Which Bridal show will you be at this weekend?

So many Bridal shows to attend, where will you be? Saturday & Sunday, January 11 & 12, 2014 10am - 4pm $12 admission. L.A. Convention Center (GPS) 1200 L.A. Live Way Los Angeles, CA 90015 __AND__ Sunday, January 12, 2014 Sheraton Cerritos 12725 Center Court Drive Cerritos, CA 90703 - Showcasing Southern California's top wedding professionals for all your wedding planning needs. Shop, compare and get insights and advice from the leading wedding experts. Preview new ideas and fresh styles. Taste gourmet cake and cuisine, see fashion, enjoy music/entertainment and take advantage of show discounts and giveaways. Have fun while discovering the best options to make your dream wedding come true! Show Hours: 11 am - 3 pm (714) 572 -1363 www.PremierBridalShows.com

Busy Bridal Shows Weekend

So many great Bridal shows to choose from happening this first weekend of the new year. Glad we are not a Bride, because we don't have to make a choice, we will be at all of them! Hope to see you at one or two... Saturday and Sunday, January 4 and 5, 2014 at the Anaheim Convention Center, 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802 - Show Hours: 10 am - 4 pm, Showcasing Southern California's top wedding professionals for all your wedding planning needs. Shop, compare and get insights and advice from the leading wedding experts. Preview new ideas and fresh styles. Taste gourmet cake and cuisine, see fashion, enjoy music/entertainment and take advantage of show discounts and giveaways. Have fun while discovering the best options to make your dream wedding come true! (714) 572 -1363 • www.PremierBridalShows.com _AND_ Saturday, January 4, 2014 from 10am-4pm, $12 admission at O.C. Fair Event Center, 935 Arlington (Entrance Gate), Costa Mesa, CA 92626, Save time with 150 Coastal Orange County wedding products and services. This season's smartest brides-to-be will be attending BrideWorld Expo, the area's largest gathering of wedding exhibits, planning ideas, fashion, and fun! Shop and compare local retailers, audition entertainers, sample cake and catering, enjoy a bridal fashion show, and discover many of the absolute best wedding values. (800) 600-7080 • www.brideworld.com _AND_ January 5, 2014 • 11:00am - 4:00pm at The Queen Mary - Long Beach, 1126 Queens Hwy • Long Beach, CA 90802 We are the LARGEST & LONGEST RUNNING Bridal Show in Long Beach/South Bay! Bridal Showplace is proud to announce the appearance of David Tutera as the featured guest at Bridal Showplace Bridal Show aboard the legendary Queen Mary. Brides will have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet up-close and personal with the wedding industry’s most sought after “wedding dream maker” David Tutera as he will host a special 60 minute presentation with Q & A, as well as Meet & Greet, Book Signing & Photos. We also invite you to meet with over 100 of So Cal's most prestigious Wedding Professionals ready to help turn your Dream Wedding into a Reality! Indulge in scrumptious cake by Hansen Cakes. See the latest fashions for the entire Bridal Party. Enjoy a spa massage or beauty makeover. Have your photos taken at the photo booths. Get 1,000s of Wedding Ideas and Tips from the experts. The first 100 Brides in line will receive a SWAG BAG filled with a 700+ page wedding planner, a Certificate for a Resort Getaway, beauty samples, special offers and more. Enter to win $1,000s in Door Prizes including Photo Engagement Sessions, Gift Baskets, Gift Certificates, Hotel Stays, Romantic Dinners, and 3 luxury Honeymoons will be awarded! GROOMS ARE SPECIAL TOO... The first 50 Grooms in line will receive a Certificate for a Resort Getaway including Airfare. Additional Drawings will be held for Grooms Only - Make sure to bring your Groom with you! (Tickets to these events are separate & also includes admission to the bridal show) General Admissionto the Bridal Show only: $10.00 Queen’s Package includes: 60 Minute Presentation, Q & A, Bridal Show entry $49.00 Captain’s Package includes: Meet & Greet, Photos, Book Signing (David’s books must be purchased at the show) and Bridal Show entry. $39.00 Photo with David Tutera & Bridal Show entry . $25.00 All Access Pass includes Queen’s & Captain’s Packages & Photo With David Tutera $75.00 - (562) 924-2048 • www.bridalshowplace.net

Brides-To-Be

It’s the Holidays, and that usually means couples all over the world are getting engaged! If you are a Bride-To-Be, and planning your upcoming Wedding, may we be one of the first to say Congratulations! What a great way to start out the new year! And there are so many Bridal shows in January to choose from. Choose wisely, because some are better than others. We recommend all the shows that we will be attending which are listed under Bridal Shows on our website, WeddingGuideonline.com These snow scenes are beautiful, but it sure is nice to be outside in the warm sunshine like today. Days like today and yesterday, are the reason we all love living in sunny Southern California! The snow is fun to visit, but living in it every day is a different story. For comfort, I’ll take a beach scene over a snow scene any day! Snowboarding works great in the sand. Sand is a lot like snow, but much warmer. We hope your Christmas was just as wonderful as ours was, and that you all have a safe, and very Happy New Year. Try to slow your life down, relax and enjoy the rest of this year with your Family & Friends. We’ll see you in January...

