A Top 10 List for Brides in 2007 by Raven-Dance

A Top 10 List for Brides in 2007 by Raven-Dance
Top 10 Bridal Tips 2007
1. Rent, a "walking" white wedding dress
2. Veil, Buy it
3. Tiara, contact a florist not a jeweler
4. Skin, lasered and tanned
5. Teeth, professionally whitened
6. Hair, no bangs
7. Nails, natural manicure only
8. Ring, inlaid diamond in a platinum band
9. Shoes, must be able to do the 100 yard dash
10. Under garments, all white
For true martial happiness be sure to have.... Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something Blue, And a penny in your Shoe... Brush your teeth, Shoulders back, Be a wild woman -- In the Sack! Old Wedding Proverb
2007 Choosing the Perfect Wedding Dress
You must "RENT" not buy, a solid white wedding dress that expresses conservative class. The dress needs to be white. It needs to be full length, as in touching the ground. You're the focus, not the dress. The dress needs to enhance your natural beauty not cover it.
Your dress must have some sort of shoulder or neck straps; never use a strapless gown on a wedding day! It'll look like a towel was wrapped around you after a shower, and it will constantly slide down on you, wedding dress' are heavy.
The dress you want will look boring on the hanger but classy on you. Make sure it's professionally altered to fit and flatter your form. You will probably never look this good again, so show it off and get it tailored perfectly. And if you don't look good... then you'd better start working at it, if not for your sake then for his, he won't say it but being healthy and in shape always looks and feels better.
This dress must highlight your good points and cover your not so desirable points (that includes your favorite snake tattoo on your back! Get it covered or better yet removed; tattoos do not match a wedding dress - or a classy woman).
Walking in Your Dress
You must be able to walk in it without lifting the front. On your wedding day one arm will be placed in your fathers (or whoever is leading your down the aisle), and the other will be holding a small bouquet thus you have to have a dress you can walk in naturally. Practice walking in it -- Holding up your dress with one hand is not an option.
The Veil
You must "BUY" a wedding VEIL to cover your face and shoulders for the walk down the aisle. Wedding planners will tell you the veil is a choice, they're wrong! It's not an option! You MUST be decked out in a veil, it's your role to play, you are the centerpiece of mystery for all to look at and wonder. Is she happy -- Is she sad, -- Is she scared... what does she look like?!!! The mysterious and beautiful VEIL hiding your face from the world until your groom frees you!
Get the right size! Smaller is better, just the opposite of what every magazine will tell you. It must be an above the elbow length veil. Practice lifting your hand up to shoulder level to make sure your hand actually sticks out from the veil for the ring, a picture perfect ring exchange with your exotic mysterious veil still covering your face, keeping everyone in suspense for the "unveiling" at the end of the ceremony, the climax of the whole event! The groom lifts the veil and there is his dream girl, which he is willing to die for! And he kisses her, thus sealing this most holy of all promises! And the crowd erupts in applause, shouting and whistling!
Brides Hair
This is your moment! Think "Ballerina" the classy hair pulled up -- showing off your face and shoulders type of look, a timeless beauty for all generations looking back on your wedding photos to admire.
Your hair must be done up professionally on your wedding day, not cut, no haircuts or trims on the wedding day itself, or you end up with little pieces of hair all over your dress and face. You can add hair pieces in the back, as if your hair was 3 feet long and needed to be wrapped up on top of your head if you want, this is fun and acceptable, you can have professional highlights and even curl stray strands that might fall out of your pulled up hair, this looks great as well. Have a great time with your hair, just remember it has to be completely out of your face, with no bangs on your wedding day, other than that - Have fun! (Only natural colors)
Jewelry
All jewelry on a wedding day distracts the audience from your face, that's why old ladies need jewelry and young beautiful girls do not. However if you must have a Tiara, the classiest choice is a natural miniature Ivy-vine tiara -- with a couple small white flowers woven in (usually "babies breath" is used). Contact your local florist and they will have one ready for you in no time and its basically free! This is natural and beautiful and adds to your beauty, not distracts from it. This is the best choice for a tiara! You won't need earrings or a necklace, and all the attention will be on you - as a timeless natural beauty! Along with this make sure your bouquet has lots of the same green ivy and your grooms lapel flower needs to be mostly the same matching green ivy with your tiara so have the same florist do all 3 creations for you.
