You've always said that life is a beach, and now you are proving it by taking that big life step right on the sand. You are planning a beach wedding and you want to make it as unique and fun as you are. These tips will help you do that, at a price that is perfect even for beach bums.

Finding better beach wedding decor is actually pretty easy. You can "surf" the web while you lounge at the beach from a laptop and find many stores that sell just what you need. They offer competitive prices and categorize everything so it is easy to find.

Pick out some of the more unique items you find to make your real wedding more interesting, but even the most popular beach place card holders are going to be a hit. Especially the very popular and fun flip flop luggage tags. These are unique because they are shaped like flip flops but they are useful too.

They are perfect for any tropical vacation and a great thing for any guest. They are also great beach wedding favors for any event, tropical or not!

Other unique items include a starfish candle holder, seashell bottle stopper favors and many beach place card frames. All of these beach items are a great way to decorate and celebrate.

If you get really motivated you can try to make your own beach wedding favors. However, this will require some time. A good idea is to layer different colored sand into glass jars and place candles in them. You can also try to glue sea shells to candle holder and other wedding decorations.

This will take a lot of time, and remember you have to make many of them, some people with more than 100 guests will find this is just too much work.

Buying beach favors is probably a better idea, because it leaves you with more time to plan other fun things like a limbo contest or even a surfing competition (well, maybe not). Anything that makes you beach wedding more unique is going to be entertaining.

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It is the best of times; it is the worst of times, to paraphrase the English literary genius, Charles Dickens. Indeed, weddings can bring out the best and the worst in people, can become the most joyful and the most sorrowful of occasions and can become terribly stressful and horribly distressing that it is no wonder there is a term for the bride of the moment - bridezilla.

You need not, however, become a bridezilla! You can plan your wedding with the least stress but achieve the best results possible, with smiles all around. As they say, make your wedding planning easy-peasy, lemon squeezy.

Plan Early

Unless your wedding is a spur of the moment thing, you should have plenty of time to plan it. You will not be the harried bride hurrying through the details of the wedding! That way it gives you more time to enjoy the feeling of being the pampered future bride, too.

Ask for Help

No matter how hard you try, you cannot do it all. You have to delegate responsibilities to your family, friends and the wedding party. You will be surprised to learn how people would like to help you in any small way.

Stick to the Budget

Your wedding must adhere to a strict budget regardless of outside pressure to do otherwise. Remember that you will be footing the bills for the wedding and therefore you will be the one suffering with debts once the actual expenses exceed the budget! You will be pleasantly surprised how that sobering thought can decrease your stress levels.

De-stress Often

Smell the roses, exercise, read a book, laugh with friends, bond with your fiancé, listen to music, take a nap, and get away from it all. The important point is that you disassociate yourself from the hustle and bustle of planning your wedding, this way you can re-enter it with a fresh mind and a fresh body.

Involve the Groom

In this day and age, the groom must help in planning the wedding; he is, after all, the other half of the wedding stars! You can enlist his help in sending out the invitations, looking for groomsmen and bridesmaid gifts and other tasks that will not give him the heebie-jeebies.

Concentrate on what you can Control

Your stress levels will take a nosedive when you can relinquish control over uncontrollable circumstances. For example, instead of worrying over the weather, why not plan to accommodate it? Or instead of acting referee between long-feuding family members, concentrate on what they will do for you in spite of their mutual hatred.

Focus on the Marriage

Remember this: Your real wedding is a ceremony sanctioned by society as a symbol of your commitment to stay married to each other till death do you part. The most important point in the whole exercise is your marriage. Think about that and surely your stress levels over the tiniest bit of things gone wrong will soon be gone.

Of course, you can always elope. At the very least, you will never worry about selecting the perfect venue and menu, sending out the invitations and entertaining the guests and you will not be the bridezilla everybody loves to hate either.

By: Vincent Norman

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When you are planning your wedding, something important that is often overlooked is the idea of wedding favors. Wedding favors are the small, usually inexpensive gifts that you place next to your guests' plates. They are often small trinkets or tokens that you give to your guests to show your appreciation for them attending your special day. With the right wedding favors, each of your guests can leave your wedding thinking wonderfully about you and truly enjoying the memories of your real wedding.

The very best wedding favors are those which are kept and treasured long after the wedding is over. Therefore, it is important to think about what your wedding favors should be and how you can use them to help you emphasize your theme.

First of all, you have two choices. You can find wedding favors that fit into your theme because of what they are, or you can use wedding favors that can work with any theme, except that they are tailored to your specific day. Both choices are easy for you to do, but both require some planning and set-up.

The first way that you can incorporate wedding favors into your theme is by finding something that is uniquely yours and unique to the theme that you have chosen. This might include using guitar picks if both of you are musicians and you have a musical theme, or packets of seeds if you both love the outdoors and want to have an outdoors theme to your wedding. Some other great ideas include vials of sand from the place where your beach wedding took place or candles if your theme revolves around the flame of love burning for eternity. These are all things that you can incorporate into your wedding theme, and there are ways for you to have wedding favors that fit into these themes quite nicely.

