Following on from our previous article and looking great for the big day we focused on diet and exercise but this isn’t the full picture. According to beauty therapist Joanne Leah:
“It’s important to cleanse, tone and moisturise every day to get rid of any impurities.”
No matter where you are up to in the planning of your wedding there are steps you can put in place to improve how radiant you will look on the big day. These include general improvements to diet, skin cleansing and your lifestyle. With a few tweaks you can make sure you really are the centre of attention that day!
When organising your wedding there are a multitude of things to consider and the entertainment for your guests is a major one. If you want to create a focal point for your guests to meet and relax at then a chocolate fountain is a great choice.
A slice of wedding cake from the nuptials of the late Lady Diana and Prince Charles has been put up for auction and sold by a former employee of the royal household, who stored it in cling film inside a metal tin in her attic for an amazing twenty-seven years.
The slice which measured twenty-three centimetres, was a marzipan base covered in icing which displayed the royal coat of arms. It had been a gift to a member of staff who worked at Clarence House for the Queen Mother ,and was a segment of one of twenty-three formal wedding cakes commissioned for the royal wedding.
The employee had recently passed away and left her family specific instructions that in the event of her death the cake should be sold and the proceeds donated to charity.
The official auctioneers’ description of the rare lot read:-
“In view of its size, it is most likely that it was either from the side of a cake, or from the top of a single-tier cake. A highly unusual (and probably inedible) collector’s item.”
The cake sold for $1,830 which equates to a value of around £1,000 to an anonymous bidder together with a typed memo signed by both Charles and Diana expressing thanks to the employee for a wedding gift that they had received from staff members of the royal household.
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’.
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.
Every detail of your wedding, beginning with your wedding invites, should be tailored to emulate your own personal preferences and individual styles. These days’ couples aren’t afraid to express themselves and ensure that their wedding is uniquely customised to their tastes.
Along with your husband to be you should have already decided on the location and type of service or ceremony that will take place, based on your preferences as a couple.
Your invitations should actually be considered a prelude to your wedding day, and as such ought to be indicative of your characters and styles.
Modern wedding invitations are available in a huge variety of assorted styles, sizes, colours and themes and as a result it shouldn’t be too difficult to present a unique reflection of you as a couple.
Although some couples still prefer more traditional styles, the available options are almost unlimited.
When deliberating your choice of invitation your should take into account a number of factors, for example will your wedding day be a formal church affair or have you opted for a casual outdoor ceremony? Do you intend your day to follow a particular religious or cultural direction or have you decided on a specific wedding theme?
If you are looking for inspiration, contemplate using custom or even hand made wedding invitations on which you can incorporate an intimate line of poetry or a selection of lyrics from your chosen wedding song for your first dance as man and wife.
A pair of co-workers have literally walked down the ‘aisle’ in the Sainsbury’s Supermarket where they both work and first met in Dundee.
The bride, a 42 year old checkout operator and the groom, a 32 year old shelf stacker who has been employed by Sainsbury’s for the past 12 years, met at the store 3 years ago. The groom proposed in 2006 after a short romance and after the couple were granted permission from CEO Justin King, plans for the supermarket ceremony ensued.
The bride walked down aisle 25 - seasonal goods, to the sounds of Big Girl (You are beautiful) by Mika and exchanged their vows in front of a gathering of Saturday afternoon shoppers next to the shops floral display.
The couple also wrote their own unique vow, in which the groom pledged not to disturb his new wife when she was snoring and to take care of her assortment of fuzzy wigs.
The bride promised to brush up on her culinary skills and pledged her intention of cooking her new husband something other than beans on toast, in addition to vowing to purchase no more than a single pair of shoes in any one month.
After signing the wedding register to the sounds of the Birdie Song, the newly weds went on a short tour of the supermarket.
The service was also transmitted live over the internet by Dundee City Councils web-cast civil ceremonies services.
With in excess of 120,000 marriage licenses issued each year, Las Vegas is the highly acclaimed and much celebrated wedding capital of the world. And if you decide that this vivacious and energetic city is to be the setting for your wedding day, it’s guaranteed to be a day you and your guests won’t ever forget.
What was once classified as no more than a gaudy gambling lair is today one of the most popular US destinations, boasting many luxury hotels, chic restaurants and a vast assortment of romantic chapels in which to say “I do”.
Over the years Las Vegas has played host to many celebrity weddings including
Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow and of course Elvis and Priscilla Presley
Las Vegas provides you with the finest freedom of choice for your nuptials, offering a diverse range of options from an Elvis impersonator managing a 24-7 drive-through chapel or a short uncomplicated civil ceremony to a sumptuous soirée at one of Las Vegas’ leading lush resorts or an elaborate garden service in the grounds of any of the many chapels or hotels in the area. There is certain to be something to suite any preference here, and perhaps more significantly every budget. In fact Vegas presents such an enormous number of uniquely special ways to get married that the difficulty lies in choosing just one of them!
The most straightforward way to get hitched in Vegas is a fleeting civil ceremony completed by a Las Vegas Marriage Commissioner, it takes a mere half an hour and will cost in the region of just $50.
The official Rooney nuptials are now over. Wayne and Coleen did it with panache, with a wedding in the classy Italian Riviera, by means of a budget of £5million, and some 64 guests being flown out in private jets. Entertainment was provided by Westlife and the happy couple sold the exclusive photography rights to a famous glossy magazine for £2.5million.
Unfortunately, the average bride and groom are obliged to settle for something slightly more economical. Be that as it may, the typical price tag of a wedding in the UK is now in excess of £20,000.
Aside the financial strain, psychologists consider that planning your wedding can easily be as traumatic and anxious as moving property or even bereavement. While weddings should to be joyful celebrations that re-unite distant family members, providing precious memories for years to come, this is sadly not always completely apparent on the road to the aisle.
On the pre-wedding stretch you can expect to encounter countless stressful decisions and expenses. Often couples do not appreciate how profound an effect this stress can have on their relationships. One of the most difficult issues during this pre-wedding period can be the difference between its intrinsic stress, on one hand, and the expectation that it should be a time of complete happiness and contentment, on the other. Harboring unrealistic expectations regarding wedding arrangements is very common and can be a great source of anxiety
You should be aware of how much you expect yourself to handle during this time. It can be difficult to acknowledge that you can’t automatically accomplish everything that you might like to during the time you have available, and be accepting of the fact that there are limits to your control in respect of your forthcoming wedding. Bear in mind that any event involving a number of other people is bound to have small imperfections, but what might not go entirely to plan on the day will likely grow to become a much remembered and treasured wedding tale in future years.