Monday, September 28, 2009

How to get your boyfriend to propose

The million dollar question – you are both in love, you are crazy about him, you've been enjoying a good relationship for quite a while (a few months or seven years – and you know this is it. You are ready and you want it to happen, but it just seems as if he has all the time in the world, so how are you going to get your boyfriend to propose? Here are a few tips that will guide you in getting your boyfriend to propose:


1. Mention weddings and marriage in a general way from time to time, talk about close friends you have who are happily married. Talk about how happy they are together.

2. Point out your shared interests, values and common goals. Open his eyes so he'll realize that you're the one for him.

3. Create opportunities: arrange romantic situations that could be a suitable time for him to propose: dinners, weekend vacations, any thing that can be the perfect scene for your boyfriend to propose.

4. Magic – use your unique and individual style to show him you love him and that you are the perfect girl for him. This special intermix, what you may call magic, is just being a true good friend and expressing it by action, words and any other way you find appealing.

Remember: when you want to get your boyfriend to propose, be patient, act wisely and don’t forget to enjoy the pre-engagement period of your relation.

Get Him To Propose



Wedding flowers

The trickiest question of all: how to get him to propose. It has been your dream ever since, you've always waited for your prince of charms, and finally he has arrived and you have even been enjoying a beautiful relationship for quite a while. But he isn’t showing any signs of doing anything about it. You decide it is time to make a move and get him to propose to you, and make you the happiest woman in the world. So – what to do?

First – stay cool, happy and merry. Men don’t like when women who act nervously; in fact it is the first thing to scare them away. Second – although you have a target in front of you, be a good and loving friend as you have until now – don’t get out of you skin to get him to propose to you. Any drastic changes might seem a little strange. After practicing 'acting casual and natural', the time to add your little spicy act has come.

Your magical sentences should be entwined with your daily conversations and we have gathered a few examples especially for you: Remind him how good you feel together. Point out how well you work as a team. Talk about future plans, such as a joint vacation next summer, moving to a new house or other future events. Mention your close friends who are married and how happy they are together. Express excitement and interest about weddings and all things that are related to the subject: get enthusiastic about the engagement ring of a friend (don’t forget to make sure your boyfriend is around), make a note of pointing out to him engagement rings in the shop window while passing by, but of course, do it in your in a natural and calm way.

Use these tips and ideas to create your unique way to get him to propose to you. Good luck!

Friday, September 25, 2009

Wedding Decoration Ideas

Beautiful wedding decorations add style, fun, and drama to your wedding day. If you love a particular mood, or simply want to create a gorgeous and memorable setting, you need to think in the following areas to decorate and think about using wedding flowers.




Tips for Choosing your Wedding Decorations:

Wedding ceremonies and receptions take place just about anywhere including boats, mansions, marinas, gardens, restaurants, scenic locations, and churches. Each area provides ample opportunities for setting the scene and creating a mood with elegant wedding decorations. First, ask yourselves what style and mood do you both want for your wedding day. Are you casual, sophisticated or romantic? You may decide you want a traditional evening wedding ceremony with lots of candles and wedding flowers, or you may decide on a contemporary setting with silver and white balloons, floating orchids and an ice sculpture. Second, it is important to know your budget. This gives you an idea of how many decorations you can reasonably incorporate into your wedding. Remember that careful planning is necessary to avoid costly mistakes. If budget is an issue, choose only two or three wedding decorations or decorating ideas that really add visual impact. Third, take several photographs of the site to reference as you read through the above ideas. Try to imagine where you could use each idea. It will become clear which decorations will be successful and which ones are unsuitable for your particular setting.

Consider these items when choosing and creating your wedding decorations:

• Color Scheme
• Available Space
• No. of Guests

• Mood/Theme

• Time of Year

• Time of Day

• Location/Setting

• Family Traditions
• Budget

Consider decorations for these areas:

• Altar/Pews
• Flowers
• Gift/Cake Table

• Favors
• Bathrooms

• Guestbook/Pen

• Food/Cake

• Tables
• Guestbook
• Getaway Car

• Chair Backs

• Walls/Doors

• Banisters

• Accessories
• Ceilings/Floors

Keep in mind that locations that are already very festive or decorative may require less, or even no wedding decorations at all! To save money, have friends or relatives transport your ceremony decorations such as flowers, pew bows, or candelabras to your reception site.

