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The Song "Plan Forever"

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:26:00 +0000

Hi,
Whilst busy rendering planning advice I like to listen to this song called "Plan on forever" by Sue Ann Carwell and Mervyn Warren. It's inspirational.

Hope you like it!!

The song "Plan Forever"

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:09:00 +0000

Hi,
Whilst busy giving planning advice I like to listen to this song, "Plan on forever" by Sue Ann Carwell and Mervyn Warren for inspiration. Its a lovely song.

Hope you like it!!

Rent It: The Perfect Personalized Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:59:00 +0000

(ARA) - When it comes to planning a wedding, most couples don't want to settle for cookie-cutter solutions that will make their wedding appear impersonal or even unremarkable. Instead, they want the biggest day of their lives to represent the two of them and no one else.

This yearning for personalization doesn't have to translate into more money. On the contrary -- whether you're planning a formal wedding or a more casual event, you can incorporate personalized touches without breaking the bank by renting the materials you will need.

From 250 identical vases, to chandeliers, to helium balloons or faux floral centerpieces, rental businesses provide endless amounts of materials that can make the difference between a run-of-the-mill event and your dream wedding.

"You can rent just about anything to make your wedding perfect," said Christine Wehrman, CEO of the American Rental Association (ARA), the global trade association for the rental industry. "By renting products for your wedding, you don't have to settle for items that don't fit your personalized vision. You'll get exactly what you're looking for and you'll have access to products that may have otherwise been too expensive in large quantities."

Make an impression by choosing table linens in your wedding colors, or go with all-white, then add chair covers with a bow-tie sash and matching napkins in accent colors. Rental businesses will have hundreds of colors to pick from. Be sure to ask for sample swatches of the linens so you can coordinate colors with your bridesmaid dresses and flowers. Add your choice of china and glassware to the arrangement for each table and get a rich and sophisticated setting.

If you're looking for the beauty of an outdoor location without the worry about the weather, tents are a great way to create the wedding of your dreams. ARA member rental businesses have beautiful tents to create the venue, as well as everything you need to make it beautiful and comfortable.

Huge tents and elegant canopies come in wedding white and many also come with clear tops -- thus allowing guests access to the drama of a sunset or a sparkling night sky. However, if you plan on incorporating a tent into your wedding, make sure you give the rental business -- and yourself -- enough advanced notice. Depending on the time of year, the rental business will need plenty of notice to reserve all the equipment you will need.

Also, many ARA member rental businesses offer personalized service through their Certified Event Rental Professionals who are trained to help you choose the right rentals to make your dream wedding come to realization.

They can help ease the tension of pre-wedding set up with their knowledge and experience. Many businesses even help you throughout the event as well, keeping it on track and flowing smoothly.

You can also rely on rental service experts to help before you book your venue. They can help you assess the site for things like power accessibility, ground water issues, or overhead power lines that may interfere with your vision of a tall tent, among other situations.

All events, no matter how big or small -- even for the Oprahs or Trumps of the world -- include rented materials. Visit www.rentalhq.com to find your local ARA member rental business.

Courtesy of ARAcontent

Technology Tips to Revolutionize your Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:47:00 +0000

(ARA) - Technology transforms every aspect of modern life these days, even the biggest day of most people's lives - their wedding day. From wedding planning Web sites to digital photo slideshows presented at receptions and rehearsal dinners, technology is helping couples plan their weddings in ways that are much easier and save more time than ever before. Technology also helps engage the couple's loved ones in, and preserve their memories of, their special day.

Here are four of the hottest technology trends that are revolutionizing the way Americans plan their weddings.

Planning and Research Goes Online

Brides once turned to monthly or seasonal wedding magazines for advice and ideas. Now, modern brides go online for their wedding planning purposes. Popular sites have made it easy for brides to track the latest trends, look at thousands of gown options, and organize themselves for their big day. Where once a bride might tote around clips torn from magazines, fabric swatches, and contracts in a wedding planning binder, now most of those things are found and stored digitally through a wedding planning Web site.

