Reception

Engraved Toasting Flutes As Permanent Reminder Of Your Special Day

August 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Unique toasting flutes for your wedding party add a professional, uniform look to this special moment during your reception for unforgettable photos. You and your wedding party will treasure personally engraved ones as a lasting memory of the day.

When everyone raises their glasses to their lips, engraved toasting flutes look so elegant. Your guests will appreciate your attention to detail when you have these flutes to celebrate your new lives together. They are available in a variety of shapes and sizes including goblets and long stemmed glasses. The bride and groom can express their own unique sentiments on them. The glasses are custom engraved or printed based on the glass style chosen.

Names, dates, a logo, a monogram or a special message can be engraved on your wedding toasting flutes. Have a special set of engraved flutes just for the bride and groom. A good way to offset the bride and groom flutes is to display them in a matching holder. A silver plated love stem champagne holder and glass flutes keeps both glasses together with a linking heart until the toasting moment. Silver plated interlocking heart stems with glass flutes express joining together in one heart.

The matron of honor, best man, bridesmaids and groomsmen all receive their own unique engraved flute sets. The bride and groom can use this opportunity to express heartfelt sentiments to each of the people who helped make their wedding day possible. Include your names and date with a line or two of text to tell everyone how you feel. These specially engraved toasting flutes are also lasting keepsakes of your wedding day for the party to proudly display in their homes. Personalized flutes for your entire wedding party also look fabulous in all the photos and videos of your marriage toast.

Select ones for a formal wedding. Interlocking diamond stem champagne flutes add a glamorous touch to your head table. Silver plated open heart and jewel drop stem champagne flutes add sparkle and heart to your toast.

Hearts are a timeless, traditional way to show your eternal love. Love burst toasting flutes feature a bursting heart, much like the way newlyweds feel about each other. Silver plated heart stem glass flutes look opulent for the bride, groom and wedding party. For truly unique ones, silver plated stacked hearts glass flutes will make your guests stop to admire them. A classic double heart toasting set shows two hearts are coming together for one marriage. Capture the very essence of marriage itself with engraved diamond ring champagne flutes.

Wedding themes express themselves in many aspects of your special day. A decorative flower basket makes the ceremony even more wonderful. An eye-catching, themed cake topper brings your ideas right to the top of your wedding cake. Themed, engraved toasting flutes capture this special moment and become keepsakes you use to celebrate your anniversary every year. For a winter wedding, winter wonder sets bring snowflakes to your head table. Fall weddings are complete when you use an autumn splendor set with unusual oak leaf embellishments.

Flowers are an integral part of many wedding themes. Match your sets to the flowers displayed at your wedding ceremony and reception. A flower of love in romantic red toasting set matches red roses perfectly. A bridal beauty calla lily toasting set matches the beauty of the calla lilies in the bridal bouquet. Ribbons and roses bring a timeless floral touch to these items.

From wedding white to irresistible chocolate and strawberries, your sets reflect the colors and themes of your one-of-a-kind wedding day. Add your own personal sentiments and these engraved wedding flutes will permanently remind everyone of your incredible day.

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Some Great Guest Book Ideas For Your Beach Wedding

August 4, 2009 By Jen Leave a Comment

Wedding guest book ideas are found in bridal magazines, retail stores and through online resources. The best wedding ideas compliment the theme of your big day. Shopping around for cool ideas online is convenient because you can do it anytime, anywhere.

Your guest book is one of the most important accessories. During the wedding reception, all your guests look for this book to sign their names, addresses and make a personal statement. From funny one-liners to touching paragraphs, everyone will have something unique to say to the happy couple. After the reception, the guest book is a handy resource for writing thank you notes. Once your thank you notes are in the mail, your guest book becomes the first marital phone book so you know how to get in touch with everyone.

Usually it is displayed on its own table at the reception so guests can easily locate it. The table is decorated to match the wedding theme and a fancy pen to match the guest book is provided so guests can write their sentiments. With the hectic pace of a wedding, often the bride and groom do not get to exchange many words with their guests. A wedding guest book gives you a chance to read all the thoughts your guests had during your reception to relive the moment again and again.

Often great ideas come right from the theme of the wedding. One of the first choices you make as you plan for your big day is the theme. Once you choose a theme, you can select your invitations, decorations and accessories so everything matches. A uniform appearance throughout your wedding ceremony and reception looks professional in all your wedding photos and videos.

Calla lilies are a timeless, traditional theme. The gentle beauty of these flowers is associated with marriage and love. A bridal beauty calla lily traditional guest book matches the flowers in your wedding bouquets. If you prefer red roses, a flower of love in romantic red guest book is simply perfect.

Chocolate and strawberries are a decadent delight often associated with romance. If you and your groom appreciate the sensual pleasure of chocolate and strawberries, you will both love chocolate and strawberry cream accessories, including a traditional guest book. Chocolate colored ribbons with crystals on a pale pink background is a tasty way to gather your guests’ names.

