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Published on September 1st, 2009 by dorischua, under Bridal Accessories, Personalized Wedding, Tropical Wedding, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning & Wedding Shopping, Wedding Reception. (No Comments).
If you want to do something peculiar for your marriage and win the appreciation of the people, you can opt for a theme for your wedding. Instead of following the same old traditions for the marriage, you can choose a wedding theme such as tropical wedding, beach wedding, garden wedding, and be a face out of the crowd. These days, a majority of people are turning their mind towards the themed weddings.
Theme weddings turn out to be very exciting for the guests as well as the couple. You can enjoy your day more, if you have opted for a marriage based on a theme. Selecting a theme for the marriage is not a new concept of course, as many people have started doing this for a long time to make their celebration more effective and vivacious.
The theme of the wedding should be proposed and accepted by both the partners. Make sure that you inform your guests well in advance about the theme, so that they can search and hire the type of dress that matches the theme of your party. The concept of wearing dresses according to a mentioned code is widely accepted and preferred by most of the guests. People, who come to attend the party, enjoy wearing new dresses, as they get a chance to get rid of the formals they have been wearing for long.
There are a variety of wedding themes available. You can either opt for a traditional theme that will date you back to the early 1960’s. You can ask your guests to wear apparels of that time. The music of the same time can enhance the atmosphere of the party. You can arrange for special dance troops to perform the dance that reminds you of the olden times and also hire a palanquin for the bride.
The other choice can be the western style, where all guests as well as the couple will bloom in western outfits. Western music will steal everybody’s heart accompanied by western dance.
If you love to have fun, then you can opt for the Disney wedding, where everybody will have to dress themselves like cartoon characters. The air will have a child like smell there, with people running, laughing and playing all around. This theme will turn out to be very interesting if opted. There can be many more themes of the same sort, like you can choose to have a beach or tropical wedding, where the decorations will be done as if the party is being held near a beach. You can ask your guests to wear apparels that suit the cool atmosphere of a beach party. You can arrange for a beach dance and beach music accompanied by some wine.
If desired you can create your own themes as well and enjoy the pleasure of a themed wedding. Themed weddings are gaining popularity among all major sectors of the society these days. Guests admire and value such sorts of occasions.
Published on July 31st, 2009 by dorischua, under Bridal Accessories, Wedding Planning & Wedding Shopping. (No Comments).
Every bride wants to stand out on her wedding day. Therefore, all brides will go through all lengths to look good and stunning on that special day. To make that happen, make sure you begin your wedding shopping early especially when it comes to your bridal attire. With a huge assortment of bridal attire available to suit all sizes, shapes, ages and personalities, it can be a daunting task to make choices and decisions. Here are some tips when it comes to making decisions on your bridal attire:
1. Your Bridal Hairstyle
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How do you want to wear your hair? Which way complements your dress best? Consider this before you choose what bridal accessories to buy for your hair. You may decide that you want an up-do that will look great with a tiara, or you may prefer to have your hair down and braided with fresh flowers that match the ones in your wedding bouquet.
2. Your Wedding Veil
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Whether or not you wear a veil is a personal choice. Many brides continue to follow the veil tradition but they don’t always have the veil covering their face as they walk down the aisle to meet their partner. When choosing a veil consider how well the length and style of it fits with your chosen wedding dress.
3. Your Wedding Shoes
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Shoes are an important part of your wedding shopping. What size heel do you feel the most comfortable in? If you want to wear high heels, how tall is your husband to be? If you are of similar heights, consider how you will look together when you stand side by side making your vows if you choose to where 3 inch heels!
4. Be Practical with Your Wedding Dress
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Remember that unless you intend to wear a different bridal dress for your wedding reception, you will have this outfit on for a number of hours and will be required to walk around in it, post for photographs in it, perhaps kneel at an alter and certainly eat. Your entire wedding day outfit needs to be practical as well as pretty! A thigh length split at one side may be sexy but how will you feel getting out of a vehicle, or crouching down for photographs?