Projectors for Rehearsal Dinners and Receptions

Every couple wants to make their wedding as personal as possible, and leave guests with the feeling that, "Oh, that was so Todd and Rebecca!" Where once brides and grooms may have decorated a reception or rehearsal dinner with photos of themselves arranged around the room, now a multimedia presentation is all the rage. Video and still images, typically set to music, features the couple throughout their lives, apart and together, and are replacing traditional photo albums and can create an exciting personal touch to any wedding celebration.

Web sites like www.projector123.com rent state-of-the-art high definition projectors for as little as $99 for a weekend. Couples order a projector online, have it shipped to them or their reception site for next day arrival, and then connect the projector to a device like a laptop to project their photo montage presentation for the enjoyment of their guests.

"Jason and I really wanted to have a photo slideshow at our rehearsal dinner, but the restaurant wanted us to pay $500 on top of our reservation fee for all the equipment! So we went online to Projector123, and were able to order our own equipment and have it shipped directly to the restaurant," says Christine Goldenberg of Los Angeles, California, a bride-to-be. "Finding areas to cut costs for a wedding can be challenging, and by ordering the projector online we were able to save a significant amount of money."

Personal Wedding Web sites

Personal wedding Web sites are popping up everywhere; for a small fee, couples design their very own Web site in advance of their wedding day where they post pictures of themselves, detail the specifics of their wedding day, feature bios of the bridal party, reveal their honeymoon destination and provide gift registry information all in one convenient location online.

"Most people have access to the Internet, so you now have the ability to use technology to make your wedding day as special and memorable as possible," says Jay Joyer of Irvine, California, a recent newlywed. "We had a small wedding, but wanted all our friends and family to feel part of our big day so we set up a wedding Web site where our guests could sign our online guestbook, read the story of our proposal, or make hotel reservations through the Accommodations section of our site. Everyone said it made making plans or staying up to date on our wedding so easy."

As most guests now have access to the Internet, a personal wedding Web site is the ultimate convenience for guests to stay in touch with the couple and their latest wedding planning developments.

Online Ordering of Wedding Photos

No more waiting months for wedding albums. Many wedding photographers and videographers now take digital pictures or film and post their proofs online. This streamlines the developing and choosing processes and entire albums can be viewed by couples and their guests no matter where their location.

Courtesy of ARAcontent

Spotlight Brides: Look Red Carpet Worthy While Walking Down the Aisle

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:20:00 +0000

(ARA) - This spring, it will be difficult to tell if a bride is walking down the aisle or making her way down the red carpet. After a year-long love affair with the boxy trapeze dress, designers are emphasizing the waist and adding elegant details.

"This focus on the feminine calls for glamorous bridal jewelry fit for a queen," says Shawn Diddy, Jewelry Television's trend tracker. Here are some of the looks she's expecting to be hot in 2008:

*Brides will make a "ready for your close-up" impact in an off-the-shoulder dress. The look from the runways calls for minimal accents -- a single, "statement" piece of jewelry such as a pair of dangle earrings that sparkle or a thick, signature bracelet. Wear hair up to really show off your shoulders in that gorgeous dress.

*Pleats, ruffles and tulip tiers abound in light and frothy fabrics. Because of the unusual silhouettes of these trendy dresses, keep hair and jewelry simple. A loose chignon softens your face while a classic pair of diamond stud earrings adds elegance and light to the ensemble.

*A white dress and Grandma's pearls is what everyone else is wearing, so why not go with this season's hot pastels? Diaphanous dresses in shades of peach, blush and baby blue are fresh and stylish. Pull your hair back into a soft ponytail to show off sparkling crystal earrings or a necklace in a complementary color.

*Lace is always in, but this season's unique lace details work especially well with long, flowing hair. Rich, jewel-toned, vintage-look jewelry adds texture to the ensemble.

