Archive for September, 2008

Each year more couples are opting for a non-Saturday wedding in favour of tying the knot on a weekday, or even a Sunday.
Recent research suggests that over the last 5 years, weddings on a Friday have increased by 5 percent which is around 12,000 couples.

Probably the main reason behind this change is that wedding venues and other wedding services charge a lower rate for weekdays rather then the traditional Saturday wedding day. With the credit crunch going on at the moment this seems like a good option for brides and grooms to take, after all, if your nearest and dearest can’t make time for your wedding on a Friday, then should they be invited in the first place?
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For many various reasons, a great deal of couples suddenly decide they’re going to have a whirlwind wedding, and everything has to be planned last minute.

Last minute weddings can be very exciting but the prospect can be daunting. Can you really plan an entire wedding day in such a short amount of time ? Well, of course the answer is yes, but you’ll need to be flexible and appreciate that you may not be able to achieve every single wedding desire, however you can still organise a memorable day.
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If you have always dreamed of being married in your mother’s wedding dress but it simply doesn’t  fit, what about wearing her veil ?  Take the veil with you and see if you can find a dress that  will compliment the style.  Don’t worry as much about the colour – you can always get the dress dyed to match.

Quick wedding tip provided by Elle Brown – wedaholic.com

This week’s weird wedding wonder comes from some mentalist groom who clearly thinks he has the X factor.

In the words of Simon Cowell – “that was just like cabaret”

Except we think that would be an insult to cabaret acts. So if you are planning to be the entertainment at your own wedding like these people, please ensure your wedding planning is based on 95% dance lessons.

Enjoy…..

We’ve all been to weddings, some are more traditional then others, but why do we call them a traditional wedding? What are the traditions, and how did they come about, and what makes them traditional ? Confused ? So are we.
So once again we went delving into the traditions at a wedding to see what we could find.

The Lucky Horseshoe

Our favorite one, the bride looks delightful, the wedding is splendid, what shall we do…. let’s hang a horse shoe from her arm. Read the rest of this entry »

We thought we’d write a new article just for the blokes of Essex to get excited about. Recently we’ve written about flowers and insurance, neither of which would keep the Essex boys reading for too long, so here’s our first bloke’s page in the blog and it’s all about Stag Party Ideas in Essex !

The stag do has come a long way since the last night of freedom down the local pub with your Dad and a couple of mates. These days blokes spend hundreds jetting off to far away places for a weekend of raucous behavior before the wedding day.

Obviously a boys weekend away is a great thing to do, but why not save some of that beer money you spend on flights and look locally for a perfect action packed stag weekend in Essex. So, what’s on offer right here on your doorstep ? Essex Wedding Services takes a look…..
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A lot of engaged couples think that wedding insurance is only for those who may get cold feet, actually this statement couldn’t be any further from the truth. Logically, what insurance company will pay out if you just say to them “actually we don’t want to do that anymore!” – answer is none.

Let’s put it another way, weddings cost a fortune. The average cost of a wedding is more then the average value of the contents of your home, and yet while most people decide to insure the contents of their home, a great deal of engaged couples decide against the security of wedding insurance.
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Wedding favours are those little trinkets that all the wedding guests receive, normally left at their place settings, during the meal. They are a keepsake of the day, a memory of the wedding for the guests to take home, traditionally left for the female guests, but now the guys seem to get them too.

Why are they called wedding favours …..? We don’t actually know, maybe you could leave comments below if you know the reason and educate us a little.
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You’ve spent months, maybe even years planning your wedding, possibly saved more money then ever before to pay for your perfect wedding day.

A lot of couples spend so much time thinking about and planning for the wedding, that when the time comes near, they’ve forgotten they have the dream holiday straight after the wedding to look forward to also.

Travel agents and holiday companies make engaged couples feel like they have to spend a fortune to go on their dream honeymoon, but honeymoons can be romantic and memorable without the need to re-mortgage your property !
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We thought we’d use this blog to find the funnier side of weddings too.
So, when there’s not too much work to do in the office, the Essex Wedding Services team start wandering around the internet with the challenge, who can find the most amusing wedding related item.

Here’s our first offering…….watch this video, bear with it, the first minute or so is just the build up…………….