How to Significantly Lower Your Wedding Flower Costs
When planning a wedding, it is vital to keep in mind that approximately 5-10% of the budget may be consumed by floral costs. Whether your budget is $5000 or $15,000, this percentage is a significant amount considering all of the other things that are battling over your hard earned dollars (or, your parents' hard earned dollars!) Although the thought of spending so much on an element of your wedding that may not last past the day itself may depress you, flowers add the power of elegance and richness to your event. "So, what do I do?" is a question that I have been asked. The answer is quite simple; you must find ways to cuts costs and maintain the same desired effect. What most do not find simple is discovering ways to cut the costs.
Well, here are a few tried and true ways that will allow you to incorporate one of nature's most glorious creations without breaking the bank. 1) One word?SILK! Silk flowers today appear to be so life-like, that I have actually had to touch and smell a bouquet just to be sure! They come is huge variations of blooms and colors. You are most certain to find silk flowers in exactly the same bloom and color you desire for actual flowers at a fraction of the costs. 2) Purchase flowers that are in season at the time of your wedding. The prices and choices available may vary across the country, but, the guide below is general and may apply in most states.
Summer BloomsLiliesAstersStraw FlowersStephanotisWinter BloomsHollyPoinsettiasFall BloomsSunflowersOrange BlossomsSpring/Summer BloomsCalla LiliesFreesiaMagnoliasLily of the ValleyAnnual BloomsBaby's BreathGerbera DaisiesDaisiesFreesiaCarnationsSpring BloomsLilacsTulipsVioletsIrises3) Use decorations that do not require flowers. With a little bit of creativity and compromising, you can create gorgeous centerpieces that are not floral at all. Candles have made some of the best centerpieces I have seen yet. One idea is to place pillar candles in hurricane lamps of varying sizes and place tulle and glitter/confetti around the setting. Candles can create a romantic ambience and will cast a warm, peachy glow on the smiling faces of your guests!.
Candice Barrigher is a Home Entertaining expert, as well as a Certified Bridal Consultant. She has been assisting clients offline for 4 years now and has decided to take her presence on the web in August. The web presence of UniqueEntertaining will contain a plethora of entertaining tips, ideas, advice and many wonderful items that will allow clients to have beautiful and memorable events. She can be reached at Candice@food-and-wine-party-ideas.comHawaiian Wedding Shirts
They have become an international symbol of Hawaii.
Typically made of either cotton or silk, Hawaiian shirts are more than a trend; in fact, they have been popular for decades.
Hawaiian shirts have become so popular through the years that many couples decide that Hawaiian shirts would appropriate attire for their wedding. This is even truer for couples choosing to marry on the beach -- especially a Hawaiian beach.
Hawaii has many local merchants that sell matching Hawaiian wedding shirts for the bridal party and the groom. Couples can usually purchase wedding dresses for the bride and her attendants in matching material as well. For events as special as weddings, the finest materials and designs are used for the shirts.
Although they can be purchased in 100-percent cotton, many couples choose to purchase Hawaiian wedding shirts in heavy silk. Real coconut buttons add even more authenticity to the shirts.
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YoYo Ma?s Silk Road Project
YoYo Ma's Silk Road ProjectRead Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.comTo read this entire feature FREE with photos cut and paste this link:http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/classic/vegas/silk/silk.htmlhoa. Few places, especially any as vaguely defined as "The Silk Road," are as steeped in picturesque myth as this collection of ancient trade routes from the Far East to Europe. Dusty trails, smelly camels, dangerous bandits, treacherous mountain passes - it just doesn't get any better than this.I love music that evokes visions of places, and I have long enjoyed Alexander Borodin's marvelous "In the Steppes of Central Asia" for its European-oriented musical image of the route. Now, with the Silk Road Project (www.silkroadproject.org), cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his ensemble give us the Asian translation, which is closer to the source. The Project, on tour with an eclectic mix of musicians from East and West, performed a collection of new and traditional works from...
YoYo Ma?s Silk Road Project
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YoYo Ma?s Silk Road Project
YoYo Ma's Silk Road ProjectRead Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.comTo read this entire feature FREE with photos cut and paste this link:http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/classic/vegas/silk/silk.htmlhoa. Few places, especially any as vaguely defined as "The Silk Road," are as steeped in picturesque myth as this collection of ancient trade routes from the Far East to Europe. Dusty trails, smelly camels, dangerous bandits, treacherous mountain passes - it just doesn't get any better than this.I love music that evokes visions of places, and I have long enjoyed Alexander Borodin's marvelous "In the Steppes of Central Asia" for its European-oriented musical image of the route. Now, with the Silk Road Project (www.silkroadproject.org), cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his ensemble give us the Asian translation, which is closer to the source. The Project, on tour with an eclectic mix of musicians from East and West, performed a collection of new and traditional works from...
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History Of Mulberry Trees, ?Morus Alba,? ?Morus Rubrum,? And ?Morus Nigra?
Mulberry trees were well known in the ancient civilizations of the world. They were famous fruit trees, because of the delicious berry fruits that were abundantly produced by fast growing trees-loaded with huge green leaves that were eaten by livestock, along with the berries, and the leaves were used in the Orient to fatten silkworms for the silk trade. General Oglethorpe, in 1733, imported 500 white mulberry trees to Fort Frederica in Georgia to encourage silk production at the English colony of Georgia.
William Bartram, the famous early American explorer and botanist, described his encounter with mulberry trees near Mobile, Alabama, in his book, Travels, in the year 1773.
Prince's Nursery in 1774 offered for sale 500 white mulberry trees, ?Morus alba' and 1000 black mulberry trees, ?Morus nigra,' at Flushing, New York. Documents show that America's first President, George Washington, bought fruit from this nursery.
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Screen Press Printing: Looking at the process
Screen printing also called silk screen print also called serigraph was invented in the Far East around 2000 years ago. No supplemented data on when or where exactly it originates, but originally used to make the screen printer's screen. A paper stencil was stiched onto the screen to control the print area. Around a hundred years ago screen printing was reinvented in the west and it has become a common method of printing on textiles. Most common, the custom t-shirts.
The screens used for screen printing custom t shirts, are made with a mono filament mesh. Photopolymer emulsion is used to make the stencil. Thus, silk screen is coated with the liquid emulsion, and allowed to dry and harden. The emulsion is light sensitive. The stencil is made in the "silk screen" by placing a positive of the print over the coated silk screen then exposing the screen to light.
The areas of the screen shielded from the light remain water soluble and can be washed out of the screen. The light...
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New Appointments at Accor Hotels in China
BANGKOK, Thailand (ContentDesk) May 25, 2006 -- Accor Asia Pacific is pleased to announce the following appointments to hotels in China.Gerhard Zimmer has been promoted to General Manager Delegate Beijing of Sofitel Wanda Beijing (http://www.accorhotels-asia.com/sofitel/index.asp?WT.mc_id=50006), and will be based at the pre-opening office until it opens in 2007.Gerhard joined Accor in 1992 with the...
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