Weddings

Wedding Cup Cakes

January 31, 2010

There is a new trend for the wedding cake part of your wedding. The new wave sweeping is cup cakes and cup cake towers. These can be great because wedding cake and be pretty boring fruit cake and often not eaten by majority of the guests; whereas cup cakes can be handed round and easily eaten. I think this is great. I personally love cup cakes and there are companies out there that specialise in the making and decorating wedding cup cakes. You can purchase all sorts of designs and it is definitely something different for your wedding. Even better you can colour code it much easier to suit the theme of your wedding. They can even make them into towers to look like the tiers of a wedding cake!

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Themed Weddings

January 30, 2010

Themed Weddings – Yes or No?

My friend was telling me about a wedding she went to recently that a medieval themed wedding. Everyone who attended, even the guests were dressed in the proper medieval attire, there was a even jester for entertainment. For dinner was a traditional meal, included a hog roast and apple pie. After the ceremony there was the usually wedding stuff, speeches, first dances etc but then after that there was a sword fight display! Slightly odd for a wedding but hey….whatever floats your boat. I don’t know if I would be able to take this wedding seriously – is this really what the bride imagined for her wedding day when she was a little girl? Don’t know how I feel about themed weddings!!!

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Celebrity Weddings 2010

January 29, 2010

Some of the most anticipated weddings in 2010 are most definitely
•    Emily Blunt and John Krasinski
•     Bethenny Frankel and Jason Poppy
•    Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem
•    Vince Vaughn and Kyla Weber
•    Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart
•    Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski
•    Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen
•    Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer
It pains me to say that Hayden Christensen is going to be off the market, one very good look man off the shelf and I’m sure that some men will be gutted that the lucky lady Rachael Bilson is the one to snap him up.
Jennifer Aniston is surely affected by the marriage of her ex Vince Vaughan to his new lady, estate agent, Kyla Weber.

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The Most Expensive Wedding Dress Ever Made

January 28, 2010

One of the most expensive wedding dresses ever created, worth even more than Princess Diana’s dress is the Renee Strausse Wedding Gown. This amazingly sparkly number is worth an astonishing $12 million!!!!!! The designer Renee Strausse teamed up with Martin Katz Jewellers to make a dress completely covered with diamonds – up to 150 carats worth all laced into the dress. The veil is a bit of let down, not as sparkly and covered in Rhinestones not diamonds. Apparently it is the most expensive wedding dress on record in the world; rumour has it there is one worth $19 million though!! I’m yet to find a picture or an article relating to it completely though!! Let me know if you find one!

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The National Wedding Show

January 27, 2010

Now that the ‘deep freeze’ is over the wedding season is getting into full flow. The National Wedding show is now advertising the sale of Exclusive VIP tickets for both the London show and the Birmingham show at the NEC. It is full of over 250 exhibitors helping you decide on flowers, photographers, cakes and honey moon destinations. It boasts the ‘largest collection of wedding dresses under one roof’ and one of this year’s special appearances is by Caryn Franklin from the How to Look Good Naked team. She will be giving a makeover show. There will also be other industry experts to give you a helping hand in preparation for that big day. Check out the website and sign up for the newsletter, where you can get tips and updates on the forth coming events.

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Something a little different

December 10, 2009

Most girls through their childhood have dreams of how they see their wedding day.  It most cases, it’s all floating big white dresses, flowers displayed it all possible spaces, a church choir singing with angelic voices in the beautiful village Church…

However, you’re going to spend at least £10,000 ( or that’s how much they reckon – at the least!)  so why not be a little different and give everyone something to remember your day by…

• How about diving out of an aeroplane? – with the Vicar still by the side of you!
• Get married under water perhaps – wearing your diving equipment?
• Rise above it all in a Hot Air Balloon – sipping Champagne?
• Or drive round your favourite City on an open top bus?

No – not for you?  Back to tradition and your girly dreams so Church it is then!!

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Stationery

December 9, 2009

You can’t just go down to your local supermarket these days and get a pad of invitations to fill out and send to your guests.

No, no no you end up having to make sure even the cards match your colour scheme.  You have the invites, day and evening – normally different for different guests,which include a ‘reply’ card for them to return to you, plus the ‘Order of Services’ , and then there’s the table menus and then the place name cards and the main table plan – the list goes on!  And now, can you believe it,  you send out a ’save the date card’!!  It’s ridiculous – no wonder getting married these days is soooo expensive!

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Your Dream day at last!

December 9, 2009

It’s a day that you have been thinking about since you were a little girl.  You’ve found the man of your dreams so now you can have the day of your dreams – at last!

But it can seem a bit daunting to begin with.  There is so much information out there, so many things to think about and arrange it’s difficult to know where to start.

Your first task for your wedding day would be to arrange the venue – sometimes there can be at least a 2 year waiting list!!  It all depends on you  both as a couple -most go for a church others a hotel.  My friend got married on a bandstand in the grounds of a hotel – luckily the weather was sunny and warm (which for England is a miracle) but it looked beautiful and was something a little bit different!

Once this is organised you know how long you have to find the perfect wedding dress.  So many styles, so many colours,  so many shopping days to drag your mum and bridesmaids on!!

Organising a wedding creates many a conversation but friends and family don’t always understand or have thet ime to be as involved as they would like to be.

So, I have found a great site which enables you to chat to other ‘brides-to-be’ so you can share your thoughts  and discuss the dramas that you can almost guarantee will happen somewhere along the way!

It also gives you a wealth of information and ideas to guide you in the right direction so you have a perfect day.

Visit www.ukbride.co.uk

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Photos

December 7, 2009

Right OK?  I’ve been through this whole wedding malarky myself so kind of know what’s it’s all about.

You want to capture as many moments of the biggest day of your life as you possiblyy can, so you have the photos done professional and have someone bobbing around with a vieo camera.  Bits are captured that you possbilby don’t have the time to see for yourself.  It’s all fab and you have the memories to treasure for ever.

However, the photos take at least 2 hours of your day away from you – memories of romantic  poses I would never normally find myself or my husband in and tehn end up paying a fortune for.

I think, if I ever had my time again, I would leave the professional phots aside and ask for friends and family to share theirs around. To me the day flies past enough so I would rather spend as much time as I can sharing my biggest and most specailist day of my life with my bestest and specialfriends and family than looking down the lense of a camera.

And the last thing once you’ve looked at them and showed them to everyone – they then get put in the draw for the next 20 years to gather dust!

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Learn to Dance.

December 1, 2009

Ok, so you’ve managed to walk downthe aisle without tripping over your big white dress.  You’ve both said your vows without too much crying ending up with mascara running down your beautifully made up face.

The dinner has been eaten with the wine  flowing by the bucket load. The speeches have made people laugh with all the childhood tales being told and tears shed – again from sincere and heartfelt words about the bride.

It;s now time for your first dance, the lights are low, the tune and song which brought you together is playing and how do you dance?  Do you just go round and round in circles falling over each other toes, and your new husband tripping over your dress?

No no no!  Wind back the clock 12 months and get yourself some dancing lessons!  My husband and I spent 12 months in the run up to our wedding having Ballroom dance lesosns.  It was a bit out of our league but didn’t tell a soul we were going.  Can you imagine everyones faces as we broke into the Waltz in our first dance.  It was amazing and well worth all the hard work and tiffss we had in practising!

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