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mazzo2001
I am getting married in 2008, and am cofused about what is the best colours for weddings, i am at the moment going with white and red because white is the traditional colour and red is lucky in china, which is where i live, i am having the wedding in the uk mind, could any one advise on if them to are good or if there not why
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Congrats on your wedding. I will be getting married in March, 2007.
As for your colors, White or Ivory is always good. It depends on what time of year the wedding will be held on what colors would be best. I thought I wanted red as well, but I'm having a spring wedding. I tried the different colors on, and had my girls look at them and give me their opinion. Red was too much for me. Instead, I went with a nice light green to symbolize the rebirth of all the plants.
If you're having a winter wedding, I would suggest a silver or a ice blue. Taking faux fur and trimming the neckline of your briedsmaids dresses with it would be a great touch, especially if you could find sewn snowflakes to add to accent the dresses as well.
If you're having a spring wedding, I would suggest pastels. Either pink, baby blue, light green, light purple or a light yellow would go best.
For a summer wedding, an apple color would go well. The brightest of colors always look best in the summer.
For autumn - use fall colors. A darker red, a deep rustic orange, a brown or yellow. Incorporate the most important things to you around this time of year.
I hope I helped, and good luck with your wedding!
Congrats on your wedding. I will be getting married in March, 2007.
As for your colors, White or Ivory is always good. It depends on what time of year the wedding will be held on what colors would be best. I thought I wanted red as well, but I'm having a spring wedding. I tried the different colors on, and had my girls look at them and give me their opinion. Red was too much for me. Instead, I went with a nice light green to symbolize the rebirth of all the plants.
If you're having a winter wedding, I would suggest a silver or a ice blue. Taking faux fur and trimming the neckline of your briedsmaids dresses with it would be a great touch, especially if you could find sewn snowflakes to add to accent the dresses as well.
If you're having a spring wedding, I would suggest pastels. Either pink, baby blue, light green, light purple or a light yellow would go best.
For a summer wedding, an apple color would go well. The brightest of colors always look best in the summer.
For autumn - use fall colors. A darker red, a deep rustic orange, a brown or yellow. Incorporate the most important things to you around this time of year.
I hope I helped, and good luck with your wedding!
How to plan an inexpensive but elegant wedding?
Mspecantan
My wedding is in June 2009. I've just started planning. My colors are Lavender, & Silver. I don't really have a theme. I want to have a wedding with all the perks but half the cost any suggestions?
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Congrats to you and your fiancee!!! YAY!!! :)
Well the main thing is to do what you can yourself... invites, flowers, favors, decorations, etc... those little things can add mucho dollars when you have someone else do it!
I have a budget myself of $4000-5000 (hopefully closer to the $4000!) and I'm having about 125-150 guests.
The biggest expense is the meal/bar bill, which is usually about half of your budget. Having a buffet might be a little cheaper than having dinner per plate, I think mine's gonna be about $10-12 per guest for dinner. As for the bar bill... I'm going to pay for soda, get a keg (or perhaps a half keg? I'm not certain yet lol) of beer and if anyone wants mixed drinks they will have to pay for them. (Some people may think it's tacky, but I am actually putting on the invites -- in small print at the bottom -- that a cash bar will be available all night, so they come prepared, cuz I know a lot of people won't bring money with them if they think *everything* is complimentary.) Mixed drinks are what really hikes up your bar bill!
You can get a lot of ideas just watching those bridal shows on TV. I've also gotten a lot of ideas just reading people's questions and answers on HERE.
My cake... I actually was lucky enough to come across a girl on Myspace that lives in my town that does beautiful cakes out of her home for relatively inexpensive. BUT you must watch that, only cuz a lot of reception sites require a licensed baker or to use their own on-site baker, plus there might be a cutting fee which can range from $1-5 per slice (or even more!!! Make sure you read the fine print before you commit!) :) Also don't look past going to Walmart's bakery or your local grocery store's bakery... I've seen some great cakes come out of those places too, and you would have never known it!!
I am making my own flowers. I actually hit Hobby Lobby when they were having a 50% off sale on all of their flowers, so I got $100 worth of flowers for $50! You and your bridesmaids could have a flower making party (or a favor making party as well!)
As for my favors, I'm doing a couple different things. Of course I'm having bubbles! I got plain bubble bottles at Dollar Tree for $1/dozen (CHEAP!) and I actually found a girl on ebay that prints up labels for very cheap! this is a link to the seller http://stores.ebay.com/Beautiful-Favors-Fast_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZQ2d33QQftidZ2QQtZkm
As for my other favors, I saw a cute one on a website for sale that was called a spoonful of kisses, and it's a plastic spoon with a few hershey kisses, wrapped in tulle and on the tag it says "A spoonful of kisses from the Mr. and Mrs." with our names and wedding date. I also am having programs which I am printing myself.
Also printing up myself are the invites! I didn't need paper that was real fancy so I went to Office Max and got some fall themed paper (cuz I'm having a fall wedding) and some envelopes and some postcards for the reply/save the date cards. (I'm only sending save the date cards to people that live out of the area that will have to make travel arrangements) Cuz I couldn't see spending a fortune on invites that most people keep until the wedding and throw away!
