Evening gowns are not only for evening occasions. As such, when you own one, then you can definitely wear the same in another party -provided that the parties are at least three months apart and are not attended by the same guests, otherwise, people will think that your dress is your any-occasion uniform!

While it is lovely to be in a fabulous long gown, the task of finding the perfect dress for you is somewhat gruelling. There are so many things to consider; there are a thousand evening dresses to fit before you set eyes on the perfect one. Choosing an evening gown is like choosing from among a variety of wedding cakes, you can’t decide what to get unless you’ve been into almost all cake shops in your town, or your country!

Well, ladies, it’s but understandable for you try on a million and one evening gowns first before finally settling on “the evening dress.” Girls will be girls, so they say.

But if you don’t have the luxury of time (perhaps because your sister has asked for your help in looking for bridesmaid dresses in Toronto), you can always take a shortcut. Here are a few suggestions in making your evening gown trip a bit shorter, but more productive:

What’s Best for Your Body Type

Styles differ in order to fit certain body types. Equip yourself with this knowledge. Know when a certain style will accentuate your look. Know as well that even though how much a low-neckline gown will look good on a mannequin, it will never have the same effect on you if you don’t have a “full bust.”

If you are bottom heavy, choose evening gowns that skim over the lower part of your body. If you are not very confident of your legs, then you can always choose floor-length dresses. In the same way, if you feel that you have small busts, then use an empire cut. The trick here is to know what type of body shape you have and to know the style of gown that looks best on such a kind of figure.

What’s the Best Fit

Even if you’ve chosen the perfect style for your body shape, if you don’t choose the gown that has a perfect fit, you would end up looking like someone who borrowed that dress from someone else. Don’t force yourself in getting into evening gowns that are 1-2 inches smaller. You might say that this is your strategy of slimming down but if the trick doesn’t work, you run the risk of wasting a great dress, and a sufficient amount of money.

What’s the Best Color

In choosing a gown, you must always get the color that works best with your complexion. Sometimes, this department constrains you because wedding parties, for instance, have motifs. Otherwise, if there’s no rule on color, you must always choose those that make you look lighter, or slimmer. Evening gowns in monochromatic tones do a perfect job in making you look taller and slimmer.

Taking all these into account – the right style, the right fit, the right color – you would surely be able to find the perfect dress for you. Of course, don’t forget to accessorize and to get the most elegant yet most comfortable shoes. With these, whenever you get invited to a party, you will are always ready to look fabulous and superb!

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There are times in a soon-to-be-bride’s life when quirkier wedding invitations are desired. By quirkier, we mean less conventional than the paper invitations that are sent out by the millions every year by couples across the country. Sure, they look very attractive but very common, too.

So, to make your wedding interesting from the onset, why not opt for either of these two fun ideas for invitations to your wedding?

Message in a Bottle

If you have ever picked up a bottle on the beach with a message written on a piece of paper, you may have appreciated the romantic idea. Well, now, you can recreate the magic you felt by sending out message in a bottle wedding invitations!

You can either have a wedding store make these bottled invitations for you to save time or you can make these fun invitations yourself to save money. Whatever your choice, keep to the theme of a beach wedding by injecting touches of the sun, sand and sea.

Think of placing colored sand to match your color motif, little seashells to match those in your cake, starfishes to reflect your starry-eyed state of happiness and even small water balls to represent the sea. This way, you can evoke the beach-y mood to your wedding guests through these unique wedding invites.

If you decide to make them on your own, remember a few things. First, make sure that you have a pull mechanism to allow the paper to come out of the box easily. You don’t want your wedding invitation recipients to go fishing on dry land or hammering on glass to get to the paper. Even a simple strip of ribbon attached to the paper will do the trick.

Second, think of shipping costs. Try to keep the weight to a minimum, say, by placing just a half-inch of sand so as to save on costs. Besides, you want your wedding invitations to be evocative of the beach, not mess up your guests’ tables with sand!