5. What’s Your Wedding Theme?
If you are having a themed wedding, you might find the perfect bridal dress that fits your theme in a costume store rather than a bridal store.
6. What’s the Weather Like?
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Consider the time of year that you are having your wedding. It could be that you need to find a wrap that will stop you from freezing when having your photos taken in your chosen bridal dress.
7. Hire a Wedding Dress
Wedding dresses don’t have to be bought! If you want to wear a designer dress, but your wedding budget doesn’t stretch that far, you could hire your bridal wear instead of buying it.
Read this post for more tips on bridal attire.
Published on July 20th, 2009 by dorischua, under Tropical Wedding. (No Comments).
If you’re heading to the islands for your wedding, then you’ll have all the attributes you need, but if you’re having a tropical themed wedding, here a few ways to add island style to your wedding.
The best thing to do is separate your budget into categories, such as wedding flowers, reception flowers, reception decorations and an extra category for the item you run into that you must have but didn’t plan for.
The big thing about a budget is to stick to it, so shop until you find the item you want that’s still in your budget. Remember, that along with typical lush foliage come the colors of the tropic such as the pastels but also the jewel tones of the sea.
Look to a large tropical fish supply store to find a variety of jewel tone rocks and artifacts. Colors such as deep fuchsia, vibrant blue or purple, deep yellow and turquoise with the deep greens of the sea thrown in. You’ll find different types of rocks and such that are not expensive but can be placed in a variety of places to add these bright colors to your wedding pallete.
You can find a variety of fresh, silk, and other fabric foliage to fill the area with the deep greens of the jungle islands. Just look to major plant stores to rent, garden stores, and of course, rental party places to get the large plants and greenery that makes the difference in the feel of a room
You may look to a wholesale supplier for these larger size plants, purchase silk or fabric, then purchase the simple terra cotta containers that are light and easy to move such as the plastic ones. You may also find larger glass planters rather inexpensively and they will throw the colors of the room and light throughout the area.
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Lighting is just as important as your colors in a tropical themed wedding. Look to tiki torches if you’re outside and use the bug citronella oil to help chase away critters. If you’re inside, find someone who can turn these into candlelight torches with a single candlelight bulb. Of course, if you burn the tiki torches indoors you may wind up with an outside wedding after all due to the fumes, so be careful with them.
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Ok, so now it’s down to fine tuning your tropical wedding with a balmy evening of fun. Check your weather, if your outside be prepared with portable heaters to create a warm island evening and indoors, carefully hidden fans can give you the effect you want, just keep them on low.
A wedding done in the tropical style can not only be fun, but also whimsical, set up an area with a picture perfect setting and provide leis and a few grass skirts for your wedding guests to have fun pictures to remember the day.
Published on July 10th, 2009 by dorischua, under Wedding Planning & Wedding Shopping, wedding favors. (No Comments).
That magical day has finally arrived and the only thing that you have left to do is settle on the wedding favors for the tables. You can go with something that everyone else does or you can set your wedding apart from all of the others by doing wine wedding favors that have a little extra punch to them.
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The most obvious choice of a wedding wine favor is a small bottle of wine. However, you don’t want to just do a random bottle like everyone else does, you want something with a personalized label that will remind everyone of the great occasion. Most wine companies have a house wine that they will do this for you at a fairly reasonable price.
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Something else that is very different and adds an elegant touch to the table is a glass wine stopper. You can often find these for about a few dollars each online and they look much more expensive. For a little extra, you can get them engraved at the top or have them put in a presenter that will mark the occasion.
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Wine corks have become very fashionable for wine enthusiasts and there are now molds that are sold where they can put all of their old corks to use. If this sounds like the kind of group that will be attending your wedding, you may want to consider wine cork place holders. They are stamped with your name and date of wedding and add a very distinct touch to any wedding.
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Another great idea is personalized wine glasses that have the event stamped into them. They are a little more expensive, but you may even get a break from the wedding hall for not using their glasses. You can usually get the glasses for about $2/each and will also have to pay a small engraving fee for the wedding date to be stamped on there, but they will be talking about your wedding forever.
