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Cheap Wedding Invitations Guide for the Modern Bride

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:36:54 +0000

In today’s fragile economy, people are tightening their belts and holding onto more of their paychecks. A willingness to spend money on luxury items is a phenomenon of the past.

Couples wanting to have the wedding of their dreams find the growing costs associated with hiring DJs and caterers, renting reception halls, and paying for extras like personalized party favors a bit overwhelming. But, before eloping, overwhelmed couples can learn how to shop and get the most from their money by consulting this guide.

Cutting Down Spending – Without Sacrificing Style

Brides and grooms on a budget can find a variety of resources designed to fit their needs and pocketbook. By rifling through magazines, keeping up with fashions and trends, and surfing the internet, even the most financially challenged man or woman can have a memorable wedding ceremony and reception. Here’s how you can be both savvy and stylish and still send out fashionable, yet cheap wedding invitations.

Choose a Luxurious Theme as Inspiration – and Recreate It Affordably

Books and magazines from every genre can serve as inspiration for your huge day. Like the sights and smells from Italy but can’t afford to get your passport stamped? Why not incorporate the gorgeous country into your wedding theme?

Like the gorgeous stationery that you saw in the latest issue of your favorite home and garden magazine, but can’t stand to look at the price tag on it? Why not make your own replica of the cards for a fraction of the cost? Whether it is travel, home, wedding, or beauty related, printing your own cheap wedding invitations can offer solutions to the current credit crunch plaguing the nation.

Work with an Online Stationer

An online stationer typically has lower overhead costs – and happily passes on the savings to your pocketbook. By working with an online stationer, a bride-to-be and her fiancé can select cards that are in their budget. You can either buy printable and cheap wedding invitations that look incredibly professional and luxurious, or even opt for DIY stationery kits.

Depending on how much time you have before your wedding day will determine whether or not you want to try making DIY wedding invitations. Keep in mind that although they may seem to be the cheaper option, purchasing supplies for handmade stationery can cost more than buying the wedding announcements outright.

Personalize Standard Wedding Invitations with Your Own Flair

Wedding invitations come in a variety of colors, shapes, sizes, and patterns. You can choose the plainest, cheapest wedding invitations you can find, and then add tiny details to them to make them your own. Coins from another country, colorful beads, iridescent ribbon, lace, glitter, buttons, and rubber stamps work wonders in decorating ordinary stationery.

One doesn’t have to travel far to find fantastic thoughts for wedding invitations that will fit their budget. Whether they are hand selected or hand crafted, one thing is certain: the cheap wedding invitations that you select for your celebration will only look like it cost a fortune.

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A Guide to Wedding Party Favors

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:00:05 +0000

Wedding party favors are an vital part of most weddings. Many couples do not realize just how vital picking the right favor is or they overlook them altogether. Wedding favors are small gifts that a couple gives to guests which have a very special meaning to all who attend your wedding. Many wedding guests expect to receive a wedding favor and look forward to them. Most guests appreciate receiving a favor and delight in them because they give guests a way to remember your special day for years to come. Wedding favors are also a fantastic way for the wedded couple to say thanks to all of their guests and honor their presence.

Picking the perfect wedding favor may seem like a challenging task, but if you consider a few things about your wedding you will easily be able to pick a fantastic wedding favor that is also affordable. There are endless options when it comes to favors from picture frames, to plants, and even edible favors. Because there is no shortage of wedding favor thoughts you should probably take into consideration the theme of your wedding, the season, and location, before you start looking at favors for your wedding. Some favors such as shells and potpourri are fantastic for spring or beach weddings but would not fit as well in a church or winter wedding.

The favors are usually given out during the reception by having them placed on each table or at one table in the entrance to the reception area where guests can take one as they enter. If you do place your wedding favors on the table, they can double as place cards if you personalize them. Giving out personalized favors by having them all in one location will force guests to hunt for theirs, which can be fun or turn frustrating. Where you place your favors is not as vital as putting thoughtfulness into the favors you choose.

You will want to choose a wedding favor that guests can continue to use for years and that will always remind them of your special day. Personalized favors with your wedding date and names are a excellent way to give guests something that they will always remember and cherish. Personalized wedding favors do not have to be expensive and can range form engraved wine glasses to personalized tins of candy.

You should also consider your guests’ tastes and personalities when selecting the favors for your wedding. Usually couples give everyone the same thing which is perfectly acceptable, but you should consider the tastes and preferences of the majority of your guests when picking out the favor. Try to give something that will be useful and appreciated.

There are many fantastic places to find favors for your wedding. Local party stores will usually have a excellent selection of wedding favors but for the best selection and usually prices you should also look online. There are many different companies that sell wedding favors online and it is a fantastic place to find both thoughts and the perfect wedding favors for your ceremony.

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The Smart Bride’s Guide to Wedding Party Favors

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 02:35:30 +0000

All of us want to buy the best for our special wedding day and reception ranging from the best gown to the best food to the best possible wedding party favors. But, most of us are not lucky enough to have an unlimited amount of money to spend on our weddings and a budget has to be considered when plotting a wedding.

