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Beach Weddings
Beach Weddings are popular in the summer. Among various styles of wedding invitations, most couples like beach theme wedding invitations in particular. Beach wedding can be peaceful, quiet and cool. From planning a beach wedding reception to finding the best beach wedding locations, you have a lot of choices.
Best Beaches for summer weddings:
1. Crane Beach, Massachusetts
2. Watch Hill, Rhode Island
3. Caladesi Island State Park, Florida
Florida is the best beaches to get married.
Songs for beach wedding:
1. “Summer Lovin’” (from Grease)
2. “Beyond The Sea” (Bobby Darin)
3. “One Summer Night” (The Danleers)

Rustic Weddings
Real Wedding is a beautifully elegant and romantic wedding in recent years.

Menu cards and wedding favor for rustic weddings

Reception table setting for rustic weddings

These days, destination weddings are all the rage. Brides either want to get married in a big city, or on a beautiful beach. With people becoming increasingly mobile, and living in various places before they get engaged, the options can be endless. Brides and grooms are, a lot of the time, from different places, and live in a different place from their parents or siblings. But it is becoming increasingly common to look everywhere OTHER than your hometown for your wedding venue. Sometimes, the perfect venue may be right under your nose—and it doesn’t have to be a “wedding factory”.
If you grew up in a city, what about your favorite restaurant? One of the best things about big cities is access to great food. Also think about your favorite museum. Where did you used to go, growing up, when you needed peace and quiet? Was it a park? An ice cream shop? A library? All of these can be turned into beautiful wedding venues.
If you grew up in a suburb, you might think your only options are run-of-the-mill hotels. But often suburban towns have hidden gems in them. There are quite a lot of historic buildings and smaller museums in suburbs. Or maybe there is a quaint bed and breakfast nearby. Or a lake where you used to swim? A park where you played as a child? Or even your own backyard. Drive around your town and the adjacent towns, especially in any historic areas, to see what catches your eye—you may be surprised at what you find.
If you grew up in the country, you have some wonderful resources available to you! Local farms, orchards, and fields make great wedding venues! A wonderful wedding idea—having it at a pick-your-own farm and giving guests a half hour to pick their own fruit or flowers as favors.

While you are planning your wedding, “afterward” seems so unimportant and far away. Why worry about after when there are photographers to book, wedding invitations to send out, and cakes to taste?? But if you make a list early of the things you will need to do after the wedding, it will make it a whole lot easier to do them when the time comes, and you are tired and only want to move on with your married life! Here are some things to remember (especially before your wedding budget runs out):
1. Preserving your dress. Find a place that will clean and preserve your dress. If you are leaving right after your wedding, make a plan to give your dress to a family member who can take it to the cleaners for you.
2. Cleaning up and returning rented items. Did you rent silverware, tablecloths, or any other item? You don’t want to have to worry about that on your honeymoon. Ask a family member to return them for you the next day, so you don’t have to pay an overage charge. If you brought items from home, make sure they get back there as well. Someone will have to take them at the end of the night or the next morning if your venue allows.
3. Preserving your bouquet. Find a website or a local florist who preserves bouquets and arrange for the bouquet to get to the right place before the flowers die. Maybe you want to have them preserved in wax? Or flattened and framed?
4. Thank you cards. These cost money, just like invitations, especially if you are buying 200 of them! Make sure you don’t run out of money before you buy them. If you have time, pre-print address labels beforehand so when you get home from your honeymoon, all you have to do is write the note. It’s okay if the address isn’t handwritten.
5. Freezing your cake. If you want to save the top of your cake for your anniversary, also make arrangements for someone with a freezer available nearby to take it home at the end of the night.

Before jumping the gun and assuming that handmade wedding invitations are for the artsy or rich, it is justifiable to take a step back and assimilate the situation. Safe to say, handmade incorporate some involvement of the hand in the making. However it does not state whose hand it is to be. With the availability of technology, this task is not as arduous as some may take it to be. Countless online sites are ready to impart ideas on wedding invitations designs to suit the occasion with step-by-step instructions on how to go about it.

These forms of invites ultimately achieve a unique sense which supersedes factory-generated ones. Creativity obviously plays an important role in achieving this. There is no reason to assume that these must only feature conventional materials. By doing some research on wedding stationery, it is quite amazing to find the assortment of choices. Who said one had to stick with boring old paper? Pay a visit to the local arts and crafts store to fuel one’s imagination. If a garden wedding is the choice for the occasion, perhaps the using of pressed flowers and leaves can add a distinctive touch unlike paper. Since one may not have sufficient amounts of ready foliage at hand, there is always the ability to source them online.

