Planning - Role of the Maid of Honour

The Maid of Honour's role is to assist the bride in the planning leading up to the wedding day. She also supports the bride where ever possible.


Her role includes:

• Attending pre-wedding parties
• Arranging the date for bridesmaids' gowns fitting
• Hosting the bridal shower
• Paying for her own wedding outfit, excluding jewellery and flowers
• Hosting the hens night
• Keeping the bride stress free on the wedding day


• Arranging the bride's gown and veil
• Holding the groom's ring until needed at the wedding ceremony
• Holding the bride's bouquet during the wedding ceremony
• Acting as a witness to the signing of the certificate of marriage
• Helping the bride bustle her train and removing her head piece
• Sitting to the left of the groom at the main table
• Helping the bride change for the honeymoon

Planning - Create a wedding to remember!

The journey is often more important than the destination. I suppose it is true of your wedding planning journey. Making sure the bomboniere is perfect while planning a wedding to remember for your guests is important. But creating a wedding to remember for you and your husband is even more important.

What is more beautiful than remembering 50 years from now mishaps with the bomboniere when you were planning your wedding to your husband of 50 years? And telling your great-grandchildren all about it when renewing your vows during the 50th anniversary of your wedding? So how do you capture memories of your wedding planning journey so you and your husband will remember during your 50th wedding anniversary?

Darcy Miller of Martha Stewart Weddings show you how. Jot down little notes while planning your wedding. Be dilligent in doing this and you will have a wedding to remember for the rest of your life.

Reception - More iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food

I've got more personalised food ideas for your wedding reception. You could match the personalised monograms on your food to your bomboniere for a very impressive wedding reception setting. Attention to details is the key!

Taken from Brides.com

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Reception - iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food

Reception - iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food

Why should only your bomboniere or napkins be personalised at your reception? Try out these awesome and inspiring iLoveThese ideas for personalised monogrammed food for a truly personalised touch to your wedding. Your guests will be impressed!

Taken from Brides.com

Planning - Get your ideas from real weddings

Why not get your ideas from real weddings? From brides and grooms who have been there and done that. You could see what works and what doesn't.

Today's Real Weddings from i-Weddings features John and Ashley's video. Their wedding was held in Yosemite, California in June 2006. Look for the great bomboniere ideas!

Planning Decoration - More iLoveThese orange and gold wedding inspirations

I've found some more beautiful inspirations for May and John who will be getting married in December. They've chosen orange and gold as their colour theme for their church ceremony.

These two iLoveThese palettes feature my favourite inspirations for an orange and gold wedding ceremony.

iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations

More iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations

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Planning Decoration - iLoveThese orange and gold wedding inspirations

Planning Decoration - iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations

Two of my friends, May and John, will be getting married in December and have chosen fall colours of orange and gold as their colour theme for their church ceremony. May asked me for some inspirations and I've been hunting around for my favourite inspirations for their iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations.

Part 1 of the iLoveThese orange and gold inspirations series dedicated to May and John features flowers in gorgeous shades of bold orange and brilliant gold.


iLoveThese orange and gold flower inspirations


More iLoveThese orange and gold flower inspirations

Planning - Perfect Table Plan

Planning the seating arrangements can be one of the most difficult parts of planning a wedding. But it really isn't something you want to leave to chance. Thankfully help is available from PerfectTablePlan "The easiest way to create a table seating plan for your wedding, celebration or event".



PerfectTablePlan takes you step-by-step through:

• creating your guest list
• tracking RSVPs and meal preferences
• creating your table layout
• assigning guests to seats
• printing off floor plans, seating charts and place cards

It can even automatically assign guests to seats according to who you want them to sit near to (or not near to!). If you already have your guest details in a spreadsheet or address book you can import them. No need to re-type them all.


The software has an impressive list of testimonials and comes with a 14 day money-back guarantee. You can also try before you buy.


PerfectTablePlan is available on Windows and Macintosh for for $34.95 USD / $44.95 AUD from http://www.perfecttableplan.com/ (CD available as optional extra).

Reception planning - A personalised wedding is in the details

Details such as personalised bomboniere or wedding favours, napkins, colour theme, chair covers and signature drinks make or break the wedding.

Perhaps one of the most fun things to do to personalise your wedding is choosing your signature drink. I would suggest that you pick your colour theme first before starting on this journey.



Once you’ve decided on your colour theme, it’ll be easier to decide on your signature drink. Next is to decide which is your favourite cocktail. Naturally it’ll be great if both you and your fiancé(e) have the same favourite cocktail. But if you don’t, don’t fret. You can have more than one signature drink. If you have two, use the each person’s favourite cocktail as the basis for each one. If you have four, use each cocktail as the basis for two. You get the drift.

Then it’s time to make it personal. I say go crazy with your experimentation. Set aside one day per week where all you do is experiment with different ingredients for your signature drink. Check out this website for some help!



And of course once you’ve settled on the ingredients, don’t forget that your job is not done yet. The coolest signature drinks have cool accessories. Figure out what type of straw you want, if any, and any embellishments, such as fruits or a little parasol, that you may wish to add on.

Some helpful websites:
Cocktail Database
Cocktail:UK
Drinknation

Planning - Real weddings from i-Weddings

Now that the iLoveThese palettes have taken off superbly, I think it's time to try a new series. This time we take it one step further than pictures.

Lots of couples are sharing their wedding days and ideas online through for example, Youtube. i-Weddings will be scouring all available video streaming websites to present to you the BEST of these real wedding ideas. Why not learn from those who've been there, done that!

Our very first Real Weddings series features photos and video from Jennifer and Tyler's wedding in Central California that took place on 27 May 2006. It was a outdoor garden wedding with very bold use of colours. Exquisite!

Box.net simplifies your wedding plans

Knowing that planning a wedding can be stressful for the bride, Marie Rios, a wedding consultant, wanted to make her clients’ lives easier. She started using Box.net to organize her files and make it convenient to share them with her clients.

The brides loved it because their email was less cluttered, and all of the vendor contracts and check-lists were shared, edited, and downloaded in one convenient location. They also added widgets to their wedding websites, where all their friends and family uploaded candid pictures taken on their special day.

If you’re a bride, ask your wedding consultant if they’ve heard of Box. To find out more information or sign up, go to http://www.box.net/wedding

Planning - More unique ways to personalise your wedding

1. Set up a welcoming and comfortable lounge area where guests can take a break from all the dancing and drinking.

2. If you met on a "blind" date, get your guests into the "blind" date theme by getting them to pick their table assignments out of a hat at your rehearsal dinner.

3. Name and decorate tables after places that are important to you as a couple. You could set up a few different "corners" that represent these places.

4. Put some pressed flower petals with the ceremony program for a garden-themed wedding.

5. Serve only wines from the year that you met or got engaged.

6. Put up a photo slideshow with photographs from your childhoods through to the present.

Sample "This is your life" Photo Slideshow from i-Weddings. Create your own "This is your life" Photo Slideshow from a special introductory price of $160. Another sample here.

7. For your first dance, use the same song as your parents did during their first dance. Or put together a medley of the first dances songs of both the groom and bride's parents.

8. Get a cartoonist friend to illustrate highlights of your courtship and print them on the ceremony programs.

9. Get your bridemaids to carry fancy parasols instead of a bouquet while walking down the aisle for a garden wedding.

10. Make a special photo guest book filled with your favourite photos for your guests to sign.

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