Even if when you’re on a shoe-string budget, you and your partner can still celebrate a very unique wedding ceremony by just choosing your wedding favors very carefully. Coupled with great ideas and creativity, your wedding will surely turn out to be very memorable.

1. Flip-flop Picture Frames. Whether both of you are certified lovers of the sea or that you decide to tie the knot on your favorite beach, flip-flop picture frames will never fail to capture the moment. To bring in more seaside love, you can decorate the frames with tiny shells.
2. Heart-shaped cookies. You can top the sweetness of the first marital kiss with heart-shaped cookies. And since there are hundreds of cookies that you can choose from, you will never run out of possible flavors to give away to your guests. And if hearts sound to be so traditional for you, you can opt to go for edible photo cookies, with your wacky pictures on it.
3. Silver sailboats. Marriage can be like sailing in the unchartered seas. The waters can be very calm or harsh, depending on the weather that you’re in. In the end, though, you’re sure to have an exciting and memorable journey together. You can give that special message to your guests and loved ones by giving away silver sailboats as your wedding favors. You can modify the sizes or even the color-if silver does not appeal to you. To add more personal theme on them, you can engrave both of your names on the side, which will serve as the boat’s moniker.
4. Steel pens with engravings. You can relive the days of exchanging love notes-or e-mails-with steel pens with engravings as your wedding favors. For more appeal, you can even quote your favorite line from any of the letters exchanged. Who knows, you may inspire someone to write something for his/her sweetheart.

Regina Watson is the owner of Elegant Wedding Impressions. She sells a variety of bridesmaid gifts and wedding accessories. So if you are looking for more great wedding favors to go along with your wedding theme come visit us today.

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While a traditional wedding in your hometown is wonderful for a multitude of reasons, many couples would rather opt for something more unique. One option is having a destination wedding. In recent years, these have become increasingly popular with some reports indicating that up to 20% of all weddings are now destination weddings.

A destination wedding is a wedding that takes place in an out-of-town location. Examples include a wedding on the beach in Mexico, a wedding aboard a luxury cruise ship or a wedding at a extravagant Caribbean resort. Virtually any place you can think of can host a wedding. Some couples have even decided to have their wedding underwater!

Destination weddings have many favorable aspects. You and your guests will never forget the experience of your wedding because it will be held in an exotic, out of the ordinary locale and serve as a vacation for everyone involved.

Because these have become so popular recently, many resorts now offer destination wedding packages, which include accommodations for the bride and groom, as well as all wedding ceremony and reception services, complete with a wedding coordinator. When you are planning a wedding, a wedding coordinator who is located in your destination is a necessity. Having someone who is familiar with the local vendors and resources in the area will make the wedding planning go much smoother than trying to handle the planning from a long distance.

Another great thing about a destination wedding is that it can help alleviate any family tensions that may exist in more traditional wedding planning. If the bride’s family wants the wedding to be in one location and the groom’s family wants the wedding to be at a different location, there is oftentimes family conflict and stress. With a destination wedding, you can offer both sides a unique compromise.

While a destination wedding can be an amazing experience, there is also a downside. With the average wedding cost in the United States estimated at over $30,000, certainly a wedding package will be considerably less for the bride and groom. However, there are still some monetary concerns.

If a couple decides to pay for the travel and accommodations for all their wedding guests, those costs can add up quickly. Because of this, the guest list for destination weddings tends to be much smaller than for other weddings. Also, if the couple cannot afford to contribute to the travel expenses for their wedding guests, many people may be forced to miss the wedding altogether if they do not having the funds necessary or time available to make the trip.

Another aspect about destination weddings that a bride may find difficult is her role in regards to the actual wedding planning will be significantly reduced. Because the bride does not live near the location of the wedding, she will have to have complete trust in the wedding coordinator to make the right decisions concerning vendors and other planning details. Some brides who love to micro-manage will find this situation impossible to deal with.

If you are getting married, consider all the positives and negatives of having a destination wedding. While a destination wedding isn’t right for many couples, it could be perfect for you.

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What do you think of when you hear the word “Wedding?” Probably something quite similar to what most other people are thinking – a beautiful bride in white, tossing a lovely bouquet and garter, a scrumptious towering cake . . .

So many things are specifically associated with weddings – most of which are based on centuries-old traditions and symbolism. However, traditions have to start somewhere. There had to be a first time that any of these practices took place, and superstition or practicality was usually the underlying reason.

Some traditions were originated to keep away the evil spirits:

• Bridal bouquet - originally made of herbs, such as thyme and garlic, not flowers. The herbs were chosen for their strong smell, with the intent to frighten away evil spirits.

• Bridesmaids dressing alike - the bride and her ‘maids used to dress similarly to confuse the evil spirits.

• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue - originated in England to ward off the evil spirits.

• Also, honking car horns after a wedding, or tying tin cans to the back of the get-away car were done as the noise scared off the evil spirits.

Other traditions were symbols of fertility:

• The wedding cake - during the days of the Roman Empire, wheat or barley cakes (more like loaves) were broken over the head of the new bride by her groom symbolizing her fertility.

• Giving a favor of Italian confetti, or candy-covered almonds - these used to be tossed at the couple representing fertility and good luck.

• Tossing rice - originated with the ancient Hindus and Chinese to bestow fertility upon the bride and groom, as rice is the symbol of fruitfulness and prosperity in these cultures.

Some traditions remain with a specific culture, rather than having become the norm for American weddings:

• Indian - The Redenga is an exchange of flower garlands during the ceremony which symbolizes the couple’s acceptance of each other.

• Egyptian - Women pinch the bride for good luck.

• Irish - Giving a bell as a gift - the chime of bells is thought to keep evil spirits away, and also remind a couple of their wedding vows.

• Swedish - the bride puts a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure that she’ll never do without.

Other traditions stem from practicality to serve a specific purpose rather than being based on superstition. Although the practical purpose no longer holds true for todays society, these traditions hold fast:

• Why there are two envelopes with the invitation:

Invitations used to be hand delivered by messenger. In transport, the outer envelope would get dirty. When the messenger arrived at the destination, he would discard the outer, soiled envelope, and present the invitation to the recipient in just the inner, clean envelope.

• Why couples kiss at the end of their ceremony:

While many cultures share the more romantic belief that the couple exchanged spirits with their breath and part of their souls were exchanged as they kiss, this tradition actually originated with the Romans who used a kiss to seal a binding contract.

• Why there is a garter toss:

Prior to the 14th century, it was believed that possessing part of the brides garments brought good luck, so people actually tried to tear off pieces of her clothing. The tradition of a “garter toss” started in the 14th century after brides were tired of having to fight off people trying to tear at her clothing.

• Why brides wear white:

Contrary to popular belief, this has nothing to do with purity or virginity. The white wedding gown started with Queen Victoria in 1840. She wanted a dress that was specially for her wedding day, rather than wear one of her “Sunday Best” as was common practice at the time. Her of a white satin and lace gown remains the preferred choice of modern brides. If a white gown was good enough for a queen . . .

Jean Neuhart is the owner of Weddings From The Heart . As a Professional Bridal Consultant, she helps busy brides and their fiances plan creative, personalized and stress-free weddings. Your questions and comments are always welcome.

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Providing your guests with gifts is a nice way to thank them for their presence. Giving them small gifts in edible form will definitely won’t end up regulating to a dusty drawer. Chocolates would be the ultimate choice as an edible gift as it represents the bitterness and the sweet times throughout a marriage.

Have these chocolates packed in a beautiful handmade box with personalized labels will definitely complement the whole wedding ceremony.

There are so many options to choose from if you are going to buy edible gifts for your guests, such as personalized mint tins, sugar-free mints wrapped in beautiful boxes, coffee and cocoa mixes. These gifts can be wrapped in personalized boxes with beautiful designs. The couples name and wedding date can be printed out on mini greeting card; these greetings cards are then glued on nicely onto the boxes.

For coffee and cocoa mixes gifts, you can have them wrapped in transparent gift wrappers and have them placed in wooden baskets. This would definitely warmth the hearts of your guests as they will know the effort that you have gone through getting the gifts wrapped up in such nice packaging.

Everyone has a sweet tooth in general, thus giving out cookies as a gift is a good idea too. You may have the cookies wrapped in transparent gift wrappers placed in wooden baskets as well, and have a monogram of you and your partner or a photo. You can have these cookies customized by having large wedding cake cookies accented in your favorite wedding colors of your choice handed out.

Catharine Wittich owns a site where she sell wedding favors during the summer month.

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Pick up any bridal magazine and on average there is approximately ten pages of written information in amongst all the pages. In fact, no other industry has been able to sustain the amount of magazines that the bridal industry has. It is estimated that the total global market value of weddings is approximately $85 billion - US Dollars that is. That figure does not include the honeymoon so it could be even higher!

The wedding industry in general is designed for brides to be in an emotional state which generally leads to BIG money being spent on weddings. As a professional wedding planner I have seen it all so many times, couples who are struggling to save for a home spending $5000 on a wedding dress because the bride simply fell in love with the dress. Just because you are getting married does not mean you need to break the budget or start your married life with ‘wedding debt.’

Why does this happen? Two reasons generally, most couples getting married have never planned a wedding before and they unintentionally get caught up in the marketing hype. In my personal experience, I have even seen professional financial planners justify why they spent substantially more on their wedding than originally planned.

