When it comes to wedding, everyone wants a gorgeous ceremony with wonderful reception. The newlywed makes an aborative preparation for wedding dress, wedding favors and wedding cake. It seems everything is ok. But wait, one small but important thing which is often forgotten by the bride-to-be is the cake topper. Since many people don’t realize missing it till after they look at the cake. However good cake toppers do add a unique touch to your wedding, it is necessary to choose a right one. Now there are many selections about cake toppers which are far beyond your imagination. From monogram cake topper to porcelain cake topper, you can always find a topper matching your wedding perfectly. If you are too busy or your idea is too unique, you can even have someone custom a topper to meet your requirement.

Usually if you have a very special theme wedding, custom made wedding cake toppers will be the best choice for you. Since they are customized made and their only goal is to match your wedding. Recently getting your pets involved in your wedding is very popular, if this concept appeals to you, custom a dog or cat cake topper might be a good idea. Remember, cake toppers are talking points of your wedding and also are an essential component of bridal accessories. Why not free your imagination, and let cake topper be the unique connection between your wedding and your real life or personality. For example, having a cake topper representing your hobby or career is a great idea. If so, they will not only be a cake topper on your wedding, but also be an eternal keepsake of your whole life.

After several comparisons among endless choice about wedding toppers, you finally get the one you love. Now show time begins. Put it on your wedding cake and shine your personality and taste to your guest by your unique wedding toppers. Let the topper witness the unforgotten date of your whole life.

Price

You may need to consider the price of the wedding invitation vendor charges in the first place. This is indeed related to your budget and there is no point to hire a vendor or designer who charges so much that it becomes totally out of your budget. Of course a higher price may sometimes mean a better quality and design. You may still need to take care of your wallets.

Usually a company which provides ready made invitation templates will charge you a lower price and a company which makes tailor made designs will charge you more. A design with four color printing will be more expensive than a design with one color printing. A specially made three dimensional wedding invitation of course will cost you even more. Asking for a different options and services provided by the wedding invitation vendor will help you to make a wise decision in terms of price.

Style

The second thing you need to consider is the style of the wedding invitation the company provides. Some companies may concentrate on producing invitations with the photos of the couples and some may be better in making formal wedding cards. You may even approach a company which concentrates on making custom made wedding invitations.

You will need to take a look at the past projects of the wedding invitation provider so that you can have a better understanding of the work they did. You may even need to discuss with the designer of the wedding invitation provider to ensure that they know what your requirements are. By doing this you may know if the designer can give you a proper solution for your wedding cards.

Reputation

The reputation of the wedding card provider is also an essential factor you need to consider. Even if the company provides very beautiful wedding invitations and it really suits your taste, it will be extremely unwise to hire them if they are of bad reputation.

Remember that you will probably only have you wedding once in your life. You will not want any of the vendors to ruin your perfect wedding. To this end you should always choose a company with good reputation.

You can gather the information on the reputations of the wedding invitation vendors by asking on different forums about wedding. You may also consult friends and relatives who have got married. If you are going to ask on wedding forum, you have to bear in mind that the answers may be provided by the competitors of the company you are asking. Filtering the opinions from the web is an essential task otherwise you will just miss the point of asking and consulting.

Sagan: The ceremony usually takes at the groom’s house or it may be at a banquet hall, hotel or club, if the number of guests is large. During the ceremony, the pandit performs “havan”. The girl’s father applies the “tikka” (made of kesar, rice grains and flower petals) on the boy’s forehead who takes the blessing from the girl’s family members. Each of the relatives and friends present from the girl’s side then offers mithai to the boy and gives cash.
Chunni Chadana: When the boys side goes to the brides home, a day or two before the wedding, and take a red chunni and place it on her head, and also apply makeup, indoor, jewellery, mendhi, red nail polish, bindi and other accessories to symbolize her new life with her in laws.A pooja may also be performed.

Sangeet: On of the attractive and interesting part of the marriage ceremony is “sangeet”. After sagan on every night till the wedding day, the relatives and friends get together for singing sessions both at the boy’s as well as the girl’s house. One day is fixed for special sangeet session which is attended and celebrated by both the sides together.

Mehandi: As a ritual, mehandi or henna is sent by the future mother-in-law of the bride-to-be. This mehandi is applied on the hands and feet of the bride-to-be by a relative, friend or a professional mehandiwali. The bride’s close friends and close female relatives dance joyously while the mehandi is being applied to her. They also apply henna on their hands. After the Mehandi ceremony, delicious snacks and meals are served to all present.

