Magazine 2011

Not all marriages are made in heaven it seems. A married couple from the town of Havlickuv Brod recently made headlines when the bride got plastered and started a fight with the groom at their wedding reception. After physically attacking the groom and several relatives who tried to defend him the bride unleashed her wrath on two police officers who had been called to the scene when the fight spilled out onto the street. The officers were having none of it and the bride was carted off in her cheap weddingdresses to spend her wedding night in a drunk tank. When she finally sobered up the next day she was handed a hefty bill for the damage caused in the respective restaurant and the fee for her accommodation at the drunk tank. The media which reported the incident speculated about what the lady’s divorce might look like if this was a taste of wedded bliss.

 

Of course, if you want to get drunk –drink is not your only option. There are now bars in the Czech Republic offering cocktails in the form of a snack for instance a plate of “alcoholic spaghetti”. Given the fact that most visitors are still suspicious when faced with a drink on a plate the special menu is something that you have to order in advance. For instance at the Prague bar La Casa de la Havana you can enjoy a four course menu based on different alcoholic beverages. Starting with Crème de Cassis with sparkling wine jelled into what appears to be a dish of caviar, followed by Greenpeas Mary soup –made of green peas, bacon and a dash of vodka, then you can enjoy Strawberry Daiquiri ala Italiana – made of rum, strawberries, lime juice, and sugar jelled and pressed into pink spaghetti. And for dessert Nachos ala Pina Colada –made of pineapple, coconut, rum and cream. Just an idea for New Year’s Eve.

Martin Stazsko He’s 35 – the world’s second best poker player and has just won the equivalent of 98 million crowns. Moreover ladies –he’s single and unattached. Martin Stazsko became an unlikely overnight hero when in his flannel shirt he played game after game and won second place at the World Poker Tournament in Las Vegas. Fears that the staggering financial prize might go to the young man’s head were unfounded – on returning to Prague’s Ruzyne Airport he boarded a bus back home. On being quizzed by the media about a girlfriend Stazsko said he had not had the time and opportunity to court anyone or had ever had a proper long-term relationship. “Maybe now the girls will find me,” the unassuming young man quipped. Well, I have a feeling they will – and they will doubtless be happy to teach him how to spend his money.

Vendula Kroupová She’s a young communist and she’s red-hot. The 24-year-old town councilor from Jindrichuv Hradec has put her town and party on the map by putting a series of nude pictures on her Facebook page. Vendula Kroupova is an unabashed young communist who clearly has nothing to hide from her voters and ready to prove it with a series of nude pics where she is seen fishing, smoking a cigar, and posing seductively on her bed. The scandal made headlines in the Czech Republic and Vendula’s pictures appeared in tabloids across Europe –in the Sun under the heading “Councilor gets her kit off to fish for votes”. Fishing for votes is exactly what Vendula is doing and not ashamed to admit it. As a guest on a popular talk show the blonde councilor admitted she had not been assigned any specific work but was “still getting her bearings” at the local town hall. Contrary to what you might expect, her party has not written her off. The chairman of the local Communist party branch Tomes Vytiska said that what the councilor did in her own private time and what she chose to put on her Facebook page was entirely her own affair. Besides, he added, I havn’t seen a single negative reaction to those pictures in Hradec. Well, a star is born –maybe the Czech Republic will have its own Ciciollina.

  A kinetic sculpture in Prague’s Karlovo Namesti has won public acclaim and made it into the Czech Book of Records. The giant construction which makes huge bubbles as the wind blows is over 5 meters tall and weighs over 300 kilograms. The sculpture is powered by photovoltaic cells and the bubbles are created from a special ecological soap solution. The work of artist Vilem Fric, the sculpture has an out-of-this world quality and is meant to break the daily stereotype for people walking through the park and bring a few minutes of pleasure. Throughout the summer and autumn the sculpture has attracted more passers-by than any other in Prague with children, tourists, people on their way to work and even nuns from a nearby convent stopping to watch it work its magic.