Flip Flops in a Shoebox

Well, flip flops are great beachwear so why not turn them into unique wedding invites? These might be the easiest invitations in a beach-themed wedding because you just need two basic things: a pair of flip flops and a piece of paper with the invitation words.

For more flair, you can always place the flip flops in a customized shoe box. Of course, this will add up costs per se but then again, you will have wedding invitations that double as wedding favors. Ultimately, you can save money from double duty wedding items!

And your guests will appreciate your thoughtfulness since they can use the flip flops on the beach. Whoever says that wedding favours have to be for display purposes only must have never attended a beach wedding where flip flops are the wedding invites and favors rolled into one.

Truly, when it comes to wedding invitations, you are only limited by the power of your imagination. So, veer away from all-paper wedding invites and start thinking of bottles and flip flops beyond their utilitarian functions.

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Whether you are going to a prom dress, a cocktail party, a wedding dress, or simply going out with your long-time crush, you need to be on the appropriate outfit. A first date can go a long way if have wowed your guy with a sexy but equally respectful cocktail dress. Who knows, after the success of that date, you are already on your way to shopping for bridesmaid dresses (you are not the bridesmaid, of course, but the bride!)

Thus, in choosing your evening dresses, you need to find the style appropriate for the occasion, or your mood. You need to get a bridesmaid dress – and not some slutty disco dress – if you are the bridesmaid. You need to dress appropriately, so to speak.

Here are a few styles that you can choose from the next time that you go shopping for evening dresses:

The Bias Cut It’s not certain where the term came from but indeed, bias cut evening dresses have some bias. They are biased to those who have the right curves and the perfect body! The fabric is cut diagonally so that it literally hugs your curves. So if you are preparing for an ultra-sexy night, choose this style of dress.

A few notes, however. With bias cut evening dresses, you can’t wear much underneath. Yes, bra straps and panty lines become visible and they may just be an expensive distraction to your sexy, siren-y entrance. So if you decide to get sex with the bias cut, make sure that you can go all the way sexy!

The Basque Waist Also known as the low U or dropped V waist, this style is great for almost any body type. The v-shaped waist provides an illusion of length. This is also great in flattering your well-defined waist. If you are petite, then this style will help you get a fuller figure.

The Mermaid Just like the bias cut, evening dresses of mermaid cut are great for showing off those curvy curves! This gown is fitted from the bodice all the way to the thighs and it “bells” around the knees.

Just a couple of precautions when wearing a mermaid cut. First, make sure that the fit is right as you may have difficulty sitting down when in this style of dress. Second, avoid this type if you are bottom-heavy as your wide hips will really be emphasized.

The Ballerina Dress Evening dresses in ballerina cut are not supposed to be worn on simple dates. Otherwise, your date will think that you’re running late for a ball! This style is literally “big” as it features a full skirt. This is best if you are heavy-busted since the volume of the skirt will balance your top figure.

This style of dress is considered to be one of the most romantic, thus, this is ideal for formal occasions where love and romance is in the air.

Men would not understand why women spend a considerable amount of time searching for a single dress. Don’t attempt to let them understand. Let them be. Just surprise them at how certain styles of evening dresses will give you different fabulous looks. Your point is not in making men distinguish an A-line from an Empire cut. Instead, you purpose is to let their jaw drop at the sight of you and your fabulous evening gown!

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You spend hours upon hours poring over wedding cakes to find the perfect one. You probably spend hundreds of dollars on your wedding cake because you want the best that your money can buy. In other words, you must protect your wedding cakes because you poured so much effort, time, thought and money on it! Here then are the don’ts of wedding cakes to help you protect it from disaster.

Don’t Order it Hurriedly

Wedding cakes are not made overnight especially when these are custom-made to fit your wedding motif. You have to order at least 3 months in advance to allow the baker to assemble it. Well, if you want a very simple cake that comes off the bakery shelf, well then, go ahead. It’s your cake, anyway, and you have to eat it, too.

Don’t Let it Stay in the Sun

Too long or too short – it does not matter. Your wedding cake is not designed to withstand heat especially when it is made of butter cream icing. Always place it in the shade preferably in the coolest area of the reception venue since you want it to hold its shape.

