Hi,
Whilst busy rendering planning advice I like to listen to this song called "Plan on forever" by Sue Ann Carwell and Mervyn Warren. It's inspirational.
Hope you like it!!
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The song "Plan Forever"
Hi,
Whilst busy giving planning advice I like to listen to this song, "Plan on forever" by Sue Ann Carwell and Mervyn Warren for inspiration. Its a lovely song.
Hope you like it!!
Whilst busy giving planning advice I like to listen to this song, "Plan on forever" by Sue Ann Carwell and Mervyn Warren for inspiration. Its a lovely song.
Hope you like it!!
Rent It: The Perfect Personalized Wedding
(ARA) - When it comes to planning a wedding, most couples don't want to settle for cookie-cutter solutions that will make their wedding appear impersonal or even unremarkable. Instead, they want the biggest day of their lives to represent the two of them and no one else.
This yearning for personalization doesn't have to translate into more money. On the contrary -- whether you're planning a formal wedding or a more casual event, you can incorporate personalized touches without breaking the bank by renting the materials you will need.
From 250 identical vases, to chandeliers, to helium balloons or faux floral centerpieces, rental businesses provide endless amounts of materials that can make the difference between a run-of-the-mill event and your dream wedding.
"You can rent just about anything to make your wedding perfect," said Christine Wehrman, CEO of the American Rental Association (ARA), the global trade association for the rental industry. "By renting products for your wedding, you don't have to settle for items that don't fit your personalized vision. You'll get exactly what you're looking for and you'll have access to products that may have otherwise been too expensive in large quantities."
Make an impression by choosing table linens in your wedding colors, or go with all-white, then add chair covers with a bow-tie sash and matching napkins in accent colors. Rental businesses will have hundreds of colors to pick from. Be sure to ask for sample swatches of the linens so you can coordinate colors with your bridesmaid dresses and flowers. Add your choice of china and glassware to the arrangement for each table and get a rich and sophisticated setting.
If you're looking for the beauty of an outdoor location without the worry about the weather, tents are a great way to create the wedding of your dreams. ARA member rental businesses have beautiful tents to create the venue, as well as everything you need to make it beautiful and comfortable.
Huge tents and elegant canopies come in wedding white and many also come with clear tops -- thus allowing guests access to the drama of a sunset or a sparkling night sky. However, if you plan on incorporating a tent into your wedding, make sure you give the rental business -- and yourself -- enough advanced notice. Depending on the time of year, the rental business will need plenty of notice to reserve all the equipment you will need.
Also, many ARA member rental businesses offer personalized service through their Certified Event Rental Professionals who are trained to help you choose the right rentals to make your dream wedding come to realization.
They can help ease the tension of pre-wedding set up with their knowledge and experience. Many businesses even help you throughout the event as well, keeping it on track and flowing smoothly.
You can also rely on rental service experts to help before you book your venue. They can help you assess the site for things like power accessibility, ground water issues, or overhead power lines that may interfere with your vision of a tall tent, among other situations.
All events, no matter how big or small -- even for the Oprahs or Trumps of the world -- include rented materials. Visit www.rentalhq.com to find your local ARA member rental business.
Courtesy of ARAcontent
This yearning for personalization doesn't have to translate into more money. On the contrary -- whether you're planning a formal wedding or a more casual event, you can incorporate personalized touches without breaking the bank by renting the materials you will need.
From 250 identical vases, to chandeliers, to helium balloons or faux floral centerpieces, rental businesses provide endless amounts of materials that can make the difference between a run-of-the-mill event and your dream wedding.
"You can rent just about anything to make your wedding perfect," said Christine Wehrman, CEO of the American Rental Association (ARA), the global trade association for the rental industry. "By renting products for your wedding, you don't have to settle for items that don't fit your personalized vision. You'll get exactly what you're looking for and you'll have access to products that may have otherwise been too expensive in large quantities."
Make an impression by choosing table linens in your wedding colors, or go with all-white, then add chair covers with a bow-tie sash and matching napkins in accent colors. Rental businesses will have hundreds of colors to pick from. Be sure to ask for sample swatches of the linens so you can coordinate colors with your bridesmaid dresses and flowers. Add your choice of china and glassware to the arrangement for each table and get a rich and sophisticated setting.
