Archive | June 2012

Advantages Of Planning A Wedding At Your Home

There is a great demand for innovative Indian marriage ideas. Many couples opt to organize wedding celebrations in their home or courtyard, especially those that own big enough spaces to accommodate their 100-200 wedding guests. Home weddings are small, personal and cozy affairs where you can mingle with your guests and enjoy your wedding. In large weddings, you’re just a bystander who witnesses all the fun from the stage or the aisle. Though the celebrations are centered on you and your happiness, you don’t really feel a part of the entire extravaganza.

The location and decoration
The ceremony can take place in your courtyard, backyard or just about any part of the house where 100-200 people can gather together and drink to your happiness. Keep the decoration light and tasteful. If you own a big house, then you can for elaborate decoration like drapes and hangings in all the corners. For outdoor weddings, nature is your best friends. Create a canopy of ferns and leaves and take your vows beneath it. You will not even have to worry a lot about the decoration of the place because it can be easily managed with the help of few family members and close friends. That’s one reason why we favor home weddings in our wedding planning tips for brides.

Wedding Food
In case of small and cozy celebrations, the wedding menu is ranges between frugal to lavish. This is so because of the fewer number of guests, the overall quantity of the food is on the small side, which means greater scope for a variety of delicacies. A seated reception meal may not be possible due to space constraints. Go for buffet style table. Hire a cook 2-3 days before wedding, even if you’ve engaged the services of a catering agency for the main ceremony. It always helps to have additional hands around when it comes to cooking.

Ceremony and Reception
We have to cover the main ceremony (saat phere), reception and other smaller ceremonies under Indian wedding planning tips. Designate the different parts of your house where each of these ceremonies would be held. Decide the decoration and food details accordingly.

Wedding Dress
Home weddings give you a decent chance to save money which you can very well spend on your wedding dress and jewelry. However, since it’d be an intimate affair, refrain from going from too gaudy clothes. Keep the ensemble chic and sophisticate, just like your wedding style.

Special marriage planning tips
Make your home weatherproof. If yours is a summer wedding, make sure the air condition is working properly and there are good provisions for ventilation. Same goes for winter weddings too. Make sufficient arrangements to avoid leaky rooks and other problems during the monsoon season.

We hope our marriage planning tips help you plan a nice and enjoyable wedding at your home – your abode with which you have innumerable memories attached.

Why a Wedding Dress Doesn’t Have to Be White

Jun25

When you say wedding, few people will actually think about anything other than a white wedding dress. Women are used to wearing white wedding dresses, seeing other brides wear them, and in simple words – a wedding dress will for most of us always be a white one. Wearing a white wedding gown is considered to be a tradition in some cultures, or is this only a matter of culture? A wedding dress was a status symbol, and impractical in a way. Brides used to wear white wedding gowns only to show that they can afford a dress that can be so easily stained, yet so hardly cleaned. Nowadays, things have changed.

Does a Wedding Gown Have to Be White?
No, it doesn’t have to be white. After all, weddings are all about love, and starting your life with your soul mate. Who cares about the dress? Well, apparently, almost every bride. Weddings have always had a veil of magic wrapped around them, and every bride wants to be the princess in their stories. Can they afford not to look extraordinarily? No, everything on them has to be perfect, and this includes the wedding dress as well. When it comes to colors, white is the most common choice, but many brides have started to broaden their horizons and turned to other colors, and this includes pink, green, orange, beige, and so forth.

What about the Other Cultures?
You need to know that there are many cultures that don’t require brides to wear white on the day of their wedding. According to their traditions, brides ought to wear red wedding dresses, or even pink, or orange.

Non-Traditional Wedding Gowns
Not only have wedding dresses in most diverse colors become widespread, but there is also a tendency to make these dresses more practical. As it has already been mentioned, white wedding gowns were a symbol of wealth for a very long time, owing to the fact that white is hard to maintain. Nowadays, many brides tend to choose a gown that they’ll be able to maintain properly and without too much effort. When making their selection, a lot of women choose a dress they’ll be able to wear for other occasions, such as cocktail parties or other exclusive events.

You Need to Feel Good in Your Wedding Outfit
The standards have changed now and modern brides rely on a variety of criteria to help them choose a color of their wedding gowns. Some brides choose a wedding gown based on their favorite color; some choose a color that goes well with their complexion; there are brides who like to experiment with colors, and the ones looking to make all the wedding guests gasp in surprise. The reasons are numerous, and the colors even greater in number – pink, orange, blue, green, black, yellow, maroon. As long as you feel great in your wedding gown, it doesn’t matter what color it is.

