The leading online wedding dress and bridal gown website, BridalOnlineStore.com sold this week for a reported 30 million dollars. New owners plan to expand to brick and mortar bridal shops as well as grow the online side of the business. The owners are bringing a number of new innovative features that will make shopping online for a wedding day dress much easier for brides to be.
Dayton OH (PRWEB) December 13, 2007 -- The Dot Boom seems to have been only a temporary set back for many online retailers. Online wedding dress and bridal gown retailer http://www.bridalonlinestore.com sold this week for a reported 30 million dollars. They are one of the largest online retailers of Bridal Apparel.
New Owner S. Wells said, "The wedding dress business is a big industry and more and more brides have gone to shopping online for their wedding day gowns." It seems most prefer the huge selection a online store can provide versus a bricks and mortar store. A local wedding shop can not stock as many styles and sizes as a online warehouse.
Women who are getting married also enjoy the fact the the dress they purchase has never been worn or even tried on by another bride. She will be the only woman who has ever worn the wedding dress and this seems to be an important fact.
Price may be the biggest factor when a bride to be decides to shop from her house for her dress. Online retailers tend to be about 30-40% cheaper than buying in a bridal shop. A women can get a designer wedding dress for $99. The online store carries all the accessories that needed for the big day all in one place. Many potential customers don't understand how it works. Don't all wedding dresses have to be fitted? The answer is yes. The online store matches you up with a size that is right for you and your body style. Then you can take it to your seamstress for the final sizing.
Bridal Online Store.com will be offering many new advances in the online industry. Brides To Be can now pay with PayPal, Checks, Credit Cards, Lay-A-Way, and Deferred Billing. With videos of brides in the actual dresses and views of the bridal gowns from 360 degrees, women will now be able to see the wedding dress form every angle before they make the purchase.
Bridal Online Store.com also carries plus sized wedding dresses as well as Mormon and Temple Ready gowns. Wells said, "You can basically buy everything you need in one place with a live customer rep to help you through it all."
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/12/emw576303.htm
Saturday, December 29, 2007
me2you Wedding Accessories Launch New Website
on December 11th 2007 me2you wedding accessories has launched a brand new customer-focused, interactive website. The site, http://www.me2youweddings.com is designed to provide our customers with a unique range of handmade wedding stationery and wedding favours.
To help our customers achieve a stress free and enjoyable wedding our new website is easy to navigate and to order from. The website offers customers online wedding planning tips and cost cutting tips.
Donna Bellamy the director of me2you wedding accessories says, "As a newly wed myself, I know how stressful it can be to organise a wedding. When I was arranging my wedding I did not find a website that would meet all my individual requirements, this is the sole reason I decided to launch me2you wedding accessories. We understand that the finishing touches of a wedding makes first impressions count."
About me2you wedding accessories
me2you wedding accessories who are based in cardiff, wales offer a fast and friendly service. We can work to an idea, a theme, or a colour scheme and will endeavour to meet all your individual requirements. We specialise in the design and creation of contemporary handmade wedding stationery and favours including order of service, thank you cards, invitations, place cards and save the date cards.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/12/prweb576541.htm
To help our customers achieve a stress free and enjoyable wedding our new website is easy to navigate and to order from. The website offers customers online wedding planning tips and cost cutting tips.
Donna Bellamy the director of me2you wedding accessories says, "As a newly wed myself, I know how stressful it can be to organise a wedding. When I was arranging my wedding I did not find a website that would meet all my individual requirements, this is the sole reason I decided to launch me2you wedding accessories. We understand that the finishing touches of a wedding makes first impressions count."
About me2you wedding accessories
me2you wedding accessories who are based in cardiff, wales offer a fast and friendly service. We can work to an idea, a theme, or a colour scheme and will endeavour to meet all your individual requirements. We specialise in the design and creation of contemporary handmade wedding stationery and favours including order of service, thank you cards, invitations, place cards and save the date cards.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/12/prweb576541.htm
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Craigslist crime becoming common
In Tigard, a man allegedly invites women to his house and sexually assaults them.
In Portland, newlyweds discover that their minister stole their wedding gifts.
In Beaverton, police find a prostitution ring operating in a local motel.
And in Gresham, a couple steals and resells utility trailers for years.
All of these accused or convicted criminals have one thing in common – they committed their crimes with the help of Craigslist (www.craigslist.org), the wildly popular Web site for buying and selling property and services, as well as finding a job, a roommate or a date.
Portland police recently busted a theft ring using Craigslist to sell thousands of dollars worth of stolen property. Following up on a tip that a stolen laptop computer was sold on Craigslist, police served a search warrant on a house in the 9600 block of Southeast Holgate Boulevard and recovered an estimated $30,000 worth of stolen electronic goods, power tools, LCD TV screen, iPods, car stereos and other consumer products.
“The occupants of the house told us they were using Craigslist to sell the stolen property every day,” said Portland Police officer Jim DeFrain, who participated in the Nov. 15 raid. “It happens all the time.”
Craigslist CEO and programmer Jim Buckmaster says the vast majority of the transactions over his Web sites are legal, and that his organization works with law enforcement agencies to curtail any criminal activities.
“Misuse of Craigslist for the facilitation of illegal activity is absolutely unacceptable,” Buckmaster said in an e-mail response to questions from the Pamplin Media Group.
Local law enforcement officers say that crimes on Craigslist are a major problem, however.
“Craigslist, unfortunately, is about much more than just buying and selling things. There have also been issues with prostitution, child exploitation, stolen property, ID theft, any number of things,” said Multnomah County sheriff’s office spokesman Travis Gullberg, whose agency has arrested many people in recent years for Craigslist-related crimes.
Substantially reducing Craigslist-related crimes may not be possible, however. Federal courts have so far ruled that Web site operators are not liable for what people post on them. And local law enforcement officials say they do not have the resources to constantly monitor Craigslist.
Portland’s a big user
Founded in San Francisco in 1995, Craigslist claims to operate more than 300 sites in 50 states and more than 50 countries. According to organization statistics, Craigslist is now the seventh-most popular English language Web site in the world, hosting more than 12 million ads viewed by more than 15 million people a month.
Craigslist also says that 700,000 new classified ads are posted on the Portland Web site every month, generating 275 million page views – making Portland the organization’s No. 5 city in terms of overall use and No. 2 city in terms of per capita use, trailing only San Francisco.
Buckmaster insists that Craigslist reflects society at large.
“It was recently pointed out to us that with literally billions of positive human interactions facilitated by Craigslist, it is quite remarkable how little crime is associated with the site, given the much higher crime rates that exist in the world at large – which is a testament to the good intentions of the vast majority of Craigslist users,” he wrote in an e-mail.
That’s small consolation to Elizabeth Dorsch and her boyfriend, who were scammed out of $2,400 by a woman they met through Criagslist in September. Lynne Sisto, 33, offered to sell them a house on a lease-to-own basis. Sisto told the couple she needed the money to finishing buying the house. When the couple showed up to move in, they discovered the house was still for sale and Sisto had vanished.
Portland police arrested Sisto in October for scamming several people out of at least $20,000 through similar schemes.
“It was horrible feeling. You think you’ve got a place to live, and then you’re nearly homeless,” said Dorsch, who was forced to move into a low-rent apartment with her boyfriend in Vancouver.
Reports spawn a Web site
Craigslist-related crimes are becoming so well known that several Web sites and blogs have been established to track them.
One – www.craigscrimelist.org – is operated by a true-crime buff who uses the name Trench Reynolds to avoid retaliation, he says. After starting his first blog on school shootings in 2000, Reynolds said he began noticing news stories about crimes related to the Internet, including many connected to Craigslist and such social Web sites as MySpace.
After starting a Web site dedicated to such crimes, he soon realized that the majority were connected to just one site – Craigslist – and started the Web site dedicated to it.
“I’m probably posting 30 to 40 stories a month just on crimes connected to Craigslist,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds believes that a major reason why criminals are attracted to Craigslist is its anonymous nature. People posting ads do not have to report any identifying information to anyone.
“There’s no screening or regulation at all about who can use it. If you place a classified ad for something, you’ve got to give somebody your name and address. But on Craigslist, nobody knows who you are or where you live,” Reynolds said.
Locally, criminals not only are placing ads on Craigslist, they allegedly are responding to them, too.
On Nov. 15, Tigard police arrested Ronald Leistiko, 52, on charges that he used Craigslist and other Internet sites to invite women to his house and sexually assault them. According to police, some of the alleged victims were as young as 14. Leistiko is jailed on a long list of charges, including rape, kidnapping, prostitution, sex abuse, menacing, attempted rape, strangulation and unlawful sexual penetration.
According to Tigard police spokesman Jim Wolf, Leistiko found his victims by responding to personal ads posted on Craigslist and other sites.
“We’ve investigated some sex-related crimes associated with Craigslist before, but nothing of this magnitude,” Wolf said.
Some ads suggest sex for cash
According to Reynolds, over half the news stories he sees on Craigslist-related crimes involve prostitution. All Craigslist Web sites have an “erotic services” section where people openly advertise for sexual partners. Many clearly suggest sex is available for money.
The erotic services category easily draws the highest number of Craigslist visitors, according to an April 2007 study released by the Web site analysis firm Compete.com. The study, which looked at eight major American cities (though not Portland or San Francisco), found “erotic services consistently garners the highest number of individual visitors for February – almost always twice as many as the next ranking category, averaging 260,000 people per city.”
A nonprofit advocacy group against human sexual trafficking, called the Polaris Project, believes Craigslist is now the single largest source for prostitution, including child exploitation, in the country. The project surveyed all Craigslist pages for apparent prostitutes on Feb. 7 of this year. It identified thousands across the country, including 275 on the Portland site.
Perhaps the most disturbing Craigslist-related crimes are those involving sex with children.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin believes Craigslist is a significant source of child prostitution in her city. On Aug. 21 of this year, she wrote Craigslist to say the site could do more to prevent itself from being used “as a means of promoting and enabling child prostitution.”
Among other things, Franklin called on Craigslist to revise its warning on pages for erotic services and personal ads, and to remove postings that offer sexual services for sale.
Franklin based her request on Atlanta police studies that found that the vast majority of all child sexual predators in that city found their victims on Craigslist, said Stephanie Davis, the mayor’s policy adviser on women’s issues.
Buckmaster wrote Franklin back a week later to say he shared her concerns. In his letter, Buckmaster pointed out that various notices posted on the Web site say that illegally activity is not allowed. He also said Craigslist users routinely flag apparently illegal ads for removal.
Nevertheless, he told Franklin, “we are not content with the status quo and are open to new ideas for improving any and all aspects of the wide array of free services that Craigslist provides to the people of Atlanta.”
Police lack resources
Compared to many of the apparent prostitution ads, those selling stolen property are much harder to spot – and therefore to stop. Portland Police Detective Dave Anderson said he has personally sold property on Craigslist over the years.
But Anderson also knows that local criminals routinely use Craigslist to sell stolen property, including cars, computers, digital cameras and household appliances. In fact, Anderson said that so much stolen property is being sold on Craigslist, the police don’t have enough manpower to track it down.