Don’t Expose it to the Wind

If you have a beach wedding, it is best to provide protective netting around your wedding cake. This way, bugs, insects, seagulls, birds, windblown debris and even the wind cannot take a shot at it before you and guests have enjoyed its sumptuousness.

Don’t Let It Tip

This one is a no-brainer. Most wedding cakes are designed to be placed on a flat and level surface. You have to ensure that whatever platform your wedding cake is on, it must be level; otherwise, you can say goodbye to edible cake and hello to critters.

Don’t Let It Alone

This does not mean that you have to watch it like a hawk, hence, preventing you from enjoying your wedding day. However, you can assign a catering staff to watch it like a hawk for you. This is especially true when there are invited children in the reception, not to mention the young members of the wedding entourage. Wedding cakes, after all, present an irresistible challenge for children much like how they can’t resist dipping their hands in a birthday cake.

Don’t Place It in the Center of the Room

Sure, wedding cakes are meant to be displayed prominently. After all, these are the highlight of the menus! However, this can be the disastrous beginning of the end of your wedding cake’s beautiful existence. Think of the many people who can tip it over with a single accidental bump, not to mention the children boisterously running around. Instead, place it a location where there is lesser traffic but can still be seen my most of the guests.

Don’t Shove It in Each Other’s Face

Sure, it looks cute but it is messy, this shoving-of-the-cake-in-each-other’s-face stuff. You will end up with stains on your wedding dress, a ruined makeup, a food fight and not-so-funny memories especially when you are fighting. Besides, there’s a proper place for a food fight and it’s called the high school cafeteria.

Just remember these don’ts of your wedding cake and you can have your cake and eat it, too!

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The main challenge with choosing bridesmaid dresses is in finding one that will make everybody happy. And by everybody, it means the bridesmaids, of course. After all, your bridesmaid will come in different shapes and sizes, lengths and likes!

It’s a good thing then that you can choose to make your bridesmaids wear the same dress color albeit in varying styles to suit their body shapes. Here then are basic guidelines to match your bridesmaids’ body shape with their dresses.

Full Figured

You have to choose bridesmaid dresses that are as simple as can be in terms of fabric embellishments like ruffles and fluff to achieve a slimming effect. If you must choose puffy skirts, balance the volume with a small shawl or shrug.

As much as possible, you have to steer clear of two-tone bridesmaid dresses because these will only shorten the silhouette and hence make your full-figured bridesmaid look more, well, full-figured. Styles like halters, empire waists, A-lines, crossover necklines and bias cut skirts are ideal to accentuate full figures while hiding the flaws.

And if your bridesmaid is worried about a wide waist, then you can always let her use a darker-colored sash to slim it down. Who says that your bridesmaids must look like clones of each other?

Pear Shape

For the pear-shaped bridesmaids, you can design bridesmaid dresses that downplay their biggest flaw, no pun intended, which are their largish hips. First, opt for halters since these necklines broaden the shoulders and, hence, provide the illusion of smaller hips.

Second, necklines with pretty details can distract attention away from heavy hips. Just make sure that said neckline complements the shape of the face.

Third, the skirts must either be A-line or subtly flared or pleated/gathered at the front/back. This way, the heavy bottom will not be emphasized. If possible, design the bridesmaid dress with a cinched waist to provide more definition.

Just make sure that you don’t incorporate all these suggestion in one dress lest your bridesmaid appear confused, style-wise. Just choose one that you can both agree on.

Tall

You can opt for bridesmaid dresses that break the long lines of a tall bridesmaid. Pretty details at the hips and waist like sashes and belts will do the trick of providing definition between the torso and the lower limbs.

Depending on the bridesmaid’s choice, she can either choose to wear a tea-length dress or a floor-length gown. Either one can highlight the desirable feature of a tall girl. Just make sure though that the other bridesmaids will look as tall as she is by allowing them to wear high heels. Well, except for a beach wedding, that is.