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Wine wedding favors are a great choice because they set your wedding apart from all of the others. Sometimes, guests are tired of the chocolate bags or the couple strawberries in a bag that many others are giving out these days. You want something different that will actually add a touch of class to your wedding, not bring it down a notch. Wine wedding favors will make the occasion look even more special than it already is.
Published on July 3rd, 2009 by dorischua, under Garden Wedding. (No Comments).
Pretty Garden Wedding Favors
When love is blooming what better place to celebrate the event with a garden wedding and to enhance the scenic occasion with some pretty garden wedding favors. When opting for garden wedding favors, there are a multitude of categories to choose from. From practical eco friendly green garden wedding favors to more elegant and decorative favors to suit your garden wedding theme.
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Flowers are a popular choice for garden wedding favors with butterflies in the second place. It is obvious seeing that it fits the theme perfectly. In addition, on the theme of a garden wedding, with flower and butterflies as a favor for choice, the designs and colour scheme options are endless and you will most definitely find the perfect garden wedding favor to suit all your requirements.
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An exquisite sample of a stylish garden favor is the three crystal roses on silver stems with silver embossed leaves in a crystal pot. Apart from being just a garden wedding favor, it can serve a double purpose being a place card holder as well. The crystal is cut in multiple facets giving it an expensive radiant look. Surprisingly this favor won’t crack your budget either. Prices range from about $3 a piece for small orders and for orders more than 72 pieces you will only pay $2. 50 each.
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For a more practical, green and living type of favor, tiny love palms in tiny pots will add that exotic yet green touch to your garden wedding. A couple of these miniature plants arranged on the tables will sure transform the setting to a piece of paradise. When adding some colour by means of a ribbon tied around the pot or attaching a name card onto the pot, these palms will sure make the setting live and bright.
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Another practical but still beautiful garden wedding favor with more than a decorative appeal is the small terra cotta flower pot with green moss and selectable 6 inch “flower” ball point pens that will serve as the flowers. What “flowers” and colours you want to use is up to you. Pink or lavender roses for a more subtle formal approach setting, or the dazzling gerbera daisies in lively colours of hot pink and orange. The gerberas and roses are available in white as well. To finish off the pot, a satin ribbon is tied around with a “thank you” note attached.
Published on June 25th, 2009 by dorischua, under Tropical Wedding, wedding invitations. (No Comments).
When you start to plan your summer wedding the very first thing you need to consider after the guest list is the wedding invitations. These set the tone for the wedding and are the first step in competing all the steps on the way to your goal. The goal of organizing the perfect wedding celebration! Tropical wedding invitations are elegant and stylish and allow your friends and family to know that you are planning a wedding with a summer theme.
Tropical and summer themed weddings are very trendy, and invitations based on this theme can be a little more off the wall. They are not so traditional and bright colors may be used to reflect this theme. They can be made by your-self, designed by a professional or customized and purchased at online stores.
The first impression your guest will have of your wedding celebrations lies in the invitation you send out. Tropical and summer themed wedding are fantastic and the type if venue you use to host this allows for flexibility. Today couples are getting married in gardens, in beaches, in parks and vineyards. In fact any out-of-doors venue is grist to their mill. Because of this they can be a lot less expensive and you can even tart up your mother’s garden for your tropical themed wedding and still carry off an elegant and sophisticated as well as romantic wedding.
Flowers are regularly made use of for wedding invitations and tropical flowers are exquisite. The frangipani, the hibiscus, the jacaranda and flamboyant! These are all beautiful, and of course that are many more than the few we have mentioned here. But tropical flowers allow you to really become creative and colorful in your invitation design.
If you want to get even more tropical, you can make use of designs including two pairs of foot-prints in the sand, a couple waling hand in hand on a sun-set beach, hearts in the sand. There are so many exciting and romantic ideas available to help you come up with the perfect tropical wedding invitation.
