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

'Do not' while proposing

1.  Please do not put the ring in food or drinks, you don't want the romantic moment ending up in an emergency room plus its just tired/cliche.
2. Don't make it public, if you ask around majority of girls prefer to have a 'just the two of us moment' while you propose.
3. Do not do it a sport events; in case she says 'lets think about it'
4. Don't make it too complicated; simple is sophisticated.
5. Don't propose at a family event; that puts unnecessary pressure on you.
6. Don't copy what one of your friends did; If you do, don't be surprised if you get an uncertain answer!

Proposing when she is mad at you. Different school of thoughts on that. I would not mind a proposal when I am mad, depending on what has annoyed me.

But generally, if you are planning to marry her, you know her more than anyone including the experts. So the basic rule  is know your partner well and 'custom make' your proposal to her personality. If she is afraid of heights, don't propose to her while you are bungee jumping, if she is shy, do not propose to her in public, but preferably avoid any public proposals.

Remember, if you get the proposal wrong, there might be no wedding consequently no wife. So do your research, know her and nail it. Do it in such a way she can tell it to her friends and your children for the rest of her life.

How about girls proposing to men? I shall soon be writing about this issue.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. by Helen



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Men's great love to hate weddings

In all my 20 fine years I have never understood why someone (read men) would hate weddings! Ever realized how they wish they would just appear on the actual date in their jeans n kicks, say I do get the band and run with their bride-who is not in an over priced dress (read gown)? That is like the most amazing day of anyone's life, the day you do not need to be a celebrity to have all eyes on you, the day since you turned 3 when every body adores you. Surely, why would someone hate all this awesomeness?
I actually thought about blogging about men’s attitude towards weddings yesterday when we were just chilling with my very own prince charming, watching Heist, great series btw. Once the clock hit 5, I did not care how he was into Heist we had to switch to ‘Weddings’. You guessed right, he got bored and sweet me innocently yet ignorantly asked, “Baby, why do men hate weddings?” Wrong question to ask or maybe it’s the timing that was wrong. Woow!!! It was like I had detonated a land mine. What he said which was affirmed by other 14 men by the way resulted to the list, “10 Reasons why you should hate weddings” How now? This should be my least favorite list, how can they possibly manage to hate weddings and worse come up with a list?
The list (in order of how often they were mentioned):

1.      Waste of money: Out of the 15 men I talked to all 15 mentioned this reason first. They do not get why a girl would want to wear a dress worth 100 000ksh just one day and store it. No comment, but I am still dreaming of my Disney princess ball gown.

2.      Waste of time: They wonder why we can’t just jump into the honeymoon and get on with life. Sorry sirs! Its worth every second spent for the best day of our lives. Also mentioned by 100% of the men I talked to.

3.      It’s a show off: Why tell the world you are getting married? Guys but this is the best day of my life, I definitely want the world to know I lived to see it

4.      So much of your private life out there in the open: I reserve my comment.

5.      Plainly boring! This coming from a man from the Asian community, I kinder feel him, you know how their weddings take a whole week that drives him nuts. How I wish I would have my wedding for a whole week

6.      It’s a ladies thing, period. Purely feminine and men like acting tough (macho, I heard)  Not valid too because the women are getting married to men!!

7.      Deception/hypocrisy; Weddings have lost the magic- the purity and divinity intended. Still no comment, yet!

8.      The dowry negotiations process is too tiring, so many rules to follow, so many fines, they claimed come we stay works just as fine. I disagree.

9.      They hate to see women cry; and apparently there so many women crying during weddings, the bride herself out of excitement, the mother, the sisters, the friends. I do not think this is a valid reason

10.  For 10,I was threatened to repeat point 1 and 2 gift; to just emphasize that it’s a waste of both money and time, lest I don’t get a Christmas

Some other reasons I got I would rather not mention since I am preacher of good morals and true love. Wish I could write why girls love weddings but ...that is a book on its own.

Long live weddings:)

 xxoo

Bridal Glamour.

Prince William's proposal to Kate Middleton

The oval sapphire ring with surrounding diamonds given to Kate by Prince William

 This comes as bad news to some girls who kept hoping prince William would come their way. All in all it exciting that we shall have a royal wedding some time soon.
Prince Willian of Britain is now engaged to his girlfriend of 8 years Kate Middleton. It is rumoured that the prince proposed to his girlfriend on the last day of their holiday here in Kenya, north eastern area sometime in October. He did it  at a camp here in Kenya, how romantic of Prince William. It was a private, intimate, proposal at the Cabin verandah of the wooden lodge in north eastern where they were staying while on their holiday here in Kenya.  Kate described the place as romantic.
The prince presented Kate with his late mother's Princess Diana's engagement ring,  an oval blue sapphire with surrounding diamonds.Awesome ring.

Beautiful ring on Kate's hand

The royal couple looking good together. inset the ring.

