Wedding Advice Articles

Meaning Of Wedding Flowers

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:13:16 PDT

The wedding flowers beautify the wedding ceremony, reception, dresses, and attires. Each type of wedding flowers tells an important meaning. Here are the common wedding flowers with respective meaning and application.

The meaning of the wedding flowers was handed down from generation to generation. The earliest record of flower giving was seen on the Victorian era. Sometimes, it is hard to express emotion and feeling. So, the men just give flowers. The women understand what the specific type of flowers means. And, it is unnecessary for the men to explain the flowers.

The wedding colors on the flower carry a special meaning as well. Focusing on the particular wedding colors and flowers, the bride and groom incorporates the special meaning in the wedding.

The Calla Lilies flower name came from the Greek word Kallos. It means beauty. The flower has been associated for elegance and charm for generations. Adding Calla Lilies to the wedding, you create an incomparable elegance, sophistication, and charm to the wedding.

Daisies brighten the wedding. It just makes people to smile and cheer. The most popular are white petals with yellow center. Although the daisies are popular flower, it is rarely use as a wedding theme. Daisies really mean innocent and romantic. The flower is perfect for summer wedding ideas. To create a wonderful cheery summer wedding bouquet, you can tie a bunch of daisies and babies breathe with fancy ribbon.

Roses are the most popular wedding flower. The white roses mean purity, innocence, cleanliness, and virtue. Thus, most of the wedding dress is usually white. The red in roses raises the blood circulation and excitement. Thus, the red roses mean love and passion. Combining the white and red, you get the color pink. It means harmony, and fidelity. Pink roses are an expression of happiness to unite on the special occasion.

Roses are always popular in wedding. It is a surefire way to decorate the wedding. Roses come in different colors to match the wedding theme. For an additional finesse, the roses can be wrapped in colored tulle to match the wedding theme.

Tulips grow in cold climate country. Netherlands, North America, and Australia are abundant of Tulips. The bell shaped flower usually comes in vibrant red, white, and yellow. Adding tulips in wedding, it means everlasting love. Normally, the tulips are abundant on the spring. Thus, the tulips are great for spring wedding ideas.

The Meaning Of The Different Wedding Colors

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:54:41 PDT

The wedding colors convey emotion, mood, and tone. We tend to use our favorite wedding color combination without knowing the real meaning of wedding colors. Each wedding color has a good and bad image. In choosing the wedding colors, it is important to highlight the good image of the wedding color.

The cool colors convey calming effect, while the warm colors create excitement. The neutral colors convey unification, or unity. The cool colors of wedding are blue, green, turquoise, and Silver. The warm colors are red, pink, yellow, gold, and orange. The neutral colors are brown, beige, ivory, gray, black, and white.

Black depicts formal, modern, sexy, and sophisticated. It is a color that is always in fashion. It never goes out of style. Black is usually paired with white. With black, you feel elegant, powerful, and sophisticated. Black works well with lighter colors such as yellow, white, blue, red, blue, and green. Black will stand out in photographs. On the contrary, black is also a symbol of evil, darkness, and death.

Blue calls for calmness, tranquility, truthfulness, nobleness, and faithfulness. In all the culture, blue has the lowest amount of bad images. Blue is often use in ribbons to symbolize winners. Blue is recommended and versatile. Anyone can not go wrong. We often see blue in wedding flowers, and dress. The only bad image of blue is depression, loneliness, and sadness.

Brown makes you feel comfortable, warm, and cozy. It is a color of the wood, earth, and stone. The guests will be obliged to stay longer. Brown also stimulates appetite. The only bad image is that it is sometimes dull. However, the brown brings character to the location.

Green represents wealth, money, nature, environment, fertility, growth, re-birth, victory, healing, abundant, and renewable. The green tells of new life and beginning after the wedding. Oftentimes, we use green to show the awareness to be eco-friendly, or environment friendly. The bad image of green is greed, jealousy, and envy.

Orange stands for energy, sun, warmth and comfortable. It is often used in fall wedding ideas. The guests will feel at ease. Think of fall leaves, pumpkin, sun, sunset as wedding themes.

Pink symbolizes the femininity, admiration, love, pretty, spring, gentleness, harmony, fidelity, and sensuality. It is an innocent, sweet, and soft color. Pink is usually use in wedding dress, wedding invitations, and wedding flowers. The only bad image is breast cancer awareness in which most people will not consider as bad image.

Purple shows nobility, royalty, luxury, authority, creativity, inspiration, and spirituality. It is a mysterious and intriguing color. The darker shades of purple represent sensuality, while the lighter shades of purple represent romance and delicate. The bad image of purple is a symbol of mourning widow in Thailand.

Red creates excitement as red raises blood pressure. Red also symbolizes love, passion, sex, and power. Hence, we like to give red roses to show a strong affection of love. Red means good luck in China, while red means purity in India. Life, vitality, celebrations, and gifts are associated with red. The negative images about red are blood, war, danger, fire, and anger.

White is one of the neutral colors which are common in wedding dress, flowers, and attire. White is also associated with purity, innocence, cleanliness, and virtue. Think of snow, winter, and peace as wedding themes. Today, it symbolizes crisp, clean, and luxurious. On the other hand, the white is a symbol of death for eastern countries and ghost for western countries. The caskets are usually covered in white, while the ghosts are usually visualized in floating white sheet.

Yellow is a happy, joyful, cheerful, and hopeful color. Because it is close to the color gold, it is sometimes a symbol of wealth. Think of sunshine and summer as wedding themes. The yellow in wedding dress, wedding candles, and wedding flowers indicate a happy moment. For Japanese, it is a symbol of royalty and courage. The bad image of yellow is emergency, cowardice, deceit, and hazard. In Egypt, the yellow means death, grief, and mourning.

Formality Of Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:03:13 PDT

The invitation of the wedding, time of the day, and dress of the bride sets the formality of wedding. The religion plays an important factor as well. The Catholic and Jewish religion is more likely to be formal wedding.

Very Formal Wedding

The bride wears a traditional long and elegant gown. The gown comes with long train and veil. The long train is extension behind the wedding dress from the bottom up to six feet in length. The veil goes from head up to six feet in length.

In the evening, the bride wears long train. And, the groom wears a tie and black suit. In the daytime, the bride can wear wedding dress with cutaways. Like the bride, the mother of the bride wears long wedding dress up to feet in length.

The bridesmaids can be as many as four up to twelve. The wedding reception is large, fabulous, elegant, and lavish. The guests are as many as two hundred guests. The wedding invitations are engraved and large. And, the invitations for wedding reception are separate from wedding invitations.

Formal Wedding

The bride wears a traditional long gown, but the length of the gown is shorter than very formal wedding dress. The gown comes with a sweep or chapel train. The sweep train is the shortest of all the train in which the length of the gown is barely sweeping the floor. The chapel train is an extension behind the wedding dress up to three to four foot in length. This is the most popular of all the wedding dress. The bride also wears a veil.

In the evening, the groom wears a black suit with tie. In the daytime, the groom and male guests wear black stroller jacket. The jacket and pants can have some pattern like striped jacket and pants.

The bridesmaids can be as many as two to four. The wedding reception is fun, exciting, and entertaining. The guests are more than one hundred. The wedding invitations with reception invitation are enclosed in an envelope.

Semi-formal Wedding

The bride wears an elaborate wedding dress. The hat and short veil complements the wedding dress. The length of the wedding dress is street or floor length. It is same goes for the mothers and female guests. The groom and male guests wear dark suits.

The wedding ceremony starts in the morning or afternoon. The guests are fewer than one hundred guests. The wedding is smaller, but the wedding is well decorated and festive. A single engraved invitation invites each guest for the wedding ceremony and reception.

