Karen Mok Wed in Italy

Chinese famous singer star Karen Mok got married with her German boyfriend in Florence, Italy, on 1st October. The romantic wedding happened in Ferregam manor, where she took pictures for her career before. The couple met each other when they studied in Italy and fell in love as their first love. They broke up for years and finally met and loved again last year. They reminded where they met was Italy and decided to hold the wedding at that fancy country.



About the wedding details, Karen paid attention to all details and deal with all problems by herself. She found the designer of wedding dress among her best friends for knowing her better than others and picked the bridesmaid dresses and flower dresses. That's why she became a blissful bride on her big day and began her happy marriage.


According to the local Italy tradition, the bride can not wear the strapless wedding gown in church. So Karen used lots of lace to make up for not showing her charming shoulders. The wedding theme was pink, so her wedding venue looked pink and the groom's three children all attended the wedding. In the pink wedding, the two daughters of the groom also dressed in pink.


In the holy wedding ceremony, the bride was taken by her brother to the hand of the groom. Then the priest wished the newlyweds. The couple exchanged the wedding vows and wedding rings. After a sweet kiss, the couple went out of the church and the wedding guests sprinkled rice in their hands to show the best wishes. Then the ceremony was perfectly done.

Wedding Toast

Wedding toast is a traditional custom for the wedding reception. There is a story of the origin for the wedding toast. Once upon a time, a host of a reception invited his enemies. For showing the relief to discard past grievances, he poured from a common pitcher and sipping the wine to prove no poison. He and the leader of enemies slipped the wine into each other's glass to show the trust. Now the toast in wedding means congratulations and best wishes to the newlyweds.

In the wedding reception, everyone can toast for cheering up. But the main four persons to speak are the father of the bride, the best man, the groom and the maid of honor.

The father of the bride is often the first one to toast. He needs to toast for all wedding guests, to wish his daughter's sweet marriage and to welcome the groom become the new member in his family. Saying something about his family and some happy jokes are also popular.

The groom's toast is next his father in law. His toast stands for both himself and his wife. Usually, he will thanks for the love from his wife, the support from the bride's family, his own family and close friends. Thanking for wedding guests coming to his wedding is proper, as well as their wedding gifts and congratulations.

The best man often toasts behind the groom. He will share experiences with the groom in a funny and heartfelt mood. He will additionally wish the newlyweds and set the tone for the rest of the wedding reception. The bride and the groom's families and all wedding guests will be praised for creating such a remarkable memory.

After the best man speaks his toast, the maid of honor will say something about the relationship she and the bride. This toast should be short and must get the point, because everyone is weary of speeches. After she wishes the bride and groom all the best for their future, it's time for free speeches.

Practical and Personalized Wedding Gifts

Wedding gifts are indispensable on someone's big day. A good wedding gift will give a special and happy memory to bridesmaids and wedding guests. It will additionally gain the praise from those present. Now I'll show your some popular wedding gifts which rank in the top.

Wedding bags are favorites among bridesmaid and lady guests. Bags can be designed by your own idea, be printed as what your guests like. Using colorful bags as your kindly wedding gifts is smart. There are messenger bags and tote bags for your choices. The former is affordable, practical, and can be customized with the name of the bride and the groom or other styles. The latter has the same feature as the former, but is more popularized in bridal parties for its colorful system. Don't miss the cosmetic bags, which are trendy for women guests and bridesmaids. Compact mirrors, jewelry along with these bags are nice choices for you.

Cufflinks and baseball caps are perfect choices for your men guests. You can see their nice shapes in more and more wedding parties. Those young men who wear baseball caps and take cufflinks talk with the beauties in wedding parties and move their bodies in dance floor. They really like the gifts and enjoy themselves.

Picture frame is a traditional and classic wedding gift, but never out of date. With some trendy and modern elements, picture frame can also be attractive. There are lots of styles and designs. That's why it is always among the hottest wedding gifts. And it suits for both women guests and men guests.


There are other wedding gifts applied in both bridesmaids and groomsmen. Personalized tank tops and T-shirts with wedding vows, quotes, and funny scrawl increase their popularity these years. Vases, figurines and flasks with vibrant colors and different styles are proper when you give them to your guests.


No matter which type you choose for wedding gifts, classic, trendy, traditional or modern, you must flower these three words---affordability, practicality, and customization. Your special wedding gifts will evoke the power form the old memory after a long time of your fancy nuptials.

How to Meet Requests from Wedding Guests

If you think your wedding guests are so easy to handle by food and drink, you are making a big mistake. In term of each guest's special and different requests, how to satisfy them at most you can is a tough task, no matter you are a skilled wedding planer or an unknown bride or a still childish groom. Well, I'd like to share some tips for cheering up your wedding guests.

1) Enough and various food and drink. Food and drink should be adequate. Take vegetarians and those with food restrictions in considerations. If your menu is designed by yourself, preparing some normal dishes can give your guests who have no interest on your special dishes another option.

2)Renting portable restrooms is important to your outside wedding, such as beach wedding or backyard wedding. If you place the wedding venue in a restaurant, make sure the wedding location has enough capacity and good quality in the bathrooms.

3) Pay more attention on your wedding details to make your guest comfortable. As the host and the main role on your big day, you should think more for the guests. If you have an outdoors wedding ceremony or reception, prepare umbrellas, sun shields. For your summer wedding, stocking enough ice and using nonmetal chairs is good. Having wraps and blankets on your winter wedding is also sweet and warm. Protecting the old and the young is a way to avoid some accidents on the blissful day. Employing some reputable women to look after babies or little children can free the guests who have to take their children and let them enjoy your wedding party. What's more, if your wedding is out of your local town, why not reserving discounted rooms for your guests?

4) Don't forget the Entertainment part in your wedding. Keep your dance floor open. Hiring a live band and a skilled DJ can increase the entertainment atmosphere. But troubling your guests by asking them to wear weird or indecipherable clothing, like gothic, is a bad idea.

The Longest Wedding Dress In the World

September 22, 2011 was Elena's big day. That day was additionally a remarkable day for the bride's hubby, close friends, relatives, as well as the strangers in Casal di Principe, Italy. That's because the white wedding gown dressed by Elena had 3000 meters length.

Her wedding dress attracted the residents lived in Town Casal di Principe. Hundreds of girls and their moms helped the bride lift her wedding trail along the way to the church. That image was grand. Her wedding dress was designed by Gianni Molaro and used 6000 meters silk. This special wedding dress had broken the Guinness Book of Records and became the longest wedding dress in the world.

 

According to the concept of the designer, this wedding dress stood for peace and hope. The designer felt honor and said:" there are lots of persons to admire my design on the way to church. This is one of the important moments in my design career."