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“The first bond of society is marriage.” DeOfficious; Cicero
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| In ancient days, after the wedding festivities, the groom kept his bride in hiding to prevent their relatives from recapturing her; they stayed secluded for one month, the cycle of the moon, and drank mead, a honey wine, hence the term honeymoon.
Your honeymoon is a time to relax together, and it serves as a bridge for the change in your relationship. It is your private celebration, unlike the public declaration of your wedding ceremony and reception. It is a time for the two of you!
Personal preferences determine how long, and how much you wish to spend on the honeymoon. Many couples take a romantic, fabulous trip and, a faraway place makes perfect sense. If you have the funds and the time,it is worth making that trip of a lifetime.
Some couples do chose to have their honeymoon close to home because it is simply easier to prepare for and travel to. Your honeymoon is a time to simply be together without any distractions.
Your travel specialist will work with you to ensure that you and your spouse receive good advice and enjoy a luxurious honeymoon, whether it be a grand excursion, cruise, country inn or bed and breakfast stay.
Read more about honeymoon in the current issue of The Wedding Guide. Click here to order your copy or pick up your complimentary copy at bridal salons on this website.
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PRESS RELEASE: Sheryl Davies Heads up Canadian Division of Wedding Industry Survey Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sheryl Davies Heads up Canadian Division of Wedding Industry Survey Network
New York – Tucson: August 10, 2010 – In their ongoing efforts to fill the need for timely and accurate information in the wedding business, the Wedding Industry Survey Network(WISN) names Sheryl Davies to head the Wedding Industry Survey Network Canada Division.
Sheryl Davies is a veteran of the wedding industry and spent most of her early career involved in the wedding business and brides. Davies brings 22 years of experience in the china, crystal and house wares industry in both in wholesale and retail. She’s worked for prestigious companies that include Royal Doulton, Rosenthal, Royal Worcester Spode and Orrefors crystal. Before computers Davies helped create bridal registries for companies that included T.Eaton.
Her roles in all facets of the wedding business have spanned display and salesperson to purchasing The Wedding Guide Toronto franchise in 1990, beginning a string of success that continues today. In 1992 she opened The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County, which continues to be the leading bridal publication of the region. It is published bi-annually and serves as a benchmark for good taste and stress-free planning.
Davies identified the changing role of bridal publications and began promoting herself and her organization organizing events including Bluesfest International, the 10th largest in North America and now in its 16th year. Sheryl and her three partners host over 30,000 festival-goers over a 3 day weekend.
Further adaption to the current changes Davies is a pioneer in social media marketing, Davies’ small business solutions company, DMS Communications has pioneered a social application that holds unique capabilities, including the ability to show videos. At the heart of her company’s program is her website and blog, The Wedding Guide – Windsor/Essex. Davies keeps her brand fresh and alive in the public eye. Her mandate to spend as much time as possible assisting area brides is a must for her advertisers
“I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be working with such a talented group of people at WISN. For 19 years, I have been a go-alone bridal business in Canada and I am ecstatic that I can now collaborate with other wedding experts to bring even more information to our local marketplace. Having a leader in the industry such as WISN to watchdog this changing industry is exciting and a necessity. To date, there has not been much information available that vendors could really trust.
With the change in society; weddings are evolving and we all need to keep our eyes on the ball. The future looks exciting and I still have many ideas up my sleeve to better this business. I look forward to sharing my knowledge to better the message to vendors and brides,” says Davies.
“We’re looking to expand our brand globally and our friends to the north are the first natural move beyond our own boarders. But, like everything we do, we must find the right person to fill the role and qualification standards we expect. In Sheryl, we’ve been very fortunate to have filled that role in Canada. She is a true leader in her market and we look forward to her insightful guidance,” said Shane McMurray, creator and head of the Wedding Industry Survey Network.
