Jul

31

Nice Bachelorette Party Games

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Nice Bachelorette Party Games

Planning a bachelorette party is one of the easiest parts of a wedding to plan. There are literally hundreds of ideas for things to do and a myriad of options for games. Many of those ideas are a bit on the racy side, but there are plenty that that are just plain clean fun.

For example, one popular bachelorette game involves asking the guests to become poets. Ahead of the party, take 50 index cards and on half, write romantic things, like “roses”, “cuddly”, etc. On the other 25 cards, write very non-romantic words or phrases, like “nose hairs” or “ironing”. Then have each guest draw one card from each pile. They should then create a silly poem based on the two very different words or phrases they have chosen, for example, “Roses are red, your nose hairs are ewwwww.”

One fun game that is sure to engender at least a few laughs is “name that item”. Take a paper bag (a fabric bag is better if you have one) and fill the bag with typical “male items”. The items might include a razor, a money clip, a tie, shoe polish, etc. Seal the bag, or fold it over really well. Then have each guest feel the bag and try to guess the contents. Have them write their guesses on a piece of paper. After everyone has had a chance to feel the bag, the contents are shown and the person with the most number of correct guesses gets the bag of male-oriented items.

Here’s a fun idea. This game might take the whole of the bachelorette party, but it’s a fun one that involves all the guests, helps them get to know one another and provides video proof you all had a good time. You need video cameras for this game, so if the host only has one camera, be sure to ask guests to bring more video cameras. Make sure you also have enough blank tapes for this game.

Depending on the number of guests at the party, you’ll divide the party into two or more groups. It’s best to divide the group into teams small enough so that the whole team can get into one car. So you’ll have maybe five women on each team. You’ll give each team a video camera, blank videotapes and a list of “scavenger hunt” type activities they must perform and tape.

Some video scavenger hunt ideas include having a complete stranger sing the national anthem, having a member of the team sing “I wish I were an Oscar Meyer hot dog” in the meat section of the grocery store and taping a stranger who can do a good impersonation of John Wayne.

The teams should be given a specific amount of time in which to complete their assigned tasks and then return to the party location (ideally, a home, in this case). The videos are viewed and the teams vote on the team that did the best. Bonus points are given for the team that creates their own stunts.

Bachelorette party games are not only designed to bring fun to the party, but sometimes to help people get to know one another. This might be a good opportunity for the bride’s best friend to get to know the sister of the groom, or for the bride to get close to the groom’s cousin or niece. So an icebreaker game isn’t a bad idea.

This isn’t perhaps the most intellectual of an icebreaker game, but it will likely break the ice early in the evening before you head out to other events. Play a game called “I never…” and see who takes the most drinks. So the first woman says, “I never…” and completes the sentence. The women who have done the thing the first woman says she’s never done take a drink. Then the next woman claims to have “never” done something.

Some suggestions for this game are: “I never …”
*Lied about my age
*Lied about my weight
*Shoplifted
*Got a speeding ticket
*Ran naked through my house

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Jul

28

Do You Suffer from Wedding Ring Envy?

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Do You Suffer from Wedding Ring Envy?

Not all couples have surprise engagements.

Jul

28

Finding Cheap Bridal Accessories

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Finding Cheap Bridal Accessories

Finding cheap bridal accessories online or at a local retail store is not very hard to do. If you live in a bigger city that has many discount stores or outlet malls, you can find some wonderful bridal accessories at affordable prices. A cheap accessory does not mean that the quality is loss, it just means you are going to save money for other important things, like the honeymoon. Some of the things you need for your wedding include wedding invitations, thank you cards, dress, shoes, make up, jewelry, veils, wedding favors, flowers, garter, bridesmaids gifts, cake, cake topper, cake and server set and a guest book. Once you have all these bridal accessories, you should be set for your wedding day.

Sears and JC Penney’s have online outlet stores that do carry dresses, veils and shoes. You can always look through the websites to see if they have any closeout specials running, which in many cases, allows you to find some very good deals on designer dresses. Shoes and veils can also be found at these outlets or you might try a specialty shop for the veil and one for the shoes. Keep in mind, your veil or headpiece needs to compliment your dress and so do the shoes.

If you need make up, many websites offer sample make up for a very low cost. This would be a great way to fill your entire make up needs for a low cost. You can spend sixty to eighty dollars on make up that you may not use after the wedding, therefore, sample make up packages are idea. If you need nail polish or false nails that you can do yourself, you might also consider looking online. You can find cheaper ways then going to a nail saloon to have beautiful nails.

