Save the Date vs Event Invitation

Save the dates are a newer idea, and after hearing about them, sometimes couples will get confused, and then try to blur the lines between save the dates and invitations.

Save the dates should be completely separate from invitations; You can do without an save the date altogether, but mixing a save the date and an invitation is no good.

Wedding invitations are the formal, official invitation that lays out the event in detail, and asks the guest to respond with whether or not they will attend. Wedding invitations should be sent out 2-3 months in advance.

Save the dates are an informal note that should, for the most part, stick to just the names and date of the couple. Save the dates should be sent out 5-10 months in advance.


On the invitation side:

Even if your wedding invitations will also be informal feel, this doesn't mean that you should send them out without asking for guests to respond in some way, or that you should send them out too far in advance.

Trying to throw a large event without a guest count is likely to lead to trouble with excess guests, or waste, if you prepare for far more than arrive. Make your life easier by getting a rough guest count. You may want to skip response card, but could still easily ask guests to respond via telephone.

Sending your invitations too far in advance has it's own pitfalls. You may think that all of the details are nailed down, but if you haven't signed all of your important contracts (venue!) and hired an officiant, it is not time to send out the invitations.


On the save the date side:

No response should be requested. Asking guests to respond so far in advance, without all of the details of the event, is jumping the gun! Keep these simple- don't include the venue location, or the time of the wedding. For the most part, save the dates are just supposed to be a fun extra.

Naturally, not every wedding and situation is the same, and their will be exceptions.

If your event will be in the middle of a major holiday or local festival, it is a good idea to include this on the save the date- save the dates actually are at their most useful in such cases. And if your save the date is for a destination wedding, it is actually a good to pack in a bit more information about where & when the event will be, and how to get there.

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CLAIRE AND JAMIE'S PRE-WEDDING PORTRAITS ON THE BEACH

Claire and Jamie are being married at Redworth Hall, a wedding venue near Darlington in County Durham this week and I spent some time with them a few weeks ago to have a chat about their big day and get to know them a little more.

I hadn't seen them since we met almost a year ago with their parents when I was pitching to be their official photographer at their wedding.

We got on well then, and I enjoyed being with their family as well, so it was good to hook up again and talk life, love and weddings.....

Jamie had injured his ankle, so I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have been too happy being dragged across the sand dunes and beach - but he took it in good heart and spirit, and Claire just laughed!

A pre-wedding portrait session gives my brides and grooms and myself a chance to bond a little so that when it comes to the wedding day, we're not strangers and they and their families will be confident that I can record the biggest day of their lives and create some lovely photographs at the same time!

I hope you enjoy a few of the images we created on our walk on the coast near Hartlepool - look out for a selection of their wedding photographs next week!

DIRK VAN DER WERFF

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Tea Room Bridal Shower

My amazing maid of honor threw me a gorgeous bridal shower over Thanksgiving weekend! She held it at Holly Berry Tea Room, an adorable tea room in an old house in the historic part of my hometown. Since it was the day after Thanksgiving, it was already decorated for Christmas!


We started with delicious tea sandwiches, chips, gelato, and lemon cream cake. Yummmm

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We moved on to some party games! First up was Clare and Anthony trivia:

• When did Clare and Anthony meet? (August 26, 2003)
  
• How did you meet? (student orientation for Turing Scholars)
  
• Where was your first date? (Mozart's Coffee Shop)
  
• How long did you date? (5 years)
  
• Where did Anthony propose? (Mozart's Coffee Shop)
  
• How many animals do you and Anthony own? (24)
  
• How many animals do you roughly hope to own? (in the hundreds - mainly geckos)
  
• Where is Anthony from? (New Jersey)
  
• What animal distracted you before Anthony's proposal? (turtles in the water!)
  
• What other important event was taking place the night of your proposal? (Obama's DNC speech)
  

Everyone was also asked to anonymously write down some marriage advice for me, which I read out loud. They ran the gamut from "Don't go to bed angry", "Win every fight", and "Try not to fight".

Remember my bridal shower outfit? I think it turned out well!



