9/14/2012

Heart Shaped Wedding Cakes

Getting married on the Valentine’s Day could be a perfect reason for you to think of making or ordering for a heart shaped wedding cake. Heart has always been the symbol of love, of romance, of committing one to another, so why not give this type of wedding cake its chance? After all, beside the fact that it is the Valentine’s Day (the lovers’ day) it is also your day, the big day when your love will finally be officially tied with the knot of everlasting dedication.


But even if your wedding day is not planned for this specific day, the choice of heart shape wedding cakes in the weddings planning could be more than fantastic! Just have a look at the variety of heart shaped wedding cakes that are displayed inside the online wedding cakes bakeries and see for yourself!

The heart shaped wedding cakes seem to be quite different than a common three tiered wedding cake. And this difference is conferred by the heart shape of the tier which makes the wedding cake look unique and sophisticated.

Yes, this is in fact the aspect that draws the attention on a heart shaped wedding cake – its shape which is other than the square, round or rectangular one we have been used to for so long. Because the shape is so unique in its design, it requires as well a wedding cake decoration that ennobles the aspect in an elegant manner.

Browsing through this variety of heart shaped wedding cakes unfolding online in front of your eyes you meet charming three or four tiered wedding cakes cascading down on a stander that holds their flowing motion till they reach the plateau. There are others designed merely in two or single tiers that are as well very beautiful and elegant with their lace-like frosting that makes them look so sophisticated in their unfolding.

In case you have planned to have the heart shaped wedding cake as your own creation, especially if you are really good with baking and making yummy creams and icing, then go for it! The satisfaction that you will have when presenting your guests a wedding cake that stands for your own creation and inspiration will be even greater! There are the online pictures and advices that you can approach in order to bake your own wedding cake and find the tasty filling and icing that matches to your liking.

Make sure that you bake first a heart shaped wedding cake of small dimensions and see how is it going; in case you are not satisfied with the result, do not panic – plenty of bakeries are out there waiting to assist you with the heart shaped wedding cake on your style and wishes!

9/13/2012

Beach Theme Wedding Cakes

If you are in search of beach theme wedding cakes suggestions then you definitely have chosen to celebrate your wedding in a less traditional way. In this case you are free to let your imagination go wild and reach for a type of beach theme wedding cake that is shaped according to your style and needs. If the imagination fails on you then you could browse through the many wedding sites that display various ideas of wedding cakes that are appropriate to a beach themed wedding celebration.


Now due to the fact that it is a wedding cake that needs to be introduced in the atmosphere of a beach venue you should take into account some features that draw this wedding item apart from its other peers:

- do not forget about one element that will be most of the day present inside the wedding unfolding: the sun. In case the reception will last till dusk and continuing throughout the entire night, then you shouldn’t worry about the sun, should you? But what is there to be done when a wedding reception introduces the beach theme wedding cake when the sun is still up heating more the atmosphere?

Maybe it would be better to consider the alternative of a decorative/ornamental wedding cake that has the desired shape but is not edible except for the bottom layer in case you decide to proceed to a bride and groom wedding cake cutting.

- regardless of the sun’s presence you should think of a way to present the beach theme wedding cake wrapped in a decorative style with some tulle or another decorative fabric that keeps the bugs away from the cake’s sweetness. This is a valid solution for those edible wedding cakes.

- another option would be that each slice of cake to be accompanied by a refreshing ice cream that can be identical in decoration with the one presented on your beach them wedding cake. In this way you can keep your guests refreshed on a weather that invites to ice cream devouring. –

- the size of the beach theme wedding cake should be according to the number of the guests who have announced their attendance. The price depends as well on the size as well the intricacy of the design, therefore try to find a professional baker for your wedding cake that combines both (size and design) with the affordable price.

Victorian Wedding Gowns

Fashion designers, especially the ones who ventured into the bridal industry have come up with various elements that belong to old styles and as such Victorian wedding gowns were created, or better said re-created. Since Victorian style of a dress has its origin in the middle years of the 18th century UK the fashion designers have been fascinated on that style that has become to many the vintage style and as such making an important part of various clothing collections.


Browsing the online wedding gowns sites, one might come across various bridal creations to bear the print of UK’s Victorian wedding gowns. Well, they are not that similar to the old ones, but the present Victorian wedding gowns do have elements that have been preserved in the design of such elaborately cut wedding gown.

