Posted on Jun 12, 2010 under wreaths | Comments are off
Clear beer bottles thoroughly and remove the labels. Spray paint the bottles with the glitter spray silver, gold, or in your wedding colors. Tie an identical or contrasting ribbon across the neck of the bottle with ribbon streamers hanging down. Set both a candle in the high or fill with water and insert flowers. Make an association of 3 or five bottles per table.Use sherbet dessert dishes or champagne cups for this showpiece plan. Using three dishes per table, gather them in a cluster in the center of the table. Tie ribbons/bows on the stems. Setmints in one dish, small chocolates in another and arduous candies in the third. Scatter flower petals, confetti or tinselaround the bases of the dishes.Visit garage sales or a “dollar” store. Purchase a number of decorative teacups and saucers. Sizzling glue the cup to the saucer. Place a small bit of florist foam contained in the cup, add water with put in fresh reduce flowers into the foam or skip the water and use silk flowers.Purchase some colored glass beads available in most craft stores in addition to situate a small layer within the bottom of a giant, yet shallow glass bowl. fill up the bowl with water you may colour the water with meals coloring if you want in addition to float a candle and some flower petals on top.For a garden wedding, purchase pre-made, small fowl houses. Paint in addition to adorn the houses. If it would not already have a perch, drill a small hold in the front of the bird house with glue in a small dowel piece. Connect a small hen to the perch available at most craft stores. Situate the birdhouse on a mattress of twigs and colourful leaves.Go to your native nursery in addition to purchase some small potted plants. Reduce a big circle from material in your essential wedding shade – sufficient so it covers the underside of the pot in addition to up the sides of the pot, so you’ll be able to gather it collectively by the rim. Secure the material with an elastic band. Tie a large ribbon and bow around the top of the pot to cowl the elastic using a complementary color. These build very nice with simple wedding centerpieces, which you’ll be able to hand out to your bridal occasion attendants or to members of the family on the finish of the evening.Utilizing pillar candles is common choice for simple wedding centerpieces as a result of they’re so convenient. Get a plate or base slightly bigger than the pillar candles you choose to use. Place a grapevine wreath on prime of the plate be certain that the opening within the wreath is not less than a half of” bigger than the candle base. You’ll be able to beautify the wreath with some skinny ribbons, string craft beads in addition to small dried flowers. Place the candle within the center. If you want to take action, you may also top it off with a glass hurricane lamp cover. Buy little straw craft hats. Embellish them with ribbon attached around brim in addition to a cluster of dried flowers on single side of the hat. Finish off with a bow. Place these within the center of the desk and scatter some flower petals around. Another thought is to turn the hat over in addition to fill it with a dried flower arrangement.Embellish some wattled baskets in your wedding colours using ribbons and fabrics. Place fruit or rolls within the basket. A nice simple wedding centerpieces concept with a practical use.