Marriage Rituals:The groom comes riding horse in a Punjabi wedding. His friends and relatives accompany him in a procession or the “Baraat”. The “ladkewale” or the boy’s people reach the bride’s house amidst of exhilaration and excitement. Gents and ladies give way to gay abandon doing Bhangra dances all the way.

Milni Ceremony :When the groom’s barat reaches the wedding venue, milni ceremony is performed. The bride’s close relatives give a warm welcome to the groom and his relatives with flower garlands. Rose water is sprinkled on them. In the milni ceremony, the girl’s relatives give shagun to the groom’s close relatives. It is done in the descending order, beginning from the elder most. Cash and clothes are gifted.

Post Wedding Rituals in Punjabi Wedding

As per tradition on her first day in her new home, the bride is made to cook something, preferably a sweet dish like halwa or kheer. The parents and relatives of the groom give gifts and presents to the bride. The first day after the wedding is also an occasion when the newly weds visit the girl`s parents. Both the girl and the boy are given gifts of clothes and jewellery by the girl`s parents and relatives.

Let’s face is, you don’t have to be a millionaire to pass out a few wedding favors. If you’ve shopped around and you felt overwhelmed with the prices of favors, consider making your own! It’s time-consuming, we know! Why not invite the Bridal party over a month or two before the wedding for a gals only night! Pass around a bottle of champagne and have a few laughs while creating your perfect wedding favors!

Stumped for ideas? Try some unique wedding favors. But these two things in bulk: Chinese food cartons and chopsticks. Fill the Chinese food cartons with candy, and tie the chopsticks to the carton with ribbon. No explanation to your guests! Make sure your photographer takes plenty of your guests packing at their candies with chopsticks!

Silk sachets, decorative pictures frames, seashells, cookies, ornaments, scented candles, potpourri, incense, wine-stoppers, candle-holders, and personalized items like: chocolate bars, colas, or even a grain of rice, are all great wedding favor ideas embraced by many couples.

It doesn’t really matter what the wedding favor is, what matters most is how it is presented-and how it is received. Be sure to put each wedding favor at each person’s place setting. Or you can have the flower-girl and ring-bearer pass them out as everyone is leaving the reception. The key is to leave a lasting impression on your guests.

Your wedding favors should be functional. If you’re using them as place-settings, attach a ribbon with each persons name to a tag. If you’re allowing someone to pass the wedding favors out, attach your thank you cards, rather than mail them later. Nevertheless, if you’re looking to add a touch of décor to your reception, put up a tree with white lights and hang wedding favors from the tree. Each person who grabs a favor will truly feel like that are receiving a gift.

Make each favor idea more personal by print you and your spouses name on each item. Have a ribbon or photograph embossed with your name and wedding date. This way, nobody can forget what an incredible time they had on that specific day.

In addition to the wedding favor, it’s always a good idea to send a follow-up envelope with any pictures of your guests and their immediate family. Photograph duplicates are so much more affordable now, with the invention if digital cameras and computer-printing. This is a gift they’ll definitely treasure!

Personalized cosmopolitan, margarita cocktail mixes, personalized chocolate candy bars, tea favors, coffee favors are some suggestions for the most modern and newest wedding favor thoughts to make it memorable for the guests even if the wedding is over.

Not only is it inventive and stimulating to the imagination it is at the same time private or personal. You can save money or be thrifty because wine can be benefited during betrothal dinner, the wedding rehearsal dinner, bridal party or shower, stag parties and the opening of gifts.

With a wide variety or collection and choices to choose from you can create white wine, red wine, dry, pale-pink wine or sparkling wine or it can be a combination or blend. A traditional or sparkling wine is recommended to be used during a wedding toast while a bottle of red, white or dry, pale pink wine is for a wedding token. You could also select or create an alcoholic beverage with a mixture of fruit juice and barley for a cooling and stimulating drink. Summer drinks or an alcoholic beverage out of fermented juice like apples and pears are perfect for a fall wedding.

With the assistance and aid of a brewery shop, you can get a good opinion or advice on what to do and information regarding everything you need to know about wines beginning with the types of wines or grape juice that is appropriate for the meal served to the classification of bottles and label attached to suit your decorative scheme. They will further assist you in reaching a decision as to how many bottles of wine you should create or make with a rule to keep in mind that per person half of the bottle of wine is generally an approved quantity needed.