 

 An Ostrava brewer has produced the first ever “golden brew” –an exclusive brand of beer that literally contains particles of gold. Marek Pieton says he wanted to create a beer such as no one in the world had sampled and was inspired by the fact that Czechs call their beer “liquid gold” and that hops are referred to as the country’s green gold. “I decided it was time to produce a 24 carat brew, for an exclusive clientele,” Pieton said. Each of his beer bottles contains 0,017 to 0,018 grams of 24 carat gold that are so finely dispersed that they create a golden glitter. When you shake the beer bottle you see gold particles swirling and dancing in the brew to create the impression of liquid gold. So far the brewer has produced 60 bottles of the golden brew labeled Faust –with the letters AU –denoting gold. Some accuse him of snobbism, but Pieton is convinced that in spite of the economic crisis there will always be clients looking for new and exclusive products –and he believes there is no one else in the world offering real gold beer. Well – that may be true enough but he may have to look further afield for those clients. According to the latest surveys on New Year’s Resolutions among Czech the one that has been at the top of the list for years –to loose weight – has been replaced by a new goal – to reduce my household debts or save more in the coming year. So it looks like for most Czechs it will be good old hops and malt in 2012.

Princess Di's Iconic Dresses to Go on Display

Still bummed you missed Kate Middleton's wedding dresses display this summer? Well royal aficionados, don't fret. Starting in March, some of Princess Diana's most famous frocks will be shown at Kensington Palace next year. The Diana exhibit will include several dresses that haven't been seen in public since the late icon wore them in the '80s.

The display will include ensembles like the famous ivory Catherine Walker dress she wore in her Vanity Fair photo shoot, the black taffeta wedding dress she wore for her first public appearance as Prince Charles' wife, and a fuchsia sari-style gown worn to a dinner for the King of Thailand. The exhibit also coincides with an $18.8 million renovation to the palace, which was once Di's home. 

Palace curator Deirdre Murphy says, "We have carefully selected this collection of exquisite dresses to illustrate to visitors Diana's evolving style and the important role fashion played in creating her public image. Diana promoted designers very well, something that carries on with members of the royal family today."

The exhibit will run from late March through September 2012. Hopefully Queen Elizabeth will find this showing a little less creepy than the last.

Global economic crisis hits China's exporters

Wedding dress maker Wang Lujia earns a living making brides happy, but the global economic crisis is casting a chill over her small business in southern China.
At her workshop in the manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, workers stitch and bead by hand wedding gowns designed for brides in the United States and Europe, which are now reeling from financial turmoil.
"The external crisis had a big impact this year. Business was not so good," Wang, founder of Divine Bridal, told AFP in her showroom filled with 600 wedding and party dresses.

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Over the past three decades, Shenzhen has grown from a sleepy fishing village to the heartland of China's export juggernaut. But as demand from China's key markets slows, companies here are suffering.
As orders have tailed off, the cost of raw materials and labour have surged, with workers striking to demand higher pay.

Meanwhile, China's gradually appreciating yuan currency is making products more expensive on overseas markets, trimming profit margins. And the worst might be yet to come for Europe and the United States, key export markets for China.
Chinese officials have warned that the eurozone debt crisis and sluggish recovery in the United States threaten the world's second-largest economy.
Export growth has fallen from 31 per cent in 2010 to an annual rate of 21 per cent in the January-November period of 2011, and is predicted to slow further next year.
Struggling exporters are seeking ways to survive the economic crisis by exploring new overseas markets, turning to domestic consumers and finding new products.
One company, Shenzhen Rongen Technology, is moving away from the LED screens it makes to high-end medical devices.
"The number of orders may be less, but the profit margins are higher," salesman Lu Daqing said.
Dressmaker Wang is finding a new market for her bespoke wedding gowns, which can sell for up to $1000, by turning to domestic consumers with cash to pay for luxuries like imported fabric and Japanese beads.
"Exports are not as good as the domestic market. The overseas market is weak," she said.
Wang estimates the price of fabric has risen by as much as 40 per cent in the past four years and says the rising cost of material and salaries for workers are pushing up her prices and discouraging overseas customers.
Shenzhen city, her base, has the highest minimum wage in China and the local government plans to hike the level by another 14 per cent to 1500 yuan ($240) per month in 2012.

