Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Give Your Wedding Favours The Personal Touch


By: Emily Tanner

One wedding seems to blend into another and looking for alternative ideas can be a struggle. Here are some great tips for making your wedding favours as unique as you are!

Ensure your wedding favours are unique wedding favours, encompassing everything you and your partner are about. Rather than going for traditional boxes or nets, why not design your own cookie wedding favour? A personalised wedding favour is so much more memorable for the guests who attend your big day. Many brides are now purchasing personalised ribbon for wedding favours. This way, brides can choose from a wide selection of favour boxes and organza bags and turn them into a personalised wedding favour by adding personalised ribbon.

Most couples choose to have their names and wedding dates printed on personalised ribbon for favour boxes, although some brides do have the guests names also printed on ribbon - a great idea for a place setting too.

Another way of providing guests with a personalised wedding favour is by attaching a tag. This personalised wedding favour tag may state the names of the bride and groom along with their wedding date or the wedding venue name or a short message from the happy couple to the guests.

A unique wedding favour such as this is well received by the guests and once the contents have been consumed, there is something left to have as a keepsake. In essence, all brides try to offer unique wedding favours to their guests but there is nothing worse than receiving a gift similar to one you have previously received at a wedding. Bear this in mind when you are deciding which wedding favours to offer your guests at your wedding because people do remember a unique wedding favour or a personalised wedding favour more than one which is non specific and seemingly not very well thought out.

Of course, not all unique wedding favours are edible. There are many gifts that can be given to wedding guests that are inedible such as wedding favour coasters, photo album favours, picture frame wedding favours and candle wedding favours. These are just as easy to present as personalised wedding favours, again with the addition of personalised ribbon or a personalised tag. Your guests may well be equally impressed with your innovative and novel ideas as you provide them with a quality alternative to edible wedding favours.

Instead of spending out on wedding favours, some brides choose to offer guests a piece of wedding cake beautifully presented in a personalised wedding favour box or a pretty organza bag. For brides who choose to give their guests some cake in a bag, they can attach a personalised wedding favour tag or tie the top with personalised ribbon. Either way, it is a lovely way of being a bit different and really offering your guests a unique wedding favour exclusive to you.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Wedding Fort Lauderdale, Planning That Anniversary Party

By: Gen Wright

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When it comes to symbols to mark special wedding anniversaries most all people are well aware that especially important anniversaries such as the 25th and the 40th wedding anniversary are tied together with precious stones such as diamonds and rubies. What a lot of people do not realize is that there are symbols that mark every wedding anniversary up until the 15th and the every 5th anniversary after that. The following list is all of the symbols and the wedding anniversary that they correspond with.

Traditional Anniversary Symbols 1st Wedding Anniversary - Paper

2nd Wedding Anniversary - Cotton

3rd Wedding Anniversary - Leather

4th Wedding Anniversary - Books

5th Wedding Anniversary - Wood

6th Wedding Anniversary - Sugar, candy

7th Wedding Anniversary - Wool, cooper

8th Wedding Anniversary - Bronze, pottery

9th Wedding Anniversary - Pottery, willow

10th Wedding Anniversary - Tin, aluminium

11th Wedding Anniversary - Steel

12th Wedding Anniversary - Silk, linen

13th Wedding Anniversary - Lace

14th Wedding Anniversary - Ivory

15th Wedding Anniversary - Crystal

20th Wedding Anniversary - China

25th Wedding Anniversary - Silver

30th Wedding Anniversary - Pearl

35th Wedding Anniversary - Coral

40th Wedding Anniversary - Ruby

45th Wedding Anniversary - Sapphire

50th Wedding Anniversary - Gold

60th Wedding Anniversary - Diamond

75th Wedding Anniversary - Diamond

The 25th anniversary which is also known as the Silver Anniversary and the 50th anniversary also known as the Golden Anniversary are the most commonly recognized of all wedding anniversaries. The symbols that mark all of the other wedding anniversary dates have been added to the list more recently and there has also been a more modern list that ties in the missing years of the 16th through the 19th years of marriage. A very interesting fact about this list is that for the 100th wedding anniversary the symbol is a ten carat diamond. Wouldn't that be nice?While many people consult with the more modern list of symbols the majority of people that base their gift giving off of this list prefer the more traditional version.

A wedding anniversary is indeed a fantastic reason for celebration as it is a beautiful symbol of a couples continued commitment and love for one another. A super special occasion such as a wedding anniversary is a time that should be commemorated with special gifts.

You do not have to be par t of the couple celebrating their anniversary to be able to give a gift that corresponds with how many years that the couple has been married. You can easily find a list of both modern and traditional gifts that correspond with how many years that a couple has been married. For an example if you happen to be a married couple in the United States and have been married for fifteen years then the traditional gift that you would receive would be crystal while the modern anniversary gift would be watches. These types of anniversary gifts will vary slightly between the United States and the United Kingdom . There is also a list of flowers that correspond with the number of years that a person has been married. Again using fifteen years of marriage as an example the proper flower gift would be the rose.

While purchasing an anniversary gift following these traditional guidelines is a wonderful idea you do not need to trying to select an official gift. You can not go wrong with choosing a gift that goes along with something that the couple enjoys doing together. A gift like this would be a wonderful way to encourage a shared pastime. So if you are sure that the happy couple enjoys something like camping, wine, or cooking it would be an excellent idea to select a gift that goes along with their particular interest.

When you are part of a married couple that will soon be celebrating an anniversary you could choose to get your other half something that will allow them to enjoy a hobby that they are quite fond of taking part in. Being able to encourage a partner in a hobby that they enjoy doing on their own is a fantastic way to help foster a healthy marriage. For example, if the husband likes to cook then how about a new set of knives or cookware and if the wife like crafts how about a gift certificate to a local craft shop?

The most thoughtful anniversary gifts are the ones that really keep the individual people or the couple as a whole in mind. You should do your best to find a gift that truly compliments a couples life and lets them know that you have taken your time selecting the gift and really thought about them. There are always those generic type gifts that are acceptable to give to any type of couple however when you take the time to find a thoughtful gift you are really showing the couple that you care.

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