How to Make Your Own Homemade Wedding Invitations

If you are like many people, you probably are very budget conscious. Your wedding day is the most important day of your life, but you don’t have to skimp on elegance to stay within your wedding budget. Homemade wedding invitations are one course you can follow that is both fun and economical.

The first thing to consider is the style of wedding invitations you will need. Most often people choose a style of wedding invitation that reflects the theme of their wedding. Some examples might be:

• For a medieval wedding you would want to use paper that had the texture and color of parchment. As a focal point use a picture of a castle, or possibly the coat of arms for the Bride and Groom. For the font style - you will definitely want Old English lettering.
• For a beach wedding what could be more appropriate than sending the invitations rolled into a bottle. Either choose paper just long enough so that... more

Discovering the Perfect Honeymoon Package

The honeymoon package you choose should be something that will be exciting and romantic for both of you. Your options are nearly endless. There are packages at all inclusive resorts that even include the wedding for free. Many cruise lines offer a honeymoon package as well, often including everything from a bottle of champagne and flowers in your cabin to special pampering in the ship board spa treatment as a part of your honeymoon package.

Some of the top destinations for honeymoon packages include these very romantic ideas:

• Hawaii welcomes honeymooners with everything from active volcanoes to quiet walks on the beaches they created. There is no shortage of activities or romance and the weather is fantastic. The Hawaiian Islands are a perfect choice for exotic romance.


• Mexico offers some of the most diverse travel experiences on the planet. The people are wonderful, the food varied and superb, and the country's storied history has left significant architectural and cultural imprints throughout the land. As a result Mexico is one of the perfect honeymoon package getaways.


• Niagara Falls is always a popular destination for honeymooners because of it’s massive and beautiful waterfalls, but if you are looking to head north for your honeymoon don’t over look Banff in Alberta, Canada. There are few places this side of the Alps where the views of the mountains are so stunning and your chances to enjoy pristine wilderness plentiful.


• What’s more romantic for the adventurous couple than two weeks mountain biking and wind surfing the rugged and scenic Columbia River Gorge between Oregon and Washington? With a great choice of accommodations right on the water it’s possible to find a place to enjoy your honeymoon watching both the sun rise and set over the water – all in the same day!


• Aruba offers... more

Illuminating Your Fall Wedding

The fall is a wonderful time to hold a wedding. The craziness of summer is over and your family and friends begin to look towards opportunities to get together and enjoy the warmth of togetherness. More, the fall season brings with it lower prices on everything from hotel rooms to wedding photography even if only because fewer people are demanding those services. This means you might very well be able to get more for your money from an autumn wedding. The problem, however, has been that your choices in fall wedding décor and favors have been limited. Fortunately, I have found some Fall themed Garden Glass Gel Candles that represent a giant step in solving that problem and presenting you with an excellent opportunity to add style and elegance to your fall wedding.

Excellent Start to Great Fall Wedding Centerpieces

These tall, beautiful, and tastefully scented gel candles inside an elegant "glass" would make an excellent focal point for each table’s centerpiece at your fall wedding reception. Surround them with silver or crystal along side a roaring fire and you have the basis for an elegant event that subtly recognizes the season. Or surround them with a collection of dried leaves, baby pumpkins, gourds, and acorns etc. and you have a full on seasonally appropriate fall wedding display. These gel candles contain dried foliage and other autumn accents suspended in the warmly colored gel to tie the candle visually to the display on your tables. Add the fact that each of these “Fall in Love” Garden Glass Gel Candles has an approximate six hour burn time and you have a great choice for your table’s centerpieces.

Using these fall Garden Glass Gel Candles as a centerpiece sets the table for... more

Use Your Wedding to Build Your Marriage

During the months prior to your wedding day it's easy to forget that you are building more than a wedding - you are building your marriage. It sounds ominous, but it's really a great opportunity. During the period of time when you plan your wedding you can learn more about each other's strengths and weaknesses than you probably have had an opportunity to learn before. That knowledge, in turn, will provide you with a good start as you build your marriage.

The key, though, is to remember that your first job is to build your marriage - even above the wedding.