5 Unique Wedding Ideas for Your Special Day!

Jun20

You have been dreaming about your wedding day since you were a child. You have the colors picked out, and countless ideas bouncing around, but now as it draws near your thinking…. What are some Unique Wedding Ideas, that i can use to make this day truly my own and unlike any other wedding? Never fear, you have found your way to the right place. Below is a list of 5 unique ideas that will provide you a beautiful wedding, but allow it to truly stand apart from most other weddings you have attended.

1. BROADCAST YOUR WEDDING
This is such a unique and good idea for so many reasons. Weddings are an event, they are timeless! Unfortunately, your location or timing may hinder some loved ones from attending. Insert services like USTREAM and JUSTIN.TV. These services offer you the capability (with just a camera and laptop) to stream the event live over the internet. Imagine family members, that live thousands of miles away, or in other countries being able to share in your special day. The BEST part about these services is its FREE! You even have the ability to embed the stream on your own website or Facebook page. Just don’t forget to hit record, so you’ll be able to watch and share the video later.

2. STREAM YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER’S STILLS AT THE RECEPTION
Technology is ingrained in our lives. Why not use this power!? With a simple connector and a TV screen you can provide your reception guests with a montage of your wedding ceremony photos.

3. RENT A PHOTO BOOTH
What better way for guests to capture the spirit of the wedding, than to slide into a photo booth. Everyone loves a photo booth and it provides an opportunity for guests to leave with a fun memento of the wedding. You could even have the guests stop and have you sign the photos with a thank you and the date, so that each guest gets a personalized gift from the bride and groom.

4. WEDDING PARTY GIFTS
Provide plantable seeds, with your wedding information on the package, so the parting guests can have a reminder in their garden of your special day. Another fun idea is to have the guest attendant take a digital photo of each attendee, as they arrive. Then later you can upload the photos to a hosting site, and email the link to your guests so they can remember your special day and all the friends that attended the wedding.

5. CEREMONY MUSIC
Incorporate your personality into the ceremony music! The only rules that apply at your wedding, are YOUR rules. (obviously consider the venue) But you get the point! Choose music that makes you smile and have fun. Your wedding day is supposed to be all about you. So maybe even have a special custom song written for that 1st dance as a couple.

6 Tips to Plan Your Wedding Gift

Jun15

Wedding is one such occasion to be cherished and celebrated in a big way. Innovative and Creative ideas make your part special in the gracious occasion and will be remembered by the couples for their lifetime. Now, the question is how can one make their part special on the big day? Simple, it can be done by giving a novelty “Wedding Gift.” When we receive a wedding invitation the first thing that comes to our mind is, what am I going to gift? How much should I spend on the gift?

Wedding gifts have to be chosen with care and affection. As a general thumb rule, selection of wedding gifts depends on couples, their age and their culture. Here are some simple useful tips for buying a special wedding gift:

1. Fix the Budget
Decide the budget for the Wedding gift depending on how close the couples are to you and how much you would like to offer the couples. Determining the budget beforehand saves the time spent on analysing gifts that are far beyond the budget.

2. Plan it Beforehand
Start searching for a gift that fits your budget well ahead of the wedding, a month before the wedding would be the best time to start your process. This gives you some good amount of time to think variety of creative gift ideas. Do not hesitate to discuss with the attendees on what their gift plans are as this will help you avoiding same gifts.

3. Think of Money Pooling
The best gift idea would be buying a bulk gift with group of friends or group of relatives invited for the wedding. You can get a big gift as a group always which an individual alone can’t think of affording. One good idea is to buy the couples a honeymoon package.

4. Consider a Cash Gift
Cash gift is the best Wedding gift that couples would love to receive but the one which they would never ask for. Cash gifts can be of any type, like a gift card from a shop or a preloaded credit card or cash in cover or can even be a cheque enclosed in a cover.

5. Whom to Address
If you are planning to send the gift before wedding date, address the gift to either bride or bridegroom to whom you are gifting. If the gift is offered on the wedding date or after the wedding, address the gift to both the names of bride and bridegroom.

6. Ship the Gift
If you are not attending the wedding ceremony and still thinking of sending a gift to the couples, ship the wedding gift either before or after wedding. Always remember to follow the above point based on the time you are sending the gift.

