Wedding planning is an art, not a rocket science. However, it is also an intricate and delicate business of management, delegation, conceptualisation and execution.

At “Splendid Affairs” we pride ourselves on being able to understand the client’s needs and guide them towards the best wedding given personal preferences, style and personalities of the bride and groom.

Check out our blog: www.splendidaffairs.wordpress.com or call us on 0834081698 to find out more about our services (which range from full wedding planning, Day of the wedding co-ordination and flower arranging).

Seeing that I haven’t been great with my diet and am now regretting it, I thought I’d look up some beauty tips for all of us to try out whether it’s too late or not:

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Hydrate – We all should do this all the time anyway… during the last week before the wedding be sure to drink a full sixty four (64) ounces of water per day. That is just over three twenty ounce water bottles. Yes, that is a lot of water, but our bodies need that water to a) Give your skin that soft, healthy glow, and b) Flush your bodies of excess salt and impurities. This allows our bodies to work their best and look their trimmest and healthiest.

Food Choices – Just as the old adage says, ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ What we put into our bodies has a direct impact on how our body looks on our wedding day. During the last weeks prior to the wedding celebration, if we concentrate on eating lean proteins, and fresh fruits and vegetables as the bulk of our diet, we will give our bodies the opportunity to tone up as much as the time frame allows.

Salt – Salt is an essential component to life. But too much of a good thing is not a good thing, and most of us get too much. More to the point, as we approach our wedding day and want to look as slender and healthy as possible, we are well advised to limit our total daily intake of salt by avoiding salty food entirely and only using the salt sparingly. Why? Because the more salt we have in our system, the more we will retain water instead of allowing the water to flush our system of impurities as it is designed to do.

Makeup – Makeup is arguably a bride’s best friend on her wedding day. It helps her look fresh… and it can also help to give her the appearance of having lost weight in time for her wedding regardless of whether she did or not. How? Simply by the use of highlighting techniques in the area of the cheekbone. Put in the most basic terms this beauty tip involves using a lighter shade on the top of the cheekbones and a darker shade underneath to create the illusion of sunken cheeks. To pull this off a bride should:

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So, our wedding month has finally arrived. We seriously cannot believe it. And when they say there is stress leading up to the Big Day they weren’t kidding! We’ve had family arriving from the UK, Mr Style’s sister and two kids which are staying with us. We’ve soon realised that a house full of children (including Baby Style) just isn’t the way to go before the wedding so they’re moving to their cousin from Sunday. We love them to death and love having them around but realistically the less hectic our surroundings right now, the better the nerves will be for the wedding. Although so much has been taken care of, we’ve had a few unexpected surprises.

The biggest one being a 7cm cist found on my ovaries this week. I’ll explain how this came about. It’s not something I see discussed at all on wedding websites but is a reality and a very real problem for most brides-to-be. My first problem was that my ‘monthly visitor’ started becoming irregular and moved out to the end of the month. Disastrous as we’re getting married the 29th of August AND going on our 2nd honeymoon on the 28th of October. As most of us know, getting into a gynaecologist is ridiculous as their books are full 6 months in advance. I phoned my GP who happily checked me out but couldn’t understand the other issues I’ve been having at ‘that time of the month’. Besides the irregularity, there have been a couple of other issues which I won’t go into detail about.

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Bling Cake Toppers

Wow, feels like forever since I last posted on here sorry guys.  Been diagnosed with a baby lol! and just got over all the sickness and tiredness but promise to load more in the future.

 So this is my new fab find:) they certainly didn’t have these unusual toppers when I got married  I have noticed a big trend in the last few months for unusual cake toppers and the ones with the couples fishing, shopping etc are so expensive and I think are R750!!!!  So I thought I would look around and see what else was out there.

I looked at ordering one for my friends wedding off a website in London and they were 99 POUNDS – ouch!  So I thought I would get someone to make them for me
Email me: mrsmack@iafrica.com if you would like some more info.
They really are divine and you can custom make them
Blinged with crystals makes these initial cake toppers are a fantastic way to enhance any special cake whether it be a wedding cake, an anniversary cake or even a special birthday cake. This initial could show your married name initial and two smaller initials to show the first name initials of the bride and groom.

Wedding cakes are important parts of a wedding celebration. It is something that represents your style, and it adds pizzazz to your wedding celebration. Finding the right cake topper for the perfect cake is not going to be hard anymore. With these Bling Crystal Monogram Cake Toppers your cake will be the one of the many parts highlighting you special day. Each Blinged Monogram Cake topper is a custom art piece, and is handmade.

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