A wedding towel cake is not an actual cake, but rather a tiered towel arrangement that is often used at bridal showers. Make a towel cake out of towels that will serve as gifts to the bride and groom with help from a chef in this free video on wedding cakes. Expert: Dan Stringfield Contact: www.twiggs.org Bio: Dan Stringfield is a graduate of the San Francisco Culinary Academy. Filmmaker: Oziel J. Ibarra
Posted on May 31, 2010 under wreaths | Comments are off
Christmas weddings allow couples to lower their costs and be part of one of the happiest times of the year. Planning a wedding can be one of the most exciting times of ones life. A budget is many times a large factor when planning a wedding; Why not choose Christmas season, to marry the love of your life? It could save you time and money. Haven taken part in planning a Christmas wedding, I learned many ways to help cut costs and still have a beautiful ceremony. One of the largest expenses of a wedding is decorations. During Christmas season, most venues are already adorned with greenery, wreaths and Christmas trees. While you may want to add some of your own special touches to your venue of choice, it would probably not be necessary.To help when selecting colors for your beautiful day, in case you have not seen your venue decorated at Christmas time previously, ask your wedding venue to see some of their Christmas decor. If that is not an option, ask if they could tell you the colors they will be using. You would be surprised at those that do not use the typical Christmas color palette. This will help when choosing attire and flower bouquets to be used in the wedding. Most venues, including churches, restaurants, public parks and personal homes, already decorate for Christmas. There are a few tips I learned when planning a Christmas wedding while sticking to a strict budget. Most decors will include Christmas trees with beautiful lights, as well as wreaths, ribbons and candles. For added personal touches, you may have things around your house or that you could borrow from friends and family that you could incorporate along with the venues decorations. Having a Christmas wedding allows you the opportunity to utilize decorations you, and your family or friends may have around the house, such as white strands of lights to be used around the wedding venue, wreaths to adorn church pews or reception tables, candles and even fresh greens cut from Christmas trees that could also be used. A great way to pull together wreaths that are not matching is to add a matching ribbon to each. Christmas ornaments are also a way to add some beautiful textures and colors to a table or Christmas tree. If you would like to incorporate flowers to your venue, a great choice would be Poinsettias. They are in season during Christmas and readily available. Poinsettias are a beautiful red flowered plant, and would be an inexpensive alternative for a fresh splash of color.Planning your wedding at a time where etiquette allows you to avoid serving quests a complete meal can save a lot of money. An early afternoon wedding would allow for serving delicious festive cookies, candies and cakes, along with hot cocoa or apple cider for a tasty addition to your ceremony. This would allow you to add your own touches if you baked them yourself or you could pick them up from a local bakery, either way saving a lot of money. Christmas season is one of the most festive, vibrant times of the year, with sparkling lights, fresh greenery and baking smells, and bright beautiful colors. Planning a Christmas wedding when most venues are already beautifully adorned with greenery, lights and colors is a great money and time saving idea.
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Arranging a wedding bouquet requires gathering up the flowers into a bundle, adding a bit of greenery and wrapping the stems together using floral tape. Arrange a wedding bouquet, using either fresh or silk flowers, with information from an experienced event coordinator in this free video on weddings.
Posted on May 16, 2010 under wreaths | Comments are off
Which day remains in our memory for as long as we live? What preceded each and every family life? Indeed, you will agree with me, in fact, everybody will agree – it is our own wedding day!From as young as 12 years old I began to dream about my future family and my wedding day! I tried to get all possible information about wedding tips and ideas. My room was piled up with magazines and books on weddings in different countries, wedding traditions in different cultures and nations. Many years passed since that time. Till now this information helped not only me for my the most important day in my life, but to many of my friends and colleagues – for their wedding day. And today I would love to share my homework on weddings with you. Worth-trying wedding ideas from foreign cultures. Surely, it will make your own wedding very unique and really memorable. And here it follows… An example of unique combination of old and modern traditions we can find in Russian and Ukrainian weddings.Customs of weddings in RussiaNowadays, Russian weddings come in a variety of different forms. They can contain elements of a traditional Russian wedding and also hints of a European or American-style wedding. The latter have become more and more popular and modern in recent years. True Russian weddings are unique in the fact that they are always lavishly played out! We say “played out,” as a Russian wedding ceremony is usually conducted as though it were a theatre spectacle where there is a script and everyone knows their role.In times gone by, a form of courtship would have taken place to secure the union of the happy couple. By tradition, the groom’s parents would ask the bride’s parents for their daughter’s hand in marriage for their son. Nowadays, this tradition has become practically extinct and only from time to time will the groom ask the bride’s parents for their daughter’s hand in marriage or request an approval of their union.As part of the Russian wedding ceremony, people still enjoy the tradition of ransoming the bride. Before the young couple leave to go to the ZAGS (Registry Office), the groom must go to his future wife’s house where he will