Bridal Shower Favorites: Fun, Games and Jewelry

Abazias.com provided this information about some bridal shower favorites.

Are you planning a bridal shower for your soon-to-be wed friend? This is an exciting time for her, and doing a party can be a great way for everyone to join in the fun. Most bridal showers are themed to celebrate the upcoming nuptials, a theme that matches the personality of the bridal couple. This can be such a good time and even be exciting for all the girls there as they dream about their own wedding. The party can be a surprise, but you should think about the wedding favors and how some of the favors can also help set the stage for the wedding event. You can even make use of a diamond jewelry motif for fun party decorations. If your bride doesn't mind some suggestions, you can coordinate the bridal shower favors with the bridesmaid gifts later. This can help the bride keep all her bridesmaids happy during the planning and execution of the wedding.

Fun and Games

To set the mood for the party, anything from happiness to frivolity, you start with the food and drinks. Then add the decorations. Themed napkins, plates, and even napkin holders are a great idea. The decorations can take on an elegant charm or be as cute and dazzling as an over-sized, fake, diamond solitaire ring napkin holder. Games can be Bridesmaid Bingo or any other newly revamped game to herald the coming occasion. With good food, lots of pictures, and mementos of the bride's old life, a bridal shower can be a time to reminisce and laugh with the girls.

Jewelry

Party favors can include anything from jewelry boxes to heart-shaped key chains, pendants, and mementos. If your bride intends on giving out bridal jewelry to her bridesmaids, then having party favors of small heart-shaped jewelry boxes that can hold a picture of the happy couple is a great way to anticipate the potential of getting jewelry later. It builds up the drama and excitement of the event and can set tongues a wagging as they wonder what might end up in those little boxes later. This adds a bit of mystery and anticipation for the members of the bridal party, which will help to make the bride’s wedding unique and memorable.

Beverly Clark's Wedding Accessories

Beverly Clark is a name known for the best in wedding accessories since 1987. They provide very elegant wedding collections, favors, gifts and bridal apparel. Beverly Clark has appeared on many television shows such as LEEZA, TODAY, CNN's Showbiz Today, Turner Entertainment Network, and HGTV's top rated "Carol Duvall Show" and "Party at Home". She has a passion to help brides to plan their wedding so it will be just as beautiful as they imagined.

Weddings Are Fun carries a wide selection of Beverly Clark bridal accessories. If you are looking for that blend of elegance to add distinction to your wedding please view the Beverly Clark Wedding Collection to find that ideal favor, gift or accessory for you ceremony or reception.

You can view even more wedding collection and accessories here.

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Pam

Dos and Don'ts of Wedding Planning

It is great to get advice from someone who just got married. They certainly know what wedding pitfalls can be expected and how to avoid them or not to worry about them if they happen. You need to have advice from someone with a relaxed perspective to help calm your wedding anxiety.

Claire Zulkey wrote a good wedding planning article on the dos and don'ts in planning your wedding. The article is titled Break Some Wedding Rules and Make Your Own. Check out the article, it will help you develop a new perspective and help you to not get too nervous about the whole wedding process but instead to enjoy it and make it the day you and your future spouse will cherish forever.

At Weddings Are Fun we will provide you with inexpensive yet elegant weddings accessories that will help to relieve your fears about what favors and gifts to provide your gueats and loved ones who have supported you on your wedding day.

Thank you,
Pam

Wedding Cake Ideas And Styles

The wedding cake is the center of attention in any reception. The cake can bedazzle the guests and create a fun atmosphere. Your cake can be any style that matches your taste and your wedding style and personality. There are unlimited design possibilities today for wedding cakes and the bakeries are willing to work with you to create your dream wedding cake.   If you’ve watched the show “Cake Boss” then you have seen that anything is possible. Buddy, the owner and head baker, can make the most amazing cakes of any style and shape that will go beyond your wildest dreams and anything you can imagine. He has made cakes from six to eight tiers high and any shape imaginable.

