So, you are now engaged to be married. What kind of wedding are you going to have? The latest trend is for couples to go with more causal weddings then full productions. You may have decided that a more causal wedding is what you want to do, though the question is now what?

With young couples's busy schedules, causal weddings are a great idea. With the price a big production wedding can be a strain on new couples getting started in life. Causal wedding allow for a memorable and classy wedding which will still be day to remember.


Invitations

With today's basic graphic computer people can now make classic looking wedding invitations without shelling out the expense. Pick the paper you would like from the store and most basic software packages that comes with your computer has programs for designing invitations and making them personal to you.


Wedding Dress

The latest trend is classy and sexy wedding dresses without long trains. A causal wedding dress still can be just as beautiful with sexy v-necks and open backs. Online allows brides to get wedding dress at low prices.


Bridesmaids Dresses

What to make your bridesmaids love you more than ever. Instead of bright colored dress that they will never wear again nor want to, pick a dress from one of your favorite clothing stores. A classy summer dress can look beautiful and used again.


Flowers

Everyone stills wants flowers at your wedding. It is important to find the right amount of flowers based on the location for your weddings. Many people spend too much time thinking about the flowers which they will never remember in the end.


Reception

The reception is a time for your guest to visit and interact. Often weddings bring people together who haven't seen each other for some time. Most intimate places like a friends or family member's backyard or a personal friend's quite location allows your guest to interact. Many standard locations for weddings place everyone in special seats in a large room and lose the intimacy that your causal wedding can provide.


Music

With everyone having an IPOD or MP3 player, you would be surprised what a DJ your friends and family can be. Set your music player to a set schedule of songs and no one has to worry about the music all night. Working together with friends and family you can compile every song that you would want.

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Bridal Online Store has the latest trends in casual wedding dresses and all your wedding dress selections.

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Modern Bride

Who Reads Modern Bride ?

The Modern Bride reader is a woman, on average 28 years old, who wants her day to be filled with creative, personal touches that speak to her and her groom. She is searching for a dream dress and fabulous reception ideas that break out of the cookie-cutter wedding mold.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

* Bride to Bride: One of our most popular columns, it poses sticky questions (such as "A close friend declined our wedding invitation with a lame excuse. I’m so upset. Should I say something?") and real brides’ opinions.

* Four Dresses Under $900: Another big hit with brides, this column shows four gorgeous dresses at real-life prices

* How-To Guide: What You Really Want to Know: This is a fun twist on the traditional advice column because, as the title says, it focuses on the stuff a bride cares about most but can’t get the answers to anywhere else. (Example: How do I fit in a bathroom stall in my wedding dress?)

* Features: Modern Bride explores trends in features such as "The Death of Bridezilla," where it made the bold declaration that a more gracious bride is on the rise, and "Wedding Scams," an in-depth reported piece on the shadier aspects of wedding planning and how the bride can best protect herself. In addition, Modern Bride tackles issues of interest to women in this age bracket, such as our eight-page "Modern Bride’s Good-Health Guide" and "Wedding-Night Sex Moves." Lastly, each year Modern Bride names the most influential tastemakers in the industry in its "25 Trendsetters" feature, and announces the 50 World’s Best Honeymoons.

Modern Bride (1-year)

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Brides

Who Reads Brides?

Brides is written for a woman engaged to be married. She comes to Brides for help and inspiration in creating a wedding that, while being uniquely about her and her fiance, will also delight her friends and family. She expects Brides to help her stay on budget as it walks her through the nuts and bolts of the wedding process, using timetables, dos and don'ts, checklists, and other user-friendly devices.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular sections of Brides include:

* Fashion and Beauty: Runway bridal gowns paired with perfect accessories; dresses that fix specific figure flaws; new color combos for the bridal party; wedding-day beauty tips and tricks.

* Bridesmaids gifts under $50:

* The 411: Wedding Planner basics.