Making your own wedding invitations is creative and can be a great amount of fun. But if you are not the creative type and you don’t want the stress of this, and online store can help you. But great ideas include gluing real beach sand onto texture paper after the invitations have been printed, or gluing on small shells or starfish. Your local scrap-booking shop will have these available.
Using ribbons and straw, thread or twine can dress up your invitation, and if you are planning a wedding away from home a destination invitation is a great way to go for your tropical wedding. It has the affect of showcasing the destination and making people look even more forward to attending your celebration.
Published on June 11th, 2009 by dorischua, under Garden Wedding, Wedding Reception, Wedding Themes. (No Comments).
The summer months are traditionally the wedding season. This runs from May to August and a garden wedding is a great idea. Couples have always taken advantage of the garden wedding, but these days they have expanded this idea to the beach, the zoo and even national parks. Conventional wedding venues are being shunned in the attempt for couples to be married in different venues.
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The summer season is ideal for out of doors weddings. Long lazy afternoons and stunning sunsets make the perfect backdrop for being married. Although sunsets cannot be ordered at will, if you are one of the lucky ones, you might just experience one at your wedding. Exchanging vows in the fresh air makes for something completely different.
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Organizing a garden wedding means you are able to keep things simple. Fresh cut flowers such as sunflowers make for striking centerpieces, and fresh fruit and even vegetables may be used in your flower arrangements. One very good summery idea is to fill glass vases or bowls with bright yellow lemons and make use of gingham tablecloths. To light the garden you can use candles, or even string up lanterns.
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If the garden setting you use is in full bloom it is hardly even necessary to purchase flowers for dÈcor. Garden weddings are elegant in their simplicity however a plan “B” must be in place for inclement weather. This is easily achieved with the hire of a wedding marquee, or the erection of temporary gazebos for the event. It is necessary to have some kind of shelter available as it can rain, even in the summer time.
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Nature also has a way of creeping up on you if you are planning an outdoor wedding. So you have to take into consideration the fact that you may have a problem with flies, bees, gnats or mosquitoes. These can simply be kept under control by the use of citronella candles. They will add to the mood, they smell good and keep insects under control. Citronella incense sticks can also be used and these are available specifically for use in a garden setting. Citronella is a natural way to control insects and it actually works very well.
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The evening is a good time for a garden wedding, guests are able to dress elegantly without being too casual, and there is no strict order of dress. The bride should also wear a simple dress that is not too long, and conventional wedding dresses do not really have a place in a garden setting. The bridal gown should be easy to manage and no longer than ankle length.
Summer is a time of heat and in many areas also humidity. This allows brides to wear a sleeveless dress and hair should probably be professionally dressed in an up style. This will ensure that it stays in place, the style looks elegant and will ensure that the bride is confident. The last thing a bride wants to do is fight with her hair because of hot humid weather.
This also goes for the bridal gown too, the hot weather means that the a traditional wedding dress does not have a place and the dress should not be too bulky. Use of light summer fabrics is recommended, and silk, organdy, chiffon, crepe and georgette are recommended.
Published on June 4th, 2009 by dorischua, under Wedding Planning & Wedding Shopping. (No Comments).
We all know how stressful it is to plan a wedding and in this case if you are on a bit of a budget it can be even more stressful. When it comes to your wedding shopping, this should be one of the highlights of your wedding planning days. Take a little bit of a glimpse at these tips and hints to get you started with all of your wedding shopping and wedding planning needs!
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Making lists are going to be your best friend when it comes to planning and shopping. Brides-to-be and become quite forgetful when the wedding planning portion rolls along, so it is vital that you have a list to keep track of what you need to buy as well as where you can actually buy it.
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Now, you should be able to get most of your wedding shopping done down at the store or the mall but if you cannot, then the Internet is going to take over and help out. There are many bridal stores that can be found online and for the most part they offer some pretty decent wedding deals.
