Bridal Accessories Include The Cake Knife

When brides plan their weddings and plan for the cake and the guests and the wedding favours, they sometimes forget the obvious, the cake knife. Although the cake knife is a small part of the wedding reception, it still needs to look elegant. After all, you will be cutting the cake and having pictures taken as you do. You want a cake knife that matches your type of wedding. If you have a themed wedding, you might choose a different cake knife than what a bride who has a fancy gala for her wedding. You have many styles and designs to choose from for a wedding cake knife.

The wedding cake knife usually comes in a set with a server as well. You might choose a plain pearl handle cake knife and server or a cake knife and server with silver, beads and crystals in a bow type ornament on the handle. You can choose the wedding cake knife and server that displays a cross or the set that has an acrylic handle that looks like crystal. There are so many styles to choose from when you are planning your bridal accessories list. You might even find that browsing the Internet will give you some great ideas.

The bride and groom will use the cake knife to join hands and cut the first piece of cake as husband and wife. This event is usually the highlight of the reception and you want a knife and server that is elegant and will fit your wedding. Pictures will be taken during this time and want something that will not take away from your hands or the cake itself. These are the pictures, which everyone seems to forget about when choosing the cake knife and server set.

Bridal accessories are sometimes overlooked until the last minute. In many cases, the cake knife and server are the last minute thing. You can usually find great deals on cake cutting sets at a local retailer or a bridal shop. If you have time to wait for shipping, you can find beautifully designed sets online for affordable prices. Some brides like the idea of something beautiful and something old, therefore, many use cake knifes and servers passed down through the family. This is also a nice idea for a family tradition. The idea of the server is for serving the cake.

The proper way to serve a piece of wedding cake is with the cake server. Many people think that the knife is sufficient, but proper etiquette is to serve the slice of cake with a cake server. You will also use the server to give other a small piece of cake for the traditional cake feeding to each other. These pictures are sometimes very funny or very serious depending on the couple and the type of wedding. After you decide the type of cake, you might want to take care of the cake set so it is completed well before the wedding day arrives. 

 

Flower Girl Baskets and Ring Cushions - Delightful Accessories That Are Too Cute

Flower girl baskets and ring cushions have been long in the traditions of weddings. Everybody loves watching the procession of the bridal part at the wedding.   The suspense of how the bride will be looking and seeing the rest of the guests dressed expensively is exciting to watch. The guests are all awaiting for the arrival of the couple and start with their wedding wows, but someone might steal the show – ‘the flower girls’. The flower girls holding their flower baskets play an important role in any wedding celebration. The flower girls are a great way to incorporate the young generation into the wedding party.

It Is An Etiquette

Having a flower girl and a ring bearer is all about calling tradition etiquette. Whom you are choosing for these roles is up to you and how you are dressing them up with all required accessories is to be decided. However, kids aging six and under are suggested for these pretty roles.

You can make your ring bearer and flower girl look the prettiest and feel special by helping them with something exclusive to hold than just routine. So, how would you start?

Flower Girl Baskets

Your pretty little flower girl will not just be stealing the show, but she’ll certainly be something in your wedding that your guests will remember for days. To avoid making her look overload you need to see:

• That the baskets are girly and whimsical, so that your flower girl feels like a princess.
• Give her the basket that is appropriate to her size and matching to her dress as well.
• Make sure to practice with your flower girl before the wedding

Ring Cushions

Traditionally, the ring bearers carry satin white cushion with the wedding rings placed on the top. The cushion has threads on it, wherein the wedding rings are tied to avoid slipping. Now with the changing of time and trend, these cushions have changed their appearance and available in most fashionable design and style. Most importantly to make sure that the cushion you choose is not too big. There are lots of designs, patterns and shapes to choose from. Also, know that it is matching as per the wedding theme. You can also have some antique cushion that serves the purpose or order it online.

Depending on the wedding theme, everything has to be in sync right from the décor to the table decoration to the wedding dress and finally the flower girl baskets and ring cushions. If you are hiring a wedding planner, let him/her know about your ideas and that way you can have your kind of imagination turning into reality.

Bridal Headwear – That Makes You Stand Out In The Crowd

Close your eyes and imagine yourself as a bride. However, every girl will be seeing herself dressed

up in some rich elegant dress, or will imagine having and holding an exotic bouquet, but there are too few who imagine about using hair accessories like tiaras, hair slides, hair pins/clips, hair combs etc.

They are ultimate bridal headwear accessories that enhances your entire look on your wedding day. Even if you are wearing your casual clothing and if you put any of these hair accessories in, you will look different, rich and elegant so obviously it would be more than this when it is your wedding.

Today’s bride has marvellous options when it comes to bridal headwear.  Just like a lovely wedding wow, your bridal headwear adds the last touch. It is your bridal headwear that reflects your personal taste and styling.

