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Wedding Code - by Sharon Boffo

 
Welcome! You might be reading this blog because you are one of the following: • A Bride-To-Be or Groom-To-Be looking for Wedding Planning Tips (Congratulations! You’re soon to join the bandwagon); • A Wedding Fanatic (just like me!); • A Wedding Planner who seeks new wedding ideas; • A Friend or Family member of someone who is planning on getting married; or • Simply an Interested Reader who chanced upon this blog. You are welcome to browse through the posts and pick an idea or two about weddings. Enjoy and please do come back anytime and check out my new posts. Bring a friend or two who you think would enjoy reading through my articles as much as you did. It’s always fun to bounce around ideas -- especially when you’re planning a wedding.
Here are simple steps to follow in creating three of the pool-side wedding table centrepiece ideas described in the article Pool-side Wedding Table Centerpiece Ideas.

CRYSTAL AND LIGHTS

You’ll need:

# Small crystal bowls
# Christmas LED lights
# Crystal or transparent pebbles

How to make it:

On the crystal bowl, arrange the LED lights on the bottom. Fill the bowl with the pebbles. To conceal the LED lights wire, use a table cloth that you can put a hole on the center. Get the wire to go through that whole so that the wire can run under the table cloth and under the table.


MINI TROPICS

You’ll need:

# Fortune plant (if available)
# Sand
# Pebbles
# Shells
# Clam shell, bowl or coconut shell for container

How to make it:

If a fortune plant is available, position it on the center of the container. Fill the container with sand halfway up the bowl. Scatter the shells and pebbles on top of the sand. If you are having a night wedding and you want to use the Mini Tropics for you are having a night wedding and you want to use the Mini Tropics for your centrepiece, you can throw in some lights just around the bowl. If you cannot find a fortune plant, you can substitute a big candle to it.

CANDLE BOWLS

You’ll need:

# Crystal bowl, clam shell or coconut shell for container
# Water (you can also put some food coloring to make colored water)
# Scented floating candles
# Flower petals

How to make it:

Half fill the container with water. If you have a large enough container, let flowers and candles float over the water. But if the containers are not big enough, you fill one container with candles and 2 containers with flowers and make the combination of the 3 containers as one table centrepiece.


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Wedding bouquets are traditionally made up of several flowers of the same or varied types. Have you ever thought of having a single flower as the bouquet – for the bride and the rest of the bride’s maids?

Some good points of having a solitary-flower bouquet:

• It is easy to do; therefore, you can do it yourself and worry less on paying your florist for the bouquets.
• Cheaper, obviously because less flowers means less cost.
• Holding the bouquet in front of the bride or bride’s maid allows their natural glow and beauty to stand out and not be hidden behind dozens and dozens of flowers.
• It is easier to hold.

Here is a simple “How To” Guide to making your own Solitary Flower Bouquet:

1. Choose a flower that will stand out by itself. This means the flower itself will stand out to be seen even if it’s alone. Popular choices would be rose, tulip, calla lily, cattleya and sunflower among others.
2. Cut the stem leaving a total length (from flower tip to stem tip) of 12 inches.
3. Clean out the stem. For roses, make sure that the stem is clean of thorns.
4. It is recommended that you remove all leaves to give more emphasis to the flower alone. But leaving some of the leaves should also do it good. Just don't let the number of leaves overpower your single flower.
5. Optionally, you can wrap the stem with ribbon or string of beads to give it a bit of decoration or tie a single ribbon along the stem.
6. For the bride’s maids’ you can make the total length a lot shorter than that of the bride’s bouquet.

Photo courtesy of www.kremp.com


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