Eyebrows
Get them plucked and shaped by a professional. Your man might look great with wild eyebrows, but you do not! Especially for you brides with one connected eyebrow, get it plucked and separated immediately. You should have dainty thin, little rainbow shaped eyebrows in 2007 and for the rest of your life. Go with a brown color even if your hair is black or blonde. If you have time, get an eyebrow tattoo by a professional and you will always look good even right out of the shower, which is important -- now that your getting married!
Fake eyelashes are out! No chance, don't even think about it. They will get caught in the veil every time! And then one will rip off and the other will be stuck to the veil! It's a disaster waiting to happen -- You don't want to go there - ever for the rest of your life if your groom is lucky.
Skin
Get it cleaned up! If you have to start visiting a skin doctor 6 months before -- then do it! But try to have perfect, pimple free skin on your wedding day. Do what you have too, but get nice skin for this day, and hopefully for the rest of your life. Today, skin clinics can remove almost any blemish if you give them enough time.
Then stay clean and smell like soap and his favorite perfume at all times for the rest of your life together. Smells are very important, stay beautiful to him with clean fresh smells everyday (everywhere - wink). Wedding days and honeymoons especially, so where deodorant, and a light touch of perfume on your rosy, smooth unblemished skin! (2 or 3 tanning sessions the week before your wedding also helps)
Body Hair
Remove it all professional if you have time! Hair on your body is nothing but dirty, it has no advantages for you only disadvantages, smelling better is just one of the many benefits of having no body hair.
If you don't have the time or money to get the hair on your body removed by laser then just use a razor for your legs and armpits until you do. Do not shave your genital area before your honeymoon! You can have it removed by laser so its permanently perfect but if you use a razor it will grow back and the stubble can rip the skin right off your man's chin-chin! There's a memory he doesn't want for the rest of his life!
So while the clinic staff is removing all your body hair by laser, let them remove your moles, freckles, tattoos, varicose veins, scars and other marks that you have collected or earned growing up. You might as well start this new life with a new unscarred body, and he'll enjoy licking chocolate syrup and whip cream off it that much better! Oh the joys that await! Get your body cleaned up for your own pleasures sake!
Teeth cleaned
Get professional help! The earlier the better, Straighten and whiten professionally. This is a new start in your life, and every tooth should be shiny white. If you have no time and no money at least get a professional cleaning and then use a teeth-whitening kit yourself - it's better than nothing! And do I need to even say it... stop smoking and start brushing your teeth! You're a married woman now! Also, have a friend keep slipping you breath mints for your whole wedding day.
Gloves
No Gloves, not an option for anyone on this day, of all days. This is a ring day! Hello, wake-up! Of course a wedding company will try to push gloves on you and every model in the world wears gloves because those are photo props. You can't wear gloves on your wedding day period. Just say no! Gloves only get in the way and make the whole audience of friends and family wait impatiently, while you try to pull them on and off, for the ring exchange and then after the ceremony everyone will want to see your ring, which means more on and off pulling - Gloves are a nightmare! If you have to have long sleeves or long gloves then choose the fingerless ones that have one strap over the middle finger. Use this option if you must have gloves otherwise stay away from them, they are more than useless, they are a total pain for everyone, except the wedding companies who get to charge couples for the lost gloves.
Fake nails!...
Another "Don't even think about it" accessory. They only cause you problems. You are guaranteed to loose at least one during the ceremony and it will look so bad, like you just cut off a tip of a finger or something. Everyone will notice and pretend they don't. Also fake nails are completely non-classy, think ballerina verses prostitute - you know which one has the fake nails, case closed.
