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Your Wedding Will Be Blooming With Dutch Designs

Flowers are simply beautiful. They can liven up any room in an instant, especially a wedding. Great accents are what flowers can offer for any party. You can cater them towards your style and color by combining your favorite flowers in various colors. They give a beautiful visual and a lovely fragrance. So, if you're looking for a florist in Lake Mills, Wisconsin; Dutch Designs is the one. They would love to create a beautiful floral presentation for your wedding or special event. You'll be simply amazing by their amazing floral work.

Stylish Wedding Flowers

Calla Lily Bridal Bouquet

When working with Dutch Designs, you'll always receive fresh flowers and creative designs. If you're planning a wedding, your bridal bouquet, bridesmaid bouquet and wedding flowers will all match perfectly. Plus, they'll be designed just the way you've always imagined.  Providing on-site decorating to help aid you with all your needs in creating your fabulous wedding! Imagine walking into a wonderland that you've always envisioned for your wedding day. Your wedding ceremony site will be adorned with lovely ivory roses.

Along with your wedding location, your bridal bouquet, boutonnieres and wedding reception centerpieces will look flawless. If you are planning a Fall wedding, imagine beautiful orange flowers, sunflowers and wheat creating a perfect Fall wedding. Everything is to fit you.

Event Flowers For Every Occasion

However, if you aren't planning a wedding, use this creative florist for all your events. Whether you are looking for entry way flowers or a simple table centerpiece; they'll design it. Dutch Designs wants to create your event flowers just the way you want them. Maybe you plan on throwing a Christmas party, well they would love to create some colorful poinsettia reception centerpieces for you. Whatever your floral needs, this florist will create a wonderful arrangement you'll fall in love with.

Great Gift Ideas

Orange Floral Arrangement
Maybe you're not much for events, but you always need gift ideas. You'll be able to send beautiful flowers to any loved ones in their favorite flowers and colors. It is designed specifically to them. If you haven't a clue on where to begin, they would love to create a one-of-a-kind arrangement for you to send. They also offer great gift baskets and products that you'll be able to cater towards any family members or friends. You'll absolutely love them, just check out what one of their customers had to say :

"We used Dutch Designs for our wedding and it was even better then I ever pictured! The work is amazing, so willing to help and full of great ideas. I now use Dutch Designs for all my flower needs."

When finding a florist who will fulfill all your needs, choose Dutch Designs. Their creative eye will capture what you've always envisioned for your flowers. Whether you are planning for a wedding, event or sending flowers; this florist will exceed all your expectations!

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January's Top Wedding Bouquet Pictures!

Each month Wedding and Party Network will be picking our favorite pictures and themes that have been submitted into our photo gallery by YOU. It may be wedding cakes, party cakes, wedding reception decorations, party decorations or wedding bouquets. This month we have chosen wedding bouquets! There are lots of unique arrangements that are simply stunning. So, we hope these bridal bouquet pictures give you some inspiration. Enjoy!


Green & Orange Handtied Wedding Bouquet

This bride chose bright red Gerber daisies, bright green chrysanthemum and hypericum berries and uniquely colored roses with just a hint of orange. Contrasting all those bright colors are elegant black calla lilies for a truly stunning wedding bouquet.


White Calla Lily Wedding Bouquet With Crystal Embellishments

Using elegant calla lilies, this bouquet is adorned with shimmery gems and flower jewels. The over all look is classic with a twist!

Blue & Green Bridal Bouquet
This beautiful bouquet is spillover over with pale shades of blues coming from the lush hydrangea and delicate delphiniums.


Orange Wedding Bouquet

This unique orange wedding bouquet is filled with big beautiful blooms of roses, chrysanthemums and sedum. The use of curly willow vines winding in and out of the wedding bouquet adds interest and personality.


Red & White Wedding Bouquet
This wedding bouquet uses traditional red roses in a whole new way. The addition of a gold wire winding it's way across the flowers until merging together in a shimmery heart accent. The enter bouquet is surrounded by black feathers for a wonderful look that shows off the bride's unique personality.

