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Unique Wedding Favors – For The Couple Who Wants To Be Different!

April 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment

When you want people to remember your wedding day, you want to leave a lasting impression upon their minds. It has to be different from all others and exceptional so that it becomes unforgettable. It ought to be unique and to help with originality; you can choose the best and rarest favors to present to your guests.

There are great favor ideas available on the Internet. One of the most unique is the bride and groom petite caramel apples. These single size event favors are ideal for any occasion! The apple representing the bride is laced in pure white chocolate and the apples representing the grooms are in lively dark and white chocolate tuxedos. These ideas are one of a kind and creative minds have come up with many more ideas. Some ideas are just little trinkets guests may use to ornament their mantelpieces or any other part of their homes. Another unique wedding favor is Cinderella glass slippers, which are pure crystal and come packaged in a lovely translucent box with a white organdy bow. One little surprise that comes with this gift is a label with the names of the bride and groom and little charming words that say: ‘At Last I Found My Prince’ or ‘At Last We Found Each Other.’

If you have a theme to your event, it will be much easier to create favors that are simply unique and that will complement your theme fittingly. This is often the case with beach themed weddings. Have you ever come across a personalized starfish? Seems pretty odd at first. But when you have these starfishes on show at your beach themed gathering, your guests will feel like they are relaxing and loosening up by the sea. The starfish comes adorned with a ribbon bow in your selected color.

If you want to accentuate your garden wedding, butterfly garden gift baskets will make lovely little gifts. Like love in bloom, the flight of a butterfly is a definite sign of spring. The gift basket was lovingly designed to produce recollections of a springtime garden in bloom, with a delicate butterfly outline and attractive mesh lining, to take your friends and family to a country garden with the warm wind and the slight sensation of joy of new life sprouting. This gift basket comes with even more surprises, little ones! The basket comes with tiny paper grass filling and a wildflower seed packet to go along with it. What a wonderful gift!

For practical style with unlimited allure there is the lovely Choice Crystal perfume bottle. This lovely and practical favor idea features a glistening silver ornamental crystal heart perched on its top. This makes for a dazzling presentation. Coming under the crystal category is yet another stunning gift idea, a Choice Crystal oyster shell and pearl. Down through history, the pearl has never lost its charm as one of Mother Nature’s most extraordinary gems. These are half opened crystal oyster shells with a pearl resting inside.

For a more affordable idea from the wide range of unique wedding favors, is a simple gift that honors your occasion, traditional matchbooks featuring a shiny finish and with your selected color and script monogram.

A practical and unique gift is salt and pepper shakers created by Kate Aspen. These come as a set of peas and are a ceramic product. Gifts that are practical almost always come with a touch of originality. But you just can’t top the next favor idea – swizzle sticks! Swizzle Sticks celebrate the bride and groom with top hats and tiaras with veils – formal outfits for everyone’s favored drink. The sticks themselves appear to represent the married couple. So dear and ingenious, your guests will want to take them home! You may also wish to personalize a business card case. Another great idea! Ideal for anyone, the traditional business card case is made from a strong silver plate. Try to think useful and you might come across a favor which spells fleece blanket. Snug and cozy, personalized fleece blankets are essential for a day of lazing around. It is ideal for any couch at home, on outdoor activities or in the car during a road trip. Certainly it makes a great gift for any event!

There are so many ideas! Hop onto the Internet, and choose from the grand array of unique wedding favors, what you believe is perfect for you your wedding day.

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Beach Wedding Invitations – Perfect Invites For The Beach Lovers!

April 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment

So you are finally getting married! What’s the next step? First things first when it comes to planning and preparing for perhaps the most important day of your life. Rather than fantasizing away on which gown you will be wearing on your wedding day or worrying about whether the table cloth color will match the table centerpiece you have in mind, maybe you should get down to some real business and start focusing on the most important detail prior to your wedding. It’s the wedding invitation of course!