The second reason most couples spend more than they should on their wedding is because they simply don’t know what to ask for, what to look out for or avoid and how simple tips could slash their wedding budget. Given that nature of the industry this sort of information would generally be hard to come by.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer that in most cases you get what you pay for, but that does not mean you need to spend unnecessarily or fall prey to all the scams. There are many simple ways that you can dramatically slash your wedding budget without compromising on your special day. If this sounds like a relief but you are somewhat skeptical, don’t be. Saving money on your wedding does not mean you need to ask a friend to take the photographs or bake your own wedding cake.

For example if it is the $5000 designer wedding dress you absolutely have to have, did you know there are other options available to you to obtain that dress, and at a fraction of the cost?

When it comes to planning a wedding, for most brides every cent matters. If you can save ten percent on very element of your wedding, which sometimes is as easy as asking for it, it will make a big difference to the end figure.

Weddings have evolved dramatically in the last decade. These days anything goes for weddings, it is all about infusing the couples individual style and personality into their day. By being level headed about what you want, what you really need and educating yourself as to where you can be creative, you will avoid falling into the ‘bride-brain’ mentality and save yourself thousands of dollars.

Paula Majstorovic is an international wedding planner and the brainchild behind many wedding products and planning solutions, such as Wedding Secrets Revealed. She is hosting tele-seminar ‘wedding workshops’ that share unbiased, honest and independent information on the close guarded secrets that the bridal magazines, online directories and wedding vendors will never share. For more information please visit Wedding Secrets Revealed or Majstro

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Normally, we call it march in. I feel wedding can be a very special one when the wedding couple dances into the ballroom rather than the normal march in.

My cousin had his wedding and surprisingly, there was this segment when he danced with his bride.

The dance served as an entertainment for us too.

Soon after, other guests joined them and we had our first dance too. The aisle was packed with dancing couples.

Even my aunties and uncles who are already in their sixties joined in too.

Rather an amazing sight to see. One of the very few in Singapore’s wedding indeed.

If you are planning your wedding and have a special piece of music for your all important first dance, you may want to sign up your very first wedding dance lesson in a dance studio.

Through a course of private lessons, the dance teacher may be able to customise the dance lesson for you.

As you know, we all have different calibre. For me, I’m sure I’m not a good dancer because I can’t coordinate the dancing steps well.

However, it is always worth a try.

At the dance studio, the experienced teachers can choreograph an individual dance to fit your music perfectly.

There are different type of wedding dances:

1. traditional Waltz,

2. sexy Argentine Tango

3. passionate Rumba

Dancing isn’t as easy as what it seemed. We all saw from television programs which show dancing competition and how graceful the dancers were.

They were dancing as one. They were moving their bodies as one.

However, do you know they may have learnt and practice for ten over years just to be able to qualify for the dancing contest?

But, wedding couples do not have so much time.

Whatever you do, if you are going to dance at your wedding, just enjoy yourself and I’m sure all the guests will feel very proud of how happy the wedding couple is!

Jhong Ren owns an authority wedding blog and he aims to provide 1 million wedding couples wedding planning help and relationship problem advice. His Wedding Blog is at Romance-Fire.com Jhong Ren is the best selling author of the Wedding Series - “Plan Your Fabulous Wedding” at PlanFabulousWedding.com

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Just as it’s traditional to present your wedding guests with small token favors, it’s also common to secure personalized favor tags to your gifts. These tags usually include the bride and groom’s names, plus the wedding date, along with a short verse or saying that fits with the wedding theme.

If you’re stuck on what to include on your wedding favor tags, here are a few ideas to help you along.

Bells

“Every time you hear a bell ring think of when Mr. & Mrs.________ got their wedding rings.”

“Hark! The merry chimes are pealing, Soft and glad the music swells, Gaily in the night wind stealing, Sweetly sound the wedding bells.” ~ Eliza Cook

Bubbles

“Rice is traditional, but bubbles are more fun. Help us cheer on the newlyweds as their life has begun.”

Candy

“Hugs and kisses from the Mr. & Mrs.” (Hershey Chocolate Kisses and Hugs)

“We treasure your presence on our special day” (Gold foil chocolate coins)

“May the sweetness of this day fill our lives forever.”

“Love is like chocolate. Life is so much sweeter when it’s shared!”

