| Cakes & Catering |
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Choosing a Wedding Cake Flavor
How many times have you eaten forgettable wedding cake? With the wonderfully talented pastry chefs out there serving the wedding industry, there is no reason any bride should have a wedding cake with mediocre flavor. Here are some ideas for working with your pastry chef to create a really delicious wedding cake.
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Tips on Selecting a Cake for Your Triad Wedding
Even when working within a budget you don’t have to compromise beauty and taste when selecting a cake for your Triad wedding. One of the most important things to remember when selecting your wedding cake is to choose a style and flavor that is reflective of you as a couple. Here, we offer tips from local-area wedding cake bakers in and around Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, NC on how to select the perfect cake for your Triad wedding.
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Tips On How to Make Your Wedding Cake Stand Out
Presentation is just as important as taste. Here, a few embellishments and designs to turn any wedding cake from drab to fab.
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Tips for Selecting a Modern Wedding Cake
When it comes to your wedding, a modern wedding cake can be as elegant as a traditional one. Gone are the days of mandatory multi-tiered white cakes. Why limit yourself?
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| Floral & Decor |
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Raleigh-Durham Wedding Florists Spotlight
Flowers help make your wedding ceremony and reception unforgettable. More than decoration, they help express who you are as a couple. Most brides have never designed an event before, so it pays to work with a professional florist to sort through the options and help bring your vision to life. Raleigh Perfect Wedding Guide recently visited Raleigh-Durham florist, Gary O’Connor, owner of Flowers by Gary, to ask questions about choosing flowers for your wedding. Read on to find great tips on wedding flowers for your wedding.
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How to Accessorize Your Bridal Bouquet
Diamonds and broaches are not just for the neck, ears and hair anymore. The new trend is to use these beautiful and dazzling accessories to enhance your bridal bouquet.
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Bride's Bouquet: Finding One That's Right For You
It’s no secret why the bride's bouquet is an important element of her bridal attire—it’s as essential as the wedding dress itself! For shades that pop and arrangements that wow, look to these ideas to create a bridal bouquet that’s sure to turn heads.
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How to Choose Your Wedding Colors
What’s the one thing that dictates the decor, floral arrangements, invitations and just about everything else associated with a wedding? Color!
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| General Wedding Planning |
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5 Money-saving Tips for Triad Couples
If you’re a bride in the Greensboro or Winston-Salem area, it’s no secret that the recession has affected the state of North Carolina, and has even caused some couples to have to modify their wedding planning. However, your dream wedding can become a reality with a little budget-savvy know-how. Here are some money-saving tips for Greensboro and Winston-Salem couples to plan a wedding that’s not only awesome, but affordable...
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7 Steps for Setting a Wedding Budget
Setting a wedding budget is a smart way to stay on track with spending during your wedding planning. Here, a practical step-by-step guide to help keep things sailing smoothly toward your big day.
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10 Tips for a "Green" Wedding in Greensboro
Conserving resources doesn’t mean you have to deprive yourself of the wedding of your dreams. Greensboro now serves as a local sanctuary for brides and grooms looking to be sustainably fashionable. Going “green” is not only becoming an important value to many brides and grooms, it is also becoming and economical solution. Here are the top 10 ways to have an eco-friendly wedding in Greensboro without losing your personality or style.
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10 Questions to Ask When Selecting an Officiant
If you are looking for a wedding officiant to serve at your ceremony, ask yourself these ten important questions to assist you in your search:
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Bridal Registry Basics: How to Shop Your Registry
Unlike selecting bridesmaid dresses and finding your wedding gown, shopping for your bridal registry is a fun activity that you and your groom can enjoy together. Keep these ideas in mind as you shop for your bridal registry.
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Wedding Planning 101: Hiring a Wedding Consultant
“In addition to helping make your wedding dreams come true within your budget — and perhaps saving you from costly mistakes — a consultant will save you time. With today’s hectic lifestyles, many bridal couples and their families do not have the time for the detailed planning and work that a beautiful wedding requires.”
