category "Wedding Tips & Advice"
a helping hand for the blushing bride
I read an online wedding board recently where someone had posted a rather relevant question: do guests travelling to a destination wedding also give gifts? Which just about sums up the main issue when it comes to ...
Ah confetti! Throwing things at the bride and groom as they walk out of the wedding ceremony and into their new life together is a strange but lovely tradition, and it is one that no wedding would be complete without. ...
It's most people's biggest gripe - 'I just don't have the time to exercise! When would I fit it in?'. But now there's the added dimension of a wedding on the horizon, and more than ever you want to feel fabulous and ...
You have a good idea of what you want to feed your guests at your wedding, but how best to serve it can be something of a challenge. Most of us know only two styles – service or buffet. But these days there are more ...
Valentine's day is touted as the most romantic day of the year. For some. As a schoolgirl, Valentine's day was a private torture chamber of a day. A futile wait for a card to appear (from goodness knows whom). When ...
A friend of mine found that the whole wedding thing was beginning to literally give her a headache. She was experiencing such pressure all round (mostly from her own expectations of what she should and shouldn't do, but ...
Imagine heart shaped cakes, red and white striped straws, red roses on the white four-tiered cake, coffee served with heart shaped milk froth, the bride in blood red or white with a red petticoat and shoes with red ...
Brides are affected by the world of fashion. Obviously. But what styles and trends of the runway in the last year will influence you as a bride? The peplum Sorry, but this funny little 'overskirt', usually paired with ...
Those of you who married last year will celebrate one year of marriage this year. One whole year ... 352 days, 52 weeks together as a married couple. We're not going to congratulate you. There's nothing more ...
In a world where every second girl on Facebook is sporting an over-confident duck-pout and cellphone self-portraiture has all but become an actual art form, it seems inconceivable that camera shyness is an ailment that ...
For most modern-day brides, the choices concerning veils are relatively simple: If you like veils, wear one. If you don’t like them, don’t. But what if you are indifferent? You neither love nor hate veils and you ...
2013 brings with it a set of new, pretty, gentle ideas for brides and wedding looks. Here are a few tips to point you in the right direction: The colour mint They call it the colour mint but actually it's a little ...
The first and last time I used fake tan was the night before flying off on a beach holiday on Bulgaria's coastline. Back then I knew little about bronzing other than I had to do something about my seriously white ...
While elaborate centrepieces constructed out of intricately woven flowers and ribbons certainly have their place in the wedding industry, these time-heavy decorations can prove to be a little much for those brides who ...
It goes without saying that when it comes to your wedding day the photographs taken are your most precious commodity since they hold within them the evidence of one of the most important days of your life. In ...
If your wedding guests include at least a couple of out-of-towners then offer them the option of a room in a local hotel. You can assess the hotel for them, probably get a discount for a 'block' booking, and make it ...
According to Ira Weissman, founder of a website on the truth about diamonds, these precious stones are a waste of your money. He calls them 'the greatest scam in history' and proposes that the pressure to buy them is ...
The first few years of marriage – a list of firsts: your first real fight (the type that gets that 'we've just overstepped the mark' undertone), first Christmas as a married couple, first joint tax return, first party ...
Susan Piver, the author of a bestseller called The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do” states quite bluntly that romance dies, at some stage. Whilst the average bride in the midst ...
Same-sex partners have been allowed to marry in South Africa since 2006. It's not a big deal in our country, if you're as liberal as our constitution. Other less tolerant sectors of society unfortunately resort to ...
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