When you plan your wedding ceremony and reception, it is obvious that you must have already planned the location, color scheme, wedding gown and the flowers that are available during that time. If you create your wedding based on the season, you will be making a unique ceremony while keeping the trends of that season. Some tips to consider while planning a wedding according to season are as follows:

Spring Brides

This is the time of celebration, renewal and birth, it is an official wedding season of nature. Spring the best time to think about having outdoor weddings, Victorian floral themes and garden parties. It works out economical as you don’t have to have many decorations for outdoor weddings.

Wedding outfit: Light colors, baby blue, lilac, yellow, soft green and light pink. Decorate yourself with season’s fresh blooms. Bridesmaids also should consider the same thing.

Food Menu: Fresh fruit drinks, strawberries and cream, flavors of citrus and poultry.

Favors: Favors that are garden or flower themed, potpourri sachets, seed packets and wonderful herbal teas make a perfect wedding favors.

Summer Brides

When we say summer, all that comes to our mind is sea, sand and sun. It is difficult to compare summer beach themed wedding with anything else. Having a wedding based on beach theme is something that brings you close to beach, even if you have not planned to get married near the shore. If you are lucky enough, plan your wedding at the beach with the soft waves sloshing at the shores as you walk with your partner. You can also think of your honeymoon at seaside resorts and cottages.

Wedding outfits: Sea colors, soft sea greens, gentle touch of shimmer with shades of pearl, and azure blue are just perfect. Shell and pearl jewelry are good to go with the above mentioned attires. Light linens and soft silks are perfect for beach wedding.

Menu: When you are planning a beach wedding, seafood is compulsory. It should be combined with coastal menu. Beach themed cocktails, chilled sherbets and coconut water are great addition to the menu.

Wedding Favors: Shell tea light candles and starfish with your wedding date and name on customized tags are perfect.

Fall Brides

We see riches colors of the year during fall. Warm golds, deep browns, excellent reds and fiery oranges make a beautiful scene that the groom and bride can remember forever. Fall or autumn is the time of chill of winter, which makes wonderful background light and cool nights. You can think of having ceremony along with a bonfire.

Wedding outfit: Browns, russet, greens and rich gold colors would be great.

Menu: Ale and Cider is the drink of fall. Think of having rich wedding menu with red meat and apple crumble as well.

1. The dress

The dress is one of the most important aspects of a wedding, the moment where the bride has to outshine everyone else as she steps down the aisle. A white wedding dress has been the traditional wedding colour since Queen Victoria married Price Albert in the 19th century.  It is also tradition to have a train; a traditional dress has a three foot train however trains are not as popular in the modern day, although a traditional feature to a dress, not an essential!

1. The ceremony

Wedding traditions are connected to religion as most traditional weddings are held in a Church or other holy place. For those who want to get married and are not religious are of course able to get married in other places such as a registry office. Nowadays weddings are held in many unusual places such as hotels, Disney world or even bars! To keep to tradition though, a holy place is widely known as a special place to be wed. Alongside the venue, the ceremony would traditionally include a full mass and of course the traditional wedding vows.

1. The reception

A traditional wedding reception involves a lot of photos, food and drink! The happy couple will usually want lots of photos on their special day so usually an hour is spent getting snap happy before a traditional sit down meal where all guests can enjoy a three course meal.  After a few drinks it’s usually time for the best man speech which usually generates lots of laughter and possibly a few tears! A wedding reception wouldn’t be the same without the big moment everyone waits for… The cake cutting of course!

Written by Zoe Leeder, an enthusiastic writer with a passion for weddings!

1 – JK Wedding Entrance Dance

With close to 75 million views on YouTube, you can’t really look past 2009’s ‘JK Wedding Entrance Dance’ as the signature wedding dance video. With the camera following the procession as it moves through the church, the sombre music changes to Chris Brown’s ‘Forever’. A series of ushers and groomsmen dance down the aisle, and are joined by the bridesmaids and finally the couple themselves. The video became a viral hit, making the wedding party famous and leading to imitations around the world. Notable homages include The Office.

