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		<title>Designing The Best Wedding Beauty For Your Big Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hair style, makeup and fashion accessories are a vital part of any successful wedding beauty process for your wedding.  Your wedding should be the most glorious and special day of your life, and you will of course want to make sure you look and feel your best.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hair style, makeup and fashion accessories are a vital part of any successful wedding beauty process for your wedding.  Your wedding should be the most glorious and special day of your life, and you will of course want to make sure you look and feel your best.</p>
<p><b>==Achieving The Perfect Look For Your Wedding Day==</b></p>
<p>Part of achieving your perfect look for your wedding is creating the perfect hair style and the right makeup.</p>
<p>The right hair style and makeup can take some time to get right, and it is important to experiment with several different styles to ensure that you can achieve the perfect look on the big day.</p>
<p>Making arrangements ahead of time with your favorite hair stylist and makeup artist is the best way to ensure you have plenty of time to get the perfect look.</p>
<p><b>==Make Sure Your Wedding Beauty Products Complement Your Wedding Dress==</b></p>
<p>It is also important to be sure that the beauty products, such as makeup, you choose complement the color and style of your wedding dress, as well as accenting your natural features such as eye color and hair color.</p>
<p>A well trained makeup artist will be able to tailor your makeup to highlight your natural beauty and enhance it without being overly made up.</p>
<p><b>==A Good Hair Stylist Will Be Able To Take Advantage Of Your Natural Beauty On Your Wedding Day==</b></p>
<p>A good hair stylist will also be able to take advantage of your natural beauty when designing the perfect hair style for the big day.  Many brides to be choose a hair stylist who is experienced in doing hair styles for weddings.</p>
<p>These stylists are often better than others at working with your deadlines and dealing with the inevitable stress of planning a wedding.</p>
<p><b>==Getting Recommendations To Find A Great Makeup And Hair Stylist==</b></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t already have a makeup artist or hair stylist in mind, it may be a good idea to get recommendations from married family members and friends.</p>
<p>Soliciting the advice of people who have already dealt with hair and makeup issues at their own wedding is often the best way to decide who is qualified to handle your own wedding beauty preparations.</p>
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<p>Shaunta Pleasant is a professional writer and editor on wedding planning topics. Visit my site to learn more about planning the perfect wedding at<br />
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		<title>Wedding Cakes: Deciding on the Edible Art that Dresses Your Wedding Reception</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wedding cake is the centerpiece of the wedding reception.  It is a work of art created specifically to your specifications as a representation of the hope that you have for your new life together.  At the same time, the wedding cake often serves as a desert to symbolically allow each guest to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The wedding cake is the centerpiece of the wedding reception.  It is a work of art created specifically to your specifications as a representation of the hope that you have for your new life together.  At the same time, the wedding cake often serves as a desert to symbolically allow each guest to enjoy the sweet savor of your new marriage.</p>
<p>The search for a bakery need not be an arduous task, but neither should it be put off until the last moment.  Like other wedding professionals, the more skilled the cake decorator is, the more likely they are to book up leaving you to the unpleasant task of discovering a new talent or settling for second best.</p>
<p>Your selection of a bakery to produce your wedding cake begins with you and your future spouse.  It begins with your decision about what is important to you.   Is the taste of your wedding cake more important or is the appearance more important?   Is the wedding cake going to be the only food served, or is it going to be just one of many deserts?</p>
<p>If appearance is most important in your wedding cake choice, and if money is not an object, you might want to choose a cake decorated with fondant icing to grace your wedding cake.  Fondant gives the wedding cake a luxuriously smooth finish and allows the cake decorator to create designs that no other icing allows.  The problem with fondant, however, is that it can cost as much as 30 % more than buttercream icing and most do not enjoy the taste, which could mean that most of your wedding cake will be left uneaten.</p>
<p>If taste is important to you in your wedding cake choice, then you probably want a buttercream icing.  It tastes much better than fondant and while it will not get as smooth as fondant, it can still look stunning!  Know, however, that many if not most bakeries make their buttercream icing with shortening.  Unless you want your wedding cake to leave a greasy aftertaste make sure that the bakery you choose uses butter, which will produce a nice ivory colored icing, or a product called white margarine.  White margarine is a little difficult to obtain but it will stand up nearly as well as shortening  and will taste much better.</p>
<p>One final note.  Many bakeries will tell you that white margarine will not hold up to the demands of wedding cake design.  This is simply not true in the dry summer heat of the west.  Perhaps it is in the humidity of the eastern half of the state, I don&#8217;t know.  As a matter of fact, I even had one such wedding cake that stood up to one hundred three degree temperatures for more than three hours before the wedding party got to it.  Now those are extremes that I always try to advise my clients away from, but done right buttercream icing made with white margarine holds up just fine.</p>
