How to win your dream wedding

Timory Koch asked:


 

Hawaii weddings are really very interesting and an enjoyable. There are number of ceremonies that happen and from couple to every attendee enjoy it to the fullest. Here is the effort to cast the wedding through this mode.

Groom’s_______ & Brides name_______: This is a special day as you have chosen this beautiful corner of paradise that we call the Garden Isle of Kauai as the place you will declare your abiding love for each other. Here in the Hawaiian Islands when one leaves or arrives, people say “aloha”. For the Hawaiian people the word “aloha” has three meanings. I believe that each of these meanings has significance for y our marriage today.

The first meaning of “aloha” is “hello”. This signifies that you are beginning a new life together; a life of love and deep commitment.

The second meaning of “aloha” is “good bye”. This signifies that you are leaving the past behind as just fond memories and greeting the future with excitement and anticipation..

The third meaning of “aloha” is probably the most important. And that meaning is “love”. As you have been growing in your knowledge of each other, you have discovered together how special love is when it is shared. At this time will you turn to each other and express from your heart “ALOHA”… (by exchanging leis. Exchanging leis is optional).

______ and _____, You are two people from different walks of life entering into the marriage relationship of oneness. A relationship in which neither of you loses your personal identity but where you help each other be their best in all things. Marriage is the blending of each person’s interests, dreams and desires. Together you will work to make the marriage a relationship of love

Let me read from I Corinthians 13:4-7 on love that you need to always model in your relationship.



"Love is patient and kind,

never jealous or envious,

never boastful or proud,

never haughty or selfish or rude.

Love does not demand its own way.

It is not irritable or touchy.

It does not hold grudges and

will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.

It is never glad about injustice,

but rejoices whenever truth wins out.

If you love someone

you will be loyal to them no matter what the cost.

You will always believe in them,

always expect the best of them,

and always stand your ground in defending them."



______ (Groom) Are you willing to commit your life to ______ (Bride)

______ (Bride) Are you willing to commit your life to ______ (Groom)

VOWS

(Couples face each other with their hand joined and repeat after me).

I_____, take you,(wife, husband)to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever. I will trust you and honor you. I will laugh with you and cry with you. I will love faithfully through the best and the worst, through the difficult and the easy. What may come I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold so I give you my life to keep, as God is my witness.

THE EXCHANGE OF RINGS

Though small in size, these rings are (this ring is) very large in

significance. Made of precious metal, they remind us that love is not

cheap nor common; indeed, love may cost us dearly.

Made in a circle, their design tells us that love must never come to

an end; we must keep it continuous. As you wear these rings, whether together or part for a moment, may they be constant reminders of these glad promises you are making today.

­­­­­______ (Groom) I give you this ring as a sign of my love and faithfulness.

______ (Bride) I give you this ring as a sign of my love and faithfulness.

May these beautiful rings be a sign to each of you of the continuing love you pledge to each other today.

Blessing for a Marriage

Let me share four things that I believe are imperative for a growing and exciting marriage. You may imprint them on your mind by remembering that when you put the first letter of each word together it spells BEST.

Bless – Speak well of each other often. Express and share appreciation for the small things as well as the big things they do for you.

Edify – Cheer each other on in every area of life. This will encourage, strengthen and bring harmony and peace. Never criticize or tear each other down.

Share – Share your hearts and feelings everyday with each other. Another word for sharing is communication. Take time each day to focus attention on each other. Learn to listen to what each other means as well as what they say.

Touch - Marriage is a hands on relationship. Let there be plenty of caressing, hugging, touching and kissing.

Remember! You both chose THE BEST! Take care of each other the way you want to be cared for.

Hawaiian and English

E mau ke aloha me ke kai la,

E kupa’a me ke kuahiwi

E mehana i kala

E pa’a no ka olelo ho’ohiki aloha

I ka po me kea o

Mai ka la hiki a ka la kau

O ka noho pu

Me na hoku o ka lani



Let love continue as the sea

Stand firm as the mountains

Be warm in the sun

Let the vow of love be firm

Night and day (all times)

From East to West (all corners)

Many and sparkling be the days living together

As the stars of heaven

Pronouncement

With this union of hearts and hands, and by the authority vested in me as a minister and by the laws of the State of Hawaii, I pronounce you husband and wife. At this time you may kiss the bride.

With this the family members introduced the couple with everybody and the Hawaii Wedding ends and a new life starts.

 



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Don Meyer asked:


When we got engaged, my wife and I had no how we would afford our dream wedding. We had little virtually no savings, student loans, and no expectation of a handout from our parents who also struggled financially.

These five simple secret steps were key to our success in planning our dream wedding for just $2,000 in a community where couples spend on average over $24,000 on their weddings.

1. The Rules for budgeting

We all love the challenge of an exciting game. The goal is always the same: To Win!

By understanding the rules of the game and applying our creative thinking and other skills, we can achieve victory.

The rules for budgeting for a wedding fortunately are very simple:

Find out how much you can afford to spend on your wedding. Plan your dream wedding; but don’t spend more than you can afford.