2 – T Mobile Royal Wedding

Inspired by the JK Wedding Entrance Dance video, T Mobile’s Royal Wedding video achieved similar fame in 2011. Tying the mobile phone company into the forthcoming Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, the video recreates the aisle dancing of the video, but set to East 17’s ‘House of Love’. The video features lookalikes as members of the Royal Family and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was signed off with the slogan ‘One’s Life Is For Sharing’.

3 – Wedding First Dance W/Surprise

Predating ‘JK Wedding Entrance Dance,’ and more low key in style, Wedding first dance w/surprise’ sees a couple shift from Jack Johnson’s laid-back song ‘Better Together’ into a vigorous performance to Michael Jackson’s ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’. Smoothly choreographed and a surprise to the reception audience, the video has received more than 15 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded five years ago.

4 – Surprise – Virginia and Brian

Another more low key video, and titled ‘Best Wedding Dance Ever’, this video sees Brian and Virginia transition from a sedate first dance song into a version of Grease’s ‘You’re the One That I Want’ that draws in bridesmaids, ushers and groomsmen into a carefully choreographed routine. The video has received over 14 million views.

5 – Wedding Thriller

Part of a series of YouTube videos that find imaginative ways to use Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ ‘Wedding Thriller’ remains one of the best. With 16 million views, the video sees a group of waiters suddenly burst into a choreographed routine to the song. The best part is still the surprise on some of the guests’ faces.

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• For the ladies. Regardless of the location of the nuptial, most ladies can get away with a dress that hits somewhere between the mid-calf or a few inches above the knee. Should the destination wedding be held in a warm-weather location, pick a dress baring the shoulders, comfortable to wear and does not need ironing. If the place has a cooler climate, you can never go wrong with a dress suit. It is a versatile option that works perfectly for a day or even on evening wedding ceremonies and will make you look polished.

• For the gentlemen. Men always have it easy when it comes to destination wedding outfit. Unless the wedding is a strictly formal black tie affair, men can opt for the usual tailored shirt, slacks, tie and sport coat combination. If the destination wedding is going to be held in spring, a tropical location or will be held in summer by the beach, a shirt made from a lightweight cotton fabric (seersucker, madras) is a definitive option to go for. Make sure to veer away from Hawaiian-style shirts, though and leave those flip-flops behind unless otherwise specified in the invitation.

Do a little research on the destination. Although the invitation may tell you the exact location of the wedding, it pays to do your own research about it, especially in terms of weather predictions. You can never be sure if the temperature will plummet by night time, so it pays to be prepared.

Consult with the key person. If you still can’t figure out what to wear, do not hesitate to ask one of the key persons like the maid of honor or the best man. Traditionally, the maid of honor and best man assists the bride and groom respectively, so it is likely that they can provide you the right answer concerning the attire for the destination wedding. Of course, you can always directly ask the bride or the groom, but make sure that you do it ahead of time because chances are they will be busy doing the preparations.

Transport it properly. If you already have something to wear, you would want to transport your outfit properly to avoid wrinkling it and ruining your attire. Yes, you may not be the bride, but you would want to make sure that your dress or suit is polished, so place it in a suit or dress carrier.

Frox of Falkirk are a leading Mother of the bride and mother of the groom outfits store based in Scotland. They have a huge range of outfits to choose from, from designers from around the globe.

But no matter how enthusiastic you are in ensuring that your wedding night is really “the night” to be remembered, you need to make sure that what you opt to wear is what you really want for you and your partner. In short, it should be sexy but comfortable for the both of you. If you decided to wear negligee and you’re not comfortable wearing it, it will show. Your night should be carefree and this is not the best time for your to be self-conscious or else your husband will just get disappointed which is something that you’re do not like to happen.

Your main goal should be to look good and adorable for your husband from the moment that he lays his eyes on you on the precious minutes after the dawn; to the time he sees you walking down the aisle up to the very first time that you are alone with him in the bedroom as his wife. Wearing sexy shoes might add a little mystery for as long as your know how to play around. You might want to add a little surprise on your wedding night by wearing something laugh-inducing or something cheeky.

Buying nightgowns, lingerie, and sexy night wears can be awkward at some point. But if you really want to look best on your wedding night, online shopping ahead of time is not a bad idea at all. Since you can shop at the comfort of your own home, you are also confident that you can get nothing but the best when it comes to sexy shoes or bridal lingerie. With the variety of night wear to choose from, you can surely pick the best wedding night wear that can add a little spice on your most special night that is worth planning, keeping, and remembering.