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Present Visual Stunning Food With Special Events Catering By Les

A beautiful location along with stunning decorations creates a wonderful setting. It makes an event. However, make your event truly memorable with amazing food. If the food you offer is like everything else or doesn't provide much taste, your event will just be okay. People will remember the food. You may have provided gorgeous detailing, but the food can bring it down. So, if you're in Miami, Florida; let Special Events Catering By Les provides exquisite party food that will never bring your wedding or event down.

Amazing Party Food
Special Events Catering By Les is a full service catering business that has brought one-of-a-kind events to life in South Florida for over 20 years. They cater all types of social affairs. Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, luncheons, bridal showers or any special event; they'll cater it all. Everyone has their own style and taste, they understand that.

That is why they offer a large choice of cuisines. Kosher, comfort food, Italian, Asian or seafood can be presented as a sit down dinner, buffet style or interactive stations. They'll do everything possible to make sure all your needs are met.

This party and wedding caterer has tons of passion and creativity that they are ready to share with you to create a tasteful event.

Are you planning a rehearsal dinner for your wedding? Trying to cater it towards the groom? Special Events Catering By Les can come up with a variety of ideas for you. A BBQ theme would be great for the groom! Their 15 foot smoker will offer your dinner with ribs, chicken, turkey or brisket, along with all the delicious sides.

What about your wedding? Are you wanting to serve up something different, like Italian? Let them start with ambrosial appetizers featuring antipasto platters and breadsticks. The main course will be an elegant sit down dinner serving up authentic pasta along with meatballs, sun-dried tomato sauce, alfredo sauce, flavorful picattas and livornese.

Doesn't this sound so amazingly delicious? Can you taste it now? Maybe you want to serve Asian flair food at your special event or host a luncheon with comfort food. Whatever you wish, this party caterer will always go above and beyond to make sure it fits you and it tastes just right.

Beautifully Presented Food

Along with their words cannot describe food, they will always present it in a unique fashion. Just take a look at their wonderful fruit creations. Beautiful flowers being carved right into melons? How amazing is that!

You'll have an amazing event location, along with beautiful decorations and party food that will make your event one to remember. Your guests will be so appreciative that you've provided them with such exquisite food. Their taste buds will be in bliss.

Special Events Catering By Les will always give you exquisite tasting food and a unique presentation that you won't see nowhere else. You'll be absolutely blown away. With each event you host, you'll want to use this skilled caterer to give you new and unique foods for each event. So go ahead, and choose this caterer to let your taste buds explode!

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Chinese New Year – Festival Of Lights & Tradition

This year, the Chinese New Year falls on February 3, 2011 and lasts for 15 days, which are full of celebrations. This special holiday is filled with lots of vibrant colors, unique decorations and tasty foods that can kick off this new year. Would you like to incorporate this holiday into a party theme? Well, let Wedding and Party Network help with these 3 party tips that will help you begin your Chinese New Year Party!

411 On Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year Traditions
The Chinese New Year is different every year since it depends on the lunar phase. It is also based on a mythology beast called Nian, that would come out and eat people on this day until a man conquered this, which in turn people began to celebrate. This is the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar.

It lets them honor their household and hold remembrance for their lost ancestors. However, it has evolved into a big celebration that brings family members together. This celebration lasts for 15 days and has a certain day devoted to family members and ancestors. It ends with a big festivity and their lantern festival.

How YOU Can Celebrate!

There are lots of ideas you can use when creating a Chinese New Year themed party. From the colors, invites, decorations and food; you'll celebrate in true custom ways with a fun themed dinner party.

Invitations: Create red and gold lanterns in honor of their lantern festival, you can easily make this on your own or find something at your stationery store. Also, go with the Chinese zodiac sign that is being featured this year, which is the rabbit. However, you can also stick with all zodiac signs like the tiger, rabbit, snake, dragon or monkey. These items go great with this celebration and all you need to include is the basics.

