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A Same-Day-Edit Video: premiered at the very same night of their wedding.

Once in a blue moon, we come across great love stories that are as easy and natural as breathing – as existing. Cathy & Ninan is a wonderful testament to that kind of love story.

More often than not, we perceive a love story to be “great” when it consists of a grand romantic gesture or a set of star-crossed lovers. They are both, and more.

Her hands carefully touched her wedding dress, with her mother by her side, and her bridesmaids surrounding her. If nothing else, Cathy was ready. Ready to marry the man who unexpectedly became the center of her world.

Her special day was nothing short of rich hues, extravagance, and luxurious silhouettes.

With beautiful details left and right, their affair oozed with easy elegance and enchanting charm. A classic tuxedo paired with a slick black bow tie from Tom Ford, and a divine wedding gown, paired with crystals on the lip of her shoes from Valentino, the couple alone is a picture of style, bliss and perfection. The breathtaking venue, the unguarded moments, the silly sweetness, everything was perfect.

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Celebrating your marriage, whether it is a civil one or a religious one, is still a big deal. Make the most out of your civil wedding with these tips.

Dress for the occasion. Most brides dress much simpler during their civil ceremony because they’re saving their money on their dream wedding dress. But think about it: Maybe the reason on why your civil ceremony dress won’t be as spectacular is because not a lot of people will get to see it. Whatever the occasion or the number of people who’ll get to see it, what matters is that the dress that you’ll wear to your civil ceremony makes you feel as beautiful and special as you feel on your big day. Don’t forget the hair and makeup!

Take photos and videos. If you have prenup shoots with the purpose of documenting how couples look like before tying the knot, taking photos and videos of the day you get civilly married is even more important. If it’s not within your budget to get photos professionally taken, make sure you have a friend who will be able to document your big day.

Throw a fun reception. Gather up your closest friends and family for an intimate celebration. You can either choose your favorite restaurant, or hold it at home and have the food catered—just make sure that the food will be exceptionally great!

Do the traditions that you like. Not just because your reception is small or simple it means you can’t still do the usual traditions, like the throwing of the wedding bouquet, cutting the cake, or the first dance. It you’re saving these traditions up for the big wedding, it’s perfectly okay to celebrate these traditions twice.

DIY wedding tokens. Since you have a small number of guests, it’s easy (and affordable!) to make your own tokens, even if you’re still a beginner when it comes to crafts. If you’re more of a cook or baker, why not give out freshly baked cookies or your own pasta sauce? Any small token is made more special when it comes from the heart.

Have a quickie honeymoon. Staycations are still very trendy now, but if you want something more memorable but low key, why not make your honeymoon as the first night you and your husband spend your first night in your new home? Set the mood with candles and a homecooked meal for a quickie honeymoon you both won’t forget.

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If you and your fiance have agreed to write vows, you’ll need to put your promises on paper. There is technically no wrong way to do this

The Basic Anatomy of Wedding Vows:

Beginning – The Past: How did you meet? when did you know it was serious? What Challenges have you faced together?

Middle – The Present: What brought you to this day? How do you feel about marrying your partner? What’s the one thing you want to tell them on our wedding?

Ending – The Future: Goals you want to achieve with your partnet and the future you see together. Probably mention love here. and make sure to include at least 3 to 4 promises here.

Now that you know the basic structure for your

wedding vows

, it’s time to get into the details. Follow these pro tips and show everyone exactly why you are marriage material.

RESEARCH – Read some traditional vows—these could be of any religion or culture. You can also watch on YouTube vows written by couples to get a feel for the length and structure. Think about the kinds of promises these couples are making to one another.

REFLECT ON YOUR RELATIONSHIP – Get sentimental. Gather 5 to 10 of your favorite memories from your time together: what drew you to your partner, the ways you’ve supported each other, and why you think you’ll make a great husband.

TONE IS IMPORTANT – It’s great to throw in a quick, good-natured joke. Ideally, your vows will be equal parts touching, funny, and hopeful for your future.