One of the ways of ensuring that the dresses of the flower girls are of the ideal color and are matching, is choosing colors that match with the dresses worn by the bridesmaids. The colors can be a little different, but they should be completing each other. For instance; the flower girls can wear dresses with pastel shades of mint green while the senior bridesmaids wear shades of emerald and shamrock. The bride herself can wear a white dress so as to stand out from everybody else. This combination of colors will ensure that all the dresses worn by the bridal party matches and hence making the ceremony lively and attractive.

The color of the dresses worn by the flower girls should also be according to the weather and climate. This is because some colors are known to rhyme well with different climates. Thus wearing the wrong color during the wrong season can end up looking inappropriate. Some of the different colors that match with different weathers include orange and white amongst other bright colors which gets complimented by the rays of the shinning sun during sunny days like in summer. Brown, blue and other warm colors can match well during colder days when there is no much sunshine. Thus it is important to anticipate the kind of weather that will be there during the wedding ceremony so as to choose the appropriate color for the flower girls’ dresses.

Another important tip to follow so as to ensure that the dresses worn by the flower girls are appropriate and are matching, is visiting diverse wedding vendors and dresses providers, so as to go through the variety of colors available. The vendors also provide professional advice on the idea dresses to choose. These advices helps the people choosing the dresses avoid the mistake of choosing colors which looks like they can match but ends up spoiling the ceremony. Thus properly selected dresses for the flower girls can significantly bring liveliness in any wedding.

Rosie Willett is has a high profile degree in Fashion Marketing and her creations are chosen to feature in high-class wedding magazines, like Perfect Wedding, Wedding Ideas, and many more. Rosie’s tiaras have been featured on television too, like in Carla and Molly’s Coronation Street weddings.

Rosie’s emphasis is on structures and shapes in Nature and so you can see abundance of flowers and other natural shapes in her tiaras and other hair accessories. What is good about her is, she keeps on bringing freshness in her designs and so her designs are never boring!

Rosie designs each and every piece individually. These pieces are handmade by Rosie in which elaborate hand stitching and beading methods are involved. Her exquisite tiaras and accessories are mainly made of pearls, Swarovski Crystals and Diamante combined with fine fabrics like Satin, Silk Organza, French lace and Tulle.

The range of accessories created by Rosie Willett includes bridal tiaras and headpieces, wedding Alice bands, double headbands and flower garlands, wedding hair combs, side tiaras, flower tiaras, floral headpieces, vintage tiaras and headpieces, pearl tiaras and headpieces, Diamante tiaras and headpieces, bridesmaid tiaras and headpieces, and occasions headpieces, corsages and jewellery.

RosieWillettDesigns.co.uk has a number of testimonials of satisfied brides with their experiences and beautiful photos of their tiaras created by Rosie Willett, going through which we are ensured that the designer has outstanding talent and insight for stunning designs.

You can also go through Rosie Willett’s blog to get introduced to enchanting accessories and jewellery. It is beyond doubt that RosieWillettDesigns.co.uk opens up a new world of possibilities in lovely bridal accessories!

Wedding garter

This beautiful garter in its white shade perfectly suits the wedding mood of the beautiful lady on her “D” day. Crafted of silky material, the garter also has lacy parts to add to the oomph factor of the new bride. The wedding garter has a lovely ribbon attached in the middle, with a blue diamante. The garter is made of an elastic material that fits all.

Personalised Purple Ronnie Best Man Mug

If it can be for the couple then, it can be for the best man as well. Yes this beautiful personalized purple Ronnie best man mug is for the man accompanying the groom as he walks down the aisle. The groovy Ronnie man imprinted on the white mug looks joyous. There is enough space to imprint the best man’s name. furthermore you can add a special message on the mug.
What about the older bride who is celebrating her diamond wedding anniversary? Do we have something for her in bag? Yes of course!! Let’s raise a toast on this special day when she celebrates togetherness with her man for an entire span of 60 years. Here is the perfect gift for her:

Diamond Wedding Hand Painted Pillow

This is a hand-painted pillow with a silky finish enjoying a creamy shade. The Phrase “Happy Diamond Wedding” is written at the center of the Diamond Wedding hand Painted Pillow. A ribbon loop is attached to the pillow along with silvery hearts and flowers.
Author-Bio: Michelle Smith having profound knowledge on gifts of all kinds is pleased to offer some unique wedding gift ideas to people who are headed for the ceremony.