Weddings nowadays are far more than just being a tradition. Modern couples now are getting more and more creative and imaginative in expressing their personal tastes and preferences in each and every detail related to their wedding. A wedding invitation is the first official note you will be sending your friends, family members and relatives informing them about the significant event. The first glance of what you have in stored and prepared for your guests is expressed through the invitation. Thus, apart from being informative and delivering the important details such as the couples’ name, date and venue of the wedding, it is very important that the invitation makes an excellent first impression and at the same time carries the true reflection of your personality and style and also the sophistication and elegance of the wedding celebration.

So where should you start? Perhaps it is best by determining how big the event will be. Is it just going to be a small wedding party attended by only closest families and friends or are you planning to have a large scale celebration with a thousand guests? By deciding on this factor, you can now come up with the list of guests you intend to invite to your wedding reception and at the same time determining how many invitations you should send out and the budget you should allocate for this purpose. Make sure you order sufficient quantity of invitation cards based on your guests list as repeated order may impose unnecessary extra charges. It is always best to order approximately about 15 to 20 extra cards just in case you want to send out last minute invitations.

Wedding invitations in the current trend come in all sorts of beautiful forms, designs and price range. It is just the matter of selecting the perfect one that will fit impeccably to the style of your wedding. They are no longer limited to the traditional black letterings printed on white-colored note cards. Contemporary wedding invitations are made of numerous types of suitable papers and cards which you can find in a wide array of magnificent colors. They can be plain or textured, flat or folded. The wordings printed on the card also come in a variety of attractive, elegant typeface. For those who dare to be different, wedding invitations are not only limited to paper and cards alone but it can also takes the form of beautifully carved wood pieces, fabric rolled into a scroll with the wordings embroidered on it, engraved acrylic blocks or even a video invitation in DVD that contains footage of the couple inviting the guests. Bountiful ideas can be obtained by browsing through bridal books or bridal websites you can find on the internet. They can also be purchased online with fairly reasonable prices.

If you are planning to have a themed wedding, the design of your wedding invitation must correspond well with the chosen theme. For beach weddings for instance, your beach wedding invitations can be printed with a photograph of beautiful scenery of a beach or sunset by the seaside. Your beach wedding invitations can also be embellished and decorated with fine beach sand, small seashells, corals and strings of pearls. Make sure these decorative items are properly glued and fastened to your card to avoid them from falling off during mailing. Designs and background such as bubbles, waves, palm trees and starfishes motives can as well be incorporated into your beach wedding invitations.

Wedding invitations usually comes with additional inserts or known as trousseau items. Each of these inserts serves different purposes and it depends on the couple whether to include them or not. Among the most commonly used trousseau items are respond cards, reception cards, save-the date cards, map cards and even menu cards. These additional inserts usually bear the same design as the wedding invitation. Last but not least, when placing your order for the invitation, make sure they come with suitable matching envelopes.

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Wedding theme ideas

April 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

One of the first things you should think of in planning a wedding is the wedding theme. Do you want to go with traditional or do you want to make a mark? If it’s the latter, these wedding theme ideas will make it easy for you. The wedding theme is one of the things that you have to figure out in planning your wedding.

Beach Wedding

Enjoy the beauty of nature by having a beach wedding. Let the sight of the waves and the sound of the breeze enchant you and your guests. Play with your imagination on how you would want lilies, hibiscus, orchids and roses be arranged. Make use of palms, tiki torches and seashells for added ornaments. After the wedding, they can have a dip into the beach to complete the event.

Winter Wedding

The perfect wedding gown for the bride is the classic long-sleeved wedding dress with white faux fur, hand-sewn beadwork and intricate embroidery pattern. The bride will sparkle even more if she wears diamond pieces for her jewelry. It’s best to have the wedding in a place where there is a great view of ice-covered mountains or river and a fireplace that can give warmth to everybody. The popular winter wedding flowers are daisies, poinsettias, red or white roses, carnations, snowball mums, magnolias, gardenias, freesias, amaryllis, chrysanthemums and calla lilies. For the menu, don’t forget to add warm pumpkin soup, eggnog and squash dish. You may not be a Hollywood celebrity but still you can have a romantic and magical winter wedding.

