Weddings And Marriages

Lisa Parker asked:


When you are planning your wedding, something important that is often overlooked is the idea of wedding favors. Wedding favors are the small, usually inexpensive gifts that you place next to your guests’ plates. They are often small trinkets or tokens that you give to your guests to show your appreciation for them attending your special day. With the right wedding favors, each of your guests can leave your wedding thinking wonderfully about you and truly enjoying the memories of your wedding.

The very best wedding favors are those which are kept and treasured long after the wedding is over. Therefore, it is important to think about what your wedding favors should be and how you can use them to help you emphasize your theme.

First of all, you have two choices. You can find wedding favors that fit into your theme because of what they are, or you can use wedding favors that can work with any theme, except that they are tailored to your specific day. Both choices are easy for you to do, but both require some planning and set-up.

The first way that you can incorporate wedding favors into your theme is by finding something that is uniquely yours and unique to the theme that you have chosen. This might include using guitar picks if both of you are musicians and you have a musical theme, or packets of seeds if you both love the outdoors and want to have an outdoors theme to your wedding. Some other great ideas include vials of sand from the place where your beach wedding took place or candles if your theme revolves around the flame of love burning for eternity. These are all things that you can incorporate into your wedding theme, and there are ways for you to have wedding favors that fit into these themes quite nicely.

However, this is not the only choice that you have when it comes to your wedding favors. Sometimes, buying things that fit into your theme specifically may cost you more money and it may be more difficult to do than other things. Therefore, something that you might want to consider is to choose wedding favors that fit into any wedding theme, but tailor them specifically to your own wedding.

The easiest of all of these choices would be to use candy as your wedding favor. Many people use small amounts of candy or nuts, and tie them into small sachets. You can use ribbon that matches your wedding theme colors, and then put a small sachet of candy or nuts at each place. These are great favors, and they are inexpensive, and often do not take much time at all. In addition, another idea is to use something cute, like coins for prosperity, or small stones that people can keep forever. Small trinkets like this are often the best way for you to show your guests how much you appreciate them, and how glad you are that they are at the wedding.

Many people like to use small trinkets of appreciation as their wedding favors, and these are things that can be used for any wedding, and can be incorporated into any theme. These include candy, favors like small toys, or even small plants or packets of seeds. All of these things are easy to incorporate into your theme. You can customize the colors that are used for ribbons and wrapping, so that the colors fit into your overall wedding colors. You can also include a small card with the item, which has some information from you. Often couples like to use this as a chance to say thank you and they include a small card that goes along with their wedding favors.

The card is usually used to thank those who attended the ceremony. You can also include a phrase that provides some wisdom or advice. A quote that the couple finds unique or interesting is also a good choice. By including a card with your wedding favors, you are incorporating something that you can make uniquely yours and it can help your guests remember the wedding.

Your wedding favors are only a small thing for you to think about while you are planning your wedding, and often this is something that you may think about last, or towards the end of your planning. Typical wedding favors consist of something simple depending on the theme of the wedding. Being creative helps create memories of the event because your gift can be something that one may not expect to receive. Therefore, remember that it does not have to be something very big or very fancy. It can be a small token, simply something that your guests can use to remember you and to remember the day that you got married.

SA Wedding Photographers asked:


It’s always nice to know what you’re in for when you have your wedding photos done as this will prepare you mentally. Important questions to consider prior to your big day would be what style of photos you prefer as this can be either traditional, spontaneous, arty etc. Another question would be whether you’d prefer colour, sepia or black and white photos; with or without frames or a mix of everything. This all needs to be discussed with your wedding photographer before the wedding day – besides the fact that he/she needs to know what your preferences and requirements are, the photographer can give you some guidance and advice on must-have shots so that the photos you imagine can take on real life form.

Although there are so many hair styles to choose from, keep in mind that you’ll have to look at these photos for ever, so I would advise against anything very different or extreme (the kids will probably just tease you about this later!). If you want your wedding photos to be timeless, go for a classic, simplistic hair style that would be easy to manage throughout your photo shoot and day.

Its important to have a trial run with your make-up to avoid last minute disappointment. You know what you feel comfortable with, again, this needs to suit your personality. You want to mingle with your guests feeling comfortable and self assured. Your wedding make-up should compliment you, not change you – rather keep it natural and fresh.

Keep the main thing the main thing – firstly you need to feel comfortable and most importantly be yourself so that your unique personality would reflect on the photos. But a girl needs all the help she can get and if a few props will help you to relax and have fun – why not! Take some props with or ask the photographer to supply some interesting objects that you can use during your photo shoot, for example a hat, colourful sarong (that will double up to keep your dress clean in case you have to get down and dirty), a wedding invitation, your garter, a cigar for the groom etc . Give your photographer some healthy attitude and the right tools to be creative.

We so often invest our precious time in things that won’t last – yes, its important that you look absolutely breathtaking but besides looking beautiful, the photo shoot takes priority as this is what you would take with you long after the champagne has lost its bubble. You can either shy away and lose out on stunning memories or you can forget yourself, go beyond yourself and have fun!