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Wedding Week Notes 30/06 1442 views
Catch up with this week on WeddingPath and click on the links to some of our favourite reads and top highlights. Can't find what you're looking for? Go to News Categories on the home page.
—————————————————————— 30/06 FASHION Frills Fancy... flounce like Coleen
01/07 GROOMS What a Job... a bartered wedding
01/07 REAL WEDDING Vintage Rose... Newby bride02/07 FASHION Little Maids... finest frocks
02/07 WEDDING GOSSIP California Bride 3...03/07 VENUE Ballroom Best... river views
03/07 HONEYMOON Green Dream... eco!04/07 GIFTS Cushion Cosy... comfort gift
04/07 RECEPTIONS Paper Petals... favoursHave a great weekend!
Photo © Natural Design
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PLANNING Happy Hens 4 3075 views
Celebrating your hen night is a real milestone. A whole step closer to being MrsX, it is also a great time for bonding with new sister-in-laws and old friends. Add a fun activity and you'll be in for a never-to-forget experience. This week we check out murder mystery weekends.
A great alternative to the spa or weekend in Europe, you'll die laughing at an Original Murder Weekend. Joy Swift, who created the Murder Weekends concept 27 years ago, says: “Hen parties have an absolute hoot on our Murder Weekends. Alongside the murder 
puzzle we have hilarious games, a party atmosphere and even the chance to wear silly costumes. Hen parties are really comfortable with the clear one-off price, with no hidden extras, which avoids upsets or friction in the group. It’s also much easier to arrange than a foreign trip!”
Joy's murder weekends are cleverly designed to tax the braincells with at least three mysteries to solve. Using TV-quality make-up, topical themes and convincing actors, the whole scenario is incredibly realistic. At the same time it is a lot of fun and is great for bonding. Joy adds, "It’s particularly good if a lot of the party don’t know each other – they won’t be strangers for more than five minutes once they start sleuthing!”
Original Murder Weekends begin with a welcome reception at 8pm on Friday night and continue until 12noon on Sunday, when the Detective Inspector concludes his/her summing up. The weekends are run exclusively in Mercure Hotels. Visit murder.co.uk for a full list of dates. For bookings made during 2008, Original Murder Weekends will give the organiser a £50 discount and a bottle of champagne for the bride.
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PLANNING Wed Like a Wag 2 8173 views
The average cost of a wedding in the UK is £17,000, a worldaway from the average cost of a WAG wedding, which comes in at anything between £250,000 and £4 million. However, leading shopping comparison site Kelkoo (Hitwise UK), has some handy cost-saving tips.
Bruce Fair, managing director, Kelkoo, says: “When you’re planning a wedding it’s all too easy to let the budget go out of the window. But, just because it’s your special day, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t shop around."
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WAG vs BLAG
1. Marquee
WAG – John Terry and Toni Poole pitched their extravagant, purple-carpeted marque
e in the grounds of Blenheim Palace for their wedding day last year. A full specification luxury marquee can cost anything up to £12,000.
BLAG – Re-create the marquee wedding in your own garden. You can get a 100 person garden marquee from £899.
SAVING – £11,101
2. Wedding Gifts
WAG – One generous guest treated Victoria and David Beckham to a luxury Harrods Hamper as part of their wedding gift, estimated to cost around £450.
BLAG – Give your own stack of sweet treats, with the Duchy Originals Hamper from Virginia Hayward, at £30.50 with delivery.
SAVING – £419.50
3. Wedding Favours
WAG – The treats that Wayne and Coleen dished out to wedding guests were kept a top secret but the recent celebrity trend has been for the Tiffany silver clock, engraved with the all-important date. Reported cost around £275 each.
BLAG – Make sure your guests always remember your anniversary by giving them a personalised, engraved silver compact mirror, at £9.99 each.
SAVING – £265.01 per guestPhoto © PR Photos, iStockphoto
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PLANNING I'd Just Like to Say... 8552 views
Making a speech can be nerve-wracking, but with a few good one-liners up your sleeve to break the ice you will soon have family and friends laughing. This week we review a handy new book.
Top speech writer Mitch Murray has put together the perfect gameplan for making a speech. Including his own tips and techniques and masses of one-liners to be lifted and adapted for your own in-the-spotlight moment. Rather more than the title suggests, Mitch Murray’s One-Liners for Wedding Speeches (Foulsham £8.99) is a complete DIY kit for all those having to make a speech on the big day. It offers a rich selection of ideas, one-liners, quotations and quips you can adapt or import for the occasion. A successful speech depends very much on how the ideas are arranged and structured … it’s not what you say that counts, it’s the way that you say it!
Mitch includes the gags.
He shows you how to deliver them. He shows you how to structure everything for pace. And most of all, he produces everyone's dream, the successful wedding speech.click to read more on speech-making > Photo © Freeman Photographics
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Wedding Week Notes 23/06 10884 views
If you missed out on any of the news & events at WeddingPath this week, just click on the links to catch up on some of our favourites!
—————————————————————— 23/06 FASHION Wedding Belles... spotlight Amanda Wyatt
24/06 GROOMS Your Cuppa... skincare with tea
24/06 REAL WEDDING Highland Loving.. WP bride18/06 FASHION Mums' Treat... hats & champers
18/06 WEDDING GOSSIP California Bride 2...19/06 VENUE River Romance... canal boat
19/06 HONEYMOON Hot in Chile... wild!20/06 GIFTS Satin Love... silky smooth
20/06 RECEPTIONS Will You Dance?... top 10Have a great weekend!
Photo © Hadley Park Hotel, iStockphoto
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