner.

For the wedding couples to find the services they desire, there is always a personal involvement where the worries of planning such an important event are taken over by the professionalism of the luxury wedding events planner. Establishing the role that the planner plays in the luxurious organizing of the special day, they have come in time to make plenty of contacts with the popular bridal tradeshows who run their own business for years in that special location.

Making contacts with the popular bridal tradeshows from those places is as important as it is with any other task that belongs to the wedding checklist. Regardless of the nature of the wedding celebration, be it spent in luxurious way or in an intimate romantic way, the experience of the popular wedding vendors will surely be of a great assistance.

Many of the professional wedding planners have always comprehended the importance that popular wedding vendors play in the unfolding of a wedding preparation; after all they have become popular due to their professionalism and many references they have got from previous wedding couples they have assisted to. Resorting to their skills, know-how and prompt services is a good way to have the wedding planning started with the right foot and resulting in a glamorous success of a wedding celebration.

2/11/2013

The Choice of Wedding Flowers Sprays

Wedding flowers sprays have always been seen as an alternative to the various other styles of bridal bouquets as they can be worn alongside the bride’s arm when she walks the aisle. A ‘spray’, how they are usually referred to, is comprised of some long stemmed flowers that are tide together in a bunch and carried as mentioned in a cradled gesture of the arm.

Many brides will say that wedding flowers sprays are not the types that can be used to make that bridal bouquet that a bride is supposed to toss at the young women after the ceremony is over and she is already married. With tossing the bridal bouquet, she will hand over the ‘flame’ for one of the single young women who catches the bouquet to be the next in line to get married.

Indeed it is so, there won’t be any more tossing of bridal bouquet, as many times these sorts of wedding flower sprays are mostly preferred by brides who are at their second marriage or who have a more casual type of their wedding. Along with these reasons, we find also wedding flower sprays to be favored by the tall brides, as an elongated shape of floral bunch can complement the look of the bride, adding up to her elegance.

Another reason for choosing wedding flower sprays is the costs of the flowers. Most of the times, the bridal bouquet as well as those of the bridesmaids alone can cost more than the table floral arrangements depending of course of the choice of blooms and accessories to go with the decoration of the bouquets. But when it comes to the choice of wedding flower sprays, the prices of these ones can cut these expensive costs by more than half of the usual costs.

Oh, by the way, these wedding flower sprays can be the choices of long stem blooms that grow in  your mother’s garden and to these ones you just need to add some decorative items (colorful ribbons and greenery) and make them look unique complementing your bridal appearance also in a quite unique manner. For the bridesmaids choices of bouquets you can cut the long stemmed flowers and make small posies that can be smaller replicas of your bridal wedding flowers sprays bouquet.

For the table arrangements and the spaces in the church, the option of wedding flower sprays is also favored over the expensive versions as you can easily put them in tall slim vases with a piece of greenery and as such you can obtain a subtle floristic effect with less expense but more delicacy added to your wedding ambiance.

2/10/2013

Winter Wedding Dresses Made of Velvet

Once the wedding date is settled for the season of winter you must decide on the style of your bridal attire that can be beautifully complemented with a velvet winter wedding dress. To acquire such an elegant dress, you must first decide to get a wedding theme where the winter wedding dress made of velvet should fit perfectly. You can choose for instance to plan a fabulous theme that is associated to a fairy tale, and in this way you can choose the velvet winter wedding dress that is designed in sparkling white velvet of an A-line cut of the dress with a long sleeves fitted bodice in a sweetheart neckline.

The neckline can be trimmed with cream fur stripe that has golden accents sprinkled on it. The same trimming can be included at the end of the sleeves, at the waistline and at the hemline as well. Just in case it is recommended to have a fur made hat that can be in the format of a large rimmed hat or a cylindrical type.

Velvet winter wedding dresses go very well with tulle made accessories, such as a veil made of tulle attached to a rhinestone made tiara, or accessories made of broken lace, such as gloves made of lace and the cleavage of the dress covered in the same pattern of lace up to the neck. This combination of delicate, transparent fabrics as lace and tulle are, with the thickness of the velvet fabric confers the winter wedding gown femininity and elegance that few combinations can convey.

