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Olga is manager at Best for Bride since 2005. Currently Best for Bride operates 4 bridal stores in Canada (Toronto, Etobicoke, Hamilton and Barrie). Best for Bride sells wedding, bridemaids, mob dresses and more. https://www.bestforbride.com/
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Wedding Invitations: DIY or Shop-Bought?

Making your own wedding invitations is a great idea – that is if you have the time to spend poring over every detail for 200 invitations. But if you have only 50 guests, the idea is feasible. But there are lovely ready-made invitations of all designs, sizes, and colors that can change your mind about making your own invitations. So what should you do now?

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The DIY Option

Bridal couples who worked on their own elegant wedding invitations deserve awards for their industriousness and perseverance. Why? Preparing the invitations or working on each card lovingly takes time and there are a hundred things to do apart from slaving over these invitations. There is the shopping for bridal dress, the groom’s and his best men’s tuxedos, the bridesmaid dresses, mother of the bride/groom dresses, and choosing the venue, menu and music to do.

If you are bent on making your own invitations is popular way to save money. You can save as much as $100 for 200 invitations. There are online step-by-step tutorials that can show how to do beautiful handmade wedding invitations using rubber stamps or DIY invitation kits. To solve the time issue, use desktop publishing and le the local copy shop make several copies, and cut and fold the invitations.

But before anything else, go over designs you want copied or create your own personalized wedding invitations. You can use different materials for your invitation or even take your own snapshots and convert this into a nice invitation with the elegant printing at the back of the picture. For more ideas for your invitation, check out wedding sites online BUT if you can’t come up with an idea or if you have no time at all, choose from the countless designs for wedding invitations to suit your wedding theme.

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The Ready-Made Option

You cannot expect to have unique invitations if you buy these from bridal shops YET you can personalize the invitation to make it truly your own. Bridal shops have a stock of ideas for personalized wedding invitations for the discerning taste and offer a complete range of exquisite cards and envelopes. This gives you the flexibility to mix and match or get a coordinated look for your invitations.

With an assortment of invitations available, it is convenient to select one that conveys your thoughts, and tastes as well as the wedding style. All information – wedding couple, wedding host, wedding date and time and location of the ceremony and a brief note about the wedding reception are indicated in the invitation. You work it out with the bridal shop to get the right information down to pat and you can ask for a sample copy before finalizing the printing of the set.

The envelope is another detail. The invitations have two envelopes. The inner envelope is a sort of protective cover. This is enhanced with colored lines to reinforce your wedding color. The outer envelope is the mailing envelope. This contains the return address just in case there are undeliverable addresses. When you order these invitations, these are delivered after a week and after you have approved of everything and checked that spelling of names and other information are correct.

Your Choice

DIY or shop-bought wedding invitations? That’s your choice. Both have its pros and cons but if you want more time to do other wedding preparations, the smart choice is ordering your invitations.

Don’t forget to look at the selection of wedding invitations when shopping for wedding dresses or plus size wedding dresses and mother of the bride dresses. Visit BestforBride.com today for your bridal needs.

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Hot Tips for Baking Cool Wedding Cakes

Bakers and aspiring bakers are always on the hunt for the latest in baking, specially wedding cakes. This reflects changes in tastes and brides are choosier or adventurous when choosing their wedding cake designs.

Baking for Weddings

If you have been baking since your brownies days and shifting towards tricky wedding cakes, there are a lot of things you should before you embark on this baking career. Basic baking classes can start you off in the right direction but if you content yourself with textbook knowledge and don’t roll up your sleeves, you can’t be the best wedding cake baker. Learning to bake the super cake prepares you to bake your own four-tier wedding cake.

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So you want to try baking wedding cakes? Whether it is for business or a preparation for your own wedding, baking great wedding cakes can be lucrative and rewarding. Before starting out, master the basic butter and white cake recipes. Try new recipes, such as the Italian Light Coconut Cake and other cake recipes for prospective customers who might request cakes generally baked back home – Mexican cakes, German chocolate cake, strawberry shortcakes, and cheesecakes.

While learning different cake recipes for wedding cakes, shop for different baking equipments. Cake recipes call for specific baking utensils and equipment. Making do with what you have may not yield the best results so prepare to invest heavily in quality baking utensils and equipment. You will need food processors, different sized baking pans, custom-made pans, two heavy duty cake mixers, on top of the oven. To save on money, buy your mixers and food processors direct from the manufacturer or distributor.

Various cake decorating tools that can handle wear and tear are best additions for the baking collection. Familiar brands of these items can be bought online or from the super mart. All baking tools and equipment should be kept scrupulously clean. Pans should not rust or have dents. Everything must be in perfect condition for each baking session.

Baking Your Own Wedding Cake

Wedding cakes are baked days before the wedding. Baking a four or five layer cake is best baked three days before the wedding. The final touches can be a day before wedding day. Baking four or five cakes in different sizes can take you an entire day; icing and decorating one or two days. So time your schedule to have your very own wedding cake ready for the reception.

During the first day, that’s the baking day, cakes should be cooled for thirty minutes before these are removed from the pans. To remove, carefully run a knife around the pans’ insides and turn the pans upside down to slide cakes out. When the cakes are completely cooled, cover with foil until you are ready to assemble the cakes.

If you cake recipe calls for filling, use a serrated knife to cut cake into equal layers. This is tricky so do this slowly lest the cake should break. The fun part starts when you ice and decorate the cake. If you are copying wedding cakes designs from magazines, be sure to have everything ready and ribbons measured and pre-cut. The day before the wedding do the icing and decorating. Make sure that people transporting your cake to the reception secures the cake in position. Final touches can be done at the venue by a friend or the hotel’s chief baker.

