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If there is one positive thing that the global financial crisis has brought to the world of weddings, it is probably that it encouraged soon-to-wed couples to look for creative and resourceful ways on how to maximize the wedding budget.

Even wedding suppliers are now encouraging couples-to-be to purchase wedding items that serve double/multiple purposes. For example, wedding favors today are not simply for souvenirs anymore. They can be used as table centerpieces, reception decoration, and even for the groom’s cake! How is this possible? Here are some ways on how you can use the wedding favor boxes for the groom’s cake.

Idea # 1: Use favor boxes as decoration for the cake

You can surround the cake with fancy favor boxes that can also serve as decoration. If you would browse at the different types of favor boxes available in most online stores, you would find it hard to make a final choice, as all of these boxes are truly eye candies.

Idea # 2: Put mini cupcakes inside the favor boxes

Instead of having the traditional groom’s cake, you can have a bunch of mini cupcakes placed inside the favor boxes.

Idea # 3: Complement the choice of favor box with the theme of the wedding

Choose favors boxes that would be suitable for the theme that you have picked for your wedding day.

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Some Favors Boxes you can use for the Groom’s Cake

• Organic Green Woven Favor Boxes – If you are going to have an eco-wedding, (a theme that is very popular these days), these are the perfect embellishments to put into the cake.

• Natural Miniature Woven Beach Bags – These are also ideal for green weddings but you can also use these favor bags for other types of themes because you can change the content to fit whatever theme you are having. For example, you can fill up the bag with shells, sand, and pebbles if you are having a beach wedding, and then place these bags around the cake.

• Metal Boats – Speaking of beach weddings, these striped and polka dotted metal boats are great for beach weddings with nautical themes.

• Miniature Athletic Bags – As most guys are athletic, the groom will probably love these items to go with his cake. These are also great favors for a bunch of jocks attending the wedding.

• Romance Design Paper Cups – These paper cups, which come with a bottom text that reads, “Our love is forever” is great for cupcakes and other types of food products like chocolates and candies.

• Miniature Travel Suitcase Container – These favor boxes would surely be a hit for destination weddings, and also for couples who love to travel a lot. Aside from this one, you can also use the miniature travel trolley with wheels and retractable handle.

• Miniature Metal Watering Cans – These ones are fun galvanized miniature watering cans that are perfect for garden weddings.

Wedding favors boxes are not only for wedding souvenirs. They can also be used as cake decoration such as for the groom’s cake. Make sure that you choose something that your groom would love.

Wedding Planning Membership Site, TheBridalCoach.ca, Changes the Landscape of the Online Wedding Industry

Canadian brides, for the first time in internet history, can do all of their wedding planning online with certified wedding planners guiding their every step. No longer do modern brides have to search around outdated websites for out-of-date wedding information. The first wedding planning membership site in North America, TheBridalCoach.ca opens its door on November 10th, 2009, combining cutting edge technology with experience and expertise of certified wedding planners.

(PRWEB) November 5, 2009 — The old paradigm is still alive and well on the internet. Bride’s are going online to search for information to help them plan their wedding. What they find is outdated wedding planning checklists, vague promises of wedding solution ebooks, online wedding magazines full of beautiful wedding gown pictures, forums where they can get answers from other brides, and funny YouTube entrance dance wedding videos. But none of this gets them any closer to planning their wedding—mostly it gets them more confused and plants the seeds for bridezillas to emerge.

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Angela Fiebelkorn states that the membership site offers a unique combination of cutting edge technology and years of wedding planning expertise.

TheBridalCoach.ca is opening its door as a response to this disfunctionality in the online wedding market. It is the first and only wedding planning membership site in North America. Their stated mission is to provide the modern bride and groom one place on the internet to find everything they need to plan their wedding the right way, in a timely manner, with the least effort and from the comfort of their home. This entrepreneurial group of wedding planners is launching its membership site on November 10, 2009, just at the beginning of the wedding planning season for most brides and grooms.

“The launch is a massive internet marketing event,” says Angela Fiebelkorn, wedding planner and CEO of www.TheBridalCoach.ca. “This membership site offers a unique combination of cutting edge technology and years of wedding planning experience and expertise.”

She further states that “a team of certified wedding planners share their collective wisdom in countless short videos that tell the bride and groom what they need to know each step of the way…

Read full story here:  Wedding Planning Membership Site, TheBridalCoach.ca, Changes the Landscape of the Online Wedding Industry

Wedding Reception Ideas

Find unique wedding reception ideas online. Instead of dealing with the same local retailers as everyone else, surf the Internet for the most unusual ideas to make your marriage more memorable.

Only ten years ago, most couples had to shop around endlessly to find the perfect reception ideas. Driving from store to store was tiring, time-consuming and costly because of the travel expenses. Often couples shopped for days before finding the ideal wedding decorations.