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Wedding VIPs: How to Choose Your Attendants
Brides and grooms have a tough task at hand when it comes to choosing attendants for the wedding party. Your childhood friends, college buddies, relatives and the like are all vying for a chance to stand with you on your big day. Here, we show you how to narrow the list and select the best group of friends and loved ones to serve as your wedding VIPs.
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Wedding Planning: Advice for Second Weddings
For some second-time brides and grooms, wedding planning can be a sensitive subject...The details are endless. But the key to second weddings is simple—plan an event that reflects both of you...If you’re planning a second wedding, consider this advice.
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| Health & Beauty |
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Selecting a Wedding Hairstyle: Dos and Don'ts
Once all the other details of the wedding are complete, the biggest concern you'll have is finding the right look to compliment your gorgeous gown. After all, picking the perfect hairstyle to wear on your big day takes careful planning and lots of thought. When deciding on the right ‘do to don, you might want to thumb through bridal magazines, tab pictures of hairstyles that catch your eye and discuss the look with your stylist. As you collaborate on your bridal hairstyle, remember to keep these dos and don'ts in mind...
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Beauty Timeline for the Modern Bride
The person most easily overlooked in the flurry of wedding planning is the bride! Even more overlooked is your wedding beauty. Wedding beauty is not limited to your wedding day hair and makeup. It includes your skin, your body and your diet. With planning and effort, you can assure you’re beautiful, fit and stress-free when the big day finally arrives. The following timetable is filled with suggestions for wedding beauty, nothing more.
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Bridal Beauty: 10 Wedding Makeup Don'ts
Every bride wants to look her best on her wedding day. Here are 10 makeup trends brides should avoid for the big walk down the aisle.
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How to Prep Your Skin for Makeup Application
When you make your grand entrance walking down the aisle, a clean and fresh-looking complexion is a must, so proper skin preparation is important to ensure your makeup stays put in any season. The summer months especially can be brutal on your beauty efforts, so if you don’t already have one, a good skin care regimen is ideal to establish so you can get your skin in pristine condition before the “Big Day” and making it the perfect canvas to be painted upon.
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Getting in Shape for Your Wedding
If ever there were a number one reason to hit the gym, your wedding would be it. It’s the perfect opportunity to get in shape and be your best self. While some brides go hard core with boot camps and personal trainers, others cut back on calories and skip dessert. Whatever your method of shedding those unwanted pounds and toning up for your wedding, here are five tips to keep you healthy and motivated while getting in shape for the big day.
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| Honeymoon & Travel |
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Honeymoons: Planning a Budget-friendly Getaway
In a perfect world, immediately after toasting champagne with family and friends at the wedding reception, you and your new groom are whisked away to an exotic locale for two weeks of sightseeing, beach bumming and cuddling. But, for many couples, the reality of planning a fairytale (i.e. budget-busting) honeymoon just isn’t in the cards. So what to do when you want to get away without going in debt? Here, five ideas for planning a budget-friendly getaway for your honeymoon.
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How to Choose a Travel Agent
Travel agents can give expert advice and provide outstanding service that you just can’t find through booking online. Here, we share with you tips on finding a travel agent to plan the honeymoon of your dreams.
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How to Prepare for Your Honeymoon
Before you book your honeymoon, review these tips to prepare for travel.
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Top Honeymoon Destinations for 2008
Stumped on where to stop for your honeymoon? We gathered a list of the most popular vacation spots visited by newlyweds in 2008.
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| Invitations & Gifts |
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9 Tips for Selecting Wedding Favors
Giving out wedding favors at the end of the night is a timeless tradition at wedding receptions. But favors should be carefully selected with lots of thought. If you’re searching for meaningful keepsakes to share with your guests, here are 9 tips for selecting wedding favors for your big day.
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Wedding Party Gifts
Your bridal attendants are those you hold nearest and dearest. You should recognize their participation with a special wedding party gift.Bridesmaid and groomsmen gifts can be simple or significant, inexpensive or lavish. What’s important is that they come from you and were selected especially for them.