MAKE SOME PROMISES – Finesse those memories and ideas into promises. Three or four should do it.

OUTLINE IT – Make an outline. Feel free to map out your vows as you see fit.

EDIT WHAT YOU JUST WROTE – Remove 90 percent of the inside jokes you find, and don’t include anything that would embarrass you, your family, and, most importantly, the bride.

MAKE A CLEAN COPY – Does it look good? Great! Print out a shiny new, legible copy and keep the draft on your computer for further edits and more copies.

PRACTICE – Find a mirror and read your vows aloud. If something is clunky or off, you’ll hear it as you read. Make notes as you go for minor adjustments. Then do it again with the changes.

MAKE YOUR FINAL COPY, AND PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK – Even if you decide to memorize them, keep a copy of your vows on you during the ceremony just in case.

EXTRA CREDIT – On your wedding day, remember that you’re just talking to your fiancé. Don’t let the (possibly hundreds of) other humans steal your focus—you wrote this for your partner.

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Whether you used traditional vows for your first ceremony or you wrote your own, coming up with something fresh, wonderful and definitive of the time you and your sweetheart have spent together isn’t always easy. You want vows that say what’s in your heart and chances are you want them to stand apart from those used in your first ceremony.

To help you get started on writing your vow, here are a few tips that might make the words flow more freely:

Tell story: You and your special someone are renewing your vows. That means you’ve spent years and perhaps even decades together. Is there a defining moment in your time together that embodies why your honey is so special to you? Tell that story and use it as a springboard to renew your commitment to each other.

Keep a journal: In the weeks and days leading up to your vow renewal ceremony, carry around a journal for jotting down vow ideas. Use it to list out the reasons for your love, why your personal connection is so deep and why you’re willing to stand up and say “I do” all over again. Use those notes to help you craft the actual vows you’ll recite during your ceremony.

You can get ideas or borrow words from the others: Can’t come up with just the right words to express why your spouse is so special to you? It’s OK to borrow words from the greats when they fit and relate what’s in your heart. If you have a song together, a favorite poem or even lines from a movie that fit what you mean to each other, use them. Remember, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Just be sure to put your own special spin on the sentiments expressed.

Write from the heart: You write it like Shakespeare to craft renewal vows that won’t leave a dry eye in the house. Just say what’s in your heart. Tell the person you love why you do and what it is about them that makes you want to spend your entire life walking hand-in-hand.

Keep it simple: Remember when you stood and recited your vows at your original wedding? Remember how the words didn’t matter as much as the look in your eye and how it reflected what was in your heart? If you’re saying “I do” once again, that same rule applies. With that in mind, just keep your vows simple and heartfelt and you can’t go wrong.

Writing your own unique vows for a renewal ceremony is a wonderful way to reflect back on the years and how your special someone has become even more so through time. Keep in mind, if you say what’s truly in your heart, your words are guaranteed to be perfect.

Tony Gee’s offers renewal of vow services

Ceremony services include:

Creation of a ceremony reflective of your spiritual, cultural and family traditions

Unlimited contact- phone calls and emails

Provide a wide range of ceremony resource materials.

A beautiful ‘Presentation Copy’ of your Renewal ceremony

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Times and attitudes to our celebrations are going through mass change around the world.

Throughout this change the Celebrant was founded in Australia thanks to Lionel Murphy, in July 1973 when he appointed the first civil marriage Celebrant. The Celebrancy business has grown in strength since helping people decide on their wishes with their vows be they religious or non-religious, their script, music they want to add, readings, and symbolism. They can also decide their style, Celebrant, venue, day and time. So many options we never had in the past!

People now have many more choices from the days when folk were married in a church or the local registry office. The wedding industry has gained vastly from this, especially in Scotland where there are no licences required to be married in hotels, castles, woodland sites and other venues, although some may require permission such a heritage sites.