“We get a lot of tips (about stolen property on Craigslist) that we just don’t have time to follow up on. If we had the staff, we could just surf Craigslist all day and recover stolen property,” Anderson said.
DeFrain agrees. He works for the Neighborhood Enhancement Team at Southeast Precinct, a unit dedicated to reducing street crimes. In that capacity, DeFrain said he routinely runs across criminals who are selling stolen property in Craigslist.
“If you spend any time on Craigslist, you see items that are obviously stolen,” DeFrain said last week while standing in a police storage room full of property recovered from the Southeast Holgate Boulevard house. “Brand-new laptops in their original boxes for $200, iPods without any of the cables or accessories. You need to ask yourself, Why is that?”
Housing, Internet laws clash
Efforts to hold Craigslist legally responsibility for the illegal activities occurring on it have so far been unsuccessful.
Perhaps the most significant attempt occurred in early 2006 when a group of civil rights attorneys sued Craigslist over housing ads it said violated federal anti-discrimination laws. In a federal lawsuit, the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law alleged a pattern of landlords posting ads that said people of a certain race, religion, gender or family status need not apply. The suit alleged Craigslist violated the federal Fair Housing Act by accepting the ads.
In its defense, Craigslist argued that as a “provider of interactive computer services (ICS),” it is immune from such suits under a portion of the federal Communications Decency Act. An amicus brief supporting that position was filed with the court by a number of large Internet-based companies and free speech advocates, including Amazon.com, AOL, eBay, Google, Yahoo and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The suit was filed in the United States Northern District of Illinois assigned to Judge Amy J. St. Eve. She sided with Craigslist and dismissed the suit in late 2006. Citing more than a dozen cases, the she noted that “[n]ear-unanimous case law holds (the Communications Decency Act) affords immunity to ICSs against suits that seek to hold an ICS liable for third-party content.”
The Chicago lawyers committee recently appealed the dismissal to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that St. Eve should have applied the federal housing laws to the case, not the Communications Decency Act.
The appeals court is not expected to act for months, at the soonest.
http://www.westlinntidings.com/news/story.php?story_id=119688465157959900
In Portland, newlyweds discover that their minister stole their wedding gifts.
In Beaverton, police find a prostitution ring operating in a local motel.
And in Gresham, a couple steals and resells utility trailers for years.
All of these accused or convicted criminals have one thing in common – they committed their crimes with the help of Craigslist (www.craigslist.org), the wildly popular Web site for buying and selling property and services, as well as finding a job, a roommate or a date.
Portland police recently busted a theft ring using Craigslist to sell thousands of dollars worth of stolen property. Following up on a tip that a stolen laptop computer was sold on Craigslist, police served a search warrant on a house in the 9600 block of Southeast Holgate Boulevard and recovered an estimated $30,000 worth of stolen electronic goods, power tools, LCD TV screen, iPods, car stereos and other consumer products.
“The occupants of the house told us they were using Craigslist to sell the stolen property every day,” said Portland Police officer Jim DeFrain, who participated in the Nov. 15 raid. “It happens all the time.”
Craigslist CEO and programmer Jim Buckmaster says the vast majority of the transactions over his Web sites are legal, and that his organization works with law enforcement agencies to curtail any criminal activities.
“Misuse of Craigslist for the facilitation of illegal activity is absolutely unacceptable,” Buckmaster said in an e-mail response to questions from the Pamplin Media Group.
Local law enforcement officers say that crimes on Craigslist are a major problem, however.
“Craigslist, unfortunately, is about much more than just buying and selling things. There have also been issues with prostitution, child exploitation, stolen property, ID theft, any number of things,” said Multnomah County sheriff’s office spokesman Travis Gullberg, whose agency has arrested many people in recent years for Craigslist-related crimes.
Substantially reducing Craigslist-related crimes may not be possible, however. Federal courts have so far ruled that Web site operators are not liable for what people post on them. And local law enforcement officials say they do not have the resources to constantly monitor Craigslist.
Portland’s a big user
Founded in San Francisco in 1995, Craigslist claims to operate more than 300 sites in 50 states and more than 50 countries. According to organization statistics, Craigslist is now the seventh-most popular English language Web site in the world, hosting more than 12 million ads viewed by more than 15 million people a month.
Craigslist also says that 700,000 new classified ads are posted on the Portland Web site every month, generating 275 million page views – making Portland the organization’s No. 5 city in terms of overall use and No. 2 city in terms of per capita use, trailing only San Francisco.
Buckmaster insists that Craigslist reflects society at large.
“It was recently pointed out to us that with literally billions of positive human interactions facilitated by Craigslist, it is quite remarkable how little crime is associated with the site, given the much higher crime rates that exist in the world at large – which is a testament to the good intentions of the vast majority of Craigslist users,” he wrote in an e-mail.
That’s small consolation to Elizabeth Dorsch and her boyfriend, who were scammed out of $2,400 by a woman they met through Criagslist in September. Lynne Sisto, 33, offered to sell them a house on a lease-to-own basis. Sisto told the couple she needed the money to finishing buying the house. When the couple showed up to move in, they discovered the house was still for sale and Sisto had vanished.
Portland police arrested Sisto in October for scamming several people out of at least $20,000 through similar schemes.
“It was horrible feeling. You think you’ve got a place to live, and then you’re nearly homeless,” said Dorsch, who was forced to move into a low-rent apartment with her boyfriend in Vancouver.
Reports spawn a Web site
Craigslist-related crimes are becoming so well known that several Web sites and blogs have been established to track them.
One – www.craigscrimelist.org – is operated by a true-crime buff who uses the name Trench Reynolds to avoid retaliation, he says. After starting his first blog on school shootings in 2000, Reynolds said he began noticing news stories about crimes related to the Internet, including many connected to Craigslist and such social Web sites as MySpace.
After starting a Web site dedicated to such crimes, he soon realized that the majority were connected to just one site – Craigslist – and started the Web site dedicated to it.
“I’m probably posting 30 to 40 stories a month just on crimes connected to Craigslist,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds believes that a major reason why criminals are attracted to Craigslist is its anonymous nature. People posting ads do not have to report any identifying information to anyone.
“There’s no screening or regulation at all about who can use it. If you place a classified ad for something, you’ve got to give somebody your name and address. But on Craigslist, nobody knows who you are or where you live,” Reynolds said.
Locally, criminals not only are placing ads on Craigslist, they allegedly are responding to them, too.
On Nov. 15, Tigard police arrested Ronald Leistiko, 52, on charges that he used Craigslist and other Internet sites to invite women to his house and sexually assault them. According to police, some of the alleged victims were as young as 14. Leistiko is jailed on a long list of charges, including rape, kidnapping, prostitution, sex abuse, menacing, attempted rape, strangulation and unlawful sexual penetration.
According to Tigard police spokesman Jim Wolf, Leistiko found his victims by responding to personal ads posted on Craigslist and other sites.
“We’ve investigated some sex-related crimes associated with Craigslist before, but nothing of this magnitude,” Wolf said.
Some ads suggest sex for cash
According to Reynolds, over half the news stories he sees on Craigslist-related crimes involve prostitution. All Craigslist Web sites have an “erotic services” section where people openly advertise for sexual partners. Many clearly suggest sex is available for money.
The erotic services category easily draws the highest number of Craigslist visitors, according to an April 2007 study released by the Web site analysis firm Compete.com. The study, which looked at eight major American cities (though not Portland or San Francisco), found “erotic services consistently garners the highest number of individual visitors for February – almost always twice as many as the next ranking category, averaging 260,000 people per city.”
A nonprofit advocacy group against human sexual trafficking, called the Polaris Project, believes Craigslist is now the single largest source for prostitution, including child exploitation, in the country. The project surveyed all Craigslist pages for apparent prostitutes on Feb. 7 of this year. It identified thousands across the country, including 275 on the Portland site.
Perhaps the most disturbing Craigslist-related crimes are those involving sex with children.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin believes Craigslist is a significant source of child prostitution in her city. On Aug. 21 of this year, she wrote Craigslist to say the site could do more to prevent itself from being used “as a means of promoting and enabling child prostitution.”
Among other things, Franklin called on Craigslist to revise its warning on pages for erotic services and personal ads, and to remove postings that offer sexual services for sale.
Franklin based her request on Atlanta police studies that found that the vast majority of all child sexual predators in that city found their victims on Craigslist, said Stephanie Davis, the mayor’s policy adviser on women’s issues.
Buckmaster wrote Franklin back a week later to say he shared her concerns. In his letter, Buckmaster pointed out that various notices posted on the Web site say that illegally activity is not allowed. He also said Craigslist users routinely flag apparently illegal ads for removal.
Nevertheless, he told Franklin, “we are not content with the status quo and are open to new ideas for improving any and all aspects of the wide array of free services that Craigslist provides to the people of Atlanta.”
Police lack resources
Compared to many of the apparent prostitution ads, those selling stolen property are much harder to spot – and therefore to stop. Portland Police Detective Dave Anderson said he has personally sold property on Craigslist over the years.
But Anderson also knows that local criminals routinely use Craigslist to sell stolen property, including cars, computers, digital cameras and household appliances. In fact, Anderson said that so much stolen property is being sold on Craigslist, the police don’t have enough manpower to track it down.
“We get a lot of tips (about stolen property on Craigslist) that we just don’t have time to follow up on. If we had the staff, we could just surf Craigslist all day and recover stolen property,” Anderson said.
DeFrain agrees. He works for the Neighborhood Enhancement Team at Southeast Precinct, a unit dedicated to reducing street crimes. In that capacity, DeFrain said he routinely runs across criminals who are selling stolen property in Craigslist.
“If you spend any time on Craigslist, you see items that are obviously stolen,” DeFrain said last week while standing in a police storage room full of property recovered from the Southeast Holgate Boulevard house. “Brand-new laptops in their original boxes for $200, iPods without any of the cables or accessories. You need to ask yourself, Why is that?”
Housing, Internet laws clash
Efforts to hold Craigslist legally responsibility for the illegal activities occurring on it have so far been unsuccessful.
Perhaps the most significant attempt occurred in early 2006 when a group of civil rights attorneys sued Craigslist over housing ads it said violated federal anti-discrimination laws. In a federal lawsuit, the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law alleged a pattern of landlords posting ads that said people of a certain race, religion, gender or family status need not apply. The suit alleged Craigslist violated the federal Fair Housing Act by accepting the ads.
In its defense, Craigslist argued that as a “provider of interactive computer services (ICS),” it is immune from such suits under a portion of the federal Communications Decency Act. An amicus brief supporting that position was filed with the court by a number of large Internet-based companies and free speech advocates, including Amazon.com, AOL, eBay, Google, Yahoo and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The suit was filed in the United States Northern District of Illinois assigned to Judge Amy J. St. Eve. She sided with Craigslist and dismissed the suit in late 2006. Citing more than a dozen cases, the she noted that “[n]ear-unanimous case law holds (the Communications Decency Act) affords immunity to ICSs against suits that seek to hold an ICS liable for third-party content.”
