Be clear and firm with your decision

If you want to wear black wedding dress that’s absolutely fine. But be firm on it irrespective of what others say. Unless you need it desperately and clear about your decision, you are going to put yourself in confusion. When you choose to wear black wedding dress, lots of opinion from different people will flow in. You will get to know some of the myths surrounding the black wedding dresses. These things will definitely put you in confusion if you are not clear and firm with your decision.

Make sure you talk to your husband about this

Even though you don’t care what others say, it is necessary for you to talk to your ‘to be husband’. It is necessary for him to know your decision. Make sure it’s not a surprise for him.

Avoid gothic dresses unless you are particularly looking for that

The biggest myth is all black wedding dresses gives a gothic look. But there are specific gothic dresses for who prefer that. Don’t end up in gothic wedding dress while looking for a black wedding dress unless you are specifically looking for it.

With all these things considered, it is great to wear a black wedding dress. If you are the one who loves to experiment you can even consider black and white mixture, corset wedding dresses. You can even look for different styles of wedding dresses in black color.

Find Something That the Couple Would Like

However, if you are not the groom, perhaps you are a special friend of his who is looking for a special gift to give him. First of all, you have to think about what he would like to have. This means considering everything that he and his bride-to-be like and what makes them happy and comfortable together. If you are able to choose that perfect gift for the couple, they will definitely appreciate you for going out of your way to find them that special something which they can treasure for the rest of their married life.

Your Personal Choice Has to Take the Backseat at the Moment

Other than that, you can also shop from a wide array of groom gifts choices that are sure to put a smile on the groom’s face as soon as he opens it up. Shopping online is a great way to find such items as there are many sites that can cater to your needs and preferences. However, you have to remember that your personal choices should not take the top priority. After all, you are choosing a gift for the groom and not for yourself.

After you have selected that particular gift item for the groom, you can have it personalized like adding a personal message or having the groom’s name engraved or embroidered on it.

The first thing that most people start looking at is the guest list because at the end of the day, each person is going to add up at the wedding reception. Another big expense is the wedding dress. The final big expense is the wedding reception followed by the honeymoon. Sometimes, by the time the couple reached the honeymoon, they are so stressed out that they are unable to enjoy themselves. Let’s take a look at some cheap wedding ideas to save you money and still have a fairytale book event.

Use Wedding Planning Software To Budget Your Expenses
Wedding planning software is amazing because of all the benefits that it will do for you.  For about $35, this will track all your expenses and keep you on budget.  Compile the entire guest list including the addresses. Additionally, it can create DIY invitations for you.  No more huge note books filled with addresses, reception halls, cake bakers, etc.

Cheap Wedding Reception Ideas
The wedding reception can easily be the most costly of all expenses. This is one event that everyone looks forward to attending. Many wedding receptions are very elaborate and include a buffet meal followed by an evening of dancing and drinking. If you want to save money and have an extravagant wedding reception on a budget, then plan on a DIY reception. You could plan and put together the buffet yourself. You would have to enlist family members and friends to assist you. Either pasta or Mexican food would work very well and both are inexpensive.

Decorating the reception hall with inexpensive paper will do wonders. Photos lightly glued will look beautiful on banners. Paper confetti is extremely festive. Paper streamers will give the reception in a very decadent look. Although balloons are not paper, they will turn in a hall into a party room. LED tea lights should not be overlooked. You can attach strings of LED lights overhead and on the walls.

Cheap Romantic Honeymoon Ideas
You can have a very romantic honeymoon on a budget. Just stay away from the expensive tourist destinations. For instance, if you want to go to Hawaii, look for a vacation rental home away from the main beaches and drive there yourself. A vacation rental will give you the opportunity to cook your own meals to save even more money.   For cheap honeymoon ideas and destination vacation rentals look no further than Craigslist.org.

It’s actually a lot of fun to plan for a beautiful wedding on a budget. It’s not that hard of a task if you can stay on track and not let other people influence your buying decisions. It’s a family event, so do your best to try to win everyone over to your way of planning a wedding.

Way back, only those who are rich can afford to buy their daughter an expensive white wedding dress. All the rest of ladies who chose to marry but with poor families were then wearing various colors other than white with the exception of red and black. This is because red was considered to be the color most prostitutes were using and black was associated with mourning. So since then, the practice of wearing white wedding dresses was passed on from generation to generation. Although some fashion buffs nowadays are trying to defy that tradition and go to a non-conventional weddings by wearing any other color than white.