Online resources make this more simple, fast and cost-effective. From the comfort of your own home or office, you can surf the Internet to find out what other couples are doing. Participate in online forums to exchange ideas with other couples. Visit dozens of different retailers to find the decorations and accessories you like most. When you find your favorite items, order them online and have them delivered right to your door.

Traditional products work well for all couples and budgets. Hearts, flowers and elegant accents are classic wedding reception ideas for all seasons. A delightful double heart theme shows the joining of two hearts in marriage. Display pure elegance in winter white throughout your reception with a white themed guest book, matching pen and bridal garter. Welcome your guests to their place settings with playful hearts silver place card holders they can take home to remember your special day.

Butterfly wedding  ideas are perfect for a spring garden wedding. After being indoors all winter, couple enjoy having an outdoor spring wedding to celebrate new life and new love. Often couples release live butterflies at spring garden weddings after they exchange their vows. Capture the essence of your butterfly spring garden wedding with delightfully themed decorations. Set up a guest book table and use a butterfly embellished book with a matching pen. Hang butterflies from arches, poles and trees. Welcome your guests to the reception tables with unique topiary photo holder/place card holders. At the reception, these adorable little trees hold place cards. When guests bring them home, the topiaries can be used to display your wedding photo.

Fairytale weddings bring romantic fantasy and loving reality together. Many brides dream of feeling like Cinderella on their wedding day. Wear a beautiful gown with a full skirt. Accent your dress with sparkling earrings and a glittering necklace. Arrive at your wedding reception in a horse-drawn carriage. Use fragrant, classic flowers such as calla lilies or roses in your bouquets and centerpieces. Include a guest book at your reception decorate with embroidery, jewels and a magic slipper like Cinderella’s. Give out small candies and favors in enchanted carriage favor boxes.

Country weddings are a perfect way to bring friends and family of all ages together. Have a hoe down in an oversize barn complete with a square dancing caller and country western band. Fill small barrels with silk flowers to use as centerpieces. Give out cowboys hats to all your guests to get them in the mood. Use the romantic vintage western collection at your reception. With the look of suede featuring gold and crystal horseshoes, your bridal garter and guest book will be dynamic. Hang a horseshoe over the entranceway for a lucky western feeling as soon as your guests arrive.

If you took a gamble on love and hit the jackpot, celebrate your win with Vegas wedding reception ideas. Have your reception at a casino for an authentic feel. Create a casino environment at any venue with toy slot machines and decks of cards at each reception table. Use playing cards as place cards. Give out Vegas themed favors to your guests such as lucky in love translucent playing card bottle stoppers.

With so many celebrities having destination wedding in the Caribbean, many couples are choosing beach wedding ideas. Whether you have your wedding an exotic tropical location, local lake or simply create a beach environment anywhere, nautical nuptials are unforgettable. Create a mood by setting up piles of sand and mini Adirondack chairs with tea lights as centerpieces at each reception table. Use silver sea shell place card holders to welcome your guests to their seats. Place a starfish cake topper atop your wedding cake.

Engagement Party

An engagement party is a great way to celebrate a couple’s love and to announce their decision to tie the knot. This kind of party is always fun, enjoyable, and not that stressful in terms of planning when compared to the wedding itself. With various activities, games, and ideas, it is so easy to have a memorable engagement party without having to spend much money or time planning the whole event.

Here are some great ideas to use for the 10 most important aspects of your engagement celebration.

