Planning - Role of the Maid of Honour

The Maid of Honour's role is to assist the bride in the planning leading up to the wedding day. She also supports the bride where ever possible.


Her role includes:

• Attending pre-wedding parties
• Arranging the date for bridesmaids' gowns fitting
• Hosting the bridal shower
• Paying for her own wedding outfit, excluding jewellery and flowers
• Hosting the hens night
• Keeping the bride stress free on the wedding day


• Arranging the bride's gown and veil
• Holding the groom's ring until needed at the wedding ceremony
• Holding the bride's bouquet during the wedding ceremony
• Acting as a witness to the signing of the certificate of marriage
• Helping the bride bustle her train and removing her head piece
• Sitting to the left of the groom at the main table
• Helping the bride change for the honeymoon

Ideas - The latest trend from GetMarriedTV

The latest "What's Hot" on signature plates, save-the-date cards and bomboniere from GetMarriedTV.

Trisha's Story

My apologies for the long silence. I've been so busy and also went away for a holiday. But I'm back now. And what better way to brighten up the holiday season with a story from a woman who's so in love with her man. Trisha Samuels sent me her story of how she met her man.

Trisha, i-Weddings wishes you all the best in your relationship and hopefully you'll keep coming back to the i-Weddings blog for ideas to plan your wedding!

My best friend introduced me to her friend who I thought was extremely intelligent and very attractive. Soon she started to invite him to all of our group hangouts. We asked him to play volleyball with us and we hung out the whole two days.

I was interested in him but I was not so sure he was interested in me. He was going off to college across the state so I did not try to pursue anything. I knew there was just something about him that attracted him to me so much. He went off to college and I still never forgot him.

He came back for Winter break and hung out with all my friends and that is when I knew I wanted him to be my boyfriend. I was in the car with my friends and I said, "He is the kind of man I want to marry. I could see myself marrying this man."

I was at my aunts the day before Christmas and I got a call from my best friend telling me that she was going to call Sean and ask him if he was interest in me. Here I am and 19 years old acting a s if I was in elementary school. I hung up with her and waited impatiently for about 25 minutes and then I got a call back. My heart was beating so fast and Felicia ended up telling me that she could not believe it but Sean like me too. I started freaking out. I was going in circles and then I just keep saying, “You’re kidding right?” and then I just felt like melting!

The next day we all went bowling and I was sitting in the back seat next to Sean and my hand was next to him and then he grabbed my hand and it fit like a glove and the rest is history! I love this man with all my heart and everyone should be with someone who makes their heart melt each and every day!

Themes - More flower power

The last iLoveThese flower power inspirations to round off the week's theme of Flower Power for the perfect dream wedding.



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Themes - Flower Power

The warm spring/summer weather in Australia makes me think about flowers. Flowers are an integral part of a wedding. Flowers are essential for the bridal bouquet, groom's bouttonaires wedding decoration for the reception and ceremony, wedding centrepieces etc. You could even incorporate flowers as part of your wedding favours, hairstyle and seating card display.

iLoveThese flower power ideas for my wedding

More fresh flower power ideas from i-Weddings.com.au to come.

Weddings by eBay - Part 4 Reception Backdrop Idea

Simple yet elegant idea for your backdrop at your wedding reception. Hang fairy lights for the romantic feel at your wedding reception.


The White Net Fairy Lights with 120 LEDs is a "Buy It Now" item from 2008foru on eBay at GBP1.99 for a 1.5mx1.8m net. Worldwide shipping is available.

Invitations - iLoveThese modern wedding invitations

Want a modern twist to an age old tradition? Want to keep giving out traditional bomboniere but would like to have a modern touch to other areas of your wedding?

Try these inspirations for a modern twist to your wedding invitation.

Invitations - iLoveThese impressive invitations

First impressions count. Impress your guests with these unbelievable inspirations for wedding invitations. Get your guests talking about your wedding invitations all the way to your fabulous wedding!


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Planning - Create a wedding to remember!

The journey is often more important than the destination. I suppose it is true of your wedding planning journey. Making sure the bomboniere is perfect while planning a wedding to remember for your guests is important. But creating a wedding to remember for you and your husband is even more important.

What is more beautiful than remembering 50 years from now mishaps with the bomboniere when you were planning your wedding to your husband of 50 years? And telling your great-grandchildren all about it when renewing your vows during the 50th anniversary of your wedding? So how do you capture memories of your wedding planning journey so you and your husband will remember during your 50th wedding anniversary?

