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Bridal Beauty: Hair Tips for Your Wedding Weather You might have a dream bridal hairstyle in your mind, but let's face it -- if it doesn't work with your wedding day weather, you may be in for a bad hair day. A better bet is to come up with a plan for your hair that'll work with Mother Nature and fit with your wedding style. After all, you don't want to be fussing with your hair at the altar -- it should be the furthest thing from your mind. The Weather: Hot and Dry What you're worried about: Dry, dull, damaged hair How to deal: Unless you're prone to greasy locks, in the weeks before the wedding, use a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner (look for ingredient words like "humectant," "glycerin," and "panthenol"). No matter what type of hair you have, do a deep conditioning treatment once a week to restore moisture. If your hair is oily, be careful to avoid your roots and condition only the length of your hair. You should also avoid heat styling as much as possible -- even if you can only bear to let your hair air-dry a couple times a week, any opportunity away from the blow-dryer will do your tresses good. And of course, trim, trim, trim -- dry heat will only worsen the dull appearance of damaged or split ends. On your wedding day: Prep your hair for heat styling with a protective serum, which will prevent blow-dryers and irons from sapping moisture out of your locks. Finish your style with a misting of shine serum (for hair that's naturally oily) or a smudge of moisturizing pomade (for normal to dry hair). If you are wearing your hair down, you may want to add a little more to the ends. The Weather: Damp and Humid What you're worried about: Serious frizz How to deal: No matter what your natural hair texture is, you're going to need to work with what you've got. This is not the time or the place to try to make a curly mane stay straight -- chances are you'll wind up with a total mess. Frizz is caused by hair trying to grab moisture from the air -- the rougher your hair cuticles or outer layer is (whether your hair naturally has a coarse texture or is damaged from coloring or styling), the worse the frizz. Prep your locks by regularly using a frizz-fighting serum. Comb a few drops through soaking wet hair to be sure it gets distributed evenly. On your wedding day: The last time you wash your hair before the wedding, gently blot-dry your hair with a towel to get rid of excess moisture. Don't rub -- you'll rough up any broken or damaged hairs, increasing the chance of frizz. Apply your de-frizzing serum (or for more intense results, a strong-hold gel) to damp hair and comb it through evenly. When you finish blow-drying, don't forget to use the "cool shot" setting on your dryer -- hot air opens the hair cuticle, while cold air closes it. Finish your dry style with a second application of frizz-fighter (pomade or gel works best). You might want to keep a little on hand throughout the wedding day for smoothing down any hair that may curl up. The Weather: Cold and Dry What you're worried about: Dry, staticky hair How to deal: Cold saps hair of its moisture, so unless your hair is naturally oily, make a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner part of your prewedding routine. Though you're probably blow-drying your hair (who's going to sit around with wet hair when it's snowing outside?), try to limit your use of other heat-styling devices (hot rollers, curling irons, or flat irons). Crispy, over-processed ends are much more likely to respond to static. Also, be sure to use a deep conditioning treatment (once a week is ideal -- and if you color or relax your hair, it's a necessity). On your wedding day: Apply a heat-protecting cream before you blow-dry (prep with a leave-in conditioner if your hair is particularly rough). Use a light touch when applying -- you don't want to weigh down your hair, you just don't want your hair to bear the brunt of the heat from the dryer (especially if you're dealing with dry, indoor heat). Avoid hair sprays or gels that contain alcohol, which will dry out your mane. Finish your style with a pomade or styling cream. Then you'll be ready to put on your veil and go! -- Kate Wood

The Special Edition :: Personalized newspapers for every occasion :: Wedding, Baby, Graduation, Retirement This is an idea for those of you not inviting everyone-a way to send out annoucements creatively...I think this company is super expensive, but I am sure this could be a DIY project.

how exciting and fun-I would contact the resort ASAP they might even have a little package that will fit all of your needs.

I was thinking of doing personalized M & M's for the kids at the wedding, but my name doesn't fit on the M & M so I am not sure about it yet. I also thought about doing the cupcake thing but only for the kids, the cake we are having made will probably be enough to give to almost all the people, but I thought it might be fun to set up a kids area with coloring books, cupcakes etc.

Welcome and Congrats!!! Let us know how we can help in anyway.

you will find a dress like that, you have so much time to find the perfect dress and you live in NY there are so many great designers around there.

maybe you should just buy Kash's dress...that has such a spanish look to it

eBay: 5" Set Swarovski Monogram Initials Wedding Cake Topper (item 220075323884 end time Jan-29-07 18:08:50 PST)

Monogram Cake topper

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Jules-they are actually in the personalized items area, not the cake area for some reasoneBay Store - eFavormart: Personalized Items: 200 Personalized Wedding Favors Silver 2x2x2 box Boxes

oh and my friend who is making my cake said for sure get the metal ones not the wood ones.

Jules-this is weird but I was totally looking on the web right now for one-try efavormart.com they also have them cheaper on their e-bay store

we actually picked up my FI's ring the other day and we will for sure be bringing our rings. But we don't have customs to go through, so that makes it easier. Glenda-don't worry about the article, does Tiffany's have a pic on their website?

I liked that one, but my FI said he didn't like lace allover, but is is such a pretty dress, very flattering shape too

by the way-which one is it?

I thought their sale ended last monday-how funny...I think they have it a few times a year. As for the time it takes, that is the worst case scenario-my first dress was supposed to take 8 weeks and only took 3-the one I exchanged it for was in the store and fit and so I took that one home with me

yup I got the stamps, they are about double the price of a regular stamp, but I really feel like the stamps are worth it, because its the first impression of the mailing stamps.com

Monogram Wedding Cake Toppers I really like this shirt-possibly might order it...is it dorky to wear this kind of stuff.

Marry Monograms™ - Personalized Wedding Logos These monograms are really expensive, but they are nice too.

Bridesmaid Gift, Wedding Gifts and Personalized Monogram Shop I have become super into monograms-somehow they are starting to show up in a lot of my decor for the wedding. For someone who never wanted to change her name, I am getting into my new initials!! Anyway, I found this site and while I think they are a little expensive, who knows maybe some of their stuff might work for someone.

Melissa are you using wedding window...I uploaded my creative montage monograms all over my pages...it was really easy it shouldn't be a problem.

I just looked and found them all-so so cute. I really like them. I am really trying to get my FI to start working on something like this.

that is very unique-did you get that custom made?

wow how exciting...that will be such a fun memorable wedding/honeymoon. Congrats!!!