Garden Wedding

A garden wedding is one of the most relaxing wedding themes because it involves the elements of nature-trees, flowers, birds, etc. When you say garden themed wedding, it doesn’t necessarily need to be held in a garden. If you don’t have a garden or you can’t afford to rent a garden space, you can have it indoors and transform the place into a garden by making use of lovely flowers. If you are lucky to bring it outdoors, don’t make the mistake of using metal chairs for your guests because they easily heat up under the sun. Let your guests know in advance that you’ll have a garden wedding by allowing your wedding invitations speak on your behalf. Decorate your invitations with dried pressed flowers and floral prints.

Asian Wedding

When you mention the word Asian, the first two countries that come to mind are Japan and China. Having no Asian roots cannot stop you from experiencing their rich culture-that includes the wedding traditions. Each Asian country has a distinct traditional wedding dress for the bride. In China, they call it cheong sam- the form fitting red Chinese dress with beautiful dragon and phoenix designs. In Japan, they have formal wedding kimono which is made of white silk. If you don’t like to stick to the traditional Asian wedding dress because it may look queer on you, you can mix it with Western touch. Remember to style your hair with chopsticks. For the food, you can serve Japanese sushi, chicken teriyaki, wonton soup, California maki and pot stickers among others. Don’t miss to serve the Japanese rice wine called sake. Use bear grass, orchids, and lilies for your flower decorations.

Castle Wedding

If you can afford to experience being a princess on your wedding day, go for a castle wedding. You don’t need to belong to a royal family to enjoy the luxury and grandeur of a castle wedding because there are castles which you can rent all-over Europe and America. You have the option to wear the usual wedding dress or periodic costumes.

Aside from those mentioned above, you can have a fairytale wedding, a picnic wedding, a Halloween wedding and many other wedding theme ideas. It’s nice to be unique. Just make sure your novel ideas won’t compromise the comfort of your guests and yours as well.

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Cheap Wholesale Wedding Favors – The Smart Way To Save Money!

April 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

In the process of making the best wedding preparations to ensure that everything goes perfectly well on your BIG day, most couples tend to get really stressful. From planning the wedding location and reception, making a list of the guests, searching for a wonderful wedding dress, scouting for the perfect wedding cake—the list goes on and on.

One of the many tasks that need to be done is to decide what wedding favors you’ll give your guests. This can be a little time-consuming because you need to put a lot of effort in finding wedding favors that match your own distinctive taste. Not only that, you may also find some wedding favors to be quite expensive. But what if you’re on a really tight budget?

If you want to save money and time, you can go for cheap wholesale wedding favors. Unlike your wedding dress and the wedding cake, wedding favors are needed multitude. This is because you’ll be giving a lot of these to your invited guests, and you may even want to save some for yourself. This is why the idea of getting wedding favors in bulk makes perfect sense.

Finding the best deals in cheap wholesale wedding favors is not impossible to do. You just have to do some research, canvass stores, and look for the one that will best fit your needs and your allotted budget.

You can search the Internet and find websites that offer wedding favors in bulk–most online wedding stores do. You will find a variety of cheap wholesale wedding favors that comes with special offers and discounts as well.

Of course, your local wedding shops and stores do offer wholesale wedding favors too. Ask your friends and relatives if they know of any store that sells wedding favors and bulk. Also, ask if they have stores to recommend to you. You can go to these stores and inquire about their offers.

What’s good about wholesale wedding favors is that you’ll find that there are a lot of vendors that offer commission packages to your advantage. They even provide free shipping and personalized services.
These personalized services include customizing the design of your wedding favors, imprinting your names, wedding date, and other details on the favors, as well as delivering the keepsake gifts right to your doorstep.

Another benefit of getting wedding favors in bulk is the great discounts that you can avail. Just learn how to haggle with the vendor, and you’ll definitely be happy with the deal that you’ll get.