* Stylish reception details

* Top event planner's ideas and secrets

* Etiquette Police Q&A

* Reader roundup

* Quick Fixes to wedding emergencies

Feature Articles: Features often solve problems, including reining-in budgets, coping with guest lists, and personalizing every inch of the wedding day. Stories cover fashion, beauty, accessories, flowers, receptions, jewelry, real weddings, and honeymoons.

Brides (1-year)

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Bridal Guide

From Amazon.com

In a world where we're barraged with the most expensive wedding planning options, Bridal Guide is a breath of fresh air. For the bride planning a wedding without unlimited resources, this title supplies all the usual and necessary wedding-planning tips and advice, but not every solution is expensive-a refreshingly low-key and realistic approach. Beyond the wedding, relationship advice and home planning are also discussed. Published six times a year, Bridal Guide includes regular features on fashion, beauty, health, and wedding planning, as well "Budget Basics" with money-saving tips, shopping guidelines, and Q&A. As in all bridal magazines, advertising focuses on wedding attire, honeymoon destinations, registry information, and other nuptial necessities. --Elizabeth Bowker

Product Description

Bridal Guide is a magazine for the contemporary bride-to-be focusing on current trends in fashion, beauty, home design, and honeymoon travel. Complete detailed information on wedding planning and social issues that affect the bride and groom are regular features.

Bridal Guide

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By Jennifer Walter

Seems you are interested in becoming a wedding planner? The choose is completely yours, keeping searching for clients telling them you can do the job or then enrolling into a wedding school shall be a better option? Frankly, school is the best way.

Plainly planning a wedding is a professional job that requires in-depth knowledge and organizational skills. And have no clams that these skills are not easy to acquire. What schooling gives you might not be found elsewhere even at higher price. There are many wedding school options and here we will have a closer look at them.


The Association of Professional Wedding Consultants (ACPWC)

The Association of Professional Wedding Consultants is only one such body that certifies those enrolled into their courses as certified wedding consultants. This is the sixteenth year of their running operations, where in the school offers a range of courses. The school has a 5-day course to some weekend ones and home study materials.

The certification levels also are different and students who professional certification are enlisted as members in the directory. Now wouldn't it help your new business if had one such certification. It takes nearly four months to finish home study course. School tuitions are reasonable, ranging from $800 & $900 based on course of study applied for.

Needless to say certification will make adding vastly to you skills credibility and your name on their membership directory will enhance your reputation. ACPWC has a countrywide presence with associates who help guide you. Most other schools do not have such a large presence and therefore not well established to bring in the experience and updated material to give you the edge in a competitive scenario. This way wedding planning trainings can be attained quickly.

Other available options -

You can also search the Internet. Learn wedding planning courses for which the US Career Institute offers a 4-month course. While opting for tutions the institute has special payment timetable. If you cannot visit the school regularly then DETC or Distance Education and Training Council has sanctioned this particular course where in you can learn wedding planning courses.

This is just one such online school. Before you take any step in deciding on an online school make sure that the school is accredited. This will only ensure that you education has some recognition.

There are schools that have on campus trainings, which are equally beneficial. Few community collages and select vocational schools offer these courses. Such schools have to be found locally or online. Online or study from home courses might cost you less, job placements assistance from regular school is the main benefit. Plus you can make head way right on the onset by having local interactions; this shall not be possible when using online courses.

For those people who are already having a busy career life or moms with kids to take care of can opt for study courses or online tuition but the benefits of attending regular school are immense. If you wish to make a career out of wedding planning then there are no short cuts and going to school is a must.

About the Author: Learn the secrets to planning alcohol at a wedding and posing guide for a wedding when you visit Jennifer's wedding planning site at http://www.marryplanning.com


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By Mark Stockton

Weddings are expensive; there is no getting around it, with an average wedding now costing around £15,000. While instinct says ‘don’t budget, this is one day to splash out’, caution is advisable.

No one wants to start married life in huge debt and, as money is one of the largest sources of friction between married couples, it may be more trouble than it’s worth.

