| Wedding flowers don't have to be boring | | Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:46:03 AM by Kate Grant | Let's count them- centerpieces on the tables, near the stage where the band is playing, floral arrangements all around the wedding hall at the reception, at the church, during the wedding ceremony, boutonnieres, the car decoration, bridesmaids bouquets and most important, the bridal bouquet. 
Flowers are such an important component of a wedding, and will appear in almost every wedding picture. If you remember not to go over the top, like asking for tropical wedding flowers in the winter, using summer flowers in summer, and fall flowers in fall, you can stay within your budget.
And as the latest trends of home design follow the world of fashion, flowers design follow fashion as well. Mix and match is the name of the game. You don't need the bridal bouquet to match those of the bridesmaids, using colors you never imagined will ever work together, like pink and orange add a fresh dimension, and even using unconventional elements like twigs, fruit and bamboo is now highly accepted.
I even heard of a bride who ditched fresh flowers all together, and made her bouquet out of candy in all shapes and sizes. There are many ideas, just don't be afraid to be bold, and say it with flowers.
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| | | Helping hands: Immigrants providing more US elder care | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:27:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Wanda Moeller's blue eyes dance when she talks about Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Grand Ole Opry -- and Haydee Carrillo, the Salvadoran immigrant who has helped care for her for six years. Three mornings a week, Carrillo lifts the partially paralyzed Moeller from bed and gives her a bath, breakfast and oxygen treatment. Then she applies lipstick for her 76-year-old client, and the two run errands or have fun talking or looking at photos of grandchildren. .... | |
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| | | Cake contract sweetens profits | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:18:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | TICONDEROGA -- Since Deborah Mackey opened The Gourmet Gal in 2001, the catering business has grown by leaps and bounds -- or in her case, by specialty sauces and wedding cakes.Most recently, the business even nailed down an out-of-state contract to provide 1,000 high-end gift cakes to Calyx & Corolla, a Vermont floral and gift company.The whole thing started when she asked a friend who works at Calyx if the company would be interested in marketing her Savory Sauce, Mackey recalled.The sauce, a salad dressing she's made since her children were infants, is a product she suggests for everything from dipping veggies to marinating meat.Sauce, however, was not what Calyx officials had on their minds. .... | |
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| | | Exchange-student friendship flowers | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:42:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kenny Gross was a high school student at Sioux Falls Washington in 1999, participating in a student exchange program in Potsdam, Germany, Sioux Falls' sister city. One June day in math class, he said "Hi" to a young lady named Marina Hiebert. Later, at a party, Gross tried to impress Hiebert with some small talk in German. "He said, 'Ich bin heiss,' " said Hiebert. "This means he is hot - in a sexual way. I was like, that's really nice - you're 'hot.' Okay, that's nice information - thank you." Gross meant he felt warm and should have said: "Mir ist warm." But the endearing exchange ignited a spark between them. That October, Hiebert flew to Sioux Falls with fellow students, and she met up with Gross again. "It's complicated," said Hiebert.... | |
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| | | A World of Petals Brings Flowers from the Heart to the Community and Beyond | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:14:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Flowers have an international reputation for exponentially improving the quality of a person's day. Like love itself, they speak a language that requires no translation. Consider the term "flower power." To most, it's just a leftover catchphrase from the 60s. However, studies conducted at Rutgers University reveal that flowers have immediate and long-term positive effects on emotional reactions, mood, social behaviors and even memory for both males and females. Doing its part to elevate the mood of the neighborhood is Detroit's A World of Petals florist shop. Since opening in July, this shop with the hard- to-miss hot pink exterior has not overlooked an opportunity to bond with the community. This includes weekend hot dog cookouts in their large parking lot. It means staying open way past closing time to deliver flowers to a customer's wife working the graveyard shift.... | |
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| | | Courtney E. Martin: The Pleasure Of Distance | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:15:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | My boyfriend, Nik, and I will celebrate our seventh anniversary this year. Or more accurately, we won't. You see, we've never been much for the traditional trappings of romantic relationships. He's never bought me flowers. We don't exchange those daily phone calls updating one another on what we ate for dinner. I'm not interested in a wedding ring and he's not interested in putting one on my finger. .... | |