Love and faith go hand in hand for many couples. Marriage often involves a ceremony of faith based on the couples’ background and religion. Express your faith with an expression of faith traditional guest book. Your guests will all appreciate the love and faith you share, which will surely be reflected in the comments they write.

Consider the décor in the marital home when you consider ideas. Your guest book should match your theme and fit nicely into your new home together. Classic guest book designs match any wedding theme and look fabulous displayed in your marital home.

A bronze elegance traditional guest book adds opulence to your wedding reception and your home. A thymeless traditional one combines rich color and texture, adding a luxurious touch to your wedding reception and new home. A scattered pearls and crystals traditional book in white captures the very essence of your wedding day. If you prefer total elegance, choose a platinum by design traditional guest book with sparkling crystals. These beautiful guest books will attract attention anywhere you display them. Solid, classic designs look lovely for many years to come as you reminisce about your wedding day or write holiday cards.

No matter what your wedding theme or location, hearts fit in anywhere because they are the universal symbol of love. A classic double heart traditional guest book shows the joining of two hearts in marriage. A love tree in natural white is a unique way to display hearts on it.

With so many ideas, you can find the perfect choice to match your wedding reception and your new marital home together.

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Wedding Reception Centerpieces – Beach Wedding Planning

June 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Welcome to our video series of the top 20 questions brides ask when planning their wedding. I get a lot of questions about reception table centerpieces. Everyone wants something different, unique, interesting, or unusual.

Follow along by reading:

Wedding reception table centerpieces usually consist of flowers, candles or light, water, and sand—-by themselves, or in combination with each other. In addition, the use of food as a centerpiece has become more common over the last ten years.

Flowers are the number one choice of brides when it comes to centerpieces. They can be small and dainty, or extravagant floral displays with ostrich feathers in trumpet vases.

Candles add atmosphere and ambiance to any dimly lit room. They are the classic, traditional centrepiece for a dining room, and they are easy on the pocket book. They can be simple, or dressed up with flowers or placed in elaborate clusters.

Water is an interesting medium for table centerpieces. I have seen goldfish swimming in glass bowls as a centerpiece. Very unique and colorful. Water can be dyed to any color, so imagine a cluster of tall thin vases filled with colored water as a centerpiece. How about a simple glass bowl with water, floating candles and a few flower heads? Inexpensive and elegant.

Sand has become more popular, especially as it comes in many colors. Whether you have sand in a vase, or in a flat tray with tea lights, you can do almost anything with sand. Consider vials of colored sand, and an empty glass container—you can have your guests create the centerpiece through an activity that gets everyone involved.

And then, there is food as a centerpiece. Consider a tower made out of pieces of fudge which then becomes the dessert. A beautiful choice for a centerpiece is a tall vase filled with lemons and limes. A more casual outdoor wedding might have a glass pitcher full of sliced lemons, limes and water, which later becomes lemonade for the guests to drink.

Wedding table centerpieces can be simple, dramatic, or practical—and it depends upon your personal style. I suggest you pay attention to centerpieces whenever you are at a restaurant, or fancy hotel. Look through home magazines to see what kind of centerpieces are on tables in the photos.

The purpose of a centerpiece is to be the focal point of the table. The use of flowers, candles or lights, water, sand and food are the most common ways to achieve this.

Good luck, and congratulations on your upcoming wedding.

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Beach Wedding Supplies

June 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

To that end, you should have at least some favors that commemorate the Bride and Groom, the Date and if possible, the location to give your guests a “keepable keepsake” to remember the event and the momentous commitment both people took.

Seaside Allure Garter Set Because so many people like to hold onto a memory of the day, your options in shapes, sizes and forms are many as are the colors you have to your avail.

Beach Pillow Favor / Place Card Holders are elegant as are Starfish Favor / Place Cards and Boat Wheel Favor / Place Cards and each says something about one or the other of the marrying party. A ‘Stop! Please Take One’ Favor / Place Card will not only prompt people to stop, it will also prompt them to take a favor / place card and tuck it away for safekeeping. Other options include stickers that commemorate the day that come in a variety of shapes and sizes including shells, beach towels, boat flags and starfish.

Heart Shaped Unity Sand Ceremony Set In terms of color, aqua blue is always popular, but you can elect to use virtually any color of your choosing. White reverse decorations on the background “jazz-up” the favor / place card and allow you to set a theme if your form is just a rectangle. Remember to use type that fits with the colors you choose and are not hard to read.

By using paper favors / place cards, your guests can keep your day in a safe place without worrying about them breaking. Over the years, they will be reminded of the event and how special it all was. There is nothing so much fun as flipping through an old scrapbook and remembering such a happy day and event.

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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.