Choosing a hairstyle for your wedding day is perhaps as important as choosing your wedding gown. Your hair on your big day should mirror your own personal style. These days more and more brides are opting to create more of a statement with their hairstyle on their big day.

If your hair is naturally long, but you wear it pinned up or pulled back for the majority of the time, a stylish and graceful up-do might be a good idea. You could also consider incorporating echoes of your wedding gown into the design of your hair. If the bodice of your dress in encrusted with pearls, a good hair stylist will be able to fit these into your up-do.

If your hair is long but you would ordinarily wear it down, contemplate wearing some of it tied back from your face and allow the remaining length of your hair to cascade around your shoulders.

There are more styles for medium length hair than you might think. It can be left down without looking too casual and dressed up with a tiara or diamante hair accessories. With the help of a capable stylist you will also be able to wear your hair up; medium length hair is extremely versatile.

Short hair can be heat curled to give it extra body and texture, but don’t attempt to style curls until they are cooled or your risk relaxing them too much. Again, a shorter style can be dressed up with a tiara or elegant hair accessories.

The best way to boost your confidence and make sure that you will be comfortable with the style of your bridal hair is of course is to have a couple of trial runs with your stylist in advance of your big day.

Of all the traditional rituals that you will encounter on you wedding day, one of the most tender and romantic moments is likely to be your first dance together as man and wife.

If you have yet to choose a song for your first dance, you should bear in mind the style of dancing required by you and your new husband to accompany the song - it doesn’t make sense to choose a salsa if the two of you have only ever danced a waltz together.

Once you have decided on the style and music for your first dance, you will need to make sure that the party in charge of your reception music is aware of your choice in advance, whether it is a DJ, a band or an orchestra. If your wedding song is to be played live, you should make sure that the band leader is aware of the length of time they are required to play your chosen song for and at what tempo.

Being inadequately prepared for this dance can often spoil the moment. Partnered dancing requires a certain amount of competence and ability to work well, and since your first dance together will see all of your wedding and reception guests focusing on the two of you as a couple, it is only natural that you will want to glide on to the dance floor with as much confidence and style as you can muster.

If you are anxious about the dance and don’t feel prepared, you won’t fully enjoy it. Your dance shouldn’t be judged as a performance as such, but many couples decide to take a small number of dance lessons together to practice and build confidence, which doesn’t seem too farfetched when you consider that this is something that you will remember forever as a married couple, and will likely be one of the most treasured memories of your wedding day.

Hundreds of couples are facing an anxious wait to discover if they will receive their wedding presents after a gift listing service company announced that it was facing increasing financial difficulty and was seeking a salvage treaty from its backers in order to evade administration.

Wrapit which deals with around 3,500 wedding lists annually via its online operations, claimed that it intended to transform and revamp the future of the wedding list industry and launched what they claimed was the ‘Ultimate Wedding Service’ when their online operations began in 2000.

The company was established by a former fashion reporter, once boasted an annual turnover of £6.3million and received a National Small Business award in 2005. However it has been attempting to refinance its operations since September 2007 and has since faced a barrage of complaints from angry clients declaring delivery delays of up to nine months on certain items.

In an official announcement Wrapit said:

“We have encountered a financial difficulty due to the fact that our bankers HSBC have held £1m of our money which would otherwise have been devoted to fulfilling our orders. We are working with our advisers, KPMG, and will make further announcements in due course.”

The struggling company has closed down all of its land based operations and showrooms to new customers until further notice. Alarmed couples attempting to contact the company headquarters based in London were greeted by a recorded message advising them that the situation would be clarified shortly.

Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, but unfortunately the pressure and strain of planning your nuptials can be huge. Your wedding budget in particular can be an endless source of stress in the run up to your big day, but it is possible to achieve your dream wedding on a limited budget.

A young bride-to-be who had been scouring the internet in search of her dream wedding gown, finally found one which ticked all the boxes but unfortunately carried a price tag of £1,500. After deciding to explore all her options in the hope of finding a bargain, Mother of two, Emma Dunn came across an accurate reproduction of the dress on eBay. With no reserve price and just 10 minutes of auction time remaining, Emma entered a bid of £2.50 for the beautiful bridal gown.

After an anxious and nail biting wait, Emma picked up an email from her inbox verifying that she had won the auction and that her gown would be dispatched from Shanghai, China in due course.

The elated 23 year old was advised that her wedding dress would be made in China once she had confirmed her measurements, and that she would receive it in approximately six weeks. Emma’s’ ivory coloured satin gown arrived on time via an international courier service, for which she was charged £16.50.

Emma went on to marry her fiancé Paul Worthington in mid-July in the presence of their friends and family. The overall cost of the wedding, inclusive of all outfits, the wedding entertainment and reception was just £3,000.

Arranging your wedding is confirmed to be one of the happiest but most stressful and demanding events that you are likely to become involved in throughout your lifetime. But in these modern times, advances in technology are making the planning of a wedding simpler than ever before. But what if the opportunities to rely on this technology are greater then you imagine? Would you use a search engine in place of a wedding planner?

A pair of newly weds in America did just that. David and Bergin Boyle used online search engine giant Google extensively as a means to help plan their nuptials.

The couple initially made use of Google’s online calendar to decide on a date which suited both their busy schedules. They shared their online calendars to make co-ordination much easier than it might otherwise have been. They also made use of Google documents to store their master guest list and RSVP information and made the data accessible online to each other and all of their relatives and friends.

The technology loving couple then created a personalised wedding website using the Google Page Creator. They used this to keep the wedding party and everyone involved in the nuptials up to date with the details of their wedding. They even went as far as to create customised Google Maps to direct guests to the location of the wedding and offer guests travelling from the UK information on the local and surrounding areas’.