*Whether the dress is short or long, designers have put the emphasis back on the waist. Nipped-in lines and wide belts or sashes showed all over New York's runways. Because of the symmetry of the dress, wear your hair parted to the side and add drama with strong platinum jewelry pieces.

"Few brides can spend a fortune on a couture gown and estate diamonds so we recommend Jewelry Television's Bella Luce Collection," says Diddy. "Most pieces are platinum plated sterling silver for elegant, affordable, designer-inspired wearability." For more information on the latest trends in bridal jewelry, visit www.jtv.com or check your local listings for Jewelry Television.

Courtesy of ARAcontent

Don't Let Your Guests Get Lost on Your Big Day

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:50:00 +0000

(ARA) - Planning to get married any time soon? It's true what they say -- your wedding day is one of the most important and defining moments in your life. How do you envision yours?

In a perfect world, everything will go like clockwork. At exactly 1 o'clock, the music will start to play, all the guests will arrive on-time and anxiously wait for the bride to appear. Then they'll hold back tears as she marches down the aisle on her father's arm.

In reality, however, it's more likely that there will be some snags. The person delivering the flowers and decorations could be late, pushing the ceremony back an hour. The hired photographer could have written down the wrong date and not show up at all. Or even worse, your out-of-town guests won't show up on time either because they got stuck in traffic or were unable to find the ceremony.

Because for most weddings, a good portion of the guest list includes people from out-of-town, it is critical to be as detail orientated as possible when helping them get from destination to destination.

Along with the invitation, include multi-view maps that will show guests where all the wedding-related events are taking place. You'll need one showing directions to the wedding venue from the hotel, the bride's parents' home and the airport. Another showing directions from the ceremony location to the reception hall.

Be sure to include a link to a traffic Web site, such as Traffic.com, at the bottom of any map you provide, as well as your wedding Web site. The site will be a great resource for your guests as it shows the most direct route from place to place, and also provides real-time information on delays, traffic jams and detours.

Guests can pre-plan their route by accessing the site from the hotel computer or their Internet-enabled cell phone. All they have to do is enter the address where they're staying, and of the place they're going to, and the information they need will come back instantly. Guests can also get the information they need through the (866) MY-TRAFC (866-698-7232) traffic hotline.

After the wedding is over, Traffic.com can serve as a resource your out-of-town guests can use to find their way to local attractions, restaurants and long-lost friends' houses. The possibilities are endless. And who knows, maybe when all is said and done, you'll be the one getting the "Thank You" note.

Courtesy of ARAcontent

Planning the Perfect Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:21:00 +0000

Planning the perfect wedding is more easily said than done. Besides the regular stuff about location, music and outfit for instance, there are exquisite details that have to be dealt with before you call the event perfect. Let's take for example, the case of the guest wedding favors; they are highly important when you're planning the perfect wedding since you don't want to toss them aside at the end or know they get covered by dust in the attic. Among the many tips for planning a perfect wedding you'll find some about how to leave great memories to your guests too.

When planning the perfect wedding, you don't want to know your guest favor is another dust collector, therefore, you may want to try something that has a direct functional purpose. For instance you may choose a CD with favorite songs or a picture frame for instance. Even if you turn to a professional in the field, planning the perfect wedding still means that you choose the best way to express yourself. You can get involved in details such as inscribing napkins with your names in the colors you choose; the truth is that planning the perfect wedding means applying the most original ideas.

Planning the perfect wedding also means rehearsals of dinner and ceremony, you will have to talk to your friends and family to give you a helping hand in settling all the details. Rehearsals are also necessary for the hair style and the seating plan. With all the stress of selecting party favors, ordering rings, order invitations, response cards, and so on, you'll feel like planning the perfect wedding could be the challenge of your life. However, no matter how hard you try to succeed in planning the perfect wedding, you can't make it only by yourself, it is not such a bad idea to turn to family and friends for help when necessary.

