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Wedding Day Invitations

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:50:48 +0000

Send out unique wedding invitations to your guests for them to be excited on your wedding day.

Traditional Indian Marriages

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:25:45 +0000

Marriages are made in heaven but many Indian marriages are still “arranged” even today, Although this trend is going through a dramatic change in recent days. They say marriages are not simply a marriage between a man and a woman but its a marriage between two families coming together, So not only the bride and groom play an important role in Indian marriages, Instead the parents and relatives of both family also play an important role in Indian marriages. But with recent western influence over over the eastern culture the old trend of parents selecting the suitable partner for their children gradually disappearing. The new age youths have nowadays started to select their own mates and get married to them.

But still many in India still rely on their parents wisdom, foresight and association to find the right person for them. Besides contacts from family, friends and neighbors, there are many match making services available both online and offline all over India in all the major cities and towns nowadays, these organisations provide an opportunity for both the members of the family to sit together and discuss their needs.

Still many indians seek for a suitable mate within their religion, community and caste mostly arranged marriages of this kind, parents tend to lookout for a suitable mate for their children within their community, most dont go for finding a suitable mate outside their religion and caste.

Once they decided with a suitable mate for their child, Usually both the family sit together before a pundit who will choose a auspicious day for them for the betrothal and marriage. Besides these two Indian marriages has lots of interesting events inbetween this. usually Indian marriages will go for a period of 1 week during this period members of both family have lots of rituals for their bride and groom and also some get together party with many varieties of food. One of the best part of Indian weddings is food. They have hundreds of varieties of delicious sweets and spicy food recipes. For any Indian marriage is an one of the most important event in his/her life time.

Wedding Planner: Families Live Far Away?

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:31:03 +0000

So the one that you adore has just popped the question and you of course have said yes. Unfortunately there is just one problem your families live no where near each other. So where is the wedding going to be? Have you decided what state it will be in? Will you be getting married in his state or yours? Are you going to decide to have your wedding at a location close to where you live in hopes that all of your families can all come to you? The answers to these questions may seem quite simple however even if you are planning the most traditional of weddings you need to be flexible.
When you are choosing a wedding location and your families are spread out across the country you need to keep several different factors in mind. For instance due to the fact that many couples today are waiting until they are in their 20’s or 30’s it is highly likely that they are going to have set up a home and established themselves in a part of the country other then where they grew up. Many times families get scattered due to employment opportunities. It can be overwhelming to think about how you are going to get friends and family to your wedding when you and your soon to be spouse live in Arizona and you originally grew up in Minnesota and he is originally from Washington. When you throw in the fact that the members of your wedding party are likely to be scattered all over the country it can make wedding planning all the more challenging..
First of all you should sit down with your fiancée and discuss what location that you could see yourselves getting married at. You may have thought about getting married at a certain location since childhood. Perhaps your soon to be groom sees the two of you getting married at a different location. After you have determined where you want to get married you need to then consider where all your families and friends reside. It may be easier if you decide to get married in a city where none of your family lives. Basically you need to choose a location that is going to make you both happy while at the same time making it easy for your friends and family to get there.
If you are already not set in one particular location for your wedding you should consider creating a list of your intended guests to see where the majority of them are located. If you are thinking about choosing a location that is a long distance from your loved ones you should then factor in how difficult it would be to get everyone there.
You should keep in mind that the selection of a location will be the first and probably most difficult decision of planning your wedding. Hopefully once you have selected the perfect location it will be available to you for your wedding. Once you have a set location then the rest of the planning should go a lot more smoothly. This way hopefully everything will work out so that you will be able to have the perfect wedding.

How to Plan a Fall Wedding

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:27:09 +0000

Planning a fall wedding would be a wonderful alternative to more traditional spring and summer weddings. The following are some wonderful ideas for planning a beautiful and memorable fall wedding.

You need to prepare for all kinds of weather.
The thing that you need to keep in mind with fall weather is that it can be very unpredictable. A day can start out as warm and sunny and can just as quickly turn into a cold and chilly evening. You should have portable heaters available if you are planning to have your wedding outdoors and you should also consider dressing your wedding party in layers incase your special day turns from cold to hot.
You should bask in the beauty of the outdoors.
The advent of fall weather just calls for a beautiful outdoorsy setting that will allow everyone to take in the scenic wonder of the season. Some wonderful locations that would allow for a great rustic setting include vineyards, farms, mills, ranches or on the grounds of a historic mansion. If you are not able to get married outdoors you should try and find a location that still offers a scenic view of the brilliant fall countryside.
Take great care in planning you fall wedding décor.
Here are some tips for achieving the perfect fall themed wedding.

