Friday 27 November 2009

Way to make the bride snap: Groom orders two-foot wedding cake in the shape of an ALLIGATOR


The stress of organising your big day is enough to make any bride anxious.

However, if your husband-to-be ordered this for your wedding cake, you’d be forgiven for snapping at him.

But that’s exactly the situation one American woman found herself in, when her football-mad fiancé asked EB Cakes for a homage to his favourite team, the Florida Gators.

The alligator, the team's emblem, is more than two-foot long and is holding ‘The Swamp’ which is the name of the team’s stadium.

The bride and groom are placed on top – both wearing Florida Gators’ kits – along with three teamplayers, including quarterback Tim Tebow.

However, for what could arguably be described as the ugliest wedding cake in the world, the design is faultless – and every part of the creature is edible.

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Up, Up and Away - Hot Air Balloon Wedding Over Tuscany?


Tuscany with its landscapes and historical sites, offers a great opportunity for hot air ballooning. The surrounding areas of Florence (Chianti, Mugello valley) or Siena (Crete Senesi, Pienza, San Gimignano, Montepulciano), Volterra and the north of Maremma (etruscan archeological sites) represent some potential areas for unforgettable flights.

We can arrange additional balloons for your guests. Or you can choose to have the ceremony on the ground and then just the couple take off.

The balloon wedding might be a better option for a couple eloping, so for just the two of them, alone, in Italy for their wedding and honeymoon.

We suggest you fly early in the morning or afternoon, when winds are calm and gentle. Flight duration can last from 45 minutes to 1 hour or an hour and a half, depending on the speed and direction of the wind.

After the flight, in the best tradition of ballooning, pilot and crew will be glad to offer a "champagne cheers" to our wedding couple and a personalized memento of flight.

Email us for further information: info@weddingsabroad.com

Tuesday 10 November 2009

Martha Stewart - Winter Destination Weddings

The Winter 2009 issue of Martha Stewart Weddings is a sublime celebration of destination weddings, a special travel issue devoted to everything you'll need to plan and perfect the ultimate wedding abroad. It's all there, whether the celebration is a union of two people in love or something entirely different. In this issue, we discover light wedding dresses for tropical locations, creative ways to personalize your destination wedding (gift baskets for guests with location-appropriate goodies) and learn about 51 of the best places to host a destination wedding. There is also a feature on the best locations in the United States to host a destination wedding, if passports aren't your thing. We get an inside look at two gorgeous weddings, one in the Caribbean and one in Ethiopia. It's a beautiful, lavish issue, perfect for the conquering the gray days of winter.

Click here to read the entire article..........

Friday 6 November 2009

More wedding planning reality shows coming to TLC

Nov 5th 2009 | 12:46pm
Just when you thought that reality television had exhausted all possible angles on wedding planning, TLC is launching some more programs that explore everything from Las Vegas weddings to cheap options for saying "I do."

According to Variety, new competition-based show Battle of the Wedding Planners is set to debut on November 13, featuring three professionals competing to create the best budget wedding for couples.

Another fresh program this winter is Four Weddings, which will see brides-to-be rate each other's nuptials, the news provider reports.

If you are thinking about a destination wedding, you may be interested in Happily Ever Faster - set in Las Vegas' Chapel of Flowers - or Manhattan Marriage Project, with Gino Filippone.

Speaking of wedding-themed reality shows, if you just can't wait for these new arrivals to get your matrimonial fix, you might want to tune in to E! this Sunday, November 8, for the special episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in which Khloé gets married.

After all the hype, aren't you just the least bit curious to see how it goes?