Weddings do not have to be boring; there are a number of fun wedding ideas that could be incorporated in order to make sure that everyone will have a good time.
Weddings in order to be fun has to be able to involve the guests, there should be an event or activity that people can enjoy.
1. Consider hiring a tribal-ethnic band to do a performance during the wedding.
The wedding could be a bit more fun, if there is something exotic and something new that people can dance with. World music performers can provide some much needed entertainment for wedding guests especially for those who are bored.
World Music is very convincing and persuasive and organic music can engage people to interact.
2. Include a poetry reading collaboration during the wedding.
Have some poet friends prepare poetry, or ask them to create a 3 sentence poetry that they can read for the bride and the groom. Have them read their work together with a guitar or saxophone accompaniment to add creativity and joy to the wedding.
This will make the wedding event fun, memorable and interesting and will add a good comic twist that will provide comedic relief to guests. This can make guests feel comfortable and have something to talk about with each other.
4. Allow the guest to give a song request that they would like to hear on the RSVP wedding invite.
5. Hire a food truck or snack bar for late night activities
This will help the guests feel more comfortable, the food truck can serve coffee, waffles or hotdogs as well as hot soup for those who intend to stay longer.
6. Provide your own beer bar
Guest are going to love beer bar, if you can manage with the budget you can also offer cocktails and other liquor that guests are going to appreciate.
7. The bridesmaids could be asked to wear different color for their dress instead of matching ones. The wedding event will look more festive this way.
8. Instead of using a traditional bouquet of flowers, you can use pine tree seedlings as the bouquet. The bride can keep it and plant it and will be a memorable piece for the wedding.
9. Decorate the bathrooms with childhood photos of the bride and the groom. This will make people smile for a moment and this will add an interesting accent to the entire wedding.
10. Put crayons or colorful chalk at the children’s table. Give them a space where they can express themselves. This will make the children creative and this will divert their attention and cause them to feel happy even while attending an adult event.
This will make the guest feel comfortable in the wedding area.
Wedding traditions can give the wedding a sense of timeless charm. Some wedding traditions show little sentiment. They simply look dated and cheap. After months of careful wedding planning to make sure everything is chic and stylish for your perfect day, don’t destroy it all by adding tasteless traditions. Avoid these six wedding trends and traditions that do more harm than good.
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Asking for Money
It’s hard to imagine a situation where asking for money isn’t tacky. Maybe it’s acceptable when dressed in a Santa suit and raising money for charity outside the mall. However, it definitely doesn’t belong on a wedding invitation. The money dance is another tacky, panhandling trend that has faded.
Announcing the Wedding Party at the Reception
This isn’t necessarily tacky, though sometimes it is done in an annoying way such as a choreographed dance entrance. Usually, the announcement of the bridal party by name is just a waste of time. If the guests don’t know every single member of the wedding party, then chances are they won’t find the announcement of their name to be enlightening. As wedding guests, maybe we are supposed to care, but do we?
Garter Belt Removal
Sometimes awkward and always tacky, the garter belt removal has been part of the wedding reception traditions for many years. The new husband would remove his bride’s garter belt and toss it into the crowd. Wedding planners see this trend is disappearing. Less than a quarter of newlywed couples are participating in garter belt traditions during their receptions.
Chocolate Fountains
Once upon a time, people became fascinated with the cascading cocoa of a chocolate fountain. While these are still featured in some buffet restaurants, they are hardly suitable for a grand affair like a wedding reception. They are gaudy and messy.
Partial Invites
Under pressure of looming wedding costs, some engaged couples try to save money by only inviting certain people to the wedding reception meal. They invite numerous people to the wedding and the dancing portion of the reception but not the meal. The meal is reserved for a select group. Separating guests and basically declaring that some guests don’t matter much is in bad form.
Serving Premium and Cheap Meals According to Importance
Another way newlywed couples are playing favorites with their guest list is by serving costly meals to some guests and cheap alternatives to others. This is not a case of guests getting a choice of meals. In order to save money, the couple assigns a cheaper meal to some of the guests. Sitting at some tables, you may have some guests being served steak while others receive chicken or beef tips. This is hurtful, tacky, and causes family conflicts. When you don’t treat guests equally, you are inviting drama. It would be better to serve an affordable meal to everyone or trim the guest list.
Traditions have their place. They should uplift and reflect the values of the couple. Including the best wedding traditions can enhance your special day.
There are so many good reasons why you may be planning a non – traditional wedding. If you are in a same-sex relationship or you just don’t want/need all the girl stuff traditions usually bring with them a non-traditional wedding will make you the happiest.
It’s time to let go of the notion that you are not a real bride unless you wear a shiny new (and no doubt expensive) white dress or even a dress at all. Nowadays you can walk down the aisle in any outfit that makes you feel like the beautiful goddess you should feel like on your wedding day. So don’t feel like you have to choose a white dress or else. Anyone that tells you that you do, you can feel free to ignore. After all, it’s your special day, not theirs.
Depending on how far from tradition you are going in the planning of your wedding you may not even feel the need to have bridesmaids. If you do, there is no wedding law that says they all have to have matching dresses. There is nothing wrong with each bridesmaid choosing her own dress and there is no reason why all of their dresses have to look the same. As long as everyone is considered dressed appropriately for a wedding at the end of the day, which is probably all that matters to you.