Flowers are a little harder to buy online unless you have a florist in your local area. Many flower shops allow you to design your bouquets online and they have everything ready the day of your wedding. For the most part though, flowers are usually the one thing you have to do in person. Cheap bridal accessories might also include rose petals for the miniature bride and do not forget the corsages for the men. Once you have your flower order made, you just have to look for the rest of your bridal accessory needs.

Another thing to keep in mind is the wedding cake. You can order cheap bridal accessories, but the cake is usually going to be full price unless you find someone to make the cake for you. You can find many cake pictures online and if you can, you could find someone to make the cake for you. Then all you need to do is find the cake topper, cake knife and the cake server. Along with the cake and cake accessories, you will want to find a guest book for your guests to record their names. These books usually come with a fancy pen attached right to the book.

You will get much more ideas and find more accessories for the wedding when you visit http://www.your-weddingshop.com

Jul

26

Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Games

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Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Games

Wedding rehearsal dinners are a time to relax, calm down and enjoy a quiet evening before the big event the next day. But adding some fun and games into the rehearsal dinner isn’t such a bad idea. It’s a great way to help everyone let off some steam, calm down and enjoy each other.

If you’re planning a sit-down formal dinner, fun games and activities can still be on the menu. In fact, if a formal dinner is part of the plans, having some interesting activities on the agenda is not only a good idea, but also an excellent one. There’s been a lot of planning, and a lot of stress and the wedding party and close friends and family will welcome the opportunity to have a little fun.

The success or failure of any games or activities largely depends not just on the planning but your venue. If you’re having a sit-down dinner in a restaurant, try to get a private room. Then a myriad of fun activities can be planned, such as “pin the veil on the bride”, in which blindfolded guests spin around a few times, then try to pin the veil on a picture of the bride. Silly, yes, but also fun.

One fun activity sure to help everyone blow off some steam is charades. Whoever is up will act out a scene from the bride or groom’s life, so it might be when graduating from college, or getting a huge promotion at work. The “it” person might choose to act out when the bride tripped and fell at another person’s wedding or when the groom saved a dog from getting hit by a car. This is a little twist on charades that helps people get to know the bride and groom better, and adds intimacy to what is already an intimate event.

If the wedding rehearsal dinner is a bit less formal and held in someone’s home, there are many more activities that can take place. For example, how about a night of playing board games? Who needs formal food? You can have that the next day at the formal wedding. At this rehearsal dinner party, the games are center stage.

Bring in some sandwiches and tell everyone to wear their comfortable clothes and settle in for a night of board games. You can set up games on different tables, divide people into groups of 4 or 5 and have everyone rotate tables at designated times. You can even instruct game players that when they move to another table, the game stays out the way it is. So, for example, dad might begin playing Monopoly where the bride was and he’s stuck with only a little money in the bank and no houses on Boardwalk.

So, let’s say the bride and groom are big into sports. If the wedding is to be held in the summer and the days are long, how about a game of touch football or baseball? You can play bride’s family against groom’s family, men against women, or for a twist, the bride plays with the groom’s family and the groom with the bride’s family. Any combination works. The idea here is to have some fun, relax and enjoy each other’s company.

Other outdoor activities can include anything that is physical and might help people blow off steam. Has the bride been more a “bridezilla” than anything? How about a game of tag where she’s it? Or you can create two bridesmaid’s dress-up trunks. Go to a thrift store, fill the trunks with old prom dresses and large-size shoes, and costume jewelry. Divide the guests into two different teams and have someone sit with a timer. The team who dresses one of the men (ideally, the groom and best man or perhaps the two dads) first wins. Be sure to have a camera at the rehearsal dinner/event, because this is one activity you’ll want to have pictures of!

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Jul

24

Types Of Hair Bridal Accessories

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Types Of Hair Bridal Accessories

Your wedding is special and you have a beautiful dress and shoes and the flowers. The only thing left is the hair. There are different types of hair bridal accessories that you can choose from including veils, garland or flower rings, clips, tiaras, combs and hairpins. You want something to match your dress and not stand out and take away from the beauty of the dress. You want bridal hair accessories to compliment the dress and your hairstyle. When you are looking for hair accessories, you might look online or at a local retail or specialty shop. There are so many different types of bridal hair accessories.

Bridal tiaras are beautiful with many different styles of dresses. Many brides are not familiar with the tiaras and they are becoming more popular for any type of ceremony. Queens and princesses wear tiaras when they were at royal functions and when they were wed. Today the tiaras symbolize different things for different brides. They look just beautiful and many brides are fore going the traditional veils for a small tiara that fits beautifully with many different hairstyles. This is a beautiful addition to your bridal accessories.

