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

Get Wed in Romantic Castle! 浪漫城堡婚禮

Recently one of our customers, who is a young bride-to-be from Switzerland, tell us that she is going to get married in a castle, and we all get really excited about it! (Wow!) There are still many medieval castles scattered in all over Europe especially in middle Europe like France and Switzerland, and some of them offer couples to tie their knot in such setting.

Chateau de Chillon, located at lakeshore of Lake Geneve in Switzerland near the town Montreux with Alps as its backdrop, is a beautiful medieval castle. You can hold a ceremony in the marquee at the lakeshore garden and reception at the castle hall. In fact, this castle is quite a popular venue for the locals. You can check out more details at the link below:

http://www.chillon.ch/en/

You can have your honeymoon straight away in a luxurious getaway hotel near Montreux, in Fairmont La Montreux Palace. Built in 1906, this elegant hotel reside at the Riviera of Switzerland near Montreux, and couples could relaxed the its private health spa, as well as having golf, water sports and skiing nearby. More details about this hotel at this link:
http://www.fairmont.com/montreux

海外婚禮篇


有一位瑞士的客人同我講她將會在她家鄉的城堡舉行婚禮，城堡好浪漫呀！其實最近很流行在城堡舉行婚禮，歐州有很多城堡，這些城堡可以租用來舉行婚禮，特別在歐洲中部例如法國、 瑞士、英國等等。


今次介紹瑞士有名的Chateau de Chillon (西庸城堡)，座落在瑞士近Montreux(蒙特魯)Lake Geneve湖邊的Chateau de Chillon，這座城堡有很多年歷史。你可以選擇在城堡的教堂內行婚禮或在花園舉行室外婚禮。這座城堡在當地都有很多瑞士人係這裏舉行婚禮或註冊儀式。
http://www.chillon.ch/en/


你也可以舉行完婚禮後，順道在瑞士Honey moon。附近有間Fairmont La Montreux Palace，這間酒店在1906年建成，酒店內有Spa，喜歡運動也可以打哥爾夫球，水上活動及滑雪等等。
http://www.fairmont.com/montreux

Swedish Crown Princess: 'Thank you for giving me my Prince'

Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria has got her Prince. In an emotional but confident speech following her wedding to Daniel Westling, she expressed her gratitude to the crowd:


"Dear friends," she began, "I would like to start by thanking the Swedish people for giving me my Prince."


"We, my husband and I, are so incredibly happy and grateful that so many of you want to be here and celebrate with us."


"It’s a huge experience. This is absolutely the greatest days of our lives so far."


"To feel your support means more for us than you could ever believe."


The couple married earlier in a stately ceremony in Stockholm’s Storkyrkan Cathedral, with guests including senior royals from Europe, Jordan and Japan, the presidents of Iceland and Finland and a large contingent of family and friends.


Victoria entered the church with her father, who in a compromise between the Swedish tradition that the bride walks in with the groom and the bride’s wish to be given away, accompanied her half-way up the aisle, before handing her over to her husband-to-be. She was preceded by a gaggle of bridesmaids, who included numerous daughters of friends and members of other European royal families.

In his address, Archbishop Anders Wejryd told the couple that they were facing "tasks that you can't refuse, but that you can influence. One of you has had many years to prepare yourself to live this life - one of you has only had a few."


Former Idol contestant Agnes Carlsson and veteran singer Björn Skifs then performed the song When you tell the World you’re mine, by Jörgen Elofssonand John Lundvik.


The couple then walked together from the church. Daniel had entered as plain Mr. Westling; he left as HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland.

Afterwards, an estimated 500,000 people lined the streets of Stockholm to watch the couple parade past in an open carriage - more than double the number that attended the 1976 marriage of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. Fears that rising republican sentiment would keep people at home - some polls have shown support for the monarchy below 50 percent - came to nothing.

They were then rowed across Stockholm’s majestic harbour on the Royal Barge, Vasaordern, a gilted 1920s replica of an original from 1744, where they were saluted by ships of the Swedish navy and British frigate HMS Kent. They were welcomed on the steps of Logården, in front of the palace, by King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Prince Daniel's parents, father Olle, a retired social services chief and mother Ewa, a retired post office clerk.


There, they were treated to a concert from a massed choir, while thousands thronged the Norrbro bridge directly in front of the palace. The Princess and Prince were joined on the balcony by royals including King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway, Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan, Queen Sofia of Spain, Prince Albert of Monaco, Crown Prince Nuaruhito of Japan and Britain's Earl and Countess of Wessex.

"When I got up, I found 30 beautiful letters, addressed to me, one for each day she would be away."


In a light touch, he alluded to the huge change in his status:


"Once upon a time, there was a young man, who while perhaps not a frog, was certainly not a prince," he said.


"I love you Victoria, and I am proud of what we have together, and I am so happy to be your husband," he said, causing Victoria to shed a tear.

The couple then led guests out to witness them cutting the cake in theBernadotte Gallery, before heading into the White Sea Ballroom for the evening's dancing. They started the dancing with an accomplished waltz, after which they were joined by the King and Queen, and by Olle and Ewa Westling - all in front of SVT's television cameras.

The couple's honeymoon destination is so far a well-kept secret, but when they return Prince Daniel's induction into the world of royalty is expected to start in earnest.


From 'The Local' - http://www.thelocal.se/27338/20100619/
Photos from 'The Local' & Getty Images

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