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Choosing a Wedding Cake

Monday, December 1st, 2008

By Adam Blakey

Among the many things to be concerned about when preparing for a wedding and a wedding reception, the wedding cake is one of the most important. Unless this decision is being left up for the wedding planner to decide, it is usually a tough decision for all brides and grooms to make. Some things about the wedding cake to consider is whether it will be yellow cake, white cake, or even chocolate, what type of icing it’ll have on it, as well as how many layers it should have and how it will be spread out.

Tasting Wedding Cakes

There are many bridal events and wedding preparation events where brides-to-be and grooms can taste a whole variety of wedding cakes before they make final decisions. Many people want the perfect tasting wedding cake at their reception, and these wedding cake tasting events are the perfect place to get a feel for all the different types of icing, cake mixtures, as well as decorations that one can have on their big day. In fact, many couples choose to specifically set up a wedding cake tasting event so that they can see all the bakers from around their area.

Price and Service

Another concern with choosing a wedding cake is the price of the cake itself and how it’s going to be set up. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind when trying out wedding cakes is that the most expensive wedding cake is not necessarily the best-tasting one. Indeed, every wedding couple is going to have different preferences so the price should not be a mere signal of how good it tastes or whether the guests will like it. In addition to the price of the wedding cake, one should ask whether or not the wedding cake provider will be delivering and setting up the cake at the reception place or whether that needs to be taken care of by someone else. Most wedding cake makers will usually be happy to set it up; however, it’s usually done for a fee.

In addition to all of this, the bride and groom need to decide how many layers and how big they want the cake. As you can probably guess, there are many different types of designs and sizes for wedding cakes and choosing one is basically left up to the bride and groom, although the wedding organizer may help with the decision. A couple good indicators to help one decide how much cake they should buy depends largely on how many guests are being invited to the wedding ceremony, as well as how many have been invited to the wedding reception. You’ll want to have enough wedding cake to go around for all the guests, but yet not have too much so there’s a lot of cake left over.

The wedding cake is definitely just as important for the reception as many other parts of the ceremony and reception are, and many couples do place emphasis on having the right kind of wedding cake for themselves and their guests. Choosing a wedding cake can often be a difficult decision, but using a few of the guidelines explained above, such as taking into consideration one’s preferences and how many guests will be at the party, should help you decide on a cake once and for all!

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How to Set Your Wedding Style

Sunday, November 30th, 2008
There are so many different ways to get married these days. You are probably asking yourself: Where do I begin to narrow down my options and choose the right wedding style?Take a Look at Your Past

Look over all of the landmark events in your relationship. How did you and your fiancé meet? If you met on the beach consider tying the knot on the beach or incorporating beach themed elements to your reception. If your fiancé proposed in a skating rink consider having a winter wedding.

Add Your Own Personalities

Incorporate Things you like to do for fun. If you and your fiancé like to play poker, have a Las Vegas themed wedding, or even better, go there and get hitched! Another growing trend is to get married in Disney World, so if you Love Mickey Mouse, have your wedding at his house!

Think About Your Guests

Your wedding day should be all about you, but when picking a location one of the most important factors to consider are your guests. Most people prefer not to travel these days due to the high costs associated with it. Even a location that is only an hour away may put a hole in their pocket because of gasoline prices. Try and opt for a local reception or, if you must pick a far away location, offer to help your guests set up a car pool so that some of the gas expenses can be spared.

Meet in the Middle

If you want a glamorous indoor wedding and your fiancé wants a casual outdoor wedding, find a way to mix the two ideas so that the both of you can come to a happy agreement. If you decide to have an indoor wedding, arrange to have your pictures taken outside on the beach or in any outdoor setting.

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Wedding Photography – Importance For Bride and Groom

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By Andrew Chaan

Time of wedding itself is very special. It is time that comes in the life of all human beings. It is the union of the two individuals celebrating their love for each other. It is the time when two hearts become one and live together for the entire life. It is a blessed bond, which is not easy to break. Wedding is a declaration of love, beginning of a new life together and giving birth to endless opportunities in new life. Wedding is pinnacle point of dedication and celebration between a man and a woman. The event brings together all family, friends and individuals that have been a part of the bride and groom’s life.

People find themselves dedicating a great amount of time and effort in making this a lifetime event. Many individual components make the unique wedding day. The wedding day is probably the most important time for every married couple. These moments must be captured so they last forever. Since wedding happens only once in a lifetime, the photos must be of top quality and must capture the true feeling of the moment. Photographs should capture all the special moments of wedding. As whatever happens that day will not come again in life. Capturing engagement and wedding rituals is very special, another important thing is bride and groom, their dress up and how they are looking on that day.

Wedding photographs leave an everlasting memory in the life and family of all members. Once the wedding is over, one can keep those wonderful memories alive only through wedding photographs. Even after the couple grows old, they can show the photographs to their later generation and could recall all past memories. Sometimes after marriage, couples stay separate due to job or some other responsibility, during that time wedding photographs can be the best companion.

Only a perfect wedding photographer with great deal of wedding experience and knowledge of various issues related to professional photography can return the best results. The outcome of his labor and experience together can result best wedding snaps to be cherished for whole life.

