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How to Survive a Wedding With Food Allergies

Your daughter has been asked to be a flower girl. Or, maybe your son has been asked to be a ring-bearer. If your child has severe food allergies, you may wonder if it will be safe for him or her to attend the wedding reception. Here are some tips about how someone with food allergies can survive a wedding. When my sister told me she was getting married, she asked me to be a bridesmaid. Of course, I said yes. In the back of my mind, I was already trying to figure out how I would make it through the … Continue reading →

Choosing Your Wedding Cake

Ah, the wedding cake. Probably the item most scrutinized, with the exception of the wedding dress. Have you chosen what kind of cake you’d like for your wedding? Let’s look at some of the different styles. This cake is probably one of the most classic. Each tier is set on a small plastic tray, and those trays are then snapped onto columns, which are snapped onto the bottom layer. You can put anything you like between the layers, as shown here with this couple’s use of goblets. This style of cake is probably the second-most classic. The layers are stacked … Continue reading →

10 Tips When You’re Moving House

You know you’re moving, you’ve decided to put your house up for sale and followed some of the suggested guidelines on the previous blog, now what? Here are more guidelines to make it easier. 1. Decide whether you are going to use a real estate agent or try and sell privately. I admit we’ve only ever sold using an agent. Friends have sold privately and to me it sounded like a lot of hassle. I also see houses put up for sale privately that often then have to be out in an agent’s hands. 2. Make sure you factor all … Continue reading →

Planning a Wedding- Part 3

Part 3 of wedding planning is here Wedding Dress If you are getting it made you will need to have it organized early. Some dressmakers and companies will tell you 7 months are not long enough so a lot depends on how long the engagement is. Or you might decide to buy one ready made. I did this when I married. I saw a dress I loved that was a bit different. I tried it on. It needed only minor alterations. It wasn’t expensive. I lay-byed it – the first dress I tried on. A friend hired her wedding dress. … Continue reading →

A Unique and Memorable Wedding Gift

Some people come up with great ideas for weddings. This is one of them, which was planned and put together at least six months before the wedding by the mother of the bride. As soon as she knew the wedding date, the mother of the bride contacted all members of the family and asked them for their favorite recipe. The plan was each person would have an A4 page on which they were encouraged to print their favorite recipe, whether it was for main meal, dessert, cakes etc. After each person had printed out the recipe they were asked to … Continue reading →

Creating a Wedding Wall

Yesterday I mentioned re-creating a wedding wall. So what is a wedding wall? This was something we had in a previous house. When she was younger our daughter could hardly wait for the day she would be married and go up on the wedding wall. It took us a while to get to it. After we moved, we put up couple of photos on whatever hooks happened to be already in the house but that was it. However, we always intended to put the wedding wall back together. Now, finally after a lot of time, fiddling and patience, it is … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review for January 28 – February 3

Last week Lyn and I said goodbye to January and welcomed February. Here’s what we wrote on: Monday, January 28 Internet Infidelity Leads to Attempted Hit A married woman tried to use Craigslist to off her equally married lover…who she’d met online. Successful Serious Discussions with Your Mate Lyn offers suggestions for setting a positive tone for starting serious discussions. Proxy Marriages Only four states allow these types of marriages, which don’t require both parties even be in attendance to wed. Tuesday, January 29 Personalized Gifts to Delight Your Valentine Once again I was shopping the catalogs and found items … Continue reading →

What To Do With Your Leaf Peeping Pictures

In my previous blog I offered tips on how to make the most of your fall leaf peeping adventures… with your camera. There’s nothing like capturing shots of Mother Nature going out in a blaze of glory. Fall’s natural fireworks show inspires many photographers to get outdoors and document the glorious colors. Once you’ve snapped your prize-winning shots–—then what? You could frame them, store them, or leave them in your digital camera. But why not employ some unique ways to preserve your autumn memories? Here are a few ideas I came up with: Picture Stamps. I know. Most people reserve … Continue reading →

Changing Your Life

My wife and I went to a co-worker’s wedding this past weekend. Besides the bride and groom (who were pretty preoccupied), we knew exactly one person at the wedding and reception, and although she was very nice, she was more interested in getting her date onto the dance floor. I can only do so much dancing before my repertoire of dance moves is rapidly exhausted, so we found ourselves sitting at a table with five couples who we had never met before and who we would never see again. We began talking politely with them (sure enough they all knew … Continue reading →

Finding The Right Wedding Photographer

There’s no way you are going to get breathtaking shots of one of the most important days of your life without an outstanding photographer. You may not remember what filling you had in your wedding cake or what type of music played at your reception, but having to stare at dark, out of focus shots of your first kiss as man and wife—that’s something that will stay with you forever. Which is why it is critical that you choose a wedding photographer very carefully. I found my wedding photographer through word of mouth. I firmly believe this is the best … Continue reading →