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If you can’t bake your own wedding cake, order yours from trusted bakeshops months ahead. You can also order your cake from a one-stop bridal shop.

For wedding cakes and wedding dresses, check out the one-stop shop for wedding dresses in Toronto. Visit BestforBride.com today.

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Plus Size Wedding Dresses: Move Over Barbie Brides!

In real life, real women do not have Barbie doll proportions and recently all eyes are riveted on curvy models on the catwalk and they’re doing just as fun as their thin-reed counterparts. Thus if you are a plus size, you shouldn’t go red all over the face shopping for a wedding dress.

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Plus Sized and Sexy

Size 16 Crystal Renn is proving that curvy women can ooze sex appeal in plus size wedding dresses. This Florida model broke barriers in the modeling world by placing the curvy women in the frontlines of fashion. Just by watching her in different flirty, girly, and sophisticated dresses, you can already imagine how great you can look in of those stunning plus size wedding dresses. Now you know that if you are a size 14 or 18, you can swing it. Say goodbye to starving yourself to a size 10 if you are a size 18.

In the first place, your groom loved you from the start proving that in love, weight does not matter. Top designer labels also adore the full-figured frame; now there’s no reason why you should buy a size 10 dress when you are a size 14 or 18 to copy the unhealthy looks of reed thin models because this is the vogue.

You can choose several designs from the plus size wedding dresses – sheaths, princess cut, ensembles, off-the-shoulder and sleeveless numbers. Remember these are all designed for the full-figured women, apple-shaped or pear shaped and the fabrics used are all selected to create a slim silhouette. You can buy your plus size wedding dress with confidence anywhere and anytime.

Let Your Natural Beauty Shine

Imagine yourself exercising 8 hours a day and wearing out your joint muscles and eating vegetables day in and day out and avoiding even the slightest hint of sweets and butter! Your hair will fall off and you’ll be irritable and unfocused. What a miserable preparation for a wedding day. Don’t punish yourself beyond your limits; exercise to tone your muscles and eat healthy to put a glow on your skin. Let your natural beauty show instead of stunning your groom and your friends with a new look that isn’t you.

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The same rules apply when you choose a dress from a rack of plus size wedding dresses. Go for softer fabrics and dress style to complete your body shape. The bridal salon’s bridal specialist will help you sort out the dresses until you find one that’s perfect for your height, coloring, and body shape.

The concession you can make to the Barbie look, is copying a Barbie hairstyle. Ask your hair stylist if you can swing it with an ‘up do’ or just let your natural hair flow in its natural curls or waves. A diamond studded hair clip or flowers in your hair are ready options for long or short hair.

Don’t forget too to choose the right accessories to complement your frame and to match your wedding theme. Chunky accessories may not be suggested by the bridal shop specialist and that’s right. A string of pearls to accentuate a low cut front is just the style full-sized models in their plus size wedding dresses would use or watch the latest plus sized fashion shows and observe accessories and hairstyles.

So who says you can’t be sexy unless you are a size ten? Move over Barbie brides, here come the full figured brides in their plus size wedding dresses.

Are you looking for plus size wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses? Check the selection of wedding dresses available online. Visit BestforBride.com today for exciting news on their latest collections.

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Curvy Moms and Mother of the Bride Dresses

Weddings are all about brides and the grooms. Moms have to take the back-seat. But is anyone wondering how they’re feeling in their awful mother of the bride dresses?

Don’t Forget Mom

Although your mom won’t say it, she’s a little forlorn at the prospect of ‘losing’ you to someone you love but she’ll work hard enough to help you with the wedding preparations. Shouldn’t mom be rewarded with one of those stunning mother of the bride dresses?

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Moms don’t come in one-size-fit-all packages. They have gained inches here and there and they believe that there are no stunning dresses for women their size and age. You mom wouldn’t dare look ridiculous in a tight-fitting dress and would prefer or a tent dress that can house an entire harem of concubines. This hesitance to try on something stunning is understandable; after all, she’s no longer in the April of her youth.

Although moms have mommy fats here and there or have deep laugher lines on their faces, they can still carry their curves well. At her age, don’t force her into something that makes her look too trying-hard to look your age. She must dress her age but look stunning too. The line of elegant mother of the bride dresses would be smart choices for your reluctant curvy mom

Moms whatever their sizes and curves can ease into stunning dresses that would give the bridesmaids a run for their money. If you are going to be a bride this year, take mom along when you shop for wedding dresses and help her choose the best dress to show off her curves but one that hides her mommy flaws.

Ask your mom if she wants something different to wear. Would she go for the classic lines with a new twist or settle with something familiar? Your mom might shudder at the thought of wearing something trendy but persuade her to try on the latest selections of mother of the bride dresses. If she does not like the dress because it’s too showy or too short for her taste, or a bit tight on the arms, usher her to another rack for plus-size frames.

You bet; she’ll be stunned at the sight – plus sized mother of the bride dresses cut and styled in the latest trends. Let mom dare to wear a color she has never worn but looks good her skin tone and cajole her to try a purple chiffon creation with a swirling skirt. You bet, she’ll love her new look and won’t feel too bad losing you to the man after your own heart.

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When to Go Shopping

Since your wedding is also special day too for your mom, take the time to shop and shop months before the altar date. Moms are fussy and won’t settle on something on first sight. She might go shopping on her on if you are too busy and surprise you with nice dress without your help. But if you are scared she turns up with a sorry little dress, you might as well give a month to go the rounds with her.

The first target should be the bridal shop. When you shop for your wedding dress, take mom along so she gets to see the latest styles in mother of the bride dresses and wear one with aplomb to show off her curves.

Your mom should look her best too on your wedding day; shop for mother of the bride dresses when you start looking at wedding dresses for your perfect wedding dress. For more exciting details for your wedding getup, visit BestforBride.com today.