If you're looking for the beauty of an outdoor location without the worry about the weather, tents are a great way to create the wedding of your dreams. ARA member rental businesses have beautiful tents to create the venue, as well as everything you need to make it beautiful and comfortable.
Huge tents and elegant canopies come in wedding white and many also come with clear tops -- thus allowing guests access to the drama of a sunset or a sparkling night sky. However, if you plan on incorporating a tent into your wedding, make sure you give the rental business -- and yourself -- enough advanced notice. Depending on the time of year, the rental business will need plenty of notice to reserve all the equipment you will need.
Also, many ARA member rental businesses offer personalized service through their Certified Event Rental Professionals who are trained to help you choose the right rentals to make your dream wedding come to realization.
They can help ease the tension of pre-wedding set up with their knowledge and experience. Many businesses even help you throughout the event as well, keeping it on track and flowing smoothly.
You can also rely on rental service experts to help before you book your venue. They can help you assess the site for things like power accessibility, ground water issues, or overhead power lines that may interfere with your vision of a tall tent, among other situations.
All events, no matter how big or small -- even for the Oprahs or Trumps of the world -- include rented materials. Visit www.rentalhq.com to find your local ARA member rental business.
Courtesy of ARAcontent
Technology Tips to Revolutionize your Wedding
(ARA) - Technology transforms every aspect of modern life these days, even the biggest day of most people's lives - their wedding day. From wedding planning Web sites to digital photo slideshows presented at receptions and rehearsal dinners, technology is helping couples plan their weddings in ways that are much easier and save more time than ever before. Technology also helps engage the couple's loved ones in, and preserve their memories of, their special day.
Here are four of the hottest technology trends that are revolutionizing the way Americans plan their weddings.
Planning and Research Goes Online
Brides once turned to monthly or seasonal wedding magazines for advice and ideas. Now, modern brides go online for their wedding planning purposes. Popular sites have made it easy for brides to track the latest trends, look at thousands of gown options, and organize themselves for their big day. Where once a bride might tote around clips torn from magazines, fabric swatches, and contracts in a wedding planning binder, now most of those things are found and stored digitally through a wedding planning Web site.
Projectors for Rehearsal Dinners and Receptions
Every couple wants to make their wedding as personal as possible, and leave guests with the feeling that, "Oh, that was so Todd and Rebecca!" Where once brides and grooms may have decorated a reception or rehearsal dinner with photos of themselves arranged around the room, now a multimedia presentation is all the rage. Video and still images, typically set to music, features the couple throughout their lives, apart and together, and are replacing traditional photo albums and can create an exciting personal touch to any wedding celebration.
Web sites like www.projector123.com rent state-of-the-art high definition projectors for as little as $99 for a weekend. Couples order a projector online, have it shipped to them or their reception site for next day arrival, and then connect the projector to a device like a laptop to project their photo montage presentation for the enjoyment of their guests.
"Jason and I really wanted to have a photo slideshow at our rehearsal dinner, but the restaurant wanted us to pay $500 on top of our reservation fee for all the equipment! So we went online to Projector123, and were able to order our own equipment and have it shipped directly to the restaurant," says Christine Goldenberg of Los Angeles, California, a bride-to-be. "Finding areas to cut costs for a wedding can be challenging, and by ordering the projector online we were able to save a significant amount of money."
Personal Wedding Web sites
Personal wedding Web sites are popping up everywhere; for a small fee, couples design their very own Web site in advance of their wedding day where they post pictures of themselves, detail the specifics of their wedding day, feature bios of the bridal party, reveal their honeymoon destination and provide gift registry information all in one convenient location online.
"Most people have access to the Internet, so you now have the ability to use technology to make your wedding day as special and memorable as possible," says Jay Joyer of Irvine, California, a recent newlywed. "We had a small wedding, but wanted all our friends and family to feel part of our big day so we set up a wedding Web site where our guests could sign our online guestbook, read the story of our proposal, or make hotel reservations through the Accommodations section of our site. Everyone said it made making plans or staying up to date on our wedding so easy."
As most guests now have access to the Internet, a personal wedding Web site is the ultimate convenience for guests to stay in touch with the couple and their latest wedding planning developments.
Online Ordering of Wedding Photos
No more waiting months for wedding albums. Many wedding photographers and videographers now take digital pictures or film and post their proofs online. This streamlines the developing and choosing processes and entire albums can be viewed by couples and their guests no matter where their location.
Courtesy of ARAcontent
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