Hair combs have also replaced the traditional veils. These hair combs are made in different types. One of the popular hair combs resembles a tiara although it is smaller and slides into the hair on the top of the head. Unlike the tiaras that fit the head as headband. They can look just as lovely as the traditional tiaras but do not affect the sides of your hair. They come with diamonds, crystals or beads and pearls. The look is stunning with any type of wedding dress. They are also affordable and can be found online or in bridal accessory shops.

Garland or flower rings are nice for brides who have themed wedding or traditional wedding. You can have them made to match your bouquet and they are usually placed in the hair as you have a stylist do your hair for the wedding. The hair stylish does this in a professional way to accent the hairstyle and the garland or flower ring. More people are choosing garland or flower rings over veils because trends for weddings are changing. The thing to remember about this type of headpiece is that you do not want something that will take away from the dress.

Veils are still used for traditional weddings although the layered veils that cover the face are declining. More brides are choosing traditional veils that flow down the back fore going the front face lay that takes away from the beauty of the face and hair. You do want to spent money to do your hair and make up just to cover it up. The traditional face veil is still used in many countries, it just depends on personal preference. There are different lengths to the veils including shoulder length, middle back length, waist length and train length, which crusades over the train of the dress.

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Jul

21

Engagement Party Games

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Engagement Party Games

The engagement party is a time when the families of the couple will get to know one another. In some cases, this might be the first meeting between the two families or groups of friends and any icebreaker activity will be a welcome event.

In that light, whoever plans the engagement party (likely the bride’s family, but it can be the engaged couple or anyone else who wants to plan the party) should plan a few games and activities designed to help everyone get to know everyone else.

First up is a trivia game. Create a “Trivial Pursuit” type game with questions about the bride and groom’s lives. You might contain the questions to just facts and events relating to both the bride and groom (such as how long did it take her to say “yes” when he asked, where did he propose, where did they meet, etc), or you can include questions pertaining to their lives outside of each other and before they met each other. Not only can this be fun, but also it’s an entertaining way for people to get to know each other and the engaged couple better.

One popular icebreaker that’s used at corporate functions and company parties can also work really well at engagement parties. Tape a card to each person’s back and encourage him or her to work the room, mingle with everyone and particularly try to get to know someone they have never met before. Before moving on to someone else, be sure to make a comment about the person on the card on his or her back. Partiers write an impression of that person, such as “she seems sweet” or “he knows a lot about the weather”.

This icebreaker ends when the mingling session is over. The cards are then read one by one and people not only get to know each other better, but enjoy hearing all the comments people made about them. Try to ensure that comments are complimentary or somehow presented in a positive light. Hurtful comments, obviously, are not appropriate.

If this is truly the first time many of the guests have met, then another fun game involving the wearing of cards might be in order. In this game, each guest wears a card on their front that has their name on the front and a number on the back. They don’t share with anyone what their number is. Guests mingle and chat and get to know each other over the course of the evening.

Toward the end of the evening, the cards are flipped over and the number side is shown. Everyone gets a piece of paper and writes the numbers on the paper, then tries to correspond the name of someone with their number. This fun game can be hard for people who are bad with names, but it’s fun nonetheless.

For an activity that doesn’t put people on the spot quite so much, consider letting the already marrieds help out the to-be marrieds. Place two pieces of posterboard on the wall and mark them “advice from women” and “advice from men”. Now is the time to offer advice about wedding planning, not about being married. That advice can come later. Encourage guests to offer their own wedding planning advice. The advice from older people at the party could be decidedly different from the younger couples in the group, making for an enlightening group of comments.

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Jul

20

Pre Wedding Activities

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Pre Wedding Activities

Planning pre-wedding activities is a little something extra that’s not required, but certainly fun and entertaining for the guests. If the bride and groom keep in mind the distance some guests have traveled and keep activities relevant to that level of fatigue, they’re sure to hit on some winning activities.

As you go about planning activities for the wedding, keep in mind other factors as well. Do many people have children with them? Will you provide childcare or will the children be participants in the activities? If you have several guests who are older, perhaps activities can be tailored in a ay they can participate as well.

Some of the more popular pre-wedding activities include things like a group manicure. All the women in the wedding party or ho are close to the bride (and certainly this could include men if they like manicures and want to hang out with the ladies) head to a nail salon and get their nails done. This can be relaxing for many women and provide a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of the wedding weekend. The men might choose to golf or play a game of tennis while this is going on.