Informal Wedding

The bride wears street clothes and suit, while the groom wears suit. A bestman without groomsmen and maid of honor without bridesmaid attend the wedding. Before the wedding ceremony, the groom, bride, bestman, and maid of honor takes the proper places for the ceremony. In a first come first serve basis, the guests take a sit. After the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom turn to greet the guests. The wedding ceremony is usually on the daytime. A personal or handwritten invitation invites the guests to the wedding and reception.

Garden Wedding Lights

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:42:08 PDT

The bride and groom are always looking to enhance the garden wedding. As the light of the day starts to dissipate, the candles and lanterns enhance the romance on garden wedding. The candles and lanterns create the magical feel of any pond, stairway, pathway, and entrance of any garden wedding. There are a number of light ideas to enhance the magic of garden wedding.

Bali Flags

The color of Bali flags moves with the wind. It creates the movement of color which adds life to the garden wedding. The light at the bottom shoots up to uncover the amazing movement and color. It is like the flags come to dance all night.

Fairy Lights

The frangipani fairy lights are always romantic and magical at night. Frangipani is a five petal flower that is local on tropical and subtropical countries. The flowers are native on Mexico, Central America, and Venezuela. The color of the flower ranges from yellow to pink. The frangipani fairy lights spectacularly decorate the wedding centerpiece which is usually the wedding cakes.

Star fairy lights add sparkle on the garden wedding, while the heart fairy lights add romance on the garden wedding. The wedding will be fun-filled night to remember.

Floating garden lights

The candle in a floating water lily brightens the night. Any pond or lake in a garden will illuminate the romance. It is a spectacular way to bring life to the garden pond. Any pond in the garden will come alive for the wedding.

Many lanterns can float on river, pond, or lake. In river, the lantern wonderfully follows the path of the river. In pond or lake, the lanterns are creatively place for a romantic backdrop on garden wedding.

Oriental Lanterns

The Chinese lanterns enhance the oriental theme on garden wedding. It is like the garden travels on a different country. The lanterns are available in a variety of colors. And, the lanterns are available in ball, square, and tube shape. Mix and match to show creativity.

The metal tea lanterns are perfect to hang on decks and trees. Mix the height of the lanterns under the trees. The lights will take your breath away.

The tassels on lanterns add the special touch to enhance the garden wedding. The tassel lanterns sway with the wind to create a wonderful movement of lights and colors.

Vancouver Garden Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:46:03 PDT

Vancouver is among the gorgeous city of the beautiful British Columbia. The public and private gardens of the city are highly sought to exchange wedding vows. Here are few rules and gardens to keep in mind on public garden weddings.

The public gardens are on first come and first serve basis for wedding ceremonies, photographs, and receptions. Try to avoid on public events like baseball event, soccer event, and festival. Only the picnic areas can be reserved. The group must be less than fifty. The chairs, tables, tents, awnings, alcohol, and confetti are prohibited. For private garden, the alcoholic beverage can be served as long a city permit is obtained. After the bride and groom decide for the lovely wedding venue, the park board must be notified. The park and beach facilities, pathways, roads, and lifeguards must maintain accessibility for public use.

Stanley Park

The garden weddings are held thru out the park on first come and first serve basis. The Rose Garden, Ferguson Point, Third Beach, Ceperley Meadow, Lost Lagoon, Beaver Lake, and Devonian Harbour Park are among the favorite to tie the wedding knot.

Queen Elizabeth Park

The wedding ceremonies are kept on paved roads and pathways, because the park board wants to keep the garden healthy on the entire year. However, wedding photographs are allowed on the lush and beautiful landscape garden. Most wedding in Vancouver ends in Queen Elizabeth Park for wedding photographs.

The dome shape conservatory sits inside the Queen Elizabeth Park. Reservations are required at all times. Inside the conservatory, the tropical paradise includes free-flying birds, exotic plants, tropical flowers, and colorful fishes.

The special occasion pavilion of Queen Elizabeth Park is now open for public. The pavilion can hold the celebration of once in a lifetime. The pavilion serves as inspiration for nature lovers. The pavilion can be used for green weddings to make a strong statement on nature.

Vancouver Beaches

Many beaches in Vancouver are ideal for wedding ceremonies. The beaches are beautiful and panoramic. It is a perfect backdrop for wedding photographs. The English Bay, Sunset, Vanier, Kitsilano, and Spanish Banks beach are among the favorite venues to tie the wedding knot.

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden

The garden can accommodate from fifteen to three hundred guests. The garden wedding ceremony can be held under the covered. The covered pathways and pavilion can serve as a back up for weather elements that can ruin the wedding.

Maritime Museum

It is adjacent to the Vanier Park. The lush green garden outside the museum is sought for garden wedding ceremonies. In the museum, there are rooms that can handle seventy to one hundred fifty guests.

VanDusen Botanical Garden

The bride and groom exchanges wedding vows amidst the fragrance of lovely flowers, and trees. It is perfect setting for wedding ceremony and receptions. The Mountain View complements the great lawn.

Garden Weddings

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:19:17 PDT

After the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom usually takes the guests and sponsors to the beautiful garden for wedding photographs. The garden weddings give the extra convenience as the wedding ceremony, photograph sessions, and wedding reception can be one romantic wedding venue.

The decorations are built in. The team of professional gardeners and botanists maintains the lush green enchanting garden. Thousands of flowers, shrubs, and trees are planted thru out the entire year. The garden are regularly trimmed, manicured, watered, feed, renovated, and repaired.

The garden weddings are legal in the US. Unlike Europe, the gardens which are design to handle spectacular weddings are a few numbers only. In Europe, many estates from different era are turned into garden hotels. Due to lack of garden for weddings in the US, the bride and groom turn to public garden, university campus, and national park.

The Mirabell Garden of Austria is unparallel in Europe. The garden sits beside the Mirabell Castle, while the fountains sit in the fortress of Salzburg. In addition, the Marble Hall of Schloss can handle the wedding ceremony.

The gardens of Sequim, Washington are award winning. It is warm for three hundred days a year. The view of Olympic Mountain are just plain stunningly gorgeous. The mountain shades the location from the rain. The award winning garden only gets thirteen inches of rain per year.

Even though the gardens are quite few in the US, the few gardens can handle the perfect outdoor setting with the convenience of the indoor setting. The guests adorn the freshly cut wedding flowers on each table. The lush green garden and courtyards provide a large dance floor and entertainment. The chef prepares the delicious appetizers, meals, and desserts. The full bar quenches the thirst from every exquisite dishes on the wedding reception.

Now, the outdoor gardens with indoor capability are able to handle the weather related problems. The portable fans cools off the summer heat in spring and summer wedding, while the portable heater warms up the chilly wind in winter and fall wedding. The garden drainage takes the extra moisture and water in soft areas. The rows of plants and shade cloths break the strong wind. The hard surfaces convert to a path. For soft areas, a temporary carpet creates the romantic paths.

The different styles of garden are available for the lovely wedding. The bride and groom can choose from Japanese, tropical, ponds, fountains, classical, rose, and trees garden.

Wedding Cakes

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:43:09 PDT

The wedding cakes are masterly crafted and decorated by a talented and creative baker. The bride and groom will often use the wedding cakes as the centerpiece in the wedding reception. Here are a few ideas in choosing the perfect wedding cake.

The wedding cakes can be customized to meet the needs of the venue, decoration, and season. Just tell the baker what you need. Everything is almost possible to make in any wedding cake.

The baker decorates the wedding cakes with drapes, ribbon, flavors, scent, tops, and flowers. Traditionally, the wedding cakes come in white. With any wedding theme, the baker changes the color of the drapes, ribbon, flavors, scent, tops, and flowers. For example, a greenish wedding cake can be good for green weddings. The green symbolizes the awareness and responsibility to the environment.