In our case, we were big winners. We played by the rules, which said not to spend more than $2,000 to plan our dream wedding. Smart strategies led to a triumphant wedding day full of incredible beauty and the freedom of knowing that we were starting our married life without a penny of wedding debt.

2. Know How Much You Can Afford to Spend

To know how much you can spend, you should take a look at how much you both have in your savings accounts. Also, find out how much your parents can contribute to your wedding planning, if anything.

Consider how much you make each month. Also calculate your monthly expenses. You should also think about what your income and expenses will be once you are married.

The first few years of married life tend to be full of financial obstacles for most couples. So, you don’t want to add the heavy burden of wedding debt to your new life together. You may even want to have some extra money in savings to help your new life together get off on the right foot.

Also, consider how much money you will want to keep aside for your honeymoon.

3. Discover Your Magic Number

As you consider how much you can afford to spend, you will become more and more comfortable with spending a particular amount of money on your wedding. We were comfortable with spending $2,000 on our wedding. This was our magic number.

What is your magic number? Is it $10,000? …$5,000? …$500?

Do not be afraid of the number you discover. You will be surprised at how a bit of smart planning can make your dream wedding possible even though you can only spend a small amount of money.

Thousands of couples have been downloading our book “Wedding Planning on a Budget” to discover tried and true strategies for planning their dream weddings at a price they can afford. Like them, you can follow winning strategies to plan your dream wedding at a price you can afford.

The amount that you decide you can afford to spend on your wedding is your total wedding budget allowance.

4. Anticipate Where the Money Should Go

The best way to make sure that every part of your wedding is paid for without spending more than your wedding budget allows, is to assign portions of your allowance to different parts of your wedding. You can, for example, assign 50% of your total wedding budget allowance to your wedding reception, 10% to your wedding dress and other attire, and so on.

Once you know how much you plan to spend on your reception, you can divide that money between the various components of the reception such as Room/Hall Fees, Tables and Chairs, Food, Drinks, Cake, Linens, Service Fees, Staff and Gratuities, Rentals, etc. Of course, you only have to apply money to the components you plan to include in your wedding.

You can use our free wedding budget spreadsheet that calculates all of these percentages for you and keeps track of all your planned spending and actual spending to help you stay on target. Our wedding budget planner is available at Wedding Planning on a budget.

5. Making Your Budget Do the Work for You

Now that you know how much you plan to spend on each item of your wedding, you can begin using some winning strategies and creative planning to acquire each item or service at the price your budget says you can afford to pay.

Before making any wedding purchase, first consult your budget to find out how much you can afford to pay. After the purchase has been made, record the actual cost of the purchase in your wedding budget.

If the actual price paid is less than what you had planned for, then you can afford to spend that much more on another item found on your wedding budget spreadsheet. If, however, you paid more than what you had planned for, then you must reduce what you can plan on spending for other items on your wedding budget.

In other words, the amount you actually pay for each item can be adjusted but make sure that all of the items end up totaling no more than your total wedding budget allowance.

You now know the rules of the game and how the game is played. With smart planning and by following some proven strategies you can, like us, achieve the wedding of your dreams at a price you can comfortably afford.

We wish you a very happy wedding planning experience and a beautiful, dream come true wedding day.



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elena77 asked:


How would you like to have a dress, which is light, like a dream and gentle as a peony petal? In this case, silk chiffon is the right material for a bridal dress. Soft chiffon is currently the “so in” style. It is also considered one of the trendier fashions. Softly draped, it looks both formal and lovely. Ladies can now herald the arrival of summer with a float chiffon wedding dress!

Get something really feminine and elegant. Get inspired by classic movie, “My Fair lady”, starring style icon Audrey Hepburn. There are so many brilliant things to borrow from the award winning costume designs found in the movie. As you remember, costume details such as chic over sized bows, lines -with contrasts of black and white have come back again. It is a modern trend in wedding fashion! Silk chiffon floral accents, amazing drapes, wing details, perfect fitting, elongated shapes, feminine, stylish and fresh, as spring.

Flowers are all great ways to describe a dream summer wedding dress. The costume designer of this movie was Cecil Beaton, who developed his sophisticated taste in the highly artistic environment of the 1930s. This was a time when Coco Chanel declared that fashion should be both luxurious and expensive simplicity, ushering in a new era. It`s interesting how elegance from the past has easy access to our hearts today.

You can get more inspiration from the early summer blooms for your bridal style. They can present you a chic idea to organize a wedding. For example, it can be in a pale rose palette of spring-early summer flowers. You can continue with a floral peony theme, a symbol of a happy marriage and harmonic relationship. It could also be a nice scenario: pale rose invitations with a pattern of petals of peony flowers; watercolors or silk painting, chick and handmade. Centerpieces can also be arranged with a fresh and fragrant summer mixture of flowers with peonies as the main flower in the composition. A bride’s bouquet of perfect colors, pale pink peony enchants and warms up the feminine part of the bride.



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