Darcy Miller of Martha Stewart Weddings show you how. Jot down little notes while planning your wedding. Be dilligent in doing this and you will have a wedding to remember for the rest of your life.

Invitations - iLoveThese invitation ideas with ribbons and bows

Love ribbons and bows? Adorn your wedding invitations with these gorgeous iLoveThese inspirations for your wedding invitations.

Invite your friends and family with these very unique wedding invitations.

Themes - iLoveThese inspirations for a beach theme wedding

Beach weddings are popular especially in warmer weather. Some ideas for a beach theme wedding are:

• Use natural materials for your wedding favours or bomboniere
• Make full use of the gorgeous backdrop you have - the ocean!
• Use a lot of white accented with one bold colour (too many colours will detract from the natural scenery)
• Think casual, flirty and breezy
• Use flowers with a tropical feel such as orchids
• Serve "coloured" food on a white background
• Don't wear shoes with your wedding dress if you don't have to

Fashion - More iLoveThese Amsale Aberra Wedding Gown Collection

Amsale Aberra wedding gowns. Basic gowns spruced up with details, such as beads, lace, diamonte and various textures. Simply stunning. Simply eye-catching. Simply beautiful.

From Amsale Aberra

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Weddings by eBay - Bouquet blings

Glam up your wedding bouquet with these gorgeous jewellery specially made for extra wedding bouquet bling. Personalise your wedding bouquet with a monogram.

All the swirls and monogram are made from Swarovski crystals for maximum effect.

Definitely designed to impress!


The Elegant Wedding Bouquet Monogram with Swarovski Swirls is a "Buy It Now" item from Elegant Bridal Shop on eBay at US$52.95 for the monogram letter and six crystal swirls. Worldwide shipping is available.

Monogram and Swarovski swirls are also available separately. Swarovski swirls are available in pink, blue, ruby red, tanzanite and black colours.

Fashion - iLoveThese Amsale Aberra Wedding Gown Collection

Sandra Oh wore a gown by Amsale Aberra, designed by Kenneth Pool, in her tv wedding on Grey's Anatomy. I can see why an Amsale gown was chosen. A basic gown shape and design is spruced up with details, such as beads, lace, diamonte and various textures.

Simple, elegant and eye-catching.

From Amsale Aberra

Planning Reception - Great idea on easy DIY centrepiece

Here's a great idea from Meghan Carter of AsktheDecorator.com on an easy DIY and inexpensive reception centrepiece using wine bottles.

Start collecting empty wine bottles from your friends and use this video as an inspiration for an easy, inexpensive centrepiece. Depending on your wedding theme, you can replace the seashells with flowers, pretty bomboniere boxes or even just some rose petals.



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Reception - More iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food

I've got more personalised food ideas for your wedding reception. You could match the personalised monograms on your food to your bomboniere for a very impressive wedding reception setting. Attention to details is the key!

Taken from Brides.com

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Weddings by eBay - Part 3 Gift Idea for Mum and Dad

Great wedding gift idea for Mum and Dad. Imagine them wiping away tears with these beautifully embroidered hankies while watching you say "I do" to your soulmate.

Definitely a great keepsake!



A "Buy It Now" item at USD37.99 and the seller will post worldwide. eBay listing ends on 3 October 2007.

Fashion - iLoveThese Spring/Summer 2008 Vera Wang Collection

Fun and casual bridal gowns from the Spring-Summer 2008 Vera Wang Runway Show.



The Vera Wang Spring-Summer 2008 Runway Show also features light and flirty gowns for the warmer season ahead.



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Reception - Unique seating or escort cards display

What is more precious than reading messages of love and encouragement from your guests during your honeymoon? You could double up your seating cards display as a method for your guests to write their well-wishes for you and your new husband.

Taken from Brides.com

Tie cards with names of your guests their corresponding table numbers to bottles. Put sheets of paper and pens on each table and a message encouraging your guests to write well-wishes to the newlyweds. Get each of your guests to put the message in a bottle and leave them at a specified marked location.

You'll have a unique keepsake for your golden anniversary!

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Fashion - iLoveThese fashion inspirations from The Emmys 2007

Winners of The Emmys 2007 have been announced. But the focus still remains on the red carpet fashion. i-Weddings has pooled together our favourite iLoveThese inspirations for your wedding gown.