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<p>Jeanette Shinn is the founder, operator, and edible design artist behind Layer By Layer, <a href="http://www.frostingonthecake.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.frostingonthecake.com</a>, a special order bakery serving weddings and other special occasion needs of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.   Jeanette is also the co-owner of Your Wedding Cake and Favors <a href="http://www.wedding-cakes-portal.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.wedding-cakes-portal.com</a> a website dedicated to helping brides realize their wedding day dreams with advice and resources for the entire wedding experience.</p>
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		<title>Wedding Accessory Guide: Accessories Are An Important Part Of Your Wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wedding Accessories play an important part of any wedding, the bride must have her accessories to go with her wedding attire and the groom also needs his, not to mention the guests should keep one accessory in mind, a hat! Accessories add those finishing touches to every wedding that every couple are going for!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wedding Accessories play an important part of any wedding, the bride must have her accessories to go with her wedding attire and the groom also needs his, not to mention the guests should keep one accessory in mind, a hat! Accessories add those finishing touches to every wedding that every couple are going for!</p>
<p>Everyone wants to look individual on their big day. But although there is a wealth of accessories to choose from, the only real way to look individual is to create your own. As individual, one-of-a-kind fashion items are becoming sought after and higher priced, more and more people nowadays are starting to develop to make their own style. Creating your own wedding accessory gives your wedding that much more personal feel to it and makes you feel good when you walk down the aisle with your own unique accessory and everyone gapes at how wonderful it is and asks where you bought it! Creating your own wedding accessories is also a lot cheaper than buying them!</p>
<p>Jewelery is a favourite area for brides when it comes to putting together an outfit. With such a vast range of beautiful beads and wire available, it is so simple to make a pretty pair of earrings or some other trinket. For an elegant look, top-to-toe, you need to make sure that your hair looks as glamorous as the rest of you. A tiara will be that finishing touch! Every girl knows that the key accessory to finish off a look is your handbag. There is such a huge variety of bags available to buy that you can pick one up quite cheaply. So you can be sure that you can make your self appear that much trendier with just a few accessories!</p>
<p>So you don&#8217;t need to go out spending a fortune on beaded white shoes, just buy a plain pair and bead them yourself. You don&#8217;t need to spend fortunes on a handbag, just buy a plain and decorate it yourself, see where I&#8217;m going with this? It&#8217;s as simple as this, accessories can be made cheaply and beautifully by you and when you make them they are unique and personal why miss out of that?!</p>
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		<title>Marriage &#8211; Advice To Improve Quality Of Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marriage is a beautiful relationship. Unfortunately, during the current years, more marriages are getting broken than ever. People are not able to co exist together in marriage. What are the possible reasons? Why marriages are breaking faster, why are we not getting what we want from marriage? Are our expectations wrong? Or our choice of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marriage is a beautiful relationship. Unfortunately, during the current years, more marriages are getting broken than ever. People are not able to co exist together in marriage. What are the possible reasons? Why marriages are breaking faster, why are we not getting what we want from marriage? Are our expectations wrong? Or our choice of partner is faulty? Let us find out.</p>
<p>The major factors that contribute to success in marriage are   &#8211; Knowing what we desire in the marriage, selecting the right partner for fulfilling those desires, defining marriage goals and getting approval about them from the partner, discussing all the issues that hurt the relationship, changing your own style of relating so that marriage becomes stronger and not giving up so easily if cracks develop and try to save the marriage. a broken marriage is not pleasant for any one and hurts.</p>
<p>A marriage is like a cart on two wheels. Both the partners are the wheels. If one wheel becomes weaker or if the wheels are different in size, the cart stops moving. It is similar with marriage. If one partner over dominates or demands more only for himself/herself, the marriage will suffer. For a marriage to succeed, the partners have to take care of each other&#8217;s desires, emotions, physical needs and intellectual needs. Both the partners have to support each other to grow and not criticize each other. For example, if a partner knows that his/her spouse is weak in a certain area, it is the duty of the other partner to compensate that and not criticize.</p>
<p>Another factor is fear of conflict. Sometimes, the conflicts become so pain giving that partners avoid talking to each other fearing that a conflict may arise. This fear of conflict will kill all communication. Instead what is needed is- healthy communication and peaceful resolution of conflicts in a spirit of give and take. Why should a partner be afraid of talking to other partner in a marriage? That sounds ridiculous, but this is true. This phase spells near death of a marriage. Marriage is a beautiful phase of life. The secret lies in how to carry on for a lifetime.</p>