Not Knowing What To Do

Mistakes can be avoided with some careful planning. In today’s date, bridal headwear runs the scope from glittering jewelled tiara to the traditional hair combs. While trying different headpieces, make sure to have your wedding dress together. Also, it is important to know what kind of hairdo you are planning to do. The headwear you are choosing should gel with the entire thing and not just the wedding dress.

Not Comfortable With Glitters

There are many would be brides that would prefer having simple bridal headwear than the trendiest one. Well, nothing wrong in that. Also, if you are not comfortable wearing all those glittery in your hair you can try having a designed veil that sits on the bridal mane with no flowers, no poufs and no beads just an exquisite veil that covers the face.

 

Jewelled Headwear

Want to have more sparkles? Today, you will find lots of designers working on shiny metals, rhinestones and crystals. Sparkling headwear is in fact the most recent trends for today’s bride. So, if you’re wedding dress allows you to sparkle, why not wear one of those exquisite headwear pieces to have in your hair to enchant the occasion.

Headpieces

Tiaras are the most common and popular headwear when it comes to a wedding. Tiaras still rule and seem to be the hottest trend when it comes to bridal headwear.  They are simply elegant, tastefully beaded and delightfully light weighted. Majority of the bridal headwear designers agree that tiaras are going to stay for years.

Every girl has a different vision of how beautiful they are going to look at their wedding. There is no such rule or compulsion to follow when it comes to a wedding. Therefore, choose the kind of bridal headwear you like, as you are going to be the princess on your special day.  Get a crown that your heart desires.

 

 

Wedding Guest Book Activities

Traditional brides don't have to have traditional guest books. Certainly you can purchase a standard guest book and matching pen and ask your guests to sign it, but there are so many more guest book-like activities that are more unique.

 Let's move from the popular to the less well known. One very popular option allows guests to sign a picture of the bride and groom. Simply take a picture of the bride and groom and have it matted in a mat several inches larger than the photo itself. Place a frame around this, but don't include the glass or Plexiglas frame. You'll add this later. Some people prefer to use "bulldog" clips to keep the mat together instead of putting the picture in the frame. The picture can be framed after the wedding.

Most couples choose a nice photo of themselves for this picture/guestbook option, although if there's a formal engagement photo, this is an excellent way to preserve that photo and show it off to friends and family. If photos are taken before the wedding with the bride and groom in their wedding attire, you can certainly use this photo. Many couples opt to either leave the mat empty or they place a temporary picture in the mat and add a wedding picture later.

Be sure to have a nice Sharpie marker handy and place the picture on either a sturdy easel or on a table where guests are sure to see it.

Another option is instead of providing a picture of the bride and groom to sign, the guests are provided with a picture of themselves! Simply provide a Polaroid camera and assign someone the job of taking pictures of the guests as they arrive at the reception. Once the picture is dry, provide a Sharpie and they can sign the picture, make a note to the bride and groom or hand draw a silly picture. It can be whatever the guest wants it to be. This is a unique, and personal, way for guests to 'sign in" at the wedding.

Whoever handles the taking of the pictures should also handle putting them in an album of some sort. A scrap booker might provide a special memory book with the Polaroid pictures in it, or the pictures can simply be placed in a nice album and presented later to the bride and groom.

Many guests don't give a great deal of thought to the guest book. They whiz by the guest book table more concerned with getting their cocktail and hitting the dance floor. If this is a concern, provide a 'traveling" guest book. Send each guest something either to sign or decorate before the wedding.

In this 'traveling" guest book scenario, there are several options. One of the easiest is to send each guest a small piece of paper and ask them to write something meaningful or thoughtful for the bride and groom on it. The pieces of paper are returned prior to the wedding (to ensure a better response, provide a self-addressed stamped envelope with the paper) and can be compiled in some meaningful way for the bride and groom and presented to them on their wedding day.

If the guest list is a creative or particularly close group, there is one other option that is even more meaningful. Again, in a scrapbook fashion, send each guest a piece of paper to sign or decorate. The paper should be the size of a photo album, so it might be a 6 x 6 piece of paper, an 8 x 8 piece of paper, or even 12 x 12, if the guests are up to that larger size.

In a letter that arrives with the paper, the guests are instructed to create a memory page for the bride and groom. They might include photos, quotes, little anecdotal stories, or combine all of these with stickers or embellishments. It's thoughtful, meaningful and personal and it's an excellent way to include guests who might not be able to attend the wedding, but would still like to be a part of it.

 

Add Beauty to Your Special Occasions

 

Add Incredible Beauty to Your Special Occasions with Paper Lanterns, Floating Water Lanterns & Wish Lanterns

Undoubtedly, paper lanterns look extremely charming and elegant. They are capable of bringing about a trendy amazing look to any surrounding. These lanterns have always fascinated people around the world with their soothing and distinct glow. They can set mood to almost any occasion, whether it is the Christmas eve, New Year’s party, birthday party or a wedding. Lanterns prove to be an effective way of eliminating tension and stress from the atmosphere and making you feel on top of the world with their soothing and incredible effect.