For more information please contact:
Paul Pannone at 516-312-0090
Paul@ewednews.com
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Posted on 08/10/2010
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| Proudly serving area brides since 1992, The Wedding Guide, Windsor/Essex County salutes our network of wedding professionals who help Canada South Brides achieve their dream wedding! |
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 “Here’s to the bride and groom-
May their joys be as bright as the morning,
and their sorrows but shadows
that fade in the sunlight of love.” Anonymous
Welcome and congratulations. Your wedding is an event that marks the beginning of an important time for you and your fiancé. The Wedding Guide contains great information and ideas in an extensive resource that will assist you in planning each and every detail of your wedding day. Our smaller, digest size format makes it convenient to carry The Wedding Guide in your briefcase or purse. It is a valuable companion, practical, local and specific for your community. It contains checklists, budgets, advice, timetables and information on products and services to help keep your wedding plans organized. We will help you to plan a wedding, big or small in Windsor/Essex County; the one you dream about!
We’ve designed this website to give you a sample of great wedding information that is available in our publication. The Wedding Guide is complimentary and you may obtain your copy at leading bridal salons in this area.
Bridal Talk, our blogging and social media interactive website is an area where brides can interact with other brides. We have also launched Wedding Guide Bridal Network, (WGBN), where we are profiling local area professionals!
It is our belief that products and services originate from people who have ongoing professional interest in the wedding market, and we are blessed with many talented professionals in Canada South. Each category on the left side of the website will direct you to the vendors, with direct links to their respective websites. You will find many more wedding professionals, throughout the pages of The Wedding Guide.
The Wedding Guide has been developed to help you make the correct choices, and to enjoy your engagement; a time that should be filled with joy, hopes and dreams- not stress. Our wedding professionals understand a bride’s needs and will be there to help you handle the protocol and details.
Best wishes with your wedding day planning and for a happy life together. Please feel free to email us with any questions you may have regarding weddings in Windsor/Essex County.
Sheryl Davies
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Brides are re-adjusting their expections, but not their total budget. This is the message that I keep reading about wedding trends. In spite of economics, couples are taking a hard look at the things that they want and the “frills”, and deciding on the style of their special day.
If the reception is the important hot button for them, they will reduce the guest list, but not the menu items. There is a refusal to compromise on what they feel is important. So bring on the bruschetta bar, the appetizers and a beautiful meal and hold on other items, sometimes viewed as superfluous, depending on the couple involved.
Some couple are so focused on a particular item, that they will forgo the favours, the fancy invitations and the bridal cake for an outdoor tented affair or a vineyard wedding. Conformity is out and individual style is definitely in.
What makes today’s weddings uniquely different is that they don’t follow the traditional template of their parents’ wedding day of year’s gone by.
Almost anything goes and each wedding is personalized with the bride and groom’s fingerprint.
You’ll find martini, dessert and sushi bars, ice cream and expresso carts, caricature artists and more at today’s celebrations. A wedding invitation is a glimpse into the beautiful day that they have so lovingly planned.
Big weddings, intimate weddings, beach weddings and unique weddings; whatever venue is chosen, speaks loudly to the couple and their lifestyle, and it’s adding flair and fun to a wedding invitation.
Bridal season is beginning now, and with it, an adventure in the extraordinary, as couples continue the tradition, but do it their unique way!
The years have flown by and during a conversation the other day with my business partner/husband John, we began thinking about the number of Wedding Guides we have published and the number of area brides we have been privileged to share our wedding expertise with. We’ve laid out and proofed guides at the cottage, at the onset of the Gulf War, through our son’s minor illnesses, and during the unexpected loss of my mom, who always cheered me on. In her memory, The Canadian Cancer Society will always be included in our pages.
Holding the franchise for the Ontario region, we are part of a group of over 100 cities throughout the U.S., Great Britain and Australia. The Wedding Guide is the largest bridal planner in North America, marrying a multitude of brides annually in local city areas.
Publishing twice a year, we have been privy to over 30,000 weddings, during the past 17 years; brides and grooms who chose us for their wedding planning. We have gotten to know the best in the industry and recommend them and sing their praises, whenever we can.
Considered to be the wedding experts in this area, covering everything weddings from the “I Will” to the ‘ “I Do”, we have to acknowledge and salute our network of wedding professionals, who are there helping couples achieve their dream weddings. It is our belief that products and services originate from people who have ongoing professional interest in the wedding market and we are blessed with many talented professionals. It is a wonderful feeling to know that we are sharing the most important day of a couple’s life.
