7 Awesome Fairy Tales, Superheroes And Cartoons Inspired Weddings That Have Ever Taken Place

Here comes another round of collection of out-of-this-world wedding ideas or themes. This time, we will take things lightly because, the information I dished out at my past few posts are bit of heavy and hard to take in. What I have for you at this list are fairy tales, cartoons and comics inspired wedding themes that have ever taken place. You might find them a bit weird and odd but for sure you will enjoy checking them out. Without further delays, here they are.

Shrek Themed Wedding - Barnstaple, Devon England

Hospice nurse Christine England, 40, married her fiance Keith, 44, in full costume and make-up in front of 100 guests who were also in fancy dress. The Mr and Mrs Green of Barnstaple, Devon, had spent three hours having their make-up done before walking down the aisle. Source

Peter Pan and Tinkerbell Themed Wedding

The two lovers (Dorothy and Randy) have dressed up as Peter Pan and Tinkerbell and arranged for the whole Wedding ceremony to be visualized as in the Disney’s Peter Pan animated movie we have grown with and loved along with different characters and themes that fit. Source

Flintstones-Themed Double Wedding - Norwich

Andrea and Simon Bean dressed up as Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Richard and Jill Noble dressed up as Barney and Betty Rubble as they tied the knot at Weston Park Golf Club, in Norwich. The 165 guests of their wedding celebration are asked to dressed as Stone Age cavemen and women. Of course, the traditional Bridal March tune was replaced by the theme song of "The Flintstones" cartoon TV series. Source

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Must Read Tips For A Perfect Wedding Concept From A Project Runway Fashion Expert

Amor Albano – This young fellow whose designing career started and  bloomed further after being one of the top competitors of the recently concluded fashion designing reality show entitled Project Runway Philippines Season 3 continues to awe and inspire not just his fellow Ilocanos but even other people coming from almost all parts of the country.

Amor, as fondly called by his friends, has been famous with his cocktails and bridal gown creations. In fact, “She” (As she claims to be a beautiful lady) has created garments for high ranking officials and socialites in her province. To name some of them, she has made gowns for Ilocos Norte Gov. Aimee Marcos and Former First lady now Congresswoman Imelda Marcos. At the moment, this blog is intended to feature Amor’s fondest thoughts about her ideal wedding when given the chance to get married with her ideal man. Thus, we advise you to be prepared, enticed and inspired by her dream wedding concepts.

Wedding Dress – It is so ironic to think that a very talented and artistic designer wishes to have a plain and simple wedding dress made of light and cheap material on her wedding day. When asked about the reason why she came up with such concept for her ideal wedding dress, she laughed, joked and said that she was going to buy diamond accessories. She also added that beautiful women do not wear clothes to look beautiful instead they wear simple dresses to make it look beautiful.

Venue- Since she is a public figure, Amor dreams of a publicly viewed wedding because according to her, such idea promotes awareness to the people that gays, like her, have the right to get married. When asked about the exact place, she envisioned her wedding ceremony being held in the early morning preferably 6:30 (sunrise) in the middle of La Paz Sand Dunes in Laoag City.

Motiff - Amor’s fair complexion make cool colors great for the motif on her sunrise wedding. She says that mint green, light pink and light yellow would work well on that day. She would want guests to wear casual outfit that are made of light and flowing garments.

Food - Just like her generosity and hospitable nature, Amor would want her guests to be satisfied, impressed and happy on her special day. Since that day is going to be held early in the morning, she craves for a breakfast cocktail party that serves Filipino breakfast.

Husband - It is an obvious reality to know that every beautiful bride should have a handsome husband to march down the aisle with her. For Amor, her eyes twinkle every time she thinks of the right guy who would love and understand her for who and what she is. She says that she would want to be escorted by a lawyer groom because according to her living with a lawyer for the rest of her life would make her smarter even in times of arguments. She definitely wants to be with a guy who is capable of having sensible conversations till both of them start to have gray hair.

As a final say, Amor’s dream wedding truly depict her innermost thought and personality, with her simple yet wonderful wedding concept, she is able to tell the whole world that she’s just like Julia Roberts in The Movie Notting Hill – Famous yet simple and she dreams of being loved with all the heart and mind of her partner. Amor’s line would probably be “I am just a girl standing in front of a man asking him to love me.”

Credits to Honeylyn Inocencio for the awesome article and interview.

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Cinderella Wedding Theme

Cinderella Wedding Theme - Fairy Tale Wedding

Cinderella theme is a fairly popular wedding theme nowadays. It just reflects that, as of this modern times, many brides and grooms, as well as their parents, rides along with some unique and not so traditional way of wedding.

You can have a lot of fun with Cinderella wedding theme in many ways. Just make sure to be as close as possible to the original Cinderella wedding story.

Below are tips, from wedding invitations up to the wedding gowns to wear on a Cinderella type of wedding.

