Wedding Planning

Tuesday 25 June 2013

Bridal Headwear – That Makes You Stand Out In The Crowd

Close your eyes and imagine yourself as a bride. However, every girl will be seeing herself dressed
up in some rich elegant dress, or will imagine having and holding an exotic bouquet, but there are too few who imagine about using hair accessories like tiaras, hair slides, hair pins/clips, hair combs etc.

They are ultimate bridal headwear accessories that enhances your entire look on your wedding day. Even if you are wearing your casual clothing and if you put any of these hair accessories in, you will look different, rich and elegant so obviously it would be more than this when it is your wedding.

Today’s bride has marvellous options when it comes to bridal headwear.  Just like a lovely wedding wow, your bridal headwear adds the last touch. It is your bridal headwear that reflects your personal taste and styling.

Not Knowing What To Do

Mistakes can be avoided with some careful planning. In today’s date, bridal headwear runs the scope from glittering jewelled tiara to the traditional hair combs. While trying different headpieces, make sure to have your wedding dress together. Also, it is important to know what kind of hairdo you are planning to do. The headwear you are choosing should gel with the entire thing and not just the wedding dress.

Not Comfortable With Glitters

There are many would be brides that would prefer having simple bridal headwear than the trendiest one. Well, nothing wrong in that. Also, if you are not comfortable wearing all those glittery in your hair you can try having a designed veil that sits on the bridal mane with no flowers, no poufs and no beads just an exquisite veil that covers the face.

 
Jewelled Headwear

Want to have more sparkles? Today, you will find lots of designers working on shiny metals, rhinestones and crystals. Sparkling headwear is in fact the most recent trends for today’s bride. So, if you’re wedding dress allows you to sparkle, why not wear one of those exquisite headwear pieces to have in your hair to enchant the occasion.

Headpieces

Tiaras are the most common and popular headwear when it comes to a wedding. Tiaras still rule and seem to be the hottest trend when it comes to bridal headwear.  They are simply elegant, tastefully beaded and delightfully light weighted. Majority of the bridal headwear designers agree that tiaras are going to stay for years.

Every girl has a different vision of how beautiful they are going to look at their wedding. There is no such rule or compulsion to follow when it comes to a wedding. Therefore, choose the kind of bridal headwear you like, as you are going to be the princess on your special day.  Get a crown that your heart desires.

 


 

Sunday 16 June 2013

Wedding Guest Book Activities

Traditional brides don't have to have traditional guest books. Certainly you can purchase a standard guest book and matching pen and ask your guests to sign it, but there are so many more guest book-like activities that are more unique.

 Let's move from the popular to the less well known. One very popular option allows guests to sign a picture of the bride and groom. Simply take a picture of the bride and groom and have it matted in a mat several inches larger than the photo itself. Place a frame around this, but don't include the glass or Plexiglas frame. You'll add this later. Some people prefer to use "bulldog" clips to keep the mat together instead of putting the picture in the frame. The picture can be framed after the wedding.

Most couples choose a nice photo of themselves for this picture/guestbook option, although if there's a formal engagement photo, this is an excellent way to preserve that photo and show it off to friends and family. If photos are taken before the wedding with the bride and groom in their wedding attire, you can certainly use this photo. Many couples opt to either leave the mat empty or they place a temporary picture in the mat and add a wedding picture later.

Be sure to have a nice Sharpie marker handy and place the picture on either a sturdy easel or on a table where guests are sure to see it.

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Another option is instead of providing a picture of the bride and groom to sign, the guests are provided with a picture of themselves! Simply provide a Polaroid camera and assign someone the job of taking pictures of the guests as they arrive at the reception. Once the picture is dry, provide a Sharpie and they can sign the picture, make a note to the bride and groom or hand draw a silly picture. It can be whatever the guest wants it to be. This is a unique, and personal, way for guests to 'sign in" at the wedding.

Whoever handles the taking of the pictures should also handle putting them in an album of some sort. A scrap booker might provide a special memory book with the Polaroid pictures in it, or the pictures can simply be placed in a nice album and presented later to the bride and groom.

Many guests don't give a great deal of thought to the guest book. They whiz by the guest book table more concerned with getting their cocktail and hitting the dance floor. If this is a concern, provide a 'traveling" guest book. Send each guest something either to sign or decorate before the wedding.

In this 'traveling" guest book scenario, there are several options. One of the easiest is to send each guest a small piece of paper and ask them to write something meaningful or thoughtful for the bride and groom on it. The pieces of paper are returned prior to the wedding (to ensure a better response, provide a self-addressed stamped envelope with the paper) and can be compiled in some meaningful way for the bride and groom and presented to them on their wedding day.

If the guest list is a creative or particularly close group, there is one other option that is even more meaningful. Again, in a scrapbook fashion, send each guest a piece of paper to sign or decorate. The paper should be the size of a photo album, so it might be a 6 x 6 piece of paper, an 8 x 8 piece of paper, or even 12 x 12, if the guests are up to that larger size.

In a letter that arrives with the paper, the guests are instructed to create a memory page for the bride and groom. They might include photos, quotes, little anecdotal stories, or combine all of these with stickers or embellishments. It's thoughtful, meaningful and personal and it's an excellent way to include guests who might not be able to attend the wedding, but would still like to be a part of it.