The venue.

For elegance, choose a quiet, understated location with a neutral, tasteful décor. If you know people who are willing to host the shower in their homes, then you can save a lot of money. Just make sure the home you choose has plenty of space for all of the guests, and that you will be allowed to decorate as needed. Otherwise, it is a good idea to rent out a private room in an upscale restaurant, or even at a hotel.

Food.

It is a good idea not to serve anything too messy (there’s nothing less elegant than a stained shirt or dress). Finger foods are a good idea – think hors d’ouevres for a sophisticated palate – and are relatively easy to serve. To top it all off (and maintain the party’s elegant status), serve wine or champagne.

Invitations

. For elegant bridal shower invitations, keep it simple. Think thick card stock with a decorative border, or even just metallic or embossed lettering. You may even know someone who knows calligraphy. There are a number of places where you can find pre-made invitations, or even invitations that you can make, print, or customize yourself. Shop around and stay within the theme and color scheme of the wedding, itself.

Decorations.

For an elegant bridal shower, you need to keep the decorations simple, classic, and understated. Think white and/or pale colors, with a few bursts of colors from the wedding theme here and there. Don’t overdo it. Some clean, pressed tablecloths and fresh flowers will go a long way in making the statement you want.

As you can see, putting together an elegant bridal shower may just be the simplest part of your wedding planning duties. Just follow these tips for venue, invitations, food, and decorations, to stay within the elegant theme . . . and to give the bride-to-be a time she will always remember.

About the Author:

Pura Busing is in the process of planning a bridal shower for a dear friend. She hopes to have an elegant tea party theme and a day filled with fond memories.

1. Not seeing the bigger picture

Most couples are more concerned at flower arrangements around the tables and centerpiece and they fail to consider the other factors. For example the couple may pay for an expensive room that has a nice view, but this view maybe blocked by the big centerpiece flower arrangement.

2. Failure: not trusting your florist

A florist is a person who has talent and experience in beautifying events with the right kind of flowers. It is therefore important for you to trust them that they are going to do a great job. You should be free to share information with the florist about you vision, likes, dislikes and expectation. Don’t be too rigid but rather have a small room for substitutions. Failure to trust your florist can lead you to receiving low quality flowers that could ruin your wedding event.

3. Booking the florist last and late

The process of getting all the flowers required in a wedding is not as easy as going to the garden and plucking them. It is an extensive process that requires a lot of time. For this reason, it is important to book your florist early enough to give them enough time to get the best flowers. Booking a florist will also give you an opportunity to contact several florists in a bid to get the best deals. If you book your florist late, it means she will have less time to find the right flowers which could lead to low quality flowers or that you get your flowers arrangement deliveredlate.

4. Lack of communication to the florist

It is only through communication that the florist will know what you want. Provide him with picture and any other communication about how you want the flowers to look like.

5. Choosing high scented flowers

Although the flower scent may be appealing to you, it may not be appealing to all your guests. This is especially those guests who have allergies to different flower scents.

6. Temptation to use only one color of flowers

This is common to those brides who want to match the flowers with the brides maids dreses. Sometimes this could result to terrible pictures. It is important to seek advice from the florist about the best colors of flowers to match the bridesmaid dresses.

7. Ruling out expensive flowers

Most brides will rule out expensive flowers in order to remain on their limited budget and therefore end up buying flowers that have little impact for example peonies are expensive but one peony flower will bring more impact than a bouquet of roses.

8. Being too rigid

When it comes to flowers, it is important to give a room for small changes and substitutions. Just ensure that the florist observe the theme but allow them to select the flowers.

9. Failure to reuse ceremony flowers

Flowers used at the altar and as centerpieces can be moved to reception tables. The ceremony usually takes about one hour and it would be unwise not to reuse these flower after costing you so much money.

10. Failing to budget for the flowers

It is common among many weddings that the couple forget to budget for the flowers until its too late. Although everyone appreciate the value of flowers, failing to budget for them can make you end in a position where you are unable to purchase quality flowers.