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Wedding Money: Money and Marriage with a Twist of Humor

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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By Dr. Taffy Wagner, CEPF, WedNet Specialist Blogger on Wedding Money, http://www.DebtAtTheAltar.com

You sitting there, bride-to-be, yes you. Come close to the screen. I know you have some financial questions that you want to ask yet you do not know who or where to turn. Congratulations, I am here for you. The voice of money and marriage for Wednet to provide you with tips, answer your questions and encourage you to not operate in fear. Let me share, one of the things about fear, especially when it comes to finances is it keeps you from taking action. Why? You are afraid of impending response or reaction. So we are not going to operate in fear but operate with the idea of succeeding, living, laughing and loving all the way down the aisle as we talk about money.

Are you ready? I sure am. I can imagine some of the questions you have are how do I manage to accomplish the wedding planning when our budget just got sliced in half or do we postpone our wedding until it is more affordable? Let me ask you, if you did not have any money, would you marry your groom? If the answer to this question is yes, then you have already answered that second question. There is no need to postpone the wedding. The wedding is a way of expressing your love and commitment outwardly for those family members, friends and colleagues. Didn’t you just say if you did not have any money you would marry the groom? There you have it. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on the wedding.

Caution – you are not planning your wedding with monopoly money. Honey, the money you are using is real and someone whether it is you or your family is paying for the wedding. Start talking now with your fiancé about money and what is important to each of you for the wedding day. You can begin the art of compromise now which can be beneficial to you throughout the marriage. The marriage is not all about the wife or the husband individually. The marriage is about the unit.



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An Online Shop for Crystal Party Favors!

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

   We set the wedding date for December 10th and got our invitations out early so we would know how many guests to plan for. After we received all of the RSVP’s I started looking for accessories and supplies for the wedding and reception.I’m a big fan of online shopping so I figured why not see what I can find in way of wedding accessories. I’m glad I did, because I found so many great wedding decoration ideas and lovely glass favors and crystal favors for our friends and family as thank you gifts. I also saw beautiful crystal wedding favors that would be perfect to get for my bridesmaids. I bought a crystal embedded bracelet for each of them, to show my appreciation for them being in my wedding party. My fiance found some pretty awesome groomsmen gifts as well. They had gorgeous little ornament favors that were perfect too. I decided to buy a few of them to put on the big Christmas tree we were putting in the reception hall. I also decorated with lots of candles, holly and red and white roses, and of course, we had to hang mistletoe everywhere. This was turning into the Christmas wedding I was hoping for.

   I bought all the essentials for our ceremony like a gorgeous five piece wedding ensemble which included the flower basket, ring pillow, guestbook, a stunning pen set and even a matching leg garter, for a very money saving price. I picked out some hair accessories, too, such as a pretty wedding comb and a bridal tiara, and there were more than enough options to pick from. I also bought the reception supplies and decorations online and all I had to do was sit and wait for delivery. Talk about saving from aggravation – and saving money, too, actually, since I got some great deals. There was an exact replica of my man and I, only a several inches high, that was custom-made for us for our wedding cake topper. This was the perfect topper for our wedding and it makes the best keepsake of all. I also ordered a beautiful cake serving set with crystal handles and champagne toasting flutes that had bride and groom printed on them. I even ordered some champagne glass wedding favors as extra gifts for our friends and family. Each of the women at our wedding got crystal wedding favors, and each of the men who were our guests got shot glass wedding favors. There was a keychain with a small crystal container on it for perfume that served as the womens’ gifts; that would always have an extra supply of perfume handy to keep them smelling nice. That was something that I figured they’d really appreciate. The containers they arrive in are silver and have a pretty bow and hang tags. I even found gorgeous and unique place card holders for our tables too. They were made of glass and the form of a bunch of grapes, and in the middle was a place for the card to sit. They made the tables at the reception sparkle.
   The glass favors they have, I discovered as I browsed through their inventory, aren’t just for weddings. For example, there are items for bridal showers and baby showers. The ones they had for baby showers were really adorable, like little baby buggies and booties.   When I have a baby shower, and I expect that I will, I will suggest this website first. I know I found all I needed and like I said before there were a lot of items that I was able to obtain at a discount. For newlyweds, saving a few extra dollars can go a long way.

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Exquisite Wedding Favor Heart!

