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Every bride wants to look her best on her wedding day, and for many, losing weight is a top priority.

There are so many details brides have to attend to, but one of the most important is how they can lose weight and look spectacular. Try the following tips to make sure you look as beautiful as you feel on your special day.

1. Pay attention to good nutrition.

Whether you want to fit into your mother's wedding dress or have a picture of your dream gown, you may need to lose a few pounds. Now's not the time to resort to fad diets or starving yourself.

Diets that result in quick weight loss aren't always safe, so the key to being fit for your wedding is to start early. You can fit into your dream gown and look good in all your pictures if you follow a healthy plan for nutrition.

* Skip the soda or dessert. By cutting only 200-250 calories a day, you are on you way to weight loss.

* Eat! Starving yourself or skipping meals causes your body to store fat instead of burning it.

* Get plenty of fiber and protein. These will help you keep your body healthy and aid in weight loss.

* Eating right can be hard when you are busy, which makes convenience foods so dangerous. Resist the temptation by always carrying good snacks with you.

* Stress can make us eat more than we normally would, and weddings are very stressful to plan. Instead of eating, go for a walk, try a yoga class, or do a cardio video each night. You'll feel calmer ? and thinner.

* Alcoholic drinks are full of calories, and they can cause you to become bloated. Put down the frozen margarita and grab a glass of ice water instead.

* Cut out desserts. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit or drinks with sugar substitutes.

2. Exercise is critical.

Worrying about your weight is not enough. Waiting until the last minute to lose weight doesn't work.

You have to start the weight loss process far enough in advance so you can lose weight healthily. Don't harbor unrealistic expectations that you can drop pounds overnight.

* Start exercising. You can start slowly by walking around the block every day or going to a fitness class. As always, add intensity and variety to your workouts to keep the weight coming off.

* For people who do exercise, Bride Boot Camp videos and exercise programs can be just the challenge their body needs to kick up fat and calorie burning. There are a lot of different videos offered by excellent trainers, and they can be immensely rewarding.

* Take dancing lessons. This will prep you for the big first dance with your new spouse and help you get more fit.

* Some great exercises to try are:

- Anything cardio. Get your heart going.

- Pushups. If you can't do a traditional form, try a modified one. You'll still get the same terrific results and have great chest and back muscles to show off on your wedding day.

- Lunges. These are effective for defining and tightening your thighs and butt. For even better results, add a chest press.

- Pilates and yoga are great for toning and lengthening muscles.

- Resistance bands help add intensity and difficult to cardio or strength training routines.

- Good posture can make you appear thinner. You'll also look more confident and beautiful.

3. Weight loss blunders brides often make

* Starting too late. They may be down to the last month and want to lose twenty pounds. You probably cannot do this healthfully and safely. Don't put your health and long-term goals at risk (crash dieting can lead to even more weight gain). Even quick weight loss doesn't happen overnight.

* Ignoring exercise. There's no way around it: you need to exercise in order to lose weight and keep it off. Even if you do lose weight with just diet, your muscles look slack. Exercise gives you a much more defined, toned, and sexy look.

* Not eating. Skipping meals is a great way to stall weight loss. It causes your body to go into starvation mode and horde fat. You can't trick your body out of it ? so eat!

* Wanting to do too much too fast. You need to have realistic goals. If you have always had a muscular curvy build, you won't be able to diet or exercise your way into a willow slim figure. Accept your body. You can look amazing no matter what your body size or shape. Don't choose your dress according to the body you wish you had but the one you actually do have.

Losing weight before your wedding takes time and preparation, just like the wedding itself.

Have a celebratory glass of champagne after your boyfriend pops the question. The next day, get started on a healthy, safe weight loss program that can help you look your best.

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Before going on to give some wonderful wedding advice, I would like to share my best moment during a wedding. It's the time when the newly-weds have their first dance. As I look at them all happy and glowing, I am relieved that everything has gone as well as planned and the stars of the night are finally married.

A Million Moving Pieces To Coordinate

When I plan a wedding as you can imagine there are a million moving pieces coming together to create the overall experience. Especially when I plan really big weddings I have to really be on top of what's going on with each element that makes up the wedding to ensure that everything is going in the right direction.

