Table Stationery – What’s Hot!
Will You Have Butterflies On The Big Day? Planning a spring or summer wedding? Then here are some sizzling wedding reception decoration ideas to ensure your wedding is the ultimate in up-to-the-minute style and fashion.
Fashion? Many brides don’t see their wedding as a “fashion statement” but when it comes to wedding reception decorations, there is an art to dressing tables successfully.
The hottest looks for Spring 2011 are Butterfly wedding favours and wedding cake jewellery! Butterflies are a symbol of beauty, purity and freedom.
Every bride wants to look beautiful and feel pure on her wedding day and it is also a time that a woman says goodbye to her past as she embarks on her exciting new future. There are so many different ways to get the butterfly theme running through your big day, although the best way is to start with some wedding reception decoration ideas.
Firstly, table linen must be pure white. The name of the game is simple and elegant. Team napkins with bridesmaids, perhaps a soft pink. Femininity is a big thing for 2011, so exploit it whilst you can.
Your groom should be quite accommodating if you assure him he only needs to wear pink in one area – his cravat/tie.
Introduce the idea of butterflies to your guests by incorporating them in hair decorations and floral bouquets for your entourage. Try to stick to one or two colours if you can, otherwise it could look tacky rather than sensational.
Ensure that when you choose the butterflies for hair, bouquets and favours, you also buy enough to act as wedding cake jewellery.
When it comes to the bride, she needs to look understated yet the star of the show. Therefore, include some suggestion of butterfly somewhere on the outfit. This may be a small silver bracelet with a butterfly on it, a butterfly pendant necklace or adorn a small butterfly hair jewel.
When it comes to the reception, the butterfly wedding favour boxes will steal the show! Keeping to the soft pink theme, go for pink favour boxes with white iridescent butterflies or soft white boxes with pink butterflies. Lay them as a place setting for each of your guests and scatter the tables with iridescent confetti.
Floral centrepieces should be sweet smelling and soft coloured – why not go for sweet peas or pink and white roses? Ask your florist to put some of your butterflies on sticks and insert them into the centrepieces. You could also jazz up the napkin rings with butterflies! The possibilities are endless.
Don’t forget the wedding cake jewellery as this will be the centrepiece for the whole event. Inspire guests with white or pale pink icing on your cake and finished with iridescent butterflies scattered all over it.
Remember, too many heavily coloured butterflies could look tacky and overpowering. Stick to simple, soft colours on your butterfly wedding favours, wedding cake jewellery, in your bouquets and in hair accessories.
Stick to these wedding reception decoration ideas and your 2011 wedding will be talked about until 3011!
How to Choose the Best Wedding Dress
Every little girl will dream of the perfect wedding, many will know what they want their perfect wedding dress to look like. Some will even know what they want it made out of. This is something that many men may not appreciate, any old wedding dress will not do. Because for years the bride has planned in their mind how they want their wedding day to go, down to the last detail. The wedding dress is probably one of the most important parts to them.
Be sure to leave yourself plenty of time to go shopping for a wedding dress, it is a huge decision and you do not want to be in a position whereby you are rushing the fittings and worrying about finding the right dress in time. If possible start looking for your dress about six months before your wedding. Even if you just start looking around your local area for shops where you can go, or online at pictures, get started as soon as possible.
Try to take a few close friends or family with you whenever you go looking for your wedding dress. It is a huge decision for you to make alone and no doubt you will need some extra help and advice along the way. If you can take some friends who give you their honest opinion, you may have some great friends who you want to help, but if they just agree with you for the sake of it then their opinion is no good. You need people around you who can support you and understand the importance of choosing the perfect wedding dress.
The majority of brides will choose white as the colour of their wedding dress without even thinking about it. But it is not your only option. Yes it is traditional but is it what YOU want? Also to live up to the dream you have do you believe that pure white will go with the complexion of your skin? Perhaps a subtle tone of beige may suit you better, or even cream is becoming a more popular option. You want a colour that will make you feel beautiful so don’t just go with tradition because you feel it is what you ‘should’ do. Go with what YOU want on your wedding day.
Remember also that at that moment when the church music starts, all eyes will turn to you. This isn’t meant to scare you! But this is what you have been dreaming of for so long so you want the moment when all attention is focused on you to be one that you are proud of. Don’t under estimate the importance of choosing the perfect wedding dress.
Get the best Wedding Car
It’s the best day of your life and it’s all about you.
So why is someone else driving that beautiful classic car on your wedding day?
This is the question more and more couples ask as they ditch the chauffeur and switch to self drive wedding cars for their big day.
Great Escape Classic Car Hire, one of the largest self drive classic car rental companies in the UK, reports a significant increase in self drive wedding bookings compared to the same time last year.
The company reports a 75% increase in this type of booking over 2008.
Self drive classic wedding car hire is the flexible and low cost alternative to hiring a chauffeur driven limousine and is proving increasing popular in these cash-strapped times.
The credit crunch and the trend towards highly individual weddings appear to be behind the move towards self drive wedding car hire.
Self drive gives couples the option of saloons, coupes and convertibles for transporting the Best Man and Groom and the family and bride to the church and on to the reception.
In a typical scenario the groom will hire a car like a white Jaguar E Type convertible to drive to the church with his Best Man and then whisk his wife away in it to the reception.
Alongside the convertible the Bride and her Father hire a saloon, such as a Jaguar Mk2, which is driven by a family member or friend.
This two-car arrangement would typically cost £700-800 with chauffeur hire but can be as around half that with self drive hire.
Self drive hire has the added bonus of being much more flexible because you don’t have to stick to strict waiting times.
Companies like Great Escape hire their cars on a 24 hour basis so you also get plenty of time before the wedding to enjoy the cars.
Great Escape operates a fleet of nearly 40 classic cars from locations in Suffolk, Worcestershire and Dorset.
The company has developed its service for wedding couples to help make it even easier to build self drive hire into your big day.
As well as a straightforward collection and return system from each base the company will also deliver and collect to local addresses or provide a low cost collection service after the wedding.
The Great Escape Classic Car Hire fleet includes classic cars from Aston Martin, Jaguar, Jensen, Triumph, Porsche, Rolls Royce, MG, Volkswagen, Ford, Mini and Morris.
The cars range from the 1950s to 1990s and prices start at just £125.