The months prior to your wedding can be a time of elation, but also one of stress for you, as well. You can keep the stress under control by taking care of yourself along the way.
By commencing on a good health and beauty regime early in your engagement will provide you will the all-over healthy feeling and glow you wish to achieve before your wedding day. Regular exercise and good eating habits are two keys to both emotional and physical well being.
You may want to join a health and fitness club to keep you motivated to stay in shape. They offer individualized diet and nutritional assistance, as well and can design a program especially for your needs.
John Lyons Photography, Windsor, Ontario- will travel
Boot camps are a rage too and like any other form of exercise, they require discipline and commitment to your goal. The group mentality will give you an opportunity to make new friends while working on your goals.
You may also want to treat yourself to a spa experience. Day spas provide a caring and private environment where you can surrender your stresses, while making your body look and feel great.
A therapeutic massage after a busy, tension- filled week will ease the kinks and you will come away feeling refreshed both physically and mentally with a clear head.
Spas offer many services including facials, waxing, hydrotherapy, herbal body treatments. manicures, pedicures and other yummy treatments. Some have hair salon services.They offer special packages for you so you can spend a relaxing, stress-free hour or day and leave feeling beautiful, invigorated and recharged.
We suggest that you start schedule spa sessions early in your engagement, especially if you have weight loss or toning as a priority. You may also want to work on your complexion or other trouble spots that need a little longer to correct.
As you incorporate a personal health and beauty regimen into your life, include you mother, or bridesmaids, and even your fiancé. It is always more fun to exercise, diet, or visit a spa with a friend.
Arrange a spa session for all the gals in your wedding party! It’s a wonderful thank you to them for all that they are doing for you at this special time in your life and it’s also a fun way for you all to get together, unwind and catch up on everyones’ news. We live in busy times and what a great way to spend some quality time with your favourite people during your wedding planning.
Treat yourself well and you will look and feel your best on your wedding day.
Being engaged is a wonderful and exciting, filled with adrenalin. Your friends and family are delighted with your news and your head is filled with wedding plans and dreams. There’s a marriage in your future and the wedding process can become an important lesson in working together towards a common goal.
The average Canadian engagement is 14 months and that’s a reasonable time to plan an A+ day. There are many decisions to make, items to check out and people to see. It all rolls out efficiently if you use a timetable, set a budget and get organized. (see the Wedding Guide timetable online for printable planning tools) http://www.bridaltalk.theweddingguide.ca
Steve Pomerleau Photography, Windsor, Ontario- will travel
With more and more couples waiting to marry later in life, things have changed on the marriage scene. Ten years ago only 5% of couples lived together prior to marrying; today that statistic has risen to 75%. The bride is now 28 and the groom is 30, not 21 and 23 years of age.
With those numbers in mind, weddings are being paid for by the couple, with possibly some financial help from their parents. With that change, today’s grooms are becoming increasingly involved in the wedding planning; an area that has historically and traditionally been looked after by the bride and her family.
Your budget as a couple is now combined, and grooms are wanting more control in keeping the finances in line. He may well be a 50/50 player in this wedding, and oftentimes he will want involvement in all aspects of the wedding day, except for the silk and satin items. He can be a great help with all the details, and if the bride is a working woman with many responsibilities or still in school, that extra pair of hands is a welcome addition to the tasks at hand.
Even if your aren’t co-habitating, it is important to remember during your engagement to stay focused and balanced on the life you are preparing for. As the bride, don’t get so totally immersed in the planning that you distance yourself from your future partner. Remember, you two are a team and if he is feeling overwhelmed by your emotional involvement in this wedding, and thinking you are forgetting about him; he will feel slighted. Don’t get too wedding consumed.
The life you share in the future has been molded by your relationship to date, and although the wedding is paramount to you, there are other aspects of your life together that you need to keep vibrant. Go on dates, continue to see your friends and be organized.
Fourteen months is a long time between the engagement and the “day”, so remember to stay in tune with your partner, your family and your friends. Wedding talk is not always necessary every time you are together.
Good planning makes for good decisions and together you will sow the seeds of a long and happy future. The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy planning one of the most beautiful and memorable days of your life. Happy planning!
Within this cozy shop in South Windsor, Picture This Framing, a family-owned and operated business, has served Windsor and area brides and this community since 1991.
When you enter the store, you’ll notice meticulously matted and framed pictures that adorn both the walls, as well as lining the floor; waiting for pickup. This well-known landmark is busy and efficient.
Photo by: Chalet Photography, Windsor, Ontario- will travel- framing by Picture This Framing, Windsor, Ontario
Cheryl Chaney Jacques, proprietor, is ready and able to accommodate most of her client’s requirements with a big smile and great suggestions. She has a great eye for style and knows what frame will work with the style of items that needs attention.