There are some basic styles of wedding cakes. There is the Retro style which is very different, using bright colors, and different shapes. Vintage is old-world inspired, rustic, and elegant. Victorian style are frilly, extremely fancy, and proper. Classic is your more traditional white icing, flowers on each tier, and a bride and groom wedding topper. You can choose a modern style. Check the wedding magazines and see what is hot now. Now it’s the sharp edges, sleek cuts, and corners, and an all over smooth appearance. Beach theme cakes have been a big hit this past summer, with lots of seashells, fake seaweed, and tropical plants. Thanksgiving time holds some of the most gorgeous designs with bright reds, oranges, leaves and the popular gourds which create a lovely design for any type of fall or Thanksgiving wedding. Christmas and New Years have some of the most glamorous cakes. Bakers love to be inspired by the glitter of ornaments and ice blue is very appropriate anywhere on the cake. You can always add nice touches like snowflakes and poinsettias to polish it off for a very festive holiday look.

Make sure you communicate with you baker exactly what you want in a wedding cake and work with them to come up with ideas that will make your reception a hit but at the same time not break your wedding budget. You will always remember your wedding cake so even if the cake is not real expensive, you can still add a personal touch to the topper or ornaments that is meaningful to you.

For more wedding cake ideas and wedding tips see Weddings Tips-Articles.

How To Save Money On Catering Your Wedding

Having a reception, what type of reception and how much you can spend on a reception are very difficult decisions in planning your wedding. There are so many thing to consider, how many on your guest list, the best time to have a reception, the place of the reception and whether you should use a full service catering company are all decisions you have to make.

It is best if you and your future spouse work together to make these decisions. This can especially give the groom a chance to be involve in the wedding planning, as the male guests most likely want to know want kind of food they will be served if they attend the wedding.

We have prepared a good article about how to save money on catering your wedding that you will find helpful in planning your reception.

You can also find many wonderful reception ideas from Brides.com and then look for ways that you can fit the reception into your budget.

Pam

How To Plan A Wedding

The best way to plan for a wedding is to make use of all the resources that are available to you. The first week or weeks of your engagement will be one of the most happy, exciting, and thrilling days of your life thinking about your wedding that you will ever experience. However, once those first few weeks have ended, you will start to have an overwhelming feeling of the wedding plans falling on your shoulders and you are just not sure what should be done first. You are not alone, every bride has this feeling. I’ve been there myself and hopefully the following tips will help you become a well prepared and organized bride.

With a million ideas and plans rolling through your mind as a bride to be, which is completely natural, it is a good idea to simply keep a list and/or book of all of these ideas you think of. This will help the wedding planning experience to go that much more smoothly. And you will thank yourself in the end as well.

Start by writing out your thoughts, ideas, wants and the things that have made an impression on you. During those first few weeks you will throw yourself into wedding mode, wedding shows and magazines will become your favorite things to watch and read, which will help give you wonderful ideas for every aspect of your wedding.

Of course there are many wonderful resources on the Internet to help you with your Wedding Planning but there are also other resources that you may want. Bookstores carry a wide variety of wedding planning books that will help you with making a checklist of tasks that are necessary to do. Many books have a fill in the blank checklist for you to use. It is to your advantage to become as educated as you can on wedding cakes, wedding flowers, wedding gowns, duties of your bridesmaids and all other aspects of your wedding. You can also check the local library for books on wedding planning. Sit down and while your read the book make notes on ideas and tasks that your would like to accomplish. Allow plenty of time to accomplish all of your tasks.

Another way you can stay organized and create your plan is to use your computer. Most word processing programs have templates for planning calendars or events, or tasks that you can use. These will have the outline for you to fill in the tasks that you need to keep track of. Your wedding is such a wonderful time in your life, please help yourself out and stay organized and you will be amazed at how beautiful your wedding can be with a little time and effort.

Wedding Flower Tips

Wedding Flowers can be a very exciting part of your wedding, but also expensive. It is hard to make the right decisions regarding what type of flowers you should use and how to save money on flowers to fit into your budget. It is a big decision on whether you should use real flowers or silk flowers because there are advantages and disadvantages of each. There is much to learn about flowers, working with florists, the bouquets and flower arrangements.

Please read Weddings Flowers "The Good and the Bad" to find excellent tips on the advantages and disadvantage of real flowers or silk flowers in your wedding and some cost saving ideas. Your wedding can have beautiful flowers without spending a fortune if you use a few practical and cost saving tips.

Thank you,
Pam