Festive Colors & Decorations: Stick with reds and golds for your party color scheme. Place paper lanterns, Chinese good luck symbols and zodiac symbols out for party decorations. During this holiday, there are flowers that represent this holiday. Plum blossom, bamboo, sunflower and eggplant are what you can use for a Chinese New Year flower arrangement for your party. Stick with Chinese traditional symbols, signs and flowers to create a themed look.

Chinese New Year Traditional Food
Asian Style Dishes: Of course, when you are trying to figure out what type of party food you need to serve, go with Asian influenced dishes. This should be all about their culture, especially what type of food they serve. Spring rolls, dumplings, lettuce wraps, stir fry, orange chicken, tangerines, oranges, fish and long noodles are some of the dishes that can be served during your festivities.

Also, when thinking about what food to prepare, think of what they mean in Chinese culture. Chicken & fish symbolize happiness and prosperity, oranges represent good fortune, noodles means longevity and duck means fertility. You'll have a prosperous new year.

Even though desserts are not too popular during this holiday doesn't mean you can't serve up some for your party. Create a tangerine sorbet, mandarin orange pie or Chinese almond cookies. Traditional desserts include a Chinese sticky cake. This is pretty much a rice cake and is served to the kitchen god to ensure good luck for the upcoming year.

However, if cooking is not your strong suit; order Chinese take out. This may be frowned upon in their culture, but it may be just as good to you. Another alternative is hiring a caterer. They will always make sure they serve up traditional Chinese New Year food for your party!

Thanks For Coming: Another tradition that they do is giving gifts in red envelopes, mainly money. So, say thank you to your guests with a red envelope filled with fortune cookies and chopsticks. Such a simple party favor, yet it goes perfectly with this theme!

These are the 3 main party tips in making your themed party a success. However, there are so many more ideas out there. You can have everyone dress up in traditional wardrobe too! This party theme is such a fun and festive event that all your guests will enjoy. It's a time to reunite ties and create a feeling of togetherness.

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Chinese lantern festival photo by Michael Caven via flickr.

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Create A Picturesque Wedding With Garden Of Eva

Flowers bring true joy to one's life. They serve as great accents to any event, wedding and even to one's life. However, you'd like them to customized towards your likes and preferences. Want a florist who will always take that into consideration? Choose Garden Of Eva. This Saint Paul, Minnesota florist designs flowers for all occasions and always creates with you in mind. You'll always receive satisfactory service and one-of-a-kind designs with them.

Garden Of Eva is a family owned business, so they truly understand you as a customer. They always offer quality fresh-cut flowers, creative designs, value and personalized professional service. Always making you a priority is a daily must. You are truly important to them. That is why they always offer a creative mind to design your one-of-a-kind flower arrangement.

A Wedding To Remember
Spring Floral Arrangement

Make your wedding one to remember because of all the beautiful wedding flowers you'll receive from Garden Of Eva. They want to celebrate one of the most important days of your life with you. All by creating your stunning wedding flowers. Always there for you with a helping hand. No matter what size of wedding, budget or your floral ideas; they'll always be there.

Guest will walk into your wedding ceremony, as well as your reception, to find beautiful pew decorations, wedding flower arrangements and a beautiful setting overall.

Accentuate the bridal party and yourself with a lovely wedding bouquet, bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages for your wedding. Everything will match accordingly to what you've always envisioned for your wedding day.

An elegant pastel pink bridal bouquet filled with roses or a tropical wedding bouquet will all represent you. From your wedding ceremony, reception decorations to a beautiful send off, they want you to have a picturesque wedding.

Flowers Are The Perfect Accents To Any Occasion

Garden Of Eva would love to help you with all your flower needs. Do you need help in preparing for an event? Are you needing help in sending flowers to someone? Don't worry, they will help you with everything. If you need reception centerpieces for a major event, they will make sure it surpasses your standards. Also, if are sending flowers as a get well arrangement or a birthday arrangement, those flowers will be suitable to their style and likes. A florist who is passionate with a creative eye is a great find.