As we all know, a traditional wedding usually calls for a bridal shower prior to the big day. If pestering your friends and family to buy gifts that you may or may not like and may or may not use is not your cup of tea you can scrap the bridal shower altogether. If you have a well-meaning friend or relative that insists on throwing you a bridal shower and the thought of opening gifts in front of people makes you want to run screaming into the night there is a unique way around it. Ask your guests to bring their gifts unwrapped and simply display them on a gift table. If you need a justification for this just to shut up opinionated friends and family or to ease any unwarranted guilt you might feel make it all about saving the environment. After all, how much paper gets wasted creating wrapping paper that you’re ultimately just going to rip up and throw away anyway?
These are just a few of the things you can do to plan a non-traditional wedding. For more ideas visit Best For Bride online today.
You finally did it! You picked out your perfect wedding dress, allowing for plenty of time to have it ordered in your size and shipped in time for your wedding. Then it hits you: this will be MONTHS from now and with all the upcoming pre-wedding celebrations, how can you be sure that the size ordered will still be suitable when it arrives?
No need to panic. These tips from our Registered Dietitian, Anna Gofeld, will help you make sure that dress fits even more beautifully on your wedding day than the day you fell in love with it.
Getting married is exciting! You not only get to tell the love of your life that you want to spend the rest of your life with them, but you get to have a big party to prove it, along with several smaller ones.
While you’re focused on putting together the perfect big day, you are probably having a few pre-wedding celebrations as well. Regardless of their size, the one thing most gatherings have in common is FOOD.
Eating together to celebrate is a cornerstone for gatherings of any culture, with alcohol often also added to the mix. Between the engagement party, bridal shower, bachelorette, and wedding food tastings, many brides struggle to keep their dress size in check for their big day.
Here are 3 tips that will help you fit into that wonderful dress you ordered, months later:
1) Avoid Stress Eating and Drinking
Many people turn to food and drink when they are stressed out, often craving sweets and refined carbohydrates (carbs). This a stress response rooted in our biology. When we eat carbs and sugars, our brain releases a chemical called serotonin, which improves mood and induces calmness.
Alcohol also has a calming effect, as it changes the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain to decrease the response of nerve cells.
However, the long-term consequences of poor eating habits and excess alcohol consumption far outweigh their short-term benefits. Refined carbs and sugars—including sweet cocktails—increase the body’s production of insulin, often followed by a sugar crash and a renewed feeling of hunger. This is a double whammy, as insulin is a fat storing hormone and the sugar crash causes an even greater intake of calories. As well, keep in mind that alcohol contains 7 calories per gram, which is almost as much as a gram of fat.
Instead, aim for a balanced plate that includes half vegetable, a quarter complex carbohydrates, and a quarter lean proteins. This will help balance out your calories, as well as ensure you are getting a good range of nutrients in your diet. If you choose to consume alcohol, do so in moderation, with no more than 2 standard drinks on most days and even less whenever possible, as alcohol can really pack on the pounds and interfere with vitamin absorption. Remember that 1 standard drink is equal to 12oz of 5% beer/cider/cooler or 5oz of 12% wine or 1.5oz of 40% spirits, while your glass may hold more than that.
2) Don’t use food as reward
After checking a few big things off your seemingly never ending to do list, it is often tempting to reward yourself with a nice dinner or a yummy treat. This is often a learned response, especially if your parents used food as a reward when you were younger. Over time, our brain connects accomplishment with food treats and we end up reaching for those “sometimes” foods more often than we should. This can add up over time. For example, if you reward yourself with a Starbucks grande white chocolate mocha made with 2% milk (no whip cream) and peanut butter cookie once per week, that will equate to 880 calories per week, which adds up to 13 lbs per year.
Instead of rewarding yourself with food, think of new creative ways to pat yourself on the back. Go for a manicure, buy a new shirt, play a board game with your partner, or just take some time to relax with a good book or craft activity.
If your partner likes to spoil you with chocolates and yummy things, encourage them to be your ally by getting you things like a card or flowers instead.
3) Stick to the 90/10 rule
In life, it is nearly impossible to have perfect eating habits. Particularly when things get hectic and the number of social gatherings increases, some less desirable food choices are bound to happen. This is perfectly fine, but needs to be planned out in order to avoid excess weight gain.
Enter the 90/10 rule of eating: 90% of the time you are eating healthy and 10% of the time you allow yourself to have less desirable food choices. For someone who eats 3 meals and 2 snacks per day, this roughly translates to 2 less healthy meals and 1 less healthy snack per week.
This allows for increased food choice flexibility and a break from the constant meal vigilance that causes most people to give up the health habits they are working on. The most important thing is to get right back to healthy choices at the next eating occasion and ensure that this provisional rule doesn’t become too flexible.
Wishing you great health and good food,
Anna Gofeld, RD, M.A.N., BASc
Owner of Eat Well Anna – annagofeld.com
Registered Dietitian
Masters of Applied Nutrition
BASc Nutrition and Food
Anna Gofeld is a web-based registered dietitian (RD) from Toronto. Using a lifestyle management approach, she helps individuals develop skills and healthy habits that are sustainable for life, allowing for maintenance of optimal health for years to come.
For more information about Anna and her services please visit annagofeld.com
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