In Gretna Green Weddings, the Scottish baker designs the fruit and sponge wedding cake in traditional style. There are countless styles to choose such as anvil, blacksmith, sandstone building, and open timber roof. Gretna Green is a Scottish village in which is famous for runaway brides and weddings.

The destination wedding tradition of Bermuda is quite interesting. In Bermuda, a young tree is on top of a wedding cake. After the wedding, the married couple plants the young tree on their garden. The young tree grows with the marriage life. Bermuda comprises of Islands which are located northeast of Miami, Florida.

Mixing the butter, chocolate, liquor, pecans, and berries, the baker creates an enchanting flavor a mile away. Filled butter cream, maple syrup, whipped cream, and chocolate truffle, the wedding cake moistens and melts in your mouth.

Surround the wedding cake with hand sculpted fondant flowers, vines, and leaves. Then, the baker paints the sculpted fondant with blue. The wedding cake looks like an elegant ceramic china for a great fall wedding.

Decorate the top with symphony of colorful sugar wedding flowers such as roses, hydrangea, orchids, and jasmine. The battle of colors speak gorgeous summer wedding.

The toppers in wedding cake are handmade and personalized to match the wedding theme. The toppers can resemble any figures, animals, teddies, dragons, fairytale, or castles, but the toppers can resemble the bride and groom as well. Any position and size can possibly personalized. The toppers which are made in polymer clay or ceramic are excellent for keepsake. Hence, the toppers will remind the sweet memories of the special wedding day.

Gretna Green Weddings

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:31:38 PDT

Gretna Green is a historic village of Scotland. For hundreds of years, Gretna Green has been providing memorable wedding. In fact, Gretna Green has become world famous with the scenic and nostalgic setting.

Gretna Green is not the same without the shops of Blacksmith. The shops of Blacksmith made the Gretna Green famous. There are countless runaway brides wedding that were performed. It started on 1754. The marriage consent for boy was only fourteen years old, while the marriage consent for girl was twelve years old. It all changed in 1929. The marriage consent for boy or girl became sixteen years old.

Planning your own wedding, the bride and groom will have to book the wedding photographers, wedding videographer, wedding flowers, transportation, pipers, and accommodation on their. Now, the wedding planners for Gretna Green are consistently increasing in business activities. It makes the planning your own wedding way easier than the past. It is so lucrative that wedding planners gain clients thru word of mouth.

The special wedding rings with Gretna Green theme can be purchase thru a master goldsmith. The master goldsmith will skillfully forge the wedding rings with the traditional anvil and court style. And, the wedding rings are available in white gold, and yellow gold.

The great thing about Gretna Green is the wedding reception, venue, and accommodation can be in the same convenient location. The Mill Hotel includes the Forge. The Forge is a building which is made of traditional sandstone. By the way, the Mill Hotel is just two miles away from Gretna Green. The church-like, medieval, timber roof, and candlelit environment is the recipe for perfect, authentic, romantic, and lovely wedding. Originally, the Mill Hotel was a farm or millhouse built in 1740. Now, the farm and millhouse was converted into hotel and restaurant.

The open timber roof of the Roundhouse handles the large wedding reception. Beside the Roundhouse, a restaurant handles two to twenty five guests. And, the conservatory bar handles the disco and entertainment part of wedding, and serves fine collection of liquor.

Built in 1710, the Gretna Green Hall Hotel has long history of weddings and memories. With cottage of Blacksmith, panoramic grounds, and cozy accommodation, the hotel is excellent location for celebration. And, the outstanding service makes the hotel one of the favorite locations.

Green Weddings

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:51:23 PDT

The traditional wedding is expensive, extravagant, and elegant expense to the bride and groom. The bride and groom will pay a large amount to create an elegant, romantic, and fairytale wedding. Now, the green weddings are entering the multi-million dollar wedding industry.

Green weddings show the awareness and responsibility to take care of our environment. Green is also known as environment friendly, or eco friendly wedding. Green wedding theme inspires the guests, relatives, and friends to their part on the environment.

Use recycled gold wedding band. The fair trade stores may sell recycled gold for wedding bands. Antique shows, auctions, and shops may also carry some lovely wedding bands.

Arrive in style with smart car convertible. The smart cars use a fraction of fuel against the conventional cars. Organize car pools for the guests. The car pool takes several cars away from the road and pollutants away from air. Set the wedding ceremony and wedding reception at close proximity. Hence, the guests have to travel less for the next itinerary.

Ask for the print shop to use recycled paper for wedding invitation. The recycle of paper and plastic campaign are very successful. The environment conscious society is recycling more than ever. The recycled papers and stationary are now widely available. For a paperless wedding invitation, the bride and groom may consider online wedding website.

Rent, or borrow the wedding dress to friends, and relatives. Rent or borrow the wedding dress allows the wedding dress to be reused or recycled. Sometimes, the eBay sells wedding dress in good condition.

The digital photography gets as great as the real camera. The wedding photographers can get the same results with digital camera. The advancement in digital photography allows the bride and groom to screen unwanted pictures. The bride and groom digitally check the pictures to be print for copy.

Reuse the wedding flowers on wedding. The wedding flowers from church may be used at the wedding reception as well. The wedding flowers that are available locally and seasonally reduce the fuel costs to be burn to travel the wedding flowers. Try to use organic wedding flowers to reduce the use of pesticides.

Serve dishes on a reusable and washable plates, spoons, and glasses. Thereby, we reduce the amount of natural resources to go to waste. If it is impossible to use reusable and washable plates, spoons, and glasses, the easily biodegradable plates, spoons, and glasses are excellent alternative.

There are caterers who specialize in organic dishes. Using only organic ingredients, the chef or cook creates the appetizing dishes for the wedding reception to enjoy. The organic wines, spirits, champagne, beer, soft drinks, and juices will quench the thirst of the guests.

Toss only biodegradable wedding toss such as paper, nuts, wheat, and rice. The nuts, wheat, and rice will feed the birds, and squirrels. Go on ecotourism for honeymoon. The ecotourism is also known as ecological tourism. Experience the adventure local culture, wilderness, flora, and fauna. Ecotourism promotes recycle of biodegradable materials, efficient use of energy, and conservation of water supply, rebuild of forest, evaluation of local culture, reduction of waste, education of ecosystem, reproduction of endanger species, and reversal of global warming.

Destination Wedding Traditions

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:41:16 PDT

The destination wedding is a wedding on the favorite place that we normally take vacation. The Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Fiji, Hawaii, and Greek are sample ideas for destination wedding.

The cultures, customs, and traditions of the country shape the way to conduct a wedding. Thus, the wedding slightly varies in each country. Here are some traditions in the favorite place for destination wedding.

Bermuda Wedding Traditions

The Bermudans places a sapling on top of the wedding cake. The sapling is a young tree. After the wedding, the couple plants the sapling in where the couple lives. Then, the sapling grows at the same time with the marriage of the couple.

Caribbean Wedding Traditions

In the Caribbean, they serve a black wedding cake with cherries and raisins. The wedding cake will be served with rum sauce. As for the menu, the goat curries, plantain fries, and chicken jerky are often served. The local drum beats and music enchants the couple all night long. There are endless wedding toasts for the long and lasting marriage.

Fiji Wedding Traditions

The father of the bride receives a special gift from the groom. The special gift is usually the tooth of the whale. The tooth of the whale represents the wealth and status to the local community. Of course, everybody drinks the kava which is the favorite local drink on the romantic and enchanting island.

Germany Wedding Traditions

At the end of the wedding ceremony, the married couple lights the well decorated candle on their hand. Then, the married couple takes the first dance at the wedding reception. The waltz is often used. On the first night, the relatives play practical jokes to make it hard for married couple.

Greek Wedding Traditions

The bride carries sugar or ivy. The sugar represents sweet life, while ivy represents eternal love. The bride also wears yellow or red veil. The veil represents the fire to keep the evil away. At the wedding reception, the plates are intentionally broken for good luck.

