Women: Planning Your Wedding Menu

Planning Your Wedding Menu

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What about your tables and chairs? Does repparttar hall or facility you’ve rented provide them? If yes what do repparttar 148446 charge. If they do not then you’ll need to contact someone who does rent these items. If your wedding reception is small you may be able to borrow enough chairs and tables to accommodate your guests.

Tablecloths and table coverings – you’ll need to decide color and style. As well you’ll have to decide what type of decorating your going to do. Your decorating and colors will have a lot to do with your general wedding theme. Fun, romantic, tropical?

The quickest way to get organized is to grab some paper and a pencil. Draw a rough diagram of repparttar 148447 room layout, then begin sketching in your tables, how you will seat people, where you want your flowers and decorations. Once you’ve have a visual repparttar 148448 rest will fall into place.

As some friends to give you a hand with decorating. Most halls will let you into repparttar 148449 day before to complete your decorating and set up. In fact, before you rent repparttar 148450 hall make this a pre-requisite.

Most important! Enjoy repparttar 148451 planning – this is your wedding, one of repparttar 148452 biggest events of your life. There is no right or wrong, there is only what makes you happy. When your happy, your guests will relax and enjoy themselves whether they are seated at formal dining tables or around a picnic table.

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The Long And Flavored History Of Jewelry

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1930s and were out of style by repparttar 148446

1950s. Jewelry reflects styles, designs, colors and stones of repparttar 148447

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favorite color for metal, so jewelry was found in platinum, white gold, silver or a base metal colored to look like silver. By World War II, gold was popular again but in short supply, since it was vital to repparttar 148449

war effort. What gold was available was made into very thin sheets and usually bonded to silver (called vermeil) before being turned into jewelry. By repparttar 148450

1930s rhinestones popularity was ever increasing in Europe. It was not available to repparttar 148451

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pieces from this period tend to feature lots of metal and a single stone or a small cluster of tiny rhinestones.

Today is certainly not much different from past times. We still have fine jewelry, semi precious jewelry, and of course costume jewelry available to us. Costume jewelry can add repparttar 148454 finishing touch and show your fashion sense. Costume Jewelry styles of past years are now becoming very fashionable and many are being reproduced. Even with costume jewelry there is a difference in quality. Many of repparttar 148455 new pieces do not have repparttar 148456 vibrance in repparttar 148457 stones or repparttar 148458 weight of repparttar 148459 older pieces.

Antique and vintage costume jewelry are both fun to collect and fun to wear. No longer is costume jewelry simply "collectable." It is "in style, and " "fashionable," and a terrific conversation starter. Dress to impress!

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