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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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With all the planning of the actual wedding day, I realized that my maid of honour and bridesmaids have been extremely patient with all my requests and ideas. They are the best and since each one of them was hand-picked for their loyalty and love for me.
I have started to think about what I want to gift them. We will be having a bridesmaids’ lunch closer to the wedding date and it will be the perfect place to honour them.
I have looked at beautiful jewellery pieces that are unique and interesting. They have grabbed my attention but I also have considered a day at the spa for everyone. What a great chance to have everyone together relaxed and having fun. We can all get buffed and relax while enjoying one another’s company.
I’m about ready to toss a coin become of my indecisiveness. If you are getting married what are you doing for your gifting? What do you think the ladies would love to receive???? Would it be a memory or an actual gift?
I’ll hope that other brides will respond below in the comments area to help me out. Other ideas would be welcomed.
I’m off to look at limousine services. Wish me luck. This should be an easy decision.
Your wedding flowers add an ambiance to your special day. The colour and style can match your theme or simply be the most beautiful fresh flowers available at the best price for the season you are married in.
From your engagement party to your wedding day, flowers will play a festive role in all your celebratory parties.
Your bridal bouquet is the one adornment that can be your own personal, signature style. Whether it be a gorgeous multi-floral or a single gorgeous stem wrapped in satin ribbon, it will accessorize your gown and add colour.
Your groom and the rest of the wedding party will also have flowers- as will your parents and grandparents. Flowers are a signal of a big celebration and set the stage for the party to come.
You can wrap your cake in flowers and you can garnish your hair with them too.
When choosing your flowers, think through what you really like and the smell that you wish to have fragrance your air. The scent will always remind you of your wedding day!
It’s practical to order flowers that are in season. That will keep your budget in line and your blooms will still have that wow factor. -+
After the wedding, preserve your bouquet and put it in a shadow box frame along with your invitation. It makes a lovely reminder and preserves your memory-making!
Windsor/Essex County offers some talented floral designers. Speak candidly to them and let them know what you are dreaming of and they will create your look for you.
The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County is pleased to offer you answers to all the questions that are asked everytime a wedding is hosted. Email us at www.theweddingguide.ca and Ask the Editor for your own personalized answers.
We wish you all the best and a happy, healthy life together.
Until next time,
Sheryl Davies
Publisher
 A Bruschetta Wedding Bar Breaks the Ice!
At a recent wedding, we were captivated by a marvelous idea, just after the ceremony and prior to the wedding meal. The main foyer of the reception venue, which was adjacent to the room where the ceremony took place, was set up with a marvelous array of aromatic flat breads, tapas, artisian breads, big chalahs, fresh hard italian rolls, olives, roasted red peppers and assorted condiments, and, all varieties of delectable Paté and cold meats. 
Coupled with copious quantities of selected, premium bottles of vodka , this was the perfect hors d’ouevres to keep hunger at bay for the guests while the bride, groom and the wedding party were off taking pictures with their photographer.
It was also an ice breaker for all the guests who had not yet met. Standing around this mouth- watering array of appetizers, people had an opportunity to mingle and meet around the wonderful, wicker baskets and ceramic pottery bowls of dips that made this presentation so very innovative and beautiful to both smell as well as look at. There’s nothing better than the aroma of fresh-baked bread.
It was a perfect preamble to the reception; an opportunity to break bread togehter as invited guests and served as a natural break between the upcomign events- a great way to reconnect with the people we knew, before venturing to our assigned seating.
When you are planning your wedding, your guests comfort is primary as you follow your schedule as the bride and groom, picture -taking, freshening up and catching your breath with your wedding party.
By providing a talking-piece for food and drink, you are both feeding and entertaining your family and friends in a unique way and offering them some sustenance at the same time.
Consider this emerging trendl and I’ll guaranteeyou that it will be a veritable hit with everyone. Once everyone was ready to assemble in the main dining room, friendships had been struck and the feeling of not knowing anyone was completely forgotten. Everyone came together in a natural and not awkward way as they moved into the main hall for the wedding meal.
It set the tone for a very comfortable and happy reception, filled with the upbeat energy of the invited guests; all ready to celebrate the continuation of the evening.
The chance to memory-make for posterity on your wedding day happens but once, and you want to ensure that its captured for posterity, just the way you imagined it would be.
It is important when choosing your Windsor/Essex County wedding photographer, that you and your fiancé discuss first, what pictures you definitely couldn’t live without and then, the rest will fall into place in the order of their importance and wedding day sequence.
This area has great photography talent within all different budget ranges and shooting styles, but be sure to ask for references and to see a sampling of their work. Ask if someone else will be appointed to your job, or if it will be the person who you meet with.
We also boast great location shots from the urban centre to county beaches and vineyard estates. Want to feel like fashion models? There’s the zany and fun “Trash the Dress” session, as well as post-wedding picture-taking in unique and innovative locales.
Are you a traditional bride that wants the posed, tried and true pictures of your mother’s generation, or would you prefer a more candid, photo- journalistic style? Or, perhaps a combination of both?
What you don’t want to do is accept a gesture of kindness from a relative or friend who offers to take your pictures for you. Unless they are professionally trained, it is a risky proposition to agree to this kind of arrangement , although the offer is generous.
If your pictures don’t turn out well, or if the camera breaks or that person doesn’t show up- you have no second chance to make it right.
When establishing your budget for photography, budget a little extra, if your wedding photos and albums are an area of priority for the two of you. It will give you the flexibility to do that little extra, that you can look back at years from now with fond memories.