The Chicago lawyers committee recently appealed the dismissal to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that St. Eve should have applied the federal housing laws to the case, not the Communications Decency Act.
The appeals court is not expected to act for months, at the soonest.
http://www.westlinntidings.com/news/story.php?story_id=119688465157959900
Visitors find new shops on Dearborn
Visitors to Saturday Night Live on Dearborn Street found that a lot has changed since last holiday season. Actually, there have been big changes just since October.
While some shops have closed, new ones have opened and others have moved, if just across the street.
Lemon Tree Gallery had been closed for four months while it moved from the large front building to the smaller back building.
"We want people to get used to us being back here," said manager Jill Leah. While not all the art was up for the walk, there was plenty to see.
Meanwhile, the former Lemon Tree Gallery is now home to Vino Loco Wine & Tapas Bar, and things were busy on Saturday night as customers sampled wines and tapas such as bruschetta and Manchego cheese.
After moving out of the Emporium, Jeanne Cadman, artist and owner of Blind Images, has found a new home at, of all places, Englewood Hardware. Showing off puppets and other items, she says she is trying to get the word out about her new location.
Kimberly Berden, owner of Sunkissed Gifts, said business has been good since she opened on Nov. 1, especially for Florida-themed Christmas cards. The shop also offers souvenirs, gifts, shells and wedding accessories.
Tom Joralemon came especially to check out the marble collection at Antiques on Dearborn at its new location just across the street. He said he has thousands at home, but found some he liked in Ken Kocab's collection.
Over at Zigamzoo, home of the longstanding "opening soon" sign, things were buzzing. Partners Marie Laforge and Ricardo Roggero opened the Friday after Thanksgiving and are concentrating on unusual clothing, accessories and gifts, including Laforge's handmade silks and fabric designs, before they begin offering lunch.
One thing that has been a constant at Saturday Night Live is music. You could hear all kinds on the street, including country and western, and, of course, Christmas carols. But this was "Rock'n the Holidays" and The Jam Band was doing its best to get people dancing. Lead singer Irena Gifford said she was having fun singing outside. "The weather is beautiful and you're not in a smoky bar."
Arletta and Lee Wilbur have been visiting Dearborn Street for years. Relaxing after the walk with some wine at Vino Loco, Lee observed, "From one year to the next, it's gotten better and better."
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071216/COMMUNITY/712160543/-1/newssitemap
While some shops have closed, new ones have opened and others have moved, if just across the street.
Lemon Tree Gallery had been closed for four months while it moved from the large front building to the smaller back building.
"We want people to get used to us being back here," said manager Jill Leah. While not all the art was up for the walk, there was plenty to see.
Meanwhile, the former Lemon Tree Gallery is now home to Vino Loco Wine & Tapas Bar, and things were busy on Saturday night as customers sampled wines and tapas such as bruschetta and Manchego cheese.
After moving out of the Emporium, Jeanne Cadman, artist and owner of Blind Images, has found a new home at, of all places, Englewood Hardware. Showing off puppets and other items, she says she is trying to get the word out about her new location.
Kimberly Berden, owner of Sunkissed Gifts, said business has been good since she opened on Nov. 1, especially for Florida-themed Christmas cards. The shop also offers souvenirs, gifts, shells and wedding accessories.
Tom Joralemon came especially to check out the marble collection at Antiques on Dearborn at its new location just across the street. He said he has thousands at home, but found some he liked in Ken Kocab's collection.
Over at Zigamzoo, home of the longstanding "opening soon" sign, things were buzzing. Partners Marie Laforge and Ricardo Roggero opened the Friday after Thanksgiving and are concentrating on unusual clothing, accessories and gifts, including Laforge's handmade silks and fabric designs, before they begin offering lunch.
One thing that has been a constant at Saturday Night Live is music. You could hear all kinds on the street, including country and western, and, of course, Christmas carols. But this was "Rock'n the Holidays" and The Jam Band was doing its best to get people dancing. Lead singer Irena Gifford said she was having fun singing outside. "The weather is beautiful and you're not in a smoky bar."
Arletta and Lee Wilbur have been visiting Dearborn Street for years. Relaxing after the walk with some wine at Vino Loco, Lee observed, "From one year to the next, it's gotten better and better."
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071216/COMMUNITY/712160543/-1/newssitemap
Three risks of Christmas
If Christmas didn’t exist, would insurers invent it? I ask partly because someone may need to if my local paper’s survey of school nativity plays are anything to go by.
Of 35 schools surveyed, only a handful are putting on traditional Nativity plays; the rest vary from The Most Disgruntled Snowman to The Lucky Owl and The Hoity-Toity Angel. There’s even Hosanna Rock, featuring angels disguised as tax collectors.
At least even these have something to do with the traditional meaning of the festive period but the risks of Christmas have been growing in recent years.
Whether it’s a perceived fear of appearing politically incorrect or insufficiently ethnically diverse or a public liability worry about the town centre Christmas tree toppling over, the Christmas lights catching fire or unseemly behaviour at office Christmas parties, those 12 days carry more risk.
Or maybe they just seem riskier. After all, people have been taking risks at Christmas ever since the first one.
Did Mary and Joseph have travel insurance when they set out on that long road to Bethlehem?
What potential health and safety claims did that innkeeper let himself in for by renting out an unlicensed stable to a woman in the middle of labour?
And just how clever were those so-called wise men who ventured into the desert on unprotected camels carrying uninsured gold and valuable perfumes?
In comparison, our homely Christmas celebrations seem safe and secure but how many carol singers have personal liability cover when they venture onto expensive patios or fire risk cover when they carry lanterns or candles?
What about the risk of giving someone food poisoning by under-cooking the turkey or the danger of a sexual harassment lawsuit from giving someone a peck under the mistletoe?
At the domestic level, most householders will happily take on such risks but most do have cover for the occasion that the Christmas lights set the house on fire or the heartbreak of having their presents stolen in a burglary.
If your car is wrecked on the way home from a candlelit Christmas service; if flash floods or freak storms mean you have to be re-housed or if that Christmas holiday of a lifetime in Disneyland has to be cancelled because of illness, insurance cover ensures that it is a drama, not a crisis.
As Caroline Rowlands and Arnie Skelton of Cheadle, Cheshire, discovered a few years ago, even the Christmas rubbish carries risks.
In preparation for their forthcoming wedding, gifts for bridesmaids and others taking part, plus wedding clothing, accessories and the marital rings were mistakenly taken to the local authority tip, mistaken for discarded bags and boxes left over from Christmas.
Fortunately for them, a £45 premium paid for wedding insurance, underwritten appropriately enough by Ecclesiastical Insurance, put matters right and the couple received £1,020 for the lost rings, £965 for wedding attire, £375 for lost presents and an express courier charge of £211 to deliver replacement shoes in a hurry.
At the corporate level, insurance is again the ingredient that gives councils, communities, churches, hospitals and schools the reassurance and comfort levels needed to organise major Christmas events.
When something goes wrong, insurers form part of the social safety net that cleans up the mess and pays for it – something often ignored when premiums are rising or no-claims bonuses disappear after payouts.
Media attention will no doubt focus this Christmas on those families who are celebrating in caravans outside their still-inhabitable homes, wrecked in the summer floods. But in many cases insurers are footing the bills.
Insurance may also cover you if you have to fly home early from that Christmas holiday, order a complete recall of your company’s Christmas hampers because of a health and safety risk or cope with a risk in your supply chain at a time when there are few alternative suppliers, threatening your ability to continue trading.
It’s all business as normal for insurers, whose job is all about giving society the freedom of mind to continue operating as normal.
Whether it stretches to actually inventing a risky event that didn’t previously exist is another matter, however. No doubt, if insurance risks advisers had been around at most of the original occasions that have given rise to modern festivals, from Easter to Guy Fawkes Night, they would probably have advised against going ahead.
But, despite the grey image that insurance still struggles with, underwriters and brokers are innovators in protecting risks, pioneering everything from kidnap insurance (invented by a Lloyd’s insurer in 1932, shortly after Charles and Anne Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped) to specialist cover for lapdancers (don’t ask). I dare say that if one of the industry’s forebears had encountered the Wise Men 2,000 years ago, he or she might even have worked out a deal with them to cover for their return trip home.
Here’s to a happy insured Christmas.
http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Lloyds/Three_risks_of_Christmas181207.htm
Of 35 schools surveyed, only a handful are putting on traditional Nativity plays; the rest vary from The Most Disgruntled Snowman to The Lucky Owl and The Hoity-Toity Angel. There’s even Hosanna Rock, featuring angels disguised as tax collectors.
At least even these have something to do with the traditional meaning of the festive period but the risks of Christmas have been growing in recent years.
Whether it’s a perceived fear of appearing politically incorrect or insufficiently ethnically diverse or a public liability worry about the town centre Christmas tree toppling over, the Christmas lights catching fire or unseemly behaviour at office Christmas parties, those 12 days carry more risk.
Or maybe they just seem riskier. After all, people have been taking risks at Christmas ever since the first one.
Did Mary and Joseph have travel insurance when they set out on that long road to Bethlehem?
What potential health and safety claims did that innkeeper let himself in for by renting out an unlicensed stable to a woman in the middle of labour?
And just how clever were those so-called wise men who ventured into the desert on unprotected camels carrying uninsured gold and valuable perfumes?
In comparison, our homely Christmas celebrations seem safe and secure but how many carol singers have personal liability cover when they venture onto expensive patios or fire risk cover when they carry lanterns or candles?
What about the risk of giving someone food poisoning by under-cooking the turkey or the danger of a sexual harassment lawsuit from giving someone a peck under the mistletoe?
At the domestic level, most householders will happily take on such risks but most do have cover for the occasion that the Christmas lights set the house on fire or the heartbreak of having their presents stolen in a burglary.
If your car is wrecked on the way home from a candlelit Christmas service; if flash floods or freak storms mean you have to be re-housed or if that Christmas holiday of a lifetime in Disneyland has to be cancelled because of illness, insurance cover ensures that it is a drama, not a crisis.
As Caroline Rowlands and Arnie Skelton of Cheadle, Cheshire, discovered a few years ago, even the Christmas rubbish carries risks.
In preparation for their forthcoming wedding, gifts for bridesmaids and others taking part, plus wedding clothing, accessories and the marital rings were mistakenly taken to the local authority tip, mistaken for discarded bags and boxes left over from Christmas.
Fortunately for them, a £45 premium paid for wedding insurance, underwritten appropriately enough by Ecclesiastical Insurance, put matters right and the couple received £1,020 for the lost rings, £965 for wedding attire, £375 for lost presents and an express courier charge of £211 to deliver replacement shoes in a hurry.
At the corporate level, insurance is again the ingredient that gives councils, communities, churches, hospitals and schools the reassurance and comfort levels needed to organise major Christmas events.
When something goes wrong, insurers form part of the social safety net that cleans up the mess and pays for it – something often ignored when premiums are rising or no-claims bonuses disappear after payouts.