So try to tread the narrow tightrope between skimping and having your perfect wedding. Starting out with a meeting of all parties who are financially involved is a good idea (parents which are contributing etc) to ensure everyone has a clear idea of how much everyone else is willing to contribute.

Once that is done, you have your limit. Now it’s time for you to turn that it to a workable budget. Call around and price things up, don’t just go for the first price you come to. To make your ideal wedding on a budget isn’t necessarily a matter of compromise as the will and dedication to work hard and search out the best deals.

Once that is done sit down and make a list of every possible expense from the big and obvious (Dress!) to the more easily forgotten (table decorations) and the best price you could source.

Now look carefully, where could you save without scrimping? Here are a few ideas :

1) Use the car of a friend or family friend instead of hiring one. You are bound to know someone with a lovely car which would look perfect.

2) Don’t be afraid to haggle, especially for things that are very expensive or things you are buying in bulk. Suppliers know they are in a competitive business and would like you as a client!

3) Wedding dresses can be so expensive so there are a few ways you could save a little money. Use a family heirloom, it can be altered to fit you and a few minor alterations would personalise it

Buy from the high street, even if you don’t find the perfect one consider buying one similar to perfect and getting some alterations done (lace on the arms, more pronounced waist, longer train etc). Other ideas include buying off the peg (BHS, Debenhams etc), buying dresses second hand and altering them (ebay, second hand shops etc) and renting dresses.

4) Using a friend or relative to take the photos can save a small fortune. Digital cameras have made photography slightly less of a specialised art and someone with a creative eye and the time necessary to learn to use one can take some amazing shots.

5) Get married out of season. Certain times of the year are much more expensive, an out of season wedding can give you price bargaining tools with suppliers.

If all this still leaves you far short then consider doing it abroad. No presents admittedly but there’s no hassle! Wedding packages abroad can cost as little of £3,000 while still leaving you with a memorable and amazing wedding.

One idea to negate the problems associated (namely family disappointment) is throwing a party when you get back.This means all your friends and family can get to gather to celebrate without necessarily expecting you to pay for an amazing venue and dinner.

The most important thing when planning on a budget is to be realistic both with the amount you can realistically save and how far you can stretch your money. Setting up a separate ‘wedding account’ can allow you to save without being tempted to dip into the kitty!

So good luck and when the big day is over you will be able to go on to a life together free from debt....


About the Author: Sarah McCormack works for Simply Wedding Planners, a site where UK couples can compare the services of reputable, experienced wedding planning companies.



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Once you have gotten a basic idea of what the couple is imagining, you can begin to figure out how much the couple's dream wedding will cost, and how much money the bride and groom (or their families) are planning to spend.

Obviously, not every couple has unlimited funds to plan their nuptials. A good wedding planner will be able to take the couple's picture perfect wedding and scale it down to size as necessary to fit their budget. However, the budget will definitely influence many of the couple's decisions about the wedding. There are two ways to determine the cost of the wedding. The couple's first option is to set the budget and plan the wedding accordingly. The second option is to plan the couple's dream wedding and figure out how to fund the affair later.

Factors that will affect the cost of the wedding:

- Date and Time

- Formality

- Number of Guests

- Food

- Flowers, Music, and Photography

- Ceremony and Reception Venues

- Location

You will quickly learn ways to manipulate these factors to cut costs as necessary. The bride and groom must be able to prioritize their wish list. If the couple's dream wedding is a black-tie affair in June with a catered, sit-down meal for 500 people in an expensive hotel ballroom, the couple better have a lot of cash or be ready to make some compromises. A good budget will take into account every aspect of the wedding. Your role is to help the bride and groom find ways to choose the most important elements and downscale in 30 other ways as necessary. The black-tie affair in the fancy hotel ballroom could cost significantly less if the couple chooses to have the wedding during an off-season month or day (think a Friday night in April or November) or has a late-evening reception with drinks and dessert. An open bar, designer gown, live music, or elaborate floral arrangements are all expensive options that can be scaled back to cut costs -- unless the couple is set on that specific detail. Odds are the bride and groom are not the only ones with big ideas for their big day. Parents and families on both sides will likely have their own idea of what the wedding should entail. If the couple's parents are footing a large portion of the bill, remind the bride and groom that their parent's opinions should be taken into consideration.

