Before you start to organise your wedding, you have to decide on the date. The date that you find should suit as many people as possible. Follow these steps to get a basic idea.
1. Look through your calendar to get important dates for the year ahead. Note down public holidays, family members’ and friends’ birthdays, long weekends and any special days like Valentines Day, National Day…
2. Second, you’d better make sure the date your choose is not clash with other people’s plans such as travel, local events.
3. Now, you can narrow down your favourite month or season and work around the availability of your venues and celebrant to set the final date. Alternatively, if you just want to decide on a concrete date and time you might have to work with wedding services that are free on that date and substitute your number one choice for those available.
Other things to consider
* When you’re trying to set a date, take the season and weather into consideration.
* The other major consideration is the location of your ceremony and reception. If you are setting a date based on the availability of specific locations it will be easier for you to notify them and if required book the venues. Some locations can be pre-booked up to 18 months in advance so you will need to make some important decisions early on in order to set your wedding date.
* You probably won’t be able to fit in with every single person involved in your wedding but the main thing is to make sure the date suits you and your partner.

You’ve chosen a beautiful wedding dress for your big day. Now you need to Select the jewelry to match your dress.
1. Take into consideration your “something blue.” Try to choose necklace and earrings with small sapphires in them for a mature and unique look.
2. Talk to your mother, an aunt or a grandmother for a piece of jewelry as your “something old.” A string of pearls for your neck is a popular choice.
3. Make sure the length of your necklace matches your dress. You don’t want your gown to cover your necklace. Chokers are good for strapless gowns, and pedants that mimic a V-neckline look fabulous with V-necklines. Avoid wearing a necklace if your gown is heavily beaded or laced in the bodice.
4. Think about how you want to wear your hair with your earrings. If you’re going to wear your hair down, slightly heavier earrings may look nice. Smaller ones are better with hair that’s up or heavily beaded gowns.
5. Remember your hair. Many brides wear tiaras, barrettes or even weave pearls through their hair. Speak to your hair dresser to find out what kind of hair adornment would work with your hair style.
6. Consider wearing gloves with a bracelet for a classic and old-fashioned look. This looks great with an older style gown but may look odd with a more modern gown.

Although white wedding dress has always been very popular, colored wedding dresses are making a comeback in the fashion world with designers embracing bright hues of shimmering pinks, metallics, and bold primary colors in their bridal gown collections. Do you know how to choose the color of your wedding dress? Here are some tips:
* Choose a color that is flattering to your skin tone. For fair skin tones choose couture gowns in ivory, latte or pale pink. For darker skin tones choose silver, bronze or green.
* Choose a color that has cultural significance. For example, in Chinese and Indian cultures red is a symbol of wealth and prosperity.
* If you don’t want a colored wedding gown, but want your dress to reflect your wedding theme, add a hint of colour to your bridal wear with a sash, waistband or pattern.
* If you’re stuck for wedding color ideas, consider the colour themes from other elements of the day–such as your flowers, cake or stationery and match your dress to them.

Some of our favorite designers give us a sneak peek at the gowns they’ll send down the runway at the Fall 2012 New York Bridal Market. Now, let’s look at them.

Augusta Jones
Augusta Jones designer Charlotte Leung looked to two of the past century’s most iconic decades for her Fall 2012 inspiration: from the 1920s, she drew on bias cuts, high necklines, looser shapes, and jewels; and from the ’50s, she borrowed tailored silhouettes, boat necklines, and beautifully handcrafted floral details.

Francesca Miranda
To achieve that balance in this design, Miranda created a flowing skirt that, while classic in shape, is actually cut from more than 30 yards of silk organza. Somehow, the gown manages to be “imposing but very light,” Miranda says.

Jasmine Couture
The design team at Jasmine Couture went back to their childhoods to dig up inspiration for this collection, drawing on the full-skirted, maximum-glamour aesthetic of a young girl’s imagination. That dreamy romance is translated here into a sleek sweetheart neckline and layered organza that swirls into a ruffled skirt.

Liz Fields
“I wanted to pay homage to a time when women paid special attention to the way they dressed and accented their silhouette,” Fields says of this full-skirted gown. “The dropped waist helps create a great hourglass shape.” An hourglass shape… very Joan Holloway, no?

Maggie Sottero
For her new collection, Maggie Sottero returned to traditional ideas of femininity—namely the art of the corset—and contrasted them with fashion-forward elements, like feathers, raw-edge fabrics, and abundant layering.

Pronovias
References to the world en pointe include fluffy feathers and tutus cut from soft, unreinforced tulle. The jeweled neckline on the gown featured above, for example, evokes cosmopolitan sophistication while the silk chiffon keeps the design feeling fluid.

Simone Carvalli
This halter-style mermaid gown features a ruched bodice and handmade silk roses scattered throughout the skirt. Expect to see a range of silk satins, taffetas, organzas, and chiffons, as well as sashes with an oversize horsehair corsage.

You have other decisions to make, after you get your dreamy wedding dress.
1. What about your headpiece and veil? The sales staff should be able to assist you in choosing a headpiece that goes with your dress. Veils come in several lengths and styles, and again the staff can help you decide which is best for you.
The veil you choose for your wedding depends on the dress you have chosen. If you are wearing a street length casual style dress you wouldn’t choose a cathedral or chapel veil, both of which trail the floor. By the same token you wouldn’t wear a flyaway veil, which barely brushes the shoulders, with a formal dress with a train.
2. Don’t forget you need to get the right lingerie, shoes and jewelry, to go with your beautiful wedding dress.
3. Before we leave the bridal store, there is one more detail to attend to – bridesmaids dresses. When choosing these dresses, you need to take into consideration the ages, complexions, and body types of your attendants. Fortunately today’s bridesmaid gowns are no longer the cookie cutter dresses all in the same color, which nobody would ever wear again.
Some options for bridesmaid dresses are to choose a color and fabric suitable for all of the women and let each of them pick a style that she is comfortable with. Or you can choose a simple a-line or empire waist dress that flatters all figures, and let the girls choose the from a color family. If you do choose to have all attendants wear the same dress, they can personalize the look with small beaded purses, scarves, jewelry or shawls. Be aware that the colors and your bridesmaid’s wear have to complement.