If the wine is to be distributed at the social function during a chief meal of the day, then you may want to give a unique and designed wine stopper as a token or engage on the wine theme with graphic arts of wine bottle or glasses displayed brilliantly on a small piece of cloth or other wedding personalized accessories.

Creating your own wine is an eminent accessory to add significance to your wedding. Redeeming that final unique and higher valued wine bottle for your first anniversary is a great way to experience again through the imagination of magic what happened on that special day.

When it comes to dating, the Bard got it right. Moderation is key. It keeps you from moving too quickly or too slowly when you’re getting to know new men and what they bring to your table. And the most powerful way to achieve moderation is by using the Dating Program of Three.

The Program of Three is exactly the opposite of the urban legend “three-date rule,” which dictates that you must decide by the third date if a guy is the potentially the One and have sex or lose him forever. On this dating program, you avoid that pressured decision and its aftermath: a Flame Out that usually kills the relationship. Instead you date three men at the same time without having sex with any of them. By not seeing any one man too often, you find the men who are really into you and who will stay the course. Plus, you break out of your prison of deadly dating patterns and maneuver more skillfully in the dating world. By following this program, you build your self-esteem and find men that are much more fulfilling.

Although the idea of finding, much less juggling, three guys may sound challenging — if not downright impossible! — let me reassure you: it won’t be once you begin using all the tools you’ll learn in this dating program.

Why It Works

There are sound biological reasons why the Dating Program of Three rocks!

First of all, it helps you avoid the number one mistake that single women make: the addictive moth-to-a-flame over-involvement with some new guy who is supposedly the “One,” which I call the Flame Out Deadly Dating Pattern. As Helen Fisher, the renowned anthropologist, describes in her fascinating book, Why We Love, romantic love is a real addiction. It is like shooting up cocaine or heroin, which means reason often goes out the window. When we “fall in love” our brains make large quantities of dopamine and norepinephrine, which also happens when you take speed! These brain chemicals create the excited, exhilarated and focused state that allows us to have eight-hour dates and remember every detail about what our new hottie did and said. These speed-like chemicals also can drive up our levels of testosterone, which increases sexual desire.

Second, when we fall in love, serotonin levels fall and resemble the levels found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorders. So we tend to ruminate, fantasize and obsess about our new (drug-like) boyfriends. The new love is in our thoughts all day and in our dreams at night. Your brain says, focus on him, focus on him, focus on him.

Once this process takes you over, you become like a craving coke addict. You lose touch with reality, seeing only the positives. You lose self-control. Instead you are locked on the target, the fix-hotwired and ready to do outrageous things, sometimes self-destructive things, whatever it takes to be with him. One look, one sweet word is all it takes. Even if you don’t really know him. Even if it is not in your best interests. And as you continue to spend more time together the addiction intensifies. You fall prey to:

…the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper,
irresistible-magic to make the sanest [wo]man go mad. ~Homer

If you move too quickly into the pulsing rush of love, you put yourself at risk for an agonizing withdrawal if this man rejects you. Then sleeplessness, crying jags, over- or under eating, obsessive and upsetting thoughts, all mess with your brain chemistry even further.

The Dating Program of Three safeguards you against all these dangers of love addiction. On this program you will see the new hottie less often and have a measured coming together. You will be less likely to lock on to him with a singular focus that puts you at risk. In this way you elegantly avoid getting physiologically and emotionally devastated if it turns out that he is a player or all wrong for you.

The Program of Three also stops you from having sex prematurely. Why is this so important? Simple biology. When you have sex with someone, your body drives up the levels of oxytocin both during the whole sexual act and after you leave the scene. Oxytocin, which has been called the cuddle, bonding, or tend-and-befriend hormone, creates a strong biological attachment. This means that your body may automatically start the attachment process with almost anyone you bed, whether or not you want to be in a relationship with him! Add that chemical to any dopamine surges and you’re desperately waiting for his text, email or phone call. Jumping into bed too soon means you open yourself to premature infatuation, dependency and a kind of pseudo-intimacy that almost always backfires. Then, caught in the chemical soup of dopamine and oxytocin, you will likely lose yourself.

