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You know, sometimes you get so involved in working your business that you never take any time out to talk about your business. It occurs to us that we began this blog with testimonials about our site and business, but never talked about who or what we are. Please indulge us as we take this opportunity to introduce ourselves.
We own an actual brick and mortar business called VOWS Bridal Outlet. This grew out of our dream to have a business where brides could find quality wedding gowns at discount prices. It was something we encountered many years ago when we were going to have a wedding and it was hard finding wedding gowns we could afford.
At this point we are one of the most widely known bridal outlets in the United States. We not only offer high end wedding gowns at lower prices from some of the top dress designers in the world, we also have our own line of wedding gowns called Liv Harris Design.
The website Bridepower, and consequently our blog, was our way of extending our business throughout the United States, since we knew everyone wasn’t going to hop in their cars and drive to Massachusetts. We set it up so our customers could search our site by designer, silhouette or neckline/sleeve. We even offer discounted prices on invitations and other items associated with getting the word out about your wedding.
As you go through our site, you’ll see some fabulous wedding dresses that we’ve checked out and guarantee as it pertains to their quality. We believe that every bride who goes through our site should be able to find what she’s looking for. We’ve even added a way for brides to chat with us live during working hours if they need more assistance.
We hope you enjoy our site and continue to enjoy our blog. If you’re ever in our area, please take time to stop by to see what we’re all about.
Recently, the record for the longest train on a wedding dress ever was broken by a woman in China. Her train was more than a mile long, had 9,999 red silk roses, took more than 200 people and three hours to unfurl, and cost around $7,000 for that part alone.
While that’s very extreme, the reality is that brides can pretty much do or have anything they want on their wedding dress. The main word in that sentence is “can”; whether they should or not is a different story.
Every year, the top wedding gown designers will have a show where they’ll exhibit their dress designs for the coming year. Not all of the wedding dresses are soothing to the eye, and that’s done on purpose. Designers know that everyone doesn’t want to have the same traditional look, but they also know that those people who want something different are willing to pay big money for them, if only for the shock value.
When people go to a wedding gown show, the idea isn’t to look at the dresses specifically for purchase. The purpose is to show general styles, and give everyone an idea of the type of work a designer can do. It’s hard for most people to go to a wedding show looking for a specific dress and be able to determine what they would look like in that same dress. The models can either make a dress look outstanding or make it look like it’s just hanging there. Most of the time, the body shape of the model doesn’t match the body shape of the viewer.
So, instead of hoping to have the latest Vera Wang or Reem Acra wedding gown, which you might not be able to afford, what brides should be looking for are ideas of what they’d like their wedding dresses to have, according to their body shape. For instance, a tight bodice might look great on the model, but does your body type fit wearing a tight bodice? A plunging neckline might make for a sexy dress, but can you wear that dress with confidence if it’s something totally out of character for you?
The same goes for all the additions on a dress. Are you someone comfortable with a lot of embroidery on a dress, or do you usually wear more simple patterns? Are puffy sleeves your style, or do you like your shoulders being unencumbered by all the extra fabric? Do you want a train that’s going to take 200 people and hours to unfurl, or would you like to stride in, have your wedding, and be able to walk out so you can get to the party?
It’s up to you, the bride, to make these decisions for yourself. Just take your time, figure out what will make you feel the most special that you can afford, and don’t try to compete with what someone else has done. You will be special no matter what you do.
4 TIPS ON A LOW COST WEDDING
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May 3rd, 2010 >> Wedding, Wedding Accessories, first 1 wedding
So you’re planning the big day, but your budget is limited. How can you possibly create the perfect wedding that you’ve been dreaming about for years on a tight budget? Here are some quick tips to help you plan a beautiful, low cost wedding.
Less Expensive Wedding Dress
Consider less expensive options for your wedding dress. While you may be tempted to quickly fall in love with an expensive dress, look around at many options before settling on one, and you will probably find a beautiful dress at a reasonable price.
If you are willing to try something new, try looking for dresses on eBay. Many custom-made wedding gowns on eBay are sold for under $200, and you can read reviews of the seller to make sure that they provide quality gowns and service. Finding a good deal on a wedding dress will be a great start to planning a low cost wedding.