Many companies who make favors for weddings allow you to purchase in wholesale. All you have to do is transact with them, fill out some forms, and have your details verified. Then, ask if they offer free shipping services, and then have an agreement on the date of the delivery. This should be made clear in the business transaction. You wouldn’t want your favors to arrive late, right? Your wedding favors should be with you already several days, or even weeks before the wedding day. This is because you need some time to check the favors that you bought.

In the event that the transaction does not go well and you have to return the wedding favors that you bought, take note of the return policies. Wedding favors that are personalized with your names, the wedding dates, wedding details and such, are non-refundable. On the other hand, those wedding favors that are not personalized in any way can be returned. They can also be exchanged with other favors with the same value, though not all stores allow this.

Before purchasing wedding favors in bulk, or anything for that matter, take some time to make a careful decision on what specific favors you really want. It will be a lot of hassle on your part if you suddenly decide to return the wedding favors that you purchased just because you have changed your mind.

Purchasing cheap wholesale wedding favors is a great way to cut your wedding expenses and save a lot of money. Of course, you can still have a wonderful wedding. Just be patient and make an effort to find the best deal possible. And when you do, you can go to your wedding honeymoon and realize that you’re better off with no burnt holes in your pockets, after all.

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Homemade Wedding Favors – One Way To Personalize Your Wedding!

April 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Wedding favors are essentially not part of the reception. Due to tradition and culture, some groups regard giving out of wedding favor as a standard practice. Because of the rampant practice of this tradition, some people who went to a wedding might feel bad if they didn’t receive any token of appreciation.

The tradition of giving wedding favors came from a belief that a bride and groom would be lucky. Anything that the couple touches could be considered as a lucky charm. Through giving of gifts to wedding guests, it is believed that the couple would be able to pass their blessings to those people.

Wedding favors in different parts of the world

All wedding favors are initially homemade. This was the time when mass production isn’t introduced yet to the industry. Many brides would opt to pass on their good luck by preparing small gifts in the form of almonds that are commonly wrapped in elegantly made fabric. In the Middle East, the tradition is to give 5 almonds to represent longevity, wealth, fertility, happiness, and health. Today, a special kind of almond known as Jordan almond became one of the most traditionally given wedding favors. They are usually wrapped in delicate fabric.

Most gifts would most probably be dependent on the materials available and on the culture of a particular place. In America and Europe, women would crochet bags or make small boxes that can hold nuts, fruits or candies. Up to now, crochet items still gives an elegant feel, especially for country themed weddings. Today, the bride can use her creativity and imagination to think of ideas that she can put on a token to show appreciation to wedding guests.

Modern Homemade Wedding Favors

The tradition of creating homemade wedding favors had been continued nowadays due to some brides who want to reduce their wedding costs. Even with the power of mass production, many people still opt to create their very own wedding favor as a form of self expression. Homemade creation of wedding favors allows opportunities of personalization that can explicitly show the uniqueness of an individual. Retail stores would have limited or no capacity at all for personalization.

Be Resourceful

Homemade wedding favor can be a challenging task and could give labor intensive endeavors. Talent, imagination and time are the only capacity limitations of making your very own homemade wedding favor. You can choose a variety of materials on a craft store. You can choose any materials that you want as long as it fits the theme that you have in your mind. Simple and small bud vases can be painted and designed into a nice wedding favor. Candles can be carved or painted with personalized designs. You can also use birdhouses as a base product in building a mini wedding chapel that would resemble a real wedding chapel. You can also use photos of both the bride and the groom in specially designed picture frame. You can virtually use anything you want, that you think would be a good material to the wedding favor you have in mind. Be as resourceful as you can.

Technology and Wedding Favors

Desktop publishing software, personal computers, and simple quality papers could imitate products that can only be can only be made by professional printers back in the years when technology hadn’t boomed that much yet. You can add simple poetic lines to a beautiful background for a more unique bookmark and framed work. Placards can be decorated with the names of the guests themselves. Just choose the font that you like and apply it on the said wedding favor. Software programs and copywriters can work hand in hand in delivering CDs and DVDs that can serve as a memorabilia for each guest. These private CDs and DVDs can contain events prior to the wedding or during the wedding day itself.