Also, here are some websites that I am using to curb my costs:
http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/ <---AWESOME dresses at a fraction of the cost of traditional bridal shops, excellent customer service and the dresses are JUST beautiful, and are guaranteed for satisfaction!!! They also have bridesmaid dresses as well and other accessories (veils, headbands, hair clips, gloves, guest books, etc.... you get the idea!) :)
http://www.orientaltrading.com/ <---sign up to receive their wedding ideas book in the mail (it's free!) and there is awesome ideas in it and on the website for favors, decor, etc. I'm having a fall wedding and I'm getting leaves to scatter on the tables from here (those are under the fall section rather than the wedding section though) everything is relatively cheap and if you order over a certain dollar amt you get free shipping.
http://www.tullesource.com/ This is awesome for inexpensive tulle and they have such a wide variety of colors. My wedding colors are apricot and sage and they actually have my colors in tulle, which is great cuz I need tulle for one of my favors and for my centerpieces.
http://www.confetti.com/ another great one for confetti (hence the name lol) and other decor. very reasonable prices!
http://www.michaels.com/ yeah... awesome wedding stuff for not too much! I love going to Michael's! (Hobby Lobby and Dollar Tree are my friends too!) :)
Other great sites to check out:
http://www.blissweddings.com/
http://www.brides.com/
http://www.ewedding.com/
http://offbeatbride.com/
http://www.theknot.com/
http://www.ultimatewedding.com/
http://www.weddingchannel.com/
http://www.annsbridalbargains.com/
http://www.efavormart.com/
http://www.favorideas.com/
http://www.getmarried.com/
There ya go, that should get you started!!! :)
Good luck!!!
Congrats to you and your fiancee!!! YAY!!! :)
Well the main thing is to do what you can yourself... invites, flowers, favors, decorations, etc... those little things can add mucho dollars when you have someone else do it!
I have a budget myself of $4000-5000 (hopefully closer to the $4000!) and I'm having about 125-150 guests.
The biggest expense is the meal/bar bill, which is usually about half of your budget. Having a buffet might be a little cheaper than having dinner per plate, I think mine's gonna be about $10-12 per guest for dinner. As for the bar bill... I'm going to pay for soda, get a keg (or perhaps a half keg? I'm not certain yet lol) of beer and if anyone wants mixed drinks they will have to pay for them. (Some people may think it's tacky, but I am actually putting on the invites -- in small print at the bottom -- that a cash bar will be available all night, so they come prepared, cuz I know a lot of people won't bring money with them if they think *everything* is complimentary.) Mixed drinks are what really hikes up your bar bill!
You can get a lot of ideas just watching those bridal shows on TV. I've also gotten a lot of ideas just reading people's questions and answers on HERE.
My cake... I actually was lucky enough to come across a girl on Myspace that lives in my town that does beautiful cakes out of her home for relatively inexpensive. BUT you must watch that, only cuz a lot of reception sites require a licensed baker or to use their own on-site baker, plus there might be a cutting fee which can range from $1-5 per slice (or even more!!! Make sure you read the fine print before you commit!) :) Also don't look past going to Walmart's bakery or your local grocery store's bakery... I've seen some great cakes come out of those places too, and you would have never known it!!
I am making my own flowers. I actually hit Hobby Lobby when they were having a 50% off sale on all of their flowers, so I got $100 worth of flowers for $50! You and your bridesmaids could have a flower making party (or a favor making party as well!)
As for my favors, I'm doing a couple different things. Of course I'm having bubbles! I got plain bubble bottles at Dollar Tree for $1/dozen (CHEAP!) and I actually found a girl on ebay that prints up labels for very cheap! this is a link to the seller http://stores.ebay.com/Beautiful-Favors-Fast_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZQ2d33QQftidZ2QQtZkm
As for my other favors, I saw a cute one on a website for sale that was called a spoonful of kisses, and it's a plastic spoon with a few hershey kisses, wrapped in tulle and on the tag it says "A spoonful of kisses from the Mr. and Mrs." with our names and wedding date. I also am having programs which I am printing myself.
Also printing up myself are the invites! I didn't need paper that was real fancy so I went to Office Max and got some fall themed paper (cuz I'm having a fall wedding) and some envelopes and some postcards for the reply/save the date cards. (I'm only sending save the date cards to people that live out of the area that will have to make travel arrangements) Cuz I couldn't see spending a fortune on invites that most people keep until the wedding and throw away!
Also, here are some websites that I am using to curb my costs:
http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/ <---AWESOME dresses at a fraction of the cost of traditional bridal shops, excellent customer service and the dresses are JUST beautiful, and are guaranteed for satisfaction!!! They also have bridesmaid dresses as well and other accessories (veils, headbands, hair clips, gloves, guest books, etc.... you get the idea!) :)
http://www.orientaltrading.com/ <---sign up to receive their wedding ideas book in the mail (it's free!) and there is awesome ideas in it and on the website for favors, decor, etc. I'm having a fall wedding and I'm getting leaves to scatter on the tables from here (those are under the fall section rather than the wedding section though) everything is relatively cheap and if you order over a certain dollar amt you get free shipping.
http://www.tullesource.com/ This is awesome for inexpensive tulle and they have such a wide variety of colors. My wedding colors are apricot and sage and they actually have my colors in tulle, which is great cuz I need tulle for one of my favors and for my centerpieces.
http://www.confetti.com/ another great one for confetti (hence the name lol) and other decor. very reasonable prices!
http://www.michaels.com/ yeah... awesome wedding stuff for not too much! I love going to Michael's! (Hobby Lobby and Dollar Tree are my friends too!) :)
Other great sites to check out:
http://www.blissweddings.com/
http://www.brides.com/
http://www.ewedding.com/
http://offbeatbride.com/
http://www.theknot.com/
http://www.ultimatewedding.com/
http://www.weddingchannel.com/
http://www.annsbridalbargains.com/
http://www.efavormart.com/
http://www.favorideas.com/
http://www.getmarried.com/
There ya go, that should get you started!!! :)
Good luck!!!
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