Make Sure you Schedule Your Wedding at the Right Time
Another way to plan a low cost wedding is to schedule it at the right time. If possible, schedule the wedding to be during the “off-season,” which would be January, February, or March (but avoid Valentine’s day, because flowers will be more expensive then). The most popular wedding months are May through October, and December is becoming more popular.
Also, schedule the wedding for Friday or Sunday, rather than Saturday. Wedding services and locations will be more expensive on Saturday, since it’s more in demand. Rates for all of your wedding services will be lower on off-days and during the off-season, allowing you to maintain a low cost wedding.
Use Friends and Family
Another way to plan a low cost wedding is to make use of friends and family as much as possible. For example, rather than hiring a DJ, put your favorite songs on your iPod and rent a speaker system (available for $50-$150). You can also cut down on your photographer’s costs by not hiring him for the reception. Instead, place disposable cameras on the tables and ask your guests to take pictures for you.
RSVP Online
A final tip for keeping a low cost wedding is to be smart with your invitations. For example, make sure that your invitations will only require one postage stamp. Also, save on RSVP postage by setting up a free wedding website where you can get your guests to RSVP online.
There are many more ways to save money on your wedding ceremony. A little creative brainstorming will go a long way in helping you plan a beautiful, low cost wedding.
Chinese didn’t understand why the western brides wear the white wedding gowns
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April 1st, 2010 >> Choose wedding tips, Wedding
his phenomenon appear that Chinese brides wear wedding dresses on the wedding, and many foreign brides wear China’s Cheongsam on the wedding. Why does this phenomenon appear?
In the western countries, the great mass of brides wear white wedding dresses on their weddings. In China, most of brides wear red China’s Cheongsam on the wedding, especially in the old days. It’s a traditional custom. Because people wearing white clothes is unlucky in China. And the red color is lucky. So the bride must wear red clothes on the wedding. However, a large number of Chinese brides wear wedding dresses on the wedding, and many foreign brides wear China’s Cheongsam on the wedding. It sounds interesting. Why does this phenomenon appear? I think there are three reasons as follows: Firstly, there are more and more communications among all the countries in the world with the development of science technology. In the old days,
Chinese didn’t understand why the western brides wear the white wedding gowns. In the views of Chinese traditional culture, wearing white clothes is unlucky. But with more and more communication among all the countries in the world, people all over the world know each other , and realize the differences between Chinese traditional culture and other countries’ traditional culture. Chinese realize why the western brides wear the white wedding gowns. White means sanity and purity in western traditional culture, and the brides are holy, so the brides put on white wedding dresses to tell that they are holy.
Then Chinese understand why the western brides wear the white wedding gowns. Secondly, young people in China accept new things easily. Many young people don’t retain the Chinese traditional customs. They like attempting. They accept the views of western countries, even they are eager to try it, such as wear white wedding dresses in marriage. Young brides think it’s so cool and beautiful. The foreign brides wear white wedding dresses on the wedding, so do I. Most people know the culture of western countries, they also easily accept that brides wear white wedding dresses on the wedding. Thirdly, many Chinese brides think it is a fashion that you wear wedding gowns, not China’s Cheongsam.
So some Chinese traditional brides may wear white wedding dresses in marriage. And foreign brides wear China’s Cheongsam because they want to try. Then more and more Chinese traditional brides may wear white wedding dresses in marriage, and more and more foreign brides wear China’s Cheongsam. It becomes a fashion gradually. Certainly, many Chinese traditional brides still wear red China’s Cheongsam in marriage. And many foreign brides still wear white wedding gowns, because it is a traditional custom. I think it is good that people keep their traditional customs. But I prefer that Chinese bride wear white wedding dresses on the wedding and the foreign brides wear China’s Cheongsam. We can see all the countries’ cultures are integrated in the world. It is the identity of Chinese and the western countries. I think it shows an open view, an open China, an open World.
This is a period for various culture to be melted together, what we can do is to welcome and embrace the change. No matter what you are going to wear on your special day, the most important thing is that you can enjoy the party being the most stunning person in the ceremony.