-Create a color palette- you can choose to plan your wedding around the traditional colors of the fall season: rusty colors, reds, browns, oranges and yellows. To add some more pizzazz to your fall wedding color palette you could add in some beautiful jewel tones and even some bright metallics like bronze and gold.
-Stick with seasonal blooms- some very popular options for fall wedding flowers includes beautiful fall favorites like sunflowers, mums, roses and daisies.
-Return to the beauty of nature- for your fall wedding you should utilize simple décor to enhance the beauty of the fall season. Use the harvest of the season to make your wedding backdrop unbelievable. Pumpkins, gourds, leaves dipped in gold, bales of hay anything that brings fall to mind.
-glamorize the fall season- you are definitely not confined to rustic and casual settings for fall weddings. You can incorporate lush velvets, crystal candle holders and glasses and antique jewelry.
-Plan a tasty fall wedding menu- You really cannot go wrong with serving the seasonal fall fare at your wedding. Turkey, green beans, red potatoes, corn bread are all excellent selections to be put on the menu. Here are some other great tips that will help you have a scrumptious fall wedding feast.
-create a family style atmosphere- You could create a formal thanksgiving dinner for your wedding and incorporate traditional family recipes into the menu. And to make the wedding dinner even more intimate if you are planning a small wedding you can serve the food family style.
-keep your wedding dinner elegant- you can create an intimate family style dinner for your fall wedding and still add a touch of elegance by serving your food in creative ways. For instance if you are serving hot apple cider you can serve it in pretty glass mugs and adding cinnamon sticks to the drink. If you are planning to serve some type of soup you can choose to serve the soup in hollowed out gourds. Simple touches can really provide a big touch of fall themed class to your wedding.

With a little bit of planning you can plan a gorgeous fall themed wedding that will go off without a hitch.

Fabulous Dress Ideas for Destination Weddings

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:23:54 +0000

Planning a destination wedding has become a hugely popular practice among women who live a very fast paced life. A huge portion of today’s working women are loving the idea of being able to have a wedding that isn’t old fashioned and traditional yet still has all of the beautiful elements of a wedding. A great number of couples are beginning to slowly turn away from a traditional wedding reception and instead are starting to focus more on what they want to make one of the most important days of their lives special. A destination wedding means that you are holding an event with only the happy couple and those that are closest to you.

This is appealing because many couples are wanting their wedding to be an intimate affair to remember.
If you have decided that you are going to start planning a destination wedding finding a great dress can be a
rather difficult task. The perfect wedding dress will often coincide with the choice of location for your
destination wedding. You options for destination weddings are pretty much limitless as some couples have tied the knot in the jungle while others have gotten married on gorgeous beaches next to crystal clear water.

As a matter of fact you don’t even need to wear a dress if another outfit suits your special day more perfectly. Looking for a destination wedding dress allows a bride to have a little more freedom with their attire as more trendy dresses as well as dress made as softer more comfortable fabrics are quite popular.

Since destination weddings allow for a bride to be more trendy and informal they can play around with colors and styles and lengths when it comes to dresses. Brides can choose to have anything from a floor length gown to a short tea length dress.

While you are deciding on a dress you need to keep the choice of your destination in mind when you are trying to locate your dress. For instance if you are planning to have a beach wedding short summery styles are the most popular choices. Strapless dresses, dresses with empire waists and A-line dresses are all incredibly popular choices for destination wedding dresses.

Do it Yourself Wedding Invitations

admin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:26:08 +0000

This paper would be perfect for a wedding or any other formal event. The printed text is able to be seen through the vellum pattern, making the overall style very elegant and formal. When printed, the text can be seen faintly through the vellum pattern. The selection of font, paper and design are something that you will want to explore with, and experiment, and as such, you should put several sheets of regular paper into your printer and experiment on them, printing them to check for alignment of the image and design, as well as that you are printing the double sides correctly prior to beginning the printing of the actual project. You will also want to purchase some deep brown or burgundy ribbon, or whatever color matches your invitations or wedding colors so that you can tie up the papers in style prior to putting them into the envelopes.

