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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.

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Creating Unforgettable Wedding Gifts

July 18th 2011 22:29
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If you’re looking for a very unique wedding gift to give which will be unforgettable, here is an idea. This gift may take some time and thought but will turn out to be well worth it and very memorable for the Bride and Groom. This is a keepsakes that will always be remembered.


Needed: Photo album, 1 piece of white poster board, hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, 1 yard of material, 1 ½ yards of lace, quilt batting.
Making a memory album for the Bride and Groom is one of the most beautiful presents you can make. You can do this by buying a large photo album. Purchase about 1 yard of eyelet or silk material in either white or off white. Purchase about 1 ½ yards of border lace which is at least 1-2 inches wide. Be sure to have a hot glue gun and lots of glue sticks.
Cut your batting to match the entire length of the outside of the album, then glue it to the album. Then cut a piece of material bigger than the album, enough so you can glue it to the inside (a couple of inches glued inside), and have a finished edge.
After the material is in place on the photo album, glue the lace completely around the edge of the photo album continuously. Then glue together the final edges with a small amount of glue.

To finish off the inside covers, purchase poster board in white and measure and cut a piece for the inside front and back. Cover one side with material; bring it to back and

glue it with hot glue. Then glue one to front inside cover and one to the back.

To put a final touch on the front of the album, cut out a shape (heart, oval, square) large enough to hold a photo. Cut the inside out as to make a picture frame. Cut batting for front in same shape. Glue batting on front, glue matching material by covering front and bringing material to back and gluing it. Cut hole in center of it. Cut slashes almost to edge of inside of photo frame. Pull fabric to back of frame and glue to create a finished edge. Glue matching lace on edges, then glue frame to front of photo album only halfway down (on edges) so that a frame can be put through the top.
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Top Ten Home-Made Items for your Wedding

May 24th 2011 18:37

1.Wedding cake- if you’re really good at making cakes and have done someone’s wedding or you have your own business it may be worth it. Make sure you will have the time and patience to get it right.

2.Wedding flowers- Are you good at making bouquets and arrangements and do you love to create things? This is very doable if you are creative and enjoy making arrangements and bouquets. You could make these from fresh flowers but it would be easier to make them from silk. This way you could make them ahead and store them.

3.Centerpieces- these could be flowery or not. They could be candle centerpieces, made of candy etc. If you enjoy being creative you could design your own centerpiece for each of the tables.

4.Wedding favors- These are the most fun thing to make for your wedding. They can be simple or more complex and creative. You can have this match your theme as well. It can be candy, like mints or Hershey kisses or it could be a little handmade picture frame for your guests. This will save you a ton of money and you could recruit the wedding party to help.

5.Wedding dress- If you are a seamstress or someone who can sew really well, then you may want to sew your own dress. You will need plenty of time and should start this at least 6 months prior to wedding.

6 Wedding card box- This is the box that your guests will put their wedding gift cards in. You can take an average size box and wrap it with wedding paper and lace. Make a slit at the top for cards to be dropped in it. Tie some wedding balloons to it so that people will notice it.

7.Wedding necklace and matching earrings. This will take some skill but at craft stores you can find books with patterns that take you step by step
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8.Bridesmaid gifts – If you feel you have the time for this it can be done. To make a nice gift, it will take some time and thought though.

9.Pillow for rings – You can easily make a silk pillow to hold the rings and if you have a sewing machine, this won’t take much time at all. You can buy a pillow pattern or design you own.

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10.Cookies, pastries, small desserts for the reception. This can actually be fun to do and these types of things can be frozen ahead of time and thawed out later. It will save a ton of money too.
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Your Wedding: Make it Sweet

October 27th 2010 01:34
If you want your wedding to be the sweetest wedding it’s such an easy task. The reception is the place to do this. Everyone loves sweets and its easy to fill your wedding with the aroma of this.

Starting with the reception tables, not only can you give your guests a sweet little favor which is traditional, but you can have sweet centerpieces at each table. Make the centerpieces edible. You can make this a chocolate centerpiece, candy centerpiece or even edible fruit centerpiece. This is a nice attraction the guests can pick at before dinner as they chat. This is especially nice if it is a sit down dinner. You can use Styrofoam which you can find in craft stores and fix unwrapped candy to a tree shape or even heart shaped wreaths. If you cover the Styrofoam with foil or designer tissue paper to match your wedding it will look better as the guests remove the candy. You can use colored toothpicks to keep candy in place. Types of candy to use are Hershey kisses, gumdrops and various soft candies. You could even design your own chocolate bouquets but this would take some time. If you don’t want to do this yourself you can hire someone to do the centerpieces for you as well.
If you are using a lot of chocolate items at your wedding, don’t forget to shake it up a bit by using various colors or by using white chocolate as well.

