Archive for November, 2009
Creativity is worth many points, so I’d like to make my project creative. :]
If you’ve read it, it’s called Maximum Ride: Max by James Patterson.
If you’d like to know what I mean by creative:
someone who did the book "The Wedding Planner’s Daughter" made their project look like a wedding invitation.
someone who did the book "Just Listen" made their project look like an iPod.
Ideas?
How about something having to do with traveling at a high speed like, jumping out of a plane or bungee jumping off a bridge or something like that!
Hope my ideas were helpful!
Arranging for your wedding transportation, how many cars you need, what type, and when you need it can be difficult. Regardless of your preferences or budget transportation is an important part of your wedding planning process. There are many options to consider when making plans for your transportation for your wedding day.
If you have to accommodate a large party, limos for the bride and bridesmaids, and groom and groomsmen are a popular choice. Another popular choice for large parties is limo busses. They may not be as smooth as a limo car, but they are fun and can accommodate a lot of passengers. For smaller parties, you may opt for a small antique or horse carriage. There are many creative opportunities for transportation, discuss your likes and dislikes with your groom.
Finding the right company can be a challenge since there are so many transportation companies out there. Ask your recently married friends, family members, and colleagues to recommend transportation companies. If you work with a wedding coordinator, be sure to ask for recommendations.
Try to book transportation from three to six months in advance. If your wedding falls on a Saturday during the busiest wedding months, be prepared to compete for the same services and vendors.
It is important to only deal with reputable vendors. You should ask for references. Ask for what kind of insurance coverage they have in case of accidents. Ask to make sure what is and is not included in the service.
Once you have made a decision about which company to hire, make sure to put it all in writing. Written contracts are an absolute must. It protects not only you, but the vendor as well. If you plan to have alcohol in the limo, make sure that it does not conflict with the company’s insurance policy. Ask about the contingency plans if a vehicle breaks down during your wedding day?
Confirm the dress code for drivers, and make sure it is appropriate for the wedding. Prior to the big day, make sure drivers are notified about hard to find places. Provide the company with driving directions if necessary.
George Meszaros
http://www.articlesbase.com/automotive-articles/choosing-your-transportation-for-your-wedding-day-61588.html
I have to include the reception, dress for bride, bridesmaid dresses, groomsmen, tux for husband, church costs, location, wedding music minister, reception music, invitation prices, napkins, mementos,cake, rings…… But honeymoon doesnt have to be included in total… I already have the honeymoon stuff done.. Does anyone know any good websites to plan EVERYTHINGGGGG??
Many people are worrying about the financial future, especially when facing the start of married life.
Ideas to save money as you start your Married Life
Ideas to save money as you start your married life as often simple and obvious. If you have already considered the following ideas then you are well on your way to saving money. One of the highest reasons for marriage breakdown is dept. So I have set out a number of money saving ideas for your wedding, drawn from personal experience.
There are however a number of things that we should remember, the dress should be wonderful, the reception the best it can be, and of course the wedding photographs should be the best they can be at the best price.
?One of the most expensive parts of the wedding can be the reception. Although a buffet can often be cheaper than a sit down, you may prefer a sit down meal – A simple idea is to cut down on the guest list if you are trying to save the money, and invite others to a reception party after the main reception.
?Serve Cava in place of champagne to greet your guests and for the toast – no one will mind or notice!
?Get married later in the day – it saves having to feed your guests twice
?Serve your cake as dessert – choose a chocolate or lemon cake in place of the traditional fruit cake and ask your caterers to serve with fresh cream and berries.
?Get married on a week day – many venues are much cheaper then at weekends
?Choose flowers in season – they cost more if they have to be flown in
?Avoid Christmas and Valentine’s Day – although popular, the costs will go up – flowers in particular are more expensive at this time of year
?Ask friends and family to help – when my wife and I married, my Father made the cake, my Mother decorated it, we used a friend’s cream Mercedes as the wedding car and another made my wife’s wedding dress.
?Make your own stationery - that way you save money and have something very personal to treasure – the Confetti website offers a free print download service
?Oxfam now has a fabulous service of second hand and unworn dresses, but if your heart is set on a new dress, consider having your dress made by a local dressmaker – or as one of my clients has done have your dress made in china! Her dress was made to measure in pure silk, and cost just £80 from an e-bay advert.