These features, or elements better said, confer the modern Victorian wedding gowns the aspect of a fairytale dress for the nowadays brides. A feature which represented in the past a familiar one for the Victorian brides but for modern days being related more to out of the box thinking of a bride, is the color and the combination of colors.

Victorian wedding gowns were mostly made in colorful fabric, it is true that the fabric used was the one to emphasize the status of the families involved in the wedding event, but colors were to be found in both Victorian wedding gowns for the rich and for the poor.

Some of these wedding dresses could be as well seen inside the British museum collections having their satin or lace still in a perfect state. It is stated that in those times, both Victorian and Edwardian eras, the art of dress was highly regarded and people, especially the nobles at the royal courts paid a huge attention to the aspect of the clothing that it was never equaled by another times.

A style that was introduced in England in the early years of 18th century was known to be the corset style of a dress which showed the contours of a woman in a sensual way, but combined with the fabric and the embellishments it soon became an elegant style soon to be replicated in other countries as well.

The new aspect of a female silhouette is what has drawn the attention of the fashion designers at the beginning of the creation for their Victorian wedding gowns with a modern look. The use of the corset is what makes a wedding gown of this style to be preferred by both slim brides and plus size modern brides-to-be.

Wedding Planner List

Planning the wedding celebration is most of the time seen as a real burden to carry on a more than excited bride-to-be, but to hire a wedding planner on the other hand can be rather expensive. Unless you wouldn’t want to spend your honeymoon at your home as you are left without money after paying the wedding planner it is the time to become your own wedding planner.


There are plenty of things to do, but remember that you are not alone in all this story, your family is there to support you with everything they can do.

Choosing to plan the wedding you have to know right from start that you will have to deal with organization, with the way to write down a wedding planner list which is among all the other lists that encompass orders to make, bills to pay, financial reports, and so on.

To make a list is not at all easy especially if you feel like tracking every single expense you are about to make and to take it from there and include it in the financial report that will keep you updated with the balance on your wedding budget.

The easiest thing to do this is to use your computer on Microsoft Excel which can provide you worksheets ready to be organized as wedding planner lists on all the wedding items that need to be considered. Of course that here will be the moment when you will get stuck not knowing exactly what to contain in those list. The simplest way to do this is to find sample lists that are available online either inside the websites that display free wedding planner organizers or the bridal magazines with special edition of planning a wedding.

The wedding planner lists that you might find available for free can also be downloaded and as such you should be able to operate with these ones inside the available programs of your home PC. You have to find all these much earlier than you have ever thought as there are plenty of details you have to focus or maybe other things that are not specified inside the wedding planner lists that you come across.

Every wedding celebration is unique in its own way so there can be a lot of other stuff that the ones who have organized the online wedding planner list might have missed. But can you blame with so many styles of wedding existing out there?

Before starting just make sure that you know exactly what your plans are, what is the theme of your wedding (if you choose one) as everything that needs to be unfolded in the wedding atmosphere has to be related to the theme. Once the beginning is set than the rest will have to follow in a natural order.

As such you will have to divide tasks, to find the right persons to take care of the menu order, to find available venues and place of worship for you to be able to choose from and so on. Your work as a coordinator involves a lot of strength that you might lack at a certain point, but you will be back on track if you want to save some money with making your own wedding planner lists that will operate as the organizer of your wedding planning.

Wedding Tip of the Day

Who doesn’t want in the fever of a wedding planning to find something that can turn the wedding celebration into a special event for the guests attending to the celebration? In this respect you could be the one in search of a wedding tip of the day , the one to confer your wedding the dimensions of an everlasting memory. In fact, thanking your guests for their attendance is worth your attention when being busy with the planning. Thinking to present your wedding guests with favors is like acknowledging the thoughtfulness of them to convey your wedding day the same importance you confer.


The wedding tip of the day could be in this respect to find the most appropriate attendance gift for your invitees. This gift needs to be considered since the days you have set the theme, when you already know how many of them will attend the wedding celebration and make sure that the budget of your planning takes this aspect into account.

For instance, if you have the wedding celebrated on the beach, a good wedding tip of the day would be to present your guests a wedding favor in the shape of a sea shell that opens to the photo of yours as a couple on one side and the details of the wedding day written on the other interior side of the shell along with a thank you note.

A delicate wedding tip of the day related to a wedding celebrated in the magnificent location of a garden can be made by yourself if you get ready on time to do it. You can have a bloom (one for each invitee attending) pressed between the pages of a book and after two weeks at latest have it removed and decorate the passe-par-tout of a photo of yours and turn it into a beautiful wedding favor photo for your invitees.