Media attention will no doubt focus this Christmas on those families who are celebrating in caravans outside their still-inhabitable homes, wrecked in the summer floods. But in many cases insurers are footing the bills.
Insurance may also cover you if you have to fly home early from that Christmas holiday, order a complete recall of your company’s Christmas hampers because of a health and safety risk or cope with a risk in your supply chain at a time when there are few alternative suppliers, threatening your ability to continue trading.
It’s all business as normal for insurers, whose job is all about giving society the freedom of mind to continue operating as normal.
Whether it stretches to actually inventing a risky event that didn’t previously exist is another matter, however. No doubt, if insurance risks advisers had been around at most of the original occasions that have given rise to modern festivals, from Easter to Guy Fawkes Night, they would probably have advised against going ahead.
But, despite the grey image that insurance still struggles with, underwriters and brokers are innovators in protecting risks, pioneering everything from kidnap insurance (invented by a Lloyd’s insurer in 1932, shortly after Charles and Anne Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped) to specialist cover for lapdancers (don’t ask). I dare say that if one of the industry’s forebears had encountered the Wise Men 2,000 years ago, he or she might even have worked out a deal with them to cover for their return trip home.
Here’s to a happy insured Christmas.
http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Lloyds/Three_risks_of_Christmas181207.htm
Bangladesh : 4th Bridal Festival & Jewelry Expo ends successfully
Dhaka Sheraton Hotel hosted the 4th Bridal Festival & Jewelry Exhibition of 2007. The event was organized by monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine Mirror. Besides, over 60 businessmen participated in this show.
The expo highlighted bridal clothing and accessories like jewelry, shoes, makeup kits and other related articles.
The Managing Director of the Mirror stated that it had been organizing the event for the past three years and that the festival essentially gave visitors an insight to marriage ideas.
For instance, the conventional colors associated with bridal wear were red and maroon but lately, the trend has undergone a sea of change. People today, do not mind experimenting with white, purple, golden and other colors to get that exceptionally unique bridal look.
The festival closed on November 29 with a grand fashion show at China-Bangladesh Friendship Conference Center.
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=45213
The expo highlighted bridal clothing and accessories like jewelry, shoes, makeup kits and other related articles.
The Managing Director of the Mirror stated that it had been organizing the event for the past three years and that the festival essentially gave visitors an insight to marriage ideas.
For instance, the conventional colors associated with bridal wear were red and maroon but lately, the trend has undergone a sea of change. People today, do not mind experimenting with white, purple, golden and other colors to get that exceptionally unique bridal look.
The festival closed on November 29 with a grand fashion show at China-Bangladesh Friendship Conference Center.
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=45213
Bringing merchandise and the store to online shoppers
When it comes to categories of products sold, apparel & accessories is the biggest kid on the Internet retailing block. E-retailers in this category account for 80 of the top 500 retail web sites, according to the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.
The category, however, also has one of the biggest hurdles on the web: merchandise that shoppers really like to feel, hold and try on, actions impossible to achieve via an Internet connection.
But that`s not stopping the apparel & accessories e-retailers named to the Hot 100 from using web tools and technologies to come as close as possible to helping shoppers "feel" merchandise and have an online experience similar to one they would have in a store.
Coach.com, for example, has introduced Try It Online, a site feature designed to help dampen worries shoppers have when purchasing a handbag online. Shoppers can use the Try It Online feature to see where the bag falls on their body. They enter their height, and the web site displays a model of similar height wearing the handbag.
Compared with handbags, shoes present a much bigger challenge to e-retailers looking to reassure shoppers buying online. 6pm.com lets customers soothe each other`s concerns. The site offers a Fit Survey, where shoe buyers say such things as whether their shoes "felt true to size," "felt true to width" or provided "moderate arch support." Shoppers can review the survey results when considering a shoe purchase.
At Gap.com, a Quick Look web tool enables shoppers to magnify any part of a product image by mousing over it, giving shoppers as close a look as they could get in a store. "It lets people know what it would be like if they were actually holding it in their hands," says Scott Kincaid, a consultant at Usability Sciences Corp.
Other Internet retailers are not just focused on giving shoppers the feel of merchandise, they`re also making online shoppers feel more like they`re in a store.
JCrew.com, for instance, boasts a personal shopper program that brings shoppers and retail associates together online. And Swell.com encourages conversation about surfing via e-mail that unites customers and Swell staff.
http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=24593
The category, however, also has one of the biggest hurdles on the web: merchandise that shoppers really like to feel, hold and try on, actions impossible to achieve via an Internet connection.
But that`s not stopping the apparel & accessories e-retailers named to the Hot 100 from using web tools and technologies to come as close as possible to helping shoppers "feel" merchandise and have an online experience similar to one they would have in a store.
Coach.com, for example, has introduced Try It Online, a site feature designed to help dampen worries shoppers have when purchasing a handbag online. Shoppers can use the Try It Online feature to see where the bag falls on their body. They enter their height, and the web site displays a model of similar height wearing the handbag.
Compared with handbags, shoes present a much bigger challenge to e-retailers looking to reassure shoppers buying online. 6pm.com lets customers soothe each other`s concerns. The site offers a Fit Survey, where shoe buyers say such things as whether their shoes "felt true to size," "felt true to width" or provided "moderate arch support." Shoppers can review the survey results when considering a shoe purchase.
At Gap.com, a Quick Look web tool enables shoppers to magnify any part of a product image by mousing over it, giving shoppers as close a look as they could get in a store. "It lets people know what it would be like if they were actually holding it in their hands," says Scott Kincaid, a consultant at Usability Sciences Corp.
Other Internet retailers are not just focused on giving shoppers the feel of merchandise, they`re also making online shoppers feel more like they`re in a store.
JCrew.com, for instance, boasts a personal shopper program that brings shoppers and retail associates together online. And Swell.com encourages conversation about surfing via e-mail that unites customers and Swell staff.
http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=24593
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
New & Unique Destination Wedding Favors
A destination wedding is a once in a lifetime trip. You will be exchanging vows in a breathtaking place, one that you will always remember. Your guests will travel from near and far to witness this life changing event and to celebrate your new life together. You will want to thank your guests with a memorable and unique memento - a token of your gratitude for their journey. Kate Aspen has just released their "Miles of Memories" suitcase wedding favor tins, which is a perfect wedding favor for your destination wedding.
Each miniature suitcase is loaded with tiny details, sure to captivate your guests with their charm. You and your guests will be amazed at all the little things which make this wedding favor unique and special: the wheels roll, the handle moves up and down, and to make it even more realistic it is finished with retro travel stickers on the back of the luggage. These suitcases even snap shut and can hold candies, almonds or other small treats! When your guests return home, these little suitcases can be displayed and can hold small household objects, such as push pins, paperclips, loose buttons, and a variety of other items.
Whether you are traveling to a posh location such as Paris, Italy, or Nappa Valley, or if your cruising the seas, these miniature suitcase wedding favors can be customized with personalized stickers to suit your destination location. They are available in 12 destination designs from upscale city locations, to tropical palm trees, there are even airplane, wine and golf designs. To further customize your mini suitcases, you can also purchase personalized hang tags. But if you choose not to add any additional personalization options, the suitcases are charming enough on their own. Each suitcase is adorned with a cute "Thanks For Making the Trip" tag as well.
A cute idea to attach to or enclose with your miniature suitcase is a small luggage tag - this way your guests can travel home with a useful favor that they can use over and over each time they travel. Remember, your destination wedding is one wedding your guests will remember for a lifetime, give them a wedding favor which is as unique as your wedding!
Erica Tevis is the owner of Little Things Wedding Favors. Visit them on the web and check out their large supply of wedding favors, themed favors, invitations, and wedding accessories.
Unusual Wedding Favors
You have been searching and searching but you have not yet found any wedding favors that you want. You've came across a lot that you really like but you want some unusual wedding favors for your reception. Why do you want unusual wedding favors? Do you want your wedding favors to really stand out from the crowd? Of course you do or you wouldn't of even came across this article. Well I am going to tell you right now it is really hard some times to find some wedding favors that are truly unusual. But do not worry I know of many that you might actually consider taking a look at and purchasing for your wedding.
So below I have listed some very unique wedding favors that are unusual and you might want to consider having at your wedding and shocking your wedding guests with your favors.
Crystal teddy bear favors
Crystal oyster with pearl favor
Crystal long stem rose favor
Crystal candy favor
Hawaiian shirt place card holders
Beach flip flop place card holders
Glass grapes place card holders
Champagne bucket timer favor
Beach ball bottle stopper
Wedding dress candle
Snowman tea light favors
Two peas in a pod candles
Martini glass candles
These are just a few of the many different wedding favors that are unusual and unique that you can get for your wedding. We are sure that if you really look around that you will be able to find some favors that will fit with your taste, budget and needs.
If you are looking for some unusual wedding favors then we got you covered.
We also have many different types of wedding favors that you will be happy to have at your wedding reception.
So whether it be favors, bridesmaid gifts or accessories we have them all. So check us out.
Cheap Wedding Invitations Don't Have To Look Cheap
Saving money on your wedding is extremely important but you don't want your wedding to appear cheap. There are so many ways you can save money and still make this the most memorable event of your life. Your money is worth spending on more important aspects rather then expensive invitations. If you are able to save money on your wedding invitation without looking as if you did, then why not.
I understand that your wedding invitations are the first thing your guests are going to see, so it's really important not to start off with a bad impression of how your wedding is going to play out. And you don't have to worry about this. You don't have to spend a lot of money on your wedding invitations to look like you did.
There are many ways that you can get cheap wedding invitations that will not look cheap. You can even create your own professional looking wedding invitations. It's actually easier then you think. There are many how to websites that will show you step by step how to create your own professional looking invitations. You can purchase the wedding invitation paper from just about any office supply store. Purchase stock paper and tracing paper to make your invitations look just like a professional prepared them.
You can personalize the wedding invitations yourself with a picture of you and your soon to be spouse. Printers today are all pretty much picture printers, so there should not be a problem printing them from your home computer.
Also, finding cheap wedding invitations on the internet is very easy because there are so many good quality websites offering huge discounts on wedding invitations. In fact, you can easily find invitations for under two hundred dollars.
If you decide against doing the wedding invitations yourself, make sure you purchase free samples of the wedding invitations. There are many companies that will offer this. You don't want to pay for the invitations only to find out that they are made of cheap material. Obtaining samples is a way to save you from a wedding invitation disaster.
If you are looking for some affordable do-it-yourself wedding invitations, visit Elegant Wedding Impressions today.
Regina Watson is the owner of Elegant Wedding Impressions. She sells a variety of wedding favors at affordable prices. Elegant Wedding Favors carries cheap wedding favors and unique wedding favors. At Elegant Wedding Impressions you will be able to find a variety of quality wedding accessories such as guest books, Unity Candles, toasting flutes, wedding decorations, ring pillows, bridesmaid gifts and groomsmen gifts.