A wedding marks the beginning of an important time for a bride and her fiancé, and our publication contains great information and ideas in an extensive resource that addresses every detail of a wedding day. The digest sized format is convenient to carry to appointments and it is a valuable companion, practical and specific to this area.
http://www.theweddingguide.ca contains checklists, timetables, an interactive budget calculator (don’t miss this useful tool), Special Offer coupons and advice, while keeping a bride’s wedding plans organized. (See “Planning Tools” for printable checklists, wedding party duties, vendor deposit forms; everything to keep organized.
With a new website, around the corner, which is 21st century savvy in real time, we are excited to continue to deliver to this community what brides want and need.
Our reach has migrated to the social online networks with pages on Facebook and Twitter. Our new social online ‘widgets” are becoming an emerging bridal trend, as brides personalize their social pages with their very own, customized interactive, hi-res video players. We know relatives and family friends who cannot attend the wedding appreciate being part with these neat items. And, our announcement of WGNN, Wedding Guide News Network eight months ago is coming closer to being a reality for all the brides.
It is our belief that products and services originate from people who have ongoing professional interest in the wedding market and we are blessed with many talented professionals. Each category on our current website will direct you to a sampling of the vendors, with direct links to their respective websites. You will find many more wedding professional, throughout the pages of The Wedding Guide.
Portable in size, The Wedding Guide has been developed to help the bride make the correct choices, and to enjoy their engagement; a time that should be filled with joy, hopes and dreams- not stress. Our professional vendors understand a bride’s needs and are there to help handle the protocol and details and always available with new ideas and services.
To get The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County delivered to your inbox, please go to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheWeddingGuide-Windsor/essex
Remember, “For Perfect Wedding Planning at Your Fingertips”, The Wedding Guide is the resource of choice.
Best wishes with your wedding day planning and for a happy life together. Please feel free to email us with any questions you may have regarding weddings in Windsor/Essex County.
Until later,
Sheryl Davies
Publisher
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“Here’s to the bride and groom- May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.” Anonymous
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PRESS RELEASE
Windsor, Ontario
For immediate release
February 14, 2010
Planning that once-in-a-lifetime celebration in this new decade is all about attention to detail, with couples showing their individuality and signature-style. Through the years, while some things about weddings change, others remain exactly the same. While the past is fondly remembered, this year, the present is important too! Save the date cards, self-written vows, mismatched bridesmaid dresses and eco-friendly touches are all new additions to this upcoming wedding season.
Veils, cakes, the first dance, champagne, lace, tulle, something old, new, borrowed, blue, and wedding photographs have all remained constant, in an ever-evolving wedding day. New social media such as Facebook and Twitter and the online personalized bridal widgets and web casting of the ceremony in real time, highlight all the couple’s news and the wedding day festivities. But this season’s focus is on retro chic and the Hollywood days of glamour.
The traditional black tuxedo is back for the gents and for the bride, it’s all about accessories; gloves and pearls. The bird cage veil and the emergence of bridal hats and the bouffant or French twist hair styles, make for an elegant look. The inspiration comes from the sophistication of the 50’s and 60’s. Strapless wedding gowns are as dominant as they have been in the past, and, they will quite likely continue to be in the future, but expect to see sashes of black and high waistlines. Gold is back for engagement and wedding bands after an absence of a few years, where silver was prominent as the metal of choice.
The vintage glamour look, which emerged last season, continues this year, and is gaining strength. There’s a breath-taking ambience to today’s weddings. The “something new”, could be hair extensions, while “something blue” can be the sky over a Jamaican destination wedding. Honeymoons are all-inclusive and brides and grooms are gravitating to luxury resorts with their amazing meal packages and opportunities for many different adventures..
Invitations range from fun to fancy formal, and some even have illustrations of the bride and groom illustrated in pencil sketched artwork. Look for vibrant colours that match the wedding’s theme such as turquoise/raspberry combinations as well as the traditional and elegant colour scheme of black and white.
Brides and grooms are revamping their first dance with a routine that is a medley of songs, replacing the traditional first dance of the reception, which in 2010, is just called the “party”.
Weddings are elegant with a lot of character. For comfort you’ll find wedding venues with comfy couches and living room settings, set up for the ceremony and reception; adding increased comfort and cosiness for the guests. Sit down dinners are still in style, but look for cocktail receptions with a supper club feel- cocktails- think, martinis, Manhattans, old fashioned cocktails and big band sounds.
