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The amazing thing about all the planning, scrimping, worrying, arguing, imbibing and saving for a wedding is when you actually pull it off. The successful arrival of all your guests to your island paradise, the sigh of relief knowing that both sets of parents get along so well that you can stick them at the corner of the wedding table and not have to check up on them too often. These are just some of the things that make you breathe a sigh of relief, look your Prewife in the eye knowing all is well with her too, and then go hit the beach.

Of course, even the best wedding is not all smiles and sunshine… From our own personal experience – we learned to be very flexible. We saw our guest list drop from 50 to 15 people. It worked out well, since in the end it was actually quite an intimate affair (and what I wanted all along). We went from having a full band and a buffet style beach dinner, to a DJ and buffet dinner, to an iPod hooked up to speakers at a restaurant, to what was playing at the Restaurant. This was fine as well as the restaurant was excellent. As usual props go out to the Prewife – always cool under pressure, and nary a hissy-fit in sight. Gents, make sure your Prewife has nerves of steel and the flexibility to match. Getting married at an island destination is not for the faint of heart.

The one thing we did not scrimp on was the photographer. If there is one thing we can say is most important, it is the photog. Now this doesn’t mean you have to blow all your money on the most expensive one. But make sure to get the best one you can afford. Take your time on this. If the wedding is local, look at their pics and talk with the photographer and find out how they interact with you. If they have references, by all means use them. If the wedding is a destination, then as soon as you decide where to have it, find out who is going to shoot it. Check out their website, email them, etc. Destination weddings tend to be in beautiful places that sometimes have limited resources – such as a photographer’s availability. So get the best one you can quickly, before they are snatched up by another wedding party. Do not rely on friends or relatives for anything more then “fun photos” or you will be very disappointed.

If you happen to be going to Turks and Caicos, where we had our wedding, the photographer we used was Ileana, from Tropical Imaging. I cannot say enough good things about her. Professional, relaxed, engaging, on the ball, excellent photographer, the list goes on, you get the idea. Tropical Imaging’s setup for picking out pictures you want to keep is straight forward and is as easy as opening up your laptop, logging on to their site and selecting the images you want.

So, this week and next, we here at Prewife will focus on some great locations for destination weddings.

Trying to figure out just how much you need to spend to kick off an engagement can be tricky even when you are not in fear of losing your job. Nowadays, it is just plain scary to drain your bank account so that you can encrust a piece of expensive circular metal with even more expensive shiny rocks. Unfortunately for you, that is kind of how the world works. Look at it this way, at least you get to pee standing up…. But like everything else in this life, it will cost you.

Now depending on how realistic, compassionate, understanding, crazy your prewife is, pretty much dictates the proportion of what’s in your bank account you get to spend on her new accessory. Even better would be if your bank account is empty. Then you can plead with her that you have no money and the credit card company lowered your credit maximum down to say…$1,000… what’s that, she knows you have more then one card?…you, my friend are screwed.

You can always try talking to her about tough times and the need to conserve every penny and would she perhaps consider this ring you got from the cracker jack box…Make sure you tell her about its secret decoder capability. Maybe she can find a way Read the rest of this entry »

There have been some crazy weddings out there. You remember the bride with the life-sized cake made in her image right? How about a Shrek wedding…Dressed as Shrek and Fionna? Sound strange? Yeah, well, go figure.

The story goes that these two love birds were a few months out from the altar. The Future Mrs decided that her hubby to be looked too much like Shrek not to take advantage of the opportunity. On their wedding day they hired a makeup artist and spent some three hours getting “Shreked” up for the ceremony.   Mr. and Mrs. Green (seriously…that’s their last name) are now probably on Holiday, sans the green makeup.

No word from Donkey’s Rep as to why he was not invited…

The wedding. As a guy, you think about it all your life during commercials with hot models: “Man that would be sweet to be shacked up with that hot babe for life…”

I honestly believe that society has geared men not to take much of an interest in marriage until the very last possible second – such as when you realize you need the blue pill and your days as a player are OVER. So, while we are out there happily sowing our wild oats with no idea that within a year or two we could be hitched, the inevitability of a drained bank account looms large on the horizon. You’ve felt its presence… when you wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat on your brow and you realize that perhaps one night a week and weekends IS too much time to be spending with your girl.

And you should be afraid, very afraid. As we have speculated here before, the cost of matrimony keeps going up! The average wedding in the US today starts….starts at $7,000 – not including Read the rest of this entry »

Seems like a silly question I know. However, the flowers have to go into something and that something is a vase. Preferably a pretty one.

Here is a cool site that has hand painted vases. Even better, they are having a free giveaway. here is what they are looking for:

I’M LOOKING FOR!

*The Traditional Bride

*THE Not!so Traditional Bride

*The Florist with an amazingly special couple , that you would love to include a little something extra for.

*The Wedding Planner with a creative flare and love of the romance associated with The Wedding Vase Tradition.

*The Parents or Groom that knows that you are a true flower lover and will fill this special vase again and again.

In Return Id love your review, Blog write up, and Photo of the couple with Vase so I can share the love with you!

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