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Share Your Tips On Attending A Bridal Show

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by admin
Subject:  Tips on Attending a Bridal Show
 
We see brides attending a Wedding Fair or bridal show in the regions where they plan to wed.  While the prizes are very exciting and the possibilities of winning are great, there are other reasons to attend.  You gain great ideas, find out prices in your area and meet personally people you might decide to work with at your wedding.  Most vendors have table drawings and some offer bridal show discounts.
 
1. Because you will be filling out contest forms and entries, you may want to create a label to speed up your efforts at the bridal trade shows.  The label should have your aprox. wedding date, number of guests, where you want to host your wedding and your e-mail, phone number, mailing address.  Then all you have to do is put it on the forms and enter their drawings.
2. Bring friends or your groom.  Often the groom or bride can attend free if she brings so many with her.
3. Register from the show website so you can to move into the show at a faster pace.
4.  Understand for most bridal shows YOU must be present to win the big prizes (think about how sad it is for a show producer to give away a big honeymoon or gift package and no one is there to walk up on the stage and receive it).
5.  Sign up at most of the booths - they have amazing prizes, but understand, they may contact you - regarding your bridal needs.
6. My final tip is to not hire any vendor without a complete interview time or a contract in writing. Take the time to complete your due diligence to have a more relaxed and enjoyable wedding day by feeling secure in who you hire.  Take the free wedding planning class on  http://www.SuperStarWedding.com
 

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Beauty Tips For Your Wedding Day

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by admin
Subject:  Five Tips For Improving Beauty For Your Wedding Day
 
After all, YOU will be the STAR on your wedding day.  We all believe we want to look our best for our wedding and for some of us that requires beauty regeims and weight loss projects or types of clothing we have never shopped for.  While you can find tons of articles on http://www.WeddingLinks.com to assist you in preparations, these quick tips and the additional stress managment ideas and organization help is found in the first FREE 90-minute course called  http://www.SuperStarWedding.com.     The class bring all things into focus for the Do It Yourself Bride.
 
1.)  When dropping coffee, chocolate, fattening foods from the diet, please go off of one thing at a time with a week or two between stopping the habit.  Cold Turkey is not good for the body.  Fresh vegtables and foods are best.
 
2.) Begin any diet by adding seven, 8-oz glasses of  clean filtered water a day.  It rids the body of toxins that are dropping out of the fat that is stored on your body. These toxins quickly find a new home in the body if they are not flushed from your system.
 
3.)  When you have knee, joint or extrem weight concerns, it helps to walk in place on a small trampoline.  All forms of exercise may be conducted on these trampolines and they are easy to store in home or apartment.
 
4. ) Most skin concerns can be remedied with a good doctor’s care, watchful diets and some of the new products available on the market.  Get a good skin regime going - morning and night - no more experimenting to find the right skin products and procedures  should be completed three months prior to your wedding.  Our hands and nails carry huge amounts of bacteria, so keep them away from your face.
5.) Selecting the right wedding dress for your face shape, neck line and shoulders is more important that going with the latest fad style or trend.  Its about you and what you look best in.

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Deposits on Wedding Locations

Posted on September 29th, 2009 by admin

Understanding why one must place a 35 to 50% deposit down to book a location or wedding professional is all about their keeping your date on the calendar and not giving it to another couple.

1. There are two types of deposits on sites we see being done. One is to hold the date temporarily and goes toward your real deposit and is refundable if you decide on another location.

2. These are generally a flat fee, but you must get back to the site by a specific date or you lose your funds. So place this on your calendar - it is not their responsibility to warn you if your time is running out.

3. Booking deposits are sometimes flexible up to 50%.

4. The Booking Final Payments are paid complete - often required two weeks prior to you wedding day.

5.  Refundable deposits are iffy.  Read your contract carefully to understand their rules. If you need to cancel the wedding for any reason the deposits may not be refundable or only a portion is refundable

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What Bridal Education Is Available For Brides Today

Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by admin

 

Brides often enter their matrimony planning without a scope of what is available to them other than magazines and the web.  Thank you for joining us on the blog with your input about what you have found useful on bridal education. 

 

1.  Software:  Excellent wedding software is available to download from the internet that will assist you in guest list and room lay-out management.  Fee based.

2.  Audio Books:  The “Beautiful Weddings” audio book gives a complete outline on planning your wedding day. Listen - while you drive or exercise. Fee based.

3.  Many brides take the professional wedding planning classes on-line, or offered at a neaby college/university.  The units are expensive, but the classes are good.

4.  Good  wedding planning books:  There are many  useful and beautiful books available from budgeted weddings to elaborate Martha Stewart weddings.

5.  Social Networking: There are hundreds of blogs, but the most useful are where you can click into your planning with wedding links to locations and services for your local or destination areas.

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Money Saving Tips for Weddings & Receptions

Posted on July 20th, 2009 by admin

Recently spoke at a bridal show in the San Jose region delivering tips on saving money.  I’ll add a few here, but would love your input on money saving ideas for weddings and Receptions. 