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<p>CD Mohatta writes for ecards and online greetings, screensavers and desktop wallpapers. He writes articles on love, dating and marriage He also writes for Desktop wallpapers &#8211; free desktop wallpapers. These are static wallpapers which can be your computer desktop background all the time. Read the messages and get inspired all day. He also writes for fun -quizzes. Here, you can take personality and other quizzes to find out about yourself and your relationships.</p>
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		<title>How to Choose Your Wedding Dance Lessons Studio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning how to dance together is the most romantic, entertaining, fun activity you will ever do together. Its not hard, and the return on the investment of a few hours of your time is a lifetime of pleasure. The &#8220;First Dance&#8221; has become a pivotal part of most weddings. You don&#8217;t want to look silly, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learning how to dance together is the most romantic, entertaining, fun activity you will ever do together. Its not hard, and the return on the investment of a few hours of your time is a lifetime of pleasure. The &#8220;First Dance&#8221; has become a pivotal part of most weddings. You don&#8217;t want to look silly, or have it be boring, but you also don&#8217;t have a lot of time, and of course cost is, naturally, a factor. Still, try to make learning how to dance together an opportunity, not a chore!<br />
 <BR><BR><br />
 First: relax, don&#8217;t worry. If you can walk, you <U>can</U> dance.<br />
 <BR><BR><br />
 Next, if you have a special song that you want to use on the Big Day, great; work with someone to decide what the best style of dance is for that song. If you don&#8217;t have a specific, special song, it won&#8217;t be a problem, and great dance songs are everywhere you look. Just take a little time. Most dance instructors suggest giving yourself six months. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean they are saying you need to take two lessons a week for half a year to do one dance(!), but rather that starting six months before the wedding will give you ample time to,<br />
 <BR><br />
 a) check out the options available to you,<br />
 <BR>and<br />
 <BR><br />
 b) comfortably learn how to move together, without feeling pressured and under the gun those last few weeks before the wedding &#8211; when you will be juggling a thousand other last minute things.<br />
 <BR><BR><br />
 Wherever you are located, there are lots of options for learning how to dance, but choosing a quality Dance Studio or instructor does take a little research and some common sense. The internet makes the research part easier, but don&#8217;t overlook various other local listings, referrals from friends, or flyers and/or cards at your other wedding vendors&#8217; locations. Also if you are shopping around looking for the cheapest thing you can find, keep in mind that you generally do get what you pay for &#8211; you may learn how to do a few steps, but you might not be learning how to dance, and people will be able to tell the difference. It won&#8217;t be much fun to do, and haven&#8217;t you been to weddings and watched the couple move like wooden automations while they danced? Yes, sure they learned the dance, but they didn&#8217;t learn How to Dance together, as one. Married life is hopefully going to be a long and wonderful dance through the years together, giving and taking, leading and following. If you can, make that First Dance a perfect symbol and springboard for your future together.<br />
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 One of the things I have noted in the past is that students work best when they are comfortable and relaxed, so be sure that you actually like your instructor! That should be the first thing you decide. Take advantage of Trial lesson offers, introductory lessons which are either low cost or free. (But be prepared for the interview afterward, when the instructor or studio presents their comments, recommendations, and of course the Pitch. After all, the Studio does want you to take lessons &#8211; it has to, to stay in business. But do not let a Hard Sell trap you &#8211; if the studio has to resort to Used-car-salesman techniques, it may not have a lot of confidence in its instructors.)<br />
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 Look for atmosphere. Are people friendly? And is the Studio clean?<br />
 <BR><BR><br />
 When you are dancing, remember to always have fun. That&#8217;s the most important thing. Learning a dance and its specific steps and rhythm patterns are just tools you use to make the dancing (the communication between two bodies) easier. But it is your<br />
 First Dance! Remember to keep it stress-free so that you can enjoy it!<br />
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<p>Peter Jones has been performing, dancing and teaching in New York City, London and Dublin for more than 20 years. Choosing to focus on beginning dancers to share what he feels is the most exciting, entertaining and engaging social interaction possible, he discovered a special connection with wedding couples, facing that daunting First Dance without a clue about how to do it. His relaxed, low-key approach makes couples immediately comfortable, and carefully constructed lesson plans optimize whatever amount of time wedding couples are able to devote to learning how to dance.</p>
<p>This article is written by Peter Jones of Ballroom NYC<br />
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		<title>Do Something Smart and Unique: Earth-Friendly Wedding Decorations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might seem wasteful to you to decorate and use all of these cut flowers in order to make a big room beautiful for one night.  Are there any environmentally friendly options?