The very basic and general tip is to accent your Cinderella theme wedding by incorporating fairytale details everywhere you can. Invitations, programs, and thank-you notes can all be purchased with either the Disney take on Cinderella, or with a more generic fairytale theme.

Use the following ideas to really complete your fairytale wedding.

* Have matching themed unity candles, guest book, and toasting flutes.
* Place the wedding rings in a glass slipper that is glued to a pillow for the ring bearer to carry down the aisle.
* Get a castle card holder for the reception.
* Have a “footman” open vehicle doors for guests as they arrive to the reception site.
* Use horse and carriage table centerpieces. Fall wedding centerpieces may include pumpkins.
* Give out keepsake favors, like candles or cookies, in the shape of castles or glass slippers.
* Use carriage or castle shaped frames as place cards holders.
* Cake toppers in the Disney theme or fairytale theme are beautiful additions.
* Choose a variety of music from your favorite princess movies for the dance.
* To add a little levity to the dance, have the groom place the “slipper” on the bride before the garter removal, to make sure she truly is “his Cinderella.”

Cinderella Invitations
Cinderella-themed invitations are everywhere, at every price range. A quick search for Cinderella wedding invitations will show you plenty.

Cinderella Wedding - The Ceremony
For ceremony music, you are not limited to "When I Wish Upon A Star." The story of Cinderella has been turned into a ballet by Mozart, Prokofiev, and Johann Strauss, so there is wonderful classical music available.

Probably the best-known piece is Prokofiev's "Cinderella Waltz." Unfortunately, samples don't seem to be available online, but a music store with a good classical selection should be able to help you.

If your ceremony can include secular music, "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful" from the Rogers & Hammerstein version of Cinderella, could work nicely as a duet.

Finding a hymns is a bit more difficult ("someday, my prince will come" just isn't in the Bible); the best match I can find for lyrics is "When Love is Found," by Brian Wren.

Cinderella Wedding - Reception Decorations
As far as the decorations for your reception, you can go any number of directions. An autumn wedding clearly calls for table centerpieces of miniature pumpkins! You can arrange the pumpkins in groups with some shimmering silver or gold ribbon or you could choose slightly larger pumpkins, hollow them out, and use them to hold floating candles.

For a winter wedding, go with lots and lots of candles. You should be able to get star-shaped pillar candles around Christmas time, and it's also a good season to find silver or gold candles as well as white. The stars are, of course, for the stardust from your fairy godmother's wand! Again, wired ribbon or silk ivy ties the look together very simply and inexpensively.

An even simpler idea, for a daytime wedding, is to find some "magic wands" that don't look cheesy, and set them in the center of the tables with a few dramatic sprays of flowers, with no vase at all. The vaseless look is very high fashion this year, but it requires flowers that don't wilt the minute you take them out of water.

If you have a great deal of time to prepare, you can buy unpainted plaster casts shaped like castles (or possibly like Cinderella herself, if you shop around). The quickest way to paint them is to use a marbling or verdigris technique instead of trying to paint them in accurate colors.

Also keep an eye out for Christmas ornaments with a castle, shoe, fairytale book, or Cinderella theme. Depending on what you find, you can incorporate these items in decorations, centerpieces, or favors. And don't forget about plastic slippers waiting to be filled with colorful mints or Jordan almonds.

Cinderella Wedding - Clothes And Attire For The Bride
When it comes to your attire, you're quite right about needing glass slippers. But remember that some transparent shoes are made from vinyl, which does not "breathe." Over the course of a long day, your feet can become very uncomfortable. Make sure you bring along a more conventional pair of fabric shoes for dancing, as a glass slipper is something you'll probably want to lose before the party heats up.

Cinderella also often wears a tiara. Prices vary enormously, as does quality. If your hairstyle is dramatic, you may look just as good with a lower-cost tiara as with an expensive one, so it's worth shopping around. Beauty pageant supply stores carry them.

Cinderella Wedding - Clothes And Attires For Others
It is probably kinder to your Prince Charming to keep his formal wear relatively simple and classic. A quick skim of various Cinderella fantasies on the Web suggests that Prince Charming sometimes wears a white tux rather than a black one.

As for bridesmaids, the key is perhaps to remember that they are not the wicked stepsisters. One possible approach is to dress them a bit more like your own personal troop of fairy godmothers, in something elegant and floaty, with some rhinestones standing in for the fairy dust. Or, if you prefer the "Ever After" version of Cinderella, a more Renaissance look with flowers in their hair could work.

Hope the above tips regarding a Cinderella wedding theme gives you some basic stuffs and ideas. You may also get some ideas by watching some Cinderella movies or reading the Cinderella fairy tale story on the book itself.

You may also consider searching the web for more tips and advices for a memorable royalty Cinderella wedding.

Sources:
http://www.wednet.com/articles/wedding-theme-cinderella.aspx
http://weddings.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Cinderella_Theme_Wedding

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Batangas Philippines Wedding Information

This post is yet another excerpt of a great article written at the Weddinginthesky.com. They discussed there the Batangas weddings traditions, resources and other information that pertains to a Batangas marriage style. To make the long story short, here it is.