?Do take out wedding insurance as this can give you peace of mind should anything go wrong
?Make your own favours – favour boxes filled with sweets look lovely and don’t take long to do, or make cookies and initial them with your names and the date of the wedding
?Don’t scrimp on the photographer (“you would say that,” I hear you cry) – But those images will live with you forever – Ask if you have will be given the right to copy the photos, and if you will be given a CD that is of High Resolution of your pictures for you to print as you wish.
?Also check the photographer is a member of a professional body and remember to ask for to see their membership card, no one who is a member of a professional body would ever object to that, if they do, don’t use them.
I am getting married in august, and need to book my hall i also need to get quotes for my dj.
The hall will be used for both the ceremony and the reception and they will follow one after another. How long should I book the hall for considering set up and cleanup and how long should i book the dj? 1 hour? 2 hours? I need help, we are trying to make this wedding inexpensive so that we can have a big honey moon in Japan so a wedding planner is out of the question.
I’d reccomend the whole day. That way things won’t be all rushed, nobody likes a rushed party. And no one will remember your wedding half as much as they do the reception. My sisters wedding was also done inexpensively. Catered by the Safeway deli and lots of it, lots of soda, beer and some wine. A cousin acted as DJ. The reception started at noon, the bride and groom left at 4, the party lasted until after midnight. 19 years later and people still talk about it. Another cousin had hers at a very expenesive hotel, lush expensive everything, booked for two hours. All anyone remembers is the hotel staff clearing stuff away while people were still eating.
I’m having a destination wedding in July 2010. I’m going to send invitations out next month so that my family has enough time to plan, save money, get off of work, etc. I have a wedding planner at the destination that is taking care of everything, including the booking of suites and flights. I need to refer everyone to her. Where do I put her name and contact information on my wedding invitations I’m sending to family? Should I put it on the back? On a separate small note card?
(My invitations are going to be a one card invitations. No half-fold or tri-fold or anything.)
Thanks.
I would add an extra half sized card in the same design as your invitations. it will cost a little extra, but I think it will look alot classier than putting those details on the back or at the bottom.
John has successfully wooed the girl of his dreams and she has agreed to marry him. You must be thinking what more can a guy ask for in life. But believe me you or for that matter no one else would ever like to be in John’s situation. Why? Because he does not have adequate finances to fund his dream wedding with his dream girl. Yes, wedding is a very special and memorable occasion that cannot in any way be equated or compared to money, but the truth is that money is needed to actually go about organizing the whole wedding.
Well something that is so simple and easy to take care of, should never ever be one of the reasons for you to trip over your wedding dream. Get cheap wedding loans and see how your dream turns into reality without any hassles. Wedding loans are nothing but personal loans that one can take to meet any personal expenditure like wedding. So if you are looking forward to getting married or want to marry off your sister or nay other family member, cheap wedding loans in India are the best and the safest bet for you.
Weddings are an expensive affair, be it in India or any other part of the world. But Indian weddings are said to be very expensive and it can cost you an arm to get your sister or daughter married off. Each and every ceremony is a very lavish and an elaborate affair. And cheap wedding loans are a blessing in disguise for anyone who wishes to have a wedding without any financial hassles. Do you think that you will be able to enjoy and take part in all the celebrations associated with wedding? No ways, if you are not fully satisfied with your financial status.
Planning is very important to execute anything successfully. So before you embark on getting cheap wedding loans in India, plan out a budget and find out what your requirements are. You cut your coat according to the cloth you have, so first of all you have to have a budget in place. While making the budget, make sure that you take the expenses of all small and big things into consideration. No one likes to be suddenly bombarded with unforeseen expenses just when they think that they have taken care of each and every aspect related to the wedding.
Searching for wedding loans in India must not be a difficult job for you. Well, the internet is the best bet for you to find out cheap wedding loans in India. Ideally, you should look for cheap wedding loan in India that is easily affordable and fast to get. Normally, you will have to pay a lower rate of interest for cheap wedding loans as compared to the other types of wedding loans. Repayment of the cheap wedding loans must not be difficult at all. Just take care that the repayment option of the loan that you take is flexible and effortless.