Hawaii Wedding Traditions

The Hawaiians make a special garland to wear by the married couple. The Hawaiians uses lei to make the garlands. The lei are a special garland of flowers. The ribbon secures the garland to the beach wedding dress and attire. The groom also wears a sash or waistbands. It is also customary to engrave the name of couple on the wedding bands.

Italy Wedding Traditions

The nuts and seeds which are coated with sugar are sprinkled at the wedding. The nuts coated sugar represents gratitude to the guests, while the seeds coated sugar represents fertility to the married couple. Italians called the tradition as confetti. Today, the nuts or seeds coated sugar are replaced with small pieces of colored paper.

Mexico Wedding Traditions

A beautiful rope which is made of fabric is loosely tied around the bride and groom. The beautiful rope forms a shape of the number eight. The eight also represents infinity or endless.

Puerto Rico Wedding Traditions

The marriage minister blesses the wedding coins for good luck. The groom gives the wedding coins to bride as a gift. The silver and gold of the wedding coins represents unity as the married couple lives harmoniously. The wedding coins also represent prosperity. Traditionally, the husband works as the wife takes care of the home and kids. Now, the husband and wife share the responsibility. There are thirteen wedding coins. The last coin represents Jesus Christ.

Destination Wedding Etiquette

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 27 May 2007 21:34:31 PDT

The wedding is all set for romantic and enchanting on the isolated island, great hideaway, mountain alpines, and panoramic castles. Here is list of etiquette for proper manner and behavior on destination wedding.

The bride and groom spend a large amount of funds for the lovely wedding. It is only natural that guests give a wedding gift to help the couple to the new life. Many times, the bride and groom already have most of the wedding gifts. The couple may want cash as wedding gifts.

The wedding gift registry may subtly give the guests the ideas for the wedding gift in which the couple wishes to receive. The wedding gift registry makes it easy for the guests to figure what the couple needs. In times, the guests give duplicate wedding gifts. The couple can exchange or replace the wedding gifts.

To ask for cash as wedding gifts may be a little embarrassing. The presentation only on the wedding invitation may give the hint to the guests that the couple needs cash as wedding gift.

There are times when the couple cancels or annuls the wedding. The wedding gifts that the couple receives must be return to the guests.

Sometimes, the couple will receive gifts from out of town. That guest might send a wedding gift to the couple. So, the gift may come earlier than the wedding. The wedding gifts must only be open or use after the wedding.

For the destination wedding, the couple must give at least three months in advance to the guests. So, there is enough time for the guests to prepare for the destination wedding. Many employers like to receive vacation requests two months in advance.

The couple must make it easy for the guests to get to the destination wedding. So, the couple must help them find the accommodation and transportation. Look for group rates and discount.

The guests are expected to pay for their own accommodation and transportation. The save the date card tells the hint to the guests to pay for their own accommodation and transportation. In the card, it says the special event location.

The general rule is to invite only the guests for bridal showers who are invited to the wedding and reception. As you know, the destination wedding is smaller wedding with fifteen to twenty guests than the hundred to hundred fifty guests of traditional wedding.

However, the couple may also set up a late wedding reception after they came from destination wedding. This is for the guests who could not make to the destination wedding. Jetlag may overcome the newly husband and wife. So, the couple can set the late wedding reception two weeks after they came destination wedding.

Always greet the guests to the wedding, airport, or reception. Now, the couple may be busy. The couple can ask the bestman, groomsmen, maid of honor, and bridesmaids to greet the guests for them. Especially, the guests hardly know the destination.

Write an itinerary for the guests. So, the guests can make plans to enjoy the extra time in the destination. After all, the guests are on their vacation.

It is important to look good in the destination wedding. The couple can take an extra six hours of sleep to avoid jetlag before the wedding. The caffeine pills can also help reduce the affect of jetlag. Also, the couple must come a lot earlier to prepare for the wedding.

All Inclusive Wedding Packages

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:02:04 PDT

The all inclusive wedding packages include all the requirements to stage the wedding of your dreams. Basically, the wedding package may include romantic location, legal documents, marriage license, marriage minister, photographs, wedding cake, continental breakfast, accommodation, reception dinner and champagne.

Additionally, the bride and groom may add options to spice up the already fabulous wedding. For example, the bride and groom choose to add personal assistant, rehearsal dinner, floral decoration, private transportation, sunset room, boat cruise, spa treatments, live music, tuxedo rentals, candlelight dinner, and hairstylists.

For any destination weddings, the destination wedding planner will take a huge load of work for your lovely wedding. The destination weddings are faraway getaway places. And, we may know less about the destination. Besides, the destination wedding planner negotiates for all possible discounts on every desire of the bride and groom.

To plan your own wedding will take hundreds of hours. Especially, the bride and groom hardly know the destination at all. The bride and groom just bring the wedding dress, rings, legal documents, and attires.

Suddenly, the bride and groom needs to add ten additional guests. With just one phone call, the destination wedding planner makes the necessary arrangements like accommodation, tables, plates, tablecloths, and cutlery.

Typically, the destination weddings are vacations. Think of medieval castles, nostalgic temples, mountain alpines, tropical paradise, sandy beach, blue skies, warm breeze, palm trees, and crashing waves.

Experience the wedding of a lifetime in a romantic and captivating destination like Italy, Greece, France, Jamaica, Mexico, Caribbean, Florida, Las Vegas, Hawaii, or Miami. Exchange the wedding vows in front of spectacular sunset, emerald-colored sea, and white sand. The waterfront ceremony adds excitement to the wonderful dream wedding.

The destination wedding planners know the different special promotions. So, he may be able to offer to the bride and groom. For example, wedding cake, invitations, and off season discounts may be available without extra cost to the bride and groom.

Why Are Destination Weddings Popular

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:42:10 PDT

The destination weddings are weddings in a faraway place where couples like to take vacations. The favorite destinations are Caribbean, California, Mexico, Jamaica, Disney World, South Florida, Hawaii, Italy, Greece, and Miami Beach.

Indulge in a romantic wedding on Secret Hideaway, Log Cabin, Caribbean, Casino Resort, Luxury Hotel, Tropical Island, Medieval Castle, Grand Palaces, or Exotic Temples. In the destination weddings, the couples can enjoy their favorite activities such as skiing, biking, scuba diving, horseback riding, swimming, rock climbing, golf, or tennis.

Traditionally, the destination weddings are only available to famous celebrities and wealthy couples. Nowadays, the destination weddings are reasonably price. In fact, the destination weddings cost less than traditional weddings. In a traditional wedding of 150 guests, the wedding would costs between $15,000 and $25,000. Unlike the traditional wedding, the destination wedding starts from a few thousand dollars only.

The couples enjoy a hassle free and worry free wedding plans. The wedding planner who specializes in the particular destination wedding coordinates the accommodation, legal documents, wedding ceremony, photographer, videographer, wedding flowers, wedding cake, food, entertainment, beverage, and wedding favors.

Best of all, the wedding ceremony, celebration, and honeymoon are all in one location. After the ceremony and celebration, the honeymoon starts right away. The guests may perfectly time their vacation to your wedding. In just 24 hours notice, the in-house wedding planner can set the romantic, fabulous, and elegant wedding.

Negotiate on your own risk if you are planning your own wedding. For example, the couple may be able to find a good deal on accommodations. However, the airfare would prove to be expensive. Most of the time, it is better to get a package in which airfare and accommodation are included in the package. The group discounts may also be available. Naturally, the resorts, hotels, and airlines are willing to bend on a group. Another, the couple would have to worry about missed flights and emergencies.

Depending on the destination, the marriage license requires legal documents for approval like birth certificate, or blood test. For example, the requirements vary from one destination to another destination in Mexico. In Greece, some interfaith marriages are prohibited. In Italy, the legal documents application must be translated into Italian and approved by State Secretary.