Fulfill all your floral needs with Garden Of Eva. This skilled florist will strive to exceed all your expectations. Everything from wedding flowers, event flowers, floral arrangements to gift items; they will always design with you in mind.

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February – The Month Of Love, Weddings & Cherries?

The month of February is right around the corner. Are you thinking Valentine's Day? A holiday of red, pinks and whites that celebrates the love of being with someone or to remind you that you are single. However, there are much more interesting facts surrounding February. Every month in fact has interesting and neat facts that we would have never thought about. So if you're planning a party for the month of February and haven't a clue on where to begin, run with one of these themes that represent the month of February. It will be a February party!

Representation Of February
Little Tidbits

The word February was actually derived from the Old Latin term, februarius, which means purification. There is a saying that surrounds this month, "dye it black or dye it white", which means it can either snow a lot or rain a lot. It also has only 29 days in the month, except for leap years. And is the only month that can go without having a full moon.

Horoscope Signs: The horoscope signs of this month are Aquarius, Pisces and according to the new zodiac calendar Capricorn is included in this too. Aquarius is represented by the water bearer and are great thinkers, active, high-strung and feel very deeply.

Pisces completes the zodiac and is the 12th sign, which bears 2 fish for the water sign. These people are adventurous, ambitious, impulsive, enthusiastic and full of energy! Do these signs represent you? How does this incorporate into a party? Throw a zodiac sign party!

February's Birthstone: This beautiful birthstone is the amethyst. It captures a beautiful purple colored stone. This deep purple hue has been found among royalty and is usually found in beautiful churches. It does represent spirituality and piety. If given as a gift, it is said to strengthen the relationship and gives you power to overcome any difficult situations.

Also, to go along with this color is the violet flower, which is the flower of February. To incorporate this stone into a February themed party, throw a purple party!

Let's Celebrate!

February is full of holidays and observations, so pick a holiday and run with a themed party!

February Holidays
  • American Heart Month
  • Black History Month
  • Creative Romance Month – Fine creative ways to incorporate romance into your life.
  • National Cherry Month
  • National Grapefruit Month
  • National Wedding Month
  • February 2nd – Groundhog Day – Host a Groundhog viewing party
  • February 12th – Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
  • February 14th – Valentine's Day – Celebrate love
  • February 21st – National President's Day
  • February 22nd – George Washington's Birthday – Host a history party
  • February 29th – Leap Day – Every 4 years

Also, there are observances for each day like, Tell A Fairy Tale Day, Umbrella Day, Send A Card To A Friend Day, Love Your Pet Day, Make A Friend Day or Ferris Wheel Day. You can take a theme and run with it, make sure everything works toward that theme. Whatever you decide on, these holidays and special observance days are so fun and unique.

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Receive An Exqusite Location & Delicious Food From The Station Caterers

Looking for the right location for your wedding is a big deal. You want it perfect and up to your standards. Beautiful detailing and a wonderful feeling as soon as you walk into that room are a must for any wedding. This is the site where you will be getting married, a place you will remember for the rest of your life. Therefore, it must be special. The Station Caterers understands all that. This great wedding vendor offers a beautiful location, as well as providing catering and decorations. Your dream wedding will come true with this stunning wedding site.

An Elegant Affair

Beautiful Wedding Location
With The Station Caterers, you'll receive so much from them. They understand that this is one of the most important days of your life and will do anything to make it perfect. To do just that, they are offering you a beautiful wedding location that is absolutely stunning. The place is a former United States Post Office and U.S. Federal Court House that is from the 1900s.The former court room, is decorations with beautiful 25 feet ceilings, beautiful dental moldings, 18 foot Palladian Windows, leather and bronze doors and restored corked flooring.

Everything sounds so wonderful. All the vintage detailing has been wonderfully restored and would make a wonderful place for a wedding. Church Street Station is in the heart of downtown Jonesboro, Arkansas and has been beautifully renovated to make this a picturesque wedding location.

