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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.

Preserve A Wedding Cake

February 10th 2010 16:20
If you’re getting married anytime soon, here is the best way to preserve a wedding cake to insure that it will make it to your first anniversary celebration. There is no guarantee it will taste as fresh as the day of your wedding but it will look appealing and survive the ordeal.
After you carefully get the top tier of your wedding cake safely home, there are certain methods to preserve it properly. The first step to help preserve your wedding cake the right way is to put it in the refrigerator to chill it. This will prevent the icing from sticking to anything it is wrapped with. Most likely, the frosting will be soft anyway by the time you get it home so its best to chill it first. This will insure that you preserve the wedding cake properly and you lose as little of the icing as possible. If you are leaving immediately for your honeymoon and won’t have time to do it, send it home with a friend who you trust with instructions on what to do.

The best thing to wrap your wedding cake in is Saran Wrap or a similar brand plastic wrap. This will help your wedding cake to be as moist and tasty as it can be when you thaw it out a year later. You should wrap it carefully but not too tightly.
Now you can put your cake in an air tight container or a freezer bag that is big enough. If you scan some local department stores, you may find a freezer container with a good seal to lock out air. Plan ahead so you will know what to do with your cake. You may be able to find specific containers for this purpose at wedding stores in your area or online.
At your one year anniversary, thaw out your wedding cake before you cut it. It may not taste as good as on your wedding day but if you followed these steps, you will have preserved it to the best of your ability. It is more about the tradition than the taste of the cake.



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Plan A Cheap Honeymoon

February 9th 2010 20:07
If you don't want to create a huge amount of debt before you're even married, learn how to plan a cheap honeymoon.
When you want to plan a cheap honeymoon, you must have a budget. A cheap honeymoon is only inexpensive but that doesn't mean it will be less enjoyable or even less luxurious. It can be exciting and wonderful but for less money. Decide how much you will set aside for the budget and stick to it. Consider the time of year you are getting married in and whether it is off season or the peak of the season at the place you want to honeymoon at.
Set aside some time to list your top 5 locations you want to go. Make a list so you can eliminate as you go, according to your budget.
Now you will have to use your navigation skills for the Web. This will take time and patience and it may even take a few days or a week. To plan a cheap honeymoon is not an easy route to take but it's doable. Start with your place of destination. You must find a place to stay, and then you will find a cheap flight to it. Search online for cheap or inexpensive honeymoons or honeymoon packages. Once you have found the place, book it. You can find the flight next.
Now you can search for your flight, search online for cheap flights. Put in your flight dates to leave and return. Compare each airline you can find and have a notepad ready to compare prices. Make sure you are aware of the time the flights are arriving and departing both ways. Sometimes flights are cheaper because you are leaving late at night. As long as you're ok with that schedule, grab the cheapest flight.
To plan a cheap honeymoon, you must save money somewhere. In the flight, you can take off-hour flights. You can also turn your nose up at first class seating. Another way to save on the flight is by not eating on it. Save your money for the honeymoon.
In planning a cheap honeymoon, you can save money by not taking the honeymoon suite. There are lots of nice rooms. Depending on where you plan your honeymoon, you can save by not taking the meal package. There are lots of places to eat off resort sites that are just as nice and cheaper. You can check this out online ahead of time.
Your friends and family can be an excellent resource in suggestions for a cheap honeymoon. There are also forums that are geared towards weddings and honeymoons with chat rooms. These forums can be a great resource to gain valuable information about planning a cheap honeymoon.


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You may not have thought of this little detail for your wedding but the perfume you wear is important. It may not compliment the scent of your Wedding flowers and may actually clash with them. You may want to let your flowers be the lead in scents for the day and go easier on your perfume scent.
The best way to see if they compliment each other is to start early to try to match a scent. Knowing which ones may go together can be a matter of trial and error.
In order to choose you need to know which types of fragrances to choose from:

Floral: Roses, lavender and other flowers
Fresh: Spring scents, with some citrus as well.
Green: light scent
Oriental: This is a spicy scent
Woody: Musky scent

The floral scent is the most popular for weddings. You can also choose a perfume which would match the time of year. For instance, an oriental or Woody perfume scent would be a fall scent. Basically, as long as it seems to match or compliment your particular type of Wedding flower it will be ok. Test it by purchasing a single flower and wearing your perfume. Don’t overdo the perfume. Smell the flower and then the perfume. If after an hour, it doesn’t seem complimentary in scent, choose a new scent of perfume.



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Accessories for your Wedding Gown

August 31st 2009 00:50

Now that you have chosen your Bridal gown, it’s time to get down to the real fun that will accent your gown. Choosing the right accessories can be tricky and take some time. It all depends on your gown and your taste in accessories.
You should start with matching earrings and Necklace. Necklaces with drop diamonds or pearls are very popular but these only look great if you neckline on your dress is a V-neck. The earring should match. Wedding stores and online wedding stores sell sets of these for weddings.

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A Friend's Wedding: The Invitation

December 1st 2008 05:30
A friend (actually she's my son's godmother) is getting married in nine months...

Both my toddlers are part of the wedding entourage. I can't wait to see them wearing a formal suit (I'm sure they will be very handsome... [ Click here to read more ]
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The Wedding Code Story

August 12th 2008 06:00
This wedding blog is special to me and is as close to my heart as any craft that I enjoy doing. I was busy writing articles for a Wedding Planning writing contest for Helium when I came across the idea of having a wedding blog.

Planning a wedding is a passion for me. I think if I am not a software developer, I would have become a wedding coordinator. I love playing around with ideas and matching them up with the bride and the groom’s personality, their wedding dream and their visualization of their special day


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Unpredictable Weather

August 11th 2008 10:12
If there is one thing that you cannot predict to happen during a day as special as your wedding that is the weather. For most major decisions in the wedding, we try to put the weather into consideration like choosing the venue, date or season of the wedding.

I remember attending a wedding some 4 or 5 years ago of an officemate. The ceremony was held in a small chapel in their village and the reception was in a pool-side just next to the chapel. It was a very handy decision for them as both venues are just a stone’s throw away from the bride’s parents’ house


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Let's Talk about Weddings...

July 12th 2008 04:30
Weddings… weddings… weddings… Sorry for the repetition but I just L-O-V-E weddings. Not only do I find them romantic (yeah yeah I’m a self-sworn hopeless romantic) but it also speaks so much of unity and promise (and don’t forget an exercise of ones creativity).

So here I am writing on anything under the sun that is about WEDDINGS and I would love for you to share with me some ideas as well. I’m not at all an expert on this, let’s just say that I’ve got ideas and rather than wasting those ideas keeping it to myself I thought “Why not write about it!”. Who knows? I might be able to inspire somebody’s wedding (now that would be a big plus


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