"What is your best wedding advice for pulling off a grand wedding?" Now this is a question which I am often asked, especially in a scenario of a big wedding. Now if it were that simple I would have been able to give an answer in a few words. But it isn't really. I think the best way to understand this point is if we compare a big wedding to a big movie. There are certain elements that are necessary to make a movie a success. And the same elements are necessary to make a big wedding a success. Here are the elements which are ESSENTIAL to planning a grand wedding:

1. HIRE a Wedding Planner - This is one of the best pieces of wedding advice I can give. In a big wedding, there are a lot of people who need to be taken care of. You don't have the time and energy to do it all on your own. So let someone else do it for you.

2. You Are The Star, You Need A Great Director - When you're trying to pull off a mega wedding, especially if it's in a unique or nontraditional location, do not go shopping for a wedding planner on the clearance rack. You need someone that has a strong team, great experience and also someone that has the confidence to handle what you're looking for. A great wedding planner lets their couple shine.

3. Hire someone you can Bond with - If the star of the movie and the director don't understand each other or can't see eye-to-eye, then the movie is bound to be a failure. So take my wedding advice and hire a wedding planner you can easily connect with. Remember you will be spending a lot of your time with your wedding planner, so make sure that it is someone who understands you and who you understand.

4. A Good Team with Supporting Cast - Yes, your supporting cast are the members of your bridal party and your parents. They need to exactly know what's going to happen at the wedding. Make sure they understand that they need to give their full support in this grand affair.

5. The Crew Needs To Be Tight- A wedding is only as good as the people putting it together and you really need to make sure that your vendors are top notch, that they are aligned with your vision and that they are aligned with each other for optimum teamwork.

6. The Script Must Be Flawless- You need to be incredibly organized. Each member of the team needs an event binder filled with every piece of information possible, including an itinerary. A schedule showing where each member of the bridal party and each vendor is going to be each hour is a must. That way if anyone has a question, your planner has the answer. To pull off something like this, organization is essential.

Whatever your ideas may be for your wedding, you must clearly understand what they are and how and where you want to accomplish them. It doesn't really matter whether you want a small wedding or a big one. But when you sit down to plan your wedding, you need to make sure that all the wheels are perfectly aligned and working smoothly. So take my wedding advice and get the perfect wedding for yourself.

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It costs a lot to get married in America. Brides, before you start buying from suppliers talk to your husband-to-be first and discuss the wedding budget. Please don't go bridezilla and make unreasonable demands for your wedding. First, determine who pays for your wedding and will cover the largest percentage of your wedding budget. This will serve as a realistic guideline for couples who would like to know the basic etiquette in who pays for what.

Wedding Etiquette on who pays for the weddings has evolved for the last century. Traditionally, wedding etiquette books dictate that the bride's father should pay for the wedding. This was during the time when girls were kept by their fathers inside their house, not allowed to work and go to school, but do household chose and must have lessons from lady manners to teach them social etiquette and wedding etiquette in preparation for their life as married women.

In the old days, a a father gave his to a man he believed could take care of her after he passed away. Since he was giving the girl, it was fitting for him to pay for the affair. It was also a sign of his agreeing to the marriage. This is the reasoning behind the more traditional etiquette concerning who pays for the wedding. Times have obviously changed.

Wedding etiquette is much less rigid now on who pays for the wedding. The bride can go traditional, and ask the father of the bride to host the wedding and pay for the entire wedding expenses. The parents of the groom may also expressed their desire to co-host the wedding event This is especially appropriate when the groom's parents wealthy and are able to cover some of the expenses.

Most couples these days are both working and earning their own money. It is not a violation of wedding etiquette if they decide to take the expense of the wedding. In fact, many couples actually prefer to pay for the their own wedding. It gives them more control over all of the details. Often, traditional wedding etiquette is being set aside so that the couple and their family are able to choose for themselves.

Because of the high cost of living these days, paying for the entire cost of the wedding may be beyond the means of the parents of the bride or even of the parents of the groom. If the bride and the groom are earning money for themselves, they may consider paying for the entire expenses fo their wedding.

However, there may be parents who would like to contribute to the wedding cost. Brides and grooms should be sensitive with this matter. Don't say no to your parents even if you think they will hand to you everything that they have. It is their joy to see you get married and their pleasure to play a big part of your wedding (that is by shelling out money for the wedding cost).

One reasonable alternative is to sit down and discuss the wedding plans with your parents. Talk about the probable cost of your plans and see what they feel comfortable paying for. By doing this, the parents will know exactly how much they will have to pay and you will also know how much you need to provide.

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