Another benefit of the Program is that dating multiple men usually gets the guys’ juices flowing. Some men (especially achievers) are wired to compete and win in the courtship game, so competitiveness gets them aroused. When his reward (you) is not easily gained, his brain will pump out more and more of the rapturous chemical, dopamine. Extra dopamine intensifies his feelings of being swept away by love. As one love researcher puts it, “…those who want to trigger romance in a would-be lover might artfully create some mystery, barriers and uncertainty in the relationship.” When you are on the Dating Program of Three, you do not have to fake this quality of not being so available-the program automatically accomplishes this desirable state. As one of my Love in 90 students discovered, “Now I don’t have to pretend. I am hard to get.”

Dating three guys helps clarify what you want and need in a man, because you can easily and instantly compare and contrast. So for example, when Friday rolls around and ‘Sean’ is cheap and miserly, Saturday’s date with ‘Randy’ will more clearly showcase his giving nature. When you come from abundance in the land of men, you can give yourself many possibilities rather than just one.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. ~Ben Sweetland

Program of Three dating is challenging, but it’s truly empowering. It allows you to be long-sighted and keep your eye on the prize: a lasting fulfilling relationship that’s just right for you. It helps you end your Deadly Dating Patterns, frees you from the “three-date rule,” and keeps you protected from all the scenarios designed to break your heart. Of course, there are definitely obstacles to creating a Program of Three, but I’ve helped thousands of women do this already, and you’re no different. You can do it, too!

Getting Started on the Dating Program of Three

I can hear you already. “Dr. Diana,” you might be thinking, “I’m still trying to find ONE man to date. How can I find three?” First of all, listen up, ladies: there are more than 41 million single men just in the U.S. right now and different ones are coming on the market all the time! And every year, there are new online dating sites that bring in whole new crops to choose from. There are men out there. No matter what your age, weight or “problem” is.

What if you have special challenges because you are African-American…over 45…a single mom… or so highly successful you scare men away? In my book, Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love I devote an entire chapter to this population group. In it, you’ll find the latest research that dispels many of the urban legends that we have about finding a lasting love relationship.

In fact, every student I ever had who was willing to consistently work the principles, no matter what her challenges or deadly dating patterns were, has been able to create a successful Dating Program of Three.

It’s not as hard as it seems. Drew, a 42-year old single executive with weight issues, was the highest bidder at a charity auction where a mentoring session with me over lunch was the prize. Here’s what she emailed me about a year later:

I particularly thought the point of ‘dating three guys at once’ was amusing at first, but then you know…. it worked. Even though at times I knew some guy wasn’t going to be the love of my life, it was still a diversion from getting involved with another guy too fast before I knew it was the right thing. I think this is the best advice ever and have passed it on to several of my friends. Last summer, I joined a large online dating site and ended up meeting a really nice guy, although at first not necessarily what I thought I was looking for. We get along great, have tons in common, and it’s by far the most mature and healthy relationship I think I have ever been in. We got engaged this past October while on vacation in Florence. He proposed in front of the Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria. We are planning a wedding for next June on Martha’s Vineyard.

When you begin dating three men at once, you’re shifting the balance of power to be more equitable. Starting now, take a stand for yourself, a stand that says you deserve a great partner. Take your time, learn what is possible in a relationship, and start playing an active role in choosing who you’re with. Don’t wait to be chosen. Now, with all the online and offline possibilities you have an abundance of men at arm’s reach, you have the ability to pick and choose for yourself. In Dating Three to Find the One: Part II, we will detail the nitty-gritty of working the Program.

Dr. Diana Kirschner is a psychologist and love expert who has developed a unique approach that has helped thousands of single women get the love they want. Dr. Diana’s dating and relationship advice based on her Love in 90 Days courses and workshops have been featured on the Today Show, where she is a frequent guest, the Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, Montel Williams and Good Morning America. She is widely quoted as a love and relationship doctor commenting on dating and couples issues in the New York Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, The New York Post, The LA Times, Cosmopolitan, and People magazines and in numerous other on- and off-line publications. Her new book, Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love, summarizes all of Dr. Diana’s strategies and secrets for finding love that lasts.

The idea of personalizing a wedding favor is not unique unto itself. Many people put their names and wedding date on favors. The unique part of using personalization is to personalize the favor in a unique way. Since many people use their names and wedding date this is the best place to stray from the crowd. Try using a memorable quote, poem or saying instead. Use something meaningful, but that will really catch the attention of guests. If you really want to use the traditional personalized name/date then try doing it in a different way. You can write, stitch or engrave your personalization into any favor. Use unique types of materials to do this. Expand your thoughts outside the box to get favors that are truly uniquely personalized.

