tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20737613599089149132009-10-13T02:26:48.431-07:00Wedding planning can be fun - with a little direction. Look here for a wide variety of tips and ideas to help your dream wedding come together.Jeanettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271623673003386131noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073761359908914913.post-9745022267395351022009-06-26T10:51:00.000-07:002009-06-26T10:57:01.868-07:00

Hiring a caterer is a huge decision. Indeed, most young couples find that the catering is the single biggest cost in the entire wedding planning process. It does not have to be, of course, but often it is. The trick for each couple is to make the catered part of their wedding celebration exactly what they need it to be both in quality and budget. To do this, however, a couple needs to spend a

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We all want that perfect dream wedding day. And a beach wedding with gorgeous reception centerpieces is a great start for many, but the sun and the gentle ocean breezes that makes the beach so magical also poses challenges for your wedding plans – and really impact beach wedding reception centerpieces.Most any bride who has been married on a beach will tell you that the wind and the sun are the

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Establishing a wedding budget is not fun, but it must be done. Looking at wedding dresses, dreaming of wedding venues, going to cake tastings, and shopping for bridesmaids gifts are all more fun than establishing a wedding budget. But what a couple is able to do with any of these elements of their wedding are all impacted by the wedding budget. All too often brides blow their wad on one or two

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I have resisted posting a free wedding planning checklist up until now because far too often brides allow the checklist to become a substitute for taking the time to plan.That's understandable.The engagement period is an extremely busy time of one's life and during busy times it is easy to look for shortcuts. The problem is that using a wedding planning checklist as a substitute for real planning

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At long last...I am proud to announce the release of the long awaited Stepping Stones to Your Dream Wedding!In it I:Reveal how each of the primary disciplines in the wedding industry works. Reveal the issues each wedding professional have to wrestle with to keep their business afloat. How you can make use of that knowledge to work with your wedding professionals to come up with the best possible

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You want the right personalized groomsman's gift. It's only natural. After all, they are among your closest friends. Moreover, they are playing a generous role in making certain that your wedding day goes off just as you want it to. The normal response is a gesture of gratitude as reflected in a personalized groomsman's gift.The tradition of giving gifts to our wedding attendants is an once in a

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Stay Basic: People tend to skim invitations. Limit your wording primarily to the five ‘W’s. Let the theme of the wedding be set either by the type and design of the invitations or by a handful of carefully chosen words.Avoid Wordiness at all Costs: Simple invitations are clear, wordy invitations invite confusion.Consider Personal Culture: Only you and your closest friends know the culture of your

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The wedding reception table centerpieces are a key component of the decor in any wedding. After all, every eye is trained on the table centerpiece more than any other decor element in the room. As a result we want our centerpieces to be stunning.It's natural. The question is how.Of course we can buy wedding reception centerpiece kits. That is a great way to take the stress out of at least one

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With the economic downturn more and more people are looking for ways to save money while still mounting a wedding that they can look back on with fond memories. Is that a tall order? Not really. All it takes is replacing the money that would have been spent with a little more careful planning. Anyway, today I posted a new article entitled, Save Money on Your Wedding Flowers. Check it out.

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I just posted a new article about the pros and cons of attempting to save money by making a wedding cake. The article goes on to provide a few tips that will help those who choose (whether because of budget or something else) to bake and decorate their own wedding cake in their endevors. Click here for Do-It-Yourself Wedding Cakes

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There is nothing like good physical exercise to reduce wedding planning stress - or any kind of stress for that matter. It truly is good for the human body in virtually every possible way. We were created to be physically active.During the wedding planning phase of a woman's life it is easy to feel like she just doesn't have time to get down to the gym. After all, she has so many things to do and

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It's mid week. For the brides who are in the middle of wedding preparations we sometimes find that we need a break... that lasting until the end of the week is just not an option!Whether it's a misunderstanding over the flowers or an obsessive Aunt who seems to feel the need to dictate every little detail of the wedding - regardless of the fact that it is not her wedding, every bride finds from