A black wedding is the most popular trend at the present time. There are also brides who chose to have their wedding dresses to red or multi-colored. But no matter what colors they decide to wear, the most important is they look good while wearing it. Since it’s going to be a special day for them, they have to look best and fitness is the only key to achieve that goal.

If worst comes to worst that you’ve become overstuffed and you don’t fit into your wedding gown, you must find a way on how to lose weight fast! Otherwise, you might mess up your own wedding. It doesn’t matter if it’s white or not. What matters most is that you look good and you feel good about it.

Hawaiian Themes

Hawaiian wedding themes are fun, comfortable and relaxing.  The guests do not need to dress up and the bride and groom can either wear comfortable clothing during the ceremony or change afterwards for the reception.  Food is traditionally a roasted pig; however, you could substitute items such as barbecue ribs or pulled pork.  Serve lots of drinks in coconuts and have tropical fruit on hand.  Gerber daisy wedding bouquets look great with this theme because of the colors.

Chocolate Themes

If you are a bride that adores chocolate, why not have a chocolate themed wedding?  Carrying fall wedding bouquets will provide the chocolate colors for the flowers and the wedding party could wear chocolate colored gowns.  The reception will definitely have a chocolate fountain with a variety of dipping items such as strawberries and bananas.  The wedding party favors could include a special dark chocolate bar.

Sports Themes

Sports enthusiasts themed weddings are of course planned around your favorite team.  Silk wedding bouquets can be easily made in the team’s colors and the wedding attire for the bridesmaids could be the team’s colors as well.  Wedding bouquets and tail gate type foods are the basic beginnings of a great sports themed wedding.  The food is tail gate items such as hamburgers, hot dogs, beer and soda.  For entertainment, have several games showing on big screens during the reception.

Naturally, couples who are planning a wedding are also looking for practical and cheap wedding ideas. But the driving emotional charge behind your weddings significance can cloud reasoning, and quickly empty the bank account. In general, most the 2 most expensive parts of your wedding will be the wedding dress and the wedding venue. So here are few tips that may help ease the wedding budget burden.

Budget Friendly Wedding Gowns

If you are tight on your budget but still want to keep your wedding memorable without sacrificing your personal style, you ‘ll have to think outside of the birdal shop box and look for some other options. Start by checking your close friend and relatives closets, do any fit you? Can they be altered to match your style? If you have a close friend or relative who is willing to lend you the gown, then grab this opportunity. You may be allowed to make some alterations to the dress should you find it necessary. You may be surprised to find some used wedding gowns which remain so beautiful and stylish. On the other hand, you can also visit bridal shops and boutiques which offer discounts. As long as the price does not ruin your budget, go for the dress. But just make sure that it is also presentable and stylish. Do not sacrifice fashion for monetary reasons especially when it comes to your wedding.

Budget Friendly Wedding Venues

Again start with friends and family. Does anyone have a nice home or spacious backyard? Then hold the wedding there. The place is very personal and most of all, it is totally free. If not, move on to wedding venues that will allow you to bring in outside food and drinks. Great catering comanys can be found for a fraction of the price most in-house caterers and bartenders would charge.

Have you considered having a garden wedding in a state park?  Many states offer permits for weddings, and make absolutely gorgeous wedding sites.

Also check in with a property management company or realtor to see if there are any estates in your area that could be rented for the wedding.

When it comes to decorations, you can find some affordable items to create a romantic and festive atmosphere in your wedding. If you want to be frugal, you can buy some cheap and colorful candles. These will surely give the entire venue a very romantic glow. In addition to that, you might also want to recycle some old twinkle lights to help you set the right mood for your wedding day.

There are other items that you can use to help you add more elegance and style to your wedding. For instance, you can use some colorful and stretchable bracelets to lace around your candles. Then, add more flowers as well such as roses to make the entire venue look more romantic. Get some wine goblets then place those candles inside. You can sprinkle some rose petals around it too.

It’s worth bearing in mind that while, of course, you’ll want to wear something that you feel comfortable and special in, you will need to think about the mood of the wedding to ensure any available dresses for mother of the groom you consider will fit in. The bride and groom will usually set the style for the wedding, whether traditional or informal. The rest of the wedding party then usually aim to coordinate and if possible choose complementary colors for their outfits. It’s traditional to wait for the mother of the bride to choose her outfit, then pick something that will complement it (though there’s no need for it to match too closely).

In times gone by, the mothers of the bride and groom would need to match the length of their dresses to the bridesmaid and bride. You shouldn’t need to worry about this at a modern wedding, but the mothers on both sides do still often make sure their own dresses are roughly the same length to help to create a harmonious look.