Now what about the choice of color for the velvet winter wedding dress? The colors can be various, going from the brilliant white – which by the way, when captured in the velvet texture it looks like a perfect replica of the freshly fallen snow – to ivory, light blue, light green that has accents of red in it to go with the Christmas spirit, on case the wedding is around the Christmas time.

It you decide however that white will be the color of your velvet winter wedding dress, but still want it to be different you can order for the simplest of the designs and have it altered with various elements that give it uniqueness. As mentioned above you can use that fur trimming which can be of any other color that you desire and you consider that goes well with the color of your eyes, or hair.

Apart from this there is the choice to apply colorful embroidery on the neckline, at the waistline and hemline to give your velvet wedding dress amplitude and elegance. The options can be plenty, you just need to get inspired from various winter bridal collections that can be found inside online bridal stores of various retailers and bridal fashion designers.

2/09/2013

Wedding Cakes for Winter Season

Once the date of your wedding event being settled for the winter season, you must coordinate every detail of your wedding to belong to this wonderful time of the year, and as such include also the search for winter wedding cakes. As with any other detail that is incorporated into the ambiance of your winter wedding, the search for your winter wedding cake can be done online among the various bakeries websites that display their creations.

Every bakery store that is famous for its decorative and artistically designed wedding cake has its profile displayed online competing with other famous bakery stores. Therefore when looking for the winter wedding cake of your biggest reception, you will be surprised to find how the imagination and the creativity of these cake decorators work in the wedding couple’s favors, living up to and even exceeding their expectations.

When browsing among these fabulous images of winter wedding cakes, you will come across the most popular themes out of which you can choose the one to fit into the atmosphere of your wedding event:

* The rustic style – it is considered somehow innovative in creation and style representing rustic images of lanterns grapevines, birds’ nest, iced branches and enchanting bird motifs. To add the touch of winter, this wedding cake for winter season is many times decorated with pine or cedar, cones that have snow on the top, and beautifully created topper that represents the bird and twig motif.

* The classic Christmas wedding cake – the colors that decorate this classic wedding cake are the white crisp base with the red trimming, that sometimes comes with some addition of green to represent the everlasting green of the nature in winter.

* Winter Wonderland – this winter wedding cake is probably the most impressive one with its spectacular sparkling that is provided by the ice blue and white to which plenty of silver and crystal is added. The topper could be as well a silvery made snowflake representation to contain the name of the bride and groom or two wedding rings intertwined.

The forms of the winter wedding cakes can go from square, to hexagon, to round and even in the form of a stylistic nig snowflake. Again here the imagination of the winter wedding cake decorators can go as far as you allow them to, in case you have various ideas and you feel like sharing with them. They can always come up with decorative ways and design styles to allow you have the winter wedding cake of your dreams!

2/08/2013

Custom Made Wedding and Engagement Ring Set

So your beloved one has proposed to you with a beautiful engagement ring and you have already settled the wedding date. Among all the things that need to be planned for the wedding celebration there is one tiny aspect that you need to focus on: finding customs wedding engagement ring set for you wedding day.

The idea of customizing the wedding ring set according to your engagement ring is the best you could come up with. The engagement ring is meant to stay for ever next to the wedding ring to stand as beautiful testimony of the day when he proposed to you. What can be more enchanting than having both the engagement ring and the wedding ring to symbolize the most beautiful moments of you as a couple – before and after getting married?

The choice of the engagement ring is most of the times the fiancé’s choice, but when it comes to picking up the wedding rings set, the best solution would be the custom wedding engagement ring set. Many jewelers are ready to assist you in having these pieces of wedding jewelry customized according to your needs, and many of them can be found both online and offline jewelry stores.

If you are running out of time with all the other wedding details to take care of, you can go online and visit the various websites of these craftsmen and find out what are their services. You would be surprised to see that many of them can help you into customizing the wedding ring set in accordance to the engagement ring that you have.

You will be also surprised to see that many of these jewelry online stores due to the competition have even lowered the prices of their products making them be within the reach of couples who do not necessary have the financial means to buy expensive wedding rings sets. It is indeed a fact that for the custom wedding engagement ring set the costs could be a little bit higher than a ready made wedding ring set, but after all this is a choice of a lifetime and you are prepared to pay for it regardless of the price.