Families and couples are able to explore many options now, and have their ceremony the way they want it, just as it should be.

Celebrants bring us opportunities we did not have in the past – couples often tell me they want religious vows but not a religious ceremony for their wedding. They want to marry in a woodland setting honouring Mother Earth and have a touch of Pagan and a Handfasting to their ceremony. Couple would like to marry in their back garden, a caravan site, at Winter Solstice in a fairy glen. They may like a simple, no frills declaration of their love for each other in front of family or a castle setting with a Celtic theme. This is all entirely possible and gives the couple freedom of decide on just how they want their day to be.

At present Celebrants cannot perform full legal ceremonies in the United Kingdom. Exciting changes are taking place however, so that local register offices now send a registrar out from their offices to complete the legalities, with the Celebrant holding the rest of the ceremony. Other options are for a couple to attend a local registrar the day before perhaps, to have their declaratory vows made.

A few Celebrants are working in the background to bring change to proceedings and have founded a new Faith in Diversity group. This group are working to lobby the Scottish Government to bring change in the Celebrants role and allow them full legal rights to perform ceremonies.

Meantime, some like myself have other titles to their bow which allow them the right to perform the full ceremony and are perhaps an Interfaith Ministers or a Deaconess as I am.

Many people ask what the role of a Celebrant is in a Funeral.

It is to bring the ceremony together which speaks of the person, and brings the ceremony round to the person and who they were.

Some tell me they have no faith as such but do ‘believe in something’ and want a few readings and a spiritual element to the service. Others tell me they want a celebration with bright colours to those attending, maybe a video or a whole host of song choices which range from Zorba the Greek with everyone standing clapping to ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’!

More families and people are choosing to have a straight to cremation after someone’s death. This means no service at the crematorium but having a memorial service before or after to celebrate without time constraints given by the crematorium. This can save on expenses and have a some more special time sharing in memories and recollections, which allows more to grieve and celebrate the person’s life. Perhaps even bringing photos to look over and reminisce over.

Couples are choosing to have Baby Naming Ceremonies or Baby Blessings rather than attend a church and have a Christening or Baptism.

They may want some religion, or their child anointed with oils and have the family play a big part in welcoming the child to the fold. These are again all choices we never thought of before and can now make.

Some worry we shall forget our faith’s, and yet people have many faith’s and beliefs which is what makes us this great big melting pot of life. Perhaps in looking at and thinking about our faiths it can only grow in strength and share out some love in the world.

At times change is very good and can from little acorns grow, as the Celebrancy business is.

We have whole new opportunities to share in celebrations from honouring our 18th year, to having a celebration to mark our University Degree, welcoming an adopting child into the family and so much more.

We are all worth celebrating and that can only be good!

In centuries gone by and even still now, there are groups who celebrate the harvest, the Solstice, Equinoxes, Easter and so much more- all opportunities for people to gather and be together as a family and as communities.

As Celebrants we are there to serve and celebrate the unique in you.  Why not get in touch with one and ask them a bit more about how thy can help you with your celebration.

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A renewal of vows ceremony is celebrated for many personal reasons. The most common reason is to reaffirm the marriage on the occasion of an anniversary. Renewal of vows is often used for couples who were obliged to marry quickly, perhaps because marriage was a requirement for a baby coming or residential status. At a more convenient and propitious time a complete ceremony, mirroring the original ceremony, can be held. It is also suitable for married couples, who, after separation, are reunited.

It can be as modest or as elaborate as you and your husband or wife prefer. Here’s steps on planning your vow renewal ceremony.

Pick The Best Date

Much like your wedding, you have to decide when to host the vow renewal. An anniversary or a date that is special to the two of you would be a nice touch. If you’re planning to invite guests, choose a date when they will be able to attend. A vow renewal in the middle of the week, for example, might garner many “no” responses because most people work then.

