Before, During and After The Wedding

One of the way to celebrate one’s ending celibate life is through having a bridal shower. The shower will be fun and just for close friends or family. There will be lots of fun as there will be an only girls party.

What is needed at a bridal shower really depends on the organizer, whoever that may be. A bridal shower that is more extensive and extravagant will need more supplies and props than the simple get-together party with just a few drinks.

You can choose make formal or informal invitation to your bridal shower. Informal ones include inviting just with words. Another meaning to this is using informal invitation such as cards that depicts humorous messages and illustration. For these cards, animation can also be used. For a formal invitation, the one where you invite more people, you can use cards that are more traditional depicting images of romantic wedding and messages.

Aside from invitations, other bridal shower supplies are decorations, dining utensils and even bridal shower favors. Just like the wedding, the bridal shower can also be themed - preferably in line with the wedding theme. Decorations include party banners, hats, tendrils, balloons and flowers. Having matching and customized diningware is not compulsory for all bridal showers. However, if this is a chosen path, their designs can always match the ones on the invitations so the theme can be retained.

Bridal shower decorations consist of balloons, flowers, banners, tablecloth and other paraphernalia needed to decorate the venue. For sanity of occasion, it is best to have matching colors for a more uniformed and tidy appearance. Customized balloons can also be ordered for the party, imprinted with appropriate phrases like "She’s Getting Married!" and other equally impetuous sayings.

Normally, favors are optional for a bridal shower. These are given if you have budget allocated for them. If you want to give them out anyways, you can consider decorative stuffs like buttons, coasters, mobile danglers and table runners. Notice that these items are not associated with weddings. They are therefore given for the sake of the party itself. It will make your guests appreciate the party more.

A couple’s 60th wedding anniversary is indeed an event to celebrate. This very momentous celebration is also dubbed The Diamond Jubilee and became popular after Queen Victoria celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary. As per its name, the diamond is traditionally the wedding anniversary gift for this event for various reasons - the main reason being the meaning behind the word "diamond". In Greek, its root word means enduring and unconquerable, which would describe the love shared by a couple celebrating their 60th anniversary. Other reasons include the belief that the fire that helps produce the diamond reflects the fire in the love shared by two people in love with each other.

60th anniversary gifts are typically anything that includes diamonds. As this is not an event that is celebrated often, it may be worth it to pool for a gift that has diamonds to commemorate the occasion. Anything that consists of a diamond like a pendant, bracelet, cuff links, tiepins, necklace, photo frames or even pen set will be appropriate. The official 60th wedding anniversary color is diamond white so anything in that shade will be fine as well, including flower arrangements and bouquets. In fact, a bouquet of sixty (or as many as possible) different white flowers will make for a lovely present.

A picture montage of the family tree would make a great gift for the couple. They will be able to see all the great things that had been going on since the beginning of their marriage. Special moments and occasions can be highlighted and the couple as the leading people in the pictures. Beautiful memoirs that will bring everyone to tears. They can also go on a ‘honeymoon’ at a beautiful resort. Don’t look for places that are way too extravagant or ‘exciting’. A dinner at a posh restaurant is also a great gift. They should have all the celebratory things like singing waiters and cup cakes design in a diamond shape.

In western weddings, to show a couples’ commitment to one another and their marriage, they light up wedding unity candles. These candles do more than just symbolizing marriage pledge; they can also be given away as wedding favors.

Naturally, unity candle sets come in threes, consisting two smaller candles and one big one, and are commonly white or ivory-colored. Other unity candles may be some other pastel hues. Candles can be engraved with bridal couple’s names or meaningful, significant phrases such as "Forever" or "Love Always". However, there are unity candle sets stamped with more unconventional and potentially comical phrases like "Finally Married (date)". These make terrific wedding souvenirs as they can be displayed over and over again at every anniversary that follows.

Unity candles can be or without candles. The shapes of the candles are in a variety form. The designs vary from the easiest to the complex shape. The common ones are heart shaped, circular, ring shaped and cross shaped. The unity candles may be placed flat on the table or placed on a holder. They can also be given a floating effect by having them put on transparent holders made from glass.