The grandparents in this video are so amusing, charming and very genuine . Enjoy!
Funniest Wedding Toast
10 Things You Should Never Say To Your Stationer
Today I wanted to share with you an article that is so well-written and answers many of the questions I get asked frequently. It was written by the owner of Lion In The Sun Paperie in Park Slope, Brooklyn and appeared in The Huffington Post Weddings section on April 20, 2012.
In my opinion it’s an important read for anyone looking to make a stationery/invitation purchase. Here are the highlights but please follow the link to read the article in full here.
10 Things You Should Never Say To Your Stationer
1. ”They are just going to end up in the garbage anyway”
2. ”It’s only paper, why is it so expensive?”
3. ”I could do that myself on my home computer and print it.”
4. ”Can you just make me one and I can just photocopy or email a scan of it to everyone?”
5. ”I know I approved the proof, but we changed the time of the wedding.”
6. ”But we only need eight more invitations.”
7. ”I left the invitations in the trunk of my car and then went to the car wash” or “We were drinking red wine while assembling the invitations…”
8. “We’ve addressed all our envelopes already, but I mail-merged the guest list incorrectly and all the zip codes are incorrect, what do you mean you don’t check each of our guests’ zip codes for us?”
9. ”I sealed the envelopes and I realized I forgot to stamp the reply cards” or “We just used regular postage and dropped them in the mailbox on the street.”
10. ”We would like to put ‘monetary gift only’ on the invitation.”
Wedding Wine Guide
Primer for Buying Wine
An easy manual for making one part of your own special day forgettable
No, we’re not encouraging you to serve cheap tasting wine to your guests. We’re providing you with an easy guide that will make selecting your wines an easy task. One you can quickly check off from your to-do list. So relax, pour a glass of wine and browse through these tips for a successful celebration. Make your choices and forget about it!
Where Do I Begin?
Start out planning to stock one white and one red, plus a sparkling for the toast.
How Much Should I Plan to Buy?
Typically, the rule is two glasses of wine per person one glass of sparkling wine for the toast and additionally a glass of wine per hour after the first three hours.
Generally servings of sparkling wine are less than when serving red or white wine. You can plan on getting 8 glasses from sparkling wine and typically six glasses from a bottle of red or white wine.
How Do I Calculate What I’ll Need?
Let’s use a round number. {It’s easier that way} Round your number up or down accordingly. We’ll go with 20 guests.
Remember you can expect to get 8 glasses from a bottle of sparkling wine and 6 from the table wine.
Let’s start with sparkling wine used for the toast:
20 guests x 1 glass per person = 20 glasses/8 glasses per bottle = 3 bottles
Now let’s calculate the table wine:
20 guests x 2 glasses per person = 40 glasses/6 glasses per bottle = 7 bottles
Plan to purchase 3 bottles of sparkling, 7 red and 7 white bottles of wine.
Do Your Friends Like to Drink?
You’ll need to take this into consideration. The younger the crowd the more alcohol is consumed. If this is the case consider bumping up the minimum:
Sparkling wine:
(20 people x 2 glasses per person = 40 glasses/8 glasses per bottle = 5 bottles)
Table wine
(20 people x 3 glasses per person = 60 glasses/6 glasses per bottle = 10 bottles)
Using this revised formula plan to purchase 5 bottles of sparkling, 10 red and 10 white bottles of wine.
But What About The Other Alcohol?
An open bar is important in factoring how much wine you’ll need for your party. That earlier figure could very well drop by more than half. On the other hand, if you’re only serving beer, wine and champagne and you have bunch of drinkers, that figure could increase by 25% to 50%.
How Do I Account for the Open Bar?
For an open bar you might want to include .75 glasses per hour as the consumption rate. If you’re party will last longer than the initially calculated three hours consider this as well. Let’s bump up the party duration to five hours. You’ll need an extra 5 bottles added to the total calculated above. This would bring your total to 10 bottles of table wine.
Your formula would look like this:
(20 people x 2 extra hours x .75 glasses per person = 30 glasses/ 6 glasses per bottle = 5 extra bottles)
If you’re not having an open bar but serving a thirsty crowd consider using 1.25 glasses per hour as your consumption rate. You’ll need an extra eight bottles added to the total calculated. This would bring your total to eighteen bottles of table wine.
Your formula would look like this:
(20 people x 2 extra hours x 1.25 glasses per person = 50 glasses/ 6 glasses per bottle = 8 extra bottles)
Remember, all you need to figure out how much wine to buy is a basic math formula and calculated guesses.
