Tips in Transporting Your Wedding Apparels

Choosing a destination wedding is quite complicated especially when it comes to transporting your wedding apparels, most of all is your wedding gown, on how to have a safe arrival on your destination! But don't panic, you can still fly with all your apparels with you. First, make sure to buy an appropriate box specially designed in transporting wedding gowns and accessories, those acid-free dress boxes and large enough to preserve them without crushing. I found a website where to buy it online, and also on Ebay.

Second thing you need to do, is to check with your airline about where and how they will transport your wedding gown. These days most airlines transport the dress in the luggage haul, not in the passenger cabin. So make sure you check and package it up correctly. Consider weight restrictions with your luggage. Again, check this with your airline and pack appropriately, or you'll be stung for lots of cash at the airport.

IMPORTANT: As soon as you arrive to your destination, hang them straight away in a steamy bathroom until the creases drop out in order to get rid of all the crinkles from staying inside the box. DON’T IRON YOUR OWN DRESS.

ON YOUR WEDDING DAY, be careful with fresh flowers as the pollen may stain your dress or your groom’s attire. If you do get pollen on your clothes, rub it off gently with a DRY cloth – a wet cloth will cause it to stain. Sand gets very hot in the sun, it may damage the edge of your gown, so be careful and better to wear sandals, pumps or flip flops. Also, take care when applying the sunscreen as it may stain your dress!

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Brides: How Do You Want To Look Like On Your Big Day?

These collection of photographs inspired me when I was choosing my wedding gown, and apparently have had helped me to image myself and deciding eventually, "how I wanted to look like on my big day".

Collections where you can get brilliant ideas of various designs for your wedding dress, especially if you opt to have it made by your designers.

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Tips In Transporting Your Wedding Gown
Choosing Your Beach Wedding Gown
My Tips to Have a Perfect Beach Wedding
Determining Your Beach Wedding Theme
My 4 Handy Tips on How to Survive Your Wedding Photo Shoots
Choosing Your Bridal Bouquet
My Wedding Day - Part I (Procession)
My Wedding Day - Part II (The Beach Ceremony)
My Wedding Day - Part III (Photo Shoots)

Before You Say I Do

Never mind for me, it is too late now I know. Shame I never came to see this book before I got married, otherwise I would have bought this one! But it's never too late yet for all the brides-to-be out there, this is very exciting. Would still want to buy this one.

Overview about this book: Having a successful, joyful marriage. Knowing more about your loved one's dreams and goals for your union. This book provides the perfect opportunity to gain greater insights into your future mate's expectations and time-tested principles for a satisfying lifelong partnership. Through interactive surveys, thoughtful questions, and real-life examples, your relationship will deepen as you uncover areas of harmony and potential areas of discord.

You can buy this online here if you like.

The Bride's Survival Guide

If you are planning to buy a book for your wedding planning, then this book is very good for you brides especially if you are opt to plan your own.

What's inside of this book: Guest lists, invitations, decorations, flowers, bridesmaid's dresses, reception arrangements-small details can turn into big stressors when you're planning your wedding. What's a girl to do? Drawing on real-life stories and her own experience, Kolbaba offers savvy advice to get you from "nearly wed" to "newly wed"-in one piece.

Happy planning....

4 Handy Tips on How to Survive Your Wedding Photo Shoot

Our photo shoot alone lasted for about 2 hours, imagine of going around the resort with hundreds of rooms! What we were thinking about it was, we paid for it though and we must admit, that this was something that we wanted to get over with, so that we can get back to our guests and get the party started. However, this is creating your lifetime memories of your Big Day, guests won't go anywhere and will be there until everything is finished! So why not take time to enjoy and take as much photographs as the photographer like, you paid for it anyway.

For you to be able to survive with hours and hours of your photo shoots session, I would suggest you pack yourself a goodie-bag that you'd carry through while having it and for the rest of your day, or you can ask your maid-of-honor or one of your bridesmaids to hold it and give it to you whenever you need it.

1) Touch-up make-up - Standing around with a permanent smile while the sun is beating down on you is no joke, but at least you can ensure that you look absolutely beautiful while doing it. Pack some touch-up make-up, especially lipstick and powder to take away any shine left by the weather (or your nerves).

2) Brush and clips - The weather (wind) or just going through the motions might have an unpleasant effect on the hair style you spent so much time on - more additions to your goodie bag would be a brush and extra clips or hairspray, if needed.

3) Tissues and wet wipes - A session like this can be quite time-consuming and as a Very Important Person (if not the most), you want to be prepared to get through this and still look like a million dollars! Tissues and wet wipes will come in very handy when it feels like you are melting away - a great tool for damage control!

