Spruce up a white wedding with creative cocktail decorating ideas. Yummy cocktails are easy to make after some experimentation. Here are iLoveThese ideas for making those yummy cocktails even more appealing to your wedding reception guests.
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!
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!
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.
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 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:
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
1. Set up a welcoming and comfortable lounge area where guests can take a break from all the dancing and drinking.
2. If you met on a "blind" date, get your guests into the "blind" date theme by getting them to pick their table assignments out of a hat at your rehearsal dinner.
3. Name and decorate tables after places that are important to you as a couple. You could set up a few different "corners" that represent these places.
4. Put some pressed flower petals with the ceremony program for a garden-themed wedding.
5. Serve only wines from the year that you met or got engaged.
6. Put up a photo slideshow with photographs from your childhoods through to the present.
Sample "This is your life" Photo Slideshow from i-Weddings. Create your own "This is your life" Photo Slideshow from a special introductory price of $160. Another sample here.
7. For your first dance, use the same song as your parents did during their first dance. Or put together a medley of the first dances songs of both the groom and bride's parents.
8. Get a cartoonist friend to illustrate highlights of your courtship and print them on the ceremony programs.
9. Get your bridemaids to carry fancy parasols instead of a bouquet while walking down the aisle for a garden wedding.
10. Make a special photo guest book filled with your favourite photos for your guests to sign.
More inspirations for you with this iLoveThese ideas for a pink and green wedding. Pink and green go so well together and brings a romantic ambience to your wedding reception.
Approximately a month ago, I posted some tips for garden-themed weddings. Following along the same theme, some inspirations in the form of iLoveThese Ideas for your garden-themed wedding.
iLoveThese Ideas for a garden wedding
An easy, yet interesting, way to save money on your wedding favours or bomboniere is to get M&Ms in your wedding colours (or any other lollies that come in your wedding colours).
Put it in a lovely organza bag and VOILA! You have a classy bomboniere that everyone will love.
Plain, peanut or crispy. You choose!
**Update** i-Weddings has decided to discontinue our "Message in a bottle" product. Check out other suppliers of this unique "Message in a bottle" in Australia from Message Bottle or All Bottled Up. I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for from these two companies.
Rounded shot glass
Comes wrapped in clear plastic with a matching ribbon (if preferred). Choose from existing artwork or submit your own.
$3.60* each Napkins can be personalised with two lines, bearing the couple's names and wedding date or with a message of the couple's choice.
* Price quoted for minimum order of 200 pieces. For quantities less than 200 pieces, please email me and I'll be happy to quote you the price for the quantity you require.
As posted on i-Weddings
Limit the number of guests at your reception
Be very strict with your guest list. If an acquaintance invited you to his/her wedding 5 years ago and you haven't seen him/her since then, feel free to strike them off the list. Guilt-free.
If your venue allows it, bring your own drinks and food
Buy in bulk in advance. Look out for specials in your local supermarket or bottle shop up to even 6 months before the wedding. You may feel like you're being paranoid but you'll be thankful closer to your wedding date that you were prepared early on.
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Thousands of U.S. couples planning to tie the knot this year aren't leaving their chances of marital success to love alone, with a rush to marry on what some see as the luckiest day of the year -- 07/07/07.
The number seven is considered by many to be lucky, with seven a perfect number in the Bible, Buddha walking seven steps at his birth, and seven lucky gods in Japanese mythology. In the game bingo, the call is "Lucky Seven, God's in Heaven."
Wedding industry professionals are reporting venues fully booked across the United States for weddings on July 7 which falls on a Saturday, and wedding planners, florists, bakers have experienced a surge in demand for services that day.
"The number seven is associated with luck and couples believe that having all sevens would add that extra hint of luck. Also, it is an easy date for their spouse to remember," said Kristin Ciccolella, co-founder of online wedding site WedAlert.com.
WedAlert's bride database shows 605 weddings planned for that date -- which is three times higher than on the equivalent Saturday a year ago.
One celebrity couple is joining the throng. U.S. actress Eva Longoria, a star of the television series "Desperate Housewives," and basketball player Tony Parker plan to marry in Paris on July 7.
"Tony is extremely superstitious and thinks 07/07/07 is the day most lucky to get married on," a source was recently quoted as telling the U.S. celebrity magazine US Weekly.
Las Vegas, which calls itself the "wedding capital of the world" as it processes over 100,000 marriages a year, said it had experienced a spike in demand for that day.
"Wedding chapels have reported couples booking further in advance to secure a slot on that desirable date and are booking as small as 15 minutes increments to accommodate as many couples as possible," said Erika Pope, spokeswoman of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
"People do tend to gravitate toward any date that is memorable -- like 01/01/01, or 02/02/02 -- and I think people enjoy the idea of saying they married in Vegas on 07/07/07."
The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, not usually known as a wedding destination, has come up with a plan after realizing many would-be-brides were finding venues and vendors booked solid for July 7.
Wal-Mart said on Tuesday it was giving seven betrothed couples wedding ceremony and reception packages at local Wal-Mart Supercenters -- in the lawn and garden areas.
"Considering that the average American wedding costs a whopping $22,000 and requires multiple trips to various vendors, the betrothed will be delighted to save money and time at Wal-Mart," said a company statement.
But will a marriage on this magical date be different?
"Love is the foundation to a happy, solid and lasting marriage, not numerology," said Ciccolella.
Source: Reuters
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Here are i-Wedding's top 10 tips for keeping your wedding budget low.
For an idea on how much to spend on each part of your wedding, try this Interactive Wedding Budget Planner. You just type in your total budget and it will automatically calculate your budget for each section of your wedding.
Instead of using the normal ole' boring card and envelope, why not try a new fresh angle to invite your friends and familiy to your big day - The E-vite. Put together a video montage and send it through email or by CD.
You can be as creative as possible. Some ideas to put on this invitation video:
The possibilities are endless. You can even DIY the video invitation with the Windows Movie Maker program that comes with the later versions of Microsoft Windows.
So let your creative juices flow!
Some ideas to get you started:
I’ve always loved weddings. Not only for the magic and the romance of it all. To me, a perfect wedding is like a well-oiled machine. Many many parts working together to produce the final magical romantic production.
Of course it also means a lot of hard work. I’ve started this blog to help all the brides-to-be out there to hopefully minimise all the stress and headaches related to organising and running a wedding. My ultimate goal is for you to enjoy every aspect of planning and executing your fairytale dream wedding.
Stay tuned for some useful tips to turn your wedding planning and execution from a nightmare into a fairytale.