Warm Up Your Wedding With Unique Ideas for Winter Wedding Favors
Deciding on which gift to give guests has been racking the minds of millions of brides around the world since the dawn of the wedding ceremony. After all, there is a long standing tradition of giving gifts out to guests either during the ceremony or at the reception to show your appreciation for their attendance. No couple wants to present an overdone or boring favor to their family and friends. Your wedding day is an once-in-a-lifetime experience and your gifts should replicate that uniqueness. Fortunately, there are a plethora of unique winter wedding favors to coordinate with your decor and put a stop to the tedious search for that ever-so-right gift.
Winter wedding favors range from intricately detailed Mr. and Mrs. Snowman candle favors, perfect for placing at table settings for guests to light at the reception or take home to enjoy later, down to custom made cake slice favor boxes and personalized ribbon to tie around gift boxes. Personalize a 30-strike matchbook with a snowflake design and a special message for family and friends to place next to your snowmen candle favors. This festive combination is guaranteed to leave guests gushing over your perfectly coordinated winter wedding.
Other new and unique winter wedding ideas for favors include icy blue, snowflake gel candles and chrome snowflake design wine bottle stoppers. Winter theme place card holders and frosted snowflake glass wedding coasters also make unique and functional gifts for family and friends that will be used throughout the holiday season. One place card holder even includes a slot for inserting a photo of the bride and groom.
To add even more of a custom flair to your winter favors, personalize it. Some personalized winter favors include napkins for the cocktail bar and cake table, winter themed save the date magnets, and personalized favor bags and boxes.
Personalized Wedding Favor Bags will add a unique twist to traditional favors. Place festive candles, key rings, wine bottle stoppers, or snowflake wedding Christmas ornaments in one of these custom bags for an exceptional keepsake that is sure to be admired. Favor bags are available in an assortment of seasonal winter colors to compliment your winter motif. Picture a navy bag customized in white matte imprint color printed with a festive message that reads, "Something special is in the air. Thank you for sharing this holiday affair." with the bride and groom's names and wedding date placed below this adorable message. This is just one of many possible combinations you could use to create a one-of-a-kind keepsake for guests.
Personalized Wedding Favor Boxes are another unique gift giving idea. Favor boxes are used for treats like pillow mints, truffles, or Jordan almonds. They can even be used to box small gifts like votive candles or bookmarks. Both elegant and convenient, favor boxes can be customized with the bride and groom's name, wedding date, and a seasonal design to accent your winter wedding theme. Your friends and family will adore receiving a custom memento of the big day.
With more choices of festive, winter wedding favors than ever before, you are sure to find favors that will compliment your winter themed reception. When choosing the right favor to give family and friends, feel free to take advantage of some of these unique ideas. Any of these gift suggestions are sure to have your guests gushing over how unique and coordinated your winter-themed wedding is. These were just a few suggestions to help make your reception a bit more festive, and whatever route you do decide to take your winter wedding decor in, you can rest easy knowing, your family and friends are sure to cherish every part of your big day.
Allison is a customer service specialist and editor for My Wedding Reception Ideas.com
My Wedding Reception Ideas specializes in creative ideas, information and products to brides and grooms including personalized wedding favors and wedding accessories and wedding party gifts.
Chinese Wedding Invitations
For the typically styled Chinese wedding invitation, you will find that they are usually a red card that is folded with a few particles of gold sprayed on for good measure. As many designs you will find available, you will always see the symbols for the powers of the male and the female. Other designs you might see on a Chinese wedding invitation is the character called double happiness. This is depicted by Xi, or the Chinese character for love. You may find a dragon or phoenix to symbolize the balance of power between male and female.
Inside the wedding invitation you may find verses that are considered sacred or a poem which are printed in the style of calligraphy to give a festive air to the invitations. In Chinese culture, the invitation is a vital part of creating the mood of the day.
When looking to purchase Chinese wedding invitations you will find a vast selection of both formal and informal invitations that can be handcrafted and for the utmost in elegance, those Chinese wedding invitations that have raised lettering. You can have your invitations designed to complement the theme of your wedding. You might choose from custom-designed wedding invitations or choose a simpler look and find something that is ready made from a wide selection of sources.
Where Should You Look for Chinese Wedding Invitations?
There are many venues that you can shop and compare quality and prices when you are looking to purchase Chinese wedding invitations. Depending upon the specifics and the style you are looking for, you might browse the internet where you will be presented with a host of possibilities whether readymade, handmade or designed especially for you. You will be able to comparison shop easily when you do your browsing on the internet.
You will find many selections of Chinese wedding invitations in bridal boutiques and card shops. If you live in an area where there is a market for Chinese goods, be sure you visit there to get a feel for what you are seeking. Even if you don't purchase your invitations from this type of venue, you can get plenty of ideas and inspirations to complement the Asian theme you have chosen.
A Bi-Lingual Wedding Invitation
You can decide whether you want the invitation printed in English or Chinese or even both languages. This is a great option for those who are of Chinese descent and expect to invite many guests who speak the native tongue of China. There is usually no extra charge for this service and you can even have them address the flap or the envelope itself and have it sealed with wax for a really authentic look and feel.
If you are looking for some favors for your corporate party, birthday or weddings we got you covered.
We have many different wedding favors that will be perfect thank yous for your wedding guests.
We also have a wide variety of bridesmaid gifts such as tote bags, cosmetic bags, spa slippers and more.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Wedding Ceremony Accessories
Quite often do people use the nuance “a fairy tale wedding” – often perhaps while being unconscious of its meaning. For different people, this term has different implied meanings. One of these is a fleeting recollection of how fairy tales end: “.. and they lived happily ever after”. But why must one think only of the future without enjoying the present? A wedding, in fact, is the culmination of possibly most important decision two human beings make in conjunction. This occasion deserves to be spectacular – just like a fairy tale in real life. In reality, this can be made possible with the plethora of wedding ceremony accessories that may be used to make a wedding a momentous spectacle, paralleling the most beautiful fairy tale one might remember.
A wedding is not just about choosing the wedding gown and the suit, and then arranging for the accommodation and entertainment of the guests. In most instances, the wedding ceremony is the occasion that most would remember. This is when everyone is vulnerable to his or her emotions, hearts are aflutter, and an occasion when everyone holds his or her breath while two hearts become one. Wedding ceremony accessories are meant not just for beautifying this situation, but also for contributing to the ambiance in general. These accessories make a wedding what it should be – a fairy tale in real life!
Wedding accessories are of different types. For decorating the aisle, decorative aisle runners are available in various designs and colors. Different kinds of decorative candles, often designed specially for wedding ceremonies, are also available for illuminating the sublime atmosphere unique to weddings.
A wedding is not just for the bride, the groom and the priest. Other persons also play active roles in wedding ceremonies – the bridesmaid, the ring bearer, the flower girl and the best man. The flower girl, in fact, appears before the bride. For a bright start to a wedding ceremony, wedding ceremony accessories to be used only by the flower girl are also available. Decorative pillows for bringing in the wedding ring are also available.
The range of accessories does not stop there, either. Even pet accessories for decorating the most pampered member of the family are available. Family medallions, symbolizing familial solidarity, also come under wedding ceremony accessories.
For the perfect fairy tale wedding, accessories are perfect additions.
Do you need some really nice wedding accessories that you will truly adore.
We also have many different types of candle wedding favors and unique wedding favors that will be great for your event.
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Wedding Cake Tops and Accessories
Your wedding cake is the central piece of decoration, and probably the most delicious decoration, that brings your entire theme into focus. The culminating factor of the vital wedding cake is the elegant design, symbol, or figurines that you place on top of all the cake’s luxurious tiers. Cake tops are a great way to really put your personality and your good taste into your wedding reception. Also, wedding cake toppers are great keepsakes for you and your newly wedded spouse to take home in remembrance of your special day.
You can keep these durable items for a lifetime, keeping them out on display in your new home as a testament to the bond you share and the memories you’ve made and will continue to make in your new life together. Try choosing a wedding cake topper that reflects your personality, beliefs, and approach to life by searching for cake toppers that represent many different cultures, worldviews, and historic traditions. Choosing the perfect topper can be a daunting task, but with these examples listed below you don’t have to worry at all about looking any further for a great piece that will impress your guests and stimulate your memories in the future.
Traditional Celtic Claddaugh Cake Top:
This traditional Irish symbol represents the bond between the bride and the groom perfectly. The claddaugh symbolizes the fact that your hands will be blessed in friendship and your hearts will be joined in love forever. This beautiful blessing couldn’t come in a more beautiful cake top that is made of glazed porcelain and will be the perfect addition to any cake and will certainly enhance the feeling of romance and the eternal love you share for your new spouse.
Silver Asian Double Happiness Traditional Script Brushed Cake Top:
This simple silver colored happiness symbol represents the joy and completion you feel as a result of your bond with your partner. The simplicity of this cake topper makes it a very versatile item that can be used on your primary cake or any other place you’d like in your wedding reception to enhance the message of love.
Contemporary Couple Cake Topper:
Breaking from the traditional stiff-looking bride and groom atop the wedding cake, this magnificent glass sculpture features a modern art version of the bride and groom in the middle of a special dance. This cake topper is certainly a very elegant addition to your cake while also being a very efficient means of communicating the message of love and the union of two souls.
Reflective Castle Cake Top:
This cake topper is absolutely stunning! It is the perfect way to top off your magical wedding and to remind the bride that she looks like a fantastic princess on her special day. This fantasy castle is made of perfectly clear glass and is accented with gold pieces. This cake topper fits into anyone’s wedding and will capture the elegance of the lighting and the confectionary treat that it is sitting on top of. Make your cake more enjoyable and functional as a design piece with this wonderful cake topper.
Joe Palladino is the owner of Her Wedding Favors and offers fine wedding favors and unique bridal shower favors. All of his products are discounted, high-quality cheap wedding favors. You can find these wonderful wedding cake tops online for affordable prices.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Wedding Date On 8/8/8 - Perfect For Brides And Grooms Looking For Triple Good Fortune, Forever
So you thought that marrying on 777 brings luck and that you missed it because you were not quite ready. Guess what? While 7/7/07 will never come around again in our lifetime, you are blessed with 888. That is right! This date too, though less known, brings its own luck and good fortune.
The Chinese certainly think that August 8, 2008 is a very special day because the digits "888" is believed to be very lucky number to be born or get married on. It is not surprising then that the 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, China with the opening ceremonies held on Aug. 8, 2008 or 8/8/8.
As East meets West and our society encourages cultures to intertwine, many non-Chinese couples have adopted the significance of the numeral 8 especially in multiples, and decided that it is meaningful enough to be chosen as their wedding date.
According to Chinese culture, 8 is a Lucky number that stands for prosperity and good fortune. Triple it and you got a lucky 888-wedding day. When you take the numeral 8 and turn on its side 8, it becomes the symbol for infinity - forever. This is a symbol most fitting to represent love and the beginning of a marriage.
If you consider this as the date for your wedding, you are not alone. Though it falls on a friday, three numeral 8 or prosperity and good fortune x3, coupled with eternity is an extremely popular date for weddings. Read why Friday weddings are gaining popularity. So, if you opt for 8/8/8 you must hurry, as many venues and vendors are already booked.
