Staying healthy with smart choices and good habits is important for bride-to be. Here are some good habits to keep your health in good shape before you walk down the aisle.

1. Eat well
There will be lots of celebratory eating and food on days prior to the wedding and on the wedding day but it is important not to let nutrition fly out the window during this important time. Make healthy choices, like opting to drink water instead of soda, and exercising portion control.

2. Take a walk
Walking is a good exercise to help you clear your mind, relieve stress and burns calories. An average bride can expect to burn around 70 calories per mile, an amount that will at least work off a few cake-tasting bites.

3. Practice good posture
Standing up straight is good for health and your wedding. This will not only make you look more attractive and for your walk down the aisle, it will also help prevent injury and promote better back health.

4. Eat some chocolate
Dark chocolate is good for blood pressure, getting rid of free radicals, and other benefits.  Chocolate also stimulates production of feel-good serotonin, a hormone that can help with stress and ease your moods.

5. Avoid late-night planning
Staying up late to plan your wedding is one of the worst things you can do for pre-wedding health. By depriving yourself of sleep, you’re at risk for problems like weight gain and an impaired ability to heal. Of course, you’ll probably end up crabby in the morning, too.

6. Avoid caffeine
Caffeine may give you a quick kick but in the long run it will cost you much of your needed energy and It’s bad for your complexion, too. Get energy from drinking lots of water and eating healthy fruits and vegetables.

7. Stay active
Wedding plans will costs you much time and energy, making even bride with a dedication to exercise forgets about fitness every now and then. While it’s perfectly fine to cut back for the sake of your sanity, still try to find at least a little time to be active, whether it’s a walk around the block or a quick lunchtime trip to the gym.

10. See a doctor
Be sure to see a doctor promptly to catch any health troubles early on so you won’t end up sick on your wedding day.

11. Sleep
A regular sleep schedule will give you the energy you need to run the wedding preparation and other important thins. Whether it’s 6 hours or 10, make sure you’re getting what’s right for you to stay on top of your game.

12. Visit your gynecologist
It’s a good idea to get one more run down of your sexual health, including a check for any STDs. This can even include a pre-pregnancy checkup if you plan to have children.

13. Immunizations
If you’re going to need immunizations for your honeymoon, get them out of the way as early as possible. This way, any illness or complications resulting from the immunization can be dealt with well before your big day and trip.

14. Create a stress and fear outlet
Even the simplest wedding comes with a bit of stress, it is better to find a way to release your troubles, whether it’s kickboxing or just getting everything done. And you may also feel fear and anxiety about the upcoming marriage; find an outlet for your fears, whether it’s through a professional or a trusted confidant

15. Have fun
A happy bride is a healthy bride. Remember that despite the weight of your wedding day, it’s still just one day out of your life. Enjoy the ride and look forward to your newlywed life with a positive attitude.

Pap smears and gynecology exams are important and you need to schedule a test. You should have a Pap smear, and a complete pelvic exam to check for any abnormalities.

Discussing birth control is also advisable, whether using contraception or getting ready potential pregnancies. Your doctor can also help you decide which type of birth control is best for you and your future fertility. Genetic testing is good for couples whose plans include the possibility of having children. Some couples choose to be childless and may decide that they desire either tubal ligation or vasectomy, even before the marriage takes place. Other couples who have previously undergone permanent sterilization, and who now want to have children, may wish to have either tubal ligation or vasectomy reversal.

Couple with previous sexual relationships needs to be tested for HIV and other STDs. Undiagnosed sexually transmitted diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease can have a devastating effect on your future fertility. A complete general physical exam that includes laboratory testing and a discussion about your family medical history and potential health risks is important for both you and your future spouse. Make sure that your immunizations are up-to-date at this appointment.

Expecting wedding stress is a good way to reduce the stress since it will not surprise you. Pressure and stress seem to a part of wedding and finding a way around is not a good option and expecting them can help you anticipate and plan for problems.

On the other hand, it is better not to expect perfection; the rule is simple: the higher your expectations, the greater the disappointments. High expectations lead to greater stress, both in the preparation process and the wedding day itself. Know that whatever happens, you will be married at the end of the ceremony. Realize that sometimes the flub-ups are the most enjoyable things to reminisce about. Know that spending more money does not insure perfection. Don’t “blast” friends and family who make mistakes. If you have children in the wedding party, don’t expect anything even coming lose to perfection.

Contentment is your best friend in fighting wedding stress. You just need to be happy with what you can afford and focus on what you do have instead of what you don’t. And it is also important that you do not try to please everyone: Everyone has a vision of what a wedding should be. There is no way in the world to reconcile all of these views. Be polite, but don’t see it as your job to make everybody happy or to smooth over every conflict.

Planning ahead with a calendar of deadlines that allow plenty of margins for error is good for reducing stress. Spreading out deadlines, instead of clumping them together is a great way to get a good hold on your schedule and finding a wedding planner is also a good choice to ease your stress.