Another wedding tip of the day can be to have your wedding on film and edit a DVD titled with the theme of your wedding next to a funny or romantic line and have it sent to your guests to put it in their collections of favorite DVD movies! This DVD can contain comments of the invitees on the wedding celebration with their thoughtful wishes on the occasion of the marriage.

All of the above could be considered the wedding tip of the day, each one of them depending of curse, of each brides’ financial means as they can cost money and some time together with the effort of coming up with great ideas to adorn the aspect of a wedding favor, both aesthetically and spiritually.

Used Wedding Gowns

Working your wedding planning on a tight budget you might be intrigued by the option of purchasing a used wedding gown . The reason, apart from the one given to you by the restricted budget, could be various: the ‘once-in-a-lifetime worn’ status of the dress, the difficulty of storing it inside the wardrobe, the hard times to get it all cleaned up and properly preserved and the futility of keeping it as a family heirloom since the fashion gets changed with every year that passes by.


The option of purchasing a used wedding gown leads to another features that should be closely taken care of: check for any damages (it might need to suffer minor repairs or even alterations), you might need to have it washed as you are not sure with the way it was previously cleaned.

This aspect needs to be pursued as the used wedding gown is meant to be worn on the naked skin and one can never know what the already worn fabric might come with, although it comes already cleaned upon purchasing.

Long before you search for the used wedding gowns that can be found either online or inside the consignment bridal stores or even second hand alternative of stores you should consider the features of your bridal gown.

No matter if your bridal attire will prove in the end to be a used wedding gown you still need to know what will be characteristics to know exactly what you chase for.

The following features need to be contained in your used wedding gown: the style that matches you the best, the color, the neckline of the bodice, the length and if its floor length will have a train? In case you are a fan for various adornments, such as sequins, rhinestones, beads, decide which one will make you happier in the design of your used wedding gown.

Another feature would be the size; you can never know what is with the sizes when it comes to a wedding gown, therefore go downtown, and look inside the bridal stores and try on several styles and sizes. In this way you will know exactly what is the style of a wedding gown that suits you along with the necessary sizes.

A useful tool can be as well the size chart that every designer displays when selling their wedding dresses collections.

After you are done with this list browse online for used wedding gowns and see what results come back to you. If you are not 100% satisfied, you can then go for applying on Craigslist in your region and post your ad with your need of a used wedding gown; you can never know what you can get in the future, maybe the wedding dress of your dreams at a very cheap price!

Fun Wedding Dance Songs

Music including the choices of songs for the ceremony and reception is most of the times prepared by a DJ who is hired in order to take care of this wedding celebration aspect. Before the arrival of the big day, DJ and the wedding couple gather for more than once to prepare the list of choices for the wedding celebration.


Many wedding couples prefer having certain songs displayed inside the unfolding of the celebration, because the events that take place can be emotionally connected to specific songs that have been chosen as their preferred wedding songs .

But when consulting with your DJ do not monopolize the list of wedding songs only with choices of your favorite tunes, introduce your important songs to the DJ emphasizing the moments when they need performed and after that give the DJ some space in choosing the music for the atmosphere of your both ceremony and reception.

You could have some time at your disposal and listen to the list and if you consider that fun wedding dance songs are missing from the wedding songs list, then you could together find a solution.

DJ is there to help you as he is very experienced in this sorts of options, therefore he can come on the spot with various fun wedding dance songs to cheer up the atmosphere taking the guests on the dancing floor. If you do not hire a DJ or a band of musician, you can browse online inside the pages of the wedding songs and see what are their list of selected fun wedding dance songs.

The list may contain various choices for various musical tastes, there are compositions of classic music performed as funny tunes, these ones being also good to be played as fun wedding dance songs. With this choice of music you can expect for all of your guests to be fully entertained as options of dancing and maybe fooling around are almost endless. After all, why not?

A wedding celebration has indeed a serious aspect in its definition as it is the thing that changes the life of a couple for the rest of their lives, but this thing doesn’t have to be done in a sober atmosphere, but with music to un-frown the foreheads and bring laughter in everybody’s mouth.

Some of these fun wedding dance songs can be: ABBA – Dancing Queen, Garth Brooks – “Friends in Low Places”, Kenny Loggins – “Footloose”, Pink – “Get the Party Started”, REM – “Its the end of the world as we know it”, Will Smith – “Getting jiggy with it” and so many more.