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Creative, coordinated wedding accessories highlight your theme and style |
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 (ARA) - Just as the right accessories can make your look seem polished and refined, the perfect accessories can make your wedding feel more coordinated, thoughtful and put together.
The right wedding accessories can help you create a thoughtful, coordinated look. From wedding invitations and favors to napkins and place cards, conveying a theme through color, fonts, monograms and design can really pull together the look and feel of your wedding.
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Advice for putting your personal stamp on your wedding day |
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 (ARA) - Recently engaged? Planning your wedding? Your moment in the spotlight has arrived, and for once in your life -- possibly the first and last time -- it's perfectly socially acceptable to make everything about you and what you want.
Every bride-to-be deserves a wedding as special as she is, and to have her personality, taste and style dominate her big day. Planning a wedding can be stressful -- from organizing seating arrangements that make everyone happy to coming up with all the deposit money you'll need. Putting your personal stamp on the day, however, doesn't have to be difficult at all.
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How to find, create truly inviting wedding invitations |
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 (ARA) - When your grandmother or mother wanted to announce her wedding, she probably sat in a printer's shop and sifted through massive books of samples, but her choices were probably fairly limited.
Today, thanks to the Internet and digital printing technology, your choices for unique wedding invitations are virtually limitless. Today's bride has the ability to truly set the tone of her wedding with invitations that are utterly unique and completely hers.
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Protect your wedding against financial disaster |
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 (ARA) - Hurricanes happen. So do slips and falls, broken furniture and no-shows - even to the most organized brides-to-be. There's no denying the emotional toll that occurs when disaster casts a shadow over the happiest day of your life - but there is a way to ensure you don't suffer financially because of it.
For less than what you might have paid as a deposit on flowers, you can insure your wedding against disasters that force you to cancel your wedding and against accidents that occur during the ceremony or reception.
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Design and style tips offer a creative spin on an old wedding tradition |
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 (ARA) - Something old, something new;
Something borrowed, something blue;
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.
An enduring Victorian tradition steeped in superstitious symbolism, the verse containing a series of old, new, borrowed and blue good luck tokens for the bride dates back centuries in England.
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When wedding invitations aren't enough, save the dates save the day |
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 (ARA) - Long gone are the days when an invitation sent just a few weeks before your wedding date was all you needed to ensure the attendance of the invitees. In today's busy society, it's not only rude to give short notice of an important event, it's risky.
Wait until the last minute to notify potential guests of your wedding date and you may find yourself walking down the aisle among just a handful of family and friends. The official invitation, sent just four to six weeks before the wedding date, is no longer the first notice brides should give guests of their special day.
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How to talk money with your spouse-to-be |
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 (ARA) - Will you raise your kids with a particular religion, will you both register with the same political party and how will you arrange reception seating to ensure your new mother-in-law is content with who is at her table and where she will sit? Getting married generates no shortage of opportunities to have important conversations with your spouse-to-be.
Maybe you can postpone or even dodge altogether some of those talks, but at least one potentially challenging conversation can actually help ensure your marital bliss down the road - the talk about finances. Numerous polls and studies have shown that money is one of the top reasons couples fight, that it generates more stress in a marriage than almost any topic other than children and is a deciding factor in a large percentage of breakups.
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Ways to cut your wedding budget without sacrificing style |
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 (ARA) - Ask any bride, and she'll tell you that her wedding day was one of the happiest days of her life. It's not just a cliche - even those couples who run into some mishaps on the big day look back on it fondly. But perhaps the happiest brides and grooms are those who can look back and say they had a fun-filled day and didn't break the bank.
From the moment you get engaged, it's a good idea to start keeping lists. There are lots of good resources for wedding to-do check lists, from tear-away sheets in magazines to online progress trackers that have everything you need broken down into categories.
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Healthy eating year round for head-to-toe beauty |
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 (ARA) - From award shows to a simple coffee run, movie and television stars are known for looking photo-ready at any moment. While their appearances may seem difficult to maintain, experts behind the scenes say achieving head-to-toe beauty simply starts with the foods we eat.
Carrie Latt Wiatt, nutrition consultant to Hollywood's elite and author of "Eating by Design: The Individualized Food Personality Type Nutrition Plan" and "Portion Savvy," works daily with celebrities like Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson and other red carpet beauties to ensure their bodies are always ready for high-profile events.
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