Choose Meaningful Location

You could return to the place where you were originally married. That won’t work, however, if you’re hosting a vow renewal for those who couldn’t attend your destination wedding. In that case, you could replicate the site closer to home. If neither of those ideas works for you, you could pick a place that is meaningful to the two of you – the park where you picnic on Sundays, the restaurant where you had your first date, the church you attend together.

Get a Copy of Your Vows

If you didn’t save a copy of your vows, then you should track down one. You could watch your wedding video to get the exact words. But don’t feel limited to the words you said at your wedding. You could add to these vows to include sentiments and promises born since you’ve been married or you can just repeat the original vows you took.

Find an Officiant

The wedding celebrant who married you the first time around could be available. If not, you could find someone else to do it by contacting a nearby church. For a civil service, you could contact the local government to find a judge or other qualified civil marriage celebrant in your city or town. Those who are looking to host a more laid-back and intimate vow renewal can ask a friend or relative to offer a brief introduction followed by the two of you simply repeating your vows.

Invite Guests – or Not

You could invite friends, relatives, and co-workers as you would for a big wedding. Or you and your husband or wife can renew your vows together, just the two of you. Some couples actually do this every year on their anniversary. It’s a sweet way to remember what your wedding day actually meant and to remind yourself of the promises you must keep.​

Celebrate – Alone or With a Crowd

A vow renewal, just like a wedding, is determined by the couple. If the two of you want to follow your vow renewal with dinner for two at your favorite restaurant, then you should do that. If you’d like to book a banquet hall and a D.J. and dance the night away with family and friends, then you should do that. The important thing is to remember why you renewed your vows: To show your continued commitment to one another and to share your love again. Truly, once is never enough.

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Some of the reasons for Renewals:

– A declaration of the couple’s continuing love for each other and their family and friends.

– Combine a renewal with a celebration of a significant milestone in a marriage, such as an anniversary. Other couples renew their vows publicly, because they were married overseas/interstate or for, some reason, they could not invite their friends and family to the marriage.

– There is illness evident and the couple wish to renew their commitment, love and support for each other or a re-uniting after a separation.

– There are no legal requirements for a Vow Renewal ceremony.

Tony Gee offers vow renewal ceremonyServices include:

– Creation of a ceremony reflective of your spiritual, cultural and family traditions

– Unlimited contact- phone calls and emails

– Provide a wide range of ceremony resource materials.

– A beautiful ‘Presentation Copy’ of your Renewal ceremony

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Why shouldn’t an individual be able to marry the person they love simply because of their sexual preference? Depriving individuals of that just isn’t right. Let’s discuss the reasons why same sex marriage should be legal.

Equal benefits

LGBT marriage should be legal around the world because it provides equal benefits to everone. Before legalization in the United States, gay couples had no hospital visitation rights. This means that if an unfortunate emergency occurred, the partner was not allowed to visit their life loveone because they were not legally married. Legalizing LGBT marriage also provides benefits pertaining to taxation, inheritance and financial protection. Did you know that before the legalization of lgbt marriage, gay men, and lesbian women were deprived of more than 1,000 federal rights and benefits?

It delivers a very positive message

Prejudice and discrimination have impacted our society in the ugliest of ways. Some of the most awful times in history were largely due to unfair treatment of a specific group for whatever reason. Let’s not forget the civil rights issue. Refusing a group of their right to marry sends the message that prejudice and discrimination are acceptable. That message only prevents society from evolving and even worse, paints the LGBT community as inferior. Recognizing everyone’s rights, however, helps reverse the problem. Humans rights must be in alignment for society to thrive.

Family stability

Another big reason why gay marriage should be legal has to do with children and family stability. There are numerous same sex couples raising children in loving homes. Although loving, without legalizing lgbt marriages, those children are denied the stability associated with being in a household with gay parents. For example, when gay marriage was not legal, child support was an issue when their parents decided to split. No matter who a child’s parents are, there is no reason not to provide them with the same protections as those raised by a mother and father.