When you have wedding pictures to frame, this is the shop that will look after you and make your memories shine. Perhaps you want your invitations framed too? Memories can and should be preserved to enjoy throughout your lifetime.
Framed pictures make also make a wonderful gift for all the important people in your life. They are a personalized and special gift that you can share with those that require a thank you.
Great framing is what they do here; pictures, prints, needlework, tapestry, sports jerseys and collector plates as repair mats and glass.
If you have great memorabilia like medals, coins, golf balls, christening gowns, they’ll likely suggest a shadow box to offset the item and protect it well.
They carry lines by Trisha Romance, Paul Murray, Julia Conlon and many others.
Although weddings are done in white, L’atelier Du Chocolat loves to create gorgeous, silky chocolate for your special day. Débora Charron, chocolatier, uses the finest in Belgian chocolate in a variety of creative ways to sweeten your wedding celebrations. From individual and delicious wedding favours for your guests, to sweet tables replete with an assortment of fresh, delicious chocolate and, amazing hand crafted chocolate centrepieces that will be talked about long after the wedding is over.
Innovative presentation and a unique selection of both traditional flavours as well as cardamon, lavender, lemon and lime infused confections make a unique and wonderful thank you gift for your special family, bridesmaids and friends who have helped you during your engagement.
And don’t forget your out-of-town guests by gifting them with a complement of delicious,chocolate for their hotel rooms and Sunday brunch.
L'atelier du Chocolat
THE ART & CREATION OF BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE!
Treat your palate to a delightful explosion of flavours and aromas at Windsor’s newest chocolate boutique. Windsor-based L’atelier Du Chocolat, founded by innovative Chocolatier Débora Charron will become a household name in this region, as a leading purveyor of unique and delightful handcrafted, artisan chocolate confections. This is no ordinary boutique with ordinary chocolates!
Débora loves the many cosmopolitan products and flavours that are available to her to create exciting combinations of taste and imagination. Her beautiful chocolates are works of art; sensual to savour, pretty to look at and a chocolate lover’s delight. Presentation is also important and her product can be displayed in beautiful and unique ways for all your special occasions.
These velvety morsels deliver a taste experience like no other through the fusion of premium chocolate and exotic blends of spices, liquors and wines, fruits, nuts, floral and herbal essences like lavender, acai, tequila, cardamom and saffron, to name but a few.Discovering her flair for chocolate-making in her native Brazil, Débora hopes to bring to Windsorites a unique taste experience to commemorate weddings, corporate events and any celebration that deserves special notice.
Débora honed her skills as a chocolatier under the guidance of the noted Chef and Instructor Christophe Mazeaud, who graduated from the École Nationale Superleure de la Patisserie in Paris, France, and went on to win medals of excellence in various international culinary competitions.
L’atelier du Chocolat delights in creating artistic and sensual chocolate morsels by personalizing each piece for your taste and sight. These distinctive chocolates are handcrafted in very small batches using precise, delicate techniques.
Ms. Charron states: “My chocolates are all about personalization. Whatever your taste and occasion requires, a chocolate can be crafted to suit both. Our philosophy is to create memories based on a unique luxurious chocolate experience.”
Whatever special event, wedding, shower, corporate event, new baby or just to satisfy that chocolate craving, a hand painted bonbon, praline, truffle or tablet awaits.
Come in to meet Debora, and sample one of her irresistible confections at her May 27th Grand Opening- 10 am – 6pm
Social media has been embraced by just about everyone in daily life and wedding
celebrations are no exception!
Weddings/Social Media
With the excitement of their engagement, brides are setting up personal wedding websites to share engagement pictures; their beautiful new ring and in some cases, it serves as an introduction of her fiancé to friends and family from afar. It is an effective icebreaker for the wedding party to interact and get to know one another online, prior to meeting for the first time.
Emily Post manners recently released a statement that said, ”all the old rules that are stuffy can be tossed out!”
While social media is still relatively new to weddings, this generation of couples are internet babies and they want to embrace technology in as many ways as they can. And what better time than on their special day.
Social Media is hot at weddings this season!
One cardinal rule, that is a definite no-no, is using your mobile device during the ceremony. The bride can appoint one Chief Tweeter to quietly sit in a remote area of the venue to capture the vow-taking. Attach a hash tag to the event and those who couldn’t make it can still be in the loop and follow the day’s proceedings.
At the reception, brides are setting up a computer station, where guests can post their well wishes and upload wedding day pictures they have captured. Other friends who couldn’t attend can post and have their comments read much like the telegram of days gone by.
Webcasting is growing as weddings are broadcast on a live stream feed. If there are elderly relatives or guests who are unable to be with the couple at their location, they can still see the day live from the comfort of their homes.
It’s the 21st century and brides will wow their guests with this emerging trend, and many other special touches that make their wedding distinctive while shining a spotlight on their unique personalties!
