Marriage planning and wedding. A blog on different aspects on weddings and wedding planning. Ideas on items such as wedding invitations, cake, photography, website, vow and gown is discussed. The blog also has information on Chinese wedding.



Archive for August, 2007

DIY – Wedding invitation envelopes

Sourcing for your unique wedding invitation

Are you now sourcing for special wedding invitation for your wedding? It would be special and unique if you decide to make DIY wedding invitation cards. Instead of doing computer work with Photoshop on your computer, you can try to do some art work with your hands. Stick a “gem” on a card and stamp your names on it would be glamorous and impressive.

A special envelope made by Japanese Origami

If you can fold your own invitation envelope (link Japanese Origami), your guests will certainly be impressed.

Small details do make the differences.

Try it out today!

DIY wedding invitation envelop

Source of Photo: http://www.3pforum.com

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A Month that Chinese Will Not Get Married

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The Hungry Ghost Festival

Yesterday was the “Hungry Ghost Festival” (14 July) in the Chinese Calendar. Traditionally no one will get married in July (in the Chinese Calendar) because the gate between the hell and our world will open in this month. Getting married in this month will only render bad luck or unhappy marriage.

All about taboos

Some brides-to-be even tell me that they will not do anything related to their wedding this month. They will not even order any wedding item this month.

Although it is a bit superstitious to follow all these traditions, I think it is interesting that there are so many taboos related to wedding. And if time allows, it does no harm to follow these traditions. You may also follow them to make sure that nothing will be going wrong.

Source of Photo: http://www.cciv.cityu.edu.hk/~cciv/product/fest/yulan1.htm

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Seasonal Wedding favors

Wedding favor which reflects the season you are getting married

A wedding favor is always an expression from a couple to their invited guests. If you have a fall celebration, you would also choose something reflect your wedding season.

With only a little bit of thought, you can add more meaning to your wedding favor.

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Celebrate the seasonal blessing with your guests by autumn theme wedding favors.

Images source : http://www.hqweddingfavors.com/fall_wedding_favors.htm

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Creat a map using Wedding Mapper

Difficulties when preparing for a wedding Map

Many couples find that to prepare a wedding map is a headache. Even though you plan to hire a designer to design the map for you, you may still need to find the map in a wrong style and not clear enough to show all the information to your guests.

Use Wedding Mapper to make your own wedding map

With Wedding Mapper, you can create your own wedding map in just a minute. You can mark all the necessary information such as ceremony, reception and hotel location on the map. You can even mark the points of attraction around the area. what is good about this wedding map is that you can put the map into your wedding website!

And you can even find the wedding vendors near your wedding location. Its user-friendly interface let you create your wedding map with just only a few clicks! Try this out today!

Image source from: Wedding Mapper

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A Fairy-Tale Wedding Gown

A Fairy-Tale Wedding Gown

An Exciting of wedding dress

There are many different styles of wedding gowns. Some are more traditional and some are fashionable. However, if you are tired of a white gown, you can consider a more exciting one.

In fact, I found the website of Fairy Fashion when I was searching for some designer gowns. Although they provide gowns in white color, I think their other designs are more interesting. Their gowns can make you feel like a fairy tale.

Make your guests feel like attending a wedding in a fairy-tale

If you would like to make your wedding like a fairy tale, you can take a look at this website and get your ideas. And I am sure that your guests will feel like attending a wedding which can only happens in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.

Source of Photo: http://www.fairyfashion.de

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Wedding Photo Slide Show


Send out your wedding photos via email

With lots of wedding photos, it takes you lots of time to select, print and send to relatives and friends. If you are planning to send the wedding photos to your friends and relatives online. This funny website may help. You can add fun to your wedding photos and make it a slide show to put on your wedding website.

Creating the slide show

In a few minutes you can create a slide show out of your wedding photos. There are also plenty of effects for your to choose and combine to make you own special slide show. I am sure that it will be an interesting and special one. Your friends and relatives will certainly be impressed by what you have done.

Try this out from www.slide.com

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Design a logo for your wedding

Create a logo to personalize your wedding

There are lots of things to prepare for your wedding. A small thing makes a big difference. You can design a wedding logo to put on the stationery to make your wedding stationery such as invitation cards, album, gift and favor to create a sense of unity.

Wedding logo

Tips to design the logo

Wedding logo can be designed by unifying initials of the bride and groom. Simple gestures can create impressive visual impact.

Wedding logo

Use your imagination. Try to make fun with your names. You will able to make a good wedding logo.

Image from Dio Selina Custom Designs

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Wedding Website of FIONE & HARRACE

Wedding Photos of Fione and Harrace

How I found this website

Personally I do not know Fione and Harrace. In fact I came across their wedding website when I was surfing on the web today.

Insight from this website

I think their wedding website is quite good and interesting, they have put nearly everything about their wedding on the web. What is good about this website is that Fione shares her feeling and emotions in the blog. And there are also some advices. You should be able to find some insight from this wedding website.

Congratulations and thanks to the couple

You can even find the videos and photos of the reception of the couple. Here I would like to congratulate the couple and also thank their website which is very inspiring.

Source of Photos: http://www.9wedding.com/

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An Interesting Wedding Gift

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An interesting doll from Japan

A friend of mine sent me a website address from Taiwan. It is about a pair of dolls by a Japanese toy manufacturer. The dolls are designed like a couple with their wedding dresses on.

At the first glance, I thought they were Russian dolls. It really looks like the dolls I saw when I was traveling in Russia. No matter they are Russian dolls or not, they are quite cute and looks very lovely.

You can consider buying this as a wedding gift

If you friend is going to marry and they did not give you any gift registry, you can think getting dolls like them as the wedding gift.

I have also done a brief search in Ebay, you can find more information about these dolls from http://search.ebay.com/unazukin

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Source of Photos: http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/newprod_file.php?item=N000019790

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A Cartoon Wedding Invitation

Wedding Invitation with Cartoon Drawing on it

A wedding card with the portrait of the couple

Today I found an interesting wedding card on the web. It is a wedding card with the couple’s portrait on it. The portrait is in the style of a cartoon drawing.

In fact it is quite common to use a cartoon drawing to make a wedding card nowadays. What is interesting about this card is that it is very Chinese.

A “mix and match” approach of design

As a designer myself, I find this kind of “mix and match” design quite interesting. It is very Chinese because the main color theme is red. And on the other hand it is very modern, with the cartoon drawing on it.

When you are designing your wedding invitation, you can also take this approach to make a collage of different styles and elements.

Source of photo: http://comtools.esdlife.com/blog/index.php?blogId=6627

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Organizing a Green Wedding

Make your wedding enviromental friendly

We would like to make everything green nowadays. There are also a lot of tips for organizing a green wedding. I personally also suggest couples to organize a green wedding. At the end of the date it is our Earth (and also we) suffer if we do not try our very best to protect our environment.

Tips for your own green wedding

I, as well as all the other experts in the field of environmental protection, will suggest you to do the following in order to make your wedding green:

  • Use recycled gold wedding bands.
  • Minimize the transportation involved in your wedding.
  • Use recycled paper for your wedding invitation.
  • Rent or borrow wedding gown (You may consider buying a vintage gown, which is both green and stylish).
  • Use digital camera to take your wedding photos.
  • Serve guests with organic food.
  • Serve dishes to the guests with reusable and washable plates.
  • Donate the leftover food of the reception.
  • Rent the pillars of the wedding cake.

In fact, there are much more you can think of. Let’s act today and save our environment. You wedding becomes more meaningful if it is a green one.