Personalize Your Wedding - Make It Distinctively Yours

Check out these inspired ideas for adding a personalized touch to your wedding day.

1. Have images of you and your groom printed on save-the-dates and/or invitations.
   
   
2. Instead of using table numbers, personalize each table by naming it after something that has meaning for you, i.e. your favorite vacation spots, favorite authors, streets you've lived on.
   
   
3. Create your own signature drinks to be served at the cocktail hour.
   
   
4. Before making your entrance into the reception area, have a video play of how you met.
   
   
5. Incorporate a family dish into the reception menu or a favorite dessert into the dessert table.
   
   
6. Have your wedding theme centered around a favorite sport or hobby.
   
   
7. Include your pets in the wedding ceremony. A well-behaved dog could act as ring bearer.
   
   
8. Print the story of your proposal onto paper and create scrolls (tie with ribbon or "fake" wedding bands). Place at each table setting.
   
   
9. Have an ordained family member or friend perform the ceremony.
   
   
10. Incorporate your heritage into the ceremony and reception through decor, music and menu selection.
    
    
11. Select a cake topper that reflects your personality, heritage or hobbies.
    
    
12. Have the reception meal reflect the meal of your first date.
    
    
13. Center your wedding theme around a favorite movie, artwork, song, etc.
    
    
14. Have friends and family perform during the ceremony.
    
    
15. Give favors that reflect your interests. If you're a book lover, give personalized bookmarks.
    
    
16. Personalize your wedding with a favorite quote or saying.   I attended a graduation celebration that had the theme: "Oh, the places you'll go".   The phrase was printed on everything from the programs to the favors.
    
    
17. In lieu of wedding gifts, have guests donate to a cause that's important to you.
    
    
18. Have your names or monogram printed on napkins, favor tags.
    
    
19. If you or the groom have children, honor your blended family by including the children in the unity candle ceremony.
    
    

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wedding magazine Things Festive Wedding Blog - Week in Review May 21, 2010

Miss reading the Things Festive Wedding Blog this past week?    Here's what was featured the week ending May 21, 2010:

• Be inspired by the must-have wedding accessories of other brides-to-be.

• Cynthia Rowley's new black and white bridesmaid dresses are unveiled at Dessy.

• Use these tips to help with entertaining children at your wedding.

• For more inspiration and ideas for your upcoming unity sand ceremony or beach wedding, check out our new blog.

• Celebrate marrying your Prince Charming with a fairy tale wedding theme.

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Winter Wedding Centerpiece Ideas - Cranberries are Back

If you enjoyed our cranberry inspired board and you're in need of winter wedding centerpiece ideas, cranberries come to the rescue once more.   The following centerpieces are a cinch to create (directions below) and contain mostly natural elements.

Find cylinders, vases and floating candles to create these centerpieces.



Leftmost centerpiece
Fill a vase half full of berries and fresh water and insert an arrangement, such as these roses and holly leaves.   Add more water and cranberries to hide the stems.

Middle centerpiece
Start with cylinders of varying heights.   Place red flowers, such as roses, amaryllis, and greenery in a metal flower frog.   Attach the frog inside the cylinder using double-sided floral tape.   Cover the flowers with water, float cranberries on top, and place a floating candle amid the berries.   Change water daily.   The piece should last up to seven days.

Rightmost centerpiece
Start with an 8-inch-square clear glass vase.   Cut a piece of floral foam to a size that lets a layer of cranberries fit between the foam and the vase.   Cover with water.   Into the foam, insert red roses, striped 'Hocus Pocus' roses, red tulips, gold-tipped cedar (all available from florists) and silvery ornaments.   Thread cranberries on thin floral wire to loop above the arrangement.

Images courtesy of Better Homes & Gardens

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Wedding Dress Spectacular, Dreamcatcher Open Evening

What an amazing evening we had in the company of Gill & Georgina and the wonderful team of extremely professional bridal wear specialists at Dreamcatcher Bridal in Kirkham.

The scene was set with a beautiful spring window display, gorgeous gowns flanking a huge Champagne flute filled with Muscari & Bridal Crown, when we delivered this floral cocktail a fortnight ago the bulbs were just peeping through the mosses in the bowl of the glass, now look at them!

The guest list had been prepared weeks ago, anticipation filled the air as we waited to view the brand new 2009 - 2010 Bridal wear collection selected and carefully chosen by Jill & Georgina.

I'd made some delicious bridal bouquets to compliment the gowns and the beautiful models.

I used a sumptuous selection of spring flowers in a great range of colours.

This Rose and Calla lily hand tied bridal posy is so simple and easy to carry.

Passionate pink, Aqua Roses, Hyacinths, Tulips and rolled leaves, make this a very neat wedding bouquet.

Now dear reader remember this is a Flower Design Blog and as such this posting is awash with fab flower photos, the gowns are here for your delectation, should you want a closer look simply double click on any picture for an instant enlarged view, and click on links to see more of the dresses and their designers.