Increases the number of successful adoptions

Another reason why lgbt marriage should be legal is that it can surely increase the adoption rate in any country. Millions of children around the world are homeless and looking for loving parents to adopt them and agencies are more inclined to release children to married couples due to the stability they provide. LGBT couples have been discriminated against by these agencies but being able to legally married eliminates the reason not to allow them to adopt a child. LGBT couples often turn to adoption since having a child of their own can be costly. A rise in adoption rates means more children have parents to love and care for them rather than living in foster homes moving from one home to another. It makes no sense to deny children of living in a happy home (perhaps with siblings) and parents that love them.

There is simply no enough reasons not to

There are plenty of reasons not to support lgbt marriage, none of these reasons are good! Many of the arguments against same-sex marriage are based on religious beliefs that have no logical basis in fact. While everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, legislation should not be determined by the blind faith of one segment of society. One example of a completely unfounded reason for opposing same sex marriage is that it is a violation of natural law. This assertion is based on the concept that sex itself is for the sole purpose of procreation, and that any sexual act not intended for this purpose is sin. However, if this were true then why would other species, including dolphins, also participate in recreational lovemaking, and why would homosexuality exist in over 15,000 species? Surely a phenomenon that is so widespread couldn’t violate the laws of nature. In fact, homosexuality is a part of nature just like sexuality is, a fact proven by brain scans that demonstrate real and natural differences between heterosexual and homosexual subjects. Perhaps most importantly, homosexuality doesn’t hurt anyone. So why not support the right of two people to be legally joined if there is no good reason not to do so?

See the source and original blog articles here: https://www.marriage.com/advice/same-sex-laws/lgbt-love-why-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal/ and https://mic.com/articles/50737/4-simple-reasons-to-support-gay-marriage#.YsPs5ojaL

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The wide variety of current wedding invitations provide a bride-to-be with endless ways to showcase her personality and wedding style.

Wedding invite etiquette provides simple rules to allow any bride to effectively communicate the details of her wedding while doing so in a polite, respectful manner.

You Should:

– Include major details, such as the bride and groom’s names, and the location and date of the ceremony. This is obvious to most, but you would be surprised at the number of brides who o order their invitations without this information prepared. If you are ordering online without the help of a consultant, triple check to make sure you have this basic information.

– Proofread everything! While working as a wedding stationery consultant, carefully look over the spelling and placement of the text. Don’t be the bride who only gives a quick glance over the proof, only to realize your mistake once the final prints are done.

– Indicate through your wording who is hosting the ceremony. When an invitation states, “Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Susan Marie,” it subtly states that the parents of the bride will be hosting (i.e. paying for) the event. Couples today have options on the wording since the rules on wedding hosting have changed: the parents of the bride, the parents of the groom, both sets of parents, the couple or a combination of the above could be potential hosts. Just make sure to give credit where credit is due, and use the appropriate wording.

– Be consistent throughout your invitation suite. If you have a more formal wedding (and thus, a more formal invitation), write out all numbers, including dates, times and years. Thus, instead of putting “Friday, August 15th. 2013 at 3 p.m.,” you’d want to write out “Friday, the fifteenth of August, two thousand and thirteen at three o’clock in the afternoon.” It is wordy, but for a formal invitation, it adds a sense of elegance. For more casual invitations, you may prefer to write out the numbers, but it’s a matter of personal preference. Whatever you do on a casual invite, make sure you do it consistently.

– Know when to send individual invitations. For family groups with children under eighteen, it is fine to send one invite for all. However, if there is a family group with children over eighteen still living at home, each child over eighteen should receive a separate invite. Couples, whether married or not, should receive one invitation, as long as they live at the same address. Young people who are not dating, but who still room together, should receive individual invitations.

– Send your invitations six to eight weeks before the wedding ceremony and reception. Any earlier will cause your wedding invites to arrive too close to your save-the-dates and any later can interfere with guests’ abilities to get time off from work, arrange childcare, or book hotel rooms.