She Says

Far too often brides note that their groom isn't approaching the preparations for the wedding the same way that she does and forgets that there is a real difference in the way men and women approach the tasks of life. Instead they assume his apparent silence means he doesn't care about the wedding.

He Says

At the same time, when the groom sees his bride-to-be click into planning mode he finds that he is engaged to someone totally different from the woman he thought he knew. As a result he often withdraws or redirects his attention as he tries to regain his balance.

Unfortunately, this problem is... more

Free Bridal Shower Games

Turn your bridal shower from plain and ordinary into an extraordinary event by integrating free bridal shower games into your party. Games turn any shower into something more fun and enjoyable.

With these free bridal shower games you will find everyone at your party getting a little silly and crazy, but that’s the fun of it. Your friends will be talking about your bridal shower for weeks.

Free Bridal Shower Games:

Weigh the Handbag

Get a buzz going by having the bathroom scale sitting in the middle of the room when your bridal shower guests arrive but don’t answer any questions about it. Then after watching them sweat, announce that the scale is there so that everyone can weigh… their handbag. When everyone has had their turn, give a prize to the person with the heaviest handbag... more

Ideas for Unique Wedding Themes

The idea of using a wedding theme is increasingly in popularity today for many reasons. For many the reason is that the traditional wedding is simply pricing them out. For others it is the desire to be different, bigger, and grander than the nuptial event before it. Fortunately, today’s bride can have both or either because with a unique wedding theme the young couple can chose to include or omit each individual element of the wedding and since each celebration is different, who is to say that anything is missing as long as you have a bride and groom committing themselves to each other for a lifetime of love and support.

No longer does your wedding have to be basically the same as everyone else’s, you can make it as simple, elaborate, and / or unique as you’re your imagination will allow. With a wedding theme, each couple’s wedding is all their own as they take from these (and an infinite number of other) possible unique wedding themes and mold them to reflect themselves and their own community.

Marina Wedding Theme: Freshen up the typical beach themed wedding with one of the many possible variations that make another beach wedding turn into an event that won't be soon forgotten. A Marina themed wedding is one of many ways you can make a wedding by the sea fresh without abandoning the beach all together. Take advantage of the graceful elegance of sailboats gliding across the water in your decor and a harbor view location for your ceremony, reception, or both!

The Butterfly Wedding: Use butterflies in everything – Have your florist put ornamental butterflies in your flowers. Use cake jewelry to add butterflies to the cake, or have ... more

What Could Possibly Go Wrong on Your Wedding Day?

It's Friday! That means that some bride somewhere is pulling their hair out right now over what could possibly go wrong in their wedding tomorrow. And to make matters worse, their groom doesn't seem to care. Who's right? Who's wrong? What could go wrong on your wedding?

Let's start out with worse case scenario. If you are marrying Superman, it's entirely possible that Lex Luther will show up and spoil the day. But then again, unless your name is Lois Lane you are probably marrying a regular guy and regular guy's don't often have arch enemies. Come to think of it, even Lois Lane had to join the community on Wisteria Lane once she found out that Superman doesn't last forever...

I'm not sure she's doing much better there... but that's another story.

Sure, there are a lot of details that could go wrong. The restaurant hosting your rehearsal dinner could catch on fire. A freak tornado could touch down and only destroy the church you are scheduled to be married in tomorrow. You could get a zit on the end of your nose - just have someone paint some leaves on it and you could transform your wedding into a Pinocchio wedding, or maybe not.

But that's not what the nervous bride is really worried about. In fact, in most cases the fears and scenarios running through her head are not actual fears. They are symptoms... symptoms of a bad case of nerves.

The nerves, might be from caring about the details of your wedding celebration too much. In such cases, the remedy is simply to remember and accept that ultimately the event doesn't matter as long as you end up married to your best friend at the end of the day. The rest, really, is just window dressing. It's nice, but it's not really necessary. Keep things in perspective.

In most cases this is why the groom seems so maddeningly calm. All he cares about is coming out the other side married to his bride (and of course, the wedding night). The details are - well, just details.

Of course, there is another reason for a bride to have a bad case of nerves before the wedding... It's called cold feet. Whether it's because she's not sure she's made a good choice or because she too has a fear of commitment... that's for the bride and her counselor to decide. But that should have been decided long before the night before the wedding.