Benefits of using these lanterns

The best thing about these lanterns is they are not only posh and exquisite, but they are reasonably priced and affordable too. A whole array of designs, styles, colors and patterns are available out there, which you can choose as per the theme of your decoration and the occasion.

How to use paper lanterns for your special occasion

You can decorate your house with these wonderful pieces both inside and out. Let us find out some ways of making use of paper lanterns:

• If you are hosting a party, then these  gorgous paper lantern candle bags, can prove to be a great accessory to beautify the place. They look grand and royal and you can have them by shelling a very reasonable amount of money on them.
• These lanterns can also be used to decorate wedding halls, particularly the red shade ones as red color signifies love.  Use them as a table centrepiece, or climbing the staircase.
• You can use them to decorate your Christmas tree, especially the white color ones which look amazing in contrast.
• If you have a pool or pond in your venue, you can embellish it with floating waterlanterns.

• Place a series of lanterns in your garden or lawn, as they are believed to eliminate negative energies from your household. They bring in positive vibes in your house, especially the red ones which are believed to be auspicious.

Wherever you are placing these lanterns, make sure to keep them away from the reach of children.  As alternative use LED flameless candles, so you don't need to worry about the flame. 

These wish lanterns are available in a variety of sizes, colors and patterns. Use a little creativity and choose the right ones to create a mix and match combination of these lanterns.

At www.weddingforyou.co.nz, you can find elegant and amazing ones at very reasonable rates.

Try decorating your home and garden with these lanterns, and add a fascinating effect to your special occasion. By decorating your venue in such a way, your occasion will become a memorable event in the minds of your guests.

Christmas Wonderland

Visit Tree No. 75 'I Do'

What a great week we have had this week with the start of the Christmas Wonderland in Birkenhead.

New Zealand's most spectacular Christmas Tree Trail and this year we were really proud to sponsor a tree and be a part of it.   The wonderful people who put this event together have got such passion and it really enables you to enjoy the real magic of christmas.   

If you haven't visited this event before it is really worth going and have a look and experience the Christmas journey through the wonderland.   It is a truly outstanding event that the Birkenhead community provide at the Rawene Community Centre.    www.christmaswonderland.org.nz.

Check out our opening hours but whilst this event is running every Thursday to Sunday, Wedding For You will be open until 9.00pm on the Thursday and Friday and from the 2nd of December every Sunday from 10am - 1pm until Christmas.  So enjoy the Christmas Wonderland and pop in and see us on your way through.

The Gorgous decorations displaying our tree that was a surprise until we saw it on the opening night.
 

Weddings | Some Old Traditions

And for the rest of their lives, the man and woman shall be together....

Doesn't it sound romantic? For the man and the woman to leave their families to be as one, to form a new family? It has been like this from time immemorial. And throughout the millennia, the concept of family and marriage have been so closely knotted together that it is sometimes impossible to separate one from the other.

Marriage is present in every culture in some form. Although the laws, norms, and cultures may differ, they all still recognize the union of man and woman under one roof.

Marriage has evolved in so many ways from the different cultures all throughout the world throughout the ages. For each culture, there are diverse ways of celebrating something like marriage. But in each culture, there has always been one thing that has remained the same – that in every culture, and every tribe, marriage has always been one to be celebrated with the utmost of festivities, with singing, eating, and celebrating.

Along with these festivities, man has also adopted a growing, and evolving number of traditions each filled with meaning and – believe it or not – shocking origins.

The Wedding Cake Today's tall, elaborated, and delicately crafted wedding cakes evolved from the simple grooms-cakes made by family members for the bride. Before the wedding day, one of theses cakes was put under the pillow of the bride. The bride would then sleep and 'dream" of the groom, and yes, squish that cake into oblivion.

The real wedding cake would be a pound cake that would be "pound up" and crumbled and tossed at the couple as a sign of fertility. That is where we get today's custom of sprinkling the couple with rice after the wedding.

Cakes during weddings are usually stacked up in large layers. The higher the stack, the more "glamorous" the cake. People usually regard these arrangements are mere style. However, they were done so in the past as a symbol of fertility. Couples would stack these cakes to symbolize how many children the wished to have. So in the past, the higher the stack, the more the children.

 

Tying the Knot Now the truth can be told. Tying the knot did not necessarily mean getting knotted together.. During ancient tribal times, the bride would usually be wrapped in a sheep with a knot out in front. This was to symbolize virginity.  "Untying the knot" was the groom's privilege after the wedding the night.

Best Man – Secret Agent And startling enough, the best man used to play a different role in the early days. During tribal times, it was the best man's duty to abduct potential brides from other tribes. He would usually do so by clubbing the poor damsel over the head and drag her back home – just like those comic skits about cavemen seem to suggest. It was also the best man's job to ward off the angry relatives of the bride. So in the early days, it was the best man swinging his axe while the groom got hitched.

Today Although we are a little less barbaric than earlier times, we still see an evolution of the wedding ceremony and its tradition. These traditions are filled with meaning and can only serve to make your wedding day more memorable.