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Your Wedding Ceremony – Engaging Your Senses at Your Wedding Ceremony (Scent)

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By Ann Keeler Evans

Life is rich and we should call upon the richness of life and celebrate it in as many ways as we can! Each layer we add to the wedding ceremony deepens the sense memory and the ways it will pop up in the future and carry us back to a magical moment that we associate with that sense. The sense of smell is wildly connected to our emotions. Layers of scent allow us to remember and appreciate the complexity of life.

The obvious way to satisfy smell is with flowers. As long as the people who are allergic can get away from the fragrant blossoms, you can indulge your olfactory sense with great abandon. You don’t need to use thousands of them, at some of the most sophisticated weddings, I’ve seen the bride and her crowd each carry only one blossom… You can scatter flowers around the room or wedding ceremony site. Either a lot of single flowers or several masses of them: all of them fabulously odiferous. Then weave the meaning of those sweet smells into the wedding ceremony. Forever after, that scent will remind the couple (and their community) of the sweetness of their love. Most marriages do well to have tiny little reminders of the importance of the couple’s love for one another!

But there are other ways to celebrate scent. What about food? You probably want to be careful with things like chocolate at a ceremony (it wouldn’t do much for bridal clothes) but there are lots of foods which if warmed and in a chafing dish would provide a wonderful accent. If you were using food, you could talk about what those scents invoke. For me, food smells either mean home or comfort or excitement. Each of those is an element which any enduring marriage needs!

Less obvious and more intimate, how about you? What’s your favorite perfume? Or do you want to wear something that you’ve identified for this special occasion — a scent that you will use at future celebrations, both public and intimate! (Wouldn’t it be a fun shower to go somewhere and have a perfume created just for you?) You could also be anointed with essential oils as part of your preparation for your wedding day. You wouldn’t want to do this if you hadn’t done it before! You don’t want to find out that you’re allergic to whatever essential oil symbolizes serenity and spend your wedding day in hives! In this case you would want to discuss the oils that were chosen and whether they were chosen for scent alone, or for their essential properties. What characteristics do you need to thrive in marriage? What oils offer those characteristics? How careful do you need to be in blending the scents? How about the characteristics? A little discretion goes a long way toward creating a harmonious and peaceful marriage!

Bottom Line?: Give your relationship the chance it deserves to succeed wildly! Have a good time at your wedding and in your marriage – and use scents and images that will enhance your experience at the wedding and create reminders for life ever after! After all you and your relationship deserve it. Sign up to receive 2 free templates for creating the wedding vows to sustain a marriage that lasts forever: http://annkeelerevans.org/weddings/optin

The Rev. Ann Keeler Evans – helping you move from “I do” to happily and healthily ever after.

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India marks Bollywood ‘wedding of the century’

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan

MUMBAI, India —Astrologers were consulted, the gods gave their blessings, the white stallion was ready and delirious fans milled around the marigold-bedecked home. The stage was set for Bollywood’s “wedding of the century.”

Film-crazy India held its breath Friday as two of its biggest stars, the emerald-eyed former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, a romantic hero and son of an Indian cinema legend, celebrated their wedding.

The affair, hyped by Indian media as “the wedding of the century,” was filled with the melodrama so beloved in Bollywood, India’s flamboyant Hindi film industry: secrecy, dance routines and even a suicidal fan who claimed to be the groom’s jilted lover.

Hundreds of fans cheered as Bachchan, wearing a gold and cream turban — his face covered with a traditional veil of white flowers — emerged onto the streets outside his home astride a white stallion, giving his admirers a thumbs-up sign while his friends danced around him.

Bachchan bobbed his head and punched the air with his hands in time to a Bollywood tune played by an accompanying band of red-turbaned musicians.

He then made his way to a huge, flower-filled, air-conditioned tent encircled by gold curtains in the garden adjoining the Bachchan family home — where to the sound of trumpets, drums and clanging cymbals, he and Rai reportedly exchanged garlands and wedding vows.

A super sari
Rai remained hidden inside the barricaded venue, but the Indian media was split down the middle with reports that she either wore a red-and-gold, intricately embroidered sari, or a gold-and-cream creation.

Hundreds of fans lined the roads, climbed trees or scaled buildings, hoping to catch a glimpse of the wedding party.

Despite the intense interest in the fairy tale wedding, details — from the clothes the couple would wear to the guest list — have been shrouded in secrecy. Dozens of police officers kept overeager fans away from the stars.

However, the festivities were marred when a young woman slit her wrists outside the Bachchan home in Mumbai early Friday.

Identifying herself as Jhanvi Kapoor, she said Bachchan had promised to marry her after they met when she was one of the dancers in a promotional music video for a movie “Dus” (”Ten”), in which Bachchan starred two years ago.

“He is not talking to me,” she told reporters. “I want to know why he doesn’t talk to me.”

Arrested for suicide attempt
She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, then arrested by police for attempting to commit suicide — a crime in India.

“This is a stunt,” said police officer A. Mohite. “She seemed to have done this purely to catch the attention of the media.”

She was later released on bail of 10,000 rupees ($238).

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