Online coupon cutting is going to be vital in order to receive more savings and get more for less amount of money. You can find promotional codes as well as coupons that you can use when you are wedding shopping. Remember, every little bit helps, so take advantage of these savings.
Be sure to utilize all of those savings and hire an extra pair of hands. A professional wedding planner is going to be able to take away so much of your stress when it comes to wedding shopping and planning. You can sit down and interview a few and see what you think about the extra help.
Now, when it comes to the big day, you really want to sparkle and shine which is why your wedding dress is going to be incredibly vital. You do not want to spend too much money on your dress, but at the same time you do not want to buy something cheap. Look online at various bridal stores or let your wedding planner point you in the right direction.
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The food is also going to be vital after the wedding ceremony is over and the party begins. Guests will be looking to fill their bellies so make sure that you shop for food in bulk so that you have no worries of running out. You can even order some extra from your caterer in order to ensure that everyone is fed.
Do not fear planning your own wedding or doing all of your own wedding shopping, it may sound harder than it actually is. The main thing that you need to remember is planning, and planning ahead of time. The more that you can get done within a month or so, the less you will have to worry about when you are getting ready to walk down the aisle.
Published on May 19th, 2009 by dorischua, under Tropical Wedding, Wedding Themes. (No Comments).
When planning a tropical wedding, some couples don’t have to worry about getting a wedding dress or renting all of the tuxedos for the groom and his men. Instead why not get the Hawaiian flowered shirts and some comfortable shorts and let everyone just relax and share in your love? All outfits can be found online or even at your local department store!
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Most people will hire a professional caterer to help them get all of the food that they need for their wedding, you really should not waste you money when it comes to your tropical wedding. Make your wedding into a potluck or even have a backyard barbeque and everyone can have some fun in the sun!
When the time comes to send out the tropical wedding invitations make sure that the invites actually match the theme. Use bright colors and even add a personal touch by making the invitations by you. Remember that the more personal the wedding is going to be; the better off it is going to be.
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If you have some extra cash stashed away, you really need to seriously consider hiring a wedding planner so that you can have someone else take the hassle of planning a wedding. You should take a look online and interview a few wedding planners and see how far you can get.
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Having a theme for your wedding is always going to be something that people are really going to enjoy. A tropical wedding theme is incredibly simple to plan so take the time to look into it and see what you can do. A wedding planner can help you out or you can utilize the services of your friends. Start planning your themed wedding right now!
Published on May 12th, 2009 by dorischua, under Tropical Wedding, Wedding Planning & Wedding Shopping. (No Comments).
Wedding planning isn’t the easiest job in the world, especially when the wedding is your own, but the following tips should help you keep your tropical wedding planning from becoming too stressful.
1. Fix a budget for your wedding. One of the biggest mistakes that many brides make is to start their wedding planning without having a fixed budget. Take a look at what you can afford, make a list of what you need to create the perfect wedding and fix a budget next to each item.
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2. Discuss your wedding plans with your husband to be. Find out what they think about your ideas. Although primarily a bride’s domain, a wedding day is also for husbands too, so having at least a chat about what he wants to avoid will help you keep his day happy too.
3. Remember what the wedding is about. Among the wedding planning it’s easy to lose sight of the marriage that begins on the wedding day. Remember that this is about the feelings you have for your partner and not about keeping everyone else happy!
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4. A wedding tip that you should print out and put in a prominent place is to remember who’s getting married! This is your wedding day and if you want to do it differently to all of your siblings or family tradition as far back as living memory, then do it your way. Sure people will feel upset at first, but ask them what’s more important – your happiness or the family traditional wedding style – and that should diffuse the situation.
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5. Lists are the way to great wedding planning! If it’s on a list and you can see where it is, who’s doing it, what it costs and so on, then you’re not going to find yourself waking up in the middle of the night wondering if you’ve paid for this, or ordered that.
6. Keep a written journal of everything that you organize as part of your tropical wedding planning. This can be in the form of a special book that you purchase for this, or a simple notepad that you carry everywhere with you. Make sure that if you’re using some kind
