1. Bird Bridal Set 2. Bird Cage Tea Light/Placecard Holders
3. Handmade Bird Cake Topper 4. Love Bird Wedding Centerpiece
5. Bird Placecard Holder 6. Bird Nest Decoration 7. Bird Wedding Favors

1. Guest book 2. Heart ring bearer boards 3. Heart place card holders
4. Heart favor boxes 5. Love plates

Planning a grill-out for the bachelor party? We have the ultimate, and we mean ULTIMATE, main course idea: THE BACON EXPLOSION!

The bacon explosion is quickly becoming a worldwide sensation.  It is an original creation straight from our hometown of Kansas City. It has been featured by the likes of CNN, The New York Times, and Good Morning America.

What is it?
The bacon explosion is bacon stuffed, bacon wrapped Italian sausage. It comes pre-cooked and ready to pop into your oven, microwave, or right on the grill. It’s ready to eat within 30 minutes!

Aside from bachelor parties, it’s great for entertaining, tailgating, camping, backyard grilling and poker night. The Man Registry offers three options for ordering Bacon Explosion: ½ size, full size, and double).
Brides, forward this to your fiancé NOW!

Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe

This tradition is meant to bring the bride good luck. If you’re still looking for that ‘something blue’ I found some items on the site that might inspire you. Click on the image to view the full listing.

Love these shoes! They would be perfect to wear under a wedding gown

This ice blue pillow is made of silk & discounted by 50% off

Aqua Blue Barrett made with Swarovski Crystals

10k White Gold Sapphire Earrings With Diamonds - only worn once

10kt yellow gold cushion princess cut checkerboard blue sapphire ring, just $75!

14 kt white gold chain with a light blue aquamarine stone & three round diamonds

This blue evening Bag has never been used and would be a great accessory for the bride!

I stumbled across these wedding statistics and thought they were pretty interesting. Enjoy!

• 2,190,363 couples were wed in the U.S. in 2008.
• The world’s longest-married living couple, Zelmyra & Herbert Fisher of  North Carolina, were, at press time, preparing to celebrate their 85th anniversary.
• $707,051,028 worth of wedding cake and fondant frosting (more than 16 tons) was consumed last year in the U.S.
• The average American wedding costs $28,704.
• In frugal Mississippi the average drops to $18,562.
• In spendthrift New Jersey that jumps to $36,113.
• David’s Bridal claims roughly 30% of the wedding-gown market, with dresses that start at $99.
• Steel tycon Lakshmi Mittal spent an estimated $60 million on a five-day French wedding for his daughter, Vanisha, which included a 1,000 person engagement party at Versailles.
• The discount chain Filene’s Basement has held its Running of the Brides event at dozens of stores each year since 1947.
• At one store, shoppers cleared the racks of 3,000 marked-down dresses in a record 37 seconds.
• In 1960, an American bride was typically 20 years old and a groom was 23. Today, they’re 27 and 29, respectively.
• Six countries currently allow same-sex marriage: Belgium, Canada, Holland, Norway, South Africa, and Spain.
• December is the most popular month to pop the question, accounting for one in five engagements.

Thanks for the guys over at FastCompany for sharing this data.

By Personalized Wedding Poet Chloe’ Yelena Miller
www.WordArrangement.WordPress.Com / www.WordArrangement.com

You’ve spent time planning the menu, flower arrangements, music, etc. Of course, the real reason for all of these details is that they help you and your guests celebrate your union with the person you love. Writing your own vows is the perfect way to personalize the ceremony and share your promises publicly.

There are many ways to approach your vows. Some religions and traditions offer you more flexibility than others; it is important that you create the tradition for yourselves, as new or familiar as that may be. You can write your vows together or share them for the first time during the ceremony.

Most vows incorporate the idea of standing by each other no matter what challenges you face (financial, medical or otherwise) and that your love will endure. For some examples of traditional and untraditional vows, here is a helpful website.

Your vows are pledges to your partner and your guests. If you decide to craft them privately, your conversations will probably be longer than the actual vows. You don’t have to include everything in your vows, but it can be beautiful to share your full thoughts with your partner.

The first step is to talk to your partner and decide if you are going to write them together or separately.
Here is a short list of some of the ideas to consider and expand on when writing your vows:
What is your favorite part of your relationship?
How did you meet?
How does your love inspire your life?
What does your partner offer you and what do you hope to offer the other person?
What is your definition of marriage?

The next step is to consider what aspects of your love, hopes, dreams, and maybe even fears, that you’d like to include.
Consider the following:
What is most important to you?
How does love nourish your life?
Where would you be without this love?

Poet Alli Shaloum-Brydon wrote her own vows and shared them in a guest blog post: the Adventures of Planning an Interfaith and Intercultural Wedding. I particularly love the last line, “Let us strive for excitement, adventure, and passion in everything we do.” That is exactly what we all hope for in life and in a partner.

Another idea is to speak with your celebrant. Most celebrants, like NJ based Celia Milton, help couples to build their own vows. I asked Celia to share some advice. She wrote, “I honestly think couples make this too hard, too terrifying by thinking their vows have to be great snippets of literature. That’s really not it at all; their vows are their promises to each other; the promises that they have made in their hearts long before their wedding day.”

Be reminded that your vows don’t only take place on one day. They are promises that carry into the future. We are reminded of that by Philadelphia area Wedding Priestess Ann Keeler Evans . She writes in her blog, “What if you crafted your vows as the working document that will carry your relationship into the future?”

If you are looking for additional help, you are welcome to contact Chloe‘, she writes personalized wedding poems which can be tailored to be read as vows.