1. Location – Hold the engagement party in a not-so-typical place. Instead of having the party at home or in some reception venue, you can have more fun if you hold it in other locations such as a sports park, at the beach, in a country club, in an amusement center, in a picnic ground, or even in a movie theater! These venues may be less formal but they can definitely be more fun.
2. Theme – Having a theme can surely add to the fun factor of the whole celebration. This is because if you have a theme, not only would planning become much easier, you can also ask guests to wear something that complements the theme. Instead of having a typical engagement party, you can have one with a ball and chain theme, beach party theme, renaissance party, Romeo and Juliet theme, and so on.
3. Decoration – Typical decorations such as balloons and flowers can make the event beautiful but to add some thrill and excitement, make use of humorous as well as nostalgic decorative pieces such as ball-and-chain gag items, comical bride and groom figures, memorabilia from the couple’s relationship (photos, movie tickets, scrapbooks, love letters), or decoration that keep up with the theme.
4. Games – An engagement party will not be complete without fun and games. Some ideas you can use for your party are the engaged couple trivia (asking couple questions about each other to see how well they know each other), karaoke singing contest, and the three-legged race (perfect for outdoor engagement parties).
5. Host – The host of the engagement party is one of the factors that can determine the event’s success. The smart move would be to have someone who knows the couple very well so that the gathering will be more personal and intimate. If the bride or the groom has the knack for being the life of the party, it may even be more fun if she or he hosts the celebration.
6. Food and Drinks – Having a buffet-style is usually a great way to promote a laid-back and casual atmosphere. Food and drinks should be complementary to the theme of the event. For example, serve tropical fruit cocktails for a Hawaiian themed engagement party).
7. Invitations – Do not simply give out a typical paper invite! Give a more interesting invitation like a message in a bottle, a banana leaf invitation, or an invitation wrapped around a votive candle. These invitations can double as souvenirs or favors.
8. Activities – Do not forget to plan the activities for the event. Some of the important activities in an engagement party include the official announcement of the couple’s engagement, taking of engagement photos, engagement party games, displaying of the engagement ring, toasts, congratulatory speeches, and announcement of wedding details.
9. Photographs – There is no need to hire for a professional photographer for this party. Instead, what you should do is to ask guests to bring their digital cameras and take snapshots of candid moments all night long. Do not forget to give your email address by the end of the party so they can send in the pictures right away.
10. Entertainment – A nice sound system may be enough to keep the guests entertained but if you want them to have more fun, a band, a DJ or a string quartet can also provide pleasant and entertaining music.

Planning an engagement party is not that difficult if you have these ideas and tips in mind. Have fun and enjoy the party!

Wedding Cupcake Ideas

Are you looking for something different for your autumn wedding? Why don’t you try a wedding cupcake tower in lieu of the traditional wedding cake? Fall wedding cupcakes are beautiful, stylish, creative, inexpensive, and most of all, delicious! What more can you ask for, right?

For your autumn wedding, a vast array of fall colors, styles, flavors, and designs can make your wedding cupcake truly one of a kind. And because you have the freedom to include many flavors into the wedding cupcake, there is no more need to get into unnecessary debate with your beloved on what flavor to choose for the cake.

Here are some great wedding cupcake ideas for your wonderful autumn wedding event:

Flavors

Having a wedding in the autumn season entitles you to a wedding cake that is full of rich and savory flavors. Instead of the typical chocolate and vanilla flavors, you can opt for flavorful pumpkin, pecan, devil’s food cake, espresso, rum, carrot, mocha, cinnamon, apple spice, red velvet, hazelnut, and caramel. You can choose few or all of these flavors depending on your decision. With wedding cupcakes, you do not need to be stuck with one or two flavors; you can have as many as you want!

Themes

When you think of the fall season, some of the things that will come into your mind are fallen leaves, rustic atmosphere, harvest, and occasions like Thanksgiving and Halloween. From these usual autumn concepts, you can choose a theme that can be used for your wedding cupcake.

For example, you can have each of the cupcake decorated with a red, orange or yellow leaf. You can also have turkey cupcakes if you are going to hold your wedding on Thanksgiving. Another idea would be to decorate the cupcake with fruits like apples or pears to symbolize harvest. Whatever theme you choose for your wedding cupcake, the important thing is that it is reminiscent of the magnificent season of autumn.

Decorations

Cupcake embellishments can be anything from flowers, chocolates, nuts, fruits, butter cream icing, fondant, cake sprinkles, or airbrushed designs. For instance, if you choose fondant to decorate your cake, you can have fondant shaped flowers on top of each wedding cupcake. It would also be a nice idea to have airbrushed design of fallen autumn leaves on the sides of the wedding cupcake.

And yet another great idea

Presentation

The wedding cupcake is not the only thing that matters. The way you present it is also a significant factor. Cupcake stands, stands with steps or ledges, and tiered dessert serving trays are just few of the many options you can use for the wedding cupcake tower.

Apart from that, you can also scatter some real autumn leaves around the stand of the cupcake tower or use a table linen that matches the color of the wedding cupcakes. Candles, flower petals, and satin ribbons can also add a nice touch.

Your wonderful autumn wedding cupcake will be one of the things that guests will remember in your memorable wedding. Make sure you spend enough time and effort in choosing the right style, flavors, and colors for your precious wedding cupcake tower.

When it comes to getting married, a bride pays close attention to every aspect of her appearance.  Time and effort are spent choosing the perfect dress, the right makeup, and the ideal hairstyle.  Staying in line with all of the other preparations, a bride must also have the perfect nails to display on her wedding day.

Family and friends at your wedding will want to see your ring; and there will certainly be some photographs taken of your hands close up.  For this reason, you want to your nails to look as good as they possible can.  Heading to the nail salon in the days before your wedding is one way to make sure that you’ve got perfectly manicured hands, but don’t think you have to follow any certain set of rules when it comes to your wedding day nails.

