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Go Your Own Way

Friday, 11 March 2011 16:55 administrator
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By Timothy R. Schulte © CTW Features

There’s only one right way to do things for your wedding: your own. Here’s advice from the best independently thinking brides out there on how to make your wedding the best one ever, regardless of whether you do or don’t do that one thing you’re “supposed to” An astonishing 97 percent of couples use wedding magazines to get tips and ideas for their weddings, according to The Wedding Report, a wedding-market research company.

Britt Hilgers fell into that other 3 percent. Consumer bridal mags, she says, were “just too focused on the traditional.”

 

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Letting Your Hair Down

Friday, 11 March 2011 15:58 administrator
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By Brooke Curtis, Chatters Salon

The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem which means handing over, and passing on. Being ‘traditional’ usually entails following inherited patterns of thought and action. But when it comes to your wedding, the day you’ve been dreaming about since you were a little girl, do you stick with tradition? Or do you throw it out the window?

We’ve all seen the latest wedding show craze on TV, and whether we stare blankly at the bride who refuses to deviate from the tradition of her mother and grandmother, and grandmother before that, or we watch in morbid fascination at the bride who wants a pink and leopard-print wedding, ultimately we’re waiting to see the end result; which wedding was better? The traditional, or the non-traditional?

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