Besides the main attraction wedding cake, some fancy to the idea of a dessert table. It’s nice to have tiers of cookies to snack on. You may want to have various confections at this table as well.
As the secondary main attraction, you may want to consider having a chocolate fountain. This has become a very popular event at Wedding receptions. This may even require a table by itself if you have a large wedding. There are so many variations to this item. You can rent your chocolate fountain or buy one yourself.
It is much cheaper to rent a chocolate fountain if you want to save the money. You will have to get the right size according to how many guests you have. Supplies can be pricey so it’s better to save some on the renting rather then buying this item. The chocolate fountain will surely make your wedding sweet as the aroma of chocolate fills the entire reception.
Use your imagination when choosing dipping foods for your chocolate fountain. Some good ones are fruits, such as strawberries, apples, grapes and pears. Don’t use bananas as they will brown. Other items of interest may be marshmallows, vanilla wafers, pretzels, animal crackers and graham crackers.
The variations you can choose from to make your wedding sweet are numerous. Your guests will walk away with the sweetest memory of your wedding.


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Save the Date Wedding Cards

October 26th 2009 10:32

If you want to insure good attendance at your wedding, you should plan on using Save the Date cards. You can order magnets that your guests can put on their refrigerator to remind them of the date.
You can do this quite inexpensively. Try ordering the magnets on E-Bay. I found they were very professional and reasonable. There are so many choices too. All in all, this will save you the heartache of too many regrets from invitations. What a great way to remind people each day of your upcoming wedding. You can double that chance even more by signing up for a wedding site and putting your web address on a business card so your guests can see how the plans are coming.
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Planning a Bachelorette Party

October 11th 2009 12:10
If you are a Maid of Honor or the best friend of the Bride, you may be the one planning the Bachelorette Party for the Bride. Finding ideas that are fresh and new are not always easy for this kind of party. This party need not be a surprise for the Bride like the wedding shower.


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Beach Weddings

October 10th 2009 01:31
Having a beach wedding can be a great theme for your wedding. Beach Weddings can be a more relaxed way to go especially if this is not your first wedding. It can be a casual but elegantly romantic kind of ceremony. Guests can dress more casual and be more relaxed.
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A themed Beach wedding is fun to plan. To begin with, make sure you plan a dress or gown that is lighter and a bit more casual for the beach. Matching shoes should be the kind that are easy to walk in the sand, such as flat sandals. I have even seen some brides use plain flip-flop like sandals and decorate them according to the colors of their wedding.
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Vegas Wedding

September 5th 2009 19:31
Las Vegas, being one of the most popular wedding spots in the U.S., is a great place for your wedding. This has always been a popular place to get married for celebrities as well, such as Elvis himself.
Planning a Vegas Wedding can be very exciting and fantastically fun! This is a place truly designed for wedding couples to start their new lives. There are wedding packages for every couple’s budget in Las Vegas.
Weddings come in many types in Vegas from the unusual to the very exotic. It has become a place of fantasy for wedding couples.
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Choosing a Honeymoon Paradise

August 29th 2009 22:56
It’s traditionally the groom’s job to pay for the honeymoon. This event should be planned together by the Bride and Groom unless of course it’s a surprise for the Bride. In that case, the Bride should not be involved in the planning. Choosing a place that is suited to both parties would be the best place to go.
Hopefully the Bride and Groom have similar ideas on Honeymoon preferences.

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Getting in Shape for your Wedding Day

August 27th 2009 11:02
If you want to look your best for your wedding day, you should begin as soon as possible. Eating properly and in a healthy manner can improve shape but your skin as well.
First, begin with your diet. If you are not in shape and would like to lose a little, don’t frustrate your self by overdoing it. Breaking old habits of snacking at night or just over snacking may be enough. With the pressure of the wedding, it won’t do you any good to overdo it. It’s better to concentrate on eating healthy more than anything.
The next step is to get some exercise. Even a walking program would be a great idea. Be consistent in whatever you decide to do. The gym is great but if the weather is good, walking in the park or on a trail with your fiancé or a friend would also be relaxing. It’s a good time to begin good habits for your new life!
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Finding the right seasonal flowers

August 26th 2009 01:33
Seasonal flowers are those which are in season for that time of the year that you’re having your wedding. There is a big benefit of buying seasonal flowers and that is it can be much less expensive. You don’t have to buy seasonal flowers for your wedding, but it is one of those choices you may have to make.

Here are some choices for each season that you can think about.
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Choosing Hardy Wedding Flowers

August 23rd 2009 19:46
When you’re planning your wedding, you want to keep the flowers fresh as long as possible. A good way to insure that it happens is to choose the best possible candidates for your bouquets, boutonnières, and arrangements. Choosing wisely, can be the difference between wilting pedals and breathtaking pedals. By choosing hardy flowers for your wedding bouquets, you will have extra insurance on these beauties.