There are plenty of guides for planning the perfect wedding that you will find online or in regular book shops. Their main advantage is that they cover all the possible details you couldn't have possibly thought of, plus they may provide suggestions on which you can go on planning the perfect wedding. Most guides for planning the perfect wedding are not free of charge, they belong to reputed authors that have put a life long experience in their making. Visit our "planning a dream wedding site" as a site to start with when planning the perfect wedding is at nor's wedding where you'll find comprehensive details on the best guides for the big day.

JM Nor

http://www.online-biz-guide.com

How to Plan a Dream Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:16:00 +0000

Great organization is the key concept if you wonder how to plan a dream wedding. First of all, the most complex and and most important thing of all is the budget. You really have to have a definite plan in mind when it comes to cost checking. There are plenty of materials available online that will teach you how to plan a dream wedding; one such site is our site on "planning a dream wedding" where you'll find lots of tips on how to plan a dream wedding. Let's start by saying that the checklist is a must have item of any planner, without it, something may easily be left out and discovered only at the very last minute. So, let's get to work!

Thus, we start the first part of the learn how to plan a dream wedding project by keeping a budget checklist that keeps you informed on where and what you spend your money on. You may either download a checklist from the Internet or create one of your own. The model I propose for you to learn how to plan a dream wedding includes a comparative representation of the budget and the real price you paid. Make two columns, on one you will have the item budget expressed and on the other the actual cost. This type of scheme will show you where you stand. Here is something more for you to learn how to plan a dream wedding.

The key to finding how to plan a dream wedding lies in answering some very basic questions. What is the overall budget? How many bridesmaids will there be? Where will the wedding take place? And the list of such questions could go on. All this information will bring you closer to the big day. How to plan a dream wedding should no longer be a problem if you turn to professional support, such as special companies that provide reception services. Practically, all the burden of how to plan a dream wedding would be taken off your shoulders, though, you'll be missing some points too.

Discovering how to plan a dream wedding may just be the way to feel closer than ever to your partner, your family and friends. After all, they are included in this complex equation. In some cases, besides the regular stuff you find in wedding guides, you may be after some special tinge of originality that nobody can teach you. Therefore, you can learn how to plan a dream wedding by yourself, taking the standard advice as a starting point and going further and using your imagination.

J M Nor
http://www.online-biz-guide.com

Tips for Planning Your Wedding Reception

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:11:00 +0000

Planning your wedding reception may be the most important part of the wedding preparations as such. Besides the basic details about the ceremony site, music, photographs and decorations, planning your wedding reception is a top priority. It all begins with deciding on the location of the reception: is it going to be indoors or outdoors? One important factor when planning your wedding reception is weather and the season. If you want an outdoor event, you'll have to consider the possibility of rain ruining your plan, therefore, keep a hidden ace up your sleeve just in case.

The first thing to do when planning your wedding reception is to set the date before you actually start looking for locations. Keep in mind that many sites are booked a year or even two in advance. Then, as I have already pointed out the season is crucial particularly if you're on a tight budget. Planning your wedding reception in winter, at the end of January for instance, will save quite some cash or bring you a discount. In some cases, planning your wedding reception requires you choose between Saturday and Sunday as the most convenient days of the week; sometimes Sunday is less expensive.

Setting down your budget is the next big thing, since planning your wedding reception will bring forth the biggest expense, which is by no means singular. When you go to rent the reception hall, you'll have to give a rounded figure of approximately how many guests you are likely to have. Therefore, an important part of any planning of the wedding reception involves pruning down your list; this will also bring about an estimation of the costs per head, according to the size of the room and your requirements too.

What should you expect from a wedding hall, when planning your wedding reception? First of all, mention should be made that the answer to this question varies from one couple to another. But it is a sure fact that recommendations and even testimonials are very useful when it comes to planning your wedding reception. The reputation of the location has to be all clear, and with excellent references: it has to be both clean and affordable. Before you actually start planning your wedding reception it is not such a bad idea to look through some directories and find the several establishments that suit your purposes.