The "Party Bags" were ready for the invited brides to take home, each bag was filled with goodies including a silver sixpence and a delicious chocolate (Only one mind, you have to watch your weight).
This is the exquisitely gorgeous Katie

"Here Come The Girls" our beautiful Brides for the evening, Mandy, Claire, Abby and Georgina

Dreamcatcher is a superb wedding dress emporium they stock a fantastical array of designers in an enormous range of colours and styles. Seeing is believing but if want to pay them a visit make sure you make an appointment first, I saw their diary which was to say the least "chocka blocka"

Brides had an opportunity to hold the bouquets, try them for size so to speak.

Helen looks on, she's responsible for the all the alterations at Dreamcatcher.

This Green Wedding bouquet was one of my favourites with Midori Anthuriums, Cymbidium Orchids & Leucadendrons.

We were all entertained by the wonderful "Swing Singer" Paul Guard

Claire in a beautiful, jewel encrusted gown.

The Wedding Cakes looked superb and were made by Diane heres the link Cake Diane

Rachel from The Nail Spa above top, beautiful Katie modeling the most gorgeous gown and Angela form Dreamcatcher casts an appraising eye.

Abby looked fabulous with the brighter deeper tones.

The very gorgeous Mandy with the lovely passionate pink bouquet.

The evening was filled with lots of laughter.

All of us had the opportunity of being able to see the dresses close up, to ask the models questions about comfort and manoeuvrability.

Abby couldn't have looked more perfect if she'd tried, her colouring is exquisite.

We were treated to so many designs it was almost impossible to choose a favourite.

Jill managed a dance with Paul who was absolutely fabulous and I can highly recommend him, if you haven't got a wedding singer booked Paul is your man give him a call on 07740 080809 you can check out his genius on his web site which has a great sound track click on the link Paul Guard.

Jill and Paul doing some serious dancing whilst Rachel (Dreamcatchers very able trainee) looks on.

Our Sally was on hand to give great flower advice.

Abby looking fabulous in this Kate Sherford creation and here is a link to Kate Sherford

Claire in a stunning Suzanne Neville gown. Here's the link Suzanne Neville

This is the lovely Heather in a stupendously gorgeous gown

Claire just looked amazing in every single gown she modelled. The amazing red gown designed by Roberta Parsons took everyones breath away. Roberta (Photo above) was there in person to help and guidance this is a link to her website Roberta Parsons

If you double click on any of the pictures they will enlarge before your eyes.

Georgina was a vision in every dress she wore.

If you would like to see more of Dreamcatcher check out our full profile of them by clicking on this link Dreamcatcher

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Please keep in mind, we only did this for fun and since it was well requested from fans for us to make a music video to this song. We are not claiming it's our song in any way, we know that the original song and music video is a lot better than what we did and we do encourage you to follow and check out Taeyang's music. Shout outs to Pat Lam from SoRealCru for taking part in the video. We wish Taeyang a happy birthday! Download Music Video for iPod (MP4): http://hulkshare.com/cpdo5gw25hx9 Download Song: http://hulkshare.com/324oect39s71 or http://limelinx.com/files/e9ba41964c99081e87a44c108feaffe1 Picture: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1663/weddingdressspic.jpg Support us! J.Reyez: http://youtube.com/JREYEZ http://twitter.com/JREYEZ http://blogtv.com/people/JREYEZ http://facebook.com/JReyezFanPage Tommy C of IBU: http://youtube.com/IBUTOMMY http://twitter.com/IBU_TOMMY _________________________ Lyrics: (Verse 1 - Tommy C) Never should've let you go Never found myself at home Ever since that day that you walked Right out the door You were like my beating heart That I, I can't control Even though weve grown apart My brain cant seem to let you go Thinking back to the old times When you kept me up late at night We use to mess around Laugh and play, fuss and fight (Pre-Chorus) I guess its too late, Im dancing this dance alone This chapters done, the story goes on (Chorus) Baby Can't believe that you are not with me 'Cause you should be my lady All I want is to set your heart free But if you believe that you belong with him Promise me, you wont let anyone hurt you Remember, I will always be here for you Even if it kills me to see you In that wedding dress Oh see you in that wedding dress See you in that wedding dress Oh see you in that wedding dress (Verse 2) Snappin out this misery Depression this aint me But I always turn around 180 degrees You got control of me And I, I cant explain Somebody call 911 Emergency Before I go insane Since youve moved on You took a piece of me give it back So much pain in my chest Blacking out, heart attack (Pre-Chorus) (Chorus) (Verse 3 - J.Reyez) And I see you with your man and it's hard to understand If we belong, if I did you wrong, where we even began We would always fuss and fight and it seems nothing was right But I loved you girl and you were my world but you'd never trust this guy 'Cause the things I do when I'm on the stage, they say I'm a superstar You couldn't understand all the female fans and then we grew apart And I just don't get when you're acting like some other person But I try my best to hold on at the times when it ain't working And everytime that you say it's over it breaks my heart and I don't know why 'Cause you've done it a lot of times in the past but I get back up and try You said we could work it out, how could you hurt me now And you moved on to the next, I'm left with an imperfect smile (Chorus)

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