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

   What could be more romantic than a wedding held in the month of Februrary? It seemed like a great idea me, so I opted to have my wedding day decorated with the emblem of love all over our wedding ceremony and reception. The first thing I bought was a gorgeous bridal tiara that I picked out over the Internet. There were many wonderful decorations and supplies to choose from, such as the invitations I bought. The cards we used as wedding invitations had a pair of hearts on the front of them, both silver. The inside was very pretty to look at, and it had everything printed out in there already when we received them, so all we had to do was write in the place and time and we were all set.
   But that was only the beginning, after I mailed out the invitations I had to start planning the décor and ordering the supplies I would need. I selected a red velvet set of ribbons and bows that I would put on the end of and string between the church pews. The altar was beautifully decorated, with wonderful candle holders and candles, including our unity candle which was adorned with a heart made of red roses. We used red roses all over the wedding ceremony, like in my bouquet, where they were mixed with pink roses, and throughout the church. We had doves let out of cages as my groom and I departed from the church building, and it was one extra touch that I thought was just majestic.
   The wedding apparel that would be worn by those who were going to be in the wedding had already been selected. The basket for the flower girl was going to be adorned with white satin, with lace and bows on each side. The rings also had a white satin ribbon on them, with a white pillow that had a gold double hearts wedding insignia on it for our ring bearer. My flower girl was going to wear a small tiara, and it was very similar in appearance to the one I had picked out for myself. She wore a pretty pink dress, made for a flower girl, and she did such a wonderful job as a flower girl and looked so brilliant that I thought she did look like royalty. With his tiny tuxedo and red boutonniere, the ring bearer boy did as good of a job and he looked just as adorable. He carried the ring pillow like a pro and kept in step with the rest of the wedding party. I was very glad that I chose to include both of them.
   The tables that our reception each had a floral arrangement of pink, red, and white roses with small hearts mixed in with them in the center of the table. On each of the reception tables were little two hearts wedding candles to set the romantic mood of the theme I had chosen, and at each setting was the nicest placecard holder I could find. The wedding favors we got our guests should be a terrific souvenir from our wedding; they had handles in the shape of a heart attached to tiny silver bells. There were frosting hearts all around the bottom layer of our wedding cake, and each layer was decked out in pink and red roses all around. Our hearts wedding cake had a white porcelain topper on it that complimented the rest of our cake décor beautifully.
   Everyone seemed to like the heart favor gifts we gave out to our guests, infact, one of my husbands relatives told me that this was the nicest heart favors she’s ever gotten from a wedding before. I also got a lot of compliments on the decorating of our hearts wedding reception. If they only knew how easy it was by using the internet for all my shopping. It’s the only way to shop. Right from home.

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A great place for hearts wedding favors online!

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

What could be more romantic than a wedding held in the month of Februrary? It seemed like a great idea me, so I opted to have my wedding day decorated with the emblem of love all over our wedding ceremony and reception. I started it off with the loveliest tiara that I ran across online. In fact I found quite a few super accessories that were perfect for the love theme I wanted. I mailed out small cards that had two silver-colored hearts on the front of them for our invitations. The inside was very pretty to look at, and it had everything printed out in there already when we received them, so all we had to do was write in the place and time and we were all set. 
After taking care of the invitations I started planning the most perfect hearts wedding possible. There were all kinds of lovely ideas for my decor and some pretty awesome suggestions for wedding favor heart thank you gifts for our guests.  The little heart favors I found were the perfect thing to show our appreciation and help add to my theme of love and romance.       On each of the pews I had big red velvet bows with ribbon strung from one pew to the next. The altar was beautifully decorated, with wonderful candle holders and candles, including our unity candle which was adorned with a heart made of red roses. There were also red and pink roses to help with the décor of the wedding site and red and white roses in my bridal bouquet. It may have been a touch extravagant, but I’ve always wanted to have doves released as we left the church building, so we did, and it I thought it was wonderful.
Everyone had their wedding attire taken care of, including our little flower girl and ring boy. The basket for the flower girl was going to be adorned with white satin, with lace and bows on each side. For the ring boy to carry down the aisle I ordered a gorgeous white double hearts wedding pillow with the two gold hearts entwined, and a white satin ribbon for the rings. My flower girl was going to wear a small tiara, and it was very similar in appearance to the one I had picked out for myself. She wore a pretty pink dress, made for a flower girl, and she did such a wonderful job as a flower girl and looked so brilliant that I thought she did look like royalty. The ring boy was just as cute in his small tuxedo and red boutonniere, and he did his task just as well. He carried the ring pillow like a pro and kept in step with the rest of the wedding party. I was very glad that I chose to include both of them.
The tables that our reception each had a floral arrangement of pink, red, and white roses with small hearts mixed in with them in the center of the table. I got a place card holder that was the prettiest I had ever seen for each place setting, and two wedding candles that made it feel like love was in the air. The wedding favors we got our guests should be a terrific souvenir from our wedding; they had handles in the shape of a heart attached to tiny silver bells. Every layer of our wedding cake was adorned with small red and pink roses, and the bottom section had tiny hearts running all the way around it. On top sat our very special keepsake hearts wedding cake topper made of white porcelain, which looked so elegant with all the other cake decorations.
Everything at our wedding and reception was the perfect picture of a true valentines day wedding with all the hearts and flowers imaginable. I’m just glad I had the internet to turn to, it made everything so much easier.

