Wedding Planner0It's your big day: you're about marry the person you're planning to spend the rest of your life with, and you don't want to mess it up from the get-go.

While it's understandable that you'd prefer to do everything yourself (with the help of your Mom, sisters, and grandmothers, of course), sometimes that just isn't an option.

You've got to deal with everything from finding that perfect wedding dress for yourself to hunting up some matching ugly dresses for your bridesmaids (to set off your lovely dress), not to mention things like ordering the wedding cake, signing and sending off the wedding invitations, borrowing something blue.

And all the other thousands of little things that come with getting married. Studies have shown that the average wedding takes a full 250 hours of planning.

If it's all a bit much and you can afford the cost, consider hiring a wedding planner instead. While they're expensive, you just might find that their services are the best thing you've ever purchased.

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My friend Leeanne got engaged to her boyfriend at Christmas. Wedding plans are already underway. Leeanne told me her husband-to-be suggested they throw a destination wedding.

I was immediately excited to have a good excuse to take off for the tropics, but, Leeanne was concerned the cost of getting to the destination would prevent some guests from showing up on her big day.

Despite her concerns, destination weddings are all the rage, says industry expert Rebecca Grinnals of Engaging Concepts in Florida. "While the industry was bracing for the worst, the opposite occurred.

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It is important to show respect for your families: that's why you should try to incorporate ethnic traditions, always keeping in mind that it's your wedding, not those of your families.

If you belong to different cultures, try to make your wedding a blend of customs.Here's a list of the main wedding traditions around the world:

African American broom jumping. This custom dates back to the 19th century slave weddings in the United States.

Slaves marriages were not legally binding even half a minister conducted the ceremony. Many couples chose to jump over a broom together to symbolize the beginning of married life.

A broom represents the home in certain parts of Africa. Some believed that whoever jumped higher or cleared the handle first would rule the roost.

Chinese red. In China, the color red represents Locke enjoy. Chinese and Chinese and American couples try to incorporate red into.

Their wedding decorations with red candles, wedding favors, napkins, and tablecloths. The guests often present the couple with jewelry or money in red envelopes.

The bride may change into several different dresses throughout the ceremony and reception, the last one usually read.

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Leading bridal wear and bridesmaid dress supplier, Vponsale, have a range of beautiful coloured and themed bridesmaid dresses to suit any style wedding.

We all know that different colours can represent different moods, now thanks to http://www.vponsale.com/bridesmaid-dresses/you can find the perfect coloured bridesmaid dress to match the theme for almost any wedding.

No matter what the theme or mood for the forthcoming wedding, Vponsale have a range of beautifully coloured bridesmaid dresses that can suit the style, mood or setting for almost any wedding.

From their 'hot' selling blue bridesmaid dress, ideal to set the mood for that winter wedding – the stylish blue and white bridesmaid dress from their harmonious collocation -or the stylish indigo chiffon bridesmaid dress, perfect for that classic elegant wedding.

With a vast array of pictures showing off their beautiful made-to-measure dresses on their website:  - finding the perfect bridesmaid dresses for your wedding couldn’t be simpler - especially as Vponsale has a full colour swatch to ensure you can find the exact colour to match the theme or mood of your wedding.

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Wrapped fabric at the bust and a slight sweetheart neckline draw attention to the middle of the gown, where the cinched center flows into a beautiful basque waist. The frothy, flared skirt trails into layers of poufy fabric for an ultra-luxe look.

A dramatic sweetheart neckline and big bow at the waist add especially romantic, eye-catching details to this wedding gown. Meanwhile, the skirt is simple and straight, featuring a very slight flare as it reaches the floor. 

By the time she was through with it, Elizabeth Stimac's wedding gown had been dragged through a junk yard, slopped through mud puddles, shredded at the knee and finally, laid to rest in a trash barrel. Not many women choose such a fate for the dress they dreamt of since childhood or spent hundreds - maybe thousands - of dollars on, but the days of saving your wedding gown for your daughter's wedding are virtually gone.

So you spent a wad of cash on it and wore it for a few hours - now what? The answer lies in what your dress represents to you. For Stimac, whose husband left her about a month after their first anniversary, the dress was a heaping pile of bad memories. So when she heard about local photographer Deanna Flora who had done 'Trash the Dress' photo shoots with other divorcees, the psychology graduate student decided to do a little self therapy.

"It felt empowering to do it," she said. "The way that everything happened, I just felt kind of abandoned, and this was one of the more formal ways to get some of that back." Stimac's choice might not fit the bill for every bride. If your goal is to at least retain some part of your wedding gown, there are plenty of options to consider:

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Many brides begin their wedding planning process by flipping through bridal magazines and searching for images and ideas that will fit into their dream wedding.

Though some wedding traditions – something old, something new, for example – are pretty constant, the wedding industry is constantly changing and evolving.

The Toldeo Free Press recently asked experts to compile a list of wedding trends that will be popular in 2010. Brides-to-be can gain inspiration from and make room in their wedding budgets for these right-this-minute wedding details.

The news source reports that red dresses (for the bridal party) and red accents in wedding decorations will be very popular in the coming wedding season.

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Is Geri Halliwell preparing to marry her toyboy Henry Beckwith? If recent behaviour is any indication, it would appear so. Plus, her close friend Kenny Goss – longtime partner of Geroge Michael – may have spilled the beans.  Geri and Kenny recently popped into Geri's local parish church at St John-at-Hampstead to see the vicar for an hour, according to The Sun.

They then headed to swish Mayfair tailor Thom Sweeney, where Kenny was asked which of the two of them should be congratulated.  He immediately pointed at Geri, before catching himself and saying: "Er, I mean both of us."  A last stop at Aubin & Wills saw Geri buying some red knickers, before the pair headed off.

"Kenny and Geri seemed to spend the day making wedding arrangements," an eyewitness said. "They were in the church for ages before looking at formal dress at the tailors. Geri was giggling and seemed really excited."  "She wouldn't say what they were doing, but Kenny let the cat out of the bag."  Geri and Henry, who is the son of property developer Sir John Beckwith, have been together since April 2009.