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During the course of planning a wedding we encounter many elements that we were not even certain existed before hand if we have never planned a wedding before. Usually those elements are in the details and they are rarely the same thing for each bride.Usually they have to do with assumptions about the way the wedding industry does or should operate.Whatever the particular stressor, the trick is

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It's Friday. The wedding plans are coming together but the stress and the enormity of the task is taking its toll. What to do? Keep on pressing on? Sometimes. We all know that sometimes perseverance is the only way to accomplish anything.Assuming that we have persevered and tackled major portions of the wedding planning process how do you release the stress that builds up without creating more

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So often we either try to ignore and endure wedding planning stress when we should be setting aside an occasional evening, afternoon, or even a weekend to help our minds and bodies release and manage the stress. Without times like these we run the risk of allowing ourselves to turn into Bridezilla.If, on the other hand we work those breaks into our wedding planning schedule - breaks where we do

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It's Monday. The typical day when none of us want to do any work - which brings us to today's tip - reduce stress by giving some of your wedding planning responsibilities to someone who will embrace them with open arms!Guys love their toys... and most guys love anything high tech. So get your intended to get out his digital camera, camcorder, and laptop so they can set up a wedding website –

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Today's post is a controversial one. Not because it is iffy, but because some people have tried today's suggestion with poor results.The problem, in most cases, is not in the idea - it is in the execution... as is so often the case.Hire a Wedding Planner: A wedding planner who has been around the block a time or two offers something very few brides have – experience. They know people in the

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Most brides are going to love today's wedding planning stress reduction tip. There is little that is its equal in helping one to unwind and rejuvenate. But then again, times of great stress require great stress release tools.Take a Trip to the Spa: Often brides will plan a trip to the spa with their bridesmaids in the week just before the wedding. That can be good, but it might not be enough.

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During the next two or three weeks I am going to devote myself to providing practical, time tested tips that will help any bride to manage, relieve, or reduce the stress that so naturally follows the act of wedding planning - and stress will follow. Anything worth doing is difficult enough to produce stress and something as big as today's wedding celebrations clearly are a stress producer for all

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Every bride wants to look fabulous on her wedding day. That means choosing the right lingerie to provide just the right application of support to help her both look and feel beautiful in that gorgeous wedding gown she just paid so much for. There is, however, a trick to buying the perfect wedding day lingerie. It's not overly complicated, but as in so many things there is a wise process to work

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Ordering a wedding dress should be a wonderful, memorable time in the life of every bride. There is no reason that it shouldn't be either. Unfortunately, all too often it is not. Here are six tips that should help any bride who has chosen to work with a reputable bridal shop to have a positive experience ordering their wedding gown.Understand that wedding dress manufacturers use size charts that

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You've spent a lot on the wedding dress already so the temptation to put the brakes on the money train is understandable. But should you? Should you attempt to dye your wedding shoes by yourself? In truth even the most beautiful wedding dress can be ruined by an unskilled alteration.The answer is simple. Unless you have a seamstress with a wonderful reputation for wedding dress alterations and

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The silhouette describes the outline of the wedding gown. This is the big picture. This is the over all look of the dress. It, along with the bride's body type, is the single largest factor in how the bride will appear in her wedding dress.As such, it is generally advisable to choose the silhouette of the wedding gown first before choosing the type of train, veil, etc. because once a bride has

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Just a short note: The Brides Against Breast Cancer wedding gown sale for Making Memories in Portland, Oregon is happening right now. It's a great way to save money on your wedding dress (the dresses are donated and they sell them at a discount) and help a worthy cause at the same time.Know of any similar sales around the country that are coming up? Tell the world about them by leaving a note in

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Buying a wedding gown can be terribly confusing. There is a different name for everything, some of which we use in our everyday life and some have never made it into mainstream life. Today’s input are the definitions of the most common wedding dress neckline and waistline terminology to help ease decision making process - after all after the dress there is still the bridal bouquet and so much

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