However, this is not the only choice that you have when it comes to your wedding favors. Sometimes, buying things that fit into your theme specifically may cost you more money and it may be more difficult to do than other things. Therefore, something that you might want to consider is to choose wedding favors that fit into any wedding theme, but tailor them specifically to your own wedding.

The easiest of all of these choices would be to use candy as your wedding favor. Many people use small amounts of candy or nuts, and tie them into small sachets. You can use ribbon that matches your wedding theme colors, and then put a small sachet of candy or nuts at each place. These are great favors, and they are inexpensive, and often do not take much time at all. In addition, another idea is to use something cute, like coins for prosperity, or small stones that people can keep forever. Small trinkets like this are often the best way for you to show your guests how much you appreciate them, and how glad you are that they are at the wedding.

Many people like to use small trinkets of appreciation as their wedding favors, and these are things that can be used for any wedding, and can be incorporated into any theme. These include candy, favors like small toys, or even small plants or packets of seeds. All of these things are easy to incorporate into your theme. You can customize the colors that are used for ribbons and wrapping, so that the colors fit into your overall wedding colors. You can also include a small card with the item, which has some information from you. Often couples like to use this as a chance to say thank you and they include a small card that goes along with their wedding favors.

The card is usually used to thank those who attended the ceremony. You can also include a phrase that provides some wisdom or advice. A quote that the couple finds unique or interesting is also a good choice. By including a card with your wedding favors, you are incorporating something that you can make uniquely yours and it can help your guests remember the wedding.

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Wedding plans need to be undertaken with lots of professionalism. Many times, you feel confused because you do not have the basics of what it takes to undertake wedding plans. You can put an end to this confusion by looking for wedding planners. You do not have to hire planners because you can look for tools that will guide you to being a good planner. For example, you will find online tools very useful and convenient. If you really want to make your event unforgettable, get to work and learn all the basics. When planning a wedding, you do not have to do it alone. You need others to help you make the day a big one. However, you need to come together and speak in unison. This is because you will make it if only you work as a team. Once you have put in place your team, it is time to look deeper into the issues that need to be addressed to start planning the big event.

Wedding plans will always begin with budgeting. When you know how much you can spend, you will have a clear idea of the kind of wedding you can have. Many times, having a big sum of money to work with can prove to be very convenient for you. However, you might not always have a lot of money. No money is ever enough so, you have to work with what you have. For example, you can get a wedding gown worth $30,000 while you can use the same amount to cater for all the needs of a wedding. Know where your limits are and work within your means. Many are tempted to get into debts when it comes to real wedding plans. However, instead of looking for more money to enhance your wedding, dedicate your time to looking for tips that will see you make the most out of the little you have. There are so many high budget weddings that do not meet expectations; therefore, it has little to do with money and everything to do with creativity and style.

After you have considered the budget of all aspects, it is time to go into detail to ensure that you know what you really want. Look at your theme ideas and know what will suit you best. The bride and the groom need to decide on the theme that will best represent them. The designs and decor will also follow. The venues or locations of your wedding reception or party will also matter. Look at the style you are willing to work with and make sure that everything is in harmony. When it comes to the wedding dress, the gown needs to reflect the splendor of the atmosphere. The colors will either work for you or ruin your wedding plans. Look for colors that compliment each other. Let them speak to the mood of the wedding. Look for different things that can make your wedding even more unique. Your cake, food and favors can be different and elegant. It is the detail that will constitute the success of your wedding.

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Great organization is the key concept if you wonder how to plan a dream wedding. First of all, the most complex and and most important thing of all is the budget. You really have to have a definite plan in mind when it comes to cost checking. There are plenty of materials available online that will teach you how to plan a dream wedding; I have a lot of links where you'll find lots of tips on how to plan a dream wedding. Let's start by saying that the checklist is a must have item of any wedding planner, without it, something may easily be left out and discovered only at the very last minute. So, let's get to work!

Thus, we start the first part of the learn how to plan a dream wedding project by keeping a budget checklist that keeps you informed on where and what you spend your money on. You may either download a checklist from the Internet or create one of your own. The model I propose for you to learn how to plan a dream wedding includes a comparative representation of the budget and the real price you paid. Make two columns, on one you will have the item budget expressed and on the other the actual cost. This type of scheme will show you where you stand. Here is something more for you to learn how to plan a dream wedding.

The key to finding how to plan a dream wedding lies in answering some very basic questions. What is the overall budget? How many bridesmaids will there be? Where will the wedding take place? And the list of such questions could go on. All this information will bring you closer to the big day. How to plan a dream wedding should no longer be a problem if you turn to professional support, such as special companies that provide reception services. Practically, all the burden of how to plan a dream wedding would be taken off your shoulders, though, you'll be missing some points too.

Discovering how to plan a real wedding may just be the way to feel closer than ever to your partner, your family and friends. After all, they are included in this complex equation. In some cases, besides the regular stuff you find in wedding guides, you may be after some special tinge of originality that nobody can teach you. Therefore, you can learn how to plan a dream wedding by yourself, taking the standard advice as a starting point and going further and using your imagination.

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