Going with the tea room theme, the favors were tea mugs with an infuser, similar to these from World Market.


Thanks to my lovely ladies for throwing me a beautiful shower!

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WEDDING: Props and Favors for a Non-Denominational Ceremony

i don't usually endorse commercial websites cos it's just not my style, but i discovered a website recently that offers an alternative from those cheesy and over-the-top wedding favour storefronts.

it's called MY SPIRITUAL WEDDING (http://www.myspiritualwedding.com/) and it has all the props a couple may need for a unity ritual. they carry items other sites don't often have in one place, like handfasting cords and Native American wedding vases, along with the typical stuff like unity candles, sand, ketubah, unity coins and more.

there's also a non-secular side to the spiritual, and the site has all that stuff, too.

i don't buy from the site, but i like using the information on the site to research the ceremonies and rituals i perform.

venus, officant and Life-Cycle Celebrant® at A Non-Denominational Ceremony

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WEDDING: Private Home in Sun Valley, CA

CONGRATULATIONS: Anna and Khalid!

Amidst the curvy lanes of La Tuna Canyon Road, this private wedding included bellydancers, delicious Moroccan cuisine, and beautiful tents complete with pillows and hookahs!

The ceremony itself emphasized the couple's relationship. It was simple and to the point, without a great deal of mushiness, since physical affection is not usually displayed in either Bulgarian or Moroccan wedding traditions. The reception blended the bride's Bulgarian and the groom's Moroccan cultures.

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Marcela started studying singing with Gloria Sopeño, and later on with Marisa Biasotti, Amalia Estéve and Maria Kallay. Parallel to her singing lessons she studies piano and solfeo with Hulda Mosatelli, musical language at the Juan José Castro de La Lucila musical conservatory, French, German and Italian diction with the maestro Esteban Collado (Theatre Colón in Buenos Aires)
During her adolescence she formed part of various different musical style vocal a capella groups and choirs, interpreting various symphonic-corals as a chorister and soloist: Mass in G by Schubert, Gloria by Vivaldi, Mass in C major, G, Bflat and Mozarts Requiem, amongst other and the chorus of La Opera Tosca by Puccini.

In 1996 she is received as a musical therapist in the department of medicine at the University of Salvador. Later she travels to Mallorca where she received singing classes from Eulália Salbanyá, and she gives a concert together with the pianist David Mohedano in Port Pollensa.
In July 2001 she participated in the international Balearic Island singing competition, imparting singing classes with Carmen Bustamente, repertory with Manel Cabero and corporal technique with Peter Mac Farlane.
In November 2001 she gives a lyrical concert at the Porteño theatre La Scala de San Telmo in Argentina, accompanied on piano by Miguel Erglis, interpreting works for camera and opera arias.
She sings along side the Benjamin Britton Orchestra under the direction of Martin Bascuñana together with the mezzo soprano Marisa Roca for the popular fiesta Dijous Bo.

In 2003 and 2004 she worked as a singing teacher at the Poyensa School of music in Mallorca. In 2006 she participates in the series of concert called Winters in Mallorca together with the concert pianist S.Bardbury in different venues and churches around Mallorca.
In Buenos Aires, in 2004 she gives a concert at the Stella Maris theatre together with the pianist Miguel Erglis and in January 2007 a concert at the Quinta Pueyrredón de San Isidro together with the pianist Claudio Santoroand and in 2008 in the Stella Maris theatre with musicians from the orchestras of the theatre of Colon in Buenos Aires Vieneses with the participation of the soprano singer Verónica Cerezo, Isabel, and Mariano Iguanzo under the musical direction of Ramiro Soto Monllor.
In 2008 she is invited to participate in the master classes of the great tenor Enrico Facini organised by the Mallorca music festival.
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Recap: Venture Out Onto the Jetties

Our reception venue, the Hotel Galvez, is literally across the street from Galveston's beaches, so we simply HAD to take dramatic pictures out on the jetties.  That of course required getting to a jetty in my huge wedding dress.

My maid of honor / train picker-upper only later told me that she is scared to death of jetties! To be honest, it was pretty treacherous picking our way across the granite boulders barefoot. But the pictures were completely worth it!

