If you want to have an indoor shot, warn your photography days in advance. Keeping your wedding photographer well informed will ensure he/she brings the necessary extra lighting equipment.
Avoid direct sunlight streaming into the windows. If you have direct sunlight, keep some curtains at hand that are a little thicker to diffuse it. You can assist your photographer to put light cotton cloth over the outside of the window in order to cut down the direct sun. Or better yet, pick a room location with windows facing north.
Reception Lighting
Think romance! Get creative. Try lots of candles or little Christmas lights placed on and under things. Christmas lights, hanging bulbs, and rope lights all look good in the background especially if you hang them just above head high.
If you are having an outdoor reception, placing your dance floor under a tent will make a world of difference. Your wedding photographer can bounce the flash up into the tent roof, and provide a much more even lighting condition than direct flash. A tent also gives you a structure to hang the small lights in the roof which create a mellow warm background.
Moving Light Concerns
If you hire a DJ who uses moving spot lights, every place the spot light hits will be much brighter than the rest of the area. Due to this rapid moving nature, light becomes near impossible for your photographer to calculate the correct exposure. Translation: this leaves no options for the photographer but to shoot a strong flash to overpower the disco lights, which results in a missing black background.
The solution? Ask the DJ in advance about their lighting setup. Inform them you wish to cut the disco lights at moments notice, or ask them if they could use constant stationary colored lights instead. Lights that throw colors or patterns on the wall or roof are great, but ideally you would not let them hit the crowd directly.
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.
Unless you have been professional trained to look good in all photos, at all angles, chances are there are some photos you’d rather hide in your closet. Here are some tips to be photogenic. 1. Heads up
This means literally. Tilt your head slightly upwards, meaning the camera should be just above eye level. You wouldn’t wanna be caught looking down on your wedding day, that’s just negative. And this trick prevents a double chin, which of course you would want to avoid - at all costs. 2. Relax
Most people get too tensed worring about ruining the photo that they are, in fact, spoiling it. Relax, take a deep breath, it’s either in or out! By relaxing your face muscles, it instantly creates a natural glow! Now what beats what? 3. Do not force
If you don’t like smiling (or just had jello spilt on your gown and have no intention to for the next 345seconds), don’t force it. Trust us, you wouldn’t want to leave any trace of artificial expression in a photo. They will haunt you. 4. Upfront
One basic trick is to never stand straight into the camear. It never did anyone good for the past century. Tilt your body to a slight angle, and have your hips twist towards the camera. Reduces red eyes, higher appeal and definitely enhances your feature. 5. Be a child
Look at your old photos from when you were small. Was there any that wasn’t adorable or picture perfect? Our bet is none. That’s because children generally follow the rules of photo taking, that too effortlessly. They are relaxed, sincere with their expressions and playful. So bring out the child in you and it will show in the photos. Bottom line is, if you’re having fun it will show.
All the brides wish to show their best look in wedding, so many brides want to lose weight before their big day. Follow our guidelines and, without counting a calorie or weighing a single morsel that passes your lips, watch the pounds drop off…
Don’t
* Eat when you’re not hungry. Most of us have got into the habit of eating for reasons other than hunger, when we’re bored or angry, say. Whenever you feel hungry ask yourself: “Am I really hungry or is it something else?” If it’s a comfort you’re after, do something else: have a bath, phone a friend, double-check your wedding plans.
* Expect a huge change in your weight overnight. Aim to lose 1 to 2lbs per week.
* Weigh yourself every day as you’ll only be measuring changes in your body water. A weekly weigh in, at the same time of day, will give you a far more accurate record of your progress.
* Be fooled by low-fat food claims. Some foods may claim that they’re low fat, even when the fat content could still be contributing up to 40 per cent of the calories. What’s more, fat-free foods often need something else to replace the flavour, usually sugar!
Do
* Eat more fruit and vegetables.
* Fill up on high-fibre carbohydrates. They’re low fat, but will help you to feel fuller for longer. Because these foods are processed by the body at a slow, steady pace, they help to keep hunger pangs at bay. Good high-fibre carbohydrate foods include wholegrain rice, pasta and bread, oats, vegetables, pulses (lentils and beans) and fruit.
* Eat some high-protein foods such as meat and poultry. Grill or roast rather than fry. Always trim off any visible fat and remove the skin from chicken and turkey.
* Eat some fat, but especially the polyunsaturated kind found in seeds and fish.
* Drink plenty of water — up to eight glasses a day.