1).  When money is tight and your goal is to have the wedding of your dreams, then have a discussion with your intended. When each of you gains at least one or two items in the wedding/honeymoon you have dreamed of  and are important to you - then  individually you both feel like you are having the wedding of your dreams.

2).  Most wedding locations have lower prices for mid-week rental and Friday or Sundays.

3).  Most wedding professionals have several sized packages and many have lower priced packages for mid-week, Fridays and Sunday weddings.

4). Wedding dresses: save funds by purchasing a lovely gown from the used clothing stores. Many women get married and take them to the shops for re-sale and sometimes stores have gowns they turn over to the shops. Also check WeddingLinks.com for the shops in your area.  They often have sales and you can find a great bargin.  A wonderful organization receives gowns from movie starlets for the cancer association and they are amazing bargins. Check WeddingLinks.com for that site.

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Finding The Right Wedding Dress

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by admin

The “Becoming Engaged” newsletter provided five tips on purchasing wedding dresses.  Let us know your ideas on Cutting Costs When Purchasing a Wedding Dress

 Buying A Sale Dress, Renting A Dress, Charity Purchase, Second Hand Shops, Donating Your Dress, Borrowing A Dress

Note:  We speak to many women who are confused on the industry’s size standards and are annoyed their wedding dress needs to be a “larger size” when ordering.  We understand the reason: The shop owners have found many brides lose or gain weight throughout the time prior to their “wedding day”. It is easier to fit a gown when there is ample fabric. It is difficult to find extra matching fabric and you take a chance that a gown will show evidence of being let out.

When Brides enter the honeymoon contest on WeddingLinks.com, we send you ”Becoming Engaged -e-newsletter that you can stop at any time - and stay entered in the drawing. 

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Friends or Family Performing The Wedding Ceremony

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by admin

Recent TRENDS indicate many couples are ask friends or family to perform the wedding ceremony.

Our recent growing trends report indicated couples  ask friends or family to tie the knot for them.  Various states will not allow this and many rules do apply when it is allowed. We would like your input on why this as a growing trend.  Please request our “Becoming Engaged” newsletter for some real inside tips and concerns regarding the subject.

(Sign up for the newsletter by clicking on the contest entry form on WeddingLinks.com and you will be entered in the contest and receive our bi-weekly letter of tips for brides.)   

 

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Finding Unique Wedding Locations

Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Editor

This world is full of Unique Wedding Locations. Unless you live on a flat desert outback with nothing but sagebrush, or desolation prairie, give us your input. This is an awesome planet. We would love to hear from you about locations you found for your wedding day and what you believe was unique about them. From the fact that five of your family generations were married there or you traveled to Timbucku to acheive the wedding of your fantasies…let us know what you found irrestible.

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Ideas For Green Weddings

Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Editor

Great Ideas For Green Weddings

by Judith Rivers-Moore

Eco-chic (environmental or green weddings) are increasingly popular.

Couples everywhere are choosing to go green. While everyone appears to be accusing them of copy-cat ideas, we see deep concern in the issues and understand why people want to cut the extravagant use of gasoline, paper, wood, fabrics, plastics and move toward cottons, re-cycled dresses, chemicals and paper usage while moving toward vegan, vegetarian and organic considerations on the menus for their wedding celebrations.

Here are some tips when planning an eco-friendly green wedding which incorporates ecologically and socially responsible products and services.

  • Location: consider a local wedding site so most guests do not have extended travel. Many couples are opting for botanical gardens over major hotels. Nuptials are being held on nature preserves, the beach, parks or their own backyards.
  • Some couples opt for a celebration in two or three cites that they travel to.
  • Lodging for guests and honeymoon selection are viewed with what is the resort or hotel doing for the environment and do they have a policy or standard.
  • Utilize local resources and businesses or products for your wedding. In addition to saving on transportation, you’ll be supporting small businesses and your local economy. which is made from grapes and grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or other chemicals which damage soil and water. There are many organic wine vineyards to choose from.
  • Wedding cake: Find a baker that will make a vegan cake with organic, natural and fair trade ingredients. Even your coffee can be fair trade!
  • Some limo companies now offer a eco-chic hybrid alternative. Or use a rickshaw to arrive and leave in.
  • Interestingly the wedding photography has a organic attitude: a digital format uses no chemical. Digital photos are easier to share and much more environmentally friendly. No harmful chemicals, film or wasted paper. If you are set on film photography, there are less toxic developing methods, discuss this option with your photographer.
  • Honeymooners may want to include unique botanical areas or species threatened areas and consider the rainforest in Costa Rica or an amazing adventurous escape at an eco friendly holistic luxurious spa in Africa, Thailand or Fiji.

These are just a few suggestions. You will find more in the Articles Section of SuperStarWedding.com Please respond with some of your great ideas or questions regarding the subject Green Weddings.

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Ideas For Second Time Around Weddings

Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Editor

We have four children between us - aged 6, 7, 12, 15 and limited funds. Both of us have talked about going  away to get married and have a private honeymoon,  but as weve discussed it more we want to include the children.  Any ideas to make this a memorable occasion with the children? 

 

 

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