Wedding Planning Checklists

Bridal Shower Shopping List

April 23, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Love Bird Damask Favor Box A bridal shower is usually the first of many parties the bride and groom will attend after announcing their engagement. The bridal shower is a descendant of the old fashioned bride’s dowry.

For many centuries, the bride’s family would provide a dowry to entice a man to marry their daughter. When the family did not provide a dowry due to disapproval of the groom, or due to their poor financial state, the friends of the bride would gather to gift her with items that would create a dowry for her.

In the early to mid 20th century, the custom of bridal showers had themes like a linen shower, a kitchen or a garden shower. Items for the home were gifted along the lines of the theme, and were to help the bride provide a comfortable home for the couple’s future. As better transportation became available, more family and friends could attend a bridal shower, and the custom changed to more of a household goods theme. No one needs 50 sets of towels!

Today, there are many ways in which to have a bridal shower. Etiquette requires that a gift (or money) is never requested, and bridal registries have become an acceptable method of ‘asking’ for specific items for the couple’s new life together. Traditionally, the family and bridal party are told of the gift wishes of the couple, and if guests want to know what the couple need or want as a gift, they will inquire of the family and bridal party.

Bridal showers are hosted by the Maid of Honour. It is the responsibility of the Maid of Honour to organize the mothers and bridesmaids, and to plan the bridal shower. The mothers of the bride and groom help with the guest list of relatives and close family members who should be invited. The bridesmaids help to ensure friends of the bride and groom are also included in the guest list. The cost of the bridal shower is usually paid for by the bridal party, but if there are a lot of family members, the mothers might also choose to chip in with the costs. Sometimes, if there are many individuals to invite, the mothers might plan their own bridal shower with family members, and the Maid of Honour and Bridesmaids will plan a bridal shower with friends.

Irregardless, there are some basic items that are usually purchased for the bridal shower to decorate the space, and ensure there is a festive air to the event. This usually includes, but is not limited to:

Bridal Shower Invitations
Bridal Shower Favors
Favor Bags, Boxes and Ribbons
Bridal Shower Games
Tissue bells
Table skirt
Table covers
Ribbon pull bows
Tulle & ribbon bows

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My Beach Favors Story – Losing A Few Inches Has Never Been Easier

April 2, 2011 By admin 1 Comment

I was going to write about this product, and give you all the technical details of it. But I’ve changed my mind. Instead, I want to tell you our story here at My Beach Favors.

Katharine, our Customer Service Supervisor at My Beach Favors, tried this product first. She lost inches—overnight. You are supposed to wear the wrap for 45 minutes, and lose inches. But Katharine, well, she likes to do things her way. So she wore it overnight. She had applied it to her belly area. FOUR INCHES! That’s what she lost overnight. Her pants were baggy! She was showing us at the next day, at the office. We were all impressed. We started asking questions.

Applicator Starter Package

I’ve been overweight my whole life. I’ve tried it all, seen it all. OK. I admit. I was jaded. But others in the office started to use the product. They were losing inches. Katharine started having Wrap Parties—inviting a few people over in the evening to try it out (they pay for the wraps they use). I decided to come to the party and try it myself. In 45 minutes I had lost 2 inches on my belly. AMAZING. Most ladies at the Wrap Party signed up as a Loyal Customer, but I signed up as a Distributor. I know a good thing when I see it!

A Loyal Customer means you get the wraps at about 1/2 price from retail, and you commit to receiving 3 auto ship orders. You are a member for life, and don’t ever have to do anything with the company again if you don’t want to. Dave, a fellow in our office, signed up as a Loyal Customer. He wanted to try these wraps on other parts of his body, and thought with 3 orders (4 per box) it would give him enough wraps to do his entire body—neck/chin, upper arms, belly, love handles, inner and outer thighs. You have to wait 72 hours between applying the wraps to give your body a rest from detoxifying and working while it assimilates all the natural herbs in the wrap. That will take him through the 3 months of autoship.

I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT!! Every single person at this Wrap Party became either a Loyal Customer or a Distributor. I could see Katharine was making money on this, and I wanted in. After all, I own this website, and I am a wedding planner, and I know lots of brides who want the little bulging skin above their strapless dress GONE before the wedding day.