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Nice Key Chain Party Favors!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

I was never big on keychain favors because they always looked kind of chinsy, but then I went on the Internet to see what was out there just for fun. And they are inexpensive, but some are quite well designed. Honestly I had never thought about keychain party favors until I got a look at some of the nice ideas they had for them. There were characters from stories, vacation and honeymoon destinations, and specific cities, all worked into keychain designs. The key chain party favors given out at our wedding were very practical: they had a tape measure attached to them. That’s the type of thing that you like to have in a pinch. Another design that caught my fancy was the engagement ring key chain favors that had rhinestones going around a wedding ring. Can you believe that there are this many cool keychain options out there? They also have a nice keychain favor for bridal and baby shower parties.
There were even more options than that at this Internet site that I found. They also had accessories for a reception and ceremony in any genre you could imagine. The wedding cake topper we picked out for our glorious cake was a sight to behold. The wedding cake topper, which looked lovely as it was, had my groom and my initials in silver, and then accented by small, shimmering crystals. The exquisite cake server set we picked out had handles that were made to like clothing for the bride and groom on their wedding day. We picked out crystal wine glasses and champagne flutes that sparkled at our table, and at our guests at their reception tables. Everyone had champagne toasting flutes to go with the china I chose and the fantastic place card holders I found online. The design of the place card holders was pretty distinctive. The holders were basically small vases that held daisies, and then one of the petals had a slot that held the place card.
The splendid food and salad choices and desserts that our caterers put together for us left us blown away. The musical performers we got for our reception were an awesome choice, too. My man knows some people, and he managed to bring in about the most talented group in our locale. These guys could play just about anything you requested. They did a super job on our song for the bride and grooms first dance of the evening. They got some business out of it, too: someone at the wedding hired the band right then and there to come to his boy’s engagement party and perform there sometime next month.
It really, truly was the most perfect wedding and the most perfect reception that I could have ever imagined. We shot video of the wedding ceremony and our first dance as newlyweds, the photographer took all kinds of photos as well. I’m glad I thought to buy two wedding photo albums, because there was definitely plenty of pictures to store away. For our living room, I picked out a special album to put on the coffee table, too. The frame on it is a silvery metal, and it has a pair of darling little hearts on it that just look exquisite. And then on top of that, I wanted to remember our Cancun honeymoon forever, so I picked out a picture album for that as well. So, when it came to photos, we were all set.
I’ll always remember that special day we spent with our friends and family around as we said our vows and became husband and wife. There are an abundance of mementos I have stashed away to remind me what a profound and wonderful day it was. And the honeymoon was pretty unforgettable, all by itself.

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Nice Growth RX!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