Sparklers or Candles

“Take a bit of today’s joy to brighten tomorrow”

“Burn this candle and think of our bright new future”

Flowers and Seeds

“Plant these seeds and watch them grow, as does our new lives together”

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms, Without the aid of the seasons.” ~Kahlil Gibran

Heart

“Two souls with but a single thought. Two hearts that beat as one.” ~ Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

“Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.” ~- William Shakespeare

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Do you know exactly what you want for a wedding gown or are you just doing what other brides are doing and head straight to a bridal studio? No matter which one you chose, this article will show you where to begin, walk you along the journey by telling you what to expect and what not to do and protect you from unforeseen charges by telling you what questions to ask.

1. Many brides-to-be waited too long to have their wedding gowns made or altered. If you are planning to have made-to-measure gowns, be prepared to wait 40-60 days inclusive of alterations to get your final dress. Note that your dressmaker will charge you extra if you want them to rush for you. For alterations, get it done early so you will get your gown on time, and may even add or change certain thing you are unhappy about once you look at it for a while.

2. Maintain your body weight during the fitting session to your wedding day. Yes, it’s a good idea to tone up and loss some weight but do not do anything too drastic (ever heard of crash diet that caused people to balloon up heavier than before?) or you will have to alter that dress again.

3. Try on dresses of different types. The types are: A-line, Ballgown, Empire, Column and Mermaid. Each will work for different body shape. Even if you are in love with a certain design doesn’t mean that you’ll look good in it. Try on all types before you settle for the one gown. The result could be totally different than what you have in mind.

4. Don’t leave anything to chance. Get your matching shoes, accessories and underwear early and wear them on your fitting day so you get the exact look on your Big Day. Your bridal studio or dressmaker can then make the necessary alteration to your gown the way it was meant to be.

5. For photography purpose, you may want to have gowns which are different from one another in terms of design and color. Otherwise, it may not be immediately identifiable that you have four dresses during your photoshoot since they are all white.

6. Its a good idea to ask about the date you can collect your gown, whether your wedding gown vendor will be accountable if they make a mistake and whether you are going to be charged for alterations.

Steff X was a bride-to-be and she is thrilled to share all her wedding research, tips and ideas in her website http://www.GlamWedding.info - an informative site featuring bride styles, decor articles, celebrity wedding looks, discount coupons and upcoming how-to videos on bridal make-ups, hairstyles, instant workouts and much, much more.

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If you’re planning your wedding and you’re looking for an exotic and unique feel to your gown, consider getting inspiration from Indian wedding gowns. They are very beautiful yet relatively inexpensive and easy to wear.

For Indian brides, red is the way to go when selecting a color for their gowns. Red is believed to herald good fortune and happiness for the couple, while white is the color of mourning. You can of course choose different colors if red doesn’t fit into the motif of your wedding.

There are also a variety of styles for Indian wedding gowns. Some popular styles are saris, salwar kameez, and gaghra choli. Saris are probably the most popular in the Western world. These are long pieces of fabric that are worn over a blouse and skirt, and wrapped around the body. Different variations of wrapping the sari also exist, according to preferences and regions. Salwar kameez are usually worn by men. Salwar refers to the pants or trousers that can be cut loosely or close to the body. Kameez refers to the tunic that can be hip-length or longer. Some prefer the tunic to be embroidered, while other want it to be plain. Gaghra choli is essentially a long skirt with a short blouse. The blouse, or choli, usually exposes part of a woman’s midriff. A dupatta, or scarf, can be worn on the chest, neck, or head.

Bright colors and intricate patterns are common features of Indian bridal gowns. These can even be embellished with silver or gold. Satins or chiffons are often used as fabric. If you want authentic Indian wear for your wedding, you can order over the internet for a wedding gown from India. Or, you can visit an Indian boutique in your nearby urban city. With the popularity of Indian clothes today, finding a tailor who is Indian or who is well-versed in Indian styles shouldn’t be too hard.

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These kinds of toasts are great, because most folks don’t have a clue of how to write a wedding toast.

That is fine. It’s not important that you did not write the toast. It is important that you know how to deliver the toast. That you make it a memorable toast by your ability to give it properly.

Did you know for instance that most singers that you hear on the radio did not write the songs they sing. They had experts write them for them. Their talent is not in writing the song, but being really great at singing the song and relaying the emotions to the audience that the song is talking about.

The same it true for you. Do not focus on the fact that you can not write a toast. Because most folks can’t do this task.

Focus on getting a toast that was written by experts and practice it so when you deliver it you the magic of their words will come to life. The biggest part of making that happen is practicing the toast. You need to plan some time to practice. Because practice makes perfect and once you allow your self to learn the toast. You will be amazed at how this will boost your confidence when it comes time to deliver it. you can find books with wedding toasts that were written by experts at your local book store, or you can go online and find one there. Today folks like the ones online, because you can download them instantly to your computer and start picking the one that is right for you.

Sunny James is the author of 100 Great Wedding Toasts and How to Deliver a Wedding Toast Like a Pro

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