Finding Fall Wedding Venues

Choosing a venue for a fall wedding is an exercise in vision. A successful choice of locations for an autumn nuptial will reward the bride with memories and wedding photography that should make any bride proud. The standard, over-used, modern wedding venues such as hotel ballrooms and golf courses are fine for brides who want a wedding just like every other wedding they’ve attended in their life. But for the bride bold enough to plan a wedding that sits outside the traditional wedding season,... Read more »

Fall Wedding Cake Designs: A Study in Opportunity

The key to building the decor of your wedding reception is found in choosing the right wedding cake design, and this is equally true for a fall wedding. The cake stands as the visual focal point of the reception hall. It is usually the largest single decoration for your reception hall and it is what your guests will see first when they enter your reception hall. As a result, you want to choose a fall wedding cake design that will develop your theme. Depending on the theme you are trying to develop... Read more »

Fall Wedding Theme Opportunities

When the average young girl thinks of a fall wedding, no doubt she usually thinks of a reception decorated with cornucopias, corn stalks, pumpkins, and fallen leaves. So is it any wonder that autumn weddings are less popular than spring and summer weddings where opportunity for variety in wedding themes abounds? Not that there is anything wrong with any of those things. They have their place. But unless that particular young girl loves cornucopias and everything that goes with them she often... Read more »

How to Use “Tea Lights” When Open Flame are Not Allowed

Want to use tea light candles to mark your path or adorn the tables in your reception? Tea light candles in a darkened reception hall or just after sunset at the beach can create an almost magical effect that will create an amazing amount of ambiance without costing you a lot of money. But what do you do if the facility (or the state) you are using says no to open flames? It is not an uncommon problem. As buildings get older and people become more aware of the risks posed by open flames it is... Read more »

How to Fit Winter Wedding Favors to Your Wedding Reception

The ideal winter wedding favors will embrace a particular part of the season. For example, one glance at a miniature snow globe favor and the viewer is reminded of the fun of a snow filled winter’s day when loved ones can play together in the freshly fallen snow. Those are happy times filled with mittens, scarves, boots, coats, snowball fights, snowmen and women, hot chocolate, and warm bowls of soup. Thus, by its very nature, the perfect winter wedding favors can suggest a specific wedding... Read more »

When Eva Longoria And Tony Parker Got Hitched, Guests Got A Real Gift!

While San Antonio Spurs Hoopster Tony Parker married oh not so Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria with family, friends and tons of celebrities attending the ceremony just outside Paris for a “summer wedding”, the happy couple weren’t the only people to get the gifts. Each female guest received a “gift of gratitude” from the newly married couple– Van Cleef & Arpels Sweet Alhambra bracelet that is based on the French jewelry line’s iconic Alhambra design.... Read more »

How to Avoid Cookie Cutter Wedding Formats

e all want our wedding to be memorable and very few truly want it to fit into a cookie cutter wedding format, but how do you avoid it? Aren’t all wedding pretty much the same? Only for the unimaginative and the lazy couple - and even at that by the time you pull everything together a cookie cutter wedding might end up to be an equal amount of work as a unique nuptial celebration designed to fit the individual couple. Dream - Together: If you don’t want a wedding that looks like every... Read more »

How Your Venue Affects Your Wedding Color Choices

In a perfect world the task of choosing wedding colors would be as simple as choosing your favorite combination and leaving it at that. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Neither do we live in a vacuum. And the practice of choosing our favorite combination forgets that our wedding colors have to work in our wedding venue… as many brides have discovered after it was too late to do anything to remedy the situation. Let me illustrate with the story of some friends of ours who were... Read more »

Are Fall Wedding Favor Options Really as Limited as they Say?

If you are planning an autumn wedding then it is only natural that you wonder about your fall wedding favor options. Are you limited to leaf shaped chocolates wrapped in tulle? Absolutely not. Since the changing of the leaves is such a distinguishing mark of the fall season its easy to make the mistake of thinking that fall wedding favors absolutely must have a leaf motif. True, the classic fall wedding reception look with a fall leaf motif need not remind anyone of farmer Johnson’s barn (even... Read more »

Disposable Wedding Cameras Catch the Scenes Your Professional Photographer Cannot

Even if you have the best wedding photographer in the world, disposable wedding cameras nearly fall into the must have category. Yes, if you have done your homework your wedding photographer will be a highly trained professional with the experience to know how to get most of the normal pictures that a new couple wants to remember their marriage ceremony. But most does not mean all and unless you have hired an entire army of photographers there is absolutely no way they can be everywhere to catch... Read more »