How To Optimize Your Wedding For Social Media

There is a lot that goes into planning a wedding - even more that most couples realize. Affianced men and women spend months looking for the perfect dress, the perfect tuxes, the perfect venue, and (of course) the most delicious cake. It is a literal labor of love; after all, when the planning is over they will get to celebrate their love for one another, along with all their family and friends. However, there is one element of wedding planning that until recently had gone unnoticed: social media.

Creating a social media presence for your wedding ceremony may seem like an odd idea at first, but it is an idea that is quickly gaining traction as millennials say “I do.” Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are how we stay connected in the technology age. Documenting your nuptials is a great way to save the memories for posterity, as well as sharing your special day with out-of-town loved ones or others who couldn’t be there “IRL” (in real life).

But how do you make your wedding social media friendly? Here are a few key tips:

Create a Hashtag and Spread the Word

The wedding hashtag is one of the easiest ways to collect all the memories from your wedding. With a hashtag, all the posts, selfies, and well wishes from your friends are gathered in one place online. Trust us, with all those photos at your fingertips, creating a wedding album has never been so easy!

Be sure to choose a unique hashtag early on in the planning process - try to include both your names or your wedding date, and feel free to get creative (puns are always welcome)! Then, get the word out so your guests remember to use the hashtag when they post something on their own accounts. Before you know it, your #weddingday will be a social media success. 

Work with Your Photographer (and Videographer)

There are some who argue that, thanks to smartphones with high-quality cameras, wedding photographers are no longer a necessity. Not true. A photographer has understands what makes a great picture, and he or she has skills that your cousins simply don’t, no matter how nice their iPhone is (sorry cousin Sally).

However, most photographers are happy to work with you and share a few Instagram-ready photos on the big day. Not only will they help you celebrate your wedding, they will help the photographer show off his great work! This goes for videographers too; while they may want to take time to edit and put together a killer wedding video, they may be ok with a digital live stream for those out-of-towners.

Hand Off Your Social Media Obligations

Let’s get real: while social media is a great way to memorialize your wedding day, you have better things to do on the big day than worry about getting the perfect Instagram pic. It’s your wedding day! You should be soaking in the moment, drinking champagne, dancing the night away, and being in love with your new spouse.

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So when it comes to social media, your wedding party can step up to help. Designate one bridesmaid and one groomsman to be “Tweeters of honor” (or whatever name you’d prefer). Give them the task of finding the right photos and posts, so that you can focus on savoring each moment of your wedded bliss. Plus, you can relive that special day later on, when you review those moments your Tweeters of honor captured.

-About the author-

Naomi is a freelance writer from Southern California. She loves writing about home decor and education. When she’s not writing, she loves to spend time with her husband and three children.

Summer Wedding Dresses In Style

Summer may be scorching hot but it's not a reason to deter a couple's vow to get married in style. There are many themes to consider if you decide a summer season wedding. And they are fun, colourful, and definitely stylish!

The bride can choose from the many hues of summer, from bright yellow to bright red or she may want to stay conventional with the usual white formal wedding gown with hints of bright colours for her wedding invitations, bridal entourage, flowers, lights, and favours.

To achieve that summer look,  here are some wedding dresses to choose from to celebrate a love as hot as the summer sun!

Bright and Bold

Summer is not just mercury rising, splashes in the pool, and taking a good tan. Summer is also about colours. It is mostly depicted with warm hues like orange, tangerine, yellow, pale red, and even green and blue.

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Short and Sweet

Summer's temperature can be unrelenting so the bride may choose a short wedding dress to match the hot season. Here are some short wedding dresses that you can find when you check http://www.amandadress.com.au/elegant-formal-dresses-c119099/ .

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The Mismatch

How about giving the rein to your entourage and let them select their own style of bridesmaid gowns while following your colour motif? Won't that be fun?

Photo credit: Robyn Van Dyke from theknot.com

Make it Tropical

You can find beautiful, summery gowns in the internet too as they are teeming with many styles of wedding dresses. You can search for formal dresses online and you will get plenty of yield that will make you want to get married right away! Check the many styles and designs online and see what best fits your theme and preference of style.

Photo credit: www.bridalguide.com

15 Summer Wedding Favours Your Guests Will Love

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Summer is not only for swimming and frolicking in the beach area. Summer is also a perfect season to get married, what with all the sunshine and glorious blue sky as your backdrop; summer is really a good time to hold your wedding.

If you're one of the many people who loves sunshine and loves to hold their wedding on summer, then it will be nice to theme your wedding to something bright, sunny and colourful. Once you have decided that, you can check out these numerous summer wedding favors for your guests to enjoy.

Palm Beach Chic

Here are some favours under the Palm Beach Chic theme wedding favors:

Anchor Love

Here are some of the favours under this lovely sea theme:

Garden Party

If you like what you see, here are some of the favours you may give for the Garden Party themed wedding favors :

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Classy and Affordable Formal Gowns From Gudeer.com

Not everyone gets the chance to wear formal gowns to special occasions and events for many reasons. Some of those can be personal but other common reasons are the comfort factor of wearing them, the practicality of having one stitched, and of course, the budget involved to have one formal gown.

There are many outlets offering rented formal gowns. I do not feel comfortable renting out formal gowns. I would rather own one that I can wear to several formal events. Not only that it will save me money, I am also assured of the quality and cleanliness of my own gown.

You can still own a classy looking formal gown without breaking the bank. You just have to be patient and extra resourceful to find great deals online and in-store. It does not matter what your preference is when buying your own formal gown. You can choose to go online and find online deals and even coupon codes offered by many e-commerce sites or visit a gown boutique to try several outfits of your choice or even buy your own materials and commission it to be sewn by a good dressmaker.

