Lighting your Centerpieces:

Place a battery operated votive inside glass ornaments that have a hole in the back hung from fishing wire or ribbon. These ornaments can be hung from your centerpieces such as a tree like centerpiece or made into their own chandelier and hung throughout the room.

Tips on: Seating your Guests

If you have a small, informal reception, you may not feel you need a seating plan. However, for large numbers, or a sit down meal, both you and your guests may benefit from a seating chart. The wedding meal may last for 2-3 hours and is a significant part of the day. If your guests are sitting with people they get along with, it will make a big difference to their overall enjoyment of the day!

The traditional head table:
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While the traditional head table is still favored by most, alternatives are often being used such as including parents and clergy. Some are even including partners of the bridal party which works nice if you are using a Sweetheart table.

Seating tables with just one family group will let them relax, but it will not do much to encourage mingling. However, a table where no one knows anyone else might be a bit daunting for most people. Try and arrange a mix on each table-so everyone knows a few people. By thinking about guests' ages and interests you can make sure that each table is likely to get on and have fun!

Where to sit singles can also create a dilemma. On one hand you might try out a little match-making, but on the other, this could be rather uncomfortable and awkward for your guests. Certainly avoid a 'Singles Table'.

We have all been to weddings that we attended without an escort, knowing only the bride or a few members of the family and were either seated at the 'singles table' or seating was a free for all. What memory of the wedding did you leave with?
By seating your guests appropriately they can see that you took the time on your special day to think of them to make sure they enjoyed themselves. It is little details like this that go a long way to your guests and will ensure that everyone will remember your wedding with warm thoughts.

Wedding facts/Trivia for 2007 taken fromPeople Magazine July 2007 Issue

Stats of the Union:
Average cost of a Wedding: $27, 690
Average length of an Engagement: 17 Months
Average age of a Groom: 27
Number of Weddings in the U.S. in 2006: 2,155,000

Texas is estimated to play host to the most weddings this year: 191, 072
North Dakoda will have the fewest with 4,192

The longest wedding dress train measured 3,949.8 feet and was worn in Caudry France, on Aug. 5, 2006

Around 116,000 weddings take place in Las Vegas each year

The average number of wedding guests is 167

Average price of an engagement ring: $2,100

Average price of a wedding band: $650

Average number of weddings taking place in the U.S. every day: 5,904

The World's most expensive nuptials on record: $60,000,000
That's how much Billionaire Lakshmi paid for his daughter Vanisha's 2004 wedding.

The most expensive wedding dress on record was laced with 150 Carats of Diamonds. It was created by dressmaker Renee Strauss and jeweler Martin Katz. To date it remains unsold.