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How To Write A Wedding Speech – 6 Tips to Write A Wedding Speech By Huyen Truong   Giving a wedding speech or wedding toast is hard to do. Sometimes the hardest part is writing your wedding speech. Where do you start? What do you say in your wedding toast? How do you write a best mans speech? How do you write a maid of honour speech? Check out 6 tips to writing an amazing wedding speech.   1) Play to your strengths. Don’t think the pressure is on to be someone you’re not – are you funny? Great, everyone loves to laugh. Don’t feel you HAVE to be funny. If your strength is the emotional stuff, don’t try to leave the audience rolling on the floor – tug at their heartstrings. People get way too nervous about giving a speech – but you don’t have to if you keep it simple, and keep it real!   2) Start with a story. No one wants a lengthy introduction – A story starts off with a bang. It draws your audience in and g...

Blowing Your Wedding Budget? Here’s 7 Unexpected Costs You Didn’t Plan On.     Those unexpected costs are the trickiest part of planning your wedding budget and sticking to it.  Just when you thought you’d figured everything out, here comes another unexpected cost…  What to do?   Here are the top items that most couples overlook:   Alterations This is the NO 1 item most Brides forget to plan for and become unexpected costs. Depending on the style you choose, alterations can add up to a few hundred dollars extra.   Overtime Make sure you’re prepared for the additional time and the staff’s overtime costs. If your venue allows overtime, check the contract for possible addition fees, they could be steep if not planned in advance. Of course, you should get it in writing.  Also, check with your other vendors, especially entertainment. If everyone is having a great time you might want to keep the party going but y...

13 Wedding Tips You Need To Know…. BEFORE your wedding day!        Or Because a million and one things can go wrong, and sometimes do. Here’s 15 wedding tips you’re glad someone told you about beforehand!   Arrange for your wedding party to get to know each other before the wedding day. Some couples forget this simple detail.  Your friends may have moved away or you’ve met new friends from different parts of the country. Sometimes, even different parts of the World. Therefore, the wedding party should get together for a casual meet-and-greet before the stress of planning the wedding starts.   Make sure you do a call to action on your save-the-date card. Got a wedding website? Add a call to action, some wording that will actually propel your guests to check it out.  Once there, set it up so that they get some information on your ceremony and reception.  Also, post your registry information, have them RSVP from...

Event Back Drops – What Are They and Why You Need One by Elli Brenner of Autumn Hills Designs   Having event back drops is just one way to make that special & unique wedding day.  Event back drops “Set A Scene” give it personality, YOUR personality. Well, of course we all want to have the best Wedding ever, and these days, that means many things, right? Everyone has certain priorities when it comes to their wedding, weather it be the finest photographer in the tri-state area, food that is to die for, a DJ that will have everyone on the dancefloor non-stop or the most decadent cake on the planet! The point is, it takes many small pieces coming together to create the best Wedding ever, and of course, that “Best Wedding Ever” is going to be yours! And one way to make it special and uniquely yours is to “Set A Scene”, ergo, give it personality, specifically, YOUR personality.   Setting The Scene These days, we’re getting ma...

5 Wedding Traditions That You Should Observe.      I’ve seen many wedding traditions over the years. Some of the most common wedding traditions and superstitions are seemingly nonsensical and sometimes comical.  I sometimes wonder why anyone actually gets married nowadays, if you believe ALL of the wedding traditions…. Nevertheless, Brides should observe the following 5 wedding traditions:   The Wedding Dress It’s bad luck for the groom to see the Bride in her wedding dress before the ceremony.  So says, wedding tradition. But did you know that a longer standing tradition says that it’s bad luck for the bride to wear the complete wedding outfit before the day of her wedding vows? That is why you almost never see a bride trying on a wedding dress with her wedding shoes, veil and so on.   The Wedding Rings It’s considered extremely unlucky to go shopping for a wedding ring on a Friday (a tradition Sale Day).  Also, a hi...

Real Wedding – Jennifer and Nick – Lake Of Isles, N. Stonington, CT.     Jennifer and Nick celebrated with family and friends by tying the knot at a beautiful candlelit ceremony officiated by Jennifer’s son, Michael. Ed and Lori from Rogers Photography captured Jennifer and Nick as they began their day at Fox Tower Resort at Foxwood Casino where the couple got ready then headed to Lake of Isles for their First Look and Ceremony.   The staff at Lake of Isles decorated the facility in a festive holiday mood.  Jennifer and Nick wanted our Custom Lighting package to enhance the room.  The pictures show how beautiful we made the ballroom.   Jennifer and Nick’s Introduction Music: John Williams – Star Wars Cantina Band / Ozzy Osborne – Crazy Train Jennifer and Nick’s First Dance: Adele – Make You Feel My Love Jennifer and Nick’s Cake Cutting Song: Vince Guaraldi – Linus and Lucy ...

Groomsmen Socks …. Brighten Up Your Groomsmen.   This one’s for the Groom: Brighten up your Groomsmen with these bright colored mens argyle dress socks. So, if you haven’t heard, fun socks are in!!     Have the Groomsmen sport a bold pair of socks, alongside the Groom, to make for some fun photos and great conversation on the dance floor.   Put fun socks on your Groomsmen to add some much needed color. As a result, they’ll likely be worn well past the wedding day and hopefully motivate your guys to build a little GQ into their wardrobe.   Our recent clients Gregg and Avielle did… all the Groomsmen wore these bright colored socks…. and you know everyone was talking about them!   There are 100’s of different color combinations, so you can find a color pattern you like for just about everyone.   Check out Groomsmen Socks on Etsy. Photo courtesy of Candace Jeffrey Photography RELATED POSTS: 9 Useful Tips...