Listening to music, sitting in the park, taking a bubble bath or whatever way you like to be pampered can be mini-vacations that help to take you away from the stress

The Service of wedding planner has become more and more important in recent years especially for career-conscious couples who see the value in entrusting the bulk of the wedding work to an experienced pro so that they can focus on their jobs or higher education or simply enjoy their time. Wedding planners are quite common for planning a destination wedding, where the documentation and paperwork can be complicated.

Wedding planner service is an investment. Investing in a professional planner to make your big day come true will save you time, stress and money.  Often the cost of hiring a wedding planner is offset by the money saved when your planner handles contract negotiations and watches over your budget with an eagle-eye.Wedding planner will help you in venue and vendor selection, keep you on task with timelines, and guide you on delicate etiquette issues and complicated family situations.

And you should consider protecting your investment with a professional wedding planner to ensure that investment is protected.

The services of a wedding planner can include:

1. Interviewing the couple and the parents to identify their needs.
2. Budget preparation
3. Planning detailed checklist (from about a year in advance to a few days after the wedding)
4. Attendee list preparation
5. Identification of event venues (hotels, wedding manor etc.)
6. Identifying and hiring of wedding professionals and service providers (caterers, photographers, videographers, beautician, florists, bakers etc.), and preparation and execution of contracts.
7. Coordination of deliveries/services on the wedding day.
8. Have a back-up plan in the event of a disaster.
9. Assist and prepare legal documentation and translations - especially for destination weddings

Spending your entire weekend for your romantic wedding ceremony along with your beloved one and family is a great idea with many activities you can do during the weekend. Special activities, such as spa treatments and golf tournaments can be scheduled into the wedding itinerary.

Lodging usually is at the same facility as the wedding and couples often host a Sunday brunch for the weekend’s finale. Briefly stated, in a weekend wedding the couple and their family or bridal party take a space in an inn, lodge, or bed and breakfast; often, they get exclusive use of the space, with the remainder of the guests housed at other area locations.

A weekend wedding is about an extended time frame, but even more importantly, it’s about the uniqueness, the exclusivity, and the leisurely pace that one location for a wedding and all its related activities can provide. It’s an alternative that is becoming more and more popular, as couples look for a way to get the absolute most out of the celebration of their once-in-a-lifetime union.

It is a common knowledge that White Wedding is most popular wedding theme for last century. However the history of white wedding is less known by many. A white wedding is a traditional formal or semi-formal wedding originating in Europe. The origin of term “white wedding” can be traced back to Victorian era when the white color of the wedding dress first became popular. The popularity of white wedding dress born after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her wedding. Nowadays the term become a general word for the entire Western wedding routine, especially in the Christian religious tradition, which generally includes a ceremony during which the marriage begins, followed by a reception.

European and American brides before Victoria did not typically wear white. They wear a plethora of colors, including blue, yellow, and practical colors like black, brown, or gray. As accounts of Victoria’s wedding spread across the Atlantic and throughout Europe elites followed her lead. Etiquette books then began to turn the practice into a tradition and the white gown soon became a popular symbol of status that also carried “a connotation of innocence and sexual purity.” The story put out about the wedding veil was that decorous brides were naturally too timid to show their faces in public until they were married.

By the end of the 19th century the white dress was the garment of choice for elite brides on both sides of the Atlantic. However, middle-class British and American brides did not adopt the trend fully until after World War II. With increased prosperity in the 20th century, the tradition also grew to include the practice of wearing the dress only once. The portrayal of weddings in Hollywood movies, particularly immediately after World War II, helped homogenize the white wedding into a normative form.

Horse Riding
Riding up to the romantic wedding venue on a beautiful white charger or black stallion is just superb. You can ride side by side with your beloved one on specially trained horses through lush rice terraces, pass the crystal clear river and negotiate your way through the verdant bamboo grooves. Your romantic trail will lead you to panoramic Batu Belig beach; enjoy the beauty of the beach and soothing sea breeze while you ride along the beach with your beloved one. Your romantic ride reaches its final destination when you arrive on a specially decorated altar right on the beach, overlooking the vast sea and beautiful sunset. Seal your everlasting love with pounding waves and lovely sunset as witnesses.

Elephant Riding
Tying the knot on the top of elephant, with stunning morning light or beautiful sunset as background, is surely an exciting as well as romantic wedding ceremony. Ablwedding.com’s elephant-ride wedding package offers unique opportunity to declare your love on the top of Sumatran Elephant, right under a royal ceremonial pavillion in the The Elephant Safari Park, that has been voted as the sixth “Most Unique Destination in the World for Weddings” by Discovery Travel & Adventure Channel.

Safari Wedding
Exchange the love vow with lions, elephants, monkeys and other wilds animals as witness in tropical forest, Indian jungle complete with its castle or African savanna setting. Exchange your marital vows under the canopy of tropical treess and spend your honeymoon right on african style cottages with African savanna view complete with its animals.