A good idea however would be to shop around for the online jewelry store that offers their services at prices ready to be negotiated. You can inquire for this issue as soon as you find the artisan who can do the customizing in accordance with your wishes and with the precious metal that is of your choice, as well.

2/07/2013

Wedding Flowers Photos

The rich collections of photos of wedding flowers can bring couples plenty of inspiration for the floristic needs of their special day. Starting with the bouquets and ending with decorations and table arrangements, flowers will always be an important part of a wedding festivity due to their color, vivid presence, romance and meaning that couples will find in the bloom within.

When looking at photos of wedding flowers you will have sooner or later decide on the ones that will decorate your wedding atmosphere and in this respect you will always be tempted to choose what you really like. It is indeed a fact that not too often, as a woman, were you forced to buy flowers and have them offered to another woman beside your mom or grandma. But it happened so, that lately your fiancé was the one who always took care of this aspect.

The result is that nowadays you might be unfamiliar with the prices that flowers have, especially the wedding flowers that many brides choose for their wedding day. Many of the online photos of wedding flowers are not used to display the price letting you first choose what you like and afterwards to get in touch with them and who knows, maybe even negotiate for a price that is convenient to you.

This is why you should first reach for the photos of wedding flowers, choose the blooms that you would like for your bridal bouquet, bridesmaids bouquets, corsages and button holes of your guests and last, but not least select as well the flowers to be used as decorative items for your ceremony and reception halls.

When doing the selection, you probably know that these blossoms should be in color and types a perfect match with the details of your wedding, such as the theme, the wedding gown, the venues for the ceremony and reception. The photos of wedding flowers that you will come across will be very inspiring for you in this respect, so you do not have to worry that you do not know what to choose: many times we are scared of a thing that we don’t know about, but once we get to know it, only for a tiny bit, we seem to be more comfortable in its presence.

The same works with the photos of wedding flowers; just browse them and the flowers that you will need for your wedding will come to you, opening themselves to you, to your knowledge and in this way you will have the certainty of fully realizing what is there to do. In case you decide to call for the assistance of a florist it would be even better for you as well as for the choice of flowers for your wedding.

2/06/2013

Real Flowers as Your Wedding Flowers

Why is it so important for you as a future bride to get involved in the arrangements that include the real wedding flowers? There are so many other things to attend to, the wedding invitations, the list of guests, the wedding attire for both you and your bridesmaids, and many, many other more.  Aren’t these details enough? They are indeed, but just consider that having the real wedding flowers chapter into the hands and artistic concept of somebody else is not right for you and the whole planning of your wedding event.

After all, the real wedding flowers will be the ones to decorate the entire ambiance of your wedding, they will be ones to carry inside your bridal bouquet, and those of your bridesmaids. The real wedding flowers will be those decorative details that will be on the lapels of the male guests, on the corsages of the female guests, all f them being the witnesses of your happiness and as such you must show them your appreciation.

By selecting the real wedding flowers to embellish both your guests’ attire and wedding ceremony and reception you will know that you will have your own part of contribution in complementing the overall aspect of your wedding manifestation. The way you plan your wedding should determine the choice of real wedding flowers, this implying the chosen theme, the venues – for both ceremony and reception – as well as the season when your wedding is held.

Do not forget also that the choices of real wedding flowers will be present inside your wedding photos and for this thing only they still deserve your express attention. The real flowers as your wedding flowers come in so many various blooms, colors and meaning that sometimes is rather hard to decide on which ones could be the best.

The selection criteria are in their turn also various, as not for every bride these criteria apply. For instance you can choose the cheap version of real wedding flowers in case you are a bride in her attempt to plan the wedding within the limits of her budget. The cheap version is many times easy to find as online wholesale wedding flowers. Just make sure that once you find the delivering company you check as well with their customers’ review and see how they are rated.

For other selection criteria when money is not issue, the real wedding flowers can be chosen according to the season, to their exotic note and meaning as well. Therefore your involvement in the real wedding flowers arrangements has to showcase your concern of conferring your wedding atmosphere the unity and harmony that are meant to accompany your stepping into a new life: the happily married life.

