June 25th
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Tip of the Day: Bridesmaids are more concerned with the color of the dress they’ll wear than the style. After all, not every color looks great on every woman’s skin tone, so start by asking your bridesmaids to send you the top three colors they love to wear. Take their votes into consideration to find a hue that looks fabulous on the entire group.
Consider jewel tones like sapphire, ruby, and emerald, which look gorgeous on a variety of different skin tones. Universally-pretty shades for summer weddings include coral and turquoise. Avoid silver or light gray dresses if you have bridesmaids who are very pale. And if you just can't find one shade to flatter all of your girls, black is always a stylish and classic choice!
Plus, check out The Top 5 Bridesmaid Dress Trends. Visit sharonnaylor.net for more great tips and advice.
What Happily-Married People Want to Tell You
Here is an exclusive book excerpt from 13 Things They Won't Tell You. Every month, Reader’s Digest Magazine asks selected experts from a different profession to spill their secrets. Readers walk a mile in their shoes and see things that are enlightening, horrifying, and give them a whole new perspective on the people they trust with their food, health, family, money, and home. They walk away with the keys to awesome backdoor deals, insider knowledge that saves them tons of money, and invaluable advice for getting better service anywhere they go.
Now, for the first time ever, this wisdom has been collected into one comprehensive volume, complete with updates, all new interviews, and tons of additional secrets that have never appeared before.
Not everything about marriage is pretty. And the couples who make it accept and love that fact. Here's what they want you to know.
1. Only puppies want to be on top of each other—and they get tired of it, too. Sometimes, you need your space.
7 Tips for Losing Weight Before the Wedding
Back to the grind today! Here are a few lessons learned from the past week on my wedding weight-loss program.
Get rid of sore muscles with light exercise.
Monday morning, I was still so sore from Saturday’s workout with Bonne Marcus — I could still barely get out of bed, let alone walk down the stairs. Every time I got up from my desk chair at work, it took a few seconds to get my legs to move! Bonne told me to just do some abs tonight and try some light cardio to help bring fresh oxygenated blood to my muscles, which are sore from lactic acid buildup.
Getting home from work was a disaster, thanks to a train derailment on the Long Island Railroad – all trains were cancelled, and I didn’t get home until 9 p.m., so that light cardio was not happening. I did do 50 crunches and 20 side crunches before I got in bed, so at least I did something! And when I woke up the following morning, I wasn’t nearly as sore anymore. Thank God! I thought I was never going to feel better.
You can still eat your favorite foods; just in smaller portions.
After Monday’s nightmare commute, we needed a quick and easy dinner. We ordered Chinese, and I ate just a few pieces of Sesame Chicken with brown rice.
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June 24th
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Tip of the Day: One of the biggest makeup mistakes for brides is going overboard with blush or bronzer, thinking that contouring stripes on their cheeks or jawline will thin their face in photos. That may happen, but in real life, those brown streaks are a dead giveaway that they did their own makeup. Always practice with bronzers and blushes ahead of time, and take a magnifying mirror outside into natural light to be sure you look smooth, blended, and natural in person.
Plus, check out The Best Bridal Makeup Products. Visit sharonnaylor.net for more great advice and tips.
June 24th
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Tip of the Day: Torn between two songs for the first dance? If they're in the same genre (e.g. country or rock), ask your DJ or band if they can play one song and then naturally segue into the other tune. Entertainment pros are masters at this! If the songs are too "different," then use one for your first dance and save the other for a spotlight dance, which can take place later on in the reception (i.e. after your cake-cutting).
Plus, check out Real Couples' First Dance Songs. Visit sharonnaylor.net for more tips and advice.
Meet Kathleen, Our New Real Bride Blogger
Greetings, brides-to-be! My name is Kathleen and I’m the newest addition to the Real Bride Blogger Community. I’m so excited to be sharing my wedding-planning experiences with you all.
For me, as a journalist, writing has always been one of my biggest passions, an accounting of everything that is going on in the world, as well as people’s hopes, dreams and feelings. It’s a bit more difficult to write about yourself, but I want there to be some permanent account of the lead-up to my wedding that my fiancé Gray and I could look back on in years to come. Something that we could share with our future family. But let me dispense with the sappiness and tell you a little bit about Gray’s and my story.
Gray and I are both journalists covering the Florida Legislature in Tallahassee. We first met at a press conference in November 2010. Well, sort of. He saw me speak on a panel that previous July, but he didn’t introduce himself. He says I just didn’t notice him. We started dating that spring and moved in a year later, with both of us agreeing that we should only move in together if we intended to get married. And this past Memorial Day weekend, he proposed!
One of the best parts of his proposal was that it was a complete surprise to absolutely everyone. After a really nice dinner in Melbourne, Fla., Gray and I took a walk on a very secluded beach where he asked if I could “do him a favor.” When I said “sure,” he pulled out the ring and asked “will you marry me?”
The Craziest Blow-Up You'll Ever See Over A Wedding Gift
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post
It is perhaps the most controversial wedding gift of our time: a basket of food presented to two brides that went so horribly awry, it spawned a text and Facebook messaging war that got published in a local newspaper and has to be seen to be believed.
TheSpec.com, a Canadian news outlet, recently released the heated back-and-forth between a wedding guest and a same-sex couple, who were clearly disappointed in his gift: A basket of food that included tri-color pasta, salsas, balsamic vinegar, Marshmallow Fluff and Sour Patch Kids.
After the wedding, one of the brides texted the guest to say that she is gluten intolerant and that she'd like a receipt for the items. When the guest ignored the receipt request, the other bride then followed up. Here's her message, via TheSpec:
I'm not sure if it's the first wedding you have been to, but for your next wedding... People give envelopes. I lost out on $200 covering you and your dates plate... And got fluffy whip and sour patch kids in return. Just a heads up for the future :) [all sic]
Things devolved quickly from there. More insults were hurled about who is cheap and who is ungrateful. Here's a particularly biting message from the guest:
5 Makeup Trends for Summer Brides
Choosing your wedding-day makeup isn't always as easy as it sounds. You want to look like you, but if you don't wear a lot of makeup on a regular basis, you may be surprised at how much a professional applies to achieve that "natural" look. That's why makeup trials are so important — you need to make sure you and your artist share the same vision, and you may need more than one trial. After my first trial, I was speechless... for all the wrong reasons. I looked like a clown. Eventually, I found an artist who I connected with and who did exactly what I wanted — enhanced my best features without making it seem like I was wearing eight pounds of makeup.
When going to your trial, it's always a good idea to bring photos of makeup looks you love. With the virtual makeover app ModiFace, you can actually upload your image and try out different looks, then print out the ones you love to bring to your trial. Need some inspiration? They've compiled the five most popular looks brides are trying this season:
Neutral Elegance
Get the look: This understated look uses washes of color in peach, pale pinks, and browns to create a soft, dewy glow.
Bold Lips
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