The average wedding gown costs in the region of £800 and takes many months of rummaging though scores of bridal boutiques to find. It is the dress of you dreams and for one day it will make you look and feel like a princess.

But once your big day is over, what happens to your fairytale frock? More often than not it’s left hanging desolately in your wardrobe.

Recent times have seen a surge in sales used wedding dresses, with many traditional white gowns being freed form their wardrobe detention and given a new lease of life. Charity shops across the country have reported a significant increase in donations of used wedding gowns.

Celebrities have also jumped on the band wagon. Jerry Hall recently auctioned the dress that she donned more than 18 years ago for her wedding to Mick Jagger. The short white dress sold for £2,420, five times more than it cost Jerry all those years ago. She donated the proceeds to charity.

August 29th is the 3rd annual World Wedding Dress Day, sponsored by Take a Break Magazine. Thousands of women will slip into their wedding dresses and help to raise money for charities such as Dr Banardos’ and The National Alliance of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations, in addition to many hospitals and hospices. From holding Wedding themed charity balls to packing supermarket shopping in your wedding attire, or simply wearing your dress to work for the day, anyone who has, or has access to a wedding dress can take part.

A humiliated bride whose Rapallo wedding gown left her behind exposed after coming unstitched at the seams as she spoke her vows at the altar is said to be taking legal action against her designer.

In line with Italian legislation the thirty year old woman cannot be named on legal grounds, but is set to sue the dress maker for both moral and financial damages in the region of some £20,000 after claiming that her wedding day was wrecked after her £2,000 wedding gown came apart in front of sniggering family, friends and her husband to be.

The embarrassed bride was left humiliated and in floods of tears, with her lawyers claiming that what should have been the happiest day of her life was actually the worst day of her life, adding that the devastation caused by the failure of the dress completely ruined the wedding.

The priest who conducted the wedding in 2006 in Chivari on the romantic Italian Riviera continued with the ceremony and the couple were eventually married, but the blushing bride refused to allow anyone to take photographs on the day as she considered herself to be semi-naked.

The fiasco took place over two years ago but has only recently come to the notice of the courts. Sadly the couple have since separated.

The owner of a bridal wear shop who stopped trading without any warning has been forced into hiding after her pet dogs were allegedly kidnapped and she was threatened in her home by a band of brides that she left high and dry without wedding gowns.

Arvella Brides of Lyndhurst in Hampshire closed suddenly last week leaving furious brides in the lurch and out of pocket. Hampshire police were called to disband a number of irate couples who had visited the premises but found it locked up with whitened out windows.

Troubled proprietor Lisa Clarkson held failing market conditions and lack of support from suppliers responsible and declared that she did not consider that she was to blame. She has since publicly apologised to customers who have been affected by the closure, announcing that whilst the situation was unfortunate, it was unintentional. Clarkson rejected claims that she had knowingly taken cash for orders which she was already aware would not be fulfilled.

However a report uploaded on the Companies House website proves that Arvella Brides neglected to present its financial records when they were expected in January 2008.

A number of dejected clients recently made contact with the BBC, with a relative of one a distressed bride-to-be reporting that they had contacted the dress designers after the closure of the store who had verified that they had not even received the order for the gown in question, even thought Arvella Brides had taken full payment for the dress sometime before.

Newly weds Ashley and Vicky Thorpe have accused the vicar that performed their wedding ceremony of ruining the event when he excluded the couples’ two-year-old son from the church for talking.

The vicar brought the wedding to a standstill after young Cameron began to repeat his Dads’ name.

The vicar staggered the hundred or so wedding guests and members of the congregation by stopping the service and proclaiming that since a wedding is considered a legal ceremony he did not intend to continue until the chattering had ceased and requested that somebody take the child outside of the church.

As the bewildered couple waited at the altar in complete astonishment, their son’s grandmother complained that Cameron was not being naughty but the Vicar insisted that the Cameron be removed and he was eventually taken into the church courtyard by his aunt.

Ashley and Vicky have lodged an official complaint to church officials, who have since begun an investigation into the Vicars handling of the situation after claims from the new Mr. & Mrs. Thorpe that the ill-tempered cleric was both unrealistic and unreasonable in his requests that the toddler remained silent for the ceremony.

The Rev David Cameron, who carried out the marriage of Vicky 20, and Ashley, aged 21, is claimed to have “entirely rejected” their version of events. The couple have declared that they have released this information into the public domain in order to warn other couples who may be considering the church in Fenton, Stoke on Trent for their big day, and have confirmed that they have no intention of requesting a refund for the £500 cost of the service.

When it comes to planning your marriage, as a bride to be when you celebrate your wedding day with your family and friends you will want it to be breathtaking and as picture perfect as is achievable.

But finding the inspiration to begin building these plans is sometimes more difficult than you might imagine.

However help is at hand! A wedding show is the ideal place to find heaps of inspiration and ideas for your wedding, including ideas for your wedding gown, suitable attire for your husband to be and accessories for your reception.

From 10.00am until 5.00pm on both 27th & 28th September 2008 there will a wedding show held at St Georges Hall in Liverpool, featuring a professional catwalk event, showcasing the latest designs in bridal wear? There will be displays from all major specialists in wedding accessories, cakes, flowers and balloons, as well as up to the minute information on wedding cars, photographers and venues.

Tickets cost £6 in advance or £7 on entry and are available from Confetti House, 24 Station Rd, Ainsdale, Southport, PR8 3HS.Ticket hotline telephone number is 01704 882050 or alternatively email - info@theukweddingshows.co.uk