Beautifully manicured nails with a bit of color can make an elegant impression. Here’s how to choose a color that’s right for your skin tone, regardless of the color of your dress.

Fair skinned brides tend to look best in lighter shades of nail polish to begin with.  Neutral shades of nail polish with pink undertones are ideal for the bride.  If you are fair skinned and want nails that pop for your wedding, you could opt for subtle or vivid.  Subtle could be a French manicure with a strip of silver or gold beneath the white tip.  Vibrant wedding nails for the fair skinned bride could be polished a bold red with blue undertones.

Those with olive toned skin look gorgeous in warm hues of gold and shades of sheer brown or beige.  Painting your nails in polish with gold or gold undertones, your olive skin is sure to be complimented.  You can paint nails red, as long as there are not yellow or green undertones in the color.

Dark skinned brides are the lucky ones when it comes to their wedding day manicure.  Darker skin is complimented by a wide range of nail polish colors, including reds and even shades of purple.  Even against a white or cream colored dress, dark or vibrant nails will stand out beautifully against dark skin.

Now, one hue that is said to look good on all skin types is a shade of apricot or coral.  Opi is one brand of nail polish that is used by professionals in shops across the states, mainly because of the myriad of color options.  If you are interested in trying a shade of coral for your wedding day, check out the selection of Opi colors at your nearest salon or beauty supply store.

Brides who want to stay with a mild look on their hands for their big day can opt for a sheer color or a traditional French manicure, while going a little wild on the toes.  However, keep in mind that if you go bold on the toes, you should either wear the same color on your hands or wear a neutral shade up top.  Two bold colors on your wedding day may be a bit much to stare at.

Chances are, you have had enough experience with nail polish to know what you like and what you don’t.  Go with your gut and you’ll be happy.

Here’s a fun way to perk up your cupcake tower — line it with patterned fabric in your wedding colors. It’s an easy way to create a nice pop of color on the dessert table.

Photo: Boutwell Studio (CheninBoutwell.com)

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Source: http://community.theknot.com/cs/ks/blogs/wedding_style_file/archive/2009/09/09/wedding-bouquet-idea-use-a-brooch-to-fill-out-the-flowers.aspx

Usually, brooches go on the wrap, but that’s what makes this bouquet stand out: The floral pin is in the bouquet.

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Photo: Jennifer S. Rau Photography (http://www.jsrphotography.com)

Bouquet: Belle of the Ball Designs (http://www.belleoftheballdesigns.com)

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How gorgeous is this navy and pink wedding cake?! The talented Jennyfer Mancino from Sugar Suite (TheSugarSuite.com) created it using lovebird pottery as the cake topper and a coordinating bowl to separate the top tier from the rest — beats plastic cake columns and cheesy plastic figurines if you ask me.

Photo: Stacey Kane (StaceyKaneBlog.com)

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Wedding guest favors become lasting treasures of your special day. Your guests know how much you appreciate their presence when you give thoughtful wedding guest favors at your reception.

For centuries, wedding favors have been a traditional way to express gratitude to your guests. A few hundred years ago, wedding guest favors are exclusively for wealthy people who could afford these gifts. Guests were delighted to receive these little tokens of appreciation and the custom caught on for people from all backgrounds. Just like today, some gifts were handmade and others were pricey.

If your friends and family arrived at your reception and did not find favors, it would be quite embarrassing. Today guests anticipate table gifts and look for them at each place setting when they arrive. If wedding guest favors are not displayed next to the guests’ plates, they have a spot of honor at the reception. Either way, your guests want to get keepsakes of your big day. No matter what your budget or wedding theme, there are small items as gifts to compliment the event.

Match your wedding favors to your floral bouquets. Give your guests elegant orchid gel candles to match exotic arrangements. If you decide to use classic calla lilies, place small treasures in calla lily mini pails for each of your guests. Your favors can be used to reflect the season of your wedding. At a summer wedding near the beach, “Castles in the Sand” castle tea lights take the seaside spirit home with your guests. At an awesome autumn wedding, “Fall in Love” garden gel candles display all the colors of the season at each place setting. Your guests will enjoy getting “Snowfall” exquisite glass photo coasters complete with your wedding photo. In the spring, give “Love Grows” plantable favors in a flower shape so your guests remember you as each flower in their garden blooms.

Personalized favors are another popular option. Your guests will always remember your wedding when your favors are personalized with details such as your names and the date of the ceremony. Votive candles featuring your new monogram are a thoughtful, timeless choice for any type of wedding.

Popular wedding guest favors do double duty, such as photo frames. Your guests are directed to their seats by “Good Wishes” pearlized glass photo frame/place card holders they can use to proudly display your wedding photo when they get home.

Wedding guests favors are the perfect way to express your love and thanks to everyone attending your special day.