Anything handmade shows the person you are giving it to that you put a lot of thought, creativity and emotion into making it. Your guests would be delighted to receive something you made yourself. Keep it simple because you have to make quite a few of whatever you decide on. Try using a special talent you have to make a wedding favor guests will cherish. To keep it simple make sure you have minimal materials and time invested in the favors. Each favor will be slightly different because they are handmade. You can be guaranteed that nobody will receive that favor at any other wedding. Having handmade wedding favors will give your guests something interesting that they will surely talk about for a while.

Approaching your wedding favors with a creative flair gives you many options to chose from. The best way to go about a creative angle is to chose a theme to work around. You can then chose off-the-wall type favors that suit your theme. This helps you to keep everything tied together. Favors that are eye-catching become conversation items that will add to your reception. Try mini type favors, such as, mini salt and pepper shakers or mini champagne flutes. You can also go crazy and hand out retro favors that someone would have received at a birthday party. Anything goes when you are using your imagination.

Choosing wedding favors can be fun. You can use your creative side to personalize your favors, make your own favors or just go wild and chose something nobody else would even think of. If your goal is to get your guests attention, have fun and keep them talking then going the route of unique wedding favors will help you reach it.

Try and be very unique and original when going after shocking your wedding reception guest. Also try and make sure the wedding favors is practical and useful.

The wedding procession in a Maltese wedding is led by the bride and groom followed by the rest of the bridal party consisting of the bride’s relatives and the singers behind them. The procession moves from the bride’s home to the church where the religious part of the wedding takes part. Most of the Maltese are Catholics thus the wedding takes place at the parish church. The bride and groom walk under a special ornate canopy that is carried by four men each holding one corner of the square canopy. The bride wears a wedding gown that is called a għonnella, which is the traditional wedding gown that the bride wears. Those who hold tightly to tradition practice this culture. Some of the Maltese people prefer conducting a wedding ceremony at the church without the additional spicing up of a traditional wedding gown and the canopy.

The Canadian Maltese weddings are characterized by a ceremony at the chapel, which is later followed up by an extensive wedding reception with variety of food, a motorcade of the bridal party that consists of flashy cars like limousines and beautifully designed wedding reception venues like at hotels. They have a wedding DJ who plays the Maltese music but also blends with some of the modern Canadian wedding music. The Maltese music is called għana and it involves dancing.

There has been a decrease in the application of the Maltese culture mostly by the Canadian Maltese because as much as they would like to preserve the tradition, the process comes along with high cost. Since most of the people are inclined to having an exceptional occasion without spending a lot, most of the Maltese prefer having a Canadian wedding and incorporating only what is available that matches the weddings in Malta. This is a good way of appreciating the Maltese tradition and most of the older Maltese residents in Canada insist on their families applying the Maltese culture to avoid its disappearance. This includes the older Maltese suggesting Malta as a honeymoon destination for the newly weds. This ensures that the couple learns more of the Maltese culture like methods of cooking, important beliefs and religious practices in addition to touring beautiful sites that are found in Malta. Through this, Maltese wedding traditions are preserved.

I’m not referring to untraditional living arrangements, eloping, exchanging vows under the ocean, or anything like that.  I’m talking about merging the traditional wedding with the digital world.  Times have changed and you are getting married this year, not 20 years ago.  When a gigantic portion of everyday is spent surfing the net, blogging, emailing, and texting, doesn’t it make sense to utilize these modes of communication on the big day as well?  The following are some technology-based ideas you could incorporate into your modern wedding, or at least help you get the silicon juices flowing:

Create a central online site for your wedding. You could post something simple with blogspot.com and facebook.com or join various online services to help (check out wedsimple.com and wedsite.com).  This can be a simple, easy way to keep both you and your guests informed and organized.  Items to post may be a calendar of events, wedding colors, photo gallery, maps & directions, bridal party contact info, etc…

Utilize the internet to help get the word out. While paper invitations are nice, email is practical, free, easy, convenient, customizable, and is quickly becoming an accepted wedding protocol.  If you simply can’t imagine a wedding without paper invitations, then consider an email blast to save the date (try evite.com) and include in your paper invitation online RSVP directions.

