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MAY 15, 2004 NEWSLETTER


Welcome to our NEW FEATURE!! We hope you will enjoy visiting our Bi-Monthly Newsletter page often to check for the latest in....Trends, Etiquette, Advice
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New: Community Well! Help us get the well full of great banter....Next time you are online, be sure to check out the new chat room! Generate some banter in the well and get a chance to talk with local brides about your ideas, questions, concerns and anything else you would like. Very simple to use - you don't have to register any personal information, just click on "Post New" or "Reply To" and join in on the fun. Hope to chat with you soon!
Go To The Well and chat with other Daytona Brides,
or reply to other's questions.

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Chocolate Fountains... Oh, So Sweet!



Koala-T Gifts and Chocolate Fountain Productions, located in Kissimmee, Florida offers a very sweet treat for your wedding guests. Their chocolate fountains, available to rent for your reception, will add a touch of elegance to your wedding. The aroma of chocolate fills the air and invites your guests to indulge in the sweetness of your special day. A silver tiered fountain will create a chocolate curtain for everyone to dip a variety of tasty treats in.
Koala-T Gifts
For a cost of $395, Chocolate Fountain Productions will provide you with a medium sized fountain rental, twenty pounds of chocolate and an attendant for the fountain. The price is for three hours of use and includes the cost of clean up. If you are considering this yummy treat for your reception, be sure to get permission from the manager at your reception facility. You will need to provide a strong, sturdy table for the fountain, which is near an electrical outlet, along with the treats for your guests to dip in it. Contact Carrie at 407-935-9958 or on the web at www.chocolatefountainproductions.com for more information.

Also, be sure to check out www.koalatgifts.com (there is a link on www.getmarriedindaytona.com), for great gifts for your wedding party. They have many different products, from baskets of spa products to personalized labels that will add a special touch for the special people in your wedding.

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Perfect Wedding Favors New: Be sure to check out this great website, with plenty of new and different ideas for your wedding! This month's featured item is: Custom Engraved Chocolate Coins. Check out these attractive and affordable wedding favors at: www.perfectweddingfavor.com

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"WEDDING DAY WISDOM..." An Excerpt From The Book
ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY?
The bride had always dreamed of a garden wedding right at home. Her family had a gorgeous home with rolling acres of green grass. Her mother devoted countless hours to cultivating extraordinary perennials and her pride and joy, her rose gardens. The bride hoped to take advantage of this beautiful landscape. So she ordered some tents in case of rain and began preparations for her dream garden wedding.

As the wedding day drew near, mom and dad spent every waking hour working on the grounds to ensure they were impeccable for this special day. The bride did her part: She spoke to the florist to make sure the bouquets would look like they came right out of the yard. She even ordered a magnificent wedding cake decorated with pastel roses, lilies of the valley and delphinium to match the bridesmaids' bouquets and tie in with the garden wedding theme. While taking care of all these details, she stumbled upon a little shop that sold beautiful, albeit expensive, custom-made chocolate wedding favors perfect to put at each place setting. The bride just couldn't resist them.

Fast forward to the wedding day. The yard looks magnificent. Everything has been delivered as promised and as luck would have it, it is the hottest day of the year. We're talking real hot. The bride was relieved that she ordered the tents. They prevented the sun from beating down upon the guests and offered some shade.

But although the guests were somewhat relieved from the heat, the same couldn't be said for the chocolates. As the guests fanned themselves and chatted about the lovely ceremony, nobody had the courage, although they all thought it, to ask why the bride had put chocolate puddles at each place setting. The heat had melted every one of her beautiful custom-made chocolate wedding favors.

MORAL OF THE STORY: In New England there are two seasons: July and winter.

Tip: Outdoor events are tricky. In most parts of the country, it's too hot or too cold, too rainy or too sunny. There are about three "perfect" days a year.

If your dream wedding is an outdoor one but you are hesitant because of the uncertainty of the weather, there are ways to make it work without jeopardizing the comfort of your guests. We have seen weddings where the ceremony takes place outside in a garden area, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres are served on a patio and then the party moves indoors to an air-conditioned facility, offering the best of both worlds.

Another option if you have your heart set on an outdoor wedding is to find a function facility that has a great outside area for parties, but can provide a contingency plan inside if your luck runs out.

If you are still insistent on having your wedding in mom's garden, simply determine the maximum number of people you can cram into her house and limit your guest list to that number. If the weather doesn't cooperate, that's where they all will be - complaining!

"A Smart Person Learns From Their Mistakes...A Wise Person Learns From The Mistakes Of Others" ...Read More From "Wedding Day Wisdom..." A Wealth of Wedding Planning Information

Terrific Reference Book!

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Ask Ginger...

Q: Ginger, It's great you have a web site where people can submit questions they have regarding their wedding planning. I really hope someone is able to help me out as I'm very stressed out over this! :)

I want a very simple, small wedding party, consisting of a Maid and Maitron of Honor (my sister and cousin). My fiance is insisting his sister be one of my bridesmaids. His sister has never been very nice to me and is often sarcastic and condescending toward me. Needless to say, we are not close at all and I don't feel it is right to put her in our wedding. She is not close to my fiance either, but he feels she should be in our wedding since she is family and he was in her wedding a couple years ago. Whenever I mention how I don't want her in our ceremony, he gets very upset. Do you have any suggestions at all? Do I need to include her as a bridesmaid, or do I have the final word in it since it is my side of the wedding party?

Thanks so much for your time. I really hope to hear from you soon.

Michelle
Miami, FL

A: Dear Michelle Thank you for submitting your terrific question to "Ask Ginger."

Here's my advice to you; If you have agreed with your fiance to have only a small wedding party consisting of 2 attendees on each side, then there is no question that you should be able to choose only the two people closest to you. However, if you've agreed to have more than two attendees , well, you want to consider having his sister included despite your feelings for her but rather out of respect for your Husband -to-be. Remember, a marriage is the union of two "Families." When you marry, you are marrying the family too (sad as that is to accept sometimes), and therefore, your future husband has a privilege of requesting his sister be present in the bridal party, and likewise.

Chances are, she is pressuring him to be in the wedding party. From the way you have described your relationship, its sounds like she would be selfish enough to force the issue...so maybe there's an underlying cause of your fiance's position. If this is in fact the case, anyone that tries to bully their way into a wedding party for self serving reasons is determined to damper your special day. It's best if you accept that now so you can just laugh it off from here on out.

I hope this offers some comfort to you. If I can be of any further assistance, please let me know. Most Sincerely,

Ginger
www.nhweddingmagazine.com
www.getmarriedanywhere.com

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