Wedding Planning

March 8, 2008

Tips for choosing a wedding outfit for civil ceremony

Before the bid and dashing event of the religious wedding, the organization of the civil wedding generally comes first. Though this event is simpler and more discrete, your outfit or dress still is main issue to take into account.

If you are just having a civil ceremony, then you can use a white outfit resembling a bridal gown, so you can have some of the romanticism and magic of the religious event.

If after your civil wedding you are going to have a dinner or lunch with music and dance, you may choose a more eye-catching design and lighter colors as pearl, champagne or ivory. As an additional touch, you can use a small bouquet to match your dress.

If you are having both ceremonies, and the civil union is just a few days before the religious one, you better go for simple outfit, as a two-piece or three-piece tailored-suit. As for the colors, we recommend you choosing pastel tones, so for the wedding gown you can choose white, ivory and pearl.

Finally, for civil ceremonies the most used are drapé dresses, strapless and reaching the knee. Coats with ¾ sleeves look good, you can use them with a dress line A or a tube dress. Cleavages may be round, square or in V. you may even opt for strips, too.

What counts is that you feel beautiful comfortable and satisfied with the civil wedding dress of your choice.

October 6, 2006

Considerations before booking on honeymoon hotel

After the wedding party, finally honeymoon night has come. You will be all alone with your husband and sharing with him the stories of the ceremony and reception. But the important thing is that you want that special night to be absolutely perfect, and for that you must foresee all the details of the hotel before making the reservations.

So how to choose a hotel for the honeymoon?

First, be honest with your budget. You must get the best for your money of course, but without sacrificing to much your preferences, after it is the honeymoon of you and your husband!

Honeymoon hotels offer special wedding night packages, with special room service and special and original room decorations.

Take into account the location of the hotel, especially if you are going to the airport the next day for your honeymoon trip.

Department stores offer newlyweds promotions, just by registering to a newlyweds list; you are participating for free wedding nights in the affiliate hotels of the list. So if you are the lucky one, you can erase this time from your wedding budget list.

Among the products the prize includes are: French Champagne, canapé and cheeses trays, chocolates, fruit basket, flower arrangement, breakfast buffet and parking lot. Others include: pool, gym, private Jacuzzi, etc.

October 4, 2006

Bridal tiaras for stylish brides

Tiaras and veils are meant to make the bride like a princess the day of her wedding, evoking the trend of the classic Hollywood style; tiaras are a dazzling bridal accessory that allows brides adding a personal charming touch to their wedding gowns.

On of the advantages of wearing a tiara is that gives is a completely elegant, fashionable and “princess-like” to the bride, that the bridal gown would not have without it.
Bride tiaras have been a distinctive mark of the rich and famous for years, and there are a plenty of tiara styles to choose from.

The modern bride usually prefers a regular silver tiara; simple, with crystal engraved details, and adjusted under the head’s base. It produces and eye-catching contrast – if it has brilliants much more- if you are wearing a simple bridal gown design.

The tiara usually goes with a bridal veil, another important complement of the bridal outfit.

October 2, 2006

How to buy a bridal gown online

In case you are buying a bridal gown online, whether you have no time to go to the bridal gown store yourself to the designer to take your measurements or you just fell in love with a model that is only available online, we give you some tips to for the purchasing process:

- Choose a bridal gown design: It can be from an online catalogue, or in case you are ordering a made-to-the-measure bride gown, you may choose a magazine pic or make you own bride dress design.
- Take your measurements
- Send it by e-mail
- Deposit the costs in the account of online bridal gown store.
- Tell them by which way you want them send you the dress.

How to take your measurements

- Your body must be relaxed and straight
- Take the measurements in underwear
- Do not tighten the centimeter
- Do not contract the abdomen and muscles
- Do not leave extra inches

September 26, 2006

Bridal couture gown

The new trends on bridal dresses go for feminine contours tight to women’s silhouette to suit hers shapes, on the contrary of long and very wavy gowns, with natural white as the “it” color of the season. The bridal veil, as the starring complement of the bridal gown outfit, can be placed in the traditional way or as a shawl, depending on each bride’s taste.

Amazing bride

White is the reigning color of the silk bride gowns, to allure bridal gown with transparence effects, draperied, fantasy finishings in necks, necklines, skirts and train in gowns decorated with embroidered tulles, brocades, jacquard, mikados-shantung, natural silk with rich textures and assorted contrasts.

September 5, 2006

Great sound for your wedding celebration

If there is something that can’t be missed in a wedding celebration is music. In wedding and other celebrations there are many possibilities of introducing music, from the moment of the religious ceremony until the buffet time.

Choosing the right music to accompany the ceremony can make that moment unforgettable.
But it’s also important to make a decision about the music that will accompany the buffet, as for who will play it and the type of guests as well. Many types of people gather at the buffet, so we have to think about all the possible preferences.

A wedding celebration has to go through many elections, and this is one of them. In many occasions, the same restaurant where the buffet is going to take place, which has its own orchestra or DJ; but many allow to choose the musicians the couple choose to amuse their celebration.

The traditional waltz that opens the ball is a picture moment you may find in many wedding albums; it’s also common to find pictures of traditional dances in some wedding parties.
Since some years ago it’s also possible to choose the entertaining system of the dance that usually follows wedding buffets. The option most people prefer is the traditional orchestra, which is the option almost most restaurants offer; although, there is now the possibility of choosing a DJ to amuse the party. Even if it seems more for an informal party, this type of DJ entertainment has some advantages over the orchestra system as for sound quality and offers more diverse music styles.

When choosing a musical style it’s completely different when most guests are young people, to a first communion ceremony when there are mostly kids, to a weeding for middle-aged people. Music professionals know very well how to synchronize to the likes and ages of their audience, thus they prepare a repertory, wide enough to be liked by everyone.

In any case, they are always open to any request and introducing new hip songs to the oldies. The most important thing is that the couple is fond of it. Some couples go for introducing at some moment of the buffet, chamber or traditional music.

There are many ways of celebrating a party, but there is no doubt that music play an important role, especially for the memorable moments, whichever it comes from an orchestra, DJ, traditional music group, a Gospel chorus, a jazz ensemble, or a rock band…

September 4, 2006