WEDDING: "A Caucasian's Traditional Chinese Wedding"

Throughout the ceremony, the bride was marveled at her new husband's inquiries about the different traditional Chinese customs that he kept observing. While removing the palanquin, Steven spotted a saddle and a fire pit in front of him. After a brief hesitation, he asked, "What are these for?" The master of ceremony explained that the saddle symbolized peace as it has the same pronunciation in Chinese as "peace," while the fire pit is to burn bad luck away and brings a bright future.

Courtesy of The Epoch Times

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Title: Surprise wedding first dance by Clay Family! U GOTTA C IT!!!

A double surprise! Clay and liz first do a surprise dance for their 10th wedding anniversary but once the kids join in its all over!LOL! They apache, soulja boy, two step, walk it out, reggae mix. You can tell this is a family that loves to have fun! Find out more at http://get2liz.hi5.com

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2.Gonna make you sweat - C & C music factory
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VIDEO: The Importance of Grief and Mourning in Children

Children may experience the death of a parent or family member differently than adults, but they experience it nonetheless.

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TRADITION: College Football's Rose Bowl and Prime Rib = the Beef Bowl?!

American society has so few ties to custom and ritual in this day and age.  That's why it's so interesting to see how sports and athleticism is the one area where tradition is not only expected, but it is also honoured and perpetuated.

An article from the Los Angeles Times wrote about the Beef Bowl, a five decades-long tradition of serving prime rib dinners in a fine dining setting to players of both teams competing in the Rose Bowl (on separate days, of course!). The two teams are invited in to a Los Angeles establishment to communally feast on a prime rib dinner with Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, salad etc.  Inevitably, the event turns into a eating competition each year.  (Here's a tip for you wagerers: supposedly, the team with the most amount of meat consumed is statistically significantly shown to become the winner of the Rose Bowl game...)

Photo by Todd Wawrychuk of ESPN.com

[PLEASE NOTE:  For the record, i have been a vegetarian for over 20 years, and do not personally approve of such overt displays of excess when it comes to something like food and hunger...but i DO enjoy tradition and so i wanted to share this story with you!]

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INFO: Outsourcing of Wedding Vows?? BAD Idea!!!

The Wall Street Journal published an article today about a new trend, which is quite troubling to experienced and certified Celebrant and officiant professionals. The article is from the fabulous Cranky Consumer, and talks about outsourcing one's wedding vows. In fact, it speaks of 'outsourcing' more than the vows part...it suggests leaving it up to a website or computer to spit out the entire ceremony!??

The whole notion of outsourcing is fascinating, but a bad idea, nonetheless. This phenomenon of outsourcing vows (and more) is a result of several factours:

• Clients (couples) who increasingly want to reflect themselves in every aspect of their (wedding) ceremonies - As they should! The participants in a ceremony deserve to be represented by the ceremony. A custom-written wedding (or funeral or baby naming/blessing or housewarming or etc.) is the only way to accomplish this. Otherwise, you may end up with a ceremony that sounds strangely similar to a MadLibs.


• Event planners who are want to be a one-stop shop and provide all services to their clients, whether they are qualified to or not - The fact is, a planner's expertise is in organizing the details and logistics of an event. A venue's expertise is in providing a location and service at the location. But, it is NOT NOT NOT within a planner's breadth of knowledge or experience to provide the text to the ceremony. A venue does not have the experience or familiarity with the specific legal and structural rules involved in officiating and solemnising a marriage. They are not the ones who will complete the requisite documentation, either.
• Choosing people who are not professional officiants to officiate weddings - Leave the writing to someone who has done it before. You can be sure all the love, loved ones, symbolism and/or history of your relationship is represented! Some people are hired for the day to perform a ceremony, but this is the one and only time they will ever perform this important task. There are lots of things to consider during a ceremony, since it is the focal point of the day, if only for a few minutes. Please also see above.
• 'Professional' officiants who use canned ceremony texts and templates in a 'one-size-fits-all-ceremonies-and-clients' manner. Like i said before: MadLibs is the worst-case scenario. Cookie-cutter and generic is the best outcome when you leave it up to a computerized method or a "wedding mill".