Naturally manicured nails for every bride is the best choice, with no color, just shined bright and clean ready for... real living like - Stuffing wedding cake into your groom's mouth, holding hands and shaking hands with excited friend's at your party!
Brides Ring
The best choice is not a giant diamond; the best choice is a comfortable, very light, thin platinum ring with an inlaid diamond on top, which is flush with the ring. It still marks you as "off the market" to all men, but more importantly you'll never need to take it off -- It will never snag on a sweater or scratch your newborn baby. Very classy and very usable -- Again think which ring would a ballerina or a prostitute wear? Stick with the classy pure look on your wedding day, and for the rest of your life if your husband is lucky. Simply stay out of the "my diamond is bigger than your diamond" game. You'll probably have to explain it to him, and show him how a yellow gold band turns the diamond yellowish, thus a platinum band is best and his money is now your money so lets invest it together in mutual fund stocks at 14% instead of buying a huge rock that in a few years will be worthless because they now can "grow" perfect diamonds for almost nothing. You just want a ring to show the world that your married not a paperweight that someone will be tempted to cut off you when you go traveling.
Have the groom practice sliding your small perfect ring onto your finger at the shoulder level, slowly for all the cameras. It's a great wedding shot! Make sure you look happy! If your ring is a little snug going over your knuckle bone, then make sure you have a friend put a dab of Vaseline on your knuckle before you walk down the aisle, so that it slips on beautifully.
Brides Shoes
Your wedding shoes must be white and very comfortable. Don't start your new life as an invalid because of a pair of bad shoes. From now on, from this day forward you should never again handicap yourself in anyway! You must be able to run and to dance and be a blessing to your man from this day forward. If he wants to climb on top of the house, you should be able to join him in whatever pair of shoes you're wearing!
No more high heels for you, or platform shoes or other shoes that handicap you just like the Chinese ladies of old with crippled bound up feet, to attract men. Well you're married now, so you can stop attracting men with crippled feet and you can start running and jumping with your husband from this day forward! So go find the most comfortable white shoes imaginable to start your new life! I love the "Echo" shoe store for comfortable quality shoes but you can find many good brands out their that have classy beautiful shoes that are NOT high heals.
Again think Ballerina shoes vs. a Prostitute's -- you're not for sale anymore! Throw away all those high heels and put on your running and dancing shoes! Your life just got better! Some ladies don't figure this out until they're 80 years old! Then it's to late to start running in the fields! --And making love in the grass - or on the roof!
Stockings and under garments
White, white and more white! This isn't your honeymoon. You must wear full white stocking tights, like a ballerina would wear. Any color other than white will show through your dress and ruin the moment, this goes for all your under garments keep them white and covered.
Change of Clothes
You need two completely new sets of clothes after the ceremony. Be prepared for the worst and you can relax throughout your day. Remember the dress is rented, so if it gets spilled on, puked on, ripped or catches on fire its no big deal. You have two other party dresses (not wedding dresses) that are hanging up in your changing room just for that reason, be sure to include a towel, wipes, make-up, underclothes... everything.
One of your new outfits should be all white, from a sundress to a formal gown -- whatever you like for the party and the other can be any color you like for a fun wedding party. Simple things that you can role up in a bag and have ready for an emergency.
When something happens, not if, but when something happens keep your composer, laugh it off and reassure your friends that this is a rental dress so they don't freak out -- Then be back in 5 minutes with a new dress on! Be prepared! -- You are ready!
About the Author
I was born into these "White Tie" events and love all they represent! I truly hope that this is the best most fulfilling day of your life! Go for it! And if you remember me afterwards send me a beautiful photo of your day and I'll put it right up on my "Romance" wall in my room.
I love all you Brides in Love! Princes Raven-Dance