Take your wedding gown inspirations and ideas from Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Anna Paquin, Teri Hatcher, Katherine Heigl, Debra Messing and Portia de Rossi. Inspirational ideas!

Reception - More iLoveThese ideas for seating cards display

You love our previous posts on seating cards displays. Here's one more for you!

Taken from Brides.com

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Bomboniere - Even Kylie Minogue loves the bomboniere from i-Weddings!

It's no wonder the gorgeous Oriental fan in the i-Weddings range is one of i-Weddings' most popular bomboniere. Even Kylie Minogue, Australia's pop princess, can't bear to let the Oriental fan out of her sight!



Kylie was seen with her Oriental fan similar to the bomboniere from i-Weddings' Oriental range on May 14 2007 at the Dior Cruise RTW Show - Cocktail Party.



Here is Kylie Minogue 9 days later, photographed holding the same Oriental fan at the amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS Dinner Presented By Bold Films, The M.A.C AIDS Fund and The Weinstein Company.



If you'd like your wedding guests or bridal party to have their very own Oriental fan bomboniere or gift as seen on Kylie, i-Weddings can even personalise it for you. Whatever words you choose to have on it will appear on the side of the Oriental fan.

Bet Kylie now wishes she bought hers from i-Weddings!

Reception - iLoveThese ideas for seating cards displays

This post is for you, HamiHarri. HamiHarri's wedding is in 9+ months and has commented that she needs some ideas for some seating cards display.

Be inspired by the iLoveThese inspirations for seating or escort cards displays!

iLoveThese pegged escort cards displays.



iLoveThese simple placecards displays for a garden seating cards display.



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Reception - How to choose your table size and linen

A great video by Sally on Youtube on how to choose your table size and linens for your wedding reception.

Reception - iLoveThese seating chart displays

More iLoveThese seating chart display ideas for your wedding reception.

Put up an Asian-themed seating card display to match your Asian bomboniere. Maybe match up your romantic-themed wedding reception with this soft pastel seating card display. Or do up a seating card garden display for your garden wedding.

Taken from Brides.com

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Reception - iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food

Why should only your bomboniere or napkins be personalised at your reception? Try out these awesome and inspiring iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food for a truly personalised touch to your wedding. Your guests will be impressed!

Taken from Brides.com

Weddings by eBay - Part 2 Wedding or evening bag

Gorgeous satin evening bag with elegant diamonte from eBay. Goes perfectly with your wedding gown to hold your lippy, tissues and other emergency bridal needs!


Located in Singapore, the classy wedding or evening bag is a bargain at AU$21.00 and a flat international shipping fee of AU$16.00 to most countries. Check the item page for more information. Auction ends in approximately 2 days.


It even comes in pink for your maid-of-honour!


Have a look at other items in the Closet Affair Boutique's store. Gorgeous evening bags at a bargain price.

Planning - Get your ideas from real weddings

Why not get your ideas from real weddings? From brides and grooms who have been there and done that. You could see what works and what doesn't.

Today's Real Weddings from i-Weddings features John and Ashley's video. Their wedding was held in Yosemite, California in June 2006. Look for the great bomboniere ideas!

Weddings by eBay - Part 1

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Update - 28 August 2007
More of the gorgeous lace parasols are available in bluetoothstar's store. Another 2+ days left to bid on this item!

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If you look hard enough on eBay, there are great treasures to find. This lace parasol is so romantic and delicate. Perfect for the outdoor wedding or even just for your photos.


A ButItNow item priced at AUD9.99 with a shipping cost of AUD12.99 from Hong Kong. Item listing ends in approximately 2 days. Click here to buy.

Quote for today

The love we give away is the only love we keep - Elbert Hubbard.

Planning Decoration - Ideas for a DIY wedding

A very helpful video on ideas on a DIY wedding. The video talks about bomboniere or wedding favours, table setting, chair decoration and others for various wedding themes.



Stay tuned for more inspiring videos from i-Weddings.com.au.

Fashion - iLoveThese gowns from Kenneth Pool (Grey's Anatomy's chosen gown designer)

In the highly anticipated season finale of Grey’s Anatomy, Cristina played by Sandra Oh wears a Kenneth Pool gown. iLoveThese Kenneth Pool gowns pools (!!) together my favourite gowns from his latest design collection.

