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Pre Wedding Activities

Planning pre-wedding activities is a little something extra that’s not required, but certainly fun and entertaining for the guests. If the bride and groom keep in mind the distance some guests have traveled and keep activities relevant to that level of fatigue, they’re sure to hit on some winning activities.

As you go about planning activities for the wedding, keep in mind other factors as well. Do many people have children with them? Will you provide childcare or will the children be participants in the activities? If you have several guests who are older, perhaps activities can be tailored in a ay they can participate as well.

Some of the more popular pre-wedding activities include things like a group manicure. All the women in the wedding party or ho are close to the bride (and certainly this could include men if they like manicures and want to hang out with the ladies) head to a nail salon and get their nails done. This can be relaxing for many women and provide a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of the wedding weekend. The men might choose to golf or play a game of tennis while this is going on.

Many brides and grooms choose to provide structured activities for their guests prior to the wedding. If the wedding is on a Saturday night, for example, they might choose to provide a Friday activity, especially if most guests are local to the wedding. You might have a wedding luau. Many times pre-wedding activities center around bachelor and bachelorette parties, but what about a stag party that includes all the members of the brides and grooms families? You could plan some fun (and appropriate) games and head out to a restaurant for a night of fun and games. Be sure to limit the drinking and carousing as this might not sit well with some family members.

Here is a fun activity that can be done right before the wedding. Have someone begin a gift basket. The theme of the basket is “advice for the couple” and could be started by the best man or maid of honor. They take the basket to someone else’s house, perhaps an aunt or cousin and leave it on the doorstep. That person adds an item (a book on how to end spousal arguments? Or a CD of romantic music?) and brings the basket to someone else’s house. This activity can begin a week or two before the wedding and everyone should know it is coming around.

The basket can also be circulated the weekend of the wedding, but this ill only work if everyone is local and if they know the basket is coming. In this case, it also might be helpful to have someone bring the basket to a house, collect the item and the take the basket to the next location, reducing the need to have each person take the basket to its next location. Once it’s full, someone can be in charge of putting the basket items together, wrapping it all up to make it look nice and bringing it to the bride and groom. It can be delivered right to the wedding as a gift in and of itself.

Whatever activities you choose, be sure to keep in mind the needs of your guests and the limitations of those guests. If you want to plan an activity that includes everyone, and you choose golf, but grandpa is in a wheelchair or uses a walker, that might not be the best activity to plan.

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How to Sell your Wedding Dress

Everyone that has been married knows that the wedding is expensive. Many things have to be done in order to make the day perfect. Some people would like to get some of their money back by selling some of things from their wedding. These things will include their wedding dress and accessories.

Selling a wedding dress can bring you in a good bit of money. For some of the dresses that are in almost perfect shape, you may be able to get at least half of the money backs out of it. This is something that you would appreciate doing. If you were not sentimentally attached to your wedding dress, selling it would be the most profitable for you.

The first thing that you need to do before you can sell your wedding dress is to make sure that it is professionally cleaned. You will want to make sure that your dress is looking its best. This is something that can cost you about fifty dollars, but it is well worth the money to have it looking its best. For some people, they may already have their dress cleaned after the wedding so it will be done for them anyway.

You may want to invest in a dust free box to store your wedding dress in. Avoid plastic bags and hangers. These things will seal in the humidity and it may damage or stretch the delicate fabrics that your wedding dress is made from. This is usually some thing that is smart to do for your wedding dress anyway before you store it.

You can then think about where you will want to sell the wedding dress. There are different places that you can sell your wedding dress. You may want to try to sell the dress at a consignment store. You will find that they have many once worn wedding dresses and there are many people that go there to buy their wedding dress.

Once you take it to a consignment shop, you will have to decide on a selling price that you will feel good about. The store will take into account the style, the condition of the dress and the age. Some dresses are still in fashion no matter how old they are while others go out and do not come back into style. These dresses are the ones that are going to be worth less to the consignment shop owners.