Certain types of fabric may be used as the base of handmade wedding invitations. Albeit soft and slithery ones such as satin and silk may not make the cut, stiffer cloths can be considered. Stamp or silk-screen the message onto the ready surface. As a finishing touch, attach an adequate piece of wood or branch to opposite ends of the cloth to produce a scroll of sorts.

To add sparkle to the happy occasion, stick ribbons, crystals, sequins or other types of accessories onto the invite. Else metallic ink to artistically pen the message also serves the same purpose. Whatever the ideas on wedding invitation designs may be, it is essential to not overdo it else you run the risk of creating an Andy Warhol when you were going for a Mona Lisa.

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When it comes to address the wedding invitations, there are several wedding invitation etiquette you must think and learn. The wedding invitation should be addressed by the friends or family. You should pick the most neat handwriting style. Alternatively, you can hire a professional calligrapher to write them. The professional calligrapher will use special pen and ink to write the calligraphic wording precisely. Inexpensive wedding invitations wording can be done by using printed labels. Using printed label will make your guest to feel that the invitation is not personal. Therefore, if you want your guest to have a personal touch, you should either handwrite it or hire a professional calligrapher.
The wedding invitations are addressed to the family members of the married couples. You should avoid using abbreviations in addressing the names or street address.
Most people have friends and relatives that live outside the town. Since the invitations are usually mailed 1 – 2 months in advanced, it is recommended that you send the save the date announcement. The save the date announcement is made a few months before the wedding ceremony actually takes place. The save the date announcement contains vital information including the name of bride and groom, wedding date, and hotel accommodations. Printed announcement can be used to inform the wedding invitations to your family and friends. It should not be used as a form of invitations for the guests.
Before dispatching the invitations, make sure you proofread the wedding invitation wording. The company which you hire to create the invitation will offer free proofreading service. There are many wedding invitations styles you can choose from including raised lettering, engraved and thermographic. Generally most couples choose raise lettering. Raised lettering has the same appearance as thermographic lettering. Engraved wedding invitation style features engraved lettering that is unique so it is more expensive.

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While religious ceremonies can be especially meaningful (and beautiful if held in an old church with lots of character), sometimes churches can limit the creativity of your ceremony. Here are some ways you can personalize your ceremony while still staying within the confines of your church’s rules.

1.      Go acapella. A singer or choir without musical accompaniment can be haunting and reverent, especially in a large church space with great acoustics.

2.      Give each of your guests flowers upon their arrival.

3.      Give each of your guests candles upon their arrival. Darken the church and their candles will glow beautifully as they proceed to their seats. They can even make a wish on the candles for the bride and groom and blow them out at the same time.

4.      Do something fun or meaningful outside the church—like releasing doves in memory of a loved one, releasing balloons with messages inside them, or throwing confetti.

5.      Hire a bell choir to play at your wedding ceremony.

6.      Make your programs creative. Instead of printing them on paper, screenprint them on wood or handkerchiefs. Or put them inside boxes like a present.

7.      Use the church’s décor to your advantage—lots of church have an abundance of candles. Have your ceremony at sunset and darken the church, lighting it only with candles and candelabras.

8.      Place a different photograph of you and your groom at each person’s seat in the pews. These will make wonderful conversation pieces before the ceremony, and keepsakes afterward.

9.      Dress your bridal party to impress. Go with something outside of the box, like patterned dresses for your girls, or poofy vintage prom dresses, or seersucker for the guys.

10.  Decorate your church all in white, with lots of lace and white flowers.

The term ‘Wedding Invitation Etiquette’ in itself is a big word that refers to the rules of social conduct which society considers as appropriate and appreciate too. Wedding is an occasion where society involves certain kinds of etiquettes that are essential. The first and foremost thing that people do while planning for wedding is to decide on the wedding invitations. Though it sounds a very easy thing to decide on the wedding invitation, but getting the kind of invitation you were looking for within your budget is a hectic task. In order to save time in this regard, these days people use internet to find the best wedding invites within the budget. A lot of sites are there that provide variety of designs and styles of wedding invitations to choose from. These wedding invitations are not so expensive and are quite affordable for everyone.

After deciding the wedding invitation of your choice, now it is the time to see whether you have the list of the guests whom you are planning to invite to this special occasion of your life. While preparing the list of your guests, rechecking the list would be a good idea. Wedding is such an occasion where lots of things need to be done and therefore, the possibility is there that you might forget someone very special to include in your invitees’ list. Confirming that the list includes everybody is thus always a great idea. Usually, the wedding invitations are sent to guests before 6 months of the actual event, as it provides the time to the guests to schedule their necessary task in advance and thus, they can take out the time to be present in your grand occasion.