be greeted by friends of the bride, relatives and guests. They organise various fun games for the groom, like, for example, asking him challenging risque questions, persuading him to carry out certain tasks and demanding a ransom for the bride. The groom must fulfil all the tasks, namely, singing, dancing, reciting poetry, solving riddles and various other challenges. Then, as a ransom, he must give out sweets and money to all those who have arranged the obstacles along the way to him winning his bride (in other words, those who have set the groom challenges to prove that he is worthy of his bride.)There is an age-old tradition that on the day before the wedding the bride will arrange a hen party and invite all her friends who will support and protect her in her new life. It is becoming an essential part of new traditions that the groom should organise a separate party for his male-friends; a tradition that has been imported from the West. The groom will say goodbye to his bachelor lifestyle whilst in the company of his friends.After the registration in the ZAGS or the ceremony in the church, the newlyweds and all their guests go to the reception which is usually held in a restaurant, a banqueting hall or at someone’s house. By tradition, the young couple is met by the mother of the groom or all the parents who offer them bread and salt. The young couple must then take turns to eat the bread. The person who eats the largest piece of bread will be the head of the household. This equal opportunity ritual between the couple has only been observed recently as before it would have always been the male who would stand at the head of the household.It is while everyone is sat around the table that all the guests will pass on their good wishes to the couple, raise toasts and offer presents. By tradition, two toddlers will be put in the centre of the room, one dressed in blue to symbolise a boy and the other dressed in pink to symbolise a girl. The guests will then offer sums of money to whichever toddler they choose. The toddler who receives the most money determines the sex of the married couple’s first child.A fundamental component of the Russian wedding is the cries of “gor’ko” where the newlyweds must stand and kiss for as long as possible. All the guests stand round them and count “1, 2, 3… 15…. 20, etc.” The longer the young couple can kiss for, the stronger their union will be. The guests always demand that they kiss for as long as possible. Often, the reception can be a tiring experience for the young couple as they have to entertain their guests by this kissing ritual.According to European tradition, the wedding ends with the bride throwing her bouquet over her head to all the unmarried girls in the crowd. Whoever catches it will become the next bride. After the ceremony has ended, the young couple goes off to their new house or hotel. At this point, the groom must take the bride in his arms and carry her across the threshold; a local custom that indicates the strength of their marriage. As a rule, the young couple then happily journey off into the sunset for their honeymoon.Ukrainian WeddingsGiven their common Slavic roots and culture, it is not surprising that Ukrainian weddings are very similar to Russian weddings. However, some variations do exist.On the day of the wedding, the groom’s first duty is to pick up his bride from her house. Before he meets his loved one he is met by relatives and friends who will demand a ransom for the bride. This is the most special and exciting part of the whole affair. The groom must complete several tasks in order to demonstrate his strength and intellect. If he fails to complete a task, then he must give out money, sweets and drinks to the guests. The result of his efforts is the possession of his loved one. This tradition remains popular to this day. After the groom’s challenges, the young couple will go to the ZAGS (Registry Office) and then the church (if they so choose). A celebration of the events usually follows the registration of the marriage.In today’s world, weddings in Ukraine can be compared with weddings in Europe, where the main ceremony is conducted in prestigious restaurants or big halls.Despite the loss of some traditions, the guests still present the young couple with a karavai loaf. As a rule, the loaf is baked only by those women whose family life has been very successful as it is said to bring good luck to the young couple in their own family life. The newly-wed couple will free two white doves – usually in front of the building where their wedding proceedings take place.One of the distinguishing parts of a Ukrainian wedding is that a giltse (a large wreath which is decorated with flowers and ribbons) is placed on the table next to the karavai loaf. This symbolises maidenly beauty and innocence.On her head, the Ukrainian bride will wear a wreath with different coloured cascading ribbons. At the end of the festivities, the bride will throw the wreath into a crowd of unmarried girls. The person who catches the wreath will become the next bride. This tradition is very similar to the European tradition where the bride throws her bouquet into the crowd. It has been said that the European tradition of throwing a bouquet into the crowd came from the Ukrainian tradition of throwing wreathes, however, nowadays Ukrainian weddings usually conform to European traditions.The host of the occasions will organise fun games, poems and little ditties. Guests usually give the couple useful, practical gifts, which will be helpful to the couple in their married life. Accepting the gifts is no easy matter. The bride and groom must show interest in every gift. They must unwrap the present, study it and then express their gratitude to the guest. The money usually goes to the groom, and other items and flowers go to the bride.Without any doubt, some wedding traditions are intertwined and interrelated in all cultures. There is always room for improvement in preparation for the moment of your dream – wedding day. Do your own research, share ideas with others, send me your own wedding tips – it will assist us all. Our efforts can make a difference to make wedding ceremonies better, brighter, more exclusive and worthy to be proud of.
