photo from R.B. Boyer

While planning a wedding, you need to get whatever help you can get.

They can be your siblings, your friends, your relatives, your mother-in-law, your father-in-law and so on.

You need to brief them exactly what kind of help you need and exactly how they can go about doing it. Print out the tasks and instructions even if you need to make things simpler for them.

Don’t assume they know what is in your mind as they are just like you – planning wedding for the first time.

Alternatively, to make your wedding planning life really easy and enjoyable, you can hire a professional wedding planner and here 26 tips to look out for when you’re hiring your wedding planner!

1. I feel a professional wedding coordinator should have been certified that he or she is qualified to be a plannner. They will have taken a wedding coordinator or consultant or planner course and have a certificate to show for it. To check the validity, you can even call up the education institute to enquire.
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As a man, I think in this life of mine, I have only bought 2 pieces of jewelry by myself.

And they are the wedding proposal ring and our wedding rings.

Beside these, there are others which my mother bought for my wife as a wedding gift for her.

Traditionally in Chinese wedding customs, this wedding gift can consist of gold chains or gold bracelets.

Especially, since my wife’s family is from Hong Kong, they are even more particular about jewelry that must be made of gold.

Why?
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There are many stages that you have to go through when planning a wedding and one of the first and most important is to send out the wedding invitations, so that everyone can attend and plan ahead of time to be there. This can be a boring and tedious task, but there are some fun ways to invite your friends and family.

1. An idea is to put your invitations inside a fancy parcel or pretty box. This can be an interesting way to receive a wedding invite and you can even include some glitter, chocolates or mini soaps for each person.
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Many times I wonder why some newly-formed couples can be so much in love while the other couples who have been married for a long time felt tortured by their relationship.

I am not sure what your thoughts are but I have my answer.

The word is commitment.

For couples who have yet married, there is not much of commitment.

They meet barely for a few hours, at most 9 hours a day and off they go back to their own home.

During these times, they display the best side of themselves. They cast their ugly side behind their masks. They just need their good side to make their relationship work.
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With the New Rich (NR) coming along, there is no limit to the number of leaves you can take for your honeymoon.

NR is a new group of online entrepreneurs who made their millions, if not billions online within a span of 5 years and they are still young (in their twenties) and going to get married.

In summary, they work for themselves and there is no need to get their leaves approved by someone else.

They approve their own leaves.

So let’s say you are one of the new rich with at least 4 weeks of honeymoon to cover, where will you get your flight tickets?
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