Try a uniquely modern, individualized approach to the tradition of ceremony! Contact A NON-DENOMINATIONAL CEREMONY: ORANGE COUNTY & LOS ANGELES OFFICIANT today. And follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/celebrantvenus.

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Title: Internet Marketing Strategy - Information Outsourcing

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Title: Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing

Dave Ramaswamy, Partner - allied Venture gives an overview of why Agriculture in South America has excellent fundamentals and is well-positioned to feed the burgeoning population in India and the world.

Contract farming - can grow soya, wheat,sunflower, peanut, beans and pulses, sugarcane, jatropha and take output to india in raw or processed forms
Food processing - setup/acquire oilseed crushing, fruit/vegetable processing facilities
Think Agricultural Outsourcing - just like India in software, China in hardware - South America in agriculture
Contact: Marcos or Dave at info@alliedventure.com
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Latin America farmland investment highlights:
Prices have fallen due to the global crisis; good entry point in 2009 for long-term investors.
Farmland Prices are even lower than those in punjab and tamilnadu
Productivity in Argentina/Brazil/Uruguay is three times compared to that in India, in the case of some crops like soy.
No unskilled labour problem since everything is mechanised and outsourced; 1000 hectare farm can be managed by 3 to 4 subcontracted workmen.
Use of latest agricultural machines and equipment; skilled agronomists and farm managers available.
No water problem.. South America has 20% of world freshwater reserves.
Logistics, warehouse and transportation world class
Clear land titles; low population density means no land squatters.
No limits on size of foreign land holdings.

Context:
India has been importing more than billion dollar worth soy oil and sunflower oil from south america every yr
India also buys wheat and sugar from time to time
India needs to invest in farmland overseas as it is doing in the case of petroleum fields. Issue of food security.
In India, population increases by 15-18 million every year, adding a new Argentina every 32 months, new Brazil every 10 years. Farmland area is diminishing due to expanding industry, commerce and residences

For more info contact:
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Tel.: +598 (2) 916.2600
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY IN NORTHUMBERLAND AND NORTH YORKSHIRE AND COUNTY DURHAM

It's been a really, really busy time this past six months with weddings all over the north east of England and North Yorkshire and Cumbria and it was only when updating my website pages recently that I realise how many great weddings I've been part of lately

So, just so that they're not all lost amongs the background chatter of the internet, I thopught I would re-post LINKS to them all on my BLOG for easy reference!

So: Pour yourself a cup of tea, or a glass of wine and plough your way through this lot!

Catherine and Gary's wedding at Monkseaton and Tynemouth

http://tinyurl.com/y5tuu2e

Jagdeep and Martin's Sikh Wedding at Hardwick Hall

http://tinyurl.com/ye2hch8

Review from Nicola and Jonathan's wedding in Durham and Headlam Hall

http://tinyurl.com/y9bpvr5

Charlotte and Alex's wedding at Tynemouth and Blackfriars Restaurant Newcastle

http://tinyurl.com/yhjjgvu

Claire's wedding at Seaton Carew and Redworth Hall near Darlington

http://tinyurl.com/y8ax7f8

Kirstey's wedding at Wynyard Hall

http://tinyurl.com/yevxbsc

Amy at Ellingham Hall in Northumberland in December

http://tinyurl.com/ycnajsl

Louise at Jesmond Dene House Hotel in December

http://tinyurl.com/y9swelh

Karen at Crathorne Hall for an Autumn wedding in North Yorkshire

http://tinyurl.com/ydqh3g8

Lynn at Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island Northumberland before Christmas

