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Text Box: Helpful Hint for Keeping Everyone Informed about Your Wedding Set up a wedding website for guests, as well as your wedding party, to keep everyone informed about the planning progress. Post photos of shopping trips, engagement parties, bridal showers, etc., complete with descriptive captions, to help your guests feel more involved and create anticipation for your event. You can also post maps, directions and hotel and local restaurant information for your out-of-town guests, to make their stay more enjoyable while attending your wedding.

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Stress-Free Weddings

The Super-Bride’s Guide for Dodging Wedding Pitfalls offers practical tips to help reduce wedding-planning stress, avoid common wedding pitfalls and keep your wedding on track. This book includes a plan to get organized, budget-setting advice, money-saving tips, helpful hints and fun ideas for invitations, table centerpieces, theme weddings and guest favors to make your wedding unique. It’s the perfect solution for busy brides on a limited budget! Size: 5.5” X 8.5”, Paperback, 98 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9790618-4-4. $7.95 Also Available as an E-Book $5.95

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Money Saving Tips for Wedding Cakes from

The Super-Bride’s Guide for Dodging Wedding Pitfalls

· If you’re having a very small wedding, but want a tiered wedding cake, ask the baker to add a fake layer at the base of your cake. You get a more impressive looking cake without the expense of more cake than you need.

· If you are having a very large wedding, order a cake smaller than you need to save money on decorating costs. Have the baker make sheet cakes, which can be cut in the kitchen and brought to the serving table.

· Use fresh flowers to decorate your cake instead of paying for elaborate icing decorations. (Make sure they are pesticide-free. Most flowers from florists are not.)

Text Box: Fun Idea for Wedding Favors From The Super-Bride’s Guide For Dodging Wedding Pitfalls Make your own party crackers for wedding guest favors. Cut a 5” square of poster board, roll it into a tube, overlapping the ends 1/4” and tape together. Wrap it with colorful wrapping paper which extends at least 3” beyond the tube on each end. Gather the wrapping paper close to one end of the tube and tie with ribbon to secure.

Text Box: Helpful Hint for Mailing Wedding Invitations From The Super-Bride’s Guide For Dodging Wedding Pitfalls A very important detail to consider before dropping your wedding invitations in the mailbox is correct postage. Not all invitations are created equal in the weight department. Some weigh more than one ounce; therefore, one first-class postage stamp will not suffice. After assembling the invitations, complete with all enclosures, take one to the post office and have it weighed to determine the exact amount of postage required. This will ensure that your invitations aren’t returned to you by the post office one week before your wedding. Now that’s a wedding pitfall you definitely want to avoid!

Text Box: Wedding Potpourri from The Super-Bride’s Guide For Dodging Wedding Pitfalls

Use “floriography” (the language of flowers and herbs) to make wedding potpourri. Create a blend of herbs or flowers to express your feelings, such as: lavender for devotion, marjoram for joy, chamomile for patience, rosemary for remembrance, sage for wisdom and rosebuds for love.

Give each guest a small bag of the potpourri to toss when you and the groom leave the reception. You can attach a tag to each bag that says: “This wedding potpourri contains lavender for devotion, marjoram for joy, etc.”

Wedding Potpourri Recipe from Lavender Sensations

Blend together 1 cup of dried lavender buds, 1-1/2 cups dried rose petals, 1 cup dried chamomile flowers, 1/2 cup dried rosemary, 1/2 cup dried marjoram, and 1/2 cup dried sage leaves. Place about 2 tablespoons into a 3”X4” organza draw-string bag to make toss bags for guests. Need a mail-order source or ordering dried herbs for your potpourri? Try San Francisco Herb Co.: www.sfherb.com

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Text Box: Helpful Hints For the Day of the Wedding From The Super-Bride’s Guide For Dodging Wedding Pitfalls The most important thing to remember on your wedding day is to relax, slow down and enjoy every moment of it. The hours in this day will fly by like minutes, so make sure you don’t miss any of the joy they hold for you. You’ve done everything you can to prepare up to this point, so consider the following suggestions and let the fun begin. Don’t get so busy on the day of the wedding that you forget to eat. You don’t want to faint at the altar from too much stress, combined with a low blood sugar level. A light meal shortly before you head for the ceremony is a good plan, especially since you might not have time to eat during the reception. Ask for help. Not everyone can afford the services of a wedding consultant, but that doesn’t mean you have to handle all the wedding day tasks yourself. You want to enjoy yourself on this special day, so recruit assistants for decorating, distributing flowers, setting up the buffet, serving cake and beverages, manning the guest book, announcing reception events, etc. Delegate! When choosing a hairstyle for your wedding day, don’t go overboard with an outrageous “do” that makes you feel self-conscious. The same rule applies for your make-up. You want to look natural and feel like yourself. Take an emergency kit with you to your wedding. Include extra panty hose, antacids, headache medicine and sewing kit (a needle, scissors and white and black thread for last minute repairs). Also helpful are tape, bobby pins, safety pins, rubber bands, band-aids, feminine products, hair spray, comb and brush. Try to relax and enjoy your wedding. Don’t morph into the dreaded “bridezilla” if things don’t go exactly as planned. You’ll want to take fond memories of this day into your marriage. A wedding is, after all, just a very short ceremony followed by a great big party.

Fill the tube with a few individually wrapped pieces of candy then gather the wrapping paper at the open end and tie with ribbon. Place the favors in a large basket or write the guests’ names on the crackers using a paint pen and place them on the guest tables. They can do double duty as place markers.

These party crackers are also a fun way to deliver your wedding invitations. Print your invitation on parchment paper, roll up and tuck inside the cracker. Place each cracker in a box and mail to your guests.

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