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After You Get Your Wedding Dress

After getting your perfect wedding dress, you have other decisions to make.
1. What about your headpiece and veil? The sales staff should be able to assist you in choosing a headpiece that goes with your dress. Veils come in several lengths and styles, and again the staff can help you decide which is best for you.
The veil you choose for your wedding depends on the dress you have chosen. If you are wearing a street length casual style dress you wouldn’t choose a cathedral or chapel veil, both of which trail the floor. By the same token you wouldn’t wear a flyaway veil, which barely brushes the shoulders, with a formal dress with a train.
2. Don’t forget you need to get the right lingerie, shoes and jewelry, to go with your beautiful wedding dress.
3. Before we leave the bridal store, there is one more detail to attend to – bridesmaids dresses. When choosing these dresses, you need to take into consideration the ages, complexions, and body types of your attendants. Fortunately today’s bridesmaid gowns are no longer the cookie cutter dresses all in the same color, which nobody would ever wear again.
Some options for wedding bridesmaid dresses are to choose a color and fabric suitable for all of the women and let each of them pick a style that she is comfortable with. Or you can choose a simple a-line or empire waist dress that flatters all figures, and let the girls choose the from a color family. If you do choose to have all attendants wear the same dress, they can personalize the look with small beaded purses, scarves, jewelry or shawls. Be aware that the colors and your bridesmaid’s wear have to complement.

Accessories For Wedding Dresses

Accessories for wedding dresses are very important to the overall ensemble. The perfect accessories for wedding dresses help to customize your look on your wedding day all while making yourself look even more spectacular than you already are. Great accessories should not only match with the dress that you have chosen, but they should also match the formality and theme of your wedding, your style, and personality. You can pick out pearl, crystal or rhinestone necklaces to accessorize a wedding gown. Here is a video which can teach you some tips to choose the accessories for your wedding dress.

Two Important Things For Destination Wedding

 While many couples get married in their hometowns, others choose to plan a destination wedding. Most destination weddings combine a beautiful wedding with a perfect honeymoon, all in the same city or resort. Where are you going to hold your dream wedding? No websites, wedding planners, family members, or friends can answer that this question. The answer can only come from considering what you feel is the most romantic, happiest, most elegant place you can desire to exchange vows. Moreover, you should also take into consideration Price, Distance, Setting, Language, Safety, Climate and Culture.
After determining the destination, you should think about your wedding gown. You should consider how it will get to the intended destination. Do you plan to send the wedding dress ahead of time? If so, you’ll have to find a big box which is fit for it and without getting crushed. You’ll also need to have your final alterations early so as to leave enough time for your package to arrive. In addition, you can also carry the dress with you as you fly, but it will be hard to fit a big, poufy wedding dress in the overhead compartment. It is best not to check your wedding dress with the rest of the luggage because luggage sometimes has a way of parting company with its owner and you can’t afford for this to happen. Your best bet is to make arrangements with the airline ahead of time to hang your dress in the flight attendants cabin.
As soon as you reach the hotel, you should unpack the box and keep your wedding dress hung up until it’s time to wear it. On that day, it will look fresh and smooth and no one will know it traveled so far.

Wedding Culture of Modern Times In China

 The Chinese wedding culture in modern times has been undergone constant evolvements and innovations, presenting the characteristics of a rich combination of western and eastern cultures and both traditions and fashions.

Wedding Photos
Shooting wedding photos has become indispensable to each wedding in modern times. There are a large variety of wedding dresses, which are mainly categorized into the Chinese and western styles. The bright red of Qipao among all Chinese wedding gowns is the most festive and commonly chosen color, while in a western wedding, the while color symbolizing purity and loyalty has always been the first choice.

Wedding Cars
In modern weddings, it is a univeral phenomenon to escort the bride with cars. The cars or “wedding cars” driven on the wedding day are richly decorated with flowers around and red letters of “happiness” on windows. Some are ornamented with mascot or dolls on the front hood.

Wedding Banquet
The wedding dinner is a banquet held for celebration of marriage. During the dinner, friends and relatives gather together to congratulate the newlyweds with blessings of eternal love and a precious son and give their gifts and red packets. The guests, in turn, will be treated with wine and cigarettes and wedding candies. The gifts and money received by the couple are recorded on a red-cover book for later reference of requital.

Honeymoon
The first month after wedding is called honeymoon, which signifies the beginning of conjugal love. The custom was originated in Britain. The newlyweds often choose to travel in their honeymoon, through which they can enjoy their sweet and undisturbed life as well as the fun of traveling.

Chinese Philosophy In Traditional Chinese Weddings

 Traditional Chinese weddings are always filled with red things to bring auspicious blessings and respects. And even wedding customs reflect traditions from Chinese philosophy.

Favoring red comes from worship of the sun
The Chinese regard the color red as the symbol of happiness, success, luck, faith and growth. They like red very much, which comes from worship of the Sun. In traditional Chinese weddings, there are double Xi characters in red, red scarves, red flowers and the brides wear red wedding gowns. All the red things not only bring the wedding happiness, but they also imply that the couple’s future will be better.

The wedding ceremony shows harmony between nature and people
A marriage is not only a merger of the couple; traditionally, it symbolizes the merger of two families and society. So the wedding ceremony should reflect the holiness of marriage, drawing the attention of relatives and friends. There is harmony between nature and the people inside.
Inviting relatives and friends to the wedding symbolizes the formality and the relationships between people. It is not a causal thing. During a marriage, two families become in-laws. The ceremony reflects the importance and family status of the parents.
After the ceremony, the bride and the groom usually burn money and food as offerings to the gods. As the fire consumes the offerings accompanied by the sound of firecrackers, god accepts the gift, indicating that there is harmony between nature and people.
Only when people and nature are in harmony can people have a good harvest.
In addition, there are certain ornaments and taboos in traditional weddings. The grooms should not be a single parent because it is bad luck and does not reflect harmony. So it is a taboo.
The sound of musical instruments in the wedding is usually loud to express the voice of the people. The sound should be loud enough to let nature know, and it also demonstrates the importance of the marriage.

The food the bride eats has cultural significance
In traditional weddings, the bride usually has red dates, peanuts, longans and melon seeds. The meaning is evident in the Chinese pronunciation of these four foods. When they are said together, it sounds like “Have a baby soon.”

Summer Wedding

Summer is known as the most beautiful time of the year to get married. Plenty of sunshine, warm air, long days and breezy, cool nights all beckon brides and grooms to share their vows outside. Outdoor weddings are popular during the summer due to the warm weather. Gardens that offer shade, the beach, your backyard, the park, the lake or the woods all provide natural decoration during the summer, which could complement your wedding. In the summer, you can save money on catering by choosing a lighter fare of foods that will cost less than rich heavy foods typically served in the winter months.

Beach wedding: A beach wedding is really great to have in the summer. The breeze from the ocean helps to cool off the guests, and the beautiful scenery makes any inconveniences minor. Destination beach weddings are also very poplar, where the bride and groom invite a limited number of people to a special tropical beach location to witness the wedding and celebrate in an intimate reception. Park or backyard wedding: This type of wedding is typically informal with casual wedding clothes, and picnic or barbeque foods. For a down-to-earth type couple, this is an excellent type of summer wedding to have.

As for attire, lightweight material is the best choice for your wedding gowns, because it allows your skin to breathe and feel comfortable. Choose similar attire for bridesmaid dresses and flower girl dresses.

The most important thing that you need to notice. Summer weddings can be too hot for the bride and for the guests, especially if held outdoors. You must make sure your guests have plenty of water and a means for cooling off.