Little Wedding Tips (V) - 結婚小貼士 (V)

Accessories

If you're wearing a gown with heavy beading, allover lace or embroidery, don't choose an elaborate veil or mantilla. Intricate veils look best with simpler gowns.

飾物篇

如果你穿著的婚紗有很多穿珠，或者整件婚紗都是花邊(lace)或刺繡，就要儘量避免選用太複習的頭紗。複雜細緻的頭紗，用來配襯簡單的婚紗就最好。

Wedding Gowns

When you're gown shopping, dress comfortably! Wear clothing that's easy to get on and off and nice undergarments (you'll be standing around in your underwear a good deal throughout the day). And bring heels that are approximately the height you'll likely wear on your wedding day.

婚紗篇

試穿婚紗當日，記得要穿著舒適的衣服！穿一些較容易穿和除下的衫，及較好的內衣。並要帶一對鞋跟高度和你大日子當日穿著的鞋相同的去試穿，讓你知道長度是否適合。(Mariee在試穿婚紗過程亦會提供不同高度的鞋以試穿)

Cakes

A display of small, unfussy cakes is a more casual alternative to a traditional tiered wedding cake. This display features simple frosted cakes with fresh peonies atop white cake stands. Be sure to identify the different cake flavors -- you can create a simple banner using alphabet hole punches (as pictured) or rubber stamps.

蛋糕篇

結婚當日使用幾個精細及簡約的蛋糕，用來代替一個傳統的多層蛋糕，顯得比較特別。像圖中這個簡單的蛋糕配以新鮮的牡丹在上。你亦可以混合不同的口味 - 並用簡單的橫幅顯示！

Makeup & Beauty

Makeup applied in natural light will always look truer than makeup applied in artificial light. So face a window when putting on makeup, or take a mirror outside every so often during application to check blending and avoid streaks.

化妝與美容篇

於自然光下上妝總是會比在人造光底下顯得更真實。因此你可以盡量要求化妝師，在有自然光的窗口旁邊給你化妝。

Photos & Video

Ask a friend to take a Polaroid shot of each guest as he or she arrives at the reception. Put the images in an album and have guests write messages next to their pictures.

婚照及影像篇

不妨叫一位朋友用寶麗來，為每一位到場客人拍照。她可以即時把照片交回相中人，讓他們在相片上寫上祝福的語句！

Little Wedding Tips (IV) - 結婚小貼士 (IV)

Wedding Style
If you're marrying in an open, white space like a loft, an art gallery, a photo studio, or a tent, embrace the airy effect by keeping the lines modern and sleek when it comes to your decor. But steer clear of accenting with a single strong color -- it will overwhelm this blank canvas. 
風格篇
如果你的場地是屬於開放而且透光，像白色悵蓬等的場地，設計場地佈置時應該儘量以簡約綫條及摩登佈置為主。同時避免單一而且強烈的色彩，以免破壞整體氣氛。

Hair
If you want to wear fresh flowers in your hair, make sure to choose a hardy bloom that won't wilt easily. Good choices include wax flowers, orchids, spray roses, stephanotis, and daisies.
髮飾篇
如果你選擇用鮮花做頭花，一些較為不容易枯萎的花例如非洲茉莉、蘭花、玫瑰和雛菊等都是不俗的選擇。

Dresses
Even if you think there's no way you could experience a wedding-day wardrobe malfunction, invest in some double-stick tape. The tape will keep spaghetti straps and bodices in place and can temporarily fix torn hems. Also, don't forget safety pins in case your bustle breaks.
服飾篇
要確保結婚當日的服飾萬無一失，事先準備好雙面膠紙及扣針，因為當你寶貴的婚紗有任何破損時，它就能大派用場。

Wediquette

If you are unable to invite your coworkers to your wedding, be sure to refrain from discussing your plans at the office. While your colleagues are bound ask a few questions about your upcoming nuptials, keep wedding-related chatter to a minimum -- after all, how would you feel if they kept gabbing about a party you weren't invited to?

禮儀篇

如果你無法宴請你的同事到你的婚宴，那就儘量避免在辦工室大談結婚的籌備工作。你可以想象到他們的感受嗎？

Flowers

If you’re not the matchy-matchy type, choose eclectic arrangements of mismatched centerpieces all with blooms and colors within the same family. It will give a relaxed, organic look to your reception tables. 

花卉篇

選擇檯花的種類時，不妨刻意以顏色類近但不同的花種，配襯出輕鬆而且有生氣的檯花。

PERSONAL STYLE

The Wedding of the Year is over, and what have we learned? There was an interfaith ceremony; Bill lost the required weight, and then some; the cake was gluten-free. The wedding’s final price tag is still under wraps—Bryan Rafanelli, the Boston-based event planner who wrangled the affair, told the New York Times only, “I know Chelsea and Marc wanted to have the highest quality. That doesn’t mean the most expensive; it just means really a beautiful wedding.”

No matter how high-minded the intentions, however, you can’t save a wedding from itself. Father and daughter danced to “The Way You Look Tonight.” The bridesmaids—all twelve of them—were in Vera Wang wedding dresses dyed a particular shade of lavender, as no existing dress would do. And of course, there was Chelsea’s dress (actually, there were two—the bride changed into a Grecian Vera Wang gown for the reception). For the ceremony, she wore a strapless Vera Wang, its ivory silk organza accented with tulle on the bodice and silver beading on the waist. Though flattering, said Cathy Horyn in the Times, it was “not an especially high-styled choice”:

We do not really know anything about Ms. Clinton’s style, and in a way her pretty dress, with its modestly embellished waist and romantic layers, reflects a woman whose focus is not directed in that way, and maybe is not that vain.

What’s to be made of this dress-as-tea-leaves commentary? Predictable wedding choices, one would hope, suggest a woman who occasionally had better things to do this year than obsess over the details of one particular weekend; however, the reports that are trickling out hint at a fair amount of obsession all around. And so we find Chelsea in the same position as any other bride, one who is told that she should spare no expense—emotional or otherwise—in preparation for her special day, only to find her every choice questioned.

In a 2003 article about the wedding industry, Rebecca Mead wrote that “a bride’s anxiety—about her dress, about her mother-in-law, about the man she’s marrying—should be greeted as providing an opening for the self-assured salesperson.” And so cakes, flowers, favors, gift bags—anything that can be stamped with personality—have been transformed into a opportunity for self-expression. But with little other than the fairy-princess blueprint to go on, there’s often just one result: weddings that are a vessel for not only a lifetime’s worth of hopes and dreams, but also a bumbling attempt at redemption and womanly reinvention.

Perhaps Chelsea’s dress does indeed reveal a lack of focus and vanity, and maybe even pedestrian tastes. Or is it possible that, despite the designer pedigree, it’s just a dress?

Photograph: WireImage

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/08/personal-style.html#ixzz0vdPkC7Ix
From New Yorker by Sally Law