2/04/2013

The Halter Neck Style for Your Wedding Gown

Many brides to be in their search to look gorgeous in the day of their marriage they seek for various options of wedding dress style to be able to outline their femininity and one style of this kind can be considered the halter wedding gown. In fact, what is there on the bridal fashion market that doesn’t have it all?

Fashion designers have competed with each other in order to create designs that are eye catching for any bride who is in search of something unique. Not to forget also the wholesale online stores who sell bridal gowns made as mass products, they also have designs that capture your attention, either you are a future bride or simply give a hand to your best friend who is getting married.

The halter wedding gown style comes as any other style of a wedding dress, in various designs,   colors and fabrics. This is however a self sufficient style of a bridal gown that doesn’t require any other heavy adornments or accessories to embellish it. The way it is designed, the halter neck style of your wedding gown doesn’t ask for anything more, it is enough for itself and for yourself the way it simply is.

The beauty of halter wedding gown comes from the fact that regardless it is attached to a princess style of a skirt or a mermaid style, it fits on every size of the bride’s body. The halter wedding gown goes perfectly well on slim brides and plus size brides alike. Not to mention that the halter neck of the wedding dress complement in a feminine way the overall bridal appearance.

If your decision is already taken and you are determined on wearing the halter wedding gown, then you must know that this style of a bridal dress has the attribute to hide any existing flaws, in case a long neck is for instance something that a bride is not satisfied with. Apart from this, there is the benefit given by the halter stripes that can hide the stripes of your bras that you want to wear to give your bust a little bit more fullness.

Many would agree that the halter wedding gown can be in fact considered more appropriate to a spring time wedding celebration or a fall one, since it looks so full in design. But it can be as well chosen for those weddings that have a retro fashion theme and can as well be worn with some sort of turban, the same that the fashion of the 30s introduced in the daily and evening accessory of a lady’s wearing.

2/03/2013

Wedding Gowns by Pitoy Moreno

If you are that type of bride in the search of innovative styles brought in by famous fashion designers, then Pitoy Moreno wedding gowns could be the answer for you. Jose “Pitoy” Moreno is the famous Filipino fashion designer who is also known as the “Fashion Czar of Asia”. The fashion designs he has created found their place in the exhibition of World’s Fair in Washington, Seattle and New York.

Prominent people resorted to his designs in order to wear Pitoy Moreno wedding gowns at their fastidious wedding ceremonies. What are the features that characterize Jose “Pitoy” Moreno style of wedding dresses? Many would agree to the fact that the beadwork, embroidery and the hand painting he introduced in his creations make these pieces of garment look quite unique. Other elements that he is famous for are the details inserted with the words of jusi, lepanto and piña in the world of fashion.

His talent shows Pitoy Moreno as a real artist who has reached the stage of an internationally recognized figure in the fashion design. Various paintings have been for Pitoy Moreno wedding gowns real inspiration, these ones being studied at the University of Philippines. The Filipino customs as well as tradition have influenced the future work of a young artist who was fascinated with the world of colors, forms and how all these are incorporated into the details of the sketches.

The sketches of designs that represented silhouette, cut, line and the fall of the bridal gown are real artistic collections that show the fashion industry that there can always be something new, innovative when inspiration is opened to the outside world an d its values. When these sketches were given life, fabrics were chosen carefully for their texture, degree of ornamentation also necessary to bring life into his drawings. When the Pitoy Moreno wedding gown is ready, then one can say that the full circle of a designer’s creation is finally completed.

The bride that Pitoy Moreno wedding gown dresses up is always compared to the image of a picturesque figure that has jkust descended form the pages of famous fashion magazines. Looking at this image you have that feeling that is something one can not touch, that perfect and accurate in each and every detail his bridal gown is made.

Jose “Pitoy” Moreno is renowned for attending every wedding gown in its fabrication from the cut to the final details to make sure that nothing reaches the finite product without his untiring supervision. Wearing the Pitoy Moreno wedding gown will make the bride proud of carrying the creation that comprises all in its design: romance, nostalgia, magic and folklore.