You Should Avoid:

– Attempting to squeeze the reception information onto the bottom of the wedding invite. Yes, you’ll save money on an extra enclosure card, but the overall effect will be confusing to your guests. The ceremony and reception are two separate events, and thus, their information should be on completely separate pieces of paper.

– Asking for or referring to (in any way) for gifts or money. Gifts are supposed to a token of your guests’ appreciation, so requesting them is extremely inappropriate. Avoid including registry information anywhere in your wedding suite. A better place to put this would be on your wedding website with links to the registries. Other phrases to keep off of your invitation: anything mentioning a “money tree” or “monetary donations.” Such desires should be passed along verbally to select friends and family members who can then let guests know your preference if asked.

– Printing information on the back of the invitation. If you’d like to include hotel information, your wedding website URL, or directions to the venue, simply order another enclosure card with this information. Text should be contained to the front of the invitation only.

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As anyone who’s been to one can attest to, lgbt weddings are simply more fun. Here’s how to make sure yours is too.

Sprinkle some love into the ceremony

Think about it – everyone is here for you, to celebrate your marriage and your commitment. The party will be great but I can promise that if you have a thoughtful, meaningful ceremony, the party will be even greater. It’s best to consider hiring a celebrant that supports lgbt wedding to create a personalized wedding for you

LGBT weddings should never be boring

Many gay weddings skip the typical traditions such as dancing with parents, cake cuttings, garter and bouquet tosses and more. But your guests actually look forward to those things and it helps make the evening flow. If you take a pass on some traditions, be sure to add in a substitute. Consider drag kings, dancers, photo booth or other forms of entertainment that reflect your own interests and personality and present conversation starters for your guests. Remember this day should be on of the happiest day of your life so if you can afford it then do it.

Personalise

Hire a graphic designer to create your own custom wedding logo which then carries throughout your wedding materials. That logo can be on your invitations, ceremony program, seating cards, menu and much more to “brand” your wedding in style. This makes for instant, cohesive, thematic décor! It’s easy and cheap to hire good freelance graphic designer online, try fiverr.com.

Flow

Even though you’re the guests of honor, you are also the host of this party. No matter how good the food or the entertainment is, if your guests are waiting too long for a cocktail or you run out of hors d’oeuvres, that’s what they’ll remember. Pay attention to the details around flow – make sure you have adequate greeters and signage so your guests know where to go. Ensure plenty of bartenders so your guests never have to wait. Anticipate heavy traffic areas and plan accordingly.

Be yourself

This is your wedding, not your sister’s, your mom’s or anyone else’s! Express yourself, be non-traditional if you want to be, and don’t let anyone tell you what to do!

Stay calm and relax

If wedding planning is stressing you out or you’re just too overwhelmed, don’t be afraid to call in the help of a wedding planner. Services can vary and many planners can accommodate any budget or type of wedding.

Invite only those people who are happy for you

If you have any friends, family members or co-workers who aren’t excited for your wedding or don’t believe in same-sex marriage, screw ‘em! Don’t invite them! The last thing you need on your wedding day is to be self-conscious and worry about what someone else is thinking or saying. Invite only those who are thrilled to support you.

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Gifts are important tokens of love to the people you care about especially for an important day like wedding ceremony. So as much as possible we’d like to give something very good and useful, importantly if the couple is very close to us. But there comes a time that we are on a limited budget, so buying a nice wedding gift for the  couple can be challenging not only because you are just running out of ideas but also because you have to consider that you are on a limited budget.

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Though it can often feel like the bride takes most of the limelight on the big day, the groom deserves just as much attention. So here are some advice to remember when making a good decision on the ultimate sharp wedding suit for the groom.

Colours To Suit

Having suits in different styles is a must for different seasonal weddings and events. Opting for the same suit in different colours could work well for variation. For a summer wedding, mix things up with a patterned, herringbone or houndstooth number to vary to add a sense of personality.

Fit Matters

The key to a pulling off a killer suit is fit, this means that it’s important to wear a suit that complements your body shape.