However, some couples prefer to send their wedding invitations one year in advance, so that the people they are expecting in their big day will not miss it by any chance. It depends on person to person regarding the time of sending a wedding invitation. Though many people might think that why is it so necessary to send the wedding invitation so much in advance, but in reality, it is very essential to allow both parties to make their plans in advance. Finally, we can say that while planning for wedding make sure you choose wedding invitation of your choice and a special one.

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Often candy can be the most affordable favor, and one that everyone will love. But we’ve all seen the colored M&Ms scattered across the table. So how can avoid something that’s already been done and package candy at your wedding to make it look unique and special? Here are a few ideas:

1.      You can purchase small glass jars at local crafts stores or online. Give each guest his or her own jar filled with candy (in your wedding colors) or set up an old-fashioned candy store with giant glass jars on pretty shelves. Guests can pick and choose which candy they want.

2.      Wrap the candy in a little brown box and wrap it with paper or tie it with a pretty bow or piece of twine. Making each favor look like a little gift will get your guests giddy.

3.      Make your own candy poppers by putting them in a cardboard tube and then wrapping the tube with fabric, tying it at both ends (it will look like a big piece of taffy).

4.      Opt for one giant piece of candy. Mehlenbacherstaffy.com sells beautifully packaged pieces of giant taffy.

5.      Visit your local candy store and see what kind of packaging options they offer.

6.      Package the candy in glassine bags and tie a Moocard (moocards.com) onto the package with a photo of you and your groom.

7.      Buy standard chocolate bars but make your own pretty and unique sleeves by printing out favorite photos onto thin photo paper and wrapping it around the foil.

8.      Give out giant swirl lollipops with a ribbon tied to the stick.

9.      Give guests a cake-slice box filled not with cake, but with candy!

10.  Give guests a cupcake in their own little boxes.

How much fun would it be to theme your wedding around taffy? You could create a beautiful vintage 1950s prom look. The best part about this idea is that it is affordable–you could even use a school gym! You can make it upscare by making sure to pay attention to elegance–high quality catering, white-gloved servers, and champagne. First, on the wedding invitations, ask everything wear a shade of pastel or white/khaki (for the men). Your bridesmaids could each wear a 50s vintage prom dress in a different shade of pastel (think lots of tulle and a tight bodice), with flowers in their hair. You could also use the braided rope effect in various ways, such as a chuppah, jewelry, or a rope for the aisle. For your reception, simple white tablecloths would be best, but accessorize them with puffy, pastel blooms like peonies or roses. Decorate the ceiling by floating hundreds of large pastel balloons–and, of course there is the dessert bar! A beautiful display of thousands of different flavored pieces of taffy would look marvelous, along with pretty colored boxes or containers for guests to take them home in. The cake should be buttercream, but colored, not white–and simple. It’s all about the sugar! Sugar-rimmed cocktail glasses, sugar-rubbed meat for the main course, and various flavors of sugar for the coffee. The result–an event everyone will be talking about!

A lot of magazines and blogs (and, I admit, me) talk a lot about how beautiful outdoor weddings are. But the truth is, most brides cannot afford to risk having their wedding outdoors because of weather—rain or cold. Unless you live in a place like California, Florida or Hawaii, an outdoor wedding is usually not in the cards.

 A wonderful alternative and affordable indoor option is renting a warehouse for your reception. This space can be turned into a chic, hip space with minimal effort—because, by the nature of having it in a warehouse, your wedding will be simple and minimalist. Here are some key things to think about:

 1.      You will probably want to spend a lot on lighting and allocate this when doing your budget.

2.      You don’t have to waste time or money on filly table linens or chairs—chic, industrial metal chairs and simple metal or wooden tables will look great here without tablecloths (or just with simple table runners).

3.      You will probably want to have a monochromatic color scheme—or stick with white, gray, black or other neutrals.

4.      Project old movies onto a blank wall—it will look fabulous!

5.      Metal vases will also be a great unexpected touch here.

6.      A really cool way to do escort cards—write guests’ names on bricks!

7.      Lots of candles will look fabulous.

8.      Hang framed black and white photographs all over the space.

9.      Send your save the dates on old vinyl records.

10.  Make use of other industrial elements, like iron skeleton keys, throughout the space. Anything simple, metal or brick will work!