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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!

When it comes to wedding matters, brides-to-be are up on their toes searching for the ideal wedding dress, half expecting that it will just pop right at them. Actually, it never happens that way. It takes a lot of time before you can find exactly the one that you would walk down the aisle in. Shopping for a wedding dress is never easy, you see. There are so many things to be considered – the length of the dress, the color, the fabric, and of course, the style. Surely, you cannot decide on these things over night! Good thing if the wedding will not take place yet within the next six months – that should give you enough time to window-shop in bridal stores or browse through online and offline wedding catalogs.

Traditional wedding gowns are long and white, but of course, modern brides nowadays have the option to choose how long they would want their wedding dress to be, and in what color. Sometimes, the kind of ceremony can be a big factor when deciding on the length. For formal wedding ceremonies held in churches the wedding dress ought to be long and flowing, but when you are having an outdoor wedding, such as in the garden or at the beach, you may opt for a shorter hemline made of light fabric.

While you can never go wrong with wedding gowns in white, people nowadays have become more open minded that it no longer becomes a shock if you walk the aisle in ecru, gold, pale pink, lilac, or blue. If you still want a white gown but with a twist, you can accentuate it with a big sash of your wedding color.

Apparently, when you are having your wedding in a church setting, you’d want your dress to be formal – no plunging necklines or bare arms. Perhaps you can look for a style which allows you the option to wear a bolero over it, and then you can just simply take it off at the reception.

Needless to say, finding the perfect cut can be very difficult. Even though you may already have something in mind, you may still want to try several styles of dresses on to see if you would actually look good in any of them. It happens sometimes that what you want does not complement your figure at all, so it doesn’t make sense to insist on wearing that dress.

When the economy was doing wonderfully, large, glitzy diamond rings were all the rage. But today, more and more brides are turning toward other symbols of their engagement and throwing away the idea of diamonds altogether. With the economy doing so poorly, brides are realizing that they want to save whatever money they have for a home, retirement, vacation, children, etc., and not a piece of jewelry.

So how are brides acting on these new realizations? If they are lucky enough to have heirloom jewelry, they are asking their mothers or grandmothers for their special rings, or pieces that have been in the family for a long time. They could even use the diamonds from a bracelet or necklace to have a custom ring made, with special significance.

A lot of brides are seeking out other, less expensive stones, like opals, emeralds, pearls or other gems that have special significance to them (like a birthstone). I love the idea of having a ring made combining your and your groom’s birthstones, symbolizing your upcoming unity. Some brides are even foregoing engagement rings altogether, and simply saving for a beautiful wedding ring.

Another idea I love is getting a simple gold or silver band—one for the engagement, and one for the wedding. I also heard of a groom who carved a ring out of wood for his fiancé when he proposed—how sweet! And some brides are giving their grooms engagement gifts in return, like cufflinks. Another special idea: taking an “engagement vacation” together to a foreign city or country and choosing a ring made from local materials to mark the occasion.

Expectations have been rolled out. An exotic platter is getting ready in the chef’s dynasty and people outside are waiting anxiously for the proceedings to begin. A calm and peaceful river flowing through many towns and plentiful lands have experienced every encounter that is met on the way. Through the journey of many years from childhood to young age, we witness plenty of marriage events and how proposals been made. Wedding invitations are not just few thoughts around one ceremony or relationship but almost all events that have had their participation in the past. Book a visit, mark the day and all day long think about thousand reasons to write handmade wedding invitations. And if possible, surprise your spouse with exciting ways of writing these means of inviting others. It is a formal request asking the recipient to honor the occasion with their soulful presence.
Let’s start from the beginning and it is not an everyday affair to write such invitations. Expectations are bound to put extra pressure as wedding day is once-in-a-lifetime divine union of two like souls. These invitations are largely responsible for setting the standard right and telling others about the trend to be followed. The list is huge and there are numerous factors are involved in the process. Things like if there is an attached theme over here, season that one is getting married at, type of flowers and the color aspect. And similarly people can also use formal or semi-formal techniques for wedding invitations. It is always advisable to do the ground work and write down things in order to have better understanding of the things available.
The whole factor is meant to describe the image of people involved over here. The essence shall be in coherence with the theme or the finishing part of the ceremony. The formation, kind of words to be picked and the quality of paper are few technical parts to be discussed in hand. It could easily be again in sharp contrast to the contemporary traditional size and shaped cards. Couples are excited about the prospect of taking different and mystical characteristics to highlight the event. Colors are essential to our life and surroundings, so shall we make them bright at the most mesmerizing night of our lives.
There is not a shadow of doubt that wedding invitations is a massive discussion point and there would be more to it than what we all can talk or think about. The decisive part is to know that what is going to suit the occasion for you and the people involved. Try not to pick or follow an idea that does not belong to you. Wedding invitations are strikingly close and easier in nature when we know what to expect from and how to lay hands together on a piece of paper.

All brides face the same conundrum – where do I find dresses for my bridesmaids that will be affordable but still look good (and, if the girls have to buy them themselves, something they will wear again)? This is one of the most difficult decisions in a wedding, because you have to be conscious of other people’s wallets and feelings and tastes. So where do you start looking?

1. Vponsale.com offers an amazing variety at unbelievable prices! Because they are made in China, they can cut costs a lot more easily than bridesmaid dresses made in the United States. See photo.
2. Ask your girls to look on sites like Ebay for vintage prom dresses in the same color, or in pastels—this will look amazing!
3. Anthropologie always has amazing, amazing dresses that are so unique; your girls WILL NOT complain about these dresses!
4. Other retail stores like Urban Outfitters and Target also offer an affordable variety of dresses.
5. Limit your bridesmaids to two to three girls, and purchase the dresses for them.
6. The two most classic styles if you want matching dresses are J.Crew and Ann Taylor, and will cost around $200.
7. Avoid polyester at all costs.
8. Cotton is in! Look for simple, breezy cotton dresses.
9. Tell your girls to wear any style dress they want in the same color.
10.Let each girl wear a black dress of her choice, but outfit them in beautiful matching red or brightly colored shoes, earrings, jewelry, headbands, etc.
11.Search vintageous.com for bridesmaid dresses
12.Go for the unique combination of skirts and sweaters with pearls—how pretty!

Although certain wedding traditions still hold true in many respects, one now has more liberty when it comes to designs for wedding invitations. In the past, most wedding invites were printed in white or ecru-colored card board with embossed messages, images, and monograms, half-folded or z-folded, but nowadays, you can have hundreds of options for color, paper, folding styles, and so on. You can even suit your design as well as the wedding invitation materials to the time and season your wedding will take place.
For example, if you are planning a wedding in fall, your choice may include leaves falling from trees. Appropriate colors in this case are gold, brown, green, white, or ecru. You can use ribbons and bows in burgundy or a gold leaf as accents. On the other hand, if it’s going to be a winter wedding, then you may go for designs with snowflakes, and red and gold tinsels. Lots of couples get married in December, in which case, you can give your wedding invite a Christmas feel.
For a Spring wedding, your wedding invites can be more colorful. You can choose flowers in bloom as your background, but of course you have to make sure that the design does not overshadow the message on the invite itself. Pink, light green, silver, and white, are great colors to use under the circumstances. Further accessorize your spring wedding invites with rose buds, tulips, daisies, or butterflies.
Summer is a great time to walk down the aisle – whether that aisle happens to be in a church, garden or at the beach! Summer wedding invites can be whimsical without being utterly informal. Light pink, sky blue, yellow, and white, are great color choices in this case. Appropriate embellishments include pressed flowers or sea shells (if you’re having a beach wedding).