You will then sign a contract for a few months. You will usually receive fifty percent of the sale. If the dress is not sold at the end of the agreement, you will then be able to extend the agreement or take the wedding dress back and try to sell it another way. There are plenty of other ways to sell your wedding dress.

The first thing that you will have to do is advertise it. A person cannot buy what they do not know is for sale. You will want to put as many ads up as you can about the dress. Try to make sure that you are advertising it in the right spots. The perfect places would be the local newspaper, the shopping centers (on the bulletin boards), and even online.

You want to make your ad look as good as you can. A color picture with the ad will have a lot of selling power. You will want to make sure that your ad is placed somewhere that many people will see. You want to make sure that you are getting your dress out there for everyone to see. The more people that see it will mean the better your chances of selling it.

Online sells are a great idea. You can use the different auction sites to get your dress out there on the market. Including a picture is one of the best ways to make people interested in your wedding dress. List your asking price and you may get it. You can also have people bid on your dress and sell it to the person with the highest bid.

There is no reason why you cannot cash in on your wedding dress. This is a great way to make some extra cash and get room in your closet back.

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Post Wedding Activities

For many couples, the wedding is not over once the reception is. Depending on the location of the wedding and the couple’s relationship with their families, often there are other activities that follow the main event.

One of the most obvious is a breakfast the day following the wedding. This is a time for everyone to touch base with each other, check in on how everyone did and perhaps share memories of the night before. This breakfast activity can be as simple or elaborate as you like. Some people like to have this breakfast at a relative’s house because that is friendly and familiar and more conducive to everyone hanging out and enjoying themselves. It can be potluck style or catered. You can also meet up at a restaurant.

Many families like to have the bride and groom open presents the day after the wedding. There are many who believe the bride and groom are required to open presents in the presence of family for good luck. In that case, building in the opening of presents is essential. This can be a simple gathering of friends and family or you can turn the present opening into an all-out activity, where each item is opened, demonstrated or displayed and discussed in great detail.

Opening gifts doesn’t have to a dry activity. You can add some silly fun. How about starting with the smallest and moving to the largest gifts? Or working in the reverse order? You might even create a game. Everyone has to guess what’s in each gift prior to its being opened. (Of course, people can’t guess on their on gifts.) Someone can be in charge of keeping a tally and whoever gets the most right, wins a small prize.

The women in the bride’s family might want to help her pack up her gown (or send it to the dry cleaners) and preserve her wedding bouquet. This can easily be done at home and the women (particularly those who are crafty) might want to get started on preserving the flowers as well.

In the crafty light, some brides might want to plan a scrapbook party for after the wedding. You won’t have photos back from the photographer, but you can scrapbook many other wedding events, such as pre-events like manicures, various parties and the candid photos take by wedding guests the night before. More than being focused on the photos, this activity gives the women a chance to reflect on the events of the wedding, laugh at all the fun ties and journal and preserve memories before some are lost. It will also help the bride feel as if she’s partly in control of all those photos before she leaves on her honeymoon and takes yet more photos.

If gifts were opened on this “day after the wedding”, crafty groups might want to make thank you cards. Choose a design long before the wedding, perhaps even making a prototype as well. Then have all the supplies on hand and give everyone good ideas about how the cards should be made. Even the men can get on this act, helping to fold the cards, perhaps handling any computer work and even getting their fingers on glue and scissors. Send the bride and groom off with these homemade cards so when they get back from their honeymoon, all they have to do is jot off a quick note.

Some brides and grooms plan activities the day fter the wedding that are designed to help everyone calm down, relax and unwind after what has likely been a busy weekend. In this light, you can plan a picnic at the park and bring along games to play. You might pack a football, a volleyball net or items to play baseball. You might bring along water guns or a dartboard. Whatever it is, the idea here is to have some fun and blow off steam. Make your own rules when playing the games. It really doesn’t matter. Today is about relaxing, unwinding and spending some quality time with friends and family before the special weekend is over.