Tuesday, March 1, 2011

How To Have The Perfect Hair On Your Wedding Day

It is an absolute must for a bride to look her best on her wedding day. Everything about her person must be immaculate, if not perfect, from the tips of her toes to the crown of her head, from her shoes to her wedding gown and her veil. The wedding day is the day a bride must be at her most beautiful.

A woman’s hair is her crowning glory, and thus a bride should get her hair to tip-top shape on the big day. The day she is to be wedded is not a time for hair disasters, so a bride-to-be must be careful in choosing what style to wear for her hair on that day. There are two things she must seriously consider in choosing her bridal hairstyle, and these are the style of her gown and the accessories she will wear.

The hairstyle that a bride should choose must match the style of her gown. A strapless number will not be set off to its full advantage with hair streaming down the bride’s shoulders. Neither does a French twist match a dress with a medieval theme. The formality of the dress must also be taken into account. A sophisticated upswept do would look smashing for a formal wedding gown, but it would be overkill for a dress designed for a garden wedding or a beach wedding. Also consider the neckline: would you be better off with your hair down or your hair up, given the neckline of your dress?

Aside from the gown, the veil and the accessories that the bride will wear should also be a matter of consideration for the bride when she chooses her hairstyle. A bride can be versatile with her accessories, but one thing is for certain: her hairstyle must go appropriately with her veil and her accessories. The rule of thumb here is for the bride-to-be to do her hair in the way she wants it to be in during the wedding when trying out for accessories, just to see if they fit.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Wedding Planning Tips

Pick up any book on planning a wedding and you’ll end up with so many do’s and don’ts on every aspect of the event that it begins to overwhelm you. Some women are known to have suffered nervous breakdowns in the midst of preparations. Scary, no?

“Do I really want to go through with this shebang?”, you ask yourself as your nerves begin to jingle and jangle. Budgeting and where to get the funds is one thing, but the stress a wedding generates puts such enormous strain on the couple that it does take a clever make-up artist to camouflage the manifestations of six to twelve months of stress. Would-be brides break out, they lose weight (or gain weight if they overeat as a result of stress), and can’t focus very well. Mostly it’s the skin rashes like pimples and hives that are disconcerting.

We’d like to share some wedding tips with you, but read them only if you’re relaxed. We’ve taken a different approach – a lighter discussion on some aspects of the wedding planning scenario that you’ll need to grapple with as you go along. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that just because you’ve hired a professional wedding planner to handle all the nitty-gritty, you’re home free. Like it or not, folks, you’re still very much part of the “manufacturing” process. Producing a wedding just isn’t possible if the planner can’t consult with you every single day.

So bon courage, as the French say, and take it as another one of those “hiccups” in life. YOU can make it fun and the rule is to enjoy yourself – even in the chaos!

Important Wedding Tip - Do We Have Good Credit?

We’re not asking you to wait until you hit your 40s to get married because your judgment has matured by then. But when planning a wedding, you’ll need to harness good judgment early on, especially when it concerns the financial aspects of planning a wedding. If you’re in your 20’s, act with the wisdom of a 40-year old when you establish your wedding budget. You don’t want to end up cash-strapped for the next 10 years of your lives because you overdid it – in the ceremony, reception and in the honeymoon.

If you haven’t got enough cash and your parents are unable to contribute, speak to your banker and see if he’ll increase your line of credit. If you’ve got a healthy credit score, he will empathize with you and gladly extend you credit. Everyone knows that getting married can be financially draining.

Hold a wedding that you can afford. Never mind the Joneses. If you want to invite the whole community because you’re the type of person who can’t bear to exclude anyone, then settle for a less formal wedding. If you really want a formal wedding, then scale back on your wedding list. Decide what’s important.
For more info- http://www.professorshouse.com/Relationships/Weddings/Articles/Wedding-Planning-Tips/