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20 Nov 08 Free Wedding Planning Tips That Would Surely Help

Planning a wedding is not easy. More so, coordinating your own wedding can make you feel so stressed. This is the reason that many wedding experts give helpful tips to assist the couple through many stages in their wedding planning. Some of the tips even allow you to become a wedding planner for free. These tips are proven ways to help you in coordinating your wedding. Start implementing the plans you have if you know what they are so you can start the preparation step. It is imperative that you remember to look at these tips as often as possible so that you can be reminded what kind of wedding you want to have.

Free Wedding Planning Tips: Coordinating On Your Own

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29 Oct 08 Choosing The Right Wedding Photographer

One of the most important choices that you make for your wedding day is choosing the right wedding photographer to document your wedding. Having the right wedding photographer for your wedding day will determine the quality and the creativity of your wedding photographs and ensure that you have a lasting reminder of the day that you and your love became one. Picking the right professional wedding photographer can be a difficult choice, but by keeping a few things in mind you can choose the photographer that is best for your needs.

Professionalism

One of the most important things to look for in a wedding photographer is their professionalism and their ability to get the job done. There are many things that can be used to judge the professionalism of a…

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29 Oct 08 Using Unity Candles in Wedding Ceremonies

The unity candle ceremony is often included at a wedding ceremony to make it all the more special. Usually the unity candle ceremony is performed towards the concluding part of the marriage function- between the exchange of vows and the formal declaration of the wedding. However, the unity candles can be chosen to be ceremoniously used for other functions too- both religious and non-religious. This is because it is non-denominational and also do not bear any religious connotation.

 

The set of unity candles comprises of two slender candles and a large central candle. The two slender candles are referred to as tapers. It is the white candles that are commonly used as unity candles and colored ones are rarely found to be used at the solemn occasions…

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29 Oct 08 Making Unity Candles

It can be really very enjoyable to engage in making unity candles that are often deemed to be an integral part of Protestant marriage ceremonies. Basically, it is simple candle making that is involved. However, the gracious and solemn nature of the occasion at which the unity candles set up are to be used need to be kept in mind while creating these candles. Besides, it is to be importantly borne in mind that there is to be made a set of three candles- two similar slender ones and a large one that is to be the central unity candle.

 

Beautifully made unity candles adorned tastefully and marketed as wedding accessories are sure to fetch a high price. However, the candles made are often not sold out and are…

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29 Oct 08 Wedding Vows

The vows that a couple exchanges with each other are what bring meaning, romance and individuality to the wedding day itself. The style and feel of the wedding you are planning can help determine the way you would like to exchange your vows to one another, but ultimately you want your words to each other to convey your love and uniqueness as a couple. This is your chance to declare your feelings in front of your friends and family, and so writing or choosing vows is one of the most important and meaningful elements of your wedding.

If you are planning a traditional religious ceremony, it may be preferable to you to go with the conventional vows that your religion outlines. Some religions will allow their couples to make changes…

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27 Oct 08 Marriages Ceremonies Involving Unity Candles

The lighting of unity candles has been a comparatively recent inclusion in Protestant wedding ceremonies. These serve as a symbol of the union of two willing hearts and minds that are going to become one by the bond of love, faith and trust.

 

It is at a particular point in the marriage ceremony that the bride and the groom light a unity candle together. The unity candle set up at marriage is frequently white in color and is often decorated with the invitation or some inscription or a picture of the couple. Other special adornment/ornamentation may also be used. The ritual lighting is also at times accompanied by a special musical piece.

 

The unity candle ceremony at marriage

 

In the unity candle ceremony two taper candles and…

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27 Oct 08 Wedding Traditions around the Globe

All over the world the wedding is regarded as a solemn occasion. This is a special program at which two willing hearts and minds are made united following some rituals and customs while members of the society stand as witnesses wishing the couple well. The traditions and customs of the wedding vary to a great extent between people residing at various parts of the globe. The particular culture, ethnic group, religion, country and social class to which the bride and the groom respectively belong will determine the peculiar wedding traditions that will be resorted to.

 

Diverse wedding traditions of cultures

 

Throwing light on the peculiar customs of wedding ceremonies as observed in various cultures across the globe will reflect the diversity of wedding traditions-

 

27 Oct 08 The Unity Candle and Other Ceremonies of Commitment

There are, in Protestant weddings, more than a few different traditions allowing the bride and groom to show their families a symbolic representation of their union and devotion to each other. The unity candle is one of those very traditions, steeped in only a few decades of history, but incredibly popular in today’s wedding ceremonies.

The unity candle’s birth wasn’t the first, nor the last ceremony to instill in a wedding the gravitas of commitment. Not only is there a definite focus on the importance of the candle, by couples as well as candle makers, there’s a sure gravitation towards the use of other unity ceremonies both new and old that allow both bride and groom to show their dedication to the union.

The unity candle itself is…

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27 Oct 08 Making Your Own Unity Candle

The unity candle is a tradition relatively new to Protestant wedding ceremonies, and similarly open for interpretation, variation, and specialization towards whatever need a bride and groom may have. The act is simple and wholly symbolic, and so it stands to reason that the candle itself can be just as special and symbolic. You can have a unity candle and save a few dollars by crafting your own unity candle to use in your wedding.

Once you take anything and slap on the glitzy white lettering of a “wedding” variation, the price is sure to triple, and when bought from a supplier, you’re getting an impersonal set that will only gather dust away somewhere. Why not take the tradition and make it truly yours by investing the time…

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27 Oct 08 The History of the Unity Candle

The candle manufacturers, like any good company, are never ones to turn down a new trend. The advent of unity candles into Protestant weddings some 30 or 40 years ago was just such a trend and today has become a booming business for the makers of all things waxy and flammable.

The act itself is packed with symbolism, the creation of a tradition that involves the entirety of both the bride and groom’s in-laws in the act of joining in matrimony. The mothers of both the Bride and Groom will light a candle, and depending on just how symbolic said families are, the grandparents might light those candles for the mothers. The Bride and Groom will then take their freshly lit candles and light the unity candle, a…

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