Repayment of loans should be easy and flexible. Check out what exactly the cheap wedding loans provider is offering to you. Try to search around a little more and find out the quotes offered by other loan providers before you settle for any one loan provider. There are several loan providers who give cheap wedding loans in India. Your task is to find out the best loan provider and then settle down to take his services to get your cheap wedding loans approved.
Jasmine Vadera
http://www.articlesbase.com/loans-articles/cheap-wedding-loans-will-help-you-enjoy-marital-bliss-after-wedding-60522.html
I’m getting married in April and I need to have some options for a wedding cake. I don’t always have access to the internet and when I do I don’t have long and don’t have access to a printer if I find one I like. I’m also looking for a free Wedding planner book. Not the online kind. Please tell me of any good sites to go to sign up for any of these things.
Good question, i got a lot of catalogs just subscribing on wedding sites try wedding wire.com
Photographs are among the most important parts of all weddings. The person you hire for this crucial task is an important part of your wedding planning journey. The final outcome of the work performed by your photographer may be the only reminder for you and your family to reflect on your big day.
It is no surprise that hiring the wedding photographer is a high priority job. You should interview photographers 6 months to a year prior to your wedding day. Popular photographers get book early, so make sure you don’t leave it to the last minute. If you have a Saturday wedding during the peak wedding season, you have a lot of brides to compete with.
Make sure you hire an experienced photographer. You must look at their previous work to see if their style is what you are looking for. Your search is not so much about filtering out the bad and hiring the good. It is more about finding the photographer that has the right style you are looking. It is a matter of taste.
Ask around when searching for a photographer. Recently married friends, neighbors, or coworkers should be able to provide you with a list of potential wedding photographers. Wedding planners should be able to recommend wedding photographers too.
Ask for references, and then check references. Too many people are satisfied with asking and receiving references, but many never actually follow through and check those references. When you call the references, ask about timeliness, professionalism, customer service, or anything that is important to you. Even if you think you have found an experienced photographer with the right style, don’t hire them unless you feel comfortable working with them. You don’t want to spend your wedding day with a person that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Make sure your photographer understands your budget. Agreeing on the budget should be part of early negotiations. Understand what exactly is included in the budget. Ask for negatives, so you are able to have photos made at will. If you don’t own the negatives, you could be taken advantage of down the road.
A written and signed contract should be part of the hiring process. Everything that is important should be part of the contract. A written contract is mutually beneficial; it protects you and the photographer.
George Meszaros
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/how-to-hire-the-right-wedding-photographer-61572.html
With our first wedding, our wedding budget was $1,000. Me and my husband are planning the wedding of our dreams for sometime in 2011. There won’t be any guests or family invited. Nor will there be a formal reception. The only people who will be present will be me, my husband and our offspring. We’re planning something quiet, romantic, sexy-ish (mainly attire). We we’re thinking about a $3,000 budget to make this all happen. But not sure if this is to much or to little. Can anyone give me some numbers? Please no rude answers, thank you.
Unless you are doing a destination or something, I wouldn’t see it costing this much.
If I was doing something like you, I would have a nice restaurant section off a part for my family, and then eat there. It would probably cost between 25-45 dollars a plate depending on where you went.
If you wanted to add on a small cake or something, that would be nice.
I still couldn’t see this costing 3000 dollars though.
I have quite a few questions that go with the broader question asked, so if you have any ideas, please answer! 
I want a big wedding, so all of my family and his family are going to be invited, but my family is very large and his is very small. Will it be weird because I will have a lot of guests on my side and he wont?
At what age should i allow the guests to bring a date?
When making the guest list do I include dates and children?
It’s not weird to have one side with more guests than the other. However, don’t discount his side just yet. My husband has a very small family yet somehow ended up having more people invited than my overly large family.
What age would you feel comfortable? I allowed anybody over 18 to bring a date. Then again, I didn’t have too many guests under 18 and one of them brought his date anyway. Ugh.
You need to include dates and children in your count to get an accurate number to the caterer. I made an excel spreadsheet - first column of a number that was on their RSVP card (you wouldn’t believe how many send back the cards without a name!), second column was the name of the invited guests (Aunt Sally and Uncle Joe or Philip and Guest), third column was the number invited (2), and fourth column was left blank to insert the number when they responded (many invited with a guest responded without).
Best of luck. And remember, the number of guests is going to be the biggest indicator of overall budget!