Posted on May 16, 2010 under silk flowers | Comments are off
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Here’s a high-on-the-head version of Xteeener’s outrageously easy bun. I added tons of silk flowers, as I’m known to do, lol. I love it! Here’s the tutorial – www.youtube.com
Posted on Mar 20, 2010 under silk flowers | Comments are off
Flowers add color and fragrance to any occasion. Throughout history of human kind, flowers have been associated with love, purity, freshness and other emotions. Flowers are used in birth ceremonies, romance, marriages, death etc. The flowers of different colours symbolize different emotions. Red roses are symbols of love beauty and passion. Red poppies are worn to commemorate deaths of soldiers. Lilies are used in burials for symbolizing resurrection after death. Daisies represent innocence.
The usage of flowers in weddings date back to the ancient ages. Flowers and herbs adorned the veils of brides in Rome. Ivies were used in Greek weddings to symbolize eternal love. The Saracens used orange blossoms as wedding flowers. Wedding flowers enhance the ambience of the wedding, and are the right carriers to convey the emotions of the ceremony.
Types of Flowers. The usual flowers used for wedding are lilies, roses, orchids, and other flowers.
• Roses include, Jacaranda, Bridal Pink, Delores, Candia, Sterling Silver, Sonia, Lady Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy etc.
• Lilies include, Lily Of The Valley, Zephyr Lily, Rubrium Day Lilies, Calla etc.
• Orchids include Japhet, Phalenopsis, Spray Orchids, Dendrobium, Cymbidium, Catlaya etc
• Other flowers that are used in weddings are Violets, Amaryllis, Daffodils, Asters, Anemones, Chrysanthemums, Daisies, Forget Me Not, Gardenia, Gladiolus, Lilac and Iris etc.
Budgeting for Wedding flowers. Budgeting is very important for obtaining flowers economically. The best way to reduce the cost is to opt for in season flowers. The flowers out of season will be costly. It is prudent to contact a florist well in advance, since flowers ordered in haste will neither be to taste and will nor be economical.
Florists. Weddings are hectic and demanding as many decisions like, venue, ceremonial style, guests, food and other arrangements are to be taken into account. So it is better to leave the arrangements of flowers to florists. A photograph of wedding gown and a sample cloth piece of wedding gown should be shown to the florist for him to decide the best flowers to suit the dress.
Floral Arrangements. Floral arrangements are required for bridal bouquet, headdress, wedding table, wedding cake etc. Florists usually do floral arrangements. Some headdresses contain flowers so care must be taken that the bridal bouquet and the headdress match.
Wedding flowers Color And Shape. Traditionally the color of flowers is white, as white symbolises purity and virginity. However sometimes the colors of wedding flowers are changed to match the wedding gown and the general scheme of wedding. Various shapes of bouquets are available like round posy, cascade, waterfall etc. The shape of bouquet should be chosen considering the height, skin tone, shape etc of the bride.
Silk flowers. Scented silk flowers are also being used nowadays as they have longevity and can be kept as a memory of the wedding day. There is no fear of the flowers wilting of the flowers due to heat during the wedding. However they do not feel like real flowers.
Wedding flowers add color and aroma to a wedding. Wedding flowers increase the attractiveness of the bride to a higher level. Hence the choice of wedding flowers should be done with thought and care
I love it! Here’s the tutorial – www.youtube.com