Most the couples like to marry during summer time. The weather is vital information especially if you are planning a beach wedding. For northern countries, the summer starts from June to October. For tropical countries, the summer starts from March to April. For southern countries, the summer starts from December to February.

Planning A Beach Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:48:37 PDT

In a beach wedding, the bride and groom can take advantage of the romantic sunset, ocean breezes, emerald sea, soothing tides, white sands, beautiful sun, and tropical weather. It is no wonder why many couples like the beach wedding. Here are things to watch our in planning a beach wedding.

Study the weather pattern on the location. When you are planning your own wedding, the wedding is days, weeks, months, or years away. So, the weather is really hard to predict on the actual wedding date. In many tropical countries, the hurricane or typhoon season falls from June to November.

There should be a plan for an alternative in case of rain or unforeseen events. A tent or canopy may shields the guests in case of rain and protect the guests from too much sun. Like the rising tides, the high tides can occupy a large portion of the beach front.

The hotels, resorts, and private property may have beach front. In most places, the venue can handle indoor and outdoor wedding. Patio, deck, and windows with the beach front view will always be available as an alternative in times of rain and unforeseen events.

The beach chair sinks on the lovely white sands. The proper flooring will prevent the problem such as wood, parquet, and carpet. The parquet and carpet flooring is surprisingly affordable to rent. It is perfect for bride and groom who is planning a wedding on a small budget.

The hot summer days may be unbearable to some guests. Have a paper fan ready. If you notice, the paper fans are good wedding favors. Have a bottled water and ice bucket on each table. The guests will get the idea pretty quickly. The sunscreen may also alleviate the guests from the piercing sun rays.

The sands and water can easily get into linen, dresses, and clothes. Fortunately, some beach wedding dress can easily wash off the sands and resist the water. It is good to know as the beach wedding dress sets the tone of the wedding.

The wedding flowers that are readily available locally will save a few bucks. Naturally, the wedding flowers are wildly available. However, the wind may blow the flower petals that are thrown by the flower girl. The seashells are an alternative.

The summer is also the season for uninvited insects. The insects just like to invite themselves to the wedding. The bug spray, candle insect repellent, and screen will easily keeps the uninvited insects.

If the venue may need a toilet, the bride and groom may need to rent portable toilets. Toilets are easily overlooked as everybody assumes the availability of the toilets.

Take note of the restrictions on using the beach front such as closing times, number of guests, tolerable sound, trash policy, and camp bonfire. In some beach front, the bride and groom may need to secure a permit to use the beach front for the wedding.

The ocean breezes and tides may tend to dampen the sound quality. So, the bride and groom may need professional sound system. The guests will want to hear the wedding toasts, vows, and speeches.

Beach Wedding Dress

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:49:36 PDT

The beach wedding dress is a playful wedding dress with a touch of romance and elegance. The wedding dress is cool enough to handle the summer heat, hot, and humid climate. Since the beach is more of a laid-back atmosphere, the beach wedding dress is less formal.

The common designs are halter, strapless top, or sleeveless wedding dress. In a hot summer days, it helps cool down the bride. As there are opportunities to go barefoot, the bride wears elegant flip flops, beach sandals, or strap sandals.

Even though the wedding dress is more relax, casual, and informal, the bride still must feel special, beautiful, and sexy with the wedding dress. The wedding dress sets the tone for the whole day.

In a spring summer wedding, the bride can possibly find reasonable price on department store and boutique. At the end of the year, the designers may put the wedding dress on clearance to make way for newest design. It is perfect when the bride is planning a wedding on a small budget. The bride can also make her own dress, or borrow the beach wedding dress. A second hand wedding dress is also worth a look.

Since the beach wedding dress can get wet or sandy, the length is usually short or tea length. Furthermore, the bride prefers a washable wedding dress to easily wash off the sand. Planning your own wedding, you need to be mindful of the wedding dress.

The wedding flowers are perfect complement for the elegant wedding dress. Hold a bouquet of white roses or colorful flowers. Add a corsage on the wedding dress too. The florist can also attach flowers on hairclips which can keep the hair in place. It helps on windy day. However, the brides with flowing hair down also look distinguishably sexy.

The beach wedding dress uses soft and long white cotton fabric which easily flows. Due to the delicateness of the wedding dress, the wedding dress is hand-sewn, hand-made, and hand-beaded.

Dress For A Summer Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:59:07 PDT

Many bride and groom want a wedding on summer. The wedding guests may receive a number of invitations. This leaves the guests to panic on what dress to wear for a summer wedding.

Restrain from wearing too much wedding jewelry. To wear too much glittery wedding jewelry will also compete with the bride. Wear Cubic Zirconia wedding jewelry. It is virtually hard to distinguish between Cubic Zirconia and Diamonds wedding jewelry.

Dress according to the weather. The sun fills the weather with lots of sunshine and warmth during summer. The weather may be hot and humid too. So, a tea length, strapless, or spaghetti-strap tops wedding dress is appropriate for the summer wedding. For Jewish wedding, you may want to avoid baring the shoulders.

The summer weather is perfect to show the marvelous tan skin tone. However, the skin may need to endure long hours of under the sun. A healthy dose of sunscreen will really help. Wear also your sunglasses to protect the eyes from the sun.

With beautiful weather in most days, the summer wedding has the potential for outdoor setting. The wedding can be held on garden, backyard, or beach. So, there is potential to go barefoot. Hence, a strap sandals or shoes may be appropriate for the summer wedding.

It is also important to know the level of formality. The wedding invitation will show the level of formality. If it does not show on wedding invitation, it is good idea to ask the bride or groom. The level of formality may be black tie, formal, semi-formal, beach, informal, or casual.

Avoid the white dress. The white dress will compete with the bride. Let the bride be the star of the day. As long as wedding dress does not look mourning dress, the black wedding dress will look elegant and fabulous on the summer wedding. The wedding guests who like to wear daring colors can wear pink, and red.

Choose wedding flowers as design pattern. The wedding flowers are symbol of summer as the wedding flowers are abundant on summer time. Wedding flowers are basic design pattern, but you can choose a more intricate design pattern. In that way, black wedding dress distances away from the mournful look.

Wedding Planning Checklist

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:19:34 PDT

The wedding planning checklist is a list of essentials to the wedding. The checklist will ensure that wedding planner will not miss any essentials to the wedding. With checklist, the wedding plans will most likely go as plan.

The wedding planning checklist will absolutely help for anybody. Especially, you are planning your own wedding. Since you may not have the some knowledge and expertise of the professional wedding planner, the checklist will give you an idea what needs to be done.

From one essentials to the next essential on the list, the wedding planner shops for the best deals. It is perfect when you are planning a wedding on a small budget. Here is the list of essentials on the wedding planning checklist.

Ceremony Fees

The wedding planner meets the officiating for the wedding. The wedding officiating is the one who weds the bride and groom. Also, the wedding officiating charges a fee to wed the couple. The wedding officiating is also the witness on the signing of marriage license in which the bride and groom may pay a fee as well. In the wedding ceremony, musicians play the songs that the bride and groom choose. The musicians charge a fee for playing the songs too.

Reception

After the wedding ceremony, the guests celebrate on the venue for the wedding reception. Here, the wedding planner finalizes the food and beverages, entertainment, wedding cake, and decorations. The entertainment may include bands, musicians, singers, and DJ.

Dress and Attire

Make sure the size fits on wedding dress and attire. The bride, maid of honor and bridesmaids need to finalize the wedding dress, undergarments, shoes, accessories, dress, jewelry, gloves, and hosiery. The bestman and groomsmen needs the correct size for suits, tuxedos, ties, cuff links, blazers, ribbon, shoes, and suspenders.