With a beautiful site, you may need little decorations. However, The Station Caterers will give you great wedding rentals. Beautiful votive candles, candelabras and PA systems are what they can offer you for the wedding ceremony. For the wedding reception, they offer tablecloths, champagne fountain, chocolate fountain, glass mirrors, punch bowl, vases, plates and glassware. You'll have all the elements that you need to complete your wedding ceremony and reception look. Everything will look absolutely ideal for your wedding day. They'll even help with finding the right flowers or anything else you might need.

Just imagine taking your wedding portraits in front of those windows, that would be such an elegant wedding photo. Or taking pictures in front of the beautiful, historic building of you and your wedding party. This elegant setting will provide the picturesque wedding that you've always imagined.

Delicious Event Food
A Tasteful Event

So you've found this amazing location, now it's time to think about food. Well, the great thing about this is that they cater too! They offer an array of options, such as tasteful appetizers and desserts. You'll be able to find something suitable for everyone's taste buds. Vegetable trays, fruit trays, marinated asparagus, Burgundy mushrooms, smoked salmon, beef & pork tenderloin, Ahi Tuna bites and even a variety of delicious desserts are some of the party food items they have to offer.

All their food looks so amazingly delicious. It will be one of the most memorable things from the night, behind you of course! Your guests will thank you for keeping them in mind, by providing them delicious reception food.

Whether you are planning a wedding, party, birthday party or special event; The Station Caterers has you covered. Providing you with a breath-taking site, exquisite decorations and tasteful food are all the elements to make your wedding or special event a truly memorable night.

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Let The Superbowl Madness Begin!

Footballs flying, flags being thrown, tackles happening left and right and whistles blowing are all the signs of football season. Combine all that with spotlighted halftime performances and belly laughing commercials and you have all the elements of the Superbowl! Delicious food, drinks, games and laughs are just the makings of a great Superbowl Party. However, you've done that year after year and you want to switch it up a bit. Oh, but what will make your party different? Let Wedding and Party Network help with this fun and unique football themed party that you and your guests will enjoy!

What makes this Superbowl party different from the rest? Well, you and your guests will make create a Superbowl party of your own. Okay, we all know that football has quarters…maybe. And you always have food at your party, right? Well, combine those two together. Create a Superbowl for food. Have your guests create food dishes, such as appetizers, main courses and desserts to compete against each other. A head-to-head challenge is perfect for football season.

The Game Plan
Are You Ready For Some Football?!

So, how does this work? First off, have everyone attending the party create 3 types of dishes, appetizers, main course and a dessert. However, if they only wanted to prepare one, that is fine too. Serve appetizers during the first half of the game, main courses during halftime and the dessert should be served during the last half of the game.

Create rating cards for each course. Have each dish on the rating cards with a rating scale from 1-10 or 1-5, whatever you prefer. Each of your guests will taste each dish and rate it on their card. At the end of the game, you can tally up the scores to see which dish has the highest rating. That dish is the winner. For the winner, you should come up with something to give them. A trophy would be fun. Every year your guests will be fighting over that trophy! It will become a fun tradition.

Strategic Party Set Up

Okay, now that everyone knows the rules of the game you can go ahead and set up for your party. What tables should you offer your guests and what type of themed decorations should you hang up in your house? Choose a long table to set all the food on, you can find a green table-cloth and create white lines on it for a football field look. You could even take it as far as making goal posts at the ends of the table. How cute would that be! Your local party store will be filled with football decorations so you can stick with the usual football centerpieces, balloons and streamers. Since your party has a unique twist to it, you won't need to go all out on your decorating.

The Food Line Up

It's 5 minutes till kickoff for the game and your Superbowl food challenge. At the time of kickoff, start setting out those appetizers for people to try. Buffalo wings, dips, cheese ball, salsa or roll ups are just some of the things you might find for appetizers. All these sound so delicious and yummy, but make sure you're not too full to carry on to the main course!

Football Party Food

For the main course, you'll find chili, tasty hamburgers, pizza burgers, ribs, mashed potatoes or pasta salads will all look great on your football themed party table. There will be so much delicious food on that table that your guests won't know where to begin or what to choose. They'll all want to rate every dish 5 stars. However, there must be a winner.