Many brides and grooms choose to provide structured activities for their guests prior to the wedding. If the wedding is on a Saturday night, for example, they might choose to provide a Friday activity, especially if most guests are local to the wedding. You might have a wedding luau. Many times pre-wedding activities center around bachelor and bachelorette parties, but what about a stag party that includes all the members of the brides and grooms families? You could plan some fun (and appropriate) games and head out to a restaurant for a night of fun and games. Be sure to limit the drinking and carousing as this might not sit well with some family members.

Here is a fun activity that can be done right before the wedding. Have someone begin a gift basket. The theme of the basket is “advice for the couple” and could be started by the best man or maid of honor. They take the basket to someone else’s house, perhaps an aunt or cousin and leave it on the doorstep. That person adds an item (a book on how to end spousal arguments? Or a CD of romantic music?) and brings the basket to someone else’s house. This activity can begin a week or two before the wedding and everyone should know it is coming around.

The basket can also be circulated the weekend of the wedding, but this ill only work if everyone is local and if they know the basket is coming. In this case, it also might be helpful to have someone bring the basket to a house, collect the item and the take the basket to the next location, reducing the need to have each person take the basket to its next location. Once it’s full, someone can be in charge of putting the basket items together, wrapping it all up to make it look nice and bringing it to the bride and groom. It can be delivered right to the wedding as a gift in and of itself.

Whatever activities you choose, be sure to keep in mind the needs of your guests and the limitations of those guests. If you want to plan an activity that includes everyone, and you choose golf, but grandpa is in a wheelchair or uses a walker, that might not be the best activity to plan.

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Jul

18

Choosing The Bridal Accessories And Wedding Veils

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Choosing The Bridal Accessories And Wedding Veils

The right bridal accessories and wedding veils are important. You do not want your veil to take away from your dress as well as you do not want your accessories to take away from the look of the dress and the veils. There are so many different types of wedding veils to choose from when you buy your dress. You may want a shorter veil, a longer veil or a headpiece veil. Whatever wedding veil you choose as a part of your bridal accessories will accent your hair as well as your other accessories and dress.

Many brides who have a traditional wedding with all the thrills and frills might have long train on the dress with a longer veil that flows into the train of the dress. This is beautiful when properly laid out by the bridesmaids. Some brides choose a shorter veil when they have wedding dress with a longer train. The wedding veils are especially elegant today and have different styles to choose from when you look around. Many years ago and still today, some brides still prefer the veil that covers the face until the ceremony is complete. This however, is rare today with so many different beautiful designs.

The headpiece wedding veils are more popular today as part of the bridal accessories. The designs are beautiful and elegant and look extraordinary with any type of dress. The two most important things to keep in mind about the wedding veil is first, where you are getting married and the wedding dress in regards to style and color. Since there are so many different lengths, the dress you have depends on the type of veil you can wear that does not take away from the beauty of the dress and yourself. When you choose a headpiece, you can choose between a headpiece with a veil or one without the veil.

If you bridal accessories includes hair combs or hair clips, you might want to take them along when you choose your wedding veil. Not all wedding veils look the same when these accessories are added. You can also choose from many different colors when looking for the perfect wedding veil. Today, white is not the only color to wear when you say your wedding vows. Brides have worn blue, black, red, white and pastel colors. You might even want a white wedding dress with a pastel wedding veil.

Weddings and bridal accessories have evolved over the years and what was once acceptable is now replace with more modern colors and styles. The wedding veils are just another way to accent the dress. Whether you wear a veil or a headpiece, you will always want to remember that you are accenting your hair and the dress. This holds true for the flowers as well. If you have a veil that has a hairclip with flowers, you will want it to match your bouquet. After all, bridal accessories should compliment the bride and flow together nicely. Your photographer will attest to this as well.

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Jul

16

Wedding Guest Book Activities

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Wedding Guest Book Activities

Traditional brides don’t have to have traditional guest books. Certainly you can purchase a standard guest book and ask your guests to sign it, but there are so many more guest book-like activities that are more unique.

Let’s move from the popular to the less well known. One very popular option allows guests to sign a picture of the bride and groom. Simply take a picture of the bride and groom and have it matted in a mat several inches larger than the photo itself. Place a frame around this, but don’t include the glass or Plexiglas frame. You’ll add this later. Some people prefer to use “bulldog” clips to keep the mat together instead of putting the picture in the frame. The picture can be framed after the wedding.