We have interviewed engaged couples who chose August 8, 08 - 8/8/8 as their wedding dates as well as wedding vendors, professionals and service providers hired by them.
Brides and Grooms
Having conducted the interviews, we found out that brides and grooms chose it:
- To add the blessings of prosperity and good fortune X3 to their marriage
- To add the symbol 8 that means eternity and make their love last forever 8.
- To have their lives intertwine with no beginning and no end like 2 rings that when intertwined make an 8.
- To have a long weekend to celebrate. Of great importance was also the fact that the 8th of August falls on a Friday allowing for: a weekend long enough for guests from far away not to have to rush home, also a weekend long enough for relaxing, un-hurried destination weddings. But for many, having it all while saving money tops the cake, so to speak. As of this writing, even with the growing popularity of the date, most vendors have not raised their standard fees though this may change. Currently, a Friday evening wedding in general is less popular and if you hurry and book before vendors decide to cash in on the popularity of 8/8/08 and can get the Friday deals, you may shave at times, almost 50% off its cost of the same wedding on a Saturday or even a Sunday without looking cheap to your friends. Well, is 8/8/8 a lucky day?
- To have time for a relaxed honeymoon before school starts. The beginning of August has been a desirable time of year for students and those in the education field to get married. They prefer to wed in the summer rather than during the school year and like the idea of marrying and honeymooning in August so they return from their honeymoons just before the beginning of the new school year feeling happy, refreshed and invigorated. August is a also a good month because wedding guests from afar are more open to travel in the summer and because it accommodates outdoor weddings. Now add 888 and you got a perfect date.
- To have a date that sounds special. Some of those we interviewed said that 8/8/08 has a nice ring to it. One groom who writes greeting cards and is into rhyme and music said that he likes how OUR DATE is 8/8/8 rhythms. He suggested that putting it into music (he plans to do so,) requires musical notes and an octave is a set of 8 musical notes.
- To draw from the possible creativity it offers.
- To generate a unique wedding theme. A few couples just liked the way 888 looks on their invitations and the creative decoration ideas it gives them. Others like the theme for their wedding citing possibilities including the introduction of some Chinese motifs into the wedding theme to explain why this date was chosen.
- To always remember their anniversary. All, with no exception liked the fact that the date is easy to remember. I can certainly identify with this way of thinking. When I chose to get married on the 4th of July, I considered that the date is easy to remember, we'll be off from work and that every year the entire country will help us celebrate.
Vendors and Locations;
Wedding locations such as Las Vegas, the wedding capita of the world, have already announced special deals for 8/8/8 brides and grooms marrying in what some establishments there call Crazy Eights Weddings.
Wedding Vendors, Professionals and Service Providers are getting ready for 8/8/8 weddings with special offers.For example:
- One Las Vegas hotel offers an, August 8, 2008 package where All Wedding and ceremony Items as well as the accommodations for the bride and groom on the wedding day are included for only $888.00. Excluded are the accommodations for the guests and the costs of the reception.
- A local photographer we met at a Bridal Show in Southern California said that he had already received over 20 inquiries about her availability on 888. As the show special she offered her advertised price schedule. When I questioned her, she said that she is considering charging extra, due to the high demand for her services on both 6/7/8 and 8/8/8.
- Wedding Accessories by Nily offers a complete collection of swarovsky 888 wedding accessories.
- A friend of ours who is a local wedding officiant, is already totally booked at her facility and forwards couples to other officiants in and out of the area.
8 IDEAS FOR 8
- So, you plan a day full of 8 s and looking for ideas,
- Have something special happen at your wedding on 8/8/8 at 8:08.
- Start the ceremony, or exchange vows or rings, or have the toast to the bride and groom, or the first dance or cutting the cake at that time.
- Seat 8 guests per table. This is easy since a standard round table sits 8.
- Serve 8 different hors d'oeuvres, 8 courses in the meal, and 8 sweet deserts to choose from.
- Have eight adults in your wedding party.
- Have eight different flowers in your bouquet.
- Have 8 items in your centerpieces. 8 small gifts for the guests at the table make a perfect centerpiece.
- Instead of an 8-tier wedding cake you may have 8 single layer cakes placed either side by side or on various height pedestals on your cake table.
If you have ideas, please send them to us.
Copyrights © 2007 All Rights Reserved Nily Glaser
Nily Glaser, the CEO of A-wedding Day at: http://www.a-weddingday.com She writes important articles, and has presented workshops for wedding professionals all over the USA.
To read more of her articles CLICK HERE Her web site is very popular for its discount wedding gifts, bridal accessories, print your own invitations, favors and the very unique items offered including the exclusive line of wedding Accessories By Nily.
Wedding Jewelry and Accessories
At your wedding ceremony and reception afterwards you want to look like the most beautiful woman in the world, actually you want to feel like a queen on this special day that you have waited for all your life. So you can't just show up in a pretty dress and expect to feel the part, even though the purity and beauty of a wedding dress is simply stunning and you will definitely stand out.
The best way to make yourself feel really special is to make sure you are dripping in all sorts of jewelry like necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pins, tiaras, and anything else you think would enhance your look. The great part about accessories is that you can incorporate them into your theme and then even your beautiful and amazing attire will be a part of the decorations at your reception. This will definitely impress your guests and show them that you have a superb sense of style and the way to make your party one of the most memorable and unique ones that they have ever attended. You want everyone to remember how beautiful you looked so that in the future you can reflect on this special day and recall how amazing you felt.
Here are a few examples of the types of things you can use to enhance your beauty to make this day the ultimate manifestation of perfection and all your dreams from this romantic endeavor.
Crystal Three Row Bracelet:
This bracelet is the epitome of elegance because the crystal is really delicate and fragile and yet it radiates such a strong and intense beauty that shines so brightly you will seem to light the entire room with it. Anything that anyone else wears cannot ever compare to this piece of jewelry that will adorn your dainty wrist.
Teardrop Tiara:
This is a really elegant teardrop tiara because its shape represents some of the mixed emotions on this day. Everyone may be crying either form the beauty and joy or from the sadness of a child growing up, but either way you will show everyone that you understand these intense emotions and the way that they can be truly beautiful.
Floral Tiara:
This is great because it is an example of a thematic piece of jewelry. If you are having or floral or springtime theme then this is definitely perfect for you because anywhere you walk everyone will see this representation or your theme sparkling on top of your head and it will make the ultimately perfect piece of jewelry to compliment the entire mood of the night.
Joe Palladino is the owner of Her Wedding Favors and offers fine wedding favors and unique bridal shower favors. All of his products are discounted, high-quality cheap wedding favors. You can find these wonderful wedding jewelry and accessories online for affordable prices.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Half Up Half Down Wedding Hairstyles
On your wedding day, you want to look the most beautiful from head to toe, as everyone's eyes are focused on you. Curious eyes see what jewelery you are wearing; curious minds are assessing the value of your jewelery, gown, wedding shoes and so on and so forth. Young girls focus their eyes on your make-up especially, your hairstyle. Finding the suitable hair-style is the second difficult task with the first one being selecting the wedding dress.
The bride should decide whether to keep her hair straight, long, pulled up or away from your face. There are many half up and half down wedding hair styles that one can choose from. If one is planning to pull up her hair, few strands can be left loose in wisps to get a soften look in the face. The hair style should be selected that it suits the face. The style should be such that the bride should feel comfortable whether it is pulled up or down.
Sometimes, the bride wishes to put half her hair down. There are many combinations and possibilities to keep her hair half up or down. Curls can be done which gives a romantic soft look. Variations to the bun like pleats, twists and plaits can be done. A geometric design will suit the same and it looks bold with silk flowers or ivory flowers to ornament this design.
A half up and half down hairstyle with ringlets gives a perfect gorgeous look. The long curly locks cascading down the back of the bride in an off the shoulder gown looks too good on a wedding day. She should ensure to practice for a few times before the wedding day. Washing the hair the day, before the hairstyle is made would be good idea, as it holds the curls and updo hair styles in a better way.
If the bride wants longer, fuller hair on her wedding day, then one can use the hair extensions to get the look. These hair extensions are made purely from human hair and are dyed to match with the color of the bride's hair. It gives that great professional touch.
Hair accessories include the shimmering combs, hairpins and tiaras to top off your look with romance and elegance. Crystal curvy clips and crystal combs, pearl combs, silk flower hair clips, rose hair clips, bobby pins, pearl hair bands, crystal tiara, crystal hair bands etc.
Care should be given while selecting the hairstyle that the tiara or the veil should compliment and not cover the same. If the bride is wearing a long floor length veil, the hairstyle must be tough enough to hold the same.
If you need some wedding favors such as love glass coasters, glass grapes candle favors, beach wedding favors and more we got you covered.
We also have many different wedding gifts such as tote bags, anniversaries, gifts for him and her and more.
Also we have many wedding accessories such as unity candles, ring pillows, guest books and pens and many more accessories for your wedding.
Solutions For A Cheap Wedding Veil
There are plenty of ideas for cheap wedding veils around, so you don't have to spend a fortune.
It's a shame that the bridal boutiques have a monopoly on wedding veils. You've got your beautiful dress on and then they bring out the veils - what an up-sell! It's important to try on your veil with your dress, but you certainly don't have to buy it from the boutiques.
They mark up the prices at an incredible rate, for something that you will only wear for only a couple of hours. When you get to your reception, off it comes!
For my wedding, I opted not to wear a veil, as I didn't think it would work with my tea length dress, but for you, there are plenty to ways to work around the cost of wedding veils.
Borrow from a friend or relative
Borrowing a veil is one way to ensure you have the 'borrowed' of 'something old, new, borrowed, blue' - it will also save you a lot of bother!
To make sure you don't look identical to your friend, wear it slightly differently - add a tiara or ask to add some extra decoration to it.
Second hand dress agencies
Many second hand dress agencies have new and used wedding dresses and accessories. With online wedding dress agencies springing up all over the place, you can pick up a veil for a tenth of the price of the wedding boutiques.
Ebay is another good source for cheap wedding veils - many are brand new and as always with eBay very cheap. Once you know what style and length you want, just search for it.
Charity Shops
Many charity shops have bridal give-aways. You can often pick up second hand dresses and veils, and some even stock end of lines and samples as the designers feel generous at the end of the season. You should be able to pick up veil for up to 30% off - and you'll be helping a charity.
Make your own veil
My mum was moving house a few weeks ago and as part of the clear out, she discovered her old wedding veil. She had made it herself with some tulle fabric (easily bought from a fabric or craft store) and fixed in place with some white pins. Very simple.
Why not give it a go? The assistants in the craft store will give you lots of advice on how to make it and you can jazz it up with all sorts of little crystals, beads and ribbon edging.
If you get really stuck, Vogue, Butterick, McCalls, and Simplicity all have good basic bridal veil patterns. Simply follow the instructions included in the pack.
