This is candy4brandi's Pink Wedding!

somehow i would like to have alot of these but i am sure i will have to settle for just a few. I really like the main pic. i think it would look cool to stand out from the rest of the wedding party. also i like the 2nd to last pic with the green runner

It's sorta fun to know where some of the wedding traditions came from....


Dressing Matters
The tradition of bridesmaids dressing the same as each other and in similar style to the bride comes from ancient days when it was believed that evil spirits have a more difficult time distinguishing which one is the bride and putting a hex on her.


Engagement Length
The average engagement period is 16 months, which is up from 11 months in 1990.


Engagement Rings
74% of all brides receive a diamond engagement ring. Of those, 60% are involved in picking out their ring, while 3% actually pick it themselves.


Engagement Rings
The practice of giving or exchanging engagement rings began in 1477 when Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, gave Mary of Burgandy a diamond ring as an engagement present.


Formal or Casual
80% of brides plan formal weddings.


Internet Wedding Planning
8% of all Internet users are engaged to be married.


It's Popular to be Unlucky
According to English folklore, Saturday, the most popular American choice, is the unluckiest day to marry!


Number of U.S. Weddings
The number of marriages in the U.S. has averaged 2.25 - 2.4 million every year for the past 20 years.


Oldest Bridal Tradition
The veil dates back to ancient Rome, when it was flame-yellow, always worn over the face, and called a flammeum.


Remarriage
For the past 20 years, 2.25 to 2.40 million weddings have taken place each year in the United States; a third of them are remarriages.


Second Weddings
In almost half of U.S. weddings either the bride or groom has been married previously.


Something Blue
In the rhyme 'something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue', "blue" is symbolic of the blood of royalty, since both the bride and the groom were once considered to be "royal" on their wedding day.


Strange But True
In Pennsylvania, Ministers are forbidden from performing marriages when either the bride or groom is drunk.


The Kiss
The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!


The Wedding Party
The most frequent number of bridesmaids is 4 (including the maid of honor). 62% of weddings have a flower girl, while 56% have a ring bearer.


Wearing a Wedding Ring
The reason that the engagement ring and wedding band is worn on the fourth finger of the left hand is because the ancient Egyptians thought that the "vein of love' ran from this finger directly to the heart.


Wearing White
Queen Victoria made white the bridal color of choice when she wore it to wed Prince Albert in 1840.


Wedding Costs
The average wedding costs $18,874 with 186 guests.


Wedding Costs
The average wedding in the United States costs between $20,000 to $25,000.

so i have been going back and fourth on flower ides. I have known from the start that i wanted pink roses but i wasn't sure what other flowers i wanted to go with. I had sorta decided on peonies or renuclas but now i think i am back to going back and fourth. Last night i was at a wedding and she had calla lillies everywhere and i loved how they looked but i am wondering how they would look with pink roses. maybe pink calla lillies?

what do you girls think?

I am so upset!!! i really really want these pink and white tote bag with the 3 little pink shoes on them because it matches my colors and my shoe theme i have going for my bridesmaids! Well i ordered them and 3 weeks went by so i caled the store and they said they had to record of me ever ordering them and my fiance checked the bank account and nothing ever went through. I reordered them, this time from another store well once again for some reason the transaction wouldn't go through, so once agian i ordered them this time from the place i ordered them the first time, well the transaction went through and i thought everything was going through this time......untill.... they contacted me and said they had been discontinued!!!!! UGH! they are exactly what i wanted and now i can't find anything else i like!

I really want either pink and light green or pink and white and i want them sort of plain so i can get their names put on them. does anyone know where i can get cute inexpensive tote bags?

the pic is what i had tried to order

I hate cake!!!! i really want apple pie! every year on birthday for as long as i can remember i have had apple pie instead of cake. i plan on having a normal wedding cake ( the cupcake kind) for everyone else and my fiances grooms cake will eb made of cheesecake because thats what he prefers. but is it silly if i have an apple pie!?!?!?

Yay i have been trying tofigure out how to do this fora month! yippie!!! i must say it looks pretty good! is it a great inspiration board?

My wedding colors are pink and green. What should i do about the something blue!?!? Maybe blue underwear? What are other girls doing about the something blue thing? Something new...obvisouly my dress, something borrowed is my nieces viel and pettie coat and something old will be easy to do. Help with the blue!!!