Desserts will be a cinch! You can come up with football themed cupcakes, such as footballs, cheerleading ones or even referee themed cupcakes. How great do those sound! Also, people may create mini cheesecakes, turtle brownies, football shaped cookies  or a football themed cake. All of these sound so yummy that you may be breaking those New Year's resolutions for just one day.

Basically, you'll just need to provide 3 dishes and possibly some drinks for the guests. You may want to get with a party caterer to help you come up with creative drink ideas. However, they can't help you with your food dishes since it is a competition. Your guests may not like that too much. Serve party punch, green cocktails featuring a football swivel stick or stick with traditional drinks. However, give each one a fun name like Touchdown, False Start, Punt or Interception. Even though they maybe traditional drinks, the football themed name will make them so much better.

With a fun party theme, tasty food and the Superbowl; you'll have all the elements of a great football party! Everyone will love rating each others food and especially winning the challenge. It will definitely become a football tradition. Get those game plans ready and be ready to take over the competition!

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Buffalo wings & Football cupcakes photo are provided by Lydiat & mrjoro via flickr.

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Receive Breath Taking Views From Windows On Washington

When finding your location for your wedding or event, it has to have that "wow" factor. It should convey the theme of your event, while providing a great setting. When attending your event, the location is the guest's first impression. Therefore, it needs to be amazing! If you're in the Saint Louis, Missouri area, Windows On Washington is your event location that will provide just that. It will provide that "wow" factor for your guests. Beautiful windows and elegant detailing truly makes this location stand out from any other, along with breath-taking views.

Beautiful Views From Windows On Washington

A Breathtaking View

Windows On Washington provides an exquisite location for your wedding or major event. They offer two buildings, Windows On Washington and Windows Off Washington that each feature beautiful design elements. Windows On Washington features 25 feet windows, a grand lobby featuring a beautiful fountain, hard wood flooring, exposed brick walls, creatively styled bars and open-air verandas.

Windows Off Washington feature similar detailing along with beautiful white columns, polished concrete floors, 12 foot high ceilings, wall made of recycled soda cans, a bar made of an old steam pipe and beautiful verandas featuring a panoramic view of downtown Saint Louis, Missouri. Each building sounds so unique and absolutely breath-taking with the lovely views. This location is absolutely stunning, you'll truly fall in love.

You'll be able to feature your wedding ceremony, wedding reception, rehearsal dinner, private events or anything else you need in these beautiful buildings. You'll be able to choose from 6 rooms that are uniquely styled. That way, you'll find the one that better suits your style. Whether you like the traditional elements or the unusual; they offer it. You will be able to add beautiful wedding flowers to add a special element, however, the rooms alone are simply stunning. This space is the ideal wedding venue.

With You In Mind

Windows On Washington understands that not every bride or events are the same, therefore, they cater towards your wants and needs so you'll have your dream event. Not only do they offer this wonderful location, but they also do wedding catering, as well as provide wedding decor. They offer various packages that includes all these items that you will be able to choose from for your wedding day and event.

Amazing Events At Windows On Washington

You'll be able to choose a package that's ideal for rehearsal dinners, receptions for various sizes, corporate meetings, cocktail events, proms and even off-site catering. Some include various appetizers, carving stations, desserts, open bars, decor items, chocolate mint departure, signature champagne and tableside service. You'll be able to pick which package better suits your style, taste and your wedding.

Imagine a beautiful space that is decorated exactly how you want it with delicious food, stunning wedding decorations and tasty wedding cake. Those two items being brought together will truly make up a wonderful wedding or event. Everything will be picture perfect as well as tasting simply amazing.

Especially when your event location is Windows On Washington. Where else are you going to find wedding decorator, wedding caterer and a ceremony location all-in-one? Their breath-taking views will take you well into the night with laughs, drinks and fabulous friends.