Change the setting
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It might seem wasteful to you to decorate and use all of these cut flowers in order to make a big room beautiful for one night.  Are there any environmentally friendly options?</p>
<p>Change the setting</p>
<p>The easiest way to keep from using cut flowers and dried petals is to have your reception and ceremony outside.  This sounds like trouble in the making, but it&#8217;s a lot easier than it sounds.  If you have a large space in someone&#8217;s yard or in a park(with everyone&#8217;s permission), you can set up a large tent for the reception hall and even the ceremony if you&#8217;d like.</p>
<p>Since guests will be under a roof, there is little need for worrying about the weather and they can still see the beauty of the outside as they eat.  Find a beautiful setting and light some lanterns around the tent, it creates a soft glow well into the evening.</p>
<p>New ingredients</p>
<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re looking for the most earth friendly eating options, you will want to select the buffet option with a limited portion of food.  Any additional food can be donated to the local shelter if you&#8217;d like.</p>
<p>You will not be using any plastic forks or cups, so you will need a lot of glasses and silverware to make sure that you don&#8217;t run out.  Napkins can be cloth and washed instead of thrown out.</p>
<p>As decorations, you can spread lavender along the tops of the tables and then include small tea lights as well as larger candles as needed.  Find candles that burn clean (as soy ones do), and these are quite friendly to use.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a centerpiece, you can choose to have tall silver or gold vases in the middle (metal) and fill them with ice and a bottle of champagne for the table.  This looks great, plus it serves a function.  You can then give away the vases for planters at the end of the night.</p>
<p>Using kegs instead of individual beer cans is a great way to cut back on wasteeven if it can be recycled.  Recycling tends to be more and more difficult to do as the night goes on.</p>
<p>Let the conversation and the happiness decorate the night, not things that you will only throw away the next day.  Being earth friendly isn&#8217;t difficult when you think of other ways that you can use things after the wedding is over.</p>
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<p>Amy Spade is an expert on planning weddings, and she has written an amazing totally free minicourse on how to make sure that you have the day of your dreams, and avoid wedding day disaster!</p>
<p>Get the free course &#8220;Your Special Day from Start to Finish&#8221; now at at <a href="http://www.weddingdata.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.weddingdata.com</a></p>
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		<title>The Father of the Bride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The father of the bride also plays an important role in the wedding. In keeping with tradition, the father is the supporter and protector of his daughter. However, his relationship with his family, as well as his financial situation determines just how big or small his role will be.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The father of the bride also plays an important role in the wedding. In keeping with tradition, the father is the supporter and protector of his daughter. However, his relationship with his family, as well as his financial situation determines just how big or small his role will be.</p>
<p>He may be a traditional father, demanding respect, and expecting that he will have a major role in his daughters wedding. He may however feel the opposite of this, in that he does not want much or any involvement in the plans of the wedding. If the father wishes to be a part of the planning, he has certain roles to fulfill. These would include but are not limited to: providing emotional and financial support to the bride, father of the bride speech, wedding planning, keeping the bride relaxed and calm before the ceremony, escorting the bride to the place of worship, and walking with her up the aisle on his right arm.</p>
<p>He must stand on her left on the chancel steps. The minister will ask who gives this woman away, and the father will answer? I do? He than may take the brides right hand, and give it to the minister, who will than give it to the groom. He will than stand quietly in position, until the vows have been exchanged, in which he&#8217;ll than return to the pew on the left side of the church. The custom remains traditional for both parents to witness the signing of the register.</p>
<p>The father of the bride will play a key role with his daughters wedding. With traditional walk up the aisle, plans of the wedding and the father of the bride speech at the reception. All this work is custom for the father and traditional wedding for his daughter will go over well planned.</p>
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