I like to work out hard, and if the pros are many and the cons are few, and if it’s totally natural, I’ll look seriously into taking something to help me improve my work-out results. I’m willing to put in the time to train to look good, but I’m not going to sacrifice my health to do it. And the more a single product can do for me, the better, because then I don’t have a ton of different things to keep track of. That way, I can be healthy, strong, and look good, but not have to spend a ton of time trying to keep track of everything.
I saw some nice Growth RX information when I was online. The testimonials for Growth-RX were very nice. They said emphatically that it worked extremely well, which is what initially caught my attention. I need more than just that, however. Something has to make me look good and keep me healthy in order for me to take it.
Once I read the nice Growth RX testimonial that i found was valid and got me excited, I checked into the ingredients. It turns out there’s this new amino acid named citrulline malate that is supposed to help your body respond better to exercise. If any of the ingredients in something aren’t natural, I won’t take it, but the ingredients in this all checked out, so no problem there.
After I saw what was in it and that people were happy with it, the next thing I did was look at exactly what the product did. I wanted something that would have a variety of benefits, from boosting energy to burning off unwanted fat. By taking this substance, you could get those benefits and then some. It would make my body look more cut, and my muscles would recover faster when I worked out. It also claimed to help blood flow and oxygen levels, which was really a big plus in my book. After all of my research, there was no doubt that this was something that I had to try.
My results were through the roof, but amazingly, it exceeded my expectations, and I didn’t even think that was possible. My waist line shrunk, my arms and legs grew, and I felt like a teenager again with my new energy level. My exercise regimen increased substantially, but I had no trouble handling it, and my mind and body felt so refreshed all the time. It was almost as if I had discovered the fountain of youth. I had to start increasing my weight-lifting amounts and frequency because my muscles were so much better able to recover after a work-out.
The best part was that I was able to use Growth Rx and look outstanding without worrying about any long-term negative consequence, and that was important for my mental health. I wasn’t grossly out of shape before I started taking it, but now my physique is really becoming noticeably defined. A woman at the gym I train at was so shocked at the transformation in my body that she actually came up to me and inquired as to what I was on. When I told her that I was taking a supplement with all-natural ingredients, she was stunned that I could get the results I did from something that had nothing artificial in it. She asked how to get a hold of some, and I said that it was simple just go on the Internet, and you’ll find a great deal on it. I can’t wait to see how thrilled she’s going to be with the results once she starts using it.

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I found the perfect place for groomsmen gift ideas!

Monday, June 1st, 2009

When my best friend informed me of a online shopping store for wedding accessories and supplies that could save us a little on the wedding expenses, I thought I’d give it a try. She was right, they had everything from wedding invitations to wedding favors and none of it was really expensive. They even super suggestions for groomsmen and bridesmaids thank you gifts along with all the other fantastic wedding items they have to offer. Naturally, after getting a look at their inventory, I made the decision to order all my needed wedding supplies and decorations at their online store.
Since we had planned our wedding date to be in December, I wanted to have a winter wonderland wedding and reception and this was the perfect place to get what I needed for it. First I ordered winter wonderland wedding bulletins to use as our wedding invitations. I lucked out when looking for my flower basket and ring pillow because I found a five piece wedding set that had both, plus a guestbook and pen set, and a nice leg garter to go along with it. Not only did each piece match, but the price was more than reasonable. I know, after reading a few wedding articles, that many churches won’t allow the tossing of petals for the bride and grooms departure and many couples have chosen bubbles to be blown as they exit the ceremony. This online shopping site I’m on has little bottled bubbles for just that purpose, with little bubble cards for hang tags, which I placed an order for.
The lovely accessories I ordered were unbelievable. I bought all the gifts for the entire wedding party from there, including gifts for the bridesmaids, flower girl, and ring boy. Out of all the groomsmen gift ideas they had available, the groomens gifts of his choosing were glass mugs that had the word groomsman printed on the mug. Since the groomsmen gift and the rest of the people in our wedding was taken care of, I could shop for favors for our friends and family. There were so many wonderful gift ideas for a winter wedding to give to our guests. The wedding favors I chose were glass winter votive candles with a wintery frosted look for everyone attending the reception. The glass candles had wintery snowflakes all over it. Every candle was packaged in a decorative favor box with a silver hang tag on them.
I also bought place card holders that look like snowy tree ornaments that can be used as an extra little favor for our guests. They had it all, winter themed champagne glasses and serving set and a funny winter wedding cake topper too. Since the cake topper I chose was one with the bride and groom on skis, I decided to make it look authentic by having the baker design the top layer of our cake as a mountain of snow. The cake really turned out nice and I made sure there were lots of pictures of it for my gorgeous winter wonderland wedding album. After we cut the cake and had our toast done by my super brother in law, it was time for our bride and groom dance. I really felt like a princess in some kind of dream world while we glided across the floor, with everyone watching.
Everyone was having a fantastic time and this reception was perfection from beginning to end. All of my girls in the wedding party loved their thank you gifts as did the guys and their wedding groomsmen gifts. We also got quite a few compliments from our wedding guests about the decorations and the lovely wedding favors they received.

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