Have you
chosen your favorite wedding dresses? The next thing that you need to
think about is how much you are willing to spend on your shoes. Setting a budget
is important in buying shoes because you can easily spend a hundred dollars or
more on the perfect shoe. If you have a price range in mind, you will simply be
able to look at the shoes in that price range, which will help to narrow down
your selection.A shalwar is pajama bottom-like, and loose trouser that is wide
at the thighs and waist, and tapers down towards the bottom, where it is
stitched narrowly at the very bottom edges. Pleats adorn it at the waist level,
and are held in place through an elastic band, or drawstring, or more
traditionally through woven cord, called ‘Naada’ or ‘Naala’. There are different
style takes among the ladies’ shalwars, from the more traditional to the
contemporary. Women’s wedding shalwars are baggy and wide, although the
ladies nowadays wear figure hugging or tight shalwars, named ‘Pyjamies’ or
‘Churidar Pyjamies’. One of the more famous versions of shalawar designs is the
Patiala Shahi Shalwars, popular among the regions of Malwa and Patiala in Indian
Punjab, with the most striking feature about them is their waist cords, Naada or
Naala, that are woven. Before you even attempt to buy your shoes, you
will want to have your dress already picked out. The reason for this is that
your shoes are supposed to be used to enhance your dress; they are an accessory
to your dress, not the main feature. By picking out your dress first, you will
know what kind of fabrics and embellishments will be on your dress, so you can
choose what type of shoe will look best with it.Whatever style, color or price
range you eventually decide on when choosing your wedding dress, don’t forget
that it’s you your fiancé fell in love with, not your dress. The dress adds to
the ambiance of the day, but it isn’t the real centerpiece. After you
have chosen your wedding dress hang it in the bag it comes in and don’t show it
to everybody. Give guests something to look forward to when they see you for the
first time walking down the aisle. And unless it is truly unavoidable, don’t If
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us.let your future husband see your dress at all before the wedding. They say
it’s bad luck and even if that’s just a superstition, it certainly does spoil
his surprise! Not only In my eyes, the girls wearing wedding gowns are the most happiest people in
the world, beacause they are so lucky that they find their true lovwill the type
of fabric and embellishments affect the type of shoe you choose, but so will the
height of the dress and the style of the dress. A perfect example is if you are
going with a traditional wedding dress inside of a church you are going to be
more likely to select traditional styled shoes, they just complete the look.
However, if you were getting married on a beach in a sundress, white sandals, or
flip-flops would look best.
Visit a bridal salon on the focus of purchasing wedding
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November 23rd, 2009 >> Wedding
Personally, I think JM will in many styles the first place. But in my personal test of the dozens of sets of terms yy feeling, yet take into account the arrangement of the elements as follows:
Version of type, fabric, workmanship, style
Why do I put style into the last one it is because wedding style can be copied to copy each other to go, you can also abroad dedicated website to download the above.
However, JMs sure there is any problem, why so many clothes in a foreign country model who looks good, but are always missing in our body so a little bit. In fact, the problem in version of the above type.
Generally speaking, a good version of a type of wedding even without the lace, flower decoration, aluminum foil can be it all themselves. That is why many simple models of the wedding but a very Chutiao truth.
Even if you have no matter how good the design, pattern, if the version of model is not good, then the same to no avail. Will feel less noble. The white gauze should be won on the noble, whether it is lovely type, elegant type, compact type should be won on the noble sense.
To make your wedding even more attractive, but not the point of “professional knowledge” how OK?
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November 21st, 2009 >> Wedding
Summer is past, cool autumn is a good time to get married. This is how the 60th anniversary of the founding of the new CaiTou good running into the palace of marriage. With the beautiful bride wedding into the auditorium is countless. In order to let you have a perfect wedding, has a perfect memories, a perfect marriage gauze, small children will provide you with some relevant knowledge, for the wedding dress you are choosing a professional choice.
The wedding dress, at present domestic two:
1, Chinese HunLiFu: (1) FengGuan XiaPei sashes and XiaPei FengGuan hat: officer served only part of the bride married, its style inside can be divided into three parts: underwear, clothing and coat. With a large red jiyong white. FengGuan is the bride’s hat, decorated with phoenix bird and jade bead ofits XiaPei namely rust has rosy clouds, decorative shawls. Man dressed in a wedding is do sashes. In addition, the bride should also have red thoroughly covered, the cooker is reflected the bride and chastity.
