“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.” Le Menterur 1642
It’s your wedding and as a couple you want to make it personal and distinctive! This is no ordinary day; this is a day that calls for extraordinary thank you gifts. From your engagement announcement until your wedding day, not only will you be receiving presents, you will be giving them too!
You will want to add special, personalized touches to many areas of your wedding planning; for your wedding party, your ceremony, your stag and doe, for the people who go above and beyond for you,and for out- of -town wedding guests.
Custom personalization adds a creative touch for those special people who touch your life with their help and love. Finding that special gift to say thank you to them, whether simple or grand is easy to do at a local specialty product business. These businesses offer custom embroidery, special digital and vinyl printing services and will do the design for you. They will bring your ideas to reality while working with your budget.
They offer great gift ideas from the perfect monogrammed bathrobes for your bridesmaids to director’s chairs for your groomsmen. They can do couch throws, blankets, ties, clothing bags and more and will personalize them for you.
With thousands of fonts to choose from and a rainbow of coloured threads available, they have the ability to put images on most anything from mugs to coasters, towels, mouse pads to canvas tote bags.
Your wedding favours are a way of bestowing your “love luck” onto your guests and can be small simple keepsakes; a mug, coaster or luggage tag with your engagement photo screened on it with your wedding date and name or initials makes a novel gift idea.
You can also monogram wedding scarves and sashes, aisle runners and ring pillows for your ceremony.
Couples hosting destination weddings have been personalizing flip flips with their wedding details and guests have been are delighted with the gesture.
Brides today are adding that sentimental, “something blue” by affixing a special message, name or symbol and having it embroidered onto the lining of their wedding gown.
 Trevor Booth Photography, Windsor, Ontario You may also want to do a custom gift for your future spouse. A tee shirt, a quotation on a mug, wall art with a quotation for a room in your home, you can create that perfect item.
Once your gifts have been selected pay equal attention to the presentation. Beautifully wrap them, using ribbons and elegantly designed gift tags. Thanking your family, friends and loved ones from the heart with a keepsake, forever gift that you have designed will create a memory forever.
Wedding cakes go back in tradition as far as weddings. The Greeks baked mixtures of grain and honey, the Romans did theirs with grain and salt. The elaborate, tiered cakes we know today came from the era of the pioneer bride. Her popularity was judged by the size of her cake. Guests used to bring layers of cake filled with applesauce, stack them, and then they were iced. The higher the stacks, the more popular the bride.
The bride’s cake traditionally is a 3-tiered white sponge cake, frosted in white or buttercream iccing. Tradition however has crumbled.
 Photo: Vanstone Studios, Windsor, Ontario
Wedding cakes now come in all shapes and sizes. Brides are choosing cakes in chocolate, rum, strawberry, spice, carrot, cheesecake and a variety of other unique and awesome flavours. Cake fillings are as many and as varied as cake flavours. Whenever possible, taste the combinations you are considering to see if they complement each other well. The cake you choose can be simple or a real dazzler.
 Photo: Vanstone Studios, Windsor, Ontario Your cake top can be a personal expression, as well. Traditionally, a bride and groom rest upon the cake. Cascading fresh or silk flowers, delicate blown glass tops, stunning monogrammed initials and fun, clay brides and grooms can be seen on today’s cakes.
Choose your baker by viewing their design album and sampling their flavours, when possible. Be sure to select your baker months in advance. The baker will need to know the date, location and time of your reception and how many guests the cake needs to serve. Many cakes require assembly by the baker at the reception site, so allow time for this.
Your baker will require a deposit to hold your wedding date. Be sure to get a receipt describing the type of cake you’ve ordered, its filling, icing, style, colour and cake top, if it’s coming from the baker. Also, call and confirm your cake order a week before your wedding day. When you verify your order, be sure to confirm all the information you originally provided to the baker. You want the cake that arrives to be exactly what you expect.
The Groom’s cake is a trend that is being brought back after a long hiatus. It is a gift to the groom from the bride and typically has to do with his hobby or something that is near and dear to him. This cake is traditionally servedat the rehearsal dinner, with your wedding party, family and intimate friends.
In addition to your cake, your sweets can create lasting memories at your reception. There is more to nuptial desserts than wedding cake. A sweet table is everything to dessert-lovers- and a good choice for couples who want to serve more than just their wedding cake. Don’t overlook the special touch that customized chocolates can add to the cake table. Elaborate cupcakes and cake pops are hot trends today that are not only tasty, but add to the theme and colour palette of your day. They add fun to your menu.
Many confectioners will customize chocolates and truffles engraved with your initials and wedding date. Candies combined with flowers and netting or ribbon will make lovely table decorations or centrepieces, as well as a favour for your guests to take away with them.
Dessert bars are all the rage at wedding receptions with your choice of specialty coffees, gelato, ice cream, waffles, S’mores -virtually anything that you want to wow your guests with. Fruit and pastry tables or customized crepe bars are well received by your guests, later in your festivities.
It is customary to save the top layer of your wedding cake and a few of your confections to mark your anniversary for you and your groom to share on your first anniversary.
A wedding just isn’t a wedding without flowers. The tradition of flowers dates back six centuries, when brides donned garlands or wreaths to fend off evil spirits.
photo: John Lyons Photography, Windsor/Chatham Ontario
Today, flowers and floral decorations are an important and vital part of your wedding ceremony and your reception. Your selections or theme will set the “colour” of your wedding. Corsages, bouquets and boutonnieres should all blend together and compliment your wedding gown and dresses.