If you decide to buy online, there are many online sites offering affordable and classy gowns that will fit your budget. You may consider www.gudeer.com. It is an online shop specialising on formal wears for the bride and entourage and even accessories, including fashion jewelries, for various special and formal occasions.  You and your entourage can pick your favourites from the site and order. Gudeer.com has rewards feature for fans who purchase from the site. When you register, you can earn 100 points and that 100 is convertible to $5 which you can cash out on check-out. That will be a great way to save up on points!

Gudeer.com also has a wide variety of gowns to choose from. You can select from the many styles, fit, and colours that they offer and all within your budget.

It also ships worldwide to 130+ countries using the using well-known logistics provider so you can be assured of the quality and safety of the delivery of your beautiful gowns and accessories.

So, check out what the site has to offer! Here are some gowns to inspire you and the whole entourage.

Wedding gowns

Bridesmaid gowns

Special occasion gowns

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Beautiful Bridesmaid Gowns Within Your Budget

Always a bridesmaid and never a bride? I hope that's not your regular role in all the weddings you have attended in the past. No matter how many times you have become a bridesmaid, it is always a nice feeling to be able to primp and dress yourself pretty without siphoning all of your life's savings.

Gone are the days when you have to spend a fortune to a bridesmaid's gown that you would wear only once because of the many wedding themes marrying couples have. Some wedding you might have attended in the past had a yellow motif and you had to get something in the yellow bridesmaid dresses category or else you would stick like a sore thumb in the entourage. How many times have you went to a dressmaker for a customised bridesmaid's gown according to the design of the bride? Well, good news, you don't even have to run to a fancy couturier to get your gown stitched with all the bling adornment these days. There are plenty of resources available to get a decent and a good fit to your budget without looking like you tried to penny pinch and compromised with the quality of the dress.

Bridesmaid gowns can now be bought in many ways you can imagine. You can go to a haute couture shop or go to a fine dress store that caters to gowns, you can even rent if you like or search the internet and order online. Yes, the wedding and entourage's gowns and suits business can be ordered online like the sample of beautiful sky blue bridesmaid dress in this site that carries hundreds of varieties of dresses for the bride and the whole entourage.

The internet is teeming with many wedding gown online shops catering to beautiful and surprisingly, affordable wedding, bridesmaids, flower girls and mother of the bride gowns to fit to your style and budget. So, before you head out to the couturier to have your gown stitch, you may want to sit back and browse the internet for the many affordable gowns you can choose that will save you big time.

Beautiful DIY Flowers From Bloominous

I have recently come across a great website that provides easy DIY floral arrangements kits for weddings and events. I wish I had seen this site sooner when my husband's niece got married last July. This site would have been very helpful for the newlyweds and they could have saved some money if I had known this.

It was a different story when I was getting married many years ago. Ideas such as DIY flowers are not known of.  Florists abound and ready-made wedding bouquets were the in-thing. Modern times and the emerging creativity of many young florists gave way to making wedding and events floral arrangements a good learning and also saving experience.

There are plenty of young and artistic brides who turn to DIY to save costs, but the process of researching, purchasing, and arranging the flowers are often the reason to cause stress and more expense for the them. It is a great thing that there are sites like Bloominous that can help brides-to-be and event organizers and planners an alternative option for making the flower arrangements or even their very own DIY wedding flowers.

Hiring the services of these DIY flower shops have great advantages. For example, if one hires the services of Bloominous for any wedding or event, you can expect to find these aspects beneficial: 

1. Big savings

• Event organizers, planners and brides will be able to save from 30% to 50% off their original floral budget 
• The flowers are not marked-up from wedding florists so there is a huge cut on the costs

2. Easy to do

• Most DIY floral services do not send flowers that are already "ready to be put together", but Bloominous' flowers come cut-to-order, de-thorned, and trimmed
• Each kit comes with step-by-step photo instructions for easy assembling within 10 to 20 minutes per piece, as well as flower care products and design tips

3. High quality and very professional looking designs

• All collections featuring specialty flowers are designed by florist with 10+ years of experience in event and floral design
• Bloominuous takes charge in their own designs from the floral arrangements to their site's designs too

This 'DIY flowers from Bloominous experience is something that needs to be noted by people who are tying the knot or event organizers who are planning fabulous events.  Bloominous is making DIY fun, easy, and affordable for anyone who wants to avail their service and product offerings. 

Check out their products/services at http://bloominous.com

June - The Romantic Month for Brides-To-Be

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June has been known the month of wedding. Plenty of couple have opted this month to be their marrying month because of its popularity.  A lot may be scurrying to secure their venues ahead of time. Wedding invitations have been printed along with the other stuff required in a wedding. However, do you actually know why June is famous for marrying people? It can also be attributed to some of these reasons why people tie the knot in June.

Annual Bath

In the olden times, more specifically during the medieval period, people took bath only once a year as they do not consider bathing a necessary activity. The annual bathing usually occurs end of May to the first few days of June. A lot of people considered tying the knot in June as they still smell clean.

Juno, The Roman Goddess of Marriage

People chose to honor Juno, the Goddess of Marriage and decided to marry in the month of June, thus naming June after the goddess.

June Harvests

Many believed that if people marry in the month of June which coincides to the harvest time, the newlyweds will be blessed with good fortune and they also believed that they will have abundant harvest throughout summer to nourish and sustain a pregnancy.

June Blooms

A myriad of flowering plants are in bloom in June.  Couples take advantage of that because of practicality sake as well as flowers tend to be cheaper in June. Moreover, the place smells very nice because of the blooms everywhere, adding more drama and effect to an already romantic event.


So, if you are one of those who are planning to marry in the month of June without knowing why it is so popular, now you know why.