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By Word Of Mouth’s Beautiful Bridal Day!
As we all know news being spread by word of mouth, normally travels the fastest. Whether you’re discussing the brilliant movie you’ve just seen, your embarrassing message you sent on Facebook, which you thought was private, turns out you wrote it on someone’s wall… or that girl who used to go to school with you and got pregnant by the woodwork teacher, and is now selling jams outside the Spar on Saturdays… Point is, news travels fast when it’s being told, discussed, whispered or shouted, by mouth.
So, the aptly named events company who definitely needs no introduction in South Africa, By Word of Mouth made my task very easy!
Bridal Party Dilemma
Once the excitement of your engagement settles a bit, you will probably feel incredible pressure from the anticipating looks, expecting phone calls and other forms of targeted attention from your friends all waiting to be asked to be your bridesmaid.
Most of my clients were looking for guidance and asked what is an acceptable number of bridesmaid. This is a difficult question to answer and many factors need to be considered. You bridal party may be as small or as big as you wish. Perhaps you have many close friends, and perhaps it was your childhood dream to be each others bridesmaids. However, if you are in your 30s, chances are that you could be happier with one Matron of Honour, or a smaller bridal party.
However, another important factor to consider is your budget. If you wish for your bridesmaids to wear traditional matching dresses and accessories, then it is the bride’s responsibility to pay for the garments to be either purchased, or made. Do not forget that your bridesmaids will require a professional make-up artist and hair stylist on the day of the wedding too.
If you can afford this, then you are extremely lucky and your dilemma ends at being honest with yourself and having the courage to ask only your truly dear friends or family members to be in your bridal party, and not feel guilty over your decision. Read the rest of this entry »
DejaVu Dresses – The home of Pre-Loved Wedding Dresses
Times are tough, right? Belts are tightening and saving a few rands here, can mean a few rands spent there instead…
Keep in touch with Bridesmaid letters
I am probably the absolute worst perfectionist… the kind of perfectionist that would rather kill themselves by trying to do everything than delegate. I know … it’s a terrible quality, so naturally I decided to undertake the daunting task of planning my own wedding.
In the process, I am driving everyone around me and sometimes myself, kind of crazy. My wedding journey already started in January 2008 after an unexpected romantic proposal on the beach in Jeffreys bay.
I don’t know about you, but between planning, work and general life, I struggle to make time to discuss the wedding plans with important people like the parents and bridesmaids. I unintentionally came across this excellent idea to keep everyone informed and on top of things (the perfect tool for a control freak like myself). A bridesmaid letter!
Brilliant South African Wedding Websites
There are so many wedding resources online, but two of the most useful for South African brides are www.primadonabride.co.za. and www.theweddingstore.co.za
I have found endless inspiration on primadonnabride and some very useful links. Carol, the site administrator frequently posts blocks of colour co-ordinated pictures which give ideas about how to carry a colour theme through. These colour blocks are not only interesting in terms of the colours but also have some unique ideas.
- One of the colour blocks from primadonnabride.
Lace parasol umbrella
There’s not much hotter in wedding accessories now than the wedding parasol. SA brides are discovering that the parasol comes in all sizes, fabrics and designs and they are a fabulous way of enhancing the look of your wedding party without the cost sky-rocketing!
The 3 hottest designs right now are:
* The natural-look parasol in a natural cotton fabric or a natural fibre paper which enhances the organic feel of a beach, outdoors, green or chocolate-themed wedding. We have woven wattle and seashells into the natural fabric parasols before, but you could equally have an artistic friend paint some beautiful natural-environment designs on the paper to create a truly unique look.
* The Vintage-inspired European white Lace parasol. Intricate and full of old-world charm, these parasols enhance a vintage or garden wedding.
* An Oriental Parasol looks equally at home at an Asian-inspired wedding, a beach wedding and a garden wedding. Use these gorgeous, colourful designs to complement the colours in your attendant’s dresses. As they are usually cost-effective, you might even like to provide these for each guest. What a stunning all-guest photo it makes to have everyone holding a parasol in a colour which matches your theme!
visit www.idoinvitations.co.za for ideas and orders
Mad Hatters Hens Party
Aghh – where to start…… Ive been wanting to post this for absolute ages now and just couldnt as I was scared my bride to Be Kim D would see the theme before the batchelorette Party. So the 3 bridesmaids got together (me being one of them) and decided we were going to have a Mad Hatters Tea Party for the “Hens Night”. What a blast this was and such an awesome theme.
So, we started off with a cupcake save the date Magnet with a mad hatters hat on the side.
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Bridesmaids
My two sisters are my bridesmaids, and honestly I could not think of two better people to accompany down the isle. We have always been very close, we used to throw these awesome parties together and just generally hang out all the time. We were our parent’s worst nightmare with only having strength in numbers and could be anything to our own way.
Unfortunately both my bridesmaids are overseas and neither is being very supportive. The one is not what you would call a “girly girl” and the other is gallivanting overseas and constantly traveling! I try to send them emails and ask for their opinion but I generally get no response.
I have been very understanding and asking for their opinion on nothing really too important, they only thing I really wanted them to have a say in were their dresses. Now I love my sisters and do not feel the need to put them in a sack. I want them to feel confident and sexy and I want to get them something that they will wear again. So I email them the final 3 dresses and they don’t respond!
So after a week I have re-emailed them a link to ‘bridesmaids 101’ and this awful dress to try and sock them into responding. Let’s see if they respond…
Even with all of this said and done, I still would only choose them as my bridesmaids. They are my first playmates and I know that they will always be there no matter what and I truly love them for that. I just wonder if I am not letting sentiment drive me a little too far?
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Finding the Perfect Dress!!
Finding the perfect outfit in any situation is hard, when there is an added pressure of the outfit is for “one of your most important days” the pressure is killing. I have a hard figure to dress in a dress. It’s something I have come to terms with but I find myself reliving all the horrors while trying to find the right wedding dress.
My problem is that finding a dress that fits is so difficult. For my figure I have huge boobs with at the moment I am sitting at 32C, and it looks like its about it increase to a 32D, do they even make bras like that!! I also have a small upper stomach and hold a bit of a tyre around my lower waist. All is all a nightmare to dress!!
While trying on dresses a part of me fits into different sizes ranging from a 4 all the way to a 10!! I keep on trying on dresses to “give me an idea” of what they look like on, when in reality they only make my body look or out-of-proportion!! Certainly not a way to sell a dress!!
What worst it that I come out of these sessions feel ultimately depressed about the way I look. I have never been too conscious about the way I look, but now, WOW I am feeling so sorry for myself, and self pity is just so not my thing!
So what to do? Luckily my mother was there helping me try on and she is terrific for dressing my figure, and yes, she is always right which I have only come to realise lately. She told me she will make me a dress and not show it to me until its finished which I think is for the best.
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Bridesmaid Dresses: Who Pays?
I can’t be the only one who feels a bit confused by this! As far as I always knew, the bride pays for the bridesmaid dresses (or, at least, whoever is paying for the wedding does!) and it’s up to the bride if she wants to pay for their hair and make-up as well. Now, planning my own wedding, all the info out there tells me that the girls have to pay for ALL their own stuff! That seems a bit unfair, surely?