I did not plan this adventure very well - we didn't have any towels to wipe off our sandy feet! Luckily, my amazing maid of honor had a water bottle for rinsing and a piece of paper for wiping.

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Movie ticket themed wedding invitations

This post is about a design idea for a 5x7 movie ticket themed invitation set.

Naturally, there are are a lot of ways you could incorporate a movie theme for an invitation- this is just one idea!



This invitation is a white 5x7 inch card printed over with the design. With digital printing, this is actually the only way to get light text and a dark background- completely covering the card in ink.

Two drama faces hide at the sides of the ticket, and the rsvp card matches the invitation.

This project also turns out to be another good example of multi-lingual invitations. In this case, a second set of the invitations is in Spanish.

This particular design idea would also work well with a colored card stock. Below is a photograph of a yellow toned card printed with black ink.



If you wanted to carry the theme even further, you could actually have me cut out the half-circles at the sides of the invitation.

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WEDDING AT WYNYARD HALL FOR NIKI AND STEVE

Wynyard Hall is a great wedding venue and one that has gone from a standing start to 180 weddings a year with little or no chance of booking a wedding on a Saturday or Sunday until 2013.

I met with Niki and Steve only 12 weeks before their wedding at Wynyard Hall after her cousin, Sue Wilkinson suggested me for her wedding photography. I had photographed Jo's wedding, Sue's daughter at Crathorne Hall.

Niki wanted a relaxed, happy day with family and friends and with lots of children and grand-children around it was certainly going to be a busy wedding!

Niki is an ebulent, happy go lucky lady who is thrilled to have finally met her soul-mate, while Steve is cool, calm and confident - and a man of few words, but as he said in the speeches, he has finally met his soul-mate too!

When I arrived mid-morning at Wynyard Hall it was all action right from the start, with mum's and sisters and friends and children and grandchildren all vying for attention from the hairdresser and two lovely ladies, Debbie and Rachel Cook from The Bridal Collection in Lancaster, not far from where Niki will be setting up her new home. They were helping the bride get ready along with all the bridesmaids and many of the children ... quite a job!

This gave me the opportunity for lots of nice relaxed images, amazingly relaxed considering the amount of people beavering away in two rooms!

Steve and his party arrived not long after - about half an hour earlier, but as he explained, when you have shelled out all the money for a wedding venue like Wynyard Hall - you want to be there enjoying it!

By now, the day was running late, about 30 minutes late, but finally EVERYONE was ready and as I expected, it all got a bit emotional when Steve saw the children all coming down the aisle followed by a resplendent Niki in her beautiful wedding dress.

Once the service was over, everyone headed into the Statue Gallery as it was pretty cold and gray and misty outside, and after an hour of congratulations, champagne and Pimms we headed to the Chapel for a quick confetti shot vefore gathering people together for ten minutes of informal family photographs.

Once that was over we headed for a great wedding breakfast, topped off with speeches and tears and Niki even stood up to make a speech as well - more tears as she thanked her family and friends and Steve for agreeing to be her husband. Awwwww.....

Another break allowed me to catch a few images of the evening guests arriving and a few photographs of a shy Steve with his beloved before we headed to the conservatory and the cutting of the cake and the first dance.

Steve surprised everyone, myself included as he ended up swinging Niki about the dance floor in a final flourish before the big kiss!!

Great day for Niki and Steve and their extended families and friends, and I hope my sneak peek photographs give you a flavour of the day.

See more photographs on Friday on my Facebook profile HERE, and when the happy couple come back from The Maldives, they will email their friends with the password and access address to SEE ALL THEIR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS, which you can also purchase if your photographs didn't turn out!

You can see photographs from Caroline and Antony's recent summer wedding at Wynyard Hall HERE and see the sneak peek of Kirstey and Mark's Winter Wedding at Wynyard Hall HERE.

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If you would like natural, relaxed and happy wedding photography from a 25 year professional wedding photographer to capture your fantastic wedding at Wynyard Hall, ring me for free on 0800 8047270

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