J M Nor
http://www.online-biz-guide.com

Planning a Small Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:33:00 +0000

Discretion, minimal organization effort, intimacy and low budget considerations characterize best the need for planning a small wedding. Very many couples have to start preparations on a very low budget and therefore, they would only invite a close group of family and friends to be there with them on the big day. Planning a small wedding diminishes by no means the importance of the event as such, on the contrary, the increased level of intimacy makes it even more romantic for the couple. So, if you're planning a small wedding you'll have to decide on an appropriate location and get to work.

Outdoor premises are very often considered ideal for planning small weddings; you may choose between a beach, a park, a public garden or any other natural site that matches the requirements. Needless to say that, such a location is great for your budget when planning a small wedding. You won't have to bother with too many decorations, since many of them come with the natural surroundings. An arch dripping with flowers is perfect when planning a small wedding and it looks great in photos.

If you're planning a small wedding, it's obvious you want things as simple as possible, for instance the wedding cake may be a delicious combination of your favorite type of dessert. When planning a small wedding the reception meal won't be too sophisticated either, talk to your caterers in advance and decide on which courses to serve and when, since the moment when dinner starts is very important for the guests who may be hungry. There are special precaution measures you should take when planning a small wedding outdoors, for examples you'll have to keep bugs and mosquitoes away. Have someone spray the bushes a day before the wedding for the comfort of your guests.

Planning a small wedding matches very well with the concept of thematic reception party, and many couples consider it a very original idea to follow a specific theme in organization. For very resourceful ideas and general tips on planning a small wedding, have a look at our "planning a dream wedding" site and take advantage of some professional advice for the best solutions to a perfect wedding. Planning a small wedding requires just as much attention as a large one, the only difference is in the costs and the number of guests, but basically you have to deal with the same issues. May you live happily ever after!

J M Nor
http://www.online-biz-guide.com

Help in Planning a Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Online Biz Guy) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:17:00 +0000

Many people consider the wedding one of the biggest events in their lives, which totally justifies the great amount of effort taken to get everything ready. Given the complexity of the event, you'll definitely need help in planning a wedding, be it from professionals or from close friends and family. There is a psychological stress reliever that comes with help in planning a wedding. Once you get it, you no longer need to worry about every detail, and the experience becomes a true delight, and not a burden. The following tips are meant to bring the needed help in planning a wedding that you've been after. Let's proceed!

First of all, don't forget that the entire organization of the event is a big mixture of thorough schemes, fun and frustration, therefore the help you can get in planning a wedding comes as an alleviation of sore issues. Get together with your family and put down all the people you want to invite, then once the guest list is ready, have someone ask for confirmations so that you know almost for sure who is coming and who isn't. This help in planning a wedding is essential since it allows you the time to check other important things. For instance, you need a sample of the wedding invitations, before you give the thumb-up to have them printed.

You may get help in planning the wedding for almost all sorts of activities, for instance if you don't have the time to check the wedding present list, ask a close friend to do it for you. Make sure there are more presents than guests, since it would be really awkward to have the same present from two or three people. Help in planning a wedding may sometimes save very unpleasant situations. For instance, computer files with all the details are a great help in planning a wedding, since you can thus keep track of what has been done or is still in progress.

Knowing the exact details of the photo or video shoots can be of great help in planning a wedding. If you have booked a photographer make sure you send them your requirements and then get some confirmation slip too, eliminating the risk of unclear matters. Don't ever assume, always get everything sorted out and clear. Maps of the church location can also be a great help in planning a wedding, particularly when you want everyone to arrive there on time. Have a look at our "planning a dream wedding" site to learn more on further help in planning a wedding.

J M Nor
http://www.online-biz-guide.com