With a little imagination, you'll be amazed at how easy and affordable it is to create a unique day that you and your guests will remember for a lifetime.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

5 Tips for Decorating Your Fall Wedding on a Budget

You've got your fall wedding dress. You've chosen your wedding photographer, tasted 100 different wedding cakes, picked your fall wedding location and you've mailed out your save the date magnets and wedding invitations. Any chance you can keep to your budget as you put the final touches on your fall wedding decorations? Absolutely. Here are five fall wedding decorating tips to help you do exactly that.


Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #1: Take Advantage of Nature

One of the most often cited reasons for choosing a fall wedding is the outdoor beauty that defines the season: the gorgeous shades of scarlet, pumpkin oranges, rustic browns and reds create a fiery sunset whether your choose a morning, afternoon or evening fall wedding. Take advantage! Maximize nature. Choose an outdoor location for your fall wedding near a wooded area right after the leaves change, somewhere with tree-lined mountains in the background. There need not be a church or reception area. There need only be chairs divided into two groups creating a natural aisle and facing in the direction of the most brilliant vista view, the foreground of which will be lit up by the bride and groom.

Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #2: Make Centerpieces Serve Double Duty

You can maintain your fall wedding budget by hundreds when you make your wedding centerpieces serve double duty as wedding favors as well. Pyramids that break apart into gifts for each place setting, baskets full of wedding favor gifts, and other arrangements that easily transition into individual wedding favors at the end of your fall wedding reception are the best way to bring beauty to your day and savvy to your budget. Create fall centerpieces that allow your wedding guests to take home a little piece of your special day.

Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #3: Harvest Themed Weddings

Fall is harvest season, and with that means that nature has given us tons of big beautiful crops... and free or cheap wedding flowers as well. Why not use them to decorate your fall wedding on a budget and create a harvest themed wedding? Big pumpkins and gourds can serve in place of wedding flowers, decorating the cake and gift table, or even serve as wedding centerpieces. You may even choose to serve tiny stuffed pumpkins as appetizers or use them as soup bowls for the opening course. Pick a fall color and pull the whole thing together with matching tulle, satin ribbon and table cloths, all of which can be had for a bargain at your local fabric store.

Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #4: Do It Yourself

Just like anything you need to do on a budget, it makes sense to decorate your fall wedding yourself. Let the wedding planner go. Ignore protests that you need a coordinator or a florist. Search in the internet for wedding flowers, farm direct flowers and do it yourself flowers and pick out the freshest blooms of the season. Get your bridesmaids and flower girl working to make the boutonnieres and bouquets. Put your skills and talents to work: if you can sew, make some decorations if not your wedding dress. If you can cook, consider making some of the food for an outdoor fall wedding or even baking your own wedding cake. Make it fall wedding cupcakes! It's your fall wedding. When you do it yourself, you make sure it's done right and for a price you can afford.

Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #5: Be Unexpected

Don't let the trappings of tradition force you into buying things for your fall wedding that you neither want nor need. You'll find that if you question many of the expected characteristics of a fall wedding, many things will simply fall off your wedding budget because they are unnecessary. You don't need to buy out the local wedding supply store or perfectly recreate a celebrity wedding. Make it unique by making unexpected choices in your fall wedding decorating ie. Fall color roses, gerberas, sunflowers, alstroemerias, callas, hydrangeas, bells of Ireland, hypericum berries, Asiatic lilies and make sure that your money is spent only on things that serve to highlight you and your new spouse.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Autumn is Here and the Perfect Wedding Flowers need to be picked!!

Autumn is the perfect time of year to get married with the beautiful scenery and rich fall colors. Autumn is a time of year that symbolizes and celebrates prosperity and abundance, what a perfect way to start a new life together. For an earthy couple or couple that enjoys gardening, a harvest wedding is a unique Autumn wedding idea where you can celebrate the things you love.

Nature can take center stage when choosing your fall wedding colors and decorations. Natural fall colors such as reds, browns, deep greens, golden yellows, burnt oranges, burgundy, maroon, dark purples, and gold are all wonderful choices when choosing your bridesmaids’ dresses and other decorations.