Most couples choose a nice photo of themselves for this picture/guestbook option, although if there’s a formal engagement photo, this is an excellent way to preserve that photo and show it off to friends and family. If photos are taken before the wedding with the bride and groom in their wedding attire, you can certainly use this photo. Many couples opt to either leave the mat empty or they place a temporary picture in the mat and add a wedding picture later.

Be sure to have a nice Sharpie marker handy and place the picture on either a sturdy easel or on a table where guests are sure to see it.

Another option is instead of providing a picture of the bride and groom to sign, the guests are provided with a picture of themselves! Simply provide a Polaroid camera and assign someone the job of taking pictures of the guests as they arrive at the reception. Once the picture is dry, provide a Sharpie and they can sign the picture, make a note to the bride and groom or hand draw a silly picture. It can be whatever the guest wants it to be. This is a unique, and personal, way for guests to “sign in” at the wedding.

Whoever handles the taking of the pictures should also handle putting them in an album of some sort. A scrap booker might provide a special memory book with the Polaroid pictures in it, or the pictures can simply be placed in a nice album and presented later to the bride and groom.

Many guests don’t give a great deal of thought to the guest book. They whiz by the guest book table more concerned with getting their cocktail and hitting the dance floor. If this is a concern, provide a “traveling” guest book. Send each guest something either to sign or decorate before the wedding.

In this “traveling” guest book scenario, there are several options. One of the easiest is to send each guest a small piece of paper and ask them to write something meaningful or thoughtful for the bride and groom on it. The pieces of paper are returned prior to the wedding (to ensure a better response, provide a self-addressed stamped envelope with the paper) and can be compiled in some meaningful way for the bride and groom and presented to them on their wedding day.

If the guest list is a creative or particularly close group, there is one other option that is even more meaningful. Again, in a scrapbook fashion, send each guest a piece of paper to sign or decorate. The paper should be the size of a photo album, so it might be a 6 x 6 piece of paper, an 8 x 8 piece of paper, or even 12 x 12, if the guests are up to that larger size.

In a letter that arrives with the paper, the guests are instructed to create a memory page for the bride and groom. They might include photos, quotes, little anecdotal stories, or combine all of these with stickers or embellishments. It’s thoughtful, meaningful and personal and it’s an excellent way to include guests who might not be able to attend the wedding, but would still like to be a part of it.

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Jul

16

Something Blue, Old, Borrowed And New For Your Bridal Accessories

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Something Blue, Old, Borrowed And New For Your Bridal Accessories

When you are planning for your bridal accessories, you do not want to forget about something blue, something old and something new. Although this is a tradition that has been in existence for centuries, many brides today forget about the tradition. Even if you have a themed wedding or a casual wedding, you still want to have these three things in your procession. For something old, many brides have something that is handed down from family member to family member such as family heirloom or just something that has sentimental value. Some brides will where something from there mothers or grandmothers.

Something old might be the wedding dress, handkerchief, necklace or other jewelry or something else. Bridal accessories also include something new. For something new, you have your wedding dress, your shoes, your headpiece or anything else you may have brought. This is actually the easiest bridal accessories since you need these things anyways. For something blue, you might choose a garter. If blue does not match your wedding color scheme, the garter is always a great way to have something blue. If you color scheme includes the color blue, then you will already have your color.

Something borrowed for your wedding can be open to anything as long as it matches with your color scheme. You might borrow a necklace, bracelet, earrings or even a wedding veil from a family member. You might even borrow something such as a little trinket that you can attach to your bridal bouquet without taking away from the bouquet itself. Many brides also borrow a ring or a wedding band from their mothers to wear on the other hand as something borrowed. These old traditions are still strong when weddings take place more so than any other wedding tradition.

The meaning behind something old is that you are uniting in marriage and leaving behind the old. You are making a new life with the man you love and will share eternity. Something new is that your union will start a new life and new adventures. Something borrowed symbolizes someone or something that you respect or admire. Something blue then represents nothing. It was said that having something blue came because it rhymed with something new. The saying and tradition stills stands even though it has no symbolic meaning when you are getting married. As you can see, except for something blue, everything means or symbolizes something on you wedding day.

Other bridal accessories are also needed such as the jewelry, make up, wedding favors, cake knifes and invitations and thank you cards. You always want to have everything you need far ahead of time to make sure there are no last minute surprises. You are going to have enough to worry about and think about the week for the special day without worrying about if you have everything you need. The day of you wedding, you will have all your bridal accessories including something new, old, borrowed and blue to take with to the area where you will be getting ready.

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