* Eat regularly — up to five times a day. Don’t allow more than three hours to elapse between meals or snacks. Eating little and often will help to stave off the hunger pangs and keep your blood sugar levels even, helping you to avoid cravings.
* Eat when you’re hungry. If you don’t, your body thinks it’s being starved and starts burning vital muscle for energy rather than excess fat.
* Eat slowly and stop when you’re full. You don’t have to clear your plate.
* Eat a little of what you fancy. You can eat chocolate in moderation: as long as you can control the urge to binge, it won’t hamper your weight loss.
* Drink alcohol in moderation. If you want a drink, have a glass with your evening meal, but don’t store up your daily allowance for a weekend blow out — it’ll do you more harm than good.
* Remember that you’ll get more of what you focus on. So spend some time each day picturing yourself as you would like to be – slim and gorgeous in your wedding dress…
* Get more exercise. Just 20 minutes of aerobic activity releases hormones called endorphins that help to improve your mood. The Health Education Authority actually recommends 30 minutes of exercise a day to stay healthy. However, you don’t have to join a gym to work out. Brisk walking will do the trick — it actually burns more calories than low-impact aerobics. All you need to do is invest in a pair of good trainers.
* One way to tot up your 30 minutes of activity is to get off the bus a few stops early, take a walk in your lunch break or walk to work instead of driving. Plan your walks so that you cover flat, uphill and downhill terrain. Start out at a gentle pace and gradually build up. Try to alter the speed and intensity of your walks; do a slow ramble one day and a short, fast walk the next.
Every bride want to have a prefect wedding, and they always spend much time on preparing for their wedding. Dress alteration is often one of the most time-consuming tasks. Most wedding dresses are sold in stock sizes that must be altered to fit the bride’s specific contours. When the budget is tight, a bride may ask dressmaker to alter her dress, or may alter the dress by herself. This is not a task that can be done by a novice seamstress, however. Great care, skill, and attention to detail is required.
Allow the bride to put the dress on. Pull the slack evenly on both sides of the bodice at the seam to get a sense of how much will need to be taken in. If you only pull to one side, the bodice will be uneven. It is crucial that you keep the dress centered on the bride’s body. Mark the fabric where the new seams will be with a chalk pen.
Measure how much will have to be hemmed up from the bottom of the dress. Hemming needs to be the same all the way around the dress, which can be tricky when a train is involved. Mark where the new bottom should be with fabric chalk and pin it up with straight pins. You will need a straight pin about every 2 inches. Measure the hem once it is pinned to be sure that it is even all the way around.
Use the seam ripper to undo the seams in order to sew new ones if needed. Sometimes you can leave the old seams if the bride plans to pass the dress on. In this case, you will need to carefully work around the original seams, while still taking the dress in — a challenge for any seamstress. Ripping the seams out and starting fresh is easier, but not by much. After ripping the seams, you will need to alter each layer of the dress individually.
Sew the new seams using the same stitch that the manufacturer used on the dress. Manufacturers will always use the stitch that works the best with that particular fabric, which takes the guess work out of some of the alteration.
Sew the hem into all layers of the skirt of the dress. Just like with the bodice, you can choose to leave the length on the dress so you can let it out again later if needed, or you can cut it off. Perform at least one more fitting, and take note of any other alterations you need to get the dress fitting perfectly. It is not uncommon for alterations to take several iterations.
Press the dress and steam all wrinkles out once all alterations are complete. This gives the dress a crisp, fresh look for the wedding ceremony.
Bridesmaid dresses can be also important for your wedding. So when you select bridesmaid dresses, you should consider the shape and style that will make all of the bridesmaids feel and look good. Avoid a bridesmaid dress that will distract from the wedding dress. Here is a good video that can tell you how to select bridesmaid dresses.
Indoor Window Lighting
Unless you have been professional trained to look good in all photos, at all angles, chances are there are some photos you’d rather hide in your closet. Here are some tips to be photogenic.
All the brides wish to show their best look in wedding, so many brides want to lose weight before their big day. Follow our guidelines and, without counting a calorie or weighing a single morsel that passes your lips, watch the pounds drop off…
Every bride want to have a prefect wedding, and they always spend much time on preparing for their wedding. Dress alteration is often one of the most time-consuming tasks. Most wedding dresses are sold in stock sizes that must be altered to fit the bride’s specific contours. When the budget is tight, a bride may ask dressmaker to alter her dress, or may alter the dress by herself. This is not a task that can be done by a novice seamstress, however. Great care, skill, and attention to detail is required.