4) Bottled water and snacks - The bride is usually way to nervous to eat something before the ceremony and way to busy mingling to have something after the photo shoot. Pack some light snacks to have in between shots, like nuts, a banana and a bottle of still water (cheese curls and Fanta Grape would be a bad choice!)

With this life-saver goodie bag by your side, you are now geared for any unforeseen events. Take a deep breath, bum in, bosom out and smile!

Part III: My Wedding Day Photo Shoots

My wedding day story continues by giving you the details of our photo shoots session. Part of our photograph and video package, was to have a photo shoots right after the ceremony, before our reception took place and while serving snacks to your guests and families, which basically we went around the resort and posed as much as we liked! What do you need here is A LOT OF SMILE, which we did from the very beginning.

"An eternity is forever, and forever with you would be a dream come true.""The world is to end one day for you and me, but our love will be there forever."

"Love is knowing you are the bud from which his happiness blossoms."

"I knew that forever was in your eyes the moment I saw you smile."

"For yesterday's memories, today's love, and tomorrow's dreams I love you."

"Love can make you do things that you never thought possible!"

"With you my love, I want to start a dream that never ends."

"The love is like the wind in my hands. So easy to feel but so hard to catch."

"I will be forever yours with just one kiss, setting my soul on fire with eternal bliss."Photographs are the only memories you could always look back in times. So it is normal that couples spend loads of money on wedding photographers, so make the most of it. It's your day, and we as Brides are the stars of our big day!

Choosing Your Beach Wedding Gown

We are talking here about thousands of choices, which make the brides confused on what sort of style or design she is going to wear for her big day! When I was busy choosing my gown, I had the same problem too. Take this advise which I found this very effective - the quickest way to decide is by "imagining yourself plenty times, your look on your wedding day", of course with the help at looking for varieties of style and imagine.

In choosing a perfect gown, basically, what you decide to wear really depends on where your ceremony takes place, and whatever the case, you’ll need to think about where you’ll be tying the knot and what would be best to wear. The great thing about beach wedding dresses and apparels are, they tend to be cheaper than regular wedding dresses as you can go for something different or a lightweight dress (therefore less material).

Beach wedding dresses have become more popular and more common for people who are going to have their wedding on a beach or a beach like scenery. These websites listed below have a wide selection on beach wedding dresses and most of them will fit within a wedding budget. There is something for everyone on this page including those who cannot afford to spend over $100 on a wedding dress. Keep an eye out for discounts and freebies at these stores so that you can take advantage of every opportunity.

1) Beachcomber Bride is a great place to go for tips on planning a beach wedding and for getting all of your accessories in one place including your beach wedding dress. This site has many beach wedding dresses to choose from and feature many top wedding gown designs. Once you find the perfect beach wedding dress, you can enter in a little bit of information and locate a wedding store near you that has the dress of choice.

2) The Dessy Group has really cute beach wedding dresses and you are sure to find something that fits your style. Their beach wedding dresses come in different styles including strap less, long, short, halter top, and many other styles to make your beach wedding dress the perfect one for you. At their site, they not only have wedding dresses but also other great accessories to help you plan the perfect wedding.

3) Bridal Chalet is a little more expensive when it comes to purchasing a wedding dress. Their prices range from $1,999 to $2,999. They have hundreds of beach wedding dresses to choose from and even offer a free garter for every wedding dress that is ordered through them.

4) Wedding Solutions has an amazing collection of wedding dresses including beach wedding dresses for those who want to create a statement in an elegant way. Their prices vary but our made by over one hundred top designers so you are sure to find something that you like within their category of beach wedding dresses.

5) Maggie Sottero is basically a site where you could see real weddings with loads of wedding gown styles you could choose from or get your ideas from, so if you want to see yourself in a particular dress, see here. I remember when I was planning mine & still looking for a perfect one for me, I just kept on looking this site.

6) Bargain Wedding Gowns generally a collection of wide varieties of store models, runaway samples, and showroom originals, and are recently discontinued. They have not been worn to actual weddings and are not used, however, a few missing or loose beads may be possible as well as dust at the hemline, so they are really cheap!

7) Hawaiian Wedding Shop offers wonderful beach wedding dresses with prices starting out at only $50 and going up to over $1,000. The Hawaiian Wedding Shop has a great selection on beach wedding dresses and other items to make your dream wedding a dream come true.

8) The Dreaming Goddess Boutique has many beach wedding dresses in many different colors for you to choose from. Included with the beach wedding dresses is a free book to help you along the way.