Executing a excellent wedding with a limited budget always requires a lot of enterprise and plotting, be it asking for a discount from your designer or getting a special deal from your caterer in order to get more for less. Wedding party favors are no exception to the rule, and you will only be able to provide favors that are cheap without looking it only after you spend some time and effort in plotting your favors.

A smart bride can get away with giving away wedding party favors that look classy and cute for the same budget that a dumber bride will spend on getting tacky and cheap favors; the key here is to plot well in advance and determine your budget. When plotting your wedding, list out all your expenses ranging from the wedding dress to the caterers and decoratorâs fee in order to get the amount that is left for wedding favors. If you do not have an thought about how much everything will cost, then setting a budget of one to two dollars per guest for wedding party favors should be able to provide for gifts that look excellent without being expensive.

You can be the smart bride who manages to give classy wedding party favors without over exceeding your budget by considering the options given below:

Personalized Chocolates And Candies:Â Â Giving out chocolate with custom printed wrappers is not just costly, it is also passÃ©. Instead of getting your names printed on chocolate wrappers, buy small sized candy and chocolate like Kisses or MnMs in bulk and wrap them up nicely in cute looking gift packs. Use either gold or silver tulle, ribbons and wrapping paper for a classic wedding or use colors from the wedding theme to wrap up your chocolates in style. Making these self wrapped chocolate wedding party favors will cost you somewhere around including the packing, but your guests will still like them as much as professionally packed costly chocolate selections.

Plants and Flowers:Â A potted plant or herb has no monetary value attached to it because it can last for years and years if it is taken care of. You can buy potted flowering plants or herbs like lavender, rosemary and sage etcetera for less than two dollars each from your local nursery or plant wholesaler. If the pots are not excellent looking enough, wrap them up in foil or tulle or hand paint them in colors from the wedding theme. You can also stencil in a design or a quote with your names and the date of your wedding on the pots to give them a personal touch.

Candles:Â Excellent quality candles, huge or small always come across as being classy wedding party favors. The best part about these candles is that you can also use them as table centerpieces at your wedding reception. In order to get excellent candles for less, buy them wholesale. If they do not come with nice wrappers, then wrap them up yourself neatly in tulle and ribbon to make them look costlier than they really are.

Keychains:Â Personalized keychains with the names of the bride and groom and the date of the wedding embossed or printed on them not only make for useful wedding party favors, they are also economical to boot. You can buy keychains that suit the theme of your wedding, for example, buy autumn leaf designs if you have an autumn wedding and get them engraved with the details. If you buy and get these key chains printed in bulk, you will not only have a excellent looking wedding party favor for less; you will also be giving your guests something that is practical and useful.

DIY Wedding Party Favors:Â These could include making anything that you are excellent at, ranging from handmade candles to home made cookies. Making things yourself with favor supplies not only ensures that your wedding party favors cost less, they also make them unique from everything else. If you are excellent in the kitchen then you can consider making home made jams and preserves and presenting them in nicely wrapped jars. Cookies and cakes wrapped in silver foil and tulle also make for tasty and classy wedding party favors.Â Â

Theme Based Wedding Favors:Â Wedding party favors that go well with your theme never look tacky. Instead they always seem well thought of and classy. You can buy nice theme based wedding party favors by jogging your mind a small. For e.g. if you are having a beach themed party, giving away small bags of sea shells or shell shaped chocolates always looks excellent. A fairy tale themed wedding can have small poly-stone prince and princess figurines as wedding party favors while potted plants and flowers are perfect for garden weddings.

Other ways in which you can save money on party favors is by giving away one wedding party favor per couple instead of giving favors per person. This would help you give out costlier items without looking cheap. Some gifts that you can give out to couples are potted plants like orchids and small board game sets etcetera. Just make sure that you also buy something equally excellent for your single guests.

Another thing that you should certainly do in order to get your wedding party favors cheap is to buy them only from wholesalers and at sales. If you already have your wedding plotted six months ahead, then you might be able to find excellent sales at craft and gift stores. Otherwise, it is also a excellent thought to collect gift store coupons and then buy your wedding party favors in bulk at discounted rates.

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Children’s Parties – An Adults Survival Guide

