Wedding Planning

Before you dive in and start planning your wedding, like you haven't been mentally doing it for years, take a few minutes to read this article so that you can avoid the pitfalls that many brides find themselves in.

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By: InstantWeddingToasts.com

Been Asked to Give A Wedding Toast? These wedding toast tips will tell you what to say, how to say it, and the biggest mistakes to avoid. Don't give a wedding toast or speech until you read these tips!

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By: Jorbins.com

Here is a list of songs one reader submitted anonymously that she had considered for her wedding. It may help to give you some ideas.

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By: Kristie McDaniel-Price

Well you can, and they can be beautiful and unique with your own personal touch. I notice that a lot of brides are trying to find ideas to make their own original wedding favors. I know that you want something that your guest will love that gets them into the joy of the day!

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By: ARA Content

You've found the man of your dreams and you've set the date. There is, however, one nagging dilemma: the children (both yours and his). How can the traditional wedding, which focuses exclusively on the bride and groom, be reconfigured to recognize the critical role that children play in the remarriage relationship?

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By: Jorbins.com

Love poems can be a wonderful way to say I love you. A wonderfully romantic idea is to hide a few love poems around the house for your significant other to find. Here are a few love poems to start you off.

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By: Alice Brown - The Wedding Petals Company

Bridal magazine discusses what to toss on your wedding day? Wedding petals, rose petals, rice, birdseed, birds, or a butterfly or two?

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By: Paris Permenter & John Bigley

While the traditional vows endure, the ways to celebrate a marriage have changed right along with the travel industry. Today's honeymooner may be looking for value, adventure, or variety and searching for a getaway that's as exotic as a stay in a private European castle or nearby as a local bed-and-breakfast inn.

One constant is that couples are willing to spend money on a honeymoon - an average of $1,402 per couple compared to $421 spent annually on regular trips according to the Travel Industry Association of America. Young couples, age 18 to 24 years, spend the most on honeymoons, averaging $1,873. And as many as one-third of all honeymooners spend over $2,500 for that once-in-a-lifetime trip.

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By: The Nature Pavilion Gift Shop

Wanting a butterfly wedding? Here are some ways butterflies can be used at your wedding ceremony and reception.

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By: Jorbins.com

Now that you are an official couple it is time to start entertaining as one. Hosting your first few dinner parties together with a mix of your friends can seem intimidating. Do your friends like his friends, what do you serve, how will you break the ice?

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By: Kristie McDaniel-Price

With the high cost of weddings, we all appreciate tips on saving money. Decorating your wedding can become very costly if you don't do your research and centerpieces are often the most expensive thing next to flowers. They get expensive because you often have to buy them for twenty or more tables. Well here are some materials that will make beautiful centerpieces and save you money.

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By: InstantWeddingToasts.com

You've been asked to say a few words at the wedding, and while finding something to say has never been a problem before, the pressure of having an audience of over 200 guests can leave anyone speechless! For a Best Man, the thought of giving a wedding speech looks something like this:

Wedding + Speech = Nightmare!

But it doesn't have to be like that! Follow these easy steps to writing a wedding speech, and you'll look something like this:

Wedding + Speech = Standing Ovation!

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By: Jerry Biern - Wedding Vow Rings.com

What is more romantic than looking inside of your wedding band and seeing a personalized engraving with special meaning for you and your spouse?

There are a few ways to accomplish this task that your jeweler will recommend and now some new processes available that increase the limits of the message that can be created.

Let us review the traditional methods most currently being used in the marketplace.

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By: Maria Nickless - Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr. Karl Menninger

I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl. Always have been. Born and bred in a small town back East, I loved riding four-wheelers and snowmobiles and hiking in the woods. Other than special occasions like school pictures or a wedding you'd rarely find me in a dress. It just wasn't my thing.

But, like most girls, I dreamed about a fairytale wedding with my future husband wearing that long white dress down the church aisle. Now I was about to live it.

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By: ARA

This article give advice on choosing a man's wedding ring. It provides details on metals such as gold, titanium, and platinum and also the various stones that can be used.

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By: ARA

Wedding invitations offer your guests the first glimpse of the special day you have planned to celebrate your wedding. The U.S. Postal Service offers these tips for mailing your invitations and for making them as unique as your wedding.

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By: ARA

A wedding is perhaps the most expensive endeavor many people will ever face. Some couples get lucky and the bride's parents agree to pick up all the expenses, but more often, the bride and groom are footing at least a portion of the bill themselves.

Once you start adding up the cost of invitations, the reception location, flowers, entertainment, food, the cake and mementos for your guests, the numbers can become astronomical. According to Bride's Magazine, the average cost of a wedding today can easily exceed $19,000.

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By: Gina Romanello - Author of Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul

In a fast-paced world of wedding planning, stress levels are high; immune systems are low; and over the course of the past 20 years, brides have transmitted, what has become a bridal epidemic of our time.

The number of victims has steadily increased; and to date, there is no cure. It's been dubbed various clinical names: Multiple Personality Disorder, Schizophrenia, Temporary Insanity. But in the world of matrimony, anyone who's been exposed - fiancés, family, friends, and victims themselves -- this broadening illness has been commonly termed "Bridezilla Syndrome" or "BS."

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By: Bellenza, Inc

A wedding planned in the spirit of nature provides the perfect avenue for selecting wedding favors fashioned after elegant symbols consisting of, but not limited to maple leaves, butterflies, lavender buds, and roses. While there is certainly no shortage of wedding favors available today that are inspired by nature, those that are carefully designed with distinctive style and artistic detail remain popular choices.

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By: Tim and Tammy Smith

Being disc jockeys, we get the opportunity to evaluate many reception facilities while having little or no bias to "sell" one location over another. Most Brides and Grooms know where they will be holding the ceremony before they decide where to have the reception, so we have compiled five observations that can help you when selecting your venue.

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