Rings

The engagement rings tell the seriousness of the intention. The bride and groom will no longer look for another partner. The wedding rings are part of the wedding ceremony. The groom puts the ring on the bride. Then, the bride puts the ring on the groom.

Flowers

The wedding flowers complement the already elegant wedding dress with bouquets, hairclips, and corsages. The wedding flowers also decorate the wedding venue and reception. Many bride and groom use wedding flowers as the main centerpiece on the wedding reception. The wedding flower petals that are thrown on the aisle by the flower girl also prepare the fairy tale entrance for the bride.

Photography

The photographer and cameraman will capture the lovely wedding. The guests especially the sponsors may want a copy of the wedding photo album and video. The wedding planner finds a perfect place to take pictures and video like beautiful garden, sandy beaches, and great architecture.

Transportation

Usually, a limousine separately drives the bride and groom to the wedding venue. The limousine may include the maid of honor, bridesmaids, parents, bestman, groomsmen, and sponsors. However, the wedding planner can get creative like horse drawn rides, and vintage cars.

Stationary

The ushers make the guests sign the guestbook at wedding reception. Also, the bride and groom may want to send invitation, and thank you cards.

Favors

The wedding favors are a nice keepsake for attending the wedding. The bride and groom may give the guests wedding favors. The wedding favors come in many shapes and sizes. For example, the chocolates, candles, key chains, wood fans, miniature armchair, miniature sandals, glass figurines, crystals, dried flower petals, potpourri, and candle holders.

Planning A Wedding On A Small Budget

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:22 PDT

The wedding budget is an essential part of wedding planning. This sets how much to spend on the essential elements of the momentous wedding. As a matter of fact, we must set the budget at the very beginning.

The costs of wedding have increased steadily. We easily get carried away. We all have limits on what we can spend. After we set the budget, we must follow the budget as hard as we can. Otherwise, we became the casualty of over-spending. There are few ways to spend less on wedding.

When we are shopping for something, we must compare the prices. To compare the prices is imperative to spend less on wedding. When we see something great the first time, we go continue to see the rest. Then, we make the ultimate decision. By planning your own wedding, you will spend less on wedding too. Although wedding planner will professionally organize everything for you, the wedding planner will increase your wedding expenses.

Wedding Flowers

Use the wedding flowers that are abundantly available in season and readily available on local. Thus, you spend less on wedding flowers. There are flowers available all year round, but there are many flowers available on a certain season only. For example, the tulips are abundant on spring season. The tulip bulbs need to freeze during the winter months for the tulip to bloom on spring season. However, it is not impossible to find flowers which are not on season. The flowers just cost more.

Making wedding flower arrangements yourselves, you can spend less on the wedding florists. Usually, the florists make flower arrangements on bouquets, centerpieces, corsages, hairclips, button-holes, wedding aisles, and flower girl baskets.

Some floral schools may also arrange the flowers for you. Students who want to get their foot in the door may arrange the flowers at a fraction of the costs.

Wedding Dress

When you add the word wedding in front of dress, the dress will cost a fortune. To buy a wedding dress will cost in the thousands. During September to October, the homecoming or prom dress is a great alternative.

During the off peak wedding season, the wedding dress costs less. From January to March, the designers put the wedding dress for clearance. Thereby, we can own a brand wedding dress at lesser price.

Rent or borrow from friends or relatives. Some moms or grandmother have kept the wedding dress for keepsake. If the wedding dress is on excellent condition, you can borrow the wedding dress.

Department stores stack the wedding dress for sale. The wedding dresses of designer boutique are more expensive than department stores. Even though the wedding dress includes the newest and trendiest on designer boutique, you can find a good quality wedding dress on department stores. Look also for the discontinued rack. Designers make different design for each season and year. There will be a time when the designers will stop making the particular design.

Reception Dinner

If you compare the prices on the menu, the pasta, chicken, and rice cost less than most dishes. Serve pasta, rice, or chicken to spend less on the dinner. It also fills you up more too.

The buffet or plate dinner will costs less than sit down dinner. Best of all, the guests can comeback for the second and third time. That will surely fill them up.

Borrow or rent the large backyard or garden for wedding reception from friends or family. If you already have own a large backyard or garden, you can use the backyard or garden as wedding reception.

The wedding reception on Fridays saves a few dollars for each guest. It all adds up when there are many guests on the wedding reception.

Wedding Cake

The wedding cake can serve as dessert to finish the wonderful meal. After the wedding cake has done its part, you can cut into smaller pieces to serve on plate. Or, the guests cut the piece of cake themselves.

Some bakery schools may also cater the wedding cake to your wedding. The students are always eager for real life experience. At the same time, we spend less on wedding cake and give real life experience to students.

Instructions On Making Flower Girl Baskets

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:22:09 PDT

The flower girl basket holds the wedding flower petals to be thrown on the wedding aisle. The flower girl walks on the wedding aisle, while she throws the cheerful and colorful wedding flower petals. This simple statement prepares the elegant and romantic entrance for the bride.

To create the flower girl basket, you will need silk satin clothe, small basket, wedding flowers, flower petals, ribbon, and tulle. You will also need materials like ruler, scissors, floral wire, floral tape, glue, cutters, and spray paint. The craft and floral stores sell whatever your needs.

Choose the right size of the flower girl basket for the flower girl. A basket that is too large will trip the little flower girl. If you like a different color, you can run a spray paint on the basket. The color white or ivory is highly recommended. Let the paint dry in the meantime.

Wrap the flower girl basket with silk satin clothe. It all depends how much you want to see the basket. Hold the silk satin clothe with hot glue from the inside of the basket.

Using the tulle, you wrap the handle. The tulle hangs below the handle. It is up to you how long the tulle hangs below the handle. To hold the tulle in place, you wrap the tulle with a silk ribbon. For contrast and style, you can try to mix a variety of ribbon colors.

Attach the head of the wedding flowers on both ends of the handle. The floral wire will securely attach the wedding flower.

Lace up the mouth of the flower girl basket with wedding flowers of choice. The floral wire can hold the wedding flower in place again.

Place the wedding flower petals inside the basket. The rose petals are popular wedding toss for flower girls. The sweet and light scent of the rose will provide the simple statement of elegant entrance.

Planning Your Own Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:12:04 PDT

To plan your own wedding is a huge project. It involves a large number of guests, meals, sponsors, decorations, dresses, and so on. The wedding planner needs tremendous amount of time to organize the requirements.

Each group of community may have different traditions, beliefs, and customs. For example, the Asian community has the tendency for big wedding. All the relatives will come from different parts of the globe.

First, select the best wedding date. Most wedding date falls on the summer months. It is mostly sunny and warm. The weather will not likely to ruin the precious moments of wedding. Memorable wedding dates are Labor Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Christmas Day, or Thanksgiving Day. If you want the most memorable wedding date, you can choose 777 wedding date. The 777 wedding date is a wedding on July 7, 2007. It is easy to remember. The husband will always remember the wedding anniversary.

Next, decide how much you want to spend on wedding. The cost of wedding had gone up. Currently, the cost of wedding averages from $15,000 to $20,000. At this stage, the wedding planner creates an overview on theme of wedding, venue for wedding, and reception for wedding.

Then, build the guest and sponsor list. Here, the bride and groom decide the number of guests and sponsors. This is the tough part, because you may not want to leave someone out.

After, make reservation for the venue of the wedding and reception. During the busy wedding season (summer), the reservation may be a little tough to get. In some cases, you will need to wait a year to make reservation.

And after, meet the licensed wedding minister who will wed you. The minister directs how the exchange of vows is coordinated. There may be appropriate and inappropriate things for the wedding. The wedding vows may be the traditional wedding vows which is a safe option. However, the bride and groom may write their own wedding vows.

