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I'm Michelle Myers, Vice President and Publisher of Brides and Brides.com,
and the New Year brings a whole new crop of brides, because a third of all
couples get engaged from Thanksgiving
to New Years. So, it's exciting to talk about what to do and how to get started in the
planning process. The first thing that a bride should do is sit down with her fiance
and set a budget. It's really important to set a budget and prioritize what you
want to spend your money on. Sixty-two percent of all couples are either paying
for their wedding or significantly contributing to their wedding. So get
that done early on in the process. And then, right after you get that budgets set, it's
time to set the date and pick the venue.
Lots of great options these days for venues. You can always go
with the traditional
venues of the ballroom, but lots of nontraditional, beautiful ideas out there
for brides, whether it's at
a family friend's house, your own home, a farm, a lake
wonderful options to save money in terms of venue, um, for the newly engaged
bride to be
And one of the most important decisions
if not be most important decision, that she's gonna make during this whole
process is her wedding dress. The one red carpet moment that she has in
her life. She wants to look her best, and our friends at David's Bridal are going
to help her do just that with their spring 2013 White by
Vera *** Collection - a beautiful collection of dresses that
work for any type of bride.
The ballgown, which is
a dress that works on many different body types. It has an ombre
look to it, it's a big trend in bridal right now, and that's the graduation of
color. This is for a fashion forward bride that's a little bit daring.
This dress is $1,348 at David's Bridal and
davidsbridal.com.
The next dress is a beautiful, fun short dress.
Short dresses are big trend
right now, and this is fun,
flirty,
a great way to show off your legs and dance the night away in this one
shoulder
White by Vera *** dress.
$728. And finally my favorite dress, which is
a fit and flare dress, fitted on the top,
flares out on the bottom, a beautiful, romantic dress with lace appliques,
really shows off your curves,
and it's strapless, and lots of brides are looking for
strapless dresses. And you can find these
and more of the White by Vera *** collection
on davidsbridal.com.
And when you're on davidsbridal.com, don't forget to check out
one of the best planning tools out there, it's called My Event,
and it will help you with your budgeting process, shopping list, and task list.
It is a great tool to plan your wedding.
and for the bride that doesn't want to have to pay for or plan for your wedding,
I have the contest just for you.
The editors of Brides are
teaming up with Facebook, and we have
launched the Brides Live Wedding.
And if you go to
facebook.com/brideslivewedding
you can enter to win the wedding of your dreams. One lucky couple will win
a wedding streamed live on Facebook,
April 7
from the beautiful St. Regis Hotel in Monarch Beach California
All the details of the wedding will be voted on by America,
and you will be able to have
a star-studded, beautiful wedding
Live on Facebook
A couple more days to enter, so check it out at
facebook.com/brideslivewedding
Happy Wedding to all!