White Water Rafting
White-water-rafting Wedding offers thrill and adventure as well as beautiful moment at the very moment the couple leaves the riverbanks. This wedding package consists of two parts: vow ceremony and river rafting journey. First, the romantic back-to-nature vow ceremony is set up on the bank of idyllic Ayung River with the turbulent and swirling waters that flow in a rush from Mount Batur as background and lush foliage and trees as the surrounding views. Right after the romantic vow ceremony, you are welcomed aboard on the specially decorated raft to commend the adventurous rafting journey through some of Bali’s most appealing landscape, the white water rafting along the Ayung River provides. Winding through lush deep valleys with cascading waterfalls and towering cliffs of prehistoric significance, getting a glimpse of Hindu shrines stand majestically to guard the surrounding forest and just as you think the journey is coming to an end, the unpredictable Ayung River propels your wedding raft into yet another rapid, another adventure.

Having a small or intimate wedding in Paradise Island of Bali offers you a vast opportunity to create a truly romantic and unique wedding that you and your family and close friend will remember. Here are some points why intimate wedding in Bali is a smart and superb choice.

An intimate wedding with small guest list offer a great flexibility when comes to choosing a venue since you won’t need a large space to accommodate your guests. You can unleash your creativity to find an ideal and unique venue that will make your wedding memorable and Bali provides a great selection of venue; You can set up your wedding ceremony on the beach with beautiful sunsets as background, or high on the cliff overlooking the vast Indian Ocean or amidst Bali’s lush emerald-green rice terraces, or on the shore of lake with the background of majestic mountain and temple or maybe simply on a lovely garden under clear blue skies and warm tropical breezes. Or you can choose from dozen of artistically-designed chapels which are set up on strategic spots with premium quality views for your indoor wedding venue.

A small wedding offers a relaxed atmosphere you will be surrounded by close friends and family, your wedding will feel more like a celebration with close-knit friends and family, than a production and Bali’s exquisite natural beauties, rich culture will be a good background to enhance the beauty of your wedding and excellent accommodations and wedding facilities in this island will tackle unnecessary worries planning and holding your wedding.

And intimate wedding in Bali also gives a chance for couples who want to get more ‘wow’ for less wallet. Small wedding with fewer guests offers an opportunity to splurge on the things that really matter to you, a great dinner for example, a five-piece jazz band or a designer wedding gown.

Choose the flower that are in season and readily available and ask suggestion from the florist which flower is inexpensive at that time.Give you florists an idea what flower do you like, color and of course the flower that you don’t like but give your florists enough room so they can use in season and readily available flower

It is wise to hold your wedding during the Christmas season or immediately after Easter when a church will already be decorated. And try to avoid holding your wedding in February when flower prices are at an annual high due to Valentine’s Day. You can also find a venue such as a park or garden that is already lush and beautiful.

Find a rental supplier that provides large potted plants such as tropical palms or ficus for rent. They visually fill a lot of space, and will help frame your ceremony site or warm up your reception. Best of all, renting a potted plant is far cheaper than buying large flower arrangements. Also, you may consider purchasing these large plants and using them in your home afterwards to get more use out of them.

Venue is an essential part of your wedding. Here are some aspects that have to be taken into considerations to choose the best and the right venue for your dream wedding.

Availability
The availability of the venue on your planned wedding date has to be checked. You may find your perfect venue is very expensive on the weekend you had planned but is less so on a week day.

Capacity
Intimate wedding needs small wedding venue just for close friends and family and bigger wedding need bigger venue. The venue needs to be able to cope with the number of guests you are inviting. You want to ensure that the capacity is also not too big though or your reception will feel swamped.

Price
Price of the venue depends on the size and location of the venue and what is actually included in a package price. Try and obtain estimates for the various different packages that the venue has to offer along with an extras price list so that you can add or remove items to fit in with your budget. Ask about the discounts available for large wedding parties and try and find out what number of guests would constitute a small wedding that would not take up the venue’s largest function room. Make sure you are advised of what typical additional charges are made to other wedding bookings and whether or not taxes are included in the figures you have been quoted. Determine whether the cost would change significantly if the date was moved a week forwards or backwards or if a week day was chosen instead. Finally you need to know how much of a deposit is needed, payment terms for this and the final bill and what the cancellation terms are.

Location
Indoor venue needs to have sufficient room at the altar for all those you envisage needing to be there, including the minister, the bridesmaids, photographer, pageboys etc. You also need to make sure that there are good backdrops for your wedding photos. For outdoor venue a contingency plan in case of rain is needed. A venue need to be able to accommodate the ceremony and reception indoors if need be. It is also worth looking around inside the venue for some beautiful locations should the need to take indoor photos arise.

Facilities
Venue should have supporting facilities such as car parking, toilet. If you have children coming to the wedding and reception, it is worth asking whether the venue can arrange fully insured and regulated babysitting services. If you are having an evening dance, is the dance floor large enough?

Accommodation for guest
If you have many friends and family who live out of the area, the chances are they will need accommodation for the wedding night as well as the night before perhaps. The ideal location for them to stay would be the wedding venue if the price and accommodation is suitable.

Venue staff members
How you feel about the wedding co-ordinator or member of staff who will be dealing with the planning of your wedding is also important. If the venue is perfect but you do not feel comfortable or confident in the manager you are dealing with, you may be better off picking another venue. Communication problems are easy to come across. Jot down important information that you glean from any conversations and e-mail the venue to confirm your understanding of all the details. It will be too late on the day to argue the toss.