And then, choose your favorite theme for wedding. Depending on the season, some wedding ideas may be appropriate for the wedding. For example, the snow flakes, sparkles, glitters, and white are synonymous for the winter season. Think of winter wonderland, snow flakes, garlands, and sparkles for wedding theme.

And, spruce up the wedding with wedding flowers and florist. The wedding flowers add finesse and style to the wedding. Some flowers may be abundant on particular season only. For example, the Aster, Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, Marigold, and Zinnia are fall wedding flowers. Choosing the abundant flower on a particular season, you may pay less for wedding flowers. The florist mainly arranges the flower for reception, centerpieces, hairclips, bouquets, tosses, corsages, hairclips, flower girl baskets, nosegays, buttonholes, and decoration.

Next, pick the best wedding dresses and attires. On this precious moment, you would want to look your very best. It is also recommended for the groomsmen look similar with the best man, and bridesmaids look similar with the maid of honor.

Next, pick the wedding photographer. The wedding photography captures the magic of the moment. So, you can remember the timeless treasure of wedding. A good photographer will give the negatives to you. So, you can make more copies without asking for permission to the photographer. However, some photographer will insist to keep the negatives for certain period of time. Usually, the photographer will keep for two years. After two years, the photographer throws the negative away. So, you may ask the photographer to give the negatives after two years.

Finally, send the wedding invitations to the guests and sponsors. The print shops can customize the invitations which come in many elegant designs. Receiving the wedding invitations, the guests and sponsors confirm their attendance and participation to your wedding.

Lucky 777 Wedding Date

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:49:55 PDT

Thousands of Americans line up for the 777 wedding date. The 777 wedding date is a wedding on July 7, 2007. The number 7 is always been an important and lucky number on many religion and culture. Not to mention, the date falls on Saturday and long weekend. Relatives have plenty of time to be at your wedding too.

Talk about unforgettable wedding anniversary and date. The husbands will never forget the wedding anniversary.

The 777 wedding date tops all the memorable date. It is a coincidence that couples want to take advantage. Usually, the bride and groom choose the popular Labor Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Christmas Day, or Thanksgiving Day for a memorable wedding date.

Wedding are being set in record numbers. So, the chapels, churches, and receptions are fully booked. It causes the prices to increase. However, it is not a problem for most couples to wed.

Think of 7 as the wedding theme. For example, 7 pm reception, $777 wedding package, 7 day honeymoon, 7 bridesmaids, 7 groomsmen, 7 guest table, 7 centerpieces, 7 wedding cake levels, 7 wedding toasts, 7 wedding vows, and 7 wedding favors theme are some suggestions.

In the Christian holy bible, the God almighty created the world in seven days. At the seventh day, he rested. That is why we have 7 days in a week. Up until now, we have 7 days in a week. At the New Testament, Jesus told Peter to forgive 77 times which means to keep forgiving. Roman Catholic also believes in 7 sacraments, deadly sins, and virtues.

In the Chinese culture, the number 7 is a lucky number. Many Chinese uses anything that relates to number 7 for luck.

In the casino, the 777 is the ultimate jackpot on the classic slot machines. Lady gamblers also wear dice earrings which counts as 7. There is also a craps game in which any 7 is a winning combination.

There are more cultures, religions, traditions, and customs, in which the number 7 is a significant number. For example Japanese Shinto, Hindu, Mythology, and Astrology are some of them. We can only write too much.

Making Wedding Flower Arrangements

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:16:55 PDT

The wedding flowers have vital roles in the wedding. Adding wedding flowers, the florists add the elegant element of romance, style, happiness, beauty, and charisma. To make wedding flower arrangements, the florists need to know several important considerations.

Florist is a professional flower arranger who arranges flowers for any occasion. In a wedding, the florist usually arrange flowers for centerpieces, corsages, hairclips, bouquets, flower girl baskets, nosegays, headpieces, buttonholes, and décor.

Planning the flower arrangements in wedding, the florists needs to know the degree of formality, design of wedding cakes, number of guests, number of tables, layout of wedding reception, layout of the church, dresses in wedding, time of day, and sponsors in wedding. After the florist collected the information, the florist decides the best designs, color, and theme for the flower arrangements.

The centerpiece in wedding reception can be a floral centerpiece that goes well with the wedding cake, dresses, attire, venue, and tables. The floral centerpiece will set the mood for romance in the wedding reception.

The source of wedding flowers is vital to do your own flower arrangements. As you can see, you need to buy in bulk. The florist shop may or may not be able to supply in bulk. So, there is a little bit of research. The general rule is to get the flowers three days in advance. So, you have three days to come up of flower arrangements.

The flowers, that is readily available in the season and domestically grown in the area, will save you a substantial amount of money. It pays to know the different flowers readily available for a particular season.

For all year around, the Carnation, Gardenia, Gladiolus, Lily of the Valley, Stephanotis, and Roses are readily available and fresh flowers.

For the winter season, the Calla Lily, Camellia, Forget-Me-Not, Holly, Ivy, Orchid, Poinsettia, and Tulip are readily available and fresh flowers.

For the spring season, the Anemone, Apple Blossom, Calla Lily, Daffodil, Forsythia, Geranium, Hyacinth, Iris, Jonquil, Lilac, Larkspur, Magnolia, Narcissus, Orange Blossom, Tulip, and Violetrichly are readily available and fresh flowers.

For the summer season, the Aster, Calla Lily, Daisy, Hydrangea, Forget-Me-Not, Peony, Sweet Pea, and Zinnia are readily available and fresh flowers.

For the fall season, the Aster, Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, Marigold, and Zinnia are readily available and fresh flowers.

That takes care of the wedding flowers. Now, you need tools to create the lasting flower arrangements. In hobby, home improvement, or florist shop, you will be able to get the floral tapes, wires, wire cutters, scissors, ribbons, baskets, containers, and hairclips.

Definitely, the bride or groom can decide to hire the florist or to be a florist. As a self-made florist, you will probably save a substantial amount of money. As you can see, there are many things involve too. To hire a florist is not bad idea as well.

Wedding Flowers

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:24:01 PDT

The wedding flowers set the tone of the wedding. Flowers are always been the symbol for happiness and joy. By adding flowers to your wedding, you are expressing happiness, joy, style, and taste. Flowers come in different shapes and colors. So, there are many ways to express thru flowers.

A variety of flowers may be abundant on a particular season (summer, fall, winter, and spring). Thus, the flower theme may be different for each season. Typically, the roses and lilies are the wedding flower of choice. However, more variety of flowers appears in a contemporary wedding. Here are a few popular wedding flowers with their description.

Roses

This flower is the most popular garden flower. Rose is coin from Latin word Rosa. Each color has special meaning. For example, red means love, white means purity or innocence, yellow means friendship, and orange means desire and enthusiasm. Roses can also have many meaning on how you give the rose. For example, three roses mean I love you, and ninety nine roses mean lots of love. The rose petals are a favorite for wedding tosses.

Calla Lilies

The flower is from the Greek word "Kallos". It means beauty. The beautiful arrow shaped flower provides an incomparable elegance to the wedding. The flower is also called Water Arum, Bog Arum, Wild Calla, and Water Dragon. The lilies bloom between June and July.

Casa Blanca Lilies

This flower has the most romantic flower name. The wedding roles of the flowers are to provide the classic beauty and romance of wedding. Meanwhile, the natural fragrance lifts the height and drama of the wedding.

Carnations

It is the national flower of Spain. The flower vibrates with pinkish-hued natural color. Now, the florists manage to cultivate red, white, yellow, and green flowers. The name of the flower is believed to come from "coronation", or "corone". And, the Greek used the flower as a crown flower garland.

Cosmos

It is a flower with its own cosmic universe. The flower comes in many interesting pattern, shape and color in cosmic proportions. The colors are shades of yellow, red, orange, pink, or dark rose.