Fashion - Grey's Anatomy's most anticipated season finale wedding

Cristina and Preston finally gets married in the long awaited Grey’s Anatomy’s season finale aired this Sunday in Australia. Or do they?? Here’s the scoop on the gowns, bouquet and accessories in the highly-anticipated Cristina-Preston wedding (or non-wedding!).



Cristina, played by the lovely Sandra Oh, wears a strapless Kenneth Pool gown which features a mermaid cut with gorgeous intricate beading on the bodice. She also wears (reluctantly apparently) a choker that has been in Burke’s family for generations.



The bridesmaids wore chocolate satin gowns with varying necklines.

Planning Decoration - More iLoveThese orange and gold wedding inspirations

I've found some more beautiful inspirations for May and John who will be getting married in December. They've chosen orange and gold as their colour theme for their church ceremony.

These two iLoveThese palettes feature my favourite inspirations for an orange and gold wedding ceremony.

iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations

More iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations

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Reception Centrepieces - More iLoveThese Centrepieces from Marthastewartdotcom

If you're planning a spring wedding in Australia, here are a few warm ideas for your reception centrepieces from Martha Stewart. Two main themes are apparent in the Martha Stewart centrepieces.

Firstly there's the use of potted plants as centrepieces. You could re-use them as plants in the garden in your new home. How's that for a cost saving!

Secondly there's use of bold warm colours - hues of red, orange and warm yellow. The bottom left picture features fruits as part of the centrepiece. Very yummy idea!

From Martha Stewart

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Tag! Getting to know me!

I've never been e-tagged before! Thanks to Hamiharri of Another Wedding Blog for my very very first e-tag!

So, the purpose of the tag is to get to know me with 8 fact/habits about myself! Here goes:

1. I have a 10cm-long v-shaped scar where my right shin meets the foot. I jumped onto a glass cover of a portable oven when I was three and had to get 40 stiches. The doctor was afraid that I may have severed major tendons in that area. I reckon that's why I can flex my right foot more than my left!

2. I'm afraid to have children. Like Hamiharri, I will go for the elective C-section. I'm just afraid that they'll turn out as rebellious and naughty as I was.

3. I am a huge Star Wars fan. I want to be Luke Skywalker. I almost bought a S$300+ light sabre that lights up and sounds exactly like Luke's.

4. I have a chocolate bunny who is more than a year old. I'm carrying out a scientific experiment to determine how long chocolate bunnies live.

5. I love animals, especially dogs. But I don't own a dog because I can't trust myself to care for him/her. If I ever have a dog, he/she will be an Alaskan Husky.

6. I sponsor two children through World Vision. One girl from Lesotho in the African continent and one boy from the Philippines. The girl excels in Maths and Science and the boy wants to be a doctor when he grows up. I am so proud of my children and would love to visit them some day.

7. So far, I have lived in Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. If I get a chance, my next stop would be America.

8. The name i-Weddings is derived from my given name. It's not a inspired copy of the Apple's iPod name. I was given my name long before Apple gave iPod its name. So I reckon Apple got their inspiration from my name. NOT!

I tag:
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My Wedding Blog

Planning Decoration - iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations

Two of my friends, May and John, will be getting married in December and have chosen fall colours of orange and gold as their colour theme for their church ceremony. May asked me for some inspirations and I've been hunting around for my favourite inspirations for their iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations.

Part 1 of the iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations series dedicated to May and John features flowers in gorgeous shades of bold orange and brilliant gold.


iLoveThese orange and gold flower inspirations


More iLoveThese orange and gold flower inspirations

Planning - Perfect Table Plan

Planning the seating arrangements can be one of the most difficult parts of planning a wedding. But it really isn't something you want to leave to chance. Thankfully help is available from PerfectTablePlan "The easiest way to create a table seating plan for your wedding, celebration or event".



PerfectTablePlan takes you step-by-step through:

• creating your guest list
• tracking RSVPs and meal preferences
• creating your table layout
• assigning guests to seats
• printing off floor plans, seating charts and place cards

It can even automatically assign guests to seats according to who you want them to sit near to (or not near to!). If you already have your guest details in a spreadsheet or address book you can import them. No need to re-type them all.


The software has an impressive list of testimonials and comes with a 14 day money-back guarantee. You can also try before you buy.