http://tinyurl.com/yhpnkay

Kate at Langley Castle on New Year's Eve

http://tinyurl.com/ye642y2

then there's Nicola's wedding at Lanchester and Durham here:

http://tinyurl.com/ybhvzg8

Gill's wedding at Bowes Museum and Teesdale here:

http://tinyurl.com/yknxwg5

Rachel's wedding at Headlam Hall here:

http://tinyurl.com/ybqvq5w

Rhoanne's wedding at Headlam Hall is here:

http://tinyurl.com/lzbo4y

Lucy's wedding at Wolviston and Seaham Hall is here:

http://tinyurl.com/kuawr4

Leila's wedding at Sunderland Glass Centre is here:

http://tinyurl.com/ly7y6f

Kerry's wedding at Tynemouth is here:

http://tinyurl.com/mgp5wr

Shelley and Stephen's Review of their Langley Castle wedding is here:

http://tinyurl.com/lrcegl

Catherine and Chris's wonderful wedding at Crathorne Hall

http://tinyurl.com/l7vcae

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Wedding Cakes and suppliers ..... HMS TRINCOMALEE

I'm forever being asked where to source different wedding cakes / wedding favours - even wedding dresses when I'm showing off our portfolio of wedding photographs to prospective clients.

I try to remember and make note of different suppliers at different weddings but it's not always possible as every day is hectic (as well as fun...).

The good thing is that I keep in contact with many of my brides from over the years (and I'm photographing some of their children now...), so I can always e-mail or ring a bride to find out where the placecards were from, or who supplied the bouquet or perhaps the supplier of the entertainment for the evening reception.

So, with that, here's a beautiful cake that was at Susan and Derek's Valentine's Day wedding at HMS Trincomalee at the Historic Quay in Hartlepool and I can let you know that the supplier was Ice 'n Easy in Durham City.

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New Texas-Style Sweet Tea Signature Drinks

When I started gathering inspiration for my wedding, I kept coming across lovely images of sweet tea vodka concoctions served in mason jars. They were mostly weddings in South Carolina and the drinks used Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka. But wait, that's not made in Texas! So I disappointedly put them aside.

(images from Style Me Pretty here and here)

Say hello to the new Texas-born-and-bred sweet tea vodka: Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
Is your jaw dropping to the floor in awe and excitement like mine? The founders of SAVVY vodka and Sweet Leaf Tea got together to make a beverage named after Austin's favorite swimming hole using some of the best ingredients Texas has to offer:

• mineral-rich Texas spring water
• 100% pure cane sugar from Sugarland, Texas
• Clover honey from Austin’s Good Flow Honey Co.

My mouth is totally watering right now. I'm going straight to Specs or Twin Liquors to get my bottle.

Deep Eddy sweet tea vodka is a perfect base to the signature drink for a hometown Texas wedding! Try these recipes to see which one fits your taste and your wedding:

The Skinny Dip (via Austin Tidbits)

• 1 part Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
• 1 part Diet Sprite
• Twist of Lemon

Serve over ice in a tumbler glass.

72 and Sunny (via This Is Life in Austin)

• Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
• Lemon-flavored mineral water
• Wedge of fresh lemon

Deep Eddy Splash (via This Is Life in Austin)

• Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
• Splash of Topo Chico Agua Mineral

John Daly / Naughty Arnold Palmer / Mason Dixon (via Hip Hostess)

• 1 part Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
• 3 parts Lemonade

Serve over crushed ice and stir. Garnish with mint or lemon wedge.

Tea Mojito (via Hip Hostess)

• Mint leaves
• Blackberry syrup
• Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
• Club Soda
• Lemon Slices (garnish)
• Blackberry (garnish)

Muddle mint leaves, blackberry syrup, sweet tea vodka, and splash of club soda. Garnish with lemon slice, fresh mint sprig & fresh blackberry.

See even more recipes here.
Thanks to Austin Tidbits for the tidbit about Deep Eddy Vodka!

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