Food

Another excellent wedding favor would be to bake goods for your guests. You can give cookies, cupcakes, chocolates or other kinds of candies or pastries that are personally made and designed by you. This can be created in a simple home kitchen and accessibility of materials that can be used here would be easy. You can just buy at the nearest supermarket.

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Ring Bearer Pillows

April 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment

The church pews are spilling over with anxious nervous friends and kinsman and the pianist has just played a melodious tune to call the bride, in comes the little boy carrying his pillow of flashy rings. Whilst it is easy to dream up this image the main question is; what kind of pillow is suitable?

Weddings are special celebrations that we give very high regard to. In that respect, every detail, regardless of its magnitude, must be given a thorough and appropriate plan. The rings may be the major part of the ring bearing practice but let us not completely ignore the minor aspect of the ring bearing pillow.

The material that makes up the pillow which will carry the very significant and important rings must be one that shows beauty of a high quality. Common materials that rarely disappoint are pure threads such as silk, lace, nylon and all other shiny types of cloth. People’s attention is most likely to be drawn but something that has a gleam. It also gives an impression that the object is expensive and therefore valuable. Lace is a very decorative material that comes in an interesting assortment of designs. To add a touch of glamour to the ring bearing cushion a silk cushion can be lined with a lovely trail of lace. The over all effect is stunning!

The design or cut of the pillow depends entirely on the bride and groom’s tastes. Normal designs include squares, triangles, circles, squares and heart shapes. However, there has been an introduction of theme shapes like a fish, diamond, flower, hats and many more. The design can literally be anything and can be customized in order to fit the desired cut.

Several tones can be selected for the ring bearer pillows. Commonly used ones are mainly silver, white, gold and ivory. These colors are very luxurious and add to the glamour effect of the material. Accessories are also necessary in adding to the glamour of the pillows. Ideal ones include crystals, pearls, and other precious gems. Patterns that can be imprinted on the fabric can be butterflies, ballerina’s and even the initials of the bride and groom. Additional personalizing ideas are printing both names in fancy fonts.

Custom design your ring bearer pillow or order them from wedding retail outlets or online shops. There is an even wider selection available over the internet whose main aim is to inspire and create beautiful weddings.

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Bridal Accessories

April 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Wedding Supplies and Accessories

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Wedding Planning

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Beach Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Beach wedding favours are fun and romantic and will make a great addition to any household. There are so many choices to choose from when selecting these favours for your wedding, but be assured that your guest will truly appreciate these one of a kind unique keepsakes and cherish them always.

The seaside often conjures up romantic images. A romantic beach, the sun above the ocean, the cool sand beneath your feet and waves pounding on the sea shore, what could be a more romantic setting for your wedding! It’s the dream of many couples to have their wedding in some isolated, distant and exotic location, far away from the daily grind of normal life. For a beach themed wedding, it would not be complete without some beach wedding favours to give your guests as a keepsake of your wedding day.

Miniature beach deck chair are an excellent wedding favour, these versatile keepsakes can also double as place card holders for showing the guest their seats. They can even be used to hold a decorative candle to shine some romantic candle light at your wedding tables.

Palm tree shaped candles are also a cheap and fun way to remind your guests of a tropical paradise with the sun, surf and beach playing in their minds, the same can be said of sea shells candles which are a really unique beach memento idea. Some are not only molded into the shape of a seashell but actually contain seashells preserved in a scented candlestick. These will no doubt be a great hit with guests.

An unconventional but fun wedding keepsake is Hawaiian shirts and skirts. Why don’t you treat your guests with something they can wear out on their next beach outing. It would be best to give Hawaiian shirts to the guys and skirts or wraparounds to all the ladies at your party.

Coasters with beach themes imprinted on them are another fine idea for a beach themed wedding favour, soap and baths with sea salt and shaped into sea shells, starfish and other sea elements also make great and useful keepsakes. There are just so many ideas to choose from that the list just goes on and on.

So if you decide to hold a beach themed wedding make sure to give your guests a gift that will recall your beach celebration time and again, every time they use these functional beach wedding favours.

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