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What does your Bridal fitness future hold for you?

Do you have any idea what your body is going to look like 1, 2, or 3 months from now?

Or how about 6 months from now on your Wedding day?. Are you doing anything right now, taking the steps to make a change in your body.

Do you have a Bridal fitness plan in place that will dramatically reshape your body? Or are you going to let your circumstances decide what your body is going to look like on that once in a lifetime day, the day that will mean so much to you?

Get going on your fitness plan. Take a moment right now and make some goals of what you want your body to look like 3-6 months from now on that day. What do you want your body to look like. Then decide what it's going to take to get their, what type of Bridal Fitness Strategies will you need?

If you're not happy with your current bridal fitness plan and how you look or feel right now - then guess what - doing the same thing for the 6 months will not result in a thinner and happier you.

Make sure your actions are in line with your goals. If your goal is to lose weight Then make sure that every meal you eat and every bite of food you deliver to your mouth has a purpose of progressing you toward those goals.

So the next time you are faced with that donut at the office party or that double fudge cake at the family potluck - you will know the right decision to make, based on your Bridal fitness goals.

"What the future has in store for you depends largely upon what you place in store for the future." - Anonymous Planning ahead for your Bridal fitness is indeed a strong indicator for reaching your goals.

Grocery shopping is a superb example! Plan out your grocery shopping with a list before you go. When you get there stick to that list rather than following your stomach, eyes and nose.

Even if the donuts are on special 2 for 1 or the apple pies are buy 2 get 3 free, you are going to be much better off without those tempting foods lurking around the house.

Figure out what you want to look like 1,2 or even 6 months from now, then take the necessary action!

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Zach Hunt is a Bridal Spokane Collections expert, personal trainer and owner of Physzique, a fitness coaching service in Spokane, WA. Go here: Personal Trainer Spokane

When you get married there are so many little details that you need to see to so that you can have a very special wedding. One of those details is the wedding favors. The best wedding favors that are traditional and romantic are candle wedding favors. They help to commemorate your wedding which you can share with your guests through the candle wedding favors.

Getting candle wedding favors is the best way for any couple to renew the feelings of joy and togetherness with all of their wedding guests. Candles always have a special role in the wedding ceremony. Whenever there is a wedding there is at least one, if not more, candles that are lit to symbolize the union between the loving couple. When you give candle wedding favors you will be giving your guests a way to remember all of the special moments of your wedding for a long time into the future.

There is such a wide variety of candle wedding favors that you can choose from. The more traditional candles are the votive and the novel candles. They come in different shapes and sizes. Most of the times you will see wedding favors that are candles in the shape of a red rose or a heart. This highlights a sense of romance for everyone at the wedding. Another one of the traditional wedding favors that you will often see is the pillar style candle. You can find candles to match any wedding theme and any style. Candles are the greatest way to capture the symbolism of your special wedding ceremony.

You will find all different types of candle wedding favors that can be for any theme. Here are some of the ones that are available for you to use for your wedding.

One: Flip flop and coconut candles will make great wedding favors for the summer wedding.

Two: Candle tins can be romantic, decorative and don't cost much at all. You can also personalize them for any type of wedding you choose to have. There is an enormous selection of different sizes, styles, colors, designs and scents. So you will definitely not have a problem finding the right candle tins to use for your wedding favors.

Three: Personalized votive candles and votive candle holders are often used as the wedding favors for the guests.

Four: There are travel friendly candle wedding favors that you can give to your guests so that they can take the romance with them wherever they go.

