Top 10 Wedding Decoration Budget Tips

When it comes to choosing your wedding decorations, you must decide on your theme. Once you have done this, you can then make your decisions about the budget that you will have.

Here are the top 10 tips that you should know in order to lower the cost of your wedding decorations.

1. Decide on the essential items that you must have first and then worry about the extras.
2. Hand make the centerpieces yourself using items priced toward your budget.
3. Using artificial flowers is cheaper than fresh flowers unless you pick them yourself from a field.
4. Skip the extra wedding favors and focus more attention on decoration detail.
5. Never go over your budget because you set it up for a reason
6. For smaller items like candles, candle holders, small laces etc. visit your nearby dollar store.
7. Never underestimate the elegance of basic décor. Sometimes minimal is best.
8. Some very versatile items that can make a beautiful decorations include: clay pots, plastic bowls/vases, faux flowers, pearls, balloons, pillar candles, rhinestones, and empty wine bottles.
9. Tissue paper roses and flowers give off a beautiful look to any decorating style and they are quick and easy to make.
10. A word to wise is that your decorations should not even amount to half of the money that is spent on the reception.
By Mike Lindsey

Weddings in Las Vegas – Popular Ceremonies

Are you looking for a las Vegas chapel to make your wedding dreams come true? Chances are you will find it here with Weddings Las Vegas and its many exciting options and packages to choose from. From a simple ceremony in your hotel room to a lavish affair at one of these dynamic locations, your exchange of vows will become permanently etched in the memories of everyone present as a thing of beauty that lasts forever.

Start by consulting a wedding guide to find out more about Nevada marriage laws and Las Vegas courthouse hours of operation. You also will need to know something about proof of age and identity as well as fees. Planning your wedding a couple of weeks ahead of time can provide a wide range of options for time, place, and style. Yet there are also opportunities to marry without waiting when you arrive in the Wedding Capital of the World.

For an outdoor wedding, arrangements can be made for the Grand Canyon, Valley of Fire, or Mountain Air packages. Each of these allows you to enjoy the natural beauties of this scenic area along with the peaceful solitude away from city life. Or you can opt for a traditional Catholic wedding performed by an authorized priest who will meet with you before the ceremony to personalize your service.

Other cultural themes and elements can be added to the ceremony if time permits. Celtic hand fasting to unite the couple, the Spanish arras involving thirteen silver coins showing the groom’s ability to support his wife, and Hawaiian leis that join husband and wife are just a few of the many types of symbolic gestures you may wish to consider for your ceremony. Central American, Mexican, and Jewish customs have found a place in some of the more memorable wedding services performed at this las Vegas wedding chapel.

Not every wedding chapel in las Vegas is so accommodating. Some have a set service that runs a certain number of minutes and cannot be amended. Other Las Vegas wedding chapels prefer to follow a prescribed format that is based on tradition. Yet many las Vegas chapels go out of their way to personalize a service for the special couple, as this one does.

By Randy Wilson

Wedding Cake Toppers

In recent years, bride and groom cake toppers have been described as cheesy, tacky, and out dated by modern cake designers, but you might also consider that they are traditional, and if done tastefully they can be a lot of fun.  After all, what makes a wedding cake different from just another fancy cake if it doesn’t have a wedding topper?
Here are five ways you can have a bride and groom topper on your wedding cake without being accused of being corny:

1.  Look for a topper that reflects you as a couple.  If you’re both into riding, the bride and groom could be sitting on horses. If you love winter sports have your bride and groom slaloming down the cake on miniature skis.
2. You don’t have to have the bride and groom in the classic arm in arm position on top of your cake. Work with your cake designer to come up with something unusual. Some couples have the bride trying to climb up onto the top tier, helped by the groom who is already on top. Others have the groom down on one knee at the base of the cake while the bride looks down from the top, a little like Romeo and Juliet during the balcony scene.
3. Having a bride and groom topper made from clay to resemble you and your groom is a very fashionable option, and while it may be quite expensive it will make your cake truly unique and a real talking point. Try to let the designer have pictures of your wedding outfits; just make sure the groom doesn’t get a glimpse of your gown.
4. Adding humour to your cake with a funny bride and groom topper can make it more original. The reluctant groom is always a winner, with the bride dragging him across the cake by one ankle. You could also have the groom standing alone by an altar reading a note from the bride that reads ‘still shopping’. If you have a funny cake topper, make sure it really reflects your personalities or the joke may be lost on some guests.
5. Using a vintage cake topper, such as the one your parents or grandparents had on their cake, is a popular way to stick with tradition and honour your family at the same time.

If you are determined not to have a bride and groom cake topper, there are many fashionable alternatives. Here are some ideas to get you started:

•  Flowers make a great feature on your wedding cake, whether they are fresh flowers to match those in your bouquet, or iced flowers tumbling down the side of your cake. Ribbons are also a simple yet effective way to decorate your cake and to tie it into your colour scheme.
• Making antique jewellery, especially brooches, into a cake topper is currently in vogue, and it is a good way to include your ‘something old’ in your wedding.  Work with your cake designer and see how you can incorporate a family heirloom into your top layer.
• Some couples design a wedding motif or monogram that features on their wedding stationery.  Recreating this motif in icing to use as a stylish cake topper should be simple for an experienced cake designer.
• Traditional wedding symbols can be used as wedding toppers in place of the usual bride and groom. These include intertwined hearts, kissing doves, tilted champagne glasses, or a decorative horse shoe for good luck.
• Bold patterned wedding cakes, and cup cake towers are both popular wedding cake trends of the moment, and these could look overdone with anything on the top.  If you don’t think your wedding cake needs a topper, there’s no real reason to have one.