Wedding cakes continue to be tiered, but the trend is to more white cakes with butter cream or fondant icing, topped with an heirloom antique cake topper of a bride and groom. Colourful macaroons are replacing cupcakes. Dance floors are adorned with custom vinyl monograms of the bride and groom’s initials. And look for special lighting, which klamps up the décor of the reception site, adding warmth and atmosphere.
On this special day, couples want their signature style shining through. The possibilities are endless! From sheer whimsy to the outrageously breath-taking, today’s couples are style-makers and it shows! There has never been a better time to marry!
For more information, please contact: Sheryl Davies, Publisher, 519-252-8463 or publisher@theweddingguide.ca
My childhood friend of 55 years found the love of his life in Sharon, and married her on Friday, June 5, in the beautiful gardens of the Flamingo Vegas. I wish them all the happiness in the world- they are a terrific couple and I am happy that fate found them and matched them together.
My wedding webcast invitation came about 2 weeks ago and I was intrigued by how the broadcast would look. Watching Sharon ,who was a radiant bride walk throught the stunning gardens on the Flamingo property in Las Vegas was like a fairy-style story in happiness. The flowers were abloom, the gardens manicured and lush; and the entire venue was so special, that no amount of decorations would have made it look one iota better. This spot that they picked to marry was elegant and stately.
Sharon followed the path, gracefully, almost lilting with happiness and met up with Graham. They were married with beautiful words by an officiant who made the entire ceremony, oh so special. Oh, I am glad you both found your happiness together.
Graham was my maid of honour at my first marriage 38 years ago. We have had a special friendship throughout all these years and I changed the rules when it was unheard of to have a male take that role of MOH.
He and Sharon used the new technology to broadcast their day and I thank them both for this gesture. It was so much nicer to be there with them in the cyber-groove be able to be a party to their union and all without leaving home.
Wherever you decide to get married, if there are people who you know are unable to make it to you for whatever reason, this web-based solution adds so much joy to the people who are close to you. It is a small thing to do with a webcam and a computer but it makes such a difference. Real time ceremonies show the emotions, the happiness and the excitement of this milestone called a wedding.
Use what ever is available to link the ones to you because they really do want to share and you’re facilitating it will make the day special for everyone.
Now, when they return we can all reunite; hug, kiss and have a party to commemorate this wonderful milestone called “the beginning of the rest of their life.”
Note to self… If anyone is off to a destination wedding or even if they are being married locally, remember the ones who physically can’t be with you and know they really really do want to participate in their happiness.
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My oldest friend and I met when we were both young; I was just 3 – he was a little older. We both know back then that we were the sibs neither of us had, because we were both only children. Our friendship has been an non-irrirant- being constantly in each other’s life and we love each other to bits for this beautiful friendship. When I married for my 1st time in 1971, my friend was my number one choice for my maid of honour. We broke tradition way back then, when everyone around us, was marrying in the same manner as their mother had previously; most traditional and predictable. And the evolution continues today in so many ways and styles than we ever could have imagined. Who knew that personalization and doing something unique would become the norm?
A few years ago, and after a long marriage ended, my friend met and fell in love with his wonderful bride, Sharon and the rest is history. They were planning a local wedding the last I spoke with them at the bridal show and then, suddenly we got an invitation to view their ceremony, live from the Flamingo Vegas- in beautiful Las Vegas. The message read: we didn’t want to wait any longer!
Friday was the day, and Sharon walked through the gorgeous, verdant gardens on the hotel grounds looking like the happiest woman in the world. Standing to greet her at the end of the path, near a fabulous, palm tree, she and Graham pledged themselves to each other and it was as beautiful as any wedding I had ever been to!
We watched in real time and it was such a pleasure being able to “be there” as it happened. Thanks you two for being so resourceful and sending your day to u s so we could share in your happiness. We wouldn’t have missed it for the world!
Whether you’re marrying at a destination far from home or you’re home and some of your favourite people can’t make it to your destinationa because of various circumstances, hook up a webcam and celebrate. There’s nothing like a milestone and even if you can’t be there in “person”, you can be there in full view!!
Bring on the mitzvahs (celebrations in Yiddush) and share it in style. What a wonderful way to be inclusive and sprinkle your happiness throughout the world of the ones you love.
Until later,
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