Today’s couples are putting their signature statement on every aspect of their wedding day planning and photography is no exception. From your “Save the Date” cards, shower invitations, rehearsal dinner and the wedding day itself, there will be many beautiful memories made and your images will be captured many times. By spending the time and deciding what it is that will make you both really happy, you will be relaxed and radiant in all your pictures. And, your photographer will be by your side documenting your day, exactly the way it occurred!
The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County. Serving local area brides for 17 years.
Home of Bridal Idol and proud sponsor of Windsor’s Wedding Workshop.
Our mandate is to keep the bride-to-be organized, stress-free and plugged in to everything about weddings!
Special Offers online save your money. Budgets, timetables and relevant wedding planning information.
Ask the Editor is a complimentary one- on- one service, that answers all the questions that are asked whenever a wedding is hosted.
TOP 10 FINALISTS FOR BRIDAL IDOL !!!!!!!!!!! Finals on March 11, 2010
Tune in for the prize winner.
BETHANY DANTER AND JERRITT BURTON SINGER IS BRIDE BETHANY AND HER FRIEND JESSICA HARRISON
DANA THOMSON & RYAN PELADEAU SINGER IS BRIDE HERSELF AND HER FRIEND MELISSA DENESE
NANCY LAINAS & BELA SEMENSKI SINGER IS THEIR FRIEND NATASHA HANNA
JENNIFER REIGER AND CLINT ATTARD W/ THEIR SINGER JENNY KNIGHT
LINDSAY BONDY & JOHN NORRIS SINGER IS BRIDE LINDSAY AND HER SISTER LAURA BONDY
BETHANY DANTER AND JERRITT BURTON SINGER IS BRIDE BETHANY AND HER FRIEND JESSICA HARRISON
SARA WITFIELD & STEPHEN McKINNEY SINGER IS FRIEND KRISTIN ESSERY
KERRI NEVILLE & RICHARD LANGLOIS SINGER IS SISTER IN LAW (KAT) KATHRYN McDOUGALL
DAWN DUFRAINE & KEITH DUROCHER SINGER IS FRIEND KIM HUMBER-SHULTZ
JESSICA WOUTERS & STEWART DUMOUCHELLE W/ THEIR SINGER THEIR FRIEND CHANTEL MARTIN
LOREDANA PERRI & JOHN FROIO SINGER IS BRIDE HERSELF
*These are listed in no way in order of who rec’d higher points
Congratulations to one and all for an excellent 2nd Annual Bridal Idol. We wish everyone could have won, but we so enjoyed you entertaining us. Thanks to you one and all. Keep singing- it unites the world.
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*These are listed in no way in order of who rec’d higher points
Congratulations to one and all for an excellent 2nd Annual Bridal Idol. We wish everyone could have won, but we so enjoyed you entertaining us. Thanks to you one and all. Keep singing- it unites the world.
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It is important when choosing your Windsor/Essex County wedding photographer, that you and your fiancé discuss first, what pictures you definitely couldn’t live without and then, the rest will fall into place in the order of their importance and wedding day sequence.
This area has great photography talent within all different budget ranges and shooting styles.We also boast great location shots from the urban centre to county beaches and vineyard estates. Want to feel like fashion models? There’s, the zany and fun “Trash the Dress” session, as well as post-wedding picture-taking in unique and innovative locales.
Are you a traditional bride that wants the posed, tried and true pictures of your mother’s generation, or would you prefer a more candid, photo- journalistic style? Or, perhaps a combination of both?
What you don’t want to do is accept a gesture of kindness from a relative or friend who offers to take your pictures for you. Unless they are professionally trained, it is a risky proposition to agree to this kind of arrangement , although the offer is generous.
If your pictures don’t turn out well, or if the camera breaks or that person doesn’t show up- you have no second chance to make it right.
When establishing your budget for photography, budget a little extra, if your wedding photos and albums are an area of priority for the two of you. It will give you the flexibility to do that little extra, that you can look back at years from now with fond memories.
Today’s couples are putting their signature statement on every aspect of their wedding day planning and photography is no exception. From your “Save the Date” cards, shower invitations, rehearsal dinner and the wedding day itself, there will be many beautiful memories made and your images will be captured many times. By spending the time and deciding what it is that will make you both really happy, you will be relaxed and radiant in all your pictures. And, your photographer will be by your side, documenting your day, exactly the way it occurred!
 The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County. Serving local area brides for 17 years.
Home of Bridal Idol and proud sponsor of Windsor’s Wedding Workshop.
Our mandate is to keep the bride-to-be organized, stress-free and plugged in to everything about weddings!
Special Offers online save your money. Budgets, timetables and relevant wedding planning information.
Ask the Editor is a complimentary one- on- one service, that answers all the questions that are asked whenever a wedding is hosted.
Now what to do with your beautiful pictures? Share them!
Photo by: Trevor Booth Photography
 Now that your married, share your beautiful, wedding photographs with our newly engaged brides. They are looking for ideas to plan their special day. We are looking for your pictures to share on our website and blog.
To be considered for The Weddding Guide Windsor/Essex County, you must be a local area bride, who was married during 2009.
Please email to: publisher@theweddingguide.ca with subject line- Wedding photo submission
Please send us the following information
Your name: maiden and married
Phone number: day and evening
Wedding location and Ceremony site:
Wedding date:
A brief paragraph about what makes your wedding special and why we should include it on our pages
A link to a website with photos from your wedding, or attach four photographs (no bigger than 4MB) that you think best represents your wedding day.
Your permission to share your wedding photographs.
We will contact you directly, if we require more information from you.
Thank you for your participation, and check back often to see if your pictures are being featured.
And, tell your engaged friends too, so they can see your great ideas!
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