Marriage & Wedding Planning

Smilebox.com

When I was reading a wedding blog from Hong Kong today I find this website http://www.smilebox.com/. The owner of the blog has created a really interesting Save-the-date Ecard.

Create the wedding ecard yourself

I think this is quite a good use of the free services provided by the website. Though I am a wedding invitation designer myself, I sometimes advise my clients to use email to send their save the date notes instead of making a physical card if they only need a small quantity of cards. It is because that will help them to save some money on the wedding stationeries.

It should be also good to make a slide show as an graphical introduction of your wedding website.

When you enter the website of Smilebox, you can click “OCCASIONS” and you will find some themes for wedding. Let’s start explore it http://www.smilebox.com/.

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Websites for your reference in order to make a less formal wedding cake

I was talking about some wedding cakes which are less formal, and to some extend interesting and funny. I have done a little search again on the web and find some other wedding cake design which falls into this category. Originally I would like to sort this sites by country but finally I changed my mind. I just put them here without sorting, since my aim is to give you ideas on this kind of cake but not advising you to hire any of these bakers.

http://www.lindyscakes.co.uk/WeddingCakes.htm
http://www.freedsbakery.com/themed_cakes
http://www.cakesbysam.com/
http://sweetartweddingcakes.com/Pictures.html
http://www.novelty-cakes.net/novelty-wedding-cakes.htm
http://www.carriescakes.com/cakes.php

You may also consider buying a funny cake topper instead

If you would like to make things easier, you can also consider ordering a simpler cake and buy some interesting cake toppers. It should not be difficult to find them from your local stores.

Source of Photo: http://www.novelty-cakes.net/

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What to do if you are tired of all the formal wedding cakes?

There are different styles of wedding cakes. Some people will like Victorian style and some other may love more elegant designs. However, if you believe that wedding should be something full of fun. Your wedding cake should also be. You can just forget the formal ideas and make your cake look interesting.

A website you can find some ideas

In fact, I myself love things which are more humorous. I have done a brief search on the web and find a company which provides wedding cakes with interesting designs (of course I have no relationship with that company). You can visit their website for more ideas: http://www.cakesbysam.com/

Source of Photos: http://www.cakesbysam.com/

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Don’t overlook your wedding invitation envelop

Lots of people choose the invitation as well as envelop but they are only choosing the color of their preference. In fact we should pay more attention to the details of the envelop.

Envelop is the casing of the invitation and the first impressive given to the guests.

Steps to make the envelop

Below I am going to unveil the process we undergo to test envelop for one of our invitation design.

Step 1: Cut out the envelop

Step 2: Fold up the envelop

Step 3: Glue it

Step 4: Put the card inside

You can see that the envelope is made such that there is a curve and you can see the names of the couple once you open the envelope.

The right wedding invitation sets the tone for your wedding. It would give your guest a sense of the wedding you are going hold. And it also can induce your guests to attend your wedding ceremony.

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A special wedding certificate and the story of the couple

This is a very special wedding certificate, with different persons handwriting, and you can see the fading military chop at the bottom left corner.

This wedding certificate has been kept by a commissioned officer for more than sixty years. In 1941, a couple met. The commissioned officer met a medical officer in the army.

Two years later, they fell in love and asked their superiors’ permission to allow them to get married.

Three days after their wedding, they went back to their positions in the army and fought against the Japanese army. They faced hundreds of times of live and death. But they never gave up. They love each other so much indeed.

A simple wedding blessed this two young people. After sixty years, they can still celebrate their love and enjoy their life finally.

We should bear in mind that we marry because of love

I think this is really a touching story. However, we should always remind ourselves that we get married because we love but not because of a unique wedding. We cannot be sure if the couples in these real life story had a unique wedding or not but it can be sure that the wedding should be an extremely simple one. Yet I believe that their love should be unique.

Information from Chinese Wedding Web (中國結婚網):
http://www.chinajiehun.com/Show_News.asp?ID=5845

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One of the most important items for your wedding is the wedding invitation. You may want to make your wedding invitation as unique as it can be. A good wedding invitation vendor can certainly make your dream come true. Of the many wedding invitation vendors you can find in your city and on the web, you may find it hard to decide which one is the most suitable for you. You may try to consider these issues when you are selecting your wedding invitation vendor.

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A wedding website can help you to share all the moments and emotions when you are planning your wedding. You can also remind your guests the date and time of your wedding. You can even put a map in the website so that your guests can go to the venue easily. In the past, unless you had a lot of knowledge on HTML and programming, it will not be possible for you to make your own website. You needed professionals in the web designing industry to help you to develop the wedding website.

Thanks to the advance in internet technology and open source softwares, you can now develop your own wedding website yourself without any difficulty. Nearly no knowledge in HTML and programming will be needed. The user interface for setting up the site is extremely user friendly that my grandma in her eighties can also master the website. Although it is relatively easy to make a wedding website, you may still follow some steps to make it come true. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lots of couple put all their emphasis on making the most unique wedding invitation of their own. However, they would easily forget the final touch on envelope of the wedding invitation.

I would like to introduce you the wax seal. There are lots of wedding theme motifs for you to choose from. And some vendors can also make the wax seal using a logo with your names. The wax seal adds lots of personal human touch on your wedding invitation.

But bear in mind that, it does take you a lot of time to make the wax seal perfect.

My advice is: practice makes perfect

Link(s) you might find useful: http://www.customwaxnseals.com/index.html

Source of Pictures: http://www.customwaxnseals.com/index.html

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The followings are 5 points you need to consider when you are selecting your wedding photographer. Read the rest of this entry »

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Couples who are planning for a wedding might have the following question, “Do I need to hire a wedding planner?” In fact it should be very enjoyable to plan the wedding yourselves. Some may even think that a wedding planner is only someone who wants to get some money out of their pockets and they will plan the wedding on their own.

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There are thousands of wedding themes you can think of but how to make up the mind and choose one from the thousands? It is really a very difficult task for many couples. Read the rest of this entry »

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