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:32:34 +0000

The primary objective of a Childrenâs Party is to ensure that the adults present stay alive and maintain some perceptible level of sanity and that the house the party is held in remains an insurable piece of real estate. No matter how much money you spend on entertainment for your childrenâs birthday party â bouncing castles, magicians, The Rolling Stones, live elephant rides â the âsmall darlingsâ are going to prefer climbing anything that projects from the outside of your house, smothering the cat with âsilly stringâ, feeding the $1700 pedigree dog play-dough or hurling sticky food at passing ancient aged pensioners. The older children, those over the age of eight, will be behind the garden shed smoking your lawn clippings. If you are unfortunate enough to have a swimming pool, the water in it will be the colour of very weak tea by the end of the festivities and youâll have to get the hazardous waste experts in to sanitize it for you and stop it being a mortal danger to indigenous wildlife. The most well loved entertainers, at childrenâs parties, are the clowns. Iâm sure that youâve all heard the song âThe Tears of a Clownâ. That song was written by an entertainer at childrenâs birthday parties. You can never hire a clown for a mid-week party as theyâre all in specially set up, Mental Health Department Funded, Clown Sanatoriums receiving intensive electric shock treatment to get them ready for the next Saturday afternoonâs gig. I feel sorry for the poor mothers who have to officiate on these perilous occasions. Hours and hours spent baking delicacies only to find that the guests prefer throwing and wearing the food rather that eating it. It would make any mother wish that sheâd piled the table high with half-bricks covered with icing and hundreds and thousands. If the party started at 2pm, by 3. 45 all the mothers are huddled together in the bathroom taking turns at swigging from the gallon flagon of cooking sherry. Theyâre safe in the bathroom, the kids wonât want the bathroom, why should they? Thereâs a perfectly excellent swimming pool outside. The fathers are, of course, doing their best. Theyâve either gone fishing or are in the pub watching the football. I suppose that I should, at this point, start giving you some thoughts on how to stop this chaotic event turning into a full scale disaster that necessitates the mobilisation of the National Guard and all other emergency services. Letâs have a look at a few âhurt controlâ thoughts. Firstly it is a terrific help if you, or someone close to you, has a military background. Plotting is the name of the game for these fiascos. They have to be plotted, well in advance, with military precision. I wouldnât go so far as to suggest snipers on the garage roof, but just about everything small of that. One of the major problems is to make sure that the childrenâs party keeps ALL CHILDREN occupied at ALL TIMES. There must never be any lull in the proceedings. Un-occupied children cause havoc. It was un-occupied children that caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, the Black Plague, both World Wars, Country and Western Music and the invention of the musical doorbell. Keep them occupied! The childrenâs birthday party must flow like high grade lubricating oil. It is essential that as one organised activity ends, another starts. Never, ever, give the âsmall darlingsâ time to reckon of what theyâd âreallyâ like to be doing. Allowing children to choose what âtheyâ want to do is inviting a disaster of monumental proportions unless the orange juice has been liberally laced with valium. Your childrenâs party will make the American Revolution look like a casual disagreement between two three-toed sloths. Bored children at a childrenâs birthday party would mean the end of civilisation as we know it. Keep them busy, give them no time to reckon, heaven help us all if boredom sets in. Make a timetable, have all the weaponry required for each activity prepared and in cardboard boxes, in chronological order. For example â sack race 3. 10 start – 3. 20 end â egg and spoon race 3. 20. 03 start and so on. Did you notice? Only 3 seconds between events, any more than this and boredom sets in. Goldfish have a three second memory span, children, at childrenâs parties, have a three second âun-occupied silent timeâ span. Any longer than three seconds and, well, you get the thoughtâ¦. . You can give each of the children an empty cardboard box to take home with them. Just tell them itâs a special present. This saves a lot on cleaning up after the party. Military plotting is also required when it comes to setting up the area for this funfest. No, not the kind of military plotting that goes on in the White House, REAL military plotting. Make sure that the food area is well away from the activity area otherwise the food area WILL BECOME the activity area. If you have neighbours, make sure that the area is well secured. It is not excellent for future relations, or the value of the real estate, to have hordes of un-leashed, sugar filled small children carrying out an unrestrained rampage through the neighbouring properties. The street will look like Baghdad in three minutes flat. Electrified razor wire immediately springs to mind, or half a dozen hungry Rottweilers, but maybe your local hardware store doesnât stock that sort of child restraint. After all, not everybody lives in Texas. We now come to the food. Iâve always found it a excellent thought to make everything âindividual and softâ. Part control eliminates arguments and soft foods eliminate the need for sharp objects at the table. Children arguing and sharp objects are not an especially healthy combination. More substantial food should be limited to things like French Fries, hot dogs and other finger food. I call this âdelayed actionâ food. The children like it and manage to eat five times their daily recommended calorie intake in one afternoon. Itâs not until they get home, pleased, but tired, do they throw up all over the Ikea. When serving the refreshments at a childrenâs birthday party, itâs always a excellent thought to cover the surrounding area, say 500 square meters, with industrial strength plastic. Just in case of spillages. Small fingers can be clumsy fingers. It is a golden rule at childrenâs parties, that one of the âsmall darlingsâ will really be a real brat. He/she wonât join in with anything and will generally leave you at a loose end about what to do. Some people suggest keeping a few colouring books or videos handy, just for this sort of emergency. Personally, I find handcuffing the small terror to the washing machine and then closing the sound-proofed laundry door to be the most effective method of dealing with the situation. But, each to his own. To re-cap. Keep them occupied, soft food in individual parts, Rottweilers, colouring books (or handcuffs) and plenty of mind numbing games and activities. Oh, one last thing. If youâre looking to be absolutely secure and distress free, you will find the telephone number of your local chapter of the Hellâs Angels in the yellow pages. If you have learned anything from this fascinating insight into the murky world of the pre-adolescent psyche, you have learned that Kids Birthday Parties are not to be treated lightly. It is vital that you are well armed before you enter the fray. This is, fortunately, quite easily achieved. Simply visit the link below and collect your weaponry. Organising your next kidsâ party will then become a piece of (birthday) cake.

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