These are not all of the candle wedding favors that are available by any means. However, these will give you some ideas that you can start with when you are trying to choose the right wedding favors for your special day. Candles are very popular to use because they convey the romance that is in the air at any wedding.

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When you are planning a wedding you have a lot of details that have to be taken care of. One of those details is finding ideas for wedding favors. This can be hard to do when your mind is already being pulled in a hundred different directions while you plan your wedding.

There are many ideas for wedding favors that you can choose from. You just have to take your time and find the right wedding favor ideas for your special day.

Here are some ideas for wedding favors that will help you get started choosing the right wedding favors for your wedding day.

Cookie wedding favors are one of the ideas for wedding favors that you can make personal. These are simple wedding favors and you will be able to find a huge variety of designs. You can find generic wedding themes or you can get something that is more personal. Cookie wedding favors when added to the table settings can add a jovial touch. The guest can choose whether to eat the cookie now or save it as a keepsake.

If you want ideas for wedding favors that are more expensive then sterling silver is a great way to go. You can choose to get a special memento like a charm or keepsake that is in the shape of your wedding theme like a wedding cake, bride and groom figurine, a small mirror or another accessory. Sterling silver wedding favors are a timeless idea for any wedding.

You can choose to go with the more traditional ideas for wedding favors such as a slice of the wedding cake or a box of chocolates.

You can also do something a little more inventive such as cookie cutters or personal care items.

One of the different wedding favor ideas is to give your guests a CD of the music from your special day. This will help them remember it all.

Another of the wedding favor ideas that is good to use is a packet of seeds. This will provide your guests with something tangible and beautiful that will let them always remember your wedding day with a smile.

The ideas for wedding favors are endless. You just need to use your imagination and decide what would fit your wedding the best. When looking for wedding favor ideas you need to remember that the wedding favors will be the first welcome that your guests receive from you. The wedding favors need to tell them that you are glad they are there and that you want them to join you in the joy and fun of your wedding day. So you want to be sure that you choose very carefully.

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Have you ever wished that wedding favors could be easier or that you did not have to pay a professional for help? Using the tips in this article, you can learn a few ideas you could do without spending an arm and a leg.

Often wedding favors are left until the last minute, even though they are one of the easiest things you have to take care of. Doing it this way creates stress that could have been avoided with a little bit of planning. Stress is one thing you do not need more of right now!

Here are a 4 ideas for easy wedding favors that should get you off the hook in advance if you plan ahead.

Candy is easy and gives you many different ways to hand it out. You can fill a basket with it and put it on the table as a centerpiece. You could od the same thing and use a large bowl or tin bucket as a decoration. Then put bags on the table with instructions for each guest to fill their own bag. This is an easy way to set up quickly and give your guests something they would enjoy.

Flowers make great gifts because you do not need to order them very far in advance and there is not a lot prep time needed either. Roses are easy and they match most wedding themes of love. Using a single rose is easy to set up and you can have a family member or friend lay one for each guest on each table after they are set up.

How about offering a cd of your wedding as a gift to each guest? You can create personalized cd covers and include your names and the theme of your special day. You can even include your guests name to really personalize their own copy.

These are easy to prepare in advance and then you can burn copies during the reception and hand them oput as people leave. Modern technology is a wonderful ally if you have a notebook computer that let's you burn cd's.

Pictures frames are a very easy wedding favor to give and you can personalize them by having your photographer take photos of each guest. Then give them out at the reception. He should have a digital printer and be prepared to print off the pictures in the size of the frame you are handing out.

When you do it this way you do not have to spend time wrapping each picture frame which will free up some of your time. And each guest gets a favor that they can take home and look at in the future. Each time they do they will be reminded of your thoughtful gift.

As you can see, the problem of finding easy wedding favors does not have to be difficult. Just budget some of your time to get prepared in advance and you can make this task enjoyable and stress free. Hopefully one of these 4 ideas will work for you and for your guests.

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