Choosing your wedding colours

Aqua and brown combination

Green and black combination

Purple and green combination

You have your wedding date set, top of the list of things you need to cross out before time catches up with you are venue and 'Wedding Colors'

The venue part is pretty much easy since you are working within your set budget-what can you afford? and theme-do you want a church, garden, pool, or beach wedding? are you going modern or traditional? So with that in mind it is much easy to settle on a wedding venue. If you don't know much about the surrounding you can seek help from a good wedding planner or ask your friends.

On the other hand, colors is a much tricky affair.At a time where most people want their personal style incorporated in their wedding, the colors you pick should show your style. Thus, pressure to pick the best  colors for your dream wedding.

It is important again not to take so much on this because you need to start vending for other services which are dependent on the wedding colours. For instance your wedding cake which you need to order at least 6 months before your wedding date,  invitation cards, wedding decor, flowers etc.

Therefore a few factors put into consideration while picking your wedding color(s):

1. Your favorite colors: Make a list of your favorite colors and also for you partner. Think them out, play around with them and see if any tops the list then narrow down to best picks.
2. Season: Having narrowed down to the top favorite colors, sieve out the rest judging by season. Is your wedding falling on a fairy sunny time? You can go with both dark colour since the sun shall add some brightness to them or the soft to just blend in with the great weather. Is it in the cold season, light colors will do to brighten the dull weather.
3. Venue: is it a church, what is its colour scheme, is it carpeted, are you going for green gardens, the bright shall go well with nature or the beach, bright color always look good with the white sand.
4. Mood you wish to display: is is romantic for more soft colors or fun for bright vibrant colors is it class for more royal, deep colors like navy?
5. Also research on the internet, use the colour wheel and palette because even when you choose pink or blue, there are different hues of the pink or blue colour.

However it all narrows down to personal preference. If you love purple (like I do) and you always dream of a purple wedding scheme, personal style is crucial, you will feel better when you have what you want so go for it and you are lucky you  pretty much have it all figured out. If you are a random person and shall just go with what hits your genius mind first, very lucky as well, I wish I had it easy just like you.

But if you are on the other side of the divide, you love pink, aqua blue, black, navy,peach, you have quite a decision to make. Talking to your partner, friends, experts and going round wedding shops checking out for options can be confusing so just allow yourself to enjoy every bit of planning your wedding.Avoid feeling pressure even when it so much shows itself in black and white.

Good luck.

Have fun, experiment with colors, have yourself a great wedding and live happily ever after.
xxoo

Wedding Flowers: Roses

Well, well, most popular flower in the world-the Rose. Over the years this has continued to be the most common flower in weddings and occasions as well as for gifting. The world speaks the language of roses based on their colour meaning, type and number of roses.

The rose has always being associated with love making it a favorite of many. Check out some of the meanings and make your work easier while choosing flower colours for your wedding if you settle for the roses. 

ROSE: Love, passion, perfection. The rose was named for the Latin word rosa which means red. It has been a symbol of love since ancient times.
ROSE, BURGUNDY: Beauty within.
ROSE, CORAL: Desire.
ROSE, DARK CRIMSON: Mourning.
ROSE, HIBISCUS: Delicate beauty.
ROSE, LAVENDER: Love at first sight, enchantment.
ROSE, LEAF: You may hope.
ROSE, MOSS: Confessions of love.
ROSE, ORANGE: Fascination, display feeling of enthusiasm.
ROSE, PEACH: Desire, gratitude, appreciation, admiration, sympathy, modesty.
ROSE, PINK: Happiness, appreciation, admiration, friendship, sympathy.
ROSE, DARK PINK: Thankfulness.
ROSE, LIGHT PINK: Grace, gladness, joy, perfect happiness, please believe me, gratitude, admiration, gentility.
ROSE, RED: Love, passion, respect, courage, I love you, beauty, pure and lovely, prosperity.
ROSE, DEEP RED: unselfconscious beauty.
ROSE, SINGLE, FULL BLOOM: I love you, I still love you, new love.
ROSE, BUD, SMALL: Pure and lovely, beauty and youth, a heart innocent of love, confession of love.
ROSE, THORN-LESS: Love at first sight.
ROSE, WHITE: Innocence, purity, secrecy, I am worthy of you, silence, friendship, truth, virtue, girlhood, humility spiritual love, but of the soul, reverence, charm, happy love.
ROSE, WHITE, DRIED: Death is preferable to loss of virtue.
ROSE, YELLOW: Joy, friendship, true love, decrease of love, jealousy, try to care, freedom, slighted love, shows "I care", gladness.
ROSES, BOUQUET, MATURE: Gratitude.
ROSES, RED & WHITE TOGETHER: Unity, flower emblem of England.
ROSES, YELLOW & RED TOGETHER: Happiness, congratulations.

http://marriage.about.com/od/flowers/a/flowermean_3.htm

The world is a rose, smell it and pass it on to a friend
xxoo

Wedding Flowers: Carnations

Different factors influence once choice of the flowers they choose for their wedding from colour combination to symbolism to type to price. It is always advisable to know the meaning of flowers before settling for the type.
I will not call it bias but here's my favorite flower the 'Carnation' I love the white one especially. This type of flower is budget friendly and comes in a variety of colors and is also verstaile . Check out some of their meanings below:

CARNATION, WHITE: A white carnation symbolizes faithfulness, innocence, sweetness,  ardent love, faithfulness, sweet and lovely, pure love,  good luck. These lovely flowers have lasting qualities.

CARNATION: Fascination, distinction, divine love, woman, yes.

CARNATION, PINK: A woman's love, I'll never forget you, mother's love.

CARNATION, PURPLE: Capriciousness/ unpredictability.

CARNATION, RED:  admiration, my heart aches for you, friendship, pride, fascination.

CARNATION, STRIPED: Rejection.

CARNATION, YELLOW: Disdain, rejection, you have disappointed me.

 ps. Meanings gotten from about.com

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So avoid yellow and striped carnations since their meaning doesn't go too well with a wedding. On the other hand, white, pink red carnations are a good  choice.
You can combine the flowers with other types such as roses, gyp, bear grass for a great bouquet.

xxx
Bridal Glamour

Cheers to a new year; 2011!

To a whole new year that already looks soo promising. Happy 2011. Feels good to be back after a super great holiday. I love how every one is psyched up for 2011, let the positivity stay up there. It time to shine, with all the '1's in the dates this year it should be a a sign we are all destined for the top this year. There is space for all us. Wish you the very best.

The excitement in the air means more proposals, more weddings, eternal happiness. Lets all be the best that we can be in 2011 and years to come.

Bridal Glamour also got up to some resolutions, actually just one; a bigger and better her.

“A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.” author unknown
May you have the best year you have ever had. May I be invited to many weddings and crash to a lot more others :)

xo. Bridal Glamour