*Pictures gotten online.

Both happy and jealous for Kate. 

Congratulations to the happy couple. Eagerly waiting for the wedding. 

 Bridal Glamour.xx

The basics of wedding Proposals

The wedding proposal day is the second most memorable moment in a persons love life after the actual wedding date. The girl especially dreams of this day from a very tender age,from the moment they introduce prince charming stories into a girls life. So any man who disappoints a girl on her proposal day should be punished for crushing her sweet dream.Therefore guys must put lots of thought to it. You will be surprised to discover how much the girl thinks of  this day in her head-resulting to high expectations from her man.

So the guy has no choice but to be creative and put lots of thought to this day like the girl does.If you think of it, there might be no 'the happiest day of my life'-the wedding day- for both the guy and lady if you don't impress the lady when proposing.

So as the guys jump into their creativity suit to make her second best day of her life memorable, the day she tells her girls of over and over again and never gets tired, there are some one-two-three 'don't you dare try' and some that you must consider if you are a fan of buying apology bouquets and chocolates for getting it all wrong. Plus she is the lady you want to spend the rest of your life with, she is worth it all, so impress her, in actual sense you shall be be doing your self some great justice. Trust me-story for another day all together.

Thus today we talk about some of the things you should do:

1. Make it personal and intimate
2. Always have some sweet words for her, don't just ask 'will you marry me' and leave it at that. Let her know why you want to marry her. 
3. Get creative, get creative, get creative and I want to add again get creative. Don't use the same idea one of your boys used or some tired ideas from TV. Will not work for you.
4. Get the right ring. Remember she shall be flashing it around from that day after all and that's the first question people ask when you announce the engagement, ;let me see the ring' Know your lady's colour preference for jewelery, size and design. If you doubt yourself, go window shopping prior and listen to every word she say, will really make your job easy.
5. Please do practice your words in front of a mirror. They weren't only made for girls. Go over your lines as you watch yourself. Am sure you are thinking, 'you are kidding me, can't be caught doing that!' Worth every effort, trust me. I bet you have heard the line 'Love is when we get silly together'
6. Make sure the timing is right; Don't do it too soon in the relationship neither should you wait too long unless you have had the talk and your both in agreement of your intended time for marriage.
7. I once was told doing it at a family event makes you nervous, Don't add extra pressure on yourself. avoid proposing at a family gathering, especially the ladies side. But there are different schools of thought on this.
8. Keep it simple; recent research has shown that a more quiet intimate proposal is more likely to sweep her off her feet to one where you stage an audience in an extravagant restaurant.

Next  is the 'Don't you dare try!' 

You love simply because you cannot help it."Kim Anderson 

Bridal Glamour

Will you Marry me...

Quite a question they say!

I was recently watching a TV show where a guy stopped a base ball match to propose to his girlfriend of 3 months only (note 3 months) and as you anticipated she said 'NO!'  I did not watch much after, think I dozed off and it was a comedy supposed to make me laugh, but I was sorry for him, thanks heavens it is just a TV show because that is something to bruise a mans ego for eternity. Poor guy, seeing all other men 'sink' in their seats embarrassed for him! But he kinder walked right into that, he turned all the 'DON'Ts' to 'DOs'. And I mean all and a bonus one where he got the microphone!

There are also very memorable, touchy proposals, the best I have read is this guy who made the girl go round all their favorite hang out joints, at each joint getting a lead to the next joint till the one where he was waiting for her. For a moment I thought to myself, "this is exhausting" but the end definitely justified the means. I also like Mr & Mrs Mathenge's (alias nameless & Wahu) proposal story. Sweet, private, surprise, simply aaaw. Not sure I should mention it maybe when I shall be writing about how the married Kenyans in the Limelight (read celebrities) proposed or were proposed to.

This plus my love for sweet love stories I decided to ask around about proposals. Interesting stories I got that I shall be sharing in this, lets call it 'The Proposal series!' Disclaimer, I am not biased but I chose to start with what I got from the beauties, just obeying nature, ladies first plus they definitely had stories that just make you wanna cry. 

Bridal Glamour Weddings. 

Toast to the 1st Bridal Glamour weddings blog

Lets drink to the first of Bridal Glamour Weddings blog. Am excited it’s my birthday today 12th of November 2010, aging beautifully and wisely I must say, and proud of myself that am finally sticking to my time plans and that I am finally taking my 1st step towards my passion, weddings and anything love! (but I promise not to try hook up any of my friends again! ok after pimping just afew more:) like Stella Maina, but I only mean well, I want to plan all their weddings:) 

Bridal Glamour is everything weddings!! Trends, advice, resource center, tips, reviews, real weddings and much much more.  Its basically all things weddings:)

I might just have to start crashing into weddings if my friends and family don't start wedding now. see why my pimping comes in handy:)
  
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