Recipe For A Successful Marriage

Recipe For A Successful Marriage 3 cups – Tenderness 1 cup – Commitment 1 cup – Consideration 1 cup – Courtesy 2 cups – Unselfish support 2 cups – Milk of human kindness 1 gal. – Faith in God & in each other Add 2 cup – Peace 3 cups – Cooperation 1 small pinch of in-laws 1 realistic financial budget 3 T pure extract of “I am sorry” 1 cup – Contentment 2 cups – open & honest communication 1 cup each: Confidence Encouragement Supportive friends Blindness to each other’s faults Individual interests and hobbies Mix in: Several mutual activities and hobbies Flavor with occasional tokens of your love and a dash of happy memories. Stir well and remove any specks of temper, jealously, or criticism. Sweeten well with a generous portion of love and keep warm with steady flame of devotion. Never serve with a hot tongue or cold shoulder. “Stand together yet not too near… let there be spaces in your togetherness… fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup… remember, the oak tree and the cypress do not grow in each other’s shadow."

Thank You's

Consider sending thank you notes in Holiday cards. If you haven't had a chance to send your "thank you's" out for your Weddings gifts, why not take advantage of the Holidsys to do so. You can include them in a Holiday card, or if you have sent already sent them, include a Wedding picture for a personal touch. One of your duties as newlyweds is to acknowledge each and every wedding gift with a hand-written note of appreciation. Write your notes on plain white or pastel paper, perhaps with borders, but simple enough to maintain the dignity of the Wedding occasion. Mono-grammed stationery is also an elegant touch. To help keep a record of gifts received, you can use a bridal book, an ordinary notebook, or a box of notecards. Allow space for the name of the giver, the description of the gift, and the date the thank you note was sent. The easiest method is to combine your invitation list and your gift list on the same page; this way, addresses are readily available, and you only have to add two additional columns. Ideally, you should write each note as the gift arrives, so that you won’t get behind. Regardless, however, all thank you notes MUST be sent within three months after your wedding.In circumstances where a prompt note is impossible (such as a large wedding of over 250 guests), a printed acknowledgement is acceptable but always followed by a hand-written note. Since most gifts are sent to the bride, it is she who usually writes AND signs the notes, making a reference to the groom (“...John and I appreciated...”). In some cases, where the gift-giver is a stranger to the bride or a close friend of the groom’s, it is correct for the groom to do the honors. Always mention the specific gift. Most of all, be warm and appreciative, remembering that the gift-giver spent extra time and energy to choose something special for you both.

Thanksgiving Weddings with Family

Congratulations if you are getting married this Holiday weekend! Whatever you do on Thanksgiving, we hope that you will take at lease a few moments to really be thankful for what you have, especially for the friends and family that love you. We will be spending precious time with our close family, and loving every minute of it! You should do the same... Here is a little history on the Holiday. Thanksgiving in the United States was observed on various dates throughout history. From the time of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln, the date Thanksgiving was observed varied from state to state. The final Thursday in November had become the customary date in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 19th century. Thanksgiving was first celebrated on the same date by all states in 1863 by a presidential proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. Influenced by the campaigning of author Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote letters to politicians for around 40 years trying to make it an official holiday, Lincoln proclaimed the date to be the final Thursday in November in an attempt to foster a sense of American unity between the Northern and Southern states. Because of the ongoing Civil War and the Confederate States of America's refusal to recognize Lincoln's authority, a nationwide Thanksgiving date was not realized until Reconstruction was completed in the 1870s. On December 26, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the national Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday. Two years earlier, Roosevelt had used a presidential proclamation to try to achieve this change, reasoning that earlier celebration of the holiday would give the country an economic boost. In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a poorly documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the "First Thanksgiving", including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631. In later years, religious thanksgiving services were declared by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford, who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.

Weddings Become Marriages

Getting Married should be about the Marriage and not about the Wedding. So many Brides get caught up in planning a perfect Wedding, they don’t think about the “Ever After”. I am a firm believer in Marriage and living “Happily Ever After”. That doesn’t mean that everything in your life after your Wedding will always be perfect, but if your expectations aren’t unrealistic you can have a very happy life together. When you go through the good times, it is so wonderful to have someone to share and enjoy those times with, and when times are tough, you have someone by your side to help you, and you can work through them together. The secret is, not having any secrets from each other. That doesn’t mean that you need to report to each other on every little detail of your life, but that you always share your feelings and opinions with each other about the important things. You can agree to disagree, but at least you are talking and sharing. Pick your battles carefully, everything is not worth fighting about. Starting with the day you say “I Do” to each other, work together as a unit and you can accomplish so much more in life. Don’t try to change each other, just accept each others faults and focus on your strengths. Work to bring out the best in your partner, and allow them to bring out the best in you as well. Always make time for each other, and remember why you fell in love, and you should stay in love for the rest of your lives. A few “Words of Wisdom” shared with you from Debbie Christensen, Publisher of The Wedding Guide.