First of all, you may want to consider Daisy’s which are very hardy. They make lovely wedding flowers and will match any wedding color scheme.
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Wedding Cakes for Less

August 22nd 2009 00:06
If you’re on a budget for your wedding and you want to save on cake here are some clues as to how to do that. Most of the cake gets wasted anyway so paying a bakery per person is a huge waste of money.
The first way you can save on Wedding cakes is by paying someone to make up a fake cake. Its substance is Styrofoam and looks so perfect and then a amateur cake decorator can icing it and decorate. You could even decorate it yourself with fresh or silk flowers to match the wedding colors. This won’t cost very much at all. As for the real cake, it can be sheet cakes that are being cut for the guests in the kitchen. You may also want to have a beautiful small round decorated cake for the Bride and Groom cake cutting.
You could also save if you had a friend or relative make the cake for you. It would be much cheaper than hiring a bakery. Ask around and you may find someone who knows someone as well. You should plan on asking for snap shots of their previous work. Make sure they have some prior experience with wedding cakes.
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Choosing your Wedding Flowers

August 7th 2009 22:09

Once you have decided on the date and things have settled down a bit, you will begin planning your very own wedding. It’s nice to hire someone to do that for you, but even if you do, you will still have to make decisions on your choices.
I am assuming that you’ve chosen your theme color and your dresses have been chosen. This is very important as your Bridal dress colors should coordinate with the wedding flowers.
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Filipiniana Themed Wedding: Table Centrepiece Ideas

September 23rd 2008 05:57
Planning on having a Filipiniana-inspired wedding? Here are some creative ways of adorning your guests’ tables with decors made of products and raw materials found in the Philippines.

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Monique Lhuillier Gowns for Different Brides

September 3rd 2008 06:36
Other than Vera Wang, another Wedding Gown designer whose name is making waves is Monique Lhuillier. This Philippine-raised designer has created wedding gowns for the likes of Britney Spears, Pink, Emilie de Ravin (of Lost), Natalie Imbruglia, Ali Landry, and Christine Baumgartner (when she was wed to Kevin Costner).


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Vera Wang Wedding Gowns for Different Brides

August 22nd 2008 10:32
I have been looking around the internet for noteable wedding gown designers and found a familiar name crop up - no less than Vera Wang herself.

Vera Wang has been a popular choice among Holywood celebrities to do their wedding gowns. Some of Vera Wang's famous works are bridal gowns of Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Jessica Simpson, Mariah Carey, among many others


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Coffee-Lovers' Theme: Table Centerpiece Ideas

August 21st 2008 10:14
If you ever decided to have a Coffee-lovers themed wedding, here are a few table centrepiece ideas that you can use.

A BOWL OF COFFEE GOODNESS
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Wedding Color Scheme for Coffee-Lovers Themed Wedding

August 18th 2008 08:34
Are you about to get married? Still thinking of an appropriate wedding color scheme? Do you and your partner love coffee?

Coffee? What does that got to do with weddings? Simple. If you both love coffee and you are in the dark of what color scheme or theme to use, why not make your wedding coffee-inspired


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Photo Montage Alternative: Bridal Quilt

August 15th 2008 09:43
A photo montage is a traditional sight in most (if not all) weddings. It is a framed photo of the couple that is taken either during a pre-nuptial photo shoot or an existing photo of the couple that they truly like. The photo is glued to the center of a sheet of specialty paper with enough space around the featured photo for guests to write their best wishes for the couple.

But if you would like to be different while still keeping the spirit of having a montage alive, why not try the Bridal Quilt


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Great R&B Wedding Songs

August 14th 2008 08:45
Weddings will never be the same without the accompaniment of songs that describes the occasion for all the happiness and love that it is and the newly-weds for their love story and their life together.

Often, wedding songs are confined to the classic love songs but throughout the years, this style has changed. Some R&B songs are now handpicked by the bride and groom to be part of their special day


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Pool-Side Wedding: Venue Decoration Ideas

August 10th 2008 05:30
Decorating a wedding venue is fun. For this post, we will be playing with a pool side wedding venue.

Morning to Midday
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Pool-Side Wedding Table Centerpiece Ideas

August 8th 2008 05:47
Have you decided on having a pool side wedding and thinking of the perfect table centrepiece? One of these simple ideas might give you a good start.

CANDLE BOWL
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Wedding Color Scheme: White and Colorful

August 6th 2008 05:31
Picky… picky… picky… that’s how some brides are when it comes to choosing their wedding color scheme. If for some reason your eyes are going in circles from looking for and comparing different color schemes and your head is spinning from trying to decide which color to choose here’s a simple suggestion that you might want to consider – Why not go for white and colorful?

What I mean by this is quite simple. Make your base color white and throw in a mixture of different colors as a contrast to it


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Use Birthstones to Inspire your Wedding Color

August 1st 2008 06:13
One inspiration that the bride and groom could use when choosing a wedding color scheme is to use the birth stone chart.

Three ways of deciding


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Wedding Venue Suggestions For the Traditional & the Adventurous

July 28th 2008 05:32
Still in the dark of where you will hold your wedding? Read on for some suggestions.

Are you the traditional one? One of these timeless venues might suit your taste


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Alternatives to the Traditional Wedding Cake

July 22nd 2008 07:07
The wedding cake is one of the focal points in a wedding reception. The tiered, well-decorated cake sitting on a table by itself allows it to stand out from the rest of the crowded venue. It is therefore a must that the wedding cake is well presented and often should be high enough for everyone to see even from the back of the room.

Tiered wedding cakes have been the norm with such occasions. But with bakers and the soon-to-be-wed couple’s imagination, more and more options are being offered in lieu of having that standard layered cake


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