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Say Thank You In Style

You've asked your friends and family to be apart of your wedding. They've been there for you through your tearful moments, "bridezilla" moments and your happy moments. You've went to them for advice and just to vent to through all your wedding stress. Now, how do you say thank you in style. Showing them that you are truly thankful and wouldn't had known what to do without them is a must. Let Wedding and Party Network offer some tips and ideas to show them that you are truly thankful. Of course, show them this through stylish gifts is a must!

First thing you must do is set a budget. As much as you want to show them that you care, you must first decide how much you can spend on each one. You may want to spend a little bit more on your maid of honor or get them different things to suit their personality or get them matching gifts. The main wedding tip is to set this into your wedding  budget.

Now, here are our top picks for wedding attendant gifts!

Bridal Attendant Gifts
Wedding Jewelry: You'll absolutely never go wrong with jewelry. That way, your bridesmaids will be able to wear it during your wedding. Consider the style of your wedding, if you're keeping it simple and elegant, you may want to go with a simple pearl necklace, bracelet or earrings.

However, if you're mixing it up a bit, a fun statement necklace would be great! You can get them jewelry to match their personal style, if you don't want them to wear it in the wedding. Just pick something out that you know they can wear again.

Get Personal: Personalization is a huge trend. A lot of brides are having bags or jewelry personalized towards their bridesmaids. You can have their initials or name embroidered on a bag in your wedding colors or their favorite colors. You can do overnight bags, cosmetic bags or wallets that your girls will be able to use within their everyday life.

If you are considering jewelry, you could have their named hand stamped or engraved into a necklace or bracelet. For example, a charm bracelet would be ideal for this! That way, if you plan on doing the wedding tradition featuring the cake pulls, they'll be able to add their charm to this bracelet along with their personalized charm too. There are lots of ways that you can add personalization to anything that you get them, wine glasses, jewelry, shoes or picture frames and photo albums.

A Girl's Best Friend: Shoes! Girl's love shoes, plus they can wear them in your wedding or at the reception. You can go with heels, flats or sandals that will compliment your wedding. Maybe, you are having your bridesmaids wears heels for your wedding. We all know heels can sometimes be uncomfortable, so give them flip-flops for the wedding reception.

Choose their favorite colors, featured embellishments or you can personalize them too! As much as we love shoes, our feet need a rest. Especially if we plan on dancing the night away, so think comfortable.

Clutch In Style: Another big wedding trend to hit the scene is ditching the bouquets and replacing them with wedding clutches. This can serve as a great gift for your bridesmaids too. Provide them in the colors of your wedding, add embellishments or have the inside of them personalized. Make sure they can use them again, possibly not buying clutches in orange or an off-the-wall color.

It will be a perfect way for your bridesmaids to place touch up makeup, cameras and phones in them as well during the reception. That way, they're not lugging their huge bag around the entire night. Plus, your bridesmaids will be able to carry them during a night out on the town.

Great Bridesmaid Gift Ideas

Goodie Bag: If you've asked a lot from your bridesmaids, love them to pieces or made them travel for your destination wedding; a gift bag full of goodies might be a great way to go. Maybe you're having a destination wedding on the beach, if so, create a bag with their name on it filled with a beach towel, swim suit and items for the beach.

You can fill their bags up with travel items, jewelry, pajamas, personalized wedding shirt and flip-flops. You can offer all the essentials they'll need for their stay. A goodie bag is a great way to say thank you.

These 5 wedding gift ideas for your bridesmaids are just a start. There are endless possibilities when trying to figure out what to get your bridesmaids. You can cater towards your wedding, their style or both. Making sure they'll absolutely love them and will be able to use them are a must when finding a bridesmaid gift.

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Clutch photo, wedding bag photo, monogram totes provided by minor9th, unwritten & ohsohappytogether via flickr.

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10 Picture-Perfect Questions to Ask Your Wedding Photographer

A wedding photographer is one of the most essential vendors of your big day! You're choosing someone to capture the feeling of the day through the lens of a camera and provide you with photos to cherish—it's a big deal! You'll want to meet with your potential wedding photographer to discuss what you want, find out more about their work, and decide whether you vibe with them. Here are some questions to ask to help you both shoot your shot!