TREND WATCH:
WEDDING DATE 2008

If your lucky date is sometime in 2008, you’re most likely well into the planning process. WeddingWire.com, which pairs engaged couples with wedding vendors to create the perfect wedding, also has its plans in motion—to alert you to the hottest trends in next year’s nuptials.

According to the experts at WeddingWire, the trends most likely to affect brides-to-be in the next 12 to 24 months include:

• Choosing Your Own Wedding Jewelry: Brides are not only choosing their own engagement rings, but are actually purchasing them themselves—as if!

• Going Green: From incorporating recycled paper in wedding invitations and programs to using locally grown flowers, produce and meat at wedding receptions, brides and grooms are adding the environment to their event guest list.

• Saying I Do to Europe: While tropical regions have always been popular matrimonial hotspots, other places across the pond—say a castle in Scotland or a wine country estate in Tuscany—are also increasing in appeal for destination weddings.

• Letting Them Eat Cake (While You Eat Cupcakes): From cupcake trees to personalized cookies, couples are opting to put the kibosh on traditional wedding cakes and choosing smaller treats instead.

For more information, visit weddingwire.com

    
 
 
   
   

MOVIES AND MATRIMONY

Sometimes all it takes to plan the perfect wedding is a DVD player and a subscription to Netflix. From comedic classics to outrageous modern takes on marriage, movie weddings can provide the perfect guide for what to do, or, more often, what not to do at your own event. For your pre-vow viewing pleasure, online wedding resource Brides.com listed the top 10 wedding movies of all time—guaranteed to make you laugh, make you cry and hopefully make you a little less anxious about walking down the aisle:

  1. It Had to be You (1947)
  2. The Wedding Singer (1998)
  3. That Old Feeling (1997)
  4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
  5. Wedding Crashers (2005)
  6. Father of the Bride (1991)
  7. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  8. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
  9. The Wedding Banquet (1993
  10. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

For more information, visit www.brides.com

    
     
   

FINISHING TOUCHES:
CREATING A HONEYMOON REGISTRY

Forget about asking guests for that elaborate espresso machine or his-and-hers embroidered towels. Enlist your friends’ and family’s help to make your honeymoon memories come true by registering for your honeymoon. Couples select their dream destination and the activities they’re interested in doing at that destination—a scenic helicopter ride in Hawaii or a zip-line expedition through the Belizean rainforest—and guests can fulfill these wishes, just as they would purchase a toaster.

For more information or to view examples of honeymoon registries, visit honeymoon.com | thebigday.com and
honeymoonwishes.com