Similarly, if you want to stick to the traditions then you should confer with the mother of the bride so that if she has chosen gloves or a hat, you would aim to wear the same accessories. Not everyone will fret over those types of details these days, but it does help to create a sense of balance in all of those photos! Avoiding horrible colour clashes is especially important.

What colors should I choose?
You’re best off picking a dress or outfit in colours that complement the general colour palette chosen for the wedding. This isn’t the time to try and stand out, let the bride take centre stage! If you do want to get it right and are nervous about choosing the right colours, you could always ask the mother of the bride for a colour swatch to take along with you when shopping to make sure your outfit won’t clash with all of those bridesmaids and flower girl dresses.

Where to buy
As well as specialist shops, department stores often stock occasion wear that’s worth having a look at. If you’re on a budget, online shopping is a great affordable option, with loads of websites offering discounted but stylish outfits for the mother of the groom.

So whether or not you want to be bound by tradition, do make sure you complement the rest of the wedding party with your choice of outfit, and you can always check with the bride and groom if you’re at all unsure.

Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Diamonds are the unchallenged champions of all the gemstones that are used for engagement rings. Expensive diamond engagement rings are by far the most common. Of all the materials found in nature, diamonds are the hardest and the most long-lasting. Their purity and brilliance symbolize the eternal love reflected by the traditional wedding. This is what makes them such popular stones for engagement rings.

Bigger Is Better?

That’s not necessarily true with diamonds, or with other types of gemstones. Before an engagement ring’s price tag can truly reach the stratosphere, there must be four factors that are present in perfection – called the four C’s:

• Clarity
• Color
• Carat
• Cut

It’s true there is a relationship between the size of the diamond and its cost. But if the diamond is flawed or has a cloudy color, having more size won’t help at all. Color is incredibly important. The most expensive engagement rings are perfectly clear, or else they  show a rare color such as yellow or pink.

Think Pink

Of all the colors that diamonds come in, pink is the rarest and most expensive of them all. A blue diamond is also very rare, and nearly as expensive as pink. If you are thinking pink for your engagement ring, you’d better have already thought of some outstanding ways of making money to pay for it, because pink is the undisputed queen of expensive engagement rings.

What type of wedding is it?

This really is the key deciding factor.  Are you going to a beach wedding, a traditional wedding, a church wedding, or perhaps something altogether different?  Usually you can ask the bride and groom what their wishes are but if that has not been possible then consider the following factors.

• Are you a standard guest who will be sitting somewhere near the back?
• Do you have any formal wear or will you need to hire?
• What is your budget and do you need to shop for cheap?

One wedding we went to saw one of the guests looking like they had been shopping for wedding maternity dresses, so avoid anything too dowdy and make sure you get a second opinion if you are not sure about your outfit.

Formal wedding guest outfits

If you need to go in formal wear then it is relatively easy to either hire a cheap wedding guest dress, or you might already have an outfit.  If you do decide to buy then make sure you future proof your purchase, in other words could you use the outfit again perhaps at a classy night out of formal dinner?

Cheap wedding guest dresses

Whatever you do, please do not try and upstage the bride as it is her day and it is a common mistake made by so many people who have been invited to weddings down the years.  If you are buying a cheap dress and are in any doubt, then always choose something that is under stated.  You can be safe in the knowledge then that you will not be out doing the bride.

Our final thought on wedding guest dresses

These are the hard and fast rules to stick by in our view.  Don’t go over the top, don’t upstage the bride, buy something you can use again… and more importantly call the bride and groom to see if they have any preferences or have set a wedding theme – you cannot go wrong this way!

Instead of buying costly centrepieces for each of your guests’ tables, why not use miniature cupcake stands that your caterers or chef friend may already have? Embellish them with delicious cupcakes in an assortment of flavours and colors your guests will have fun selecting and nibbling on during your wedding speeches and songs. Or if you are going for the classic effect, try buying cheap floating water candles and set them in glass bowls filled with water and drifting flower petals for a dramatic and striking effect. If flowers are your preference, spice it up by selecting plain white vases, and leave felt pens so your guests can write their memos and wishes for you on the vases.

Add a touch of lustre to your chair covers by gluing or taping on feathers, colored beads, or rosebuds on the fabric. Visit toy shops for cheap white and silver balloons you can drape around doors and windows. And for romantic lighting, use any leftover candles you have in store, and make them match your wedding theme by simply tying satin ribbons around them in the color of your motif.