9) My Ties has a wonderful selection, quality dresses, and great customer service to go along with the great prices on beach wedding dresses. If you go to their website, be sure to look at their sales for even better prices on a beach wedding dress. The prices for My Ties beach wedding dresses start at under $200.

At the end of the day, you are the bride, "the one who knows best what suits you best".

My Tips To Have A Perfect Beach Wedding

First thing first is, you have to decide which beach or what country are you going to have your wedding at. It is pretty much normal that couples choose a beach nearby to where they live in consideration of their guests, if you want everybody can be able to attend your big day! Lucky if both live in a country with gorgeous beach! What if you both came from two different countries? I have already mentioned this very subject on my old post, regarding "my wedding preparations". Indeed, it was difficult for us to determine the place, especially that we didn't know anything about Mauritius.

When you already have picked the place, Important tips are:

1) Know all the weather like in that country and choose the date from there, the best month which everybody would love - a bright sunny season.

2) Choosing the time of day - Although it probably sounds insignificant, deciding what time in the day you want to have the wedding is very important. While it may not seem like it, the time of the day which you plan on can have a huge effect on the overall wedding experience which you have at the beach. Most people would recommend you to have it early in the morning, or beginning in the evening. Since three o'clock in the day is the hottest time, you will probably want to avoid having your wedding at this time.

3) It is very important also that you should learn about any rules or regulations which apply, all the legalities and technicalities. It is important for you to find out if it is even legal for you to have your wedding at that particular country, as well as whether or not you will need a permit to have it there.

4) You should ask all the options in case bad whether strikes, like if they offer free other resort or beach premises where you could alternatively hold your wedding and even the reception.

As you can see, there are a number of different things which you may want to take into consideration if you are thinking about having a beach wedding. Considering each of these factors will help ensure that you have the absolute best time during your wedding at the beach.

Part II: My Wedding Ceremony By The Beach

"Forever is not a word...rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.

At last, after hours and hours of waiting, have finally seen my man - my love and my future. A million dollar smiles... "Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart"... While we were walking going down to the beach, love songs and wedding songs were beautifully playing, it was very romantic though... The moment I saw all our guests with big smiles on their faces and the non-stop flashes from their cameras, I started crying... The venue was lovely, we were surrounded by with fresh flowers. Anyway, we only had a 30 minutes ceremony done by the Head of Civil Registrar in Mauritius (as shown on top right).

Exchanging of our VOWS...

Blessing and exchanging of our RINGS...
"A ring is round, it turns forever and that's how long we'll be together!"
We were both in tears here, was very romantic though.
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”

My father and Mr. Giff Bishop (our Chief Engineer here at work), signed our marriage license as our 2 witnesses.

As soon as the ceremony was finished, the Civil Head had pronounced us as "Husband & Wife"... at last and finally!! "Forever is not today, not tomorrow or a century that will come, but a lifetime."
Our both parents...

One thing that I forgot to tell my husband to "bless" ("mano po" in Tagalog) to my parents - to take their both hands and put in his forehead - one of the Filipino cultures, which basically a sign of respect! After here, I'm gonna be taking you to our 2 hours photo shoots - we went around the resort, around the beach, taking the gorgeous sunset.

"Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!"

My Wedding Day Part I: Procession Going to the Beach

IT WAS A VERY SUNNY DAY, gorgeous. The most awaited moment, that everyone was looking forward to, that everybody was excited about to experience, there I was, to have had finally been able to put smile on my face after the long hours of preparation.

We didn't know that our photographers and the video man were already waiting for us at the reception area where we were going to start, then down to the beach, while my hubby's family and the rest of our guests were already at the ceremony venue waiting for us to come. We were rushing and laughing while feeling nervous! At least we all managed to laugh...

My both beloved parents.

That's the reception area of the Le Canonnier Hotel. They were all my ladies - my sister Joy standing right next to me - she was my Maid of Honor; my Bridesmaids - Ashley and Zaira as Junior Bridesmaid, on my left side is Claire (my sis-in-law), and Dee (my bestfriend), and my brother as my Ring Bearer. My Bible Bearer Jake wasn't there at that very moment as he was the one was running around to see my hubby to confirm the missing rings.

Going down to the beach, I felt wonderful though, people were looking and taking photographs. Can't really help myself but to smile at them!!!
Was taken beside the swimming pool with loads of people. I can't really wait to see my man waiting for me!
We were passing the historical tower with children's playground inside, and the massage center made up of native materials.

More to come....am almost there...