{Blunders to Steer Clear Of} Offering to Cover Wedding Related Expenses
We’re back today with a continuation of our series on: Blunders to Steer Clear of After Getting Engaged.
Today we evaluate a mistake that is huge. Staying within your wedding budget is difficult enough. If a bridesmaid agrees to be in your bridal party make sure you don’t assume she understands what her responsibilities are.
This may be her first time participating in a wedding. She may accept your invitation if she is under the impression that you are covering her costs.
Don’t Go There
Don’t offer to pay for something you can’t afford. You may have the very best motives but you have your own budget to consider. Being asked to be a part of the wedding party is an honor. Be clear about your expectations and her level of commitment. Lay out what her responsibilities are as your bridesmaid.
Money talks are a somewhat complicated subject to address. Talk to her and be honest. Let her know she’s one of your top choices but you understand if she has other commitments that make it difficult for her to take part.
While you may not be obligated to pay, you should be considerate of how your decisions will affect your bridal party. At the very least, make their financial obligations clear as soon as possible and try to make choices that don’t place too much burden on them.
{Blunders to Steer Clear Of} Are You Leaving Him Out?
A continuation of our series: Blunders To Steer Clear Of After Getting Engaged
Mistake #3 – Leaving Your Groom Out of the Planning Process
Get Your Groom Involved in the Wedding Planning
The days of solo wedding planning are behind us. Not only are mothers and daughters concerned with the wedding plans but so are many of modern-day grooms. Don’t assume he doesn’t want to help. Get him involved. Don’t leave him out. After all, it’s important for both of you to feel connected to this process.
If you’re one of the fortunate brides whose groom wants to be involved in every decision then consider yourself lucky. Give him his list and treat yourself to a day at the spa.
If you’d like more input then consider these tips.
Let Him Choose
Right at the very start of the planning stages, find out which parts of the planning he wants to be in charge of. This will allow him to choose what interests him (like finding the right DJ over selecting wedding favors).
Narrow Down His Choices
Yes, I’ll say it. Men have short attention spans. Once you’ve narrowed it down give him a short list of options for each stage of the planning process. Get his opinion from these lists. Keep your wedding planning conversations with him brief. An hour of debating lavender and gray or hot pink and teal will have his eyes glazing over.
His Ideas Count
You wanted him involved, so be prepared when he gives you an honest opinion. Let him know his suggestions matter and are important to you. Marriage requires compromise. Be willing to listen and don’t reject his opinions.
Good Negotiator?
Let him take on some of the vendors. Let him choose the ones that appeal to him. He may be interested in finding the right DJ, even setting up wedding day transportation. Ask him to work out the prices with vendors, and see what kinds of “extras” he can manage to get included in your packages.
Honeymoon Planning
Your guy probably already has a plan for your honeymoon. Almost all grooms are eager to have a direct say in this part of the wedding planning. So, make a few suggestions but let him come up with options for that too.
Make it easy for him to participate. In wedding planning, no task is unimportant. Keep things organized in a way both of you can easily make decisions.
You never know, maybe he’ll even blow your socks off by throwing you a few wedding planning tips.
What to Think About When Deciding on Wine For Your Wedding Reception
Wine has long been offered at wedding receptions ever since the start of time. Nonetheless, sampling as well as picking out your wine for your own personal wedding and reception is surely a significant as well as tricky task. While organizing a wedding and reception or just about any important significant celebration, paying attention to the particulars tends to make the main difference in just how unforgettable your “special ” moment will be to you as well as your family and friends.
Deciding on your wine is without a doubt an essential element-a detail that shouldn’t be neglected. Tastings with caterers as well bakers for your wedding cake are all done well in advance to select what will be served, why then would you not pair the wines ahead of time, as well? Don’t risk it, decide early on. There are also many other things to consider when buying and selecting the wine to serve at your wedding reception.
Your Guests
Exactly what wines do you really enjoy? Think about your family and friends? Do they like red, white, sparkling, or a dessert wine? Will the attendees like 1 or 2 truly impressive glasses of wine to drink while they mingle. Or perhaps, it might be wines are not really important to any of your guests?
Time of Day
Will you be having an evening or an afternoon ceremony? Many people may possibly consume a little bit less during a daytime wedding compared to an evening ceremony. (drink more than a glass of wine in the afternoon, and you may be ready to go to bed even though the party is not nearly over)
Menu
Think about the food you are serving. Are you trying to pair the wine with the food? A beef entrée will probably be best paired with a red. A chicken or pasta entrée will probably be best paired with a white.
