Monthly Archives: June 2009
YouTube Funny Wedding Dance
Starting like a lot of other wedding dances, the happy couple are doing the common “turn around slowly” dance.
However, Brian and Katie had other ideas for their wedding day, and now it appears that over 7,000,000 people have enjoyed it too.
Their video was uploaded to YouTube and has since been watched by people all over the globe, entertained by Brian and Katie’s “unique” funny wedding dance.
Busting their killer moves in a 6 minute melody of their favourite tunes, the happy couple have really started married life having great fun as a couple.
Watch the wedding dance below.
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Will you be entertaining your wedding guests like this on your special day ? What do you think of their wedding dance ? Let us know with your comments below.
Brilliant Wedding Cake Topper
Stumbled accross this photo of a brilliant wedding cake topper today – thought we should share it with you.
Personalised Save the Date fridge magnets
Save the Date ideas
The idea of “Save the Date” cards is a simple yet very effective way of announcing to your future wedding guests that they shouldn’t book any holidays or make arrangements for your wedding date.
Often official invites only get sent out a few months before the wedding day, and with summer weddings, you don’t want to find out your nearest and dearest have booked their two week holiday right on top of your special day.
A good and affordable idea of making a Save the Date stick in someone’s mind is to have personalised fridge magnets printed. This way the recipient will place the magnet in the heart of their home and be reminded of the wedding regularly.
Personalised Fridge Magnets
Search Ebay for sellers that will design and print your personalised Save the Date fridge magnet – give them a few basic details, like your names, and the date of the wedding, and within a week or so they can be delivered to your door.
Save the Date Fridge Magnets
Another unique and fun idea for making your personalised Save the Date fridge magnets comes from beau-coup.com who make custom caricature save the date magnets.
Using their clever system, you just email them a nice photo of the bride and groom to be, and they make the personalised save the date fridge magnets with caricatures of you both. Not only do they look wonderful, your wedding guests will want to save them for years to come.
You get to choose your own background on them to make them look as funky as possible, and add the details you wish to remind your wedding guests about.
So if you’re looking for personalised Save the Date fridge magnets take a look at these and let us know how you get on – we’d love to see the likeness they achieve on your magnets !
Wedding Lists
When sending out your wedding invitations, it’s fully acceptable to enclose information for guests about how to find the wedding venue, local hotels and local taxi numbers, but some brides and grooms find it uncomfortable enclosing a wedding gift list, while others it seems write a wedding list packed full of the latest equipment for your home.
Engaged couples once used to worry about enclosing their wedding list along with the invitation. No one wanted to seem greedy or pushy. In the 80′s, couples made photocopied typed lists of the latest heated hostess trolleys, slow cookers and maybe the odd toasted sandwich maker.
Wedding lists from the 90′s asked for new microwaves and classic toasters, but today’s Mr & Mrs 2B are a little more extravagant when it comes to their wedding lists.
According to latest information from John Lewis and Debenhams, engaged couples choose to litter their list with some expensive technology. Today’s wedding lists are said to include Sony Bravia digital TV’s and top of the range mp3 sound decks to name just a couple.
Forgetting the need for saucepans, towels and a kettle, it seems the modern bride probably has these things already and really wants an upgrade on their flashy gadgets, courtesy of their wedding guests.
Tracey Yates, senior analyst at John Lewis said “Two years ago, the top 20 products on the gift list were exclusively traditional items from linens, kitchenware, china and glass, but, in the second half of last year, the Nintendo Wii sports pack made it to the top 20.”
Debenhams too agreed with John Lewis that the most requested gifts on their wedding guest lists are now iPods, widescreen plasmas, and gift vouchers. With Digital photo frames replacing the once traditional silver frames.
The tradition of wedding gifts in the UK actually stems from the father of the bride, who once gave his new son in law a gift or some money. This, along with lots of other wedding traditions, have been completely changed over the years with newlyweds enjoying plenty of new gifts for the home.
The idea of a wedding gift list, back in the day before emails, websites, and even companies like John Lewis and Debenhams offering wedding guest gift lists, was that each guest was expected to cross off what they’d buy, and forward on in the post to the next name on the list. If someone held onto it for too long, it became a bit of a pain, but it did ensure there weren’t duplicated gifts, with brides ending up with 4 or 5 toasters.
So when you’re planning your wedding gift list, consider things that will stand the test of time (like your marriage hopefully) and leave the plastic controllers or iPod speakers for your own personal purchases, you’ll only be discarding them in a couple of years anyway. After all, is there any romance in a new Sat Nav ??
Average costs of being a wedding guest
No doubt the sensible brides and grooms amongst you have drawn up a wedding budget, and hopefully are managing to plan and organise your wedding comfortably within your set figures.
However, have you ever considered the cost that is faced by your wedding guests for the privileged of attending your wedding ?
A poll conducted by High Street bank Halifax suggests that in order to attend your wedding and it’s full celebrations, it could cost your friends and family an average of £624.10 each.
The poll looked at costs that a typical wedding guest will face and considered wedding gifts, hotel rooms, new outfits and travelling costs.
The bank concluded that wedding reception drinks cost an average of £43.70, wedding gifts ran up to around £100, and celebrating on the Stag or Hen parties costs £92.50, or as much as £258.50 if you were planning a weekend abroad.
The poll also found that 62% of wedding guests think that the bride and groom should consider these costs to the wedding guests before they make any decisions when planning the big day.
Head of Halifax banking Mike Regnier said: “The cost of attending other people’s weddings is often underestimated. It is clear that wedding guests are spending in order to be there for their loved ones.”
It’s a fair comment really, whilst you may of been planning and saving for your wedding for sometime your guests may not of been.
The best advice we can offer is to allow people as much time as possible to put some cash aside. If you’re planning a Hen night or Stag weekend that is going to be expensive, consider setting up a savings account and ask your friends to pay a set amount in there each month, perhaps enough to cover the hotel or the flight.
Whilst the country is experiencing financial upset, don’t make your wedding guests feel bad, or even worse, they may have to turn down some of the celebrations to be able to afford to attend.
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