Petite

In this instance, you have to design bridesmaid dresses that will elongate the body. This can be achieved through short skirts preferably knee-length, sheaths and fitted dresses that provide an illusion of length, dropped waist bodices for longer-looking torsos and higher necklines.

Just make sure that your petite bridesmaid does not come dressed in floor-length dresses as she will surely look like a small child playing pretend party. Keep the dress short and you will make her look tall. And high heels do help!

Again, your bridesmaids don’t have to wear identical clothes if they don’t have similar body shapes. Your friendship is more important than wrangling over the prettiest design for her!

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Many a bride has found that designing bridesmaid dresses present a challenge worth taking. You have to consider many factors like differences in skin tone, body and face shape as well as personality when designing a fairly uniform bridesmaid dress that will make all the bridesmaids happy. You will soon find that choosing your own bridal dress for your beach wedding was a breeze, pun intended, than choosing the bridesmaid dresses!

Fortunately, you can keep these helpful tips in mind when deciding on the bridesmaid dress that all your beautiful ladies in waiting can wear with smiles on their faces to rival the radiance of the sun during sunrises at the beach.

Weather Conditions

Depending on the location of your beach wedding, weather conditions will vary. For example, if you get married in Florida, you can either experience a subtropical climate or a true tropical climate depending on what region of the Sunshine State you are in. And there is also a difference between being married on the lakefront and on the riverfront.

Thus, you must design the bridesmaid dresses according to the prevailing weather in the wedding locale. If you get married during the autumn, be sure to include wraps to shield your bridesmaids for the cold. If you tie the knot in summer, then tube tops and spaghetti straps are excellent ideas.

Dress Construction

The bridesmaid dresses must be made of materials that are breathable, skim the body gracefully and present a picture of ethereal beauty. Ideal textiles for this purpose usually include cotton blends, silk, satin and chiffon. Rich fabrics such as wool and velvet have absolutely no place in a beach wedding!

Also, you have to ensure that the dress construction allows for the abovementioned ideal textiles to flow smoothly over the bridesmaids’ figures. Think of the images of sea goddesses rising out of the sea with their flowing garments moving with the wind and you get the idea – no stiff corsets and whalebone skirts please!

Beach-y Length

Have mercy on your bridesmaids. Their bridesmaids’ dresses must allow them freedom of movement in the sand and sea. Of course, they are not expected to take a dip but at least they should be able to walk without restraint on the soft sandy beach!

Thus, the length of the bridesmaid dress must be ankle-length at most. Knee-length is ideal although you also have to take into consideration the wind conditions as you don’t want your bridesmaids to be holding on to their skirts to prevent peep shows from happening. Not everybody wants to be Marilyn Monroe, after all.

Minimal Embellishments

When it comes to beach weddings, the less embellishments on the dress, the better. You have to avoid formal details like beadings and sequins because these do not belong on the beach. Instead, opt for natural-looking embellishments like thin ribbons and subtle lace overlays, maybe even a corsage instead of a bouquet.

Again, designing bridesmaid dresses present a challenge for most brides. But with beach weddings less formal and more casual, your life as a bride will become so much easier.

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Much is already written regarding wedding invitations – the do’s and the don’ts as well as some budget tips. Well, this article will not be in so stiff a competition against those pieces as this will only focus on the “what not to do’s” in wedding invitations.

1. Don’t forget to double check

Most of the time, your wedding invitations are printed at once – together. Therefore, if one has a tiny error, all the other invitations will have that same mistake. Still, it doesn’t hurt to recheck. You may have not noticed that one invitation has an ink smudge. Surely, you don’t want to send a partially dirty invitation to your guests.

In addressing your invitations, don’t forget to recheck if the names and addresses are spelled out correctly. There’s nothing worse than sending out a card to a friend whose name you can hardly spell. This act looks sloppy and insincere.

2. Don’t let someone with a messy handwriting address your wedding invitations.

Etiquette requires you – and any couple who is planning to get married – to hand write your invitations. This allows you not only to save on printing costs; this also makes the whole invitation gesture more personalized.

As such, it is important that the person tasked to write on the wedding invitations has a legible handwriting. If you cannot find a close friend who will fit this qualification, you can always hire the services of a professional calligrapher.