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| Music & Entertainment |
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Wedding Ceremony Music: Soundtrack to Your Big Day
Selecting the right wedding ceremony music is essential for setting the tone and mood at your wedding. Ceremony music also is critical for issuing cues within the order of service and even keeps guests entertained as the bride prepares for her grand entrance. Although every couple is different when it comes to the kind of music they’ll select for their wedding ceremony, there is one tradition that everyone follows: the order of the playlist.
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Traditional Ceremony Music: Selections/Suggestions
To help you get an idea of the kind of music to choose for your ceremony, below is a breakdown of the components of a traditional wedding ceremony/service, with musical selections and suggestions for each section.
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Band vs DJ: Which is Best for You
Good entertainment is the key to a successful wedding celebration. How do you choose the appropriate entertainment for your wedding reception? The good news is, whether you choose a band vs a DJ, or vice versa, you really can’t go wrong.
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Wedding DJ Tips All Brides Should Know
Although some people design and play their own reception soundtracks, the most common choice for pre-recorded music is a professional wedding DJ. Here are a few wedding DJ tips to consider when deciding on your music professionals:
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| Photography & Video |
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Wedding Photography: Terms and Techniques
Wedding photography techniques are constantly advancing, with professional photographers consistently enhancing ways to capture amazing pictures. The importance of properly lit, sharply detailed and meaningful photographs cannot be overemphasized. One lasting reminder will be your photographs. That’s why it’s important to find a qualified, professional photographer who understands the various wedding photography techniques and can meet and surpass your expectations.
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Storing Your Wedding Pictures and Videos
Keep the memories of your wedding day even longer by safely storing your wedding pictures and videos. Back in the day, the only options brides and grooms had in photo preservation were albums and still picture frames. Today, with the help of high-tech tools like digital cameras and electronic storage devices, you can keep your memorabilia in perfect condition throughout the years. Here, we’ll show you the most popular resources in media archival, as well as tips on how to handle your wedding pictures and videos to keep for generations to come.
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10 Questions to Ask Your Wedding Photographer
Photography is an extremely important part of your wedding celebration. Once the big day is over, you will want your memories preserved for a lifetime. Perfect Wedding Guide expert Susan Southerland offers ten critical questions to ask your potential photographer to make sure you get exactly what you want.
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Wedding Videography 101
If you have your wedding shot on video, you’ll have a memento to treasure for years. And it doesn’t have to be just a straightforward chronology of events — your video can have all the flair, color and special effects of Hollywood filmmaking. Here we offer some wedding videography tips to make sure that you receive the quality of video that you deserve.
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| Wedding Celebrations |
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2010 Wedding Trends: Wedding Reception Decor
This year, wedding reception decor is getting a bit more personal. From funky centerpieces to boldly-colored chair covers and everything else in between, couples are finding unique ways to infuse elements of their personality into the look and feel of the wedding reception. Here, we list seven wedding reception decor trends that will leave your guests breathless.
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8 Questions Before Booking Your Reception Site
Selecting 5 vendors and venues for your wedding is one of the most time-consuming items on your wedding to-do list. To be sure you’re spending your money (and time) wisely, Perfect Wedding Guide expert Susan Southerland shares eight questions to ask before booking your reception site.
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| Wedding Fashion |
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Wedding Dresses 101: Finding Your Fit
When shopping for your wedding dress, know that it may take some time—especially when it comes to finding the right fit for your body type. Most bridal experts recommend you start choosing a wedding dress at least six months before the big day. You need time to visit bridal salons, try on different styles, select the dream wedding dress and make the necessary alterations. Here, we offer a list of top considerations for finding the right fit for your wedding dress.
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4 Smart Tips for Buying a Wedding Dress
While planning a wedding can often feel like a race against time, brides should never rush into buying a wedding dress on their first visit to a bridal salon. Here, we offer four smart tips to help you find the wedding dress of your dreams.
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Wedding Dress Photo Gallery
Photo resources for finding the perfect wedding gown.
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