My Wedding: My Bridesmaids

Take a day where you and your bridesmaids can visit all the bridal shops and check out all the potential dress ideas. Make it a girl’s day, include a fun lunch and just spend the day having a good time. Have the bridesmaids try on a variety of bridesmaid dresses and take plenty of notes on what you like about the dresses and what you don’t like.

Shape & Style: Choosing Your Bridal Jewelry

Bridal jewelry should accompany the overall wedding attire, and not overwhelm your look. Keep your hairstyle and dress style in consideration when picking out bridal jewelry. For example, if your hair is long and down, you will likely want to go with small stud earrings. If your hair is up and pulled away from your face, longer earrings are a good choice. If your face is square, avoid wide earrings, whereas if you have a narrow, angular face, wider earrings are a good addition.

Printable Wedding Invitations - Modern Fashion

Printable wedding invitations created in your own home on your own computer can be just as charming and beautiful as those ordered through a professional printer. Creating your own printable wedding invitations can also allow you to personalize them and create them with a wider variety of sayings. Another plus to printable invitations? They make a money-saving option for couples on a budget.

Bridal Bouquet Tips

When you are selecting the flowers for your bridal bouquets, it’s important to explore your floral arrangement options. There is no hard and fast rule that says your bridal bouquets must be made of fresh flowers. However, you do need to be prepared for the elevated cost of that might incur. So here are some tips for choosing your bridal bouquets:

• Select Flowers in Season
• Check out Silk Flowers
• Check flowers that will hold up throughout the day
• Don’t Let Yourself Be Overwhelmed by the Bouquet itself
• Talk to and Show the Florist What you Like
• Discover the Flowers that Have the Special Meaning

• Ivy means fidelity, friendship and marriage
• Violets means modesty and hope
• Zinnias mean thoughts of absent friends
• Jasmine is for happiness
• Tulips mean enchantment.

Printable Wedding Invitations - Modern Fashion

In the modern world of technology where photo quality printers decorate the home offices of many individuals, the idea of sending printable wedding invitations is not as déclassé as it might have once upon a time been. If you decide to go the route of using your own printable wedding invitations or use a program that helps you to design printable wedding invitations, be sure to invest in suitable paper, envelopes and other materials.

Printable wedding invitations created in your own home on your own computer can be just as charming and beautiful as those ordered through a professional printer. Creating your own printable wedding invitations can also allow you to personalize them and create them with a wider variety of wordings, sayings and more. Another benefit of printable wedding invitations is that they can also be a more frugal option for wedding couples on a budget.

Things to remember when using printable wedding invitations:

• Invest in the software if you don’t already have it to generate the layout and fancy typefaces you may prefer. The software should also include an envelope addressing option so that your mailing envelopes, RSVP cards and return envelopes all have the same style and effect.
• Be sure that the printer you use to make the printable wedding invitations can handle the type of paper you want to print it on – for example, some light tissue papers can jam easily in desktop printers.
• Make sure you have a fresh ink cartridge and extras on hand for when you begin your print run.
• You need only print enough invitations as you have guests to invite, however be sure to keep extra supplies on hand in case you need to print up extra invitations.
• It’s always nice, even with printable wedding invitations to keep one set aside for framing or scrapbooking purposes later.

Shape & Style: Choosing Your Bridal Jewelry

When it comes to selecting your bridal jewelry, the type of hairstyle you will be wearing, whether or not you will be wearing a veil and even the shape of your face will play a large role. If you are wearing a headpiece such as tiara or crown, then your earrings and necklace should coordinate with those pieces. For example, a pearl necklace and earrings will complement a pearl headpiece.

When it comes to choosing the necklace, you want to pay attention to style of the gown and its neckline. A high neckline won't require any type of necklace. A V-neck will enjoy a drop necklace. Off the shoulders will be complemented by a choker or smaller necklace that enhances the shape of the neck. The more elaborate your gown, the more elaborate the jewelry should be to accent it. If your dress is simple
with few accents, complement it with simple jewelry.

The color of your wedding will also play a part in the selection of the bridal jewelry. White wedding dresses look great with pearls. Off white dresses look better with white or yellow gold. When choosing your bridesmaids' bridal jewelry, it is important that it is complimentary to what the bride is wearing, but in simpler format. For example, if the bride is wearing a choker of pearls, then bridesmaids may also wear pearls, but perhaps only two strands instead of three. Also, if the bridesmaids are all wearing identical dresses, be sure to put them in identical jewelry. If they are wearing different styles of dresses and different colors, you can mix and match their bridal jewelry as well.

My Wedding: My Bridesmaids

Sometimes the most complicated task is finding a bridesmaid dress that everyone likes. When it comes to shopping for your bridesmaids’ dresses here are some suggestions for making the process simpler and easier on everyone involved.

Plan a day dedicated to bridesmaid dress shopping. You may find yourself making this trip more than once, but when you’ve completed your research on bridesmaid dresses and how your bridesmaids look in the various dresses and colors, it will be time to make your actual choice. The color is your choice - review your notes and make the selection for the bridesmaid dresses.

Remember, the bridesmaid and the bridesmaid dresses should simply complement your wedding fantasy.

Best Man Gifts

Come on guys, don’t panic at the thought of buying your best man a gift! If he’s your best man, he’s probably a close friend- which means you know his likes and dislikes. What kinds of hobbies does he have? Is he into sports? You’ll be relieved to know that you can buy engraved, personalized, sports-themed best man gifts at various bridal sites.

Chances are, your best man will be having some sort of bachelor party for you. Even if that’s not your style, you’ll have lots of opportunities before the wedding to give him a gift. Here are a few ideas:

1) If you don’t want to wait for a bachelor party to give your best man his gift, take him out to the ball game. There are all kinds of best man gifts that fall under this category including personalized baseball bats or engraved baseballs. Depending on where you buy the gifts, prices will vary, but you can estimate a cost of anywhere from $12 to $50 dollars.

2) Take him golfing. The golf course is the perfect place to give your best man an engraved golf luggage tag or an executive golf putter set.

3) In between tennis sets, toss your best man a gift of personalized tennis balls, or a tennis racket keychain. Other best man gifts along the same theme could include tickets to see a professional tennis match or an engraved tennis score watch.

You see? It’s easy. Just use your best man’s favorite sport as a guide, and start looking for the perfect gift.