I really like this idea but i am having a hard time finding the little rose floating candles. does anyone know where i can find them?

i love gerber dasies and roses but do they go together or clash? i also love peonies....ugh what shoul i do?

well after 2 months of searching Steve and i finally found a place to hold our ceremony and recption. It's an 1800's chapel in a old victorian town.

Ugh...who's making their own card box? do you think the square boxes are easier for the card's to fit in then the round ones? fabric? paint? paper? what works better? any suggestions or any ideas on what might work better would be greatly ppreciated!

i know i still have 516 days untill my wedding, but i couldn't wait to buy stuff and besides that i rather get things now when i have the money and i don't want to wait and buy everything at once! This way i'll have less to worry about later. I got my 3 bridesmaids 2 of the gifts i am going to get them, i will get their necklace and flip flops later.I bought the 2 flower girl baskets the ribbons on the side of the baskets will say on one side "flower girl 2009" and the other side it will have their first and middle name. I also ordered the ring box i figured this would be better then a pillow for my 5 year old great nephew to carry plus it's different. I also ordered my garter and a few favors. yay! i'm so excited i started doing things! CHECK!! Thats a few things off my list!

I never heard of a signature drink untill i signed up on this site. I wasn't sure about it at first, but now i love the idea. We are going to serve carmal apple martini's and pink lemonade, staying with my green and pink color scheme. My question is, what do you do with them? do you hand them out to everyone? i was thinking about doing something like this picture, setting them up at the bar with a little note card that says steven and brandi's signature drink. what is everyone else doing about handing out the drinks and displaying them. I would love suggestions and hear other ideas since i am new to the signature drink thing!

these r good ideas for pictures! I love a lot of these. Does anyone have any other good ideas for engagment pics?

i haven't really started planning the decorations yet, because i think it depends on the place. I did however find these 2 pics off someone else page that i thought were good ideas

I as atually going to make these invitations then i got a free catalouge in the mail, opened it up and saw these! I was so excited! They will read.......

Right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale

Steven and brandi invite you to share in the first day of their happily ever after.... (and then the date and time and so on)

My flower girl will be my daughter, Jersey. She will turn 7 13 days after our wedding. my 2nd flower girl will be alie one of my daughters best friends and she is also my 3rd bridesmaid's daughter, and the little ring barier will be my great nephew zach who will turn 5 the day after our wedding. I am not going to have them stand up there the whole time. They will just go do their thing then go sit down.

few flower options i like, I would like light pink roses and maybe a few darker ones or some white ones. I am kinda lleaning toward the round rose boquets.

The place we are considering for our reception has rounded backs on the chairs so i think this idea would look very elegant and simple to do. the fower would be pink. I also like the other 2 pics, however they would not work for round backed chairs but i thought i would post the anyways incase someone else needed chair decoration ideas.

I'm pretty sure this is what i am going to end up doing for the centerpieces at the reception. It's very pretty and very easy to do. I also like the 2nd picture idea too! good thing i have 530 days to decided.

I really like the idea of having lil individual cakes for all the guests, but since we are having close to 150 people that may be a lil hard and a lil expensive to do. I do also like these other cake ideas, of course they would be done in the colors of green and pink.

My matron of honnor will be in a light pink dress with light green outline and my 2 brides maids will be in light green dresses with light pink outline

I have really curly hair and i sometimes straighten it but my finace wants me to wear my hair curly for our wedding day. I want it half up but i am having such a hard time finding wedding hair do's for girls with curly hair can anyone help!?!?!? i like some of these.

On Jan 19, 2008 in Orlando Florida Steven proposed to me in front of the disney world castle after the firework show in the pouring down rain. It was amazing! I was so nervous that after he said will u marry me and then dropped to his knee i said "YOUR FREAKING ME OUT". Then after i had put the ring on i couldn't remember if i had said yes and he said i did, right after i said " your freaking me out"...LOL. Everyone knew but me! He had called and asked my dad and of course my dad told my mom. He had also told my best friend, his parents and grandparents. We are having a Disney Cinderella type theme for our wedding. The song " when you wish upon a star" was playing so that will be the song we have on during our slide show. My ring is a white gold masterpiece solitare. a masterpiece is cut with more facets then most rings so it sparkles like you would not believe.