Your decorations can focus on the abundance in nature; roses, calla lilies mango, calla lilies purple, Asiatic lilies, orchids, berries, green hydrangea, bells of Ireland, gerberas, kangaroo paws, squash, pumpkins, gourds, twigs, apples, and corn. You could have elegant centerpieces filled with fruits and vegetables that your guests could take with them after the reception. Bowls could be filled with floating candles shaped like apples. Pumpkins could be hallowed out jack-o'-lantern style but instead of scary Halloween faces you could have designs, leaf shapes, or wedding symbols like rings, doves, a cake, or a bride and groom silhouette carved into them. Small gourds and squash could be arranged on a mirror tile around a large candle.

Other decorating options include: swags and garlands of fall leaves and berries, corn stalks arranged elegantly and tied with raffia or ribbon, wicker baskets full of homemade looking jams, jellies, fruits, rose petals and applesauce, arbors or trellises entwined with grape vines and white lights. Your invitations can be decorated with the same harvest themes, rubber stamped leaves, apples or other fruits and vegetables or you could have invitations on elegant stationary embossed with gold leaves. Rose petals could be scattered on the buffet table and guest tables. Your wedding bouquets could consist of roses, hypericum berries, calla lilies, wild flowers, greenery and fall leaves.

The perfect location could be an apple orchard, farm, vineyard, or even a local Bed and Breakfast or Inn. Any place will do as long as you decorate with nature's abundance in mind. You could offer hay rides to your guests around the orchard or farm.

The Autumn harvest menu could include squash, pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, apple pie, apple crisp, apple sauce, roast vegetables, roast turkey, breads like pumpkin, apple or zucchini, platters of grapes, berries, cheese and crackers, and don’t forget an autumn must have – apple cider and donuts.

Special wedding favors for an Autumn Harvest theme wedding could include small jars of homemade jams, jellies, applesauce, pickles, mustards, or sauces. Other options could be caramel apple kits; bread mixes in a jar or bag, muffin mixes, seed packets, or chocolates in wrapped in foil leaves. Make sure to attach special tags thanking your guests for joining you on your special day.

An Autumn Harvest Theme Wedding is an elegant and earthy way to celebrate your new life together with the abundance and prosperity of the season. Your guests are sure to appreciate such a unique celebration.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Stunning Wedding Bouquets for the Big Day of your Life

Wedding in the absence of flowers is like a garden without blooms, and the flowers are as important as other wedding essentials.

The wedding bouquet, in particular, which you carry on your big day, needs special attention and planning. The right wedding bouquet must complement your dress and at the same time should not detract.

A simple and elegant wedding bouquet is a great accessory to complement your gorgeous gown and smiling face. If a wedding bouquet is too flashy or showy, your dress may not receive the attention it deserves. However, that doesn’t mean that your bridal bouquet should be plain, white and boring.

Pretty Pink




















This collection of 18 sweet and unique pink roses will be a hit with
every bride. Give it to your bridesmaid or carry it with you throughout your big day.
The stems of the roses are completely covered and tied with pink satin ribbon, which will make your bouquet look more elegant and decent.


Vibrant Fall






















This vibrant flower bouquet is hand–tied with a wonderful combination of black magic red roses, mango
mini callas, hypericum berries and circus roses. This amazing collection of flowers is especially suitable for a fall wedding.


Friday, September 4, 2009

Choosing the Best Wedding Flowers




A wedding cannot be considered fitting without flowers, the difficulty lies in the wide choice you may be faced with and the costs involved.

There are so many flowers solutions to choose from and numerous purposes for flowers during a wedding to consider, that it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start.

Before you proceed, consider the costs; these will vary according to the intricacy of the flower arrangements, the magnitude of the wedding party and the type of flowers you will be choosing.

For tighter budgets choose amongst roses, carnations, flower fillers and daisies, while the more expensive flowers will be, orchids, callas, hydrangeas and peonies. In general, if you choose flowers that are in season, they will be fresher and less expensive.

The flower bouquets for the bridesmaids can be re-dimensioned as can the decoration of the reception tables, using seasonal flowers or rose petals as an alternative to the central flower arrangements.

Color schemes are now evolving from the traditional pale colors; the flower colors can range from white to bright reds and oranges.

Other alternative decorations are also becoming fashionable, such as fruit, grasses, herbs and garlands, giving a more natural setting to churches and receptions.