I became a Distributor, which means I can make money from people who buy the product from me or through me. I have a business, and this made sense to me. I am looking at Katharine (who is also a Distributor), and she cannot keep enough stock of her product to meet the business coming her way. Friends are telling friends, and she doing one Wrap Party after another.

FITworks Starter Package

I have to say I really like the products they have. Along with the wraps, which are really called the Ultimate Body Applicator, they have a variety of other products. They have the Body Slimming products which includes the Ultimate Body Applicator and the Defining Gel (use together for best results), Skin Care products, Supplements, and for those who want to lose weight there is Fit Works.

I LOVE the Defining Gel—you use it with the Ultimate Body Applicator. Being a little older, it is making my skin feel young again! Firmer. Smoother. Oh, this is definitely an amazing thing. The saggy bits are going away. I met someone new the other day and they thought I was much younger than I am. I am giving the credit to these products!

Not everyone cares about saving a few dollars, and becoming a Loyal Customer or a Distributor. For those people, retail is the way to go. You can get more information on these products here, or you can visit our It Works! retail store here.

All the staff at My Beach Favors is looking pretty good these days (we are ALL using the products), and a few of us are making some nice money on the side. I just wanted to share with you our story here at My Beach Favors, and invite you to check it out. Enjoy your wedding!

Filed Under: Beach Wedding Expert Advice, Best Blog Posts In Weddings, Fashion, Ideas & Tips, Planning, Wedding Planning Checklists

Wedding News – TheBridalCoach.ca launches its Wedding Planning Site – PR Web

November 6, 2009 By Jen Leave a Comment

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.

Wedding Planning Membership Site

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. The membership site has easy to follow checklists so the bride can just get things done. Additionally, the bride and groom are assisted by professional wedding planners and coaches in the members’ forum and through the weekly coaching calls. They can access these planners at any time for a prompt answer, and all this from the comfort of their home—and, the cost is a fraction of the cost of hiring a wedding planner.”

Asked why they think that they can do what no one has ever done before, Josef Schinwald, well-known SEO (search engine optimization) and internet marketing expert, and consultant to this project states, “this is going to be a pioneer service changing the paradigm of planning a wedding for many brides- and grooms-to-be. For the launch of the membership site, we are using a product launch formula combined with event marketing which allows us to keep the door open for one week after the countdown to launch on November 10th, culminating in a series of free webinars where prospects can ask question about their wedding or the membership site live in real time on the internet. We are using the power of Twitter where we already have over 10,000 followers, a newsletter mailing list into the thousands, as well as Facebook fan page and group, and other social media marketing channels like wedding news blogs, forums, and social bookmarking communities. We believe our membership site will sell out hours into the launch.”

The Wedding Planners Institute of Canada (WPIC) states that couples spend about 250 hours planning a wedding. Most of that time is spent researching all the options and trying to figure out exactly how they want to put their wedding plans together. TheBridalCoach.ca has a wonderful wedding planning module that involves both the bride and groom in creating their wedding vision together, with the helpful assistance of a series of videos explaining everything they need to know to make informed decisions. The focus of the memberhsip site is to keep the couple action oriented with checklists and coaching so they can arrive at their wedding day relaxed and happy.

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

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Ask The Destination Wedding Expert

October 10, 2009 By Lisa Leave a Comment

expertbeachwedding Get valuable wedding advice online. Your question/message will be answered within days via email and posted here on this blog together with Angela Fiebelkorn’s answer.

We really love to hear from you, so don’t be shy, ask your question below…

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Wedding Lists, Checklist and Actionlist

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Juliet may have said: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”. Well, I say: “What’s in a list? That which we call a list, by any other name would be as useful.”

Ah, you can tell we are getting to the end of our video series. I’m getting whimsical and quoting Shakespeare! Well, you may have figured out that today’s video is about LISTS.

Lists need to become your best friend during the wedding planning process. Start with getting a bunch of wedding planning checklists. Take what YOU need from them, and make YOUR list. You don’t need to do everything on every list. For example, if you are having an informal wedding in your backyard, you don’t need to book a church—but you might need to book a tent in case it rains. So takes those lists, and make it YOURS.