Nicola Ray is the owner of Cheap Wedding Success, a website dedicated to planning and creating the perfect cheap wedding. You can find more articles like this one in the Wedding Accessories section.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Wedding Accessories - What Do I Need?
You have recently plunged into the soon to be married life. Everything is going great except for the planning. The planning is long, hard and very tedious work. Although, you really enjoy the planning process very much. The only thing is you really need to find some great wedding accessories for your big day. You have looked and looked and you see the same old high priced, low quality accessories that you might find at Wal-Mart. So look no further your savior is here. Below I have listed some really high quality, affordable wedding accessories.
Love Locket Garter & Tossing Garter
Now let me tell right off hand this is a beauty. The love locket garter has even appeared in Bridal Guide Magazine. So here is the details.
This Love Locket garter is made of luxurious matte satin and features a heart-shaped locket trimmed with a floral scroll. Locket accommodates two small photographs of the bride and groom or a special good luck message for the bride.
Make it a keepsake and wear this removable jewelry quality charm again after the wedding on a necklace or bracelet
Charm may be personalized with a single initial.
Destination Charm Guest Book and Pen
This particular guest book is really great for any beach wedding. This palm tree guest book will give your wedding that extra bit of beach feel. Here is the details below.
Each piece includes a sterling silver-plated charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon, the palm tree charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. Guest book pages are printed in silver ink and hold over 500 names and thoughts.
Guest book measures 8 3/4" X 6". Pen base measures 3 1/2" X 3 1/2" X 8 1/2".
You would just have to see this little beauty to appreciate its real value. The thing is you can pair this up with maybe a nice ring pillow and some toasting flutes and you would really have the beach theme going on.
Carriage Ring Holder
Break out of the norm with this unique way to carry your rings down the aisle and then later showcase them in the carriage holder as well. Unique way to present your rings. Here is the details.
The carriage ring holder features blue velvet lining, removable magnetic carriage box, and movable wheels. Box can be removed from the base to present wedding ring or set on nightstand for everyday ring storage. Can also be used on a ring pillow at your wedding ceremony.
Made of pewter with rhodium finish. Measures 3 1/2" X 1 3/4" 2 5/8".
Excellent choice if I might say so myself. So thats it there is a few of the many different accessories that you can purchase online at the many retailers. So I suggest that you browse around until you find the perfect accessories for your wedding.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas Wedding Favors. She sells many different types of wedding accessories such as guest books, flower girl baskets, unity candles and much more. So whether if you are looking for wedding favors or bridesmaid gifts then you have came to the right place.
Butterfly Themed Wedding Accessories
You have recently decided to get married and you want your day to be perfect. You want your ceremony and reception to reflect your love for nature. What better way to show your love for the out doors than with butterfly themed wedding accessories. Below I have listed some of the more popular butterfly themed wedding accessories.
Butterfly ring bearer pillow
This butterfly themed ring pillow includes a sterling silver-plated charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon. The butterfly charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. This makes for a great keepsake.
Butterfly unity candle
This set of butterfly charm unity candle and tapers are an excellent touch of whimsy. This unity candle includes a sterling silver-plated charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon. The butterfly charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. This will add a special and unique touch to your unity ceremony.
Butterfly charm wedding guest book and pen set
Each piece includes a sterling silver-plated charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon. The butterfly charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. Guest book pages are printed in silver ink and hold over 500 names and thoughts. Most retailers will offer a discount if you purchase the book and pen as a set.
Butterfly flute set
Give yourselves or all the members of your wedding party a special keepsake to remember with this custom engraved flute set. Most retailers will sell these flutes in sets of two. Each flute is custom engraved with a choice of a first name underneath a butterfly design or engraved with bride and groom underneath a butterfly design.
Most retailers will offer a complete set that you can purchase for a huge savings. So just browse around until you find the perfect wedding set for you.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas wedding favors and wedding planner. She enjoys seeing all the different table decorations and wedding party favors that go along with the reception. She sells a nice line of wedding collections that when you purchase a whole set such as these butterfly wedding accessories you will receive a nice discount. She also has a nice line of bridesmaid gifts such as personalized tote bags, spa robes, photo locket key chains and many more bridesmaid gifts.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Heart Shaped Wedding Accessories
You are finally taking the plunge and getting married. You want to show everyone at your wedding that you and your partner are truly soul mates and one heart. Well what better way than with heart shaped wedding accessories. Below I have listed a few of the many heart shaped wedding accessories that you can purchase to make your day truly lovely.
The love server set
You can serve your wedding cake with a little bit of love at your wedding reception. This silver-plated love server set adds a romantic touch with a heart detail on the end of each serving piece. Makes for a great heart shaped accessory at your reception.
Personalized acrylic heart engraved cake topper
This topper is the perfect finishing touch for your wedding cake. Can be engraved in three personalization styles with no additional cost: Double hearts with first names and date, single block initial, or a script monogram. This makes a great addition to the love server set.
Love locket unity candle
This love locket charm unity candle and tapers are the perfect accessories to add to your special celebration. This love locket unity candle includes a sterling silver-plated heart charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon. The heart locket charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet that makes a great keepsake. Most retailers will offer free personalization on the heart shaped love locket at no additional charge.
Love locket charm guest book and pen
This love locket charm guest book and pen are a really nice way to personalize your guest book. Each piece includes a sterling silver-plated personalized heart charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon, the heart locket charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. Most retailers will offer free personalization on the love locket.
These are just a few of the many different heart shaped wedding accessories that are available. So just keep in mind your budget and your style and you will find the perfect heart shaped wedding accessories for you.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas wedding favors and wedding planner. She enjoys seeing all the different table decorations and wedding party favors that go along with the reception. She sells a nice line of bridesmaid gifts such as tote bags, cosmetic bags, spa robes and many more bridesmaid gifts. She has a wide variety of cheap wedding favors for the budget minded.
Spring Wedding Favors
Getting married or having a bridal shower in the spring? Spring is such a beautiful time of year no matter where you live. Flowers are blooming and everything is getting greener by the day.
Let's take a look at some great spring wedding favors options. If you want to incorporate the blossoming of flowers during spring into your wedding or bridal shower theme, you're in luck. There are so many elegant wedding favors that incorporate a floral theme, you just have to choose which one is your favorite.
Orchid gel candles or the Two Peas in a Pod candles make great floral candle favors. Prefer to stay away from candles? Your guests are sure to love the Calla Lily bottle stopper or Calla Lily bookmark - both very practical favors your guests will want to use throughout the spring and summer months.
How about wildflower seed favors? What a fantastic way to bring a little green to your day by giving your guests favors that give back to the environment. I know when I'm driving down the highway and see miles of wildflowers blooming along the side of the road a smile comes to my face as I think how beautiful the flowers are. Your guests can sprinkle your wildflower seed favors wherever they would like to see a burst of color in their own yards. Seed favors are very thoughtful and add very little waste to our environment.
The Magic Love Bean is such a unique spring wedding favor your guests are sure to talk about for months to come! Absolutely adorable in a hand-painted pot, this spring favor is magical. Your guests follow the planting directions of the bean and voila! In a few short weeks, the magic bean sprouts from the soil with LOVE on the bean.
The best favors are those that your guests will truly use again. Pretty sachet pillows your guests can use in their lingerie drawers are also welcome favors as are bookmarks, photo frames, key chains and place card holders that can be used to hold notes. Spring theme options include butterflies, calla lily, roses, daisies and more.
The worst thing is to spend your money on favors that get thrown into the garbage can because your guests really just don't know what to do with them after the wedding or shower. Putting a little thought into your wedding favors ensures your guests will want to receive them and will use them again in the future.
Denise Sanger is the owner of several wedding planning websites including http://buyweddingfavorsonline.com Buy Wedding Favors Online carries a diverse catalog of elegant, yet affordable wedding party favors including spring wedding favors along with a collection of beautiful wedding accessories.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Choosing an Auspicious Wedding Date
A wedding is the union of two people who take up the solemn vow of spending their lives together and to share their joys and alleviate each others difficulties at all times. Many golden questions arise once a man or a woman proposes marriage to his / her partner. These include when, where and how the wedding should take place.
The most important of all is the question of when the wedding should take place because the other factors depend on this. There are various methods employed by couples to choose an appropriate date of their wedding.
Many of them have a venue in mind when they think of their wedding. Such couples may choose their wedding date by setting some tentative dates and then checking with the availability of the venue for those dates. Some may even plan their wedding date depending on the availability of certain services that they would want for their wedding e.g.: the availability of a particular church, a certain priest, etc.
Some of them may choose their wedding date based on certain important days in their life. This may be something like an anniversary, the date on which they met or some significant date that they would like to cherish throughout their life. Some also set their wedding dates on important days in the calendar such as New Year's Eve, Valentines Day, etc.
Few of them may also choose their wedding date keeping in mind the convenience of their near and dear ones, and to a certain extent, their guests' also. They may confer with their kith and kin to check on whether it coincides with any important events and then opt for something appropriate for everybody. Couples may also try to set the wedding date to fall on a weekend such that it does not hamper the work schedules of their guests.
They may also choose the date keeping in mind certain ambience that they would prefer to have for their wedding. Every person has certain dreams about his/her wedding and may involve certain set ideas that they may want to project during their wedding, for e.g. an outdoor wedding by the lake- such an idea cannot by executed during the winter, when it is too cold outdoors and the lake may be frozen. So if the couple has some such ideas for their wedding, they should choose an apt date, when it is permissible to allow it to come to fruition.
There are still many couples, who may take up the consultation of astrologers and numerologists to help them select an auspicious date for their wedding. These people use the birth dates of the couple to assist them in choosing a proper date, on which their wedding vows are to be solemnized.
Do you need some wedding accessories for your wedding? We have many wedding gifts, accessories and favors that will be perfect for your event.
We have wedding favors such as our calla lily candle favors, grapes candle favors, Cinderella slipper candle and many more favors that are great.
Wedding Accessories - Beach Accessories and Unique Accessories
So the wedding is not that far away and you are still not even close to having all of your planning done. Well don't sweat it you'll get everything in order it just takes time. You still need to purchase your accessories such as your cake and server set, flower girl basket, ring bearer pillow, unity candle and tapers and much much more before your reception and ceremony will be completed. Well do not worry I'll help you choose some really great wedding accessories for your wedding just in the nick of time. So below I have listed some popular products that you can purchase online for your wedding.
If you are looking for a really great wedding guest book and want your guest book to be unique and fun then I suggest choosing a signature guest book platter. A signature guest book platter is usually a porcelain plate that you can usually have personalized with your name and wedding date on the plate and other designs as well. But thats not it. A signature guest book platter is fun and unique. Your guests can sign the platter and write fun little notes and then you can easily display in your home for cherished memories.
Now a day's a lot of folks are having destination weddings. So of course their are many different types of beach accessories that you can purchase for your wedding. You can choose some nice beach toasting flutes which usually you can get engraved with your names and date. The flutes will have a little star fish on the front and a sand which makes for a great beach themed flute. Also finding a guest book and unity candles for a beach wedding is a breeze as well. The accessories will coordinate with your wedding wonderfully.