There are three main types of fit:

Slim – ideal for those with a slimmer physique and typically for people with an 8” drop.

Regular – for those who prefer a classic style in a comfortable fit with room for extra movement. It’s also ideal for people with a larger build than average.

Tailored – a more streamlined look and a midway option which allows more movement than a regular fit.

Think About Fabric

We often associate heavier materials with quality and expense. Wool, worsted or wool-blended suits are great quality, and maintain their shape over long periods of time. For weddings in the summer season, a linen suit keeps you cool and is highly breathable. If you’re on a budget however, cotton and polyester suits are both breathable to wear and adhere to a smart look.

Think Seasonal

Consider the season that the event will take place in when choosing your suit. If you’re a guest at a winter wedding, try to find out what the theme will be to ensure you don’t clash with the rest of the guests and groomsmen. Alternatively, a tweed suit offers a rustic look and feel. In spring, a waistcoat is the perfect back up for unpredictable temperatures.

Accessorise Your Look

Accessories can be just as important as the suit when it comes to injecting some personality into an outfit, so take time to find the perfect additions and ensure they match your suit. Cuff-links add a touch of sophistication whilst a patterned tie can look great against a dark suit. A bright silk tie is ideal for adding a splash of colour to summer events.

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Wedding traditions may have changed over the years and may different countries however, one standout event that will be featured at your reception is the couple’s first wedding dance . Whether it’s sentimental and romantic, or lively and fun-loving, you and your guests will always remember the very first song you and your partner danced to as a newly married couple. So it’s very important to choose a song that has a special meaning to both of you as a couple, or one with words that express your love and everlasting commitment.

Choosing your first dance wedding song may seem like an easy task, but it can be harder than you think! After all, the song and dance you choose will not only identify you as a couple, you’ll have to agree on just one! Here are 5 tips to help you choose “the” first dance wedding song.

Song that fits both of your personalities.

Are you and your partner hopeless romantics? Are PDAs your thing or do you celebrate every “first” in your relationship, every year? You may be more of the sentimental type. Classics like “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers or “At Last” by Etta James have timeless appeal. More modern songs like “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel or “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri would be a perfect first dance wedding song for romantics like you.

Does the Song Fit the Wedding Theme?

If having a first wedding dance that fits with the wedding theme is important to you, a few factors will come into play. Consider the style of your wedding, the season, and the reception/location of your ceremony. One example might be Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One,” a country love song that would work well with a rustic or country-themed wedding. Another example might be “Our Love is Here to Stay” for a more elegant, vintage-themed wedding.

A song lyrics that relates to both of you.

Another way to choose your first dance song is to think back to a significant time in your relationship and select a song that reminds you of that time or speaks about it. Songs with such memorable lyrics include:

– I’m Yours by Jason Mraz – Look into your heart and you’ll find love, love, love, love. – Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran – Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars. – Everything by Michael Bublé – Whatever comes our way, we’ll see it through. And you know that’s what our love can do. – All of Me by John Legend – All of me loves all of you.

Do you have a band that can play wedding songs?

Having a live band at your wedding to entertain guests adds even more excitement to your reception. Confirm with the band that they can actually perform your first dance song live. If not, you’ll have to decide if you want to simply have your song played on a device, or perhaps even choose another song that your band knows and can play well. Most wedding bands know the most popular first dance songs and most would be willing to learn your song if needed.

After First dance wedding song switch it up with a more lively and up-tempo song to get the party started.

You may decide to have your bridal party or all your guests join you towards the end of your first dance. Or, you may decide to switch it up right away from something slow and romantic to something lively and up-tempo to get the party started. “Come Fly With Me” by Frank Sinatra would be one choice to pick up the pace, and is known and loved by generations. You’ll want to have a mix of music, from slow to fast tempo, and cover some favorites of each generation attending. Be sure to provide your DJ with your complete playlist well in advance of your reception.

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