Time of Year
Is the wedding reception planned for the middle of the summer months or the winter season? That could very well matter to just what you select and offer your guests-are you trying to warm them up or cool them off?
What’s Your Budget?
Given that a lot of people don’t expect to have a limitless budget allowed to shell out on vino, you’ll definitely want to think about the price tag. There could possibly be room to make a deal on the wine purchase up-front in a package deal. As you are planning to shell out hard-earned cash on a wedding, you might possibly make a deal on your purchase when you’re planning to bring in a particular wine. It’s worth a try!
Glasses
Amazingly, pouring wines into a wine glass designed for that specific wine type can certainly make a difference in the taste as well. Quite a few wedding reception venues might not have varied wine glasses intended for different kinds of wines, however it’s well worth inquiring. If not, that will definitely be an expense to consider as well.
What to Serve for the Toast?
Probably one of the most unforgettable memories from a wedding reception is definitely the toast. The most expensive bubbly is Champagne, but that does not necessarily mean it is the best. You don’t have to serve Champagne for the toast. 
What about it’s cheaper or just as cheery cousins, sparkling wines. They offer a serious bang for the buck and it’s every bit as festive as Champagne and hey, if you’re worried your guests will feel slighted, pour it in another room and come out bearing a festive tray of pre-filled glasses. Chances are they’ll never know the difference and if they do judge you – well, that’s just bad manners on their part.
{Blunders to Steer Clear Of} Wedding Overload
Today we’re back with a continuation of our series, Blunders To Steer Clear Of After Getting Engaged
Mistake number two: – Taking On Too Much, Too Fast
Hooray, it’s happened! He proposed, you said Yes! You get to start planning the wedding of your dreams.
Pull out that dream wedding album you started when you were a little girl. You documented your ideas, designs and dreams for your big day in one little book that you’ve kept tucked under your bed since then. You’ve most likely hit the ground running and you want the whole world to know you’re engaged! You obsessively search blogs, magazines and Google things for your wedding until your brain feels like it’s going to explode!
Continue reading “{Blunders to Steer Clear Of} Wedding Overload”
Blunders To Steer Clear Of After Getting Engaged
Today is our first in a series. We’ll be talking about avoiding some common mistakes newly engaged couples tend to make.
If you’ve recently gotten engaged, congratulations! 
As you’re fresh off of your big engagement news and made the choice to get married, it’s fairly certain that you’ll be fired up and psyched about the actual marriage proposal. After all, it’s an occasion that you both will remember (and re-tell your story of getting engaged) for the rest of your lives — as well as one that you’ve probably been fantasizing about since you watched your first Disney princess movie. You know you’ve looked forward to your wedding day since you were a little girl playing dress-up and practicing your walk down the aisle. In a nutshell: You’ll be deliriously happy, purely for the proposal itself, but don’t let your nerves lead you to make one of these all-too-common marriage proposal mistakes. Loosen-up and chill out. Take a moment to relish in this wonderful time in your lives. Relax and read about some common mistakes recently engaged couples make so that you can avoid them as you plan for your perfect wedding. Doing so will help you limit your tension, irritation and frustration as you prepare for your own special day.
Mistake number one: Wedding Guest Drama
Now, you really don’t want to start off inviting everybody you know to your big event. As soon as you do, you really have no way to tactfully un-invite them. You also must be aware of how many people your groom and his family will want to invite for their side of the guest list. Unless you are made of money you will most likely not be inviting everyone you, your fiancé, your parents and your fiancé’s parents have ever known or ever will know to your wedding. You may not have any real concrete plans or thoughts to what your wedding style or budget are just yet, or how considerable the expenses could be. You might be thinking that your wedding should be a big bash that the whole town will want to attend but your “honey” may have a different idea of what the wedding should be. While you may have dreams of a “Rock Star” (i.e. mega bucks) style wedding, he may have more of an intimate(i.e. less costly) wedding. Your budget will help to shape up your guest list and determine the number of invited wedding guests and sad to say, you are bound to let down someone. Do your very best to invite those closest to you and your fiancé. Parents, as a courtesy should have a say too, most definitely if they are helping to pay for the wedding. Be willing to work it out and make a deal but know that it is YOUR wedding So, keep away from making any promises. Just until you both agree on a wedding and reception spending plan. You will be grateful you did!
Next week we’ll be back and talk about avoiding WEDDING OVERLOAD – taking on too much, too fast.