Batangas Information and Wedding Tradition

According To Wikipedia, Batangas is a province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. Its capital is Batangas City and it is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east.
Batangas is one of the famous tourist spots near Manila. The province has many beaches and famous for excellent diving spots only a few hours away from Manila. Some of the more notable ones are Anilao in the Municipality of Mabini, Matabungkay in the Municipality of Lian, Punta Fuego in the Municipality of Nasugbu, the Municipality of Calatagan and Laiya in the Municipality of San Juan.

Batangas Cities and Municipalities

Agoncillo, Alitagtag, Balayan, Balete, Batangas City, Bauan, Calaca, Calatagan, Cuenca, Ibaan, Laurel, Lemery, Lian, Lipa City, Lobo, Mabini, Malvar, Mataas Na Kahoy, Nasugbu, Padre Garcia, Rosario, San Jose, San Juan, San Luis, San Nicolas, San Pascual, Santa Teresita, Santo Tomas, Taal, Talisay, Tanauan City, Taysan, Tingloy and Tuy.

Batangas Wedding Tradition

(From Helium web page) Batangas, a province here in the Philippines has a wedding tradition, too. In the middle of the wedding reception dinner, a relative announces the sharing portion done through bids from the groom and bride's sides. It will be explained that the money collected will be used as they start their lives together. This determines who has more or less. Every bid is exchanged with a rice cake and for the male bidder a drink of wine from a small glass. It's also done not for the money's sake. Just for fun.

In Batangas, the reception was always done at the Bride's residence. And the wedding always starts in the morning, normally, 8-9AM so that the reception will not pass noontime, because there is a tradition that the bride needs to go to Groom's residence by noontime to get more prosperity. The transfer of the couple from wedding reception to groom's residence is called lipatan. In this tradition, all the things used in the weddings, which is normally from groom's relatives, are packed and the reception is being cleaned thoroughly.

Bisperas - The Eve of the Wedding. This is an old custom peculiar to Batangas. The day before the Batangas wedding, an entourage consisting of the groom’s parents, relatives, “abays“, “ninangs” and “ninongs“, and others concerned with the wedding walk in a procession from the groom’s house to the bride’s house. The purpose of this journey is to deliver all the ingredients to be used in preparation of the wedding feast. Everything from the cows and chickens, to the vegetables and rice, down to the condiments and the cutlery are carried in the procession. Upon arrival at the bride’s house, refreshments are served. Then the elaborate preparations for the reception will be proceed thereafter.

Wedding Vendors and Suppliers In Batangas

You can check the Weddinginthesky.com webpage of suppliers for the comprehensive list of Batangas wedding caterer, florists, planners, churches, venues and destinations. Check it directly at their Philippine wedding supplier page.

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Laguna Philippines Wedding Information

According to the official website of WeddingintheSky.com, Laguna weddings is one of the most anticipated and highly budgeted marriage event in the Philippines. While it was to elegant and needs of high budget (money of course), the team at Weddinginthesky.com offers a very cheap and affordable wedding package. Also, you can choose from their list of Laguna wedding venue and Laguna wedding vendors.

Here is an excerpt of their article regarding the wedding event at Laguna.

Laguna Philippines Wedding culture and history does not differ much on the other wedding traditions and culture of Filipinos. The usual marriage ceremony during Laguna wedding rites is just the same as the basic Philippine marriage.

In Magdalena, one of Laguna’s municipalities, there is a wedding custom called Galahan. It is a wedding practice for newly wed couples where it is mandatory for them to dance in the front of their relatives. What different from this custom apart from the norm is that the couple must carry a plate where a glass of wine a bottle is placed. After the dancing and the drinking, the relatives of both parties must place any amount which would help the couple in starting their married life.

Laguna Wedding Destinations

There are many wedding destinations and venues in Laguna Philippines. The most famous are those venues located near the beaches, lakes and those garden wedding setups.
Laguna wedding destinations are well known for its elegant, romantic but very fair and cheap price. To help you out in choosing among the finest venues being offered to you at Laguna, check the preceeding information.

Cities and Municipalities in Laguna

Cities: Calamba City, San Pablo City, Santa Rosa City
Municipalities: Alaminos, Bay, Biñán, Cabuyao, Calauan, Cavinti, Famy, Kalayaan, Liliw, Los Baños, Luisiana, Lumbán, Mabitac, Magdalena, Majayjay, Nagcarlán, Paeté, Pagsanján, Páquil, Pêñguil, Pila, Rizal, San Pedro, Santa Cruz, Santa María, Sinilóan, Victoria

Famous Laguna Wedding Theme

Laguna beach wedding are often times chosen by couples as well as their parents. This kind of wedding theme will become really elegant and memorable if you will choose the best location for it.

As the article implies, WeddingIntheSky team knows what is best for your Laguna wedding needs. Go check them out at their offical website titled Philippine Wedding Portal.

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