Daffodils

It is a flower with central trumpet crown. The crown sits around flower petals. The natural color is gold yellow. Nowadays, breeders developed several rows to resemble a golden yellow ball, compressed crown to resemble bottle soda cap, or frilled petal to resemble daisy petals.

Dahlias

It is the national flower of Mexico. The name of the flower is from Swedish 18th century botanist called Anders Dahl. The flower is brightly and stunningly colored with many pointy flower petals.

Daisies

The flower brightens the wedding. The most popular is the Shanty Daisy. It has a yellow center which is surrounded with white petals.

Gardenias

It is natively grown on topic and sub-tropic of Africa, and Asia. The flower with naturally strong scent blooms between mid-spring and mid-summer. The tube base of the flower carries five to twelve flower petals which are usually white or yellow.

Hydrangea

The flower blooms between spring and autumn. Predominantly, the flower comes in white. However, some species come in blue, red, pink, or purple. It is a many four flower petal clustered to create a natural bouquet of flowers.

Magnolias

It is a state flower of Mississippi, and Louisiana. Hence, Mississippi is known as Magnolia State. The pollens at the center are surrounded with rose like petals.

Stephanotis

It is cluster of flowers which is waxy, scented, and star-shaped. After a few days, the flowers fade to yellow. You will often see the flower in bridal corsages, bouquets, and decorations. And, the flower emits a long lasting sweet scent. So, the bridal corsages and bouquets add a distinct style of the wedding dresses of the bride, maid of honor, and bridesmaids.

Sun flower

It is a flower with large flower head which includes edible seeds. The pointy petals which resemble the sun rays surround the flower head. The flower is popular in yellow, maroon, and orange. The plant grows up to three meters high. And, the flower head rises as the sun rises.

Tulips

The flower grows in cold climate areas. The bell shaped flower come in vibrant red, yellow, white, and yellow. Popular in Netherlands, North America, and Australia, they made a festival out of the flower.

Summer Wedding Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:32:43 PST

The summer wedding ranges between May and September. In summer, there are no elements of weather that might ruin the wedding. Many bride and groom take advantage of warm weather, sultry summer evenings, endless sunshine, lush green vegetations, and clear blue skies.

For tropical countries, the summer starts at April and ends at May. For northern and southern countries, the summer starts at June and ends at September.

The wedding dresses for summer are mostly sleeveless, and strapless. Naturally, the summer weather is beautifully warm. For a cooler wedding dress, the wedding dresses are made of light silk material like crepe, chiffon, linen, organdy, and georgette. Same goes to suits, ties, and pants of the men. Prepare to go barefoot on beach for wedding photos. Think about sunsets, sand sculptures, white sands, mountain background, beach rocks, palm trees, coconut trees, and clear blue waves for wedding photos.

The summer weather opens the wedding to outdoors like beach, garden, backyard, and park. Think of outdoor games, colorful parades, picnics, tented backyard, tented garden, green lawns, tropical cocktails, beaches, palm trees, lanterns, sea shells, torches, parks, and white flowers as the wedding summer theme.

The actual wedding ceremony can be held outside on a tented lush green garden, or park. So, the sponsors and guests enjoy the warm breeze of summer. At the same time, it helps cool them off from the summer heat. The wedding reception can be held on tented garden by the park, tented backyard by the flowery garden, outdoor tent by the beach, and cabin by the lake. Decorate the wedding reception with torches and lanterns for a really outdoor feel.

The guests might like outdoor games. The outdoor games are a variety of badminton, volleyball, football, sack race, lawn bowling, horseshoe dart, and Frisbee. Summer is also abundant of parades, festivals, and carnivals. The wedding planner might be able to plan to take advantage of colorful and fun parades, festivals, and carnivals.

White wedding flowers goes very well in summer wedding like roses, daisies, snowball mums, phlox, calla lilies, casa Blanca lilies, hydrangea, and stephanotis. There are colorful summer flowers that bring joy and smile like sun flower, roses, cosmos, orchids, dahlias, and zinnias. Flower accent on wedding dress elegantly complements the already lovely wedding dress like crown of flowers, and bouquet of flowers. The bridesmaids, maid of honor, and flower girls will look stunning with flower accent.

Start with lobster bisque, green salads or fruits at the wedding reception. Fruits can be water melon, melon, honey dew, berries, and mangoes. To quench thirsts, you may use tropical cocktails, lemonade, lime soda, or any fruit juices. The main course may include a variety of seafood like crabs, shrimps, lobsters, and king crabs. Also, you may serve vegetarian dishes. Vegetables and fruits are bountiful. To cover guests with allergy on seafood, you may also barbecue a variety of vegetables and meats. As for dessert, the different flavors ice cream, gelato, and sorbet will cool off the summer heat. The variety yoghurts are healthy choice for many.

Here are a few summer wedding favors. Give gifts of love-boat candles, wooden sailboats, coconut shell candles, seashells gel candles, miniature Adirondack chair, mini torch, mini lanterns, palm tree candles, orchid gel candles, mini flip flops card holders, mini vine chair, ice cream scoop, paper fan, golf tee set, palm leaf fan, palm leaf handbags, miniature sandals, mini flip flop keychain, and river stone candy.

Spring Wedding Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Estrada) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:44:17 PST

Spring is the time of new life, beginnings, and adventure. The weather starts to warm up as the sun slowly emerges. And, the surrounding starts to turn green. Then, the flowers start to bloom. That is why spring wedding is getting popular.

Think of bouquet of flowers, bulb of flowers, pot of herbs, group of butterflies, group of dragonflies, breeze of spring, and garden of vegetables as the wedding themes. Decorate the wedding with abundance of flowers and green. The wedding can also have an accent of Easter feel as Easter falls on the spring time.

The spring wedding flowers are a variety of magnolia, sweet peas, lilies of the valley, ranunculus, snowdrops, tulips, and anemones. The anemones are a Dutch flower with vibrant petals, and dark centers. To add an Easter feel, the hyacinth, irises, and daffodils works best.

Yellow, pink, lavender, and green are classic colors for the spring wedding. The colors works for wedding dress too. In fact, the colored wedding dress is trendy and fashionable. Moreover, the spring is the best time to take a chance to be daring, delicious, and adventurous. The bride can actually get away with pink, tan, or beige wedding dress. For the groom, the chocolate or mocha brown suit will work perfectly.

The weather in spring can be very unpredictable. Prepare for a change of weather within hours. Have several plans for sunny, foggy, windy, and rainy day. For example, an outdoor event tent can be very handy during rainy days.

Decorate the center of the table at the reception with a bulb of flower on a clear glass and water resin. For example, a bulb of pink or white tulip flower sets in a clear glass and water resin. Another example, a bulb of pink magnolia flower with twigs and leaves set in a clear glass, and water resin. And lastly but not least, a bulb of snowdrop flower set in clear glass and water resin.

For romantic mood, there is nothing like a candle light. To make the candle light to work, the wedding must start a little later. To hang a metal lantern also works. The candle in glass votive that is tied up in an organza ribbon can also be placed on each table. It can work as a wedding favors too.

The centerpiece for the wedding reception can be a garden of herbs, and flowers. The pots of rosemary, thyme, or other herbs will work. The shrub espaliers which can grow in many geometric shapes and sculptures looks beautiful as a centerpiece.

Use the freshness of herbs, vegetables, and fruits for the wedding menu. The strawberries, apricots, and rhubarbs are a party in your mouth during spring time. The fresh spinach, asparagus, and carrot are awesome on the side. The herbs can really spice up the menu as well.

The wedding in spring can be very tricky. The wedding will compete with proms for the venues. So, you must plan early. The weather can be tricky as well. The weather can change anytime. That is why it is good idea to have plan A and B. With spring time, you can play and have fun with colors. It is no wonder that spring wedding is getting popular.