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| | | Summer home offers chance for gardener to fulfill dream | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:04:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | If I had to name one of the 10 things that I'd like to do before I die, it would be to rent a summer cottage on the waterfront of a quiet, intimate lake and watch the sun rise and fall every day with the love of my life at my side. This summer, that dream was fulfilled for me when the "cottage for rent" sign was posted — for a very short time — at Bishop Colonies of Saylor's Lake in our own town of Saylorsburg, and a cottage named The Heart's Desire became available. On touring The Heart's Desire, it was pleasing to find that its many windows and screened-in porch overlooked the lake and faced the eastern sky. This made conditions favorable for providing the morning sun that many of my houseplants would soon learn to love. continued below .... | |
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| | | Sahara to launch new service for NRIs | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:25:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | New Delhi: Sahara India is launching an online subscription service to offer NRIs services like money transfers, medical cover, filing income tax returns, wedding planning and even delivering fresh flowers and gifts. The company plans to provide the services through Sahara Care House, a single window service platform offering products and services for Indians residing overseas who want to connect with their families and friends in India. Sahara Care House is spread across 197 Indian cities across and is manned by 3,500 relationship ambassadors. The services will be launched in Britain next week, which is home to 1.2 million people of Indian origin, and then spread to other parts of Europe and US. The subscription-funded business - a 40 pounds annual registration fee plus an 800 pounds advance against future services - is expected to attract between 18,000 and 25,500 clients in the first financial year alone.... | |
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| | | See the Magnificent 20 Million Dollar Wedding Cake; Someone Will Win a Diamond Slice of the Cake; The Beverly Hilton | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:12:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | To celebrate the Spectacular Bridal show to be held tomorrow, Sunday October 22, 2006, at the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, Weddings In The Grand Tradition and The Beverly Hills Courier will debut the Most Expensive Wedding Cake ever created, by Cake Designer Nahid La Patisserie Artistique and Mimi So Jewelers of Beverly Hills. Mimi So is affiliated with the world famous Compagnie Financiere Richemont Group, the Luxury Goods Conglomerate, encompassing many of the most prestigious names including Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget, Alfred Dunhill and Montblanc. The one of a kind "DIAMOND WEDDING CAKE" a collaboration of Mimi So and Award Winning Cake Designer Nahid will be the highlight of the first ever Luxury Brands Bridal Show in Beverly Hills, to be held at The Beverly Hilton, on Sunday, October 22, 2006 from 11:00 a.m.... | |
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| | | Non-traditional couples struggle against wedding customs | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:13:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | The first rule when it came to my wedding with JD was that it had to be outside. After all, he proposed outdoors, and I figure the engagement should set some kind of precedent. "You want a hippie wedding," my younger sister said, "because you're a hippie." No, I tried to explain to her that the hippies are all yuppies now; I'm too young to be a hippie. As my mom began her usual speech about past lives, she saw the look on my face and cut herself short to say, "Well, I guess you are just a hippie dipper." My sister said, "Hippie," and left the room. continued below .... | |
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| | | Woman murdered following son's wedding | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:34:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Port Credit family who just celebrated a wedding over the weekend is now dealing with a murder after the mother of the just-married man was found dead in her townhouse Monday morning. Peel Regional Police said yesterday the woman's husband has been taken into custody and charged with first degree murder in connection with the incident on Shawnmarr Rd. Investigators were called to the townhouse complex in the Lakeshore Rd. W. and Mississauga Rd. area where they found 54-year-old Zofia Strojnik's body, Monday at about 5:30 a.m. Julian Strojnik, 55, was arrested at the scene and has since been charged with first-degree murder. Neighbours said the couple, who came here from Poland, had been married for more than 20 years. They had a son and a daughter who still lives at home while she attends college.... | |
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