Make gift giving easier. On your ‘wedsite’ you may include a wish-list and links directly to your bridal registries.  Or instead of gifts, perhaps you would appreciate help with the honeymoon.  A great option is an online honeymoon registry.  The idea here is that your guests purchase parts of your honeymoon.  For example, one night lodging in Fiji @ $180.00 or Dinner for Two on a Catamaran @ $100.00.  This is fun because guests are able to view your entire honeymoon itinerary and buy items out right or contribute what they want toward an item.  There are many websites that facilitate this process (visit honeymoonwishes.com or thehoneymoon.com).

Have an electronic guest registration. Instead of an elaborate book that will get stuffed in a box or trendy picture frame matting, have a laptop at the reception entrance.  Choose a program that works well on the laptop and that you are comfortable with.  Create a document and have guests type in their well wishes as they come in.  If they choose to, they could change the fonts and colors that they want to use, but if they don’t you can easily change everything after the fact.  Don’t forget to enable to auto save feature.  You will probably still want to have one of your bridal party members man the station, just to ensure that everything goes smoothly.

Skype in guests that can’t attend the reception. Perhaps your mother is ill and can’t make the flight or your sister lives overseas, use Skype.com to include them in your big day.  Skype is incredibly user friendly and, best of all, free.  All you need are webcams on both ends and the internet.

Trick out your wedding with a high tech photobooth. Serving mainly the west coast Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and soon Orlando check out HD Photobooth. This ultra modern setup takes the most amazing portraits you have ever seen of yourself with some insane equipment and custom processing software. Better yet all captured images are available for free download the next day. You can also comment on others portraits or transfer images directly to Facebook.

Some couples prefer to have a green wedding because they are sincerely concerned with the environment and at the same time, they feel that this is a great way to save money. But there other couples who go for green weddings just because it is the latest trend. These couples make stupid mistakes during the affair because they do not take time to really study about eco-friendly weddings. 

To avoid the mistakes other couples have done before, be sure to do your homework if you intend to have an earth-friendly wedding affair. Here are ten stupid ideas you should NEVER use for green weddings. 

1. Using old smelly stuff 

Being eco-friendly and being tacky are two different things. Just because you are encouraged to reuse old materials does not mean you can use old smelly things that would turn off (if not, disgust) the guests. If you intend to use old materials like old clothes or old household materials, be sure to wash and clean them thoroughly first. 

2. Using “recycled materials” that are not really recycled

Some stores would say that their items are made from recycled materials even when they are not. Make sure you only buy from reputable stores that sell real recycled items. 

3. Using too many recycled paper. 

You may think that because you are using recycled paper, it would be all right to send ten-page invitations to 500 people. This is not true. Remember, you need to reduce consumption of materials to be able to have the right kind of green wedding. Use only a few sheets of paper for the invitation. If possible, send other invitations such as save the date, engagement party invitation, and bridal shower invitation through email. 

4. Sacrificing quality

Reduce, reuse and recycle but not to the point where you would be sacrificing quality. 

5. Recycling food

Never ever do this if you do not want your guests to end up with intestinal influenza. Serving leftover food or using leftovers as ingredients to dishes is downright unacceptable.

6. Ignoring cleanliness and sanitation

Just like what was mentioned in the first tip, never sacrifice cleanliness and sanitation when reusing or recycling materials.

7. Borrowing your friend’s décor and ideas

It is all right to borrow a friend’s decoration and wedding accessories but what is not okay is to replicate her entire wedding and recycle her ideas. Having a green wedding should not make you a copycat. Strive for originality. 

8. Having many different venues or venues too far away from each other

Driving consumes much gas and energy. Having venues located far from each other or having too many different venues can have adverse effects on our environment. 

9. Not complementing the theme of the wedding

Make an effort to practice earth friendly methods but do not overlook the appearance of your wedding. If the tablecloths you borrowed from a friend clashes with the motif color of your wedding, find some other green way of saving on this expense. 

10. Using disposable dishes for the reception

The concept of a green wedding is to minimize waste as much as possible. Having disposable items to use for the reception is the opposite of what a green wedding wants to promote. 

No, you do not have to be an environmental activist to justify having a green wedding. But of course, it would be good if you choose to get married on a green wedding for the right reasons and not just because you are following the latest trend. Remember, the condition of the earth is not getting any better. It is about time we do something about it. Start by saying, “I do” the green way.