If you like being creative, and if you enjoy a challenge, then creating your own wedding invitations is not hard at all, and in the end it can be a lot of fun. This makes a perfect invitation for a wedding or other formal event. For a less formal aspect of the wedding, you might want to consider some decorative papers such as printer paper weight to do some of those in the same font and decor as well, so that your tone and style match those of the wedding. You will also know that you get exactly what you want, using your own photos or designs, and specific style paper, in literally hundreds of colors, styles and varieties that are available from LCI Paper. Unique and unusual papers are available now for your use in the invitation process, such as this Sukashi paper from LCI, that is white on white floral pattern Sukashi vellum wrapped around white invitation card that is a radiant glowing pattern. There are some great software that will assist you if you find yourself without ideas or the skills to make the design, that will help you to create the perfect wedding invitation and add it to your paper product.

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How to Decorate for a Wedding

admin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:24:35 +0000

Decorating for your own wedding is always a bit of a chore, but the reality is that if you are capable of doing it yourself, you can save many hundreds of dollars in fees that are better spend some other way. First off, of course, yours and your spouse to be’s favorites will be figuring strongly in the color choice. This one was found online, and will give you an idea of what you’re doing. What style fonts do you favor for your signs? If you truly have no idea what you might like to use for your wedding, think about the time of year your wedding will be taking place to get some ideas from that. If your colors for instance are burgundy and cream, use one cream colored table cover, while the next one would be burgundy, with the centerpiece picking up the opposite color of the table cover. Along the way, we have picked up some super little time saving tips, some decorating ideas and wonderful online spots where you can find wedding decorating ideas, balloon tricks and places to find the best prices and values on decorating supplies to purchase online or in person. Autumn weddings taking place outdoors might echo the seasonal colors of russet, deep reds and burnt golds, while a springtime garden wedding would be well suited with pastels and deep greens. We wired the green balloons together and then, taking ribbon, we used a length about five inches long to tie to the dark red, wiring the ribbon into the green balloons so that the smaller ones still came to the outside of the green. If you are making your own congratulatory signs, or thank you cards, the fonts are an all important part of that, and those can be found free of charge, including some super little ding fonts at The Font Garden where you can download and test them on your PC. If they tend to clash, you might want to consider a third color that will balance them and when you do, select a neutral third color, very often you can use colors that don’t ordinarily go well together. We purchased table coverings quite inexpensively as well as paper plates and plastic serving ware that coordinated in color from the card and party shop in our town.

For your tables, alternating the wedding colors on the table cloths and settings will work out very well and offer some variety. For our own we wanted a more natural look and used sage green larger balloons and dark pink balloons done a bit smaller to resemble flowers on the tree.

The plastic table coverings were textured and although they were plastic they were remarkable fabric like in texture and the cost was just about forty dollars for enough to set up twenty tables. If you haven’t yet chosen your wedding colors, there are a few really good ways to accomplish that. Best Weddings which offers you a gathering of the best wedding sites available on the web today. We used several of the mylar dove balloons to stand up with helium, and added a sprinkling of them using just air to fill for inside the netting. Another super idea to use balloons for is the traditional balloon drop, where you tie bundles of balloons inside a large tulle net and when the string is pulled the balloons drop. We then wired in long stemmed pieces of baby’s breath between the balloons, and attached the whole balloon bundle to the top of the dowel rod. Our balloons were not the simple round ones, but instead we added to the dark red heart shaped balloons and coming led them with doves that we found at Balloon Maniacs. Place cards for guest seating are easily accomplished using your own home pc and some software that is available to you from American Greetings, which helps you to make not only greeting cards, but also envelopes, place setting cards and signs and party favors. My daughter in law and I began with decorating for my own wedding, and ended up doing the same for many friends and family members over the past four or five years. For the tree trunk we used a dowel rod, covered in brown crepe paper wrapping. The archway base can be rented from nearly any bridal shop for a relatively nominal fee, then wound with ivy with baby’s breath interspersed among the ivy, and balloons added here and there randomly.