(2) : the jacket with robes cheongsam please him which style publicity restructuring, this is popular. Especially popular fashion style of dress design ginseng adds up to more women, the cult of beauty. Line
2, western-style wedding HunLiFu: the bride is (white gauze), late outfit, the bridegroom is white or black men dress. Now, this chapter domestic greatly popular for the bride’s wedding will be introduced for emphasis. This white satin, white gauze, hem totti garments, in the west are Catholic ceremony, the bride at the church, put it by the priest presided over by complete legal marriage blessing ceremony, representatives of god’s sincere, also symbolizes the chaste woman, therefore, if two degrees married, not the bride wears a white wedding into the church.
(1) the marriage gauze design: in Europe and the bride, the white gauze must be long trailing, general together to white gauze is the bridesmaid dresses.
A: the traditional style of classic typical: basically can’t change, waist corset (to show up before the beautiful women after convex curve, the millennium unchanged, the design idea and embroidery, wear nail bead, etc, and tedious luxurious decoration appear decorous temperament bride riches and honour.
B: contemporary and contracted type: pursue neat and concise style, follow the fashion popular trend, advocates personality style.
C: successful combination of both traditional and classic, contemporary breath, is mainly embodied in the classic board type, keep the material, using modern technology.
(2) : white gauze color symbolizes purity of women. White is divided into two kinds: pure white and white, both at home and abroad in recent years, and have relatively rich texture. If two of the bride, usually don’t marry USES white.
(3) marriage gauze qualitative: garment body material is commonly: satin, chiffon, yarn, nets, bud, etc. Accessories for, Bud silk flower, flower, drilling machine embroider bead, segment, etc.
The marriage gauze (4) : a beautiful white gauze, the first to have good board type, excellent material, authentic wedding garment body of production, the most basic have four layers, and had better choose wool line makings agglutinate, use the bones to support, waist place with a belt, under the cloth, there skirt, satin fabric, yarn and fabric, combined as general in 8-10 layer around the skirt around the tent to open. High-grade dress skirt is surrounded by wire circle are generally, use wire circle commonly appear in the form of low-end products, mainly is to save material cost, this type of dress is empty, will not natural, also be the bride, and the bride out cars will appear hug together wire circle squashed etc.
(5) marriage gauze quality identification: marriage gauze is an external quality goods in peacetime life experience with our customers can basically at a marriage gauze quality criterion. “Look,” “touch”, “wear” three links, first is “see”, its appearance, with makings, hand bead embroiders, sewing process, it’s in good marriage gauze inside inside, with makings also very fastidious, clean and clear, the details of the structure, hanging in racks can be a pile of human nature. “Touch” : touch it, texture, thickness of fabric of the weight of the component induces it, material quantity. “Wear” : wear it, design, kanban type partition line of beautiful degree. Through the above three links, believe we can choose to the bride’s wedding was satisfactory.
The price of marriage gauze (6) : above all, we can see, high-grade and resist the marriage gauze of product, no matter from materials and artificial on there will be five to 10 times of the wedding, so at present domestic price difference is very big also.
Autumn and winter wedding shoot essential elements of a good location
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November 13th, 2009 >> Wedding, Wedding photographs Attention
Editor’s note: the wedding is basically essential for each pair of newcomers, while the golden autumn, winter white exterior is a new one very good background for wedding pictures. How can one make a good location wedding then? Add to provide some essential points.
Fall wedding photographs Precautions Precautions:
1, before the filming to maintain a good mental state, not because of an excessive amount of weight loss caused by physical decline. Otherwise, in the case of weak shooting easier to feel cold, but will result in physical condition after shooting a red light appears.
2, autumn is the season of colds, especially the bride and try not to let his body in the shooting early problems. In poor health, when it is difficult to reach with the photographer with over the past which led to difficulties in shooting. Can be a week before shooting started drinking some Banlangen sort of anti-flu drugs institutional strengthening to ensure that its own when shooting the best.