3. Don’t forget to use full names

When addressing your wedding invitations, always use your guests’ full names. While using nicknames somehow shows that have a very close relationship with your guest, you don’t want to ruin the “formality” of the event. Remember, weddings are a formal occasion – this is precisely the reason why mother of the bride dresses are as expensive as wedding gowns!

Thus, use Mr. and Mrs. Mackinley Taylor rather than Mr. and Mrs. Mac Taylor. Of course, in writing the names of your guests, use the proper titles. Know who are the doctors, the engineers, and the honourables.

4. Don’t send out envelopes with spelling mistakes

When you committed an error in the name of your guest for example, don’t scratch out that mistake. In fact, you must never send the invitation using that envelope at all. Instead, use fresh envelopes -start again. With this, it is important for you to order a few extra envelopes from your wedding invitations supplier.

5. Don’t write “and guest” on the envelope

If you don’t know who your single friend will be inviting as her date, then don’t write “and guest” on the envelope. It looks awkward. Instead, put the note inside the envelope. This gesture still connotes that you will welcome whomever she will be bringing to your wedding but you did not announce this fact to the whole world.

Wedding invites may only account for a small budget in your overall wedding financial requirements. These little cards will have lesser budget whether you are shopping for wedding dresses in Toronto or in Montreal. Still, you cannot deny the fact that their significance to the success of your wedding is inversely proportional to their size -and budget! Without them, no one would come to your wedding.

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The whole idea of planning for your wedding is stressful. You have so many things to consider: the venue, the entourage, wedding favours and of course, your wedding dress! Finding your perfect gown is a bit challenging especially if you are eying for plus size wedding dresses.

Even if you hire professional help to take care of the gruelling parts of the planning, as the bride, you still find it hard to simply take yourself out of the picture. As such, you personally take care of a few aspects of the planning, especially those that are close to your heart – such as choosing wedding favours.

Wedding favours are important because they immortalize your gratitude to your guests – meaning, even after the ceremony, your guests will remember your wedding simply by looking at the tokens that you give out. Thus, it’s important that you properly choose your wedding favours. Here are a few tips in getting the best wedding tokens:

1. Get unisex wedding favours.

While you can account for the number of your male and female guests, doing so is sometimes unnecessary, especially if this is solely for the purpose of wedding favours assignment. To save time and energy, you might want to get items that are unisex. This way, you won’t have to get stressed every time the number of female and male guests changes. Distribution will also be hassle-free since there is only one type of item to give out.

2. Order a few extra wedding favours.

Make room for adjustments by ordering a few extra wedding tokens. This will protect you from having nothing to give in case there will be a few uninvited and unaccounted guests. Some people will always tag along a friend or a spouse and you can’t control this. So, to keep yourself from worrying about not having enough wedding favours to distribute, get a few more.

3. Align your wedding favours with your theme.

As with anything else, a wedding must be properly planned – it must express continuity. Therefore, you must get wedding favours that are in line with your wedding theme. If your wedding is a black tie event, then don’t give out tokens that feature Disney’s cartoon characters.

4. Choose favours that are reflective of your interests.

Wedding favours are an extension of your husband’s and your life. Therefore, make sure that you choose those that have a touch of your likes and dislikes. It’s your wedding after all – it’s but proper that you choose items that you want to receive and things that have value to you.

5. Don’t hesitate to be cost-conscious.

Some bride-to-be’s are afraid of choosing cheap and less costly favours because they are worried of what their guests might think. Don’t be part of this impractical group. With the recession and incessant closing down of businesses, you need to be practical if you were to have a decent wedding ceremony. Don’ be afraid to get economical wedding favours; more often than not, you can get fabulous tokens at very reasonable prizes if you know where to look and who to tap.

Choosing wedding favours should not be done haphazardly. As mentioned, these are the items that will continuously remind your guests of your wedding even after they’ve stepped out of the reception party. Thus, it’s but proper that you get symbolic and useful items and that you take care of this task personally – if possible.

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