So whether if you are looking for unique accessories or beach themed accessories I am sure that you will find exactly what you are looking for. So have a great time and most of all enjoy.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas Wedding Favors. She sells many different types of wedding favors such as, love glass coasters, two peas in a pod salt and pepper shakers and many many more. Yolandas Wedding Favors also carries many different wedding accessories and wedding gifts such as guest books, unity candles, ring pillows, bridesmaid gifts, groomsmen gifts and many many more.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Star of David Wedding Accessories
You have recently got engaged. You are Jewish and you want to reflect this into your wedding accessories. Well what better way to do this than with Star of David wedding accessories. Below I have listed a few of the many Star of David wedding accessories available.
Star of David guest book and pen set
This Star of David charm guest book and pen are part of the new Charmed Collection. Each piece includes a jewelry quality charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon, the star of David charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. The Star of David charm makes for a great keepsake.
Star of David ring bearer pillow
Star of David charm ring pillow is part of the new Charmed Collection. This ring bearer pillow includes a Star of David jewelry quality charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon. The Star of David charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. This ring bearer pillow will make a nice addition to your wedding ceremony.
Star of David unity candle and tapers
This Star of David charm Unity candle and tapers will make a great presentation of your unity. This unity candle includes a jewelry quality charm that can be easily removed from the layered satin ribbon. The Star of David charm can be worn again on a necklace or charm bracelet. Most retailers will offer you a discount when you purchase both unity candle and tapers together as a set.
These are just a few of the many Star of David wedding accessories that are for sale. Some retailers will offer huge discounts when you purchase wedding accessories as a set. So just browse around the many retailers and we are sure that you will find the perfect wedding accessories for your wedding.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas wedding favors and wedding planner. She enjoys seeing all the different table decorations and wedding party favors that go along with the reception. She sells a nice line of wedding accessories including Star of David wedding accessories. She also has discount wedding favors for the budget minded.
Wedding Dinner Accessories
Everything at your wedding really has to be completely perfect so that you and every single guest have the best time possible because you want everyone to remember this night forever and have memories of it that are truly unique and unforgettable. This means that you cannot forget a single item that because everything becomes essential and you can make everything a part of your theme and decorations. This even includes things such as food picks, swizzle sticks, and any other dinner accessories that you can think of that you can imagine needing at your wedding reception. Food picks are great because they are really useful items that can be disguised as decorative parts of your wedding decorations and they can also fit into your theme and enhance the tables that they are sitting at.
Your guests all need a way to pick up small food items like olives, cheese, and anything else that you put out as little appetizers for everyone to munch on while they enjoy delightful conversation with the other guests. These little food sticks also double as elegant tooth picks that your guests can use in case they get something annoying stuck in their teeth. These will make your guests feel more comfortable because they can get rid of embarrassing food in their teeth and also they will be admiring the adorable and thoughtful dinner accessories that you have provided for them. You want your wedding to be remembered for all the right reasons and this will definitely make that happen. Another cute little item is swizzle sticks that your guests can use to mix drinks and anything else that they might need them for. The great thing about all these items is that they can double as wedding favors because your guests can bring home a couple food picks or swizzle sticks and use them in their own homes. This makes them into something that all your guests can really appreciate and thank you for because they will know you care about making sure each and every one of them has a good time during your special celebration.
Dove Food Picks:
These are amazing food picks because they go with a lot of different kinds of wedding themes. Their pure whiteness really makes them into symbols of the purity of your love and it makes them fit into a traditional wedding theme with all the traditional symbols, colors, and practices. Doves also have overtones of peace and tranquility that will make everyone at your wedding feel relaxed and at ease with each other. They will be so comfortable that they will definitely make a lot of great memories at your wedding reception that they will remember for their rest of their lives and thank you for in the future.
Bride and Groom Food Picks:
This set of food picks is decked out in colors that represent the traditional garb of the bride and groom (a black tuxedo and a white dress). These are cute because they compliment everything else that is going on and show your guests how the bride and groom work together as a loving unit bonded for eternity by marriage.
Joe Palladino is the owner of Her Wedding Favors and offers fine wedding favors and unique bridal shower favors All of his products are discounted, high-quality cheap wedding favors. You can find these wonderful dinner wedding favors online for affordable prices.
Monday, October 29, 2007
What Are Wedding Accessories and Why Do I Need Them?
Allow us please to tell you why we think wedding accessories are so important for a Bride and Groom. Wedding accessories are the beautiful little pieces that make the decorations shine so to speak.
Wedding accessories are a must for every bride, and they can add up to be a substantial part of the bridal budget in no time. Wedding accessories are so important when it comes down to adding the finishing touches to the bridal attire. Wedding accessories are the basic essentials you will need for your wedding.
Wedding accessories are meant to be cherished as memories of a once in a lifetime experience, but they shouldn't be locked away where you can't see and enjoy them. Wedding accessories are important to complete your bridal look. Wedding accessories are an integral part of any wedding.
Now that the day is near, you want to make sure that everything about the way you look--from your dress to your wedding accessories are perfect. Important wedding things For a complete bridal look, wedding accessories are vital.
Other wedding accessories are needed for the flower girl, ring bearer and arriving guests. Your entire bridal party and wedding accessories are catered for and will please any bride on her wedding day.
Religious wedding accessories are a very important tradition of the marriage ceremony.
The right wedding accessories are an important part of the overall image you present on your wedding day, and you want to find that special products that will compliments the perfect wedding gown that you have chosen.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas Wedding Favors. She sells many different types of wedding favors such as, love glass coasters, two peas in a pod salt and pepper shakers and many many more. Yolandas Wedding Favors also carries many different wedding accessories and wedding gifts such as guest books, unity candles, ring pillows, bridesmaid gifts, groomsmen gifts and many many more.
Popular Wedding Favors
Wedding favors are just as much part of your wedding as your decor, linen and wedding accessories. Wedding favors make great keepsakes for your wedding guests to hold on to a remember your wedding day for years to come. So below I have listed some of the more popular wedding favors of 2006.
Love glass coaster wedding favor
This love glass coaster favor is made of frosted glass and usually will come with personalized tags if you order a minimum quantity. These show your wedding guests how much you love them and everyone of your special family and friends. This is a useful and very beautiful wedding favor to give to your guests.
Wish upon a star bottle stopper wedding favor
This is one of the more elegant wedding favors of 2006. It comes in a nice showcase gift box that has tiny rhinestones and it is engraved with wish upon a star. These favors usually will have personalized matching tags available which will make it that much more special and memorable for your wedding guests.
Calla lily garden glass gel candle favor
When you sprinkle some of these calla lily garden glass gel candles on your reception tables it is a great way to create drama and height to your tables. These favors are excellent for the spring time. You can also sprinkle some nice calla lily flowers on your tables to make your tables more elegant and beautiful.
This is just a few of the popular wedding favors of 2006 but there are many more favors that can create a very nice keepsake of your wedding day. Just remember when choosing your wedding favors make them thoughtful and special for all of your wedding guests.
Yolanda is the owner of Yolandas wedding favors and wedding planner. She enjoys seeing all the different table decorations and wedding party favors that go along with the reception. In her online store she sells many different wedding favors and wedding accessories. She also sells a very nice line of personalized bridesmaid gifts such as personalized photo locket key chains, personalized spa robes and many more personalized bridesmaid gifts for the special ladies in your life. So be sure to check out Yolandas wedding favors for all of your elegant, unique, cheap, discount wedding favors and many more wedding party favors.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Traditional Or Unique Wedding Favors
For the traditional minded bride and groom, the wedding favor industry has a long standing favorite. The traditional engraved champagne flute engraved with the names of the bride and groom and the date of the wedding ceremony. Often these come with an engraved heart around the names, and sometimes even with an engraving of either generic kissing faces or of the couple kissing.
Today, these are no less acceptable as wedding favors then they have ever been. There are some parents who have sets of these glasses from each of their children's weddings. For the younger set, there are wedding commemorative frisbees which will probably be used more often than the champagne flutes, and may not last as long.
In the marketplace of wedding favors, you can find a myriad of ideas in a wide range of prices. This is, after all, your wedding, and you should be the one to decide every aspect of what goes on at your wedding ceremony and reception. Surely you should find wedding favors that have meaning to you and says 'you' to whoever comes across it in the years to come.
It should bring a smile to their face as they remember that this is from your wedding day and that it reflects what and who you were at the time of your nuptials. With that in mind, there is one consideration beside the bride's taste that has to come into consideration here. Despite rule #1: 'It's the Bride's Wedding', the groom should be happy with the decision, even if he is not an active contributor to the decision making process.
Another wedding party favor, which should be available at the right price, is a cake fork with the names of the bride and groom engraved on the handle. Depending on the material of choice, however, it may turn out to be too expensive to manufacture an order in sufficient quantity to make the price workable. Any trinket can be turned into a distinctive wedding party favor. After you get your idea, go to a marketing specialty company online or around the block, and find someone who can make what you want in the time allotted and for the price you want.
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Wedding Jewelry and Accessories
At your wedding ceremony and reception afterwards you want to look like the most beautiful woman in the world, actually you want to feel like a queen on this special day that you have waited for all your life. So you can't just show up in a pretty dress and expect to feel the part, even though the purity and beauty of a wedding dress is simply stunning and you will definitely stand out.
The best way to make yourself feel really special is to make sure you are dripping in all sorts of jewelry like necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pins, tiaras, and anything else you think would enhance your look. The great part about accessories is that you can incorporate them into your theme and then even your beautiful and amazing attire will be a part of the decorations at your reception. This will definitely impress your guests and show them that you have a superb sense of style and the way to make your party one of the most memorable and unique ones that they have ever attended. You want everyone to remember how beautiful you looked so that in the future you can reflect on this special day and recall how amazing you felt.
Here are a few examples of the types of things you can use to enhance your beauty to make this day the ultimate manifestation of perfection and all your dreams from this romantic endeavor.
Crystal Three Row Bracelet:
This bracelet is the epitome of elegance because the crystal is really delicate and fragile and yet it radiates such a strong and intense beauty that shines so brightly you will seem to light the entire room with it. Anything that anyone else wears cannot ever compare to this piece of jewelry that will adorn your dainty wrist.
Teardrop Tiara:
This is a really elegant teardrop tiara because its shape represents some of the mixed emotions on this day. Everyone may be crying either form the beauty and joy or from the sadness of a child growing up, but either way you will show everyone that you understand these intense emotions and the way that they can be truly beautiful.
Floral Tiara:
This is great because it is an example of a thematic piece of jewelry. If you are having or floral or springtime theme then this is definitely perfect for you because anywhere you walk everyone will see this representation or your theme sparkling on top of your head and it will make the ultimately perfect piece of jewelry to compliment the entire mood of the night.
Joe Palladino is the owner of Her Wedding Favors and offers fine wedding favors and unique bridal shower favors. All of his products are discounted, high-quality cheap wedding favors. You can find these wonderful wedding jewelry and accessories online for affordable prices.
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