PerfectTablePlan is available on Windows and Macintosh for for $34.95 USD / $44.95 AUD from http://www.perfecttableplan.com/ (CD available as optional extra).

Reception planning - A personalised wedding is in the details

Details such as personalised bomboniere or wedding favours, napkins, colour theme, chair covers and signature drinks make or break the wedding.

Perhaps one of the most fun things to do to personalise your wedding is choosing your signature drink. I would suggest that you pick your colour theme first before starting on this journey.



Once you’ve decided on your colour theme, it’ll be easier to decide on your signature drink. Next is to decide which is your favourite cocktail. Naturally it’ll be great if both you and your fiancé(e) have the same favourite cocktail. But if you don’t, don’t fret. You can have more than one signature drink. If you have two, use the each person’s favourite cocktail as the basis for each one. If you have four, use each cocktail as the basis for two. You get the drift.

Then it’s time to make it personal. I say go crazy with your experimentation. Set aside one day per week where all you do is experiment with different ingredients for your signature drink. Check out this website for some help!



And of course once you’ve settled on the ingredients, don’t forget that your job is not done yet. The coolest signature drinks have cool accessories. Figure out what type of straw you want, if any, and any embellishments, such as fruits or a little parasol, that you may wish to add on.

Some helpful websites:
Cocktail Database
Cocktail:UK
Drinknation

i-Weddings' namesakes

Darn those name stealers and cyber squaters! They have been the bane of i-Wedding's existence since i-Weddings established our little cyber-space patch through http://www.i-weddings.com.au/.

I'll demonstrate. Go to Google. Type in i-Weddings. The third link on the list is www{dot}iweddings{dot}com{dot}au. It appears to be an Australian wedding directory. And it takes the name iWeddings! *shakes head* I'm not sure if I should be happy that some corporation has imitated the i-Weddings name in the hope of leveraging on the i-Weddings name. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

On the other hand, if you type in www{dot}i-weddings{dot}com, you'll find yourself a cyber squatter. These individuals/corporations trawl the internet looking for businesses who may have a, for example, http://www.i-weddings.com.au/ which is i-Weddings' web address. They then buy up all other variations of this web address, for example www{dot}i-weddings{dot}com, in the hope that one day these businesses will want to buy that name off them.

I wrote to the owner of www{dot}i-weddings{dot}com. He/She/They wanted $8000 for the name. That's highway robbery. Or more accurately cyber robbery.

So don't be fooled. The only original i-Weddings is at http://www.i-weddings.com.au/. Imitations just won't do.

A tip for those small businesses out there. Buy up all variations of your business web address if you could. For example .com, .com.au, .net, your name + s etc etc. Otherwise you'll fall prey to these unscrupulous people who will just leverage on your hard work.

Planning - Real weddings from i-Weddings

Now that the iLoveThese palettes have taken off superbly, I think it's time to try a new series. This time we take it one step further than pictures.

Lots of couples are sharing their wedding days and ideas online through for example, Youtube. i-Weddings will be scouring all available video streaming websites to present to you the BEST of these real wedding ideas. Why not learn from those who've been there, done that!

Our very first Real Weddings series features photos and video from Jennifer and Tyler's wedding in Central California that took place on 27 May 2006. It was a outdoor garden wedding with very bold use of colours. Exquisite!

Box.net simplifies your wedding plans

Knowing that planning a wedding can be stressful for the bride, Marie Rios, a wedding consultant, wanted to make her clients’ lives easier. She started using Box.net to organize her files and make it convenient to share them with her clients.

The brides loved it because their email was less cluttered, and all of the vendor contracts and check-lists were shared, edited, and downloaded in one convenient location. They also added widgets to their wedding websites, where all their friends and family uploaded candid pictures taken on their special day.

If you’re a bride, ask your wedding consultant if they’ve heard of Box. To find out more information or sign up, go to http://www.box.net/wedding

Fashion - iLoveThese hair week: part 4

If you've just stumbled on this post on iLoveThese hair ideas, this is the final part of the iLoveThese hair fashion week! i-Weddings decided to make this week the iLoveThese hair week just for Kelly who will be getting married in November this year.

The final iLoveThese hair palette for this week is for those who cannot decide. So why not go half-half on your hair?

By no means is this the very last iLoveThese hair palette. Come visit us next week and be surprised with more iLoveThese ideas for your wedding planning.

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