Comments are always appreciated!!

Wedding Dress Worries

Jun12

It’s perfectly normal for you to have some worries and concerns when planning for your wedding day – in fact it might be disconcerting if you didn’t have any at all. From fretting over where to sit those family members who don’t see eye to eye, to being the centre of attention or perhaps you feel you’re going to struggle to find your dream bridal gown, this is your big day and you have every right to want it to be perfect.

For some brides the thought of walking into a bridal store frightens them – all those reams of wedding dresses – where do you begin? That’s why we have devised the following checklist to help you in the search for your ideal wedding gown.

1.Prior to making any appointments think carefully about your own personality and own individual style. Are you a glamour puss, a vintage chick or a plain Jane. Your wedding dress is a reflection of you.

2.Ensure you have done some research before you visit. By sourcing images from magazines and the internet, and collating your ideas together you will have a good starting point. It is likely you will begin to see a pattern emerging in the style of gown you envisage yourself wearing. Take these clippings along with you to your appointment as your bridal sales assistant can then see clearly the type of dress you’d like to try on and they will know what they have in stock.

3.Even if you are 100% certain of the dress style you want it is best to try to keep an open mind. It is very common for a bride to walk in to purchase a dress of a certain style and walk out having bought the complete opposite! Trust your assistant – they are experienced and know what styles and shapes are most flattering for your body shape.

4.Like a certain part of your body? Then flaunt it! Look for a wedding dress that accentuates and highlights your best assets. Sweetheart necklines are great to show off your chest or if you love your curves then go for a fishtail gown.

5.If you want something unusual or quirky then go for it. There are no rules to say you have to stick to the traditional style wedding dress.

6.The theme of your wedding can have some influence over your selection of wedding dress. A vintage tea party affair needs the vintage looking dress to go with it, just as a grand celebration in a castle requires the fairytale gown.

7.Looking and feeling good before you go shopping can play a vital role; this is not the time to be wearing your greying undies! A bit of make up will help you imagine what you will look like on your special day.

8.Lots of people will tell you that you will just ‘know’ when it’s the right dress. This is not so for all brides to be, you won’t necessarily cry or get butterflies in your tummy either. Sometimes it’s best to simply narrow it down to a few dresses and go back for a second try later on. Going back with a clear head, an opinion of a close friend or family member or sleeping on it can help you make that all important final decision. Upon going away to think about it you may find that you just can’t get one of these particular dresses out of your mind and that might just be the one!

Romantic Theme Bedroom for Newlyweds

Jun8

Getting married is one of the most important events in everyone’s life. Building the love net with the one you love is every girl’s dream. The house, which the newly wed couples live, is not just a building. It is the shell of their love.

Do you want to have a romantic night for your wedding night? In fact, the style you decorate your new home is vital. A romantic style room can give you a sweet wedding night.

Decorating the new house for the bride and groom is definitely an important thing. When it comes to decorating the sweet home, the most important part of the house, for newly wed couple, is the bedroom. Bedroom is the place where you will spend most of your time, enjoying the company of each other.

Applying some romantic wall decals is an easy way to create the romantic atmosphere for your wedding night. There are many advantages of decorating newlyweds’ bedroom with wall stickers. For instance, wall decals are removable and easy to be stick on the wall without ruining the painting.

As there are various patterns of wall decals, here are some tips for you when you choose your ideal ones.

1. Make sure that the color of wall stickers is match with the color of newlyweds’ bedroom.

2. Pink, red and other warm colors are suitable for the wedding night.

3. Love patterns, like heart and rose, are helpful for groom to create the romantic feelings for bride.

4. Design your own bedroom wall decals is a great and special wedding idea. In fact, many online shops can provide this service.

The Haute Costomize Bridal Dresses From Japan—Yumi Katsura

Jun1

the following pictures are from http://www.dreamyweddingstory.org

Yumi Katsura is an internationally renowned bridal dress and haute couture design master. The history of Yumi Katsura can traced back to 48 years ago. Flagship stores have spreaded so many metropolises around the world, such as Paris, New York, Tokyo and so on. From 2003, Yumi Katsura Paris is among the only several bands that can release their latest haute couture in Paris Haute Couture Show.

Here I’d like to share some gorgeous pictures of Yumi Katsura with you. Hope you will enjoy yourselves.