The bride will ultimately make these floral decisions, and whether bold or demure, sophisticated or classic, they will reflect your desires. The flowers you select for your wedding day will surround you with beauty, lasting memories and lingering fragrances.
I had the pleasure of joining Richelle Larose Scheepers on Wedding Talk Radio on WDIR.net live radio at The Dive on February 7, for an interview about weddings in 2013. We covered everything weddings from A to Z! Enjoy the interview and please share it with your engaged friends, too.
Listen to us now for all you need to know about weddings tips and tricks.
http://aperfectdayplanners.com/id20.html Click on Show #2 with Sheryl Davies
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Listen Live: http://aperfectdayplanners.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Show2wSherylDavies.mp3
We had a great time discussing all aspects of wedding p:lanning from ” I Will” to ” I Do”.
The Wedding Guide Windsor|Essex County has been assisting brides-to-be in planning their weddings since 1992. We are your local bridal planning directory; 128 pages chock full of everything you need to know about hosting a wedding. Our local wedding website http://www.theweddingguide.ca has money-saving offers from reputable Wedding Guide vendors, planning tools, interactive budget calculator, checklists, timetables, great articles and more.
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Our goal at The Wedding Guide is to provide expert wedding advice to the bride and her family while keeping the bride stress free and organized. We believe that this should be the happiest time of her life.
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Place Concorde Oasis Bar & The Wedding Guide Windsor|Essex County present:
The Nearlywed Game
COME PLAY WITH US!
February 21, February 28, March 7, March 21
Final: April 4/13
Over $11,000 in wedding prizes for the winning couple and runner up prizes of over $4,000.
For Extra Points DRESS UP, BRING 4 FRIENDS OR MORE AND BE AN ENTERTAINING COUPLE
Windsor, Ontario
Just like the original game show, The Nearlywed Game promises to be exciting, fun and maybe a little embarrassing.
Starting February 21 and continuing Thursday, February 28, March 7 and March 21 in the Oasis Bar, Place Concorde, Windsor and area engaged couples can play to share in a prize package worth over $15,000.
Come play with us………… over $11,000 in wedding prizes for the winning couple and runner up prizes of over $5,000.
First contest night is Thursday, February 21- next week!!!
You have to register to play: Register
Prizes include:
Tuxedos to flowers, rehearsal dinner for 20 to photography. Bridal accessories, photo booth, wedding cake, cupcakes, lighting, framing, hotel nights, and an ice cream scoop booth-
We want to help a couple start their wedding with style.
There will only be 64 spots available and 16 couples will play each week. The finals will be held on April 4 in La Canadienne at Place Concorde, where a Grand Prize winner will be announced after the last round is completed.
“We are pleased to be part of this unique event,” states Didier Marotte, Executive Director of Place Concorde. “This is about having fun and a heart-warming chance to give an area couple an excellent start to their married life! We all know how expensive it can be to host your dream wedding and we are helping to offset that cost and start them on their future life.”
Sponsored by Place Concorde and The Wedding Guide Windsor|Essex County, with Media Sponsor AM800 CKLW, this contest is “about couples and how well they know each other,” states, Sheryl Davies, Publisher of The Wedding Guide. “In this day and age about 75% of couples are living together before they marry, so they know each other far better than past decades.”
The prizes for the contest are provided by Wedding Guide professional vendors and includes cakes, a rehearsal dinner for 20, tuxedo rentals, hotel accommodations, flowers, a photo booth experience, a wedding lighting package and a whole lot more! Grand prize include a lady’s dream cut oval natural amethyst & diamond pendant with 14 carat white gold necklace and 15 round brilliant diamonds (appraised at $1200) compliments of G&G Jewellery & Diamonds. (Prize list on registration form with rules)
“The game will be played much like the original television show, but the fun is about the Wild Card points that will be issued: Couples will receive extra points for dressing up as a famous couple, for bringing 4 or more guests to the competition and for being the most entertaining duo of each evening,” explained Davies, “we couldn’t think of a better way to have some fun and set-up an engaged couple on the way to their future life. Everyone is guaranteed a good time and there are great runner-up prizes too!”
To participate, you must be engaged and you have to register to play and pick the evening you want to compete on:
Click below to hear the 3 commercials and the names of the 15 Wedding Guide Wedding Professionals who have pledged the great prizes.
http://theweddingguide.ca/mp3/AM800-NearlyWedGame1REV-Feb513.mp3
http://theweddingguide.ca/mp3/AM800-NearlyWedGame2REV-Feb513.mp3
http://theweddingguide.ca/mp3/AM800-NearlyWedGame3REV-Feb513.mp3
REGISTER HERE:
http://www.placeconcorde.org, http://www.bridaltalk.theweddingguide.ca http://www.am800cklw.com
Listen to AM800 CKLW to hear the commercial, Nearylwed banter and interviews.
About The Wedding Guide: Windsor|Essex County- Brides have chosen The Wedding Guide as the area’s #1 bridal resource for over 20 years. The128 page planning directory and expert website are all about everything you need to know to plan a local wedding. http:www.theweddingguide.ca
About the Place Concorde – Located at 7515 Promenade Forest Glade, Windsor, Ontario, Place Concorde is the area’s Francophone Club offering cultural and children’s activities, banquet hall facilities, Oasis Bar, and is home of the Canada South Blues Museum- the only living blues museum in the country.
For more information on The Nearlywed Game: Media Contact- Sheryl Davies, 519-252-8463
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