Wang is already paying her employees far more, up to 4000 yuan a month, and she plans to raise salaries to retain workers with skills to operate the sewing machines and do the labour-intensive beading for the cheap wedding dresses.
"If my costs are higher, then I have to sell for a higher price," she said. "China's inflation is too high. If salaries don't rise, people will be in difficulty."
China's inflation peaked at 6.5 per cent in July - the highest level in more than three years.
It has since eased, but workers are feeling the pinch. In recent months, thousands of workers across China have downed tools in a series of strikes over low payment as persistent inflation raises the cost of living.
The labour strife comes at a bad time for companies already struggling with higher costs and shrinking profits.
Zeng Xiangjin, who manages a textile firm, said a stronger Chinese currency was erasing his narrow profit margins for exports like upholstery fabric.
The yuan has risen steadily against the dollar since mid-2010, when Beijing relaxed a de-facto peg to the US currency imposed in 2008 to protect its exporters. Major trading partners have called for greater appreciation.
"Increasing material prices and labour costs contributed to our difficulties to some extent, but I still think the main cause is the exchange rate," said Zeng of Shenzhen Welltex Housewares.

Wedding Dress Style

Sweet princess sent
" Layers of gauze tutu," the delicate mix once so serious and solemn wedding dresses from country to reverse the poetic romantic stage, light and elegant with Lolita-style stacked spinning, so the bride looks lovely without loss of a small woman's well-behaved.

 For:

 ● slim petite bride, you can choose high waist design, the lines stretched legs.
● chest full of the bride, you can choose some of the deep V-neckline or collar, to make the neck look more slender.
Wen yarn know women: most of them slender, dignified temperament, yet romantic style, used to use soft power to defend their insistence on the aesthetic taste. Surface of the cute and lovely she is a strong, brave women of the era.
Light wizard school

 This section is very simple wedding, according to the body curve of the narrow tailoring put fit design, do not slip. Mostly with silk georgette, crepe, etc. with excellent sense of drooping fabric. The direct contact with the skin of soft fabric is not only approachable, but also waving a magic - so women naturally quiet temperament slowly distributed.

  For:
● tall bride can be a good show fascinating physical curve.
● petite bride
Not suitable:
● lower body than upper body fullness of many of the bride
● do not want too much curve to show the body of the bride
Wen yarn know a woman: This is certainly a country with hearty smile, tall, temperament Europeanization girl, as if marriage is a way sweet dream journey, not the cards, she has never reasonably in the fashion arena to find the most suitable for their own touch of vivid colors . She is full of amenities so you always have surprises like freshness.

Luxury queen to send
"There are natural fragrant musk," but quietly expansive wedding style revolution, the evolution of formal cut high waist fashion design. Such a fit close to the wedding in the chest, was slightly A-line skirt, full lines the shoulder and chest, waist and hips on the cover also has a good effect. Eye-catching wedding dress with a bright light and then the accessories, they can also try a return to hog the attention.
For:
● relatively little bride
● hip more fullness of the bride
● slightly relaxed style of wedding you want the bride's mother
Not suitable:
● relatively tall stature of the bride
● chest is not full of the bride

    Elegant lady sent
Fit of the upper body, tighten the waist and full skirt, is the type of wedding features. Accordance with the ladies of high society culture, the faction of the cheap wedding dresses  must have refined and high quality design, rich but subtle details and dotting the witty humor. Although the lack of compelling elements of exaggerated stage, but it is most pleasing to win hot conditions.

 For:
● hourglass or full type of bride. Choose long-sleeved style or V shaped waist, it would be better.
● chest full of the bride
Not suitable:
● petite bride, the skirt is too large will make you even more short.
● thin upper body, lower body plump bride.
Wen yarn know a woman: they are intellectual temperament, delicate, is the standard model and dutiful wife and mother a woman. They do not ask for material life, but then demanding spiritual life is to know the lady over ceremony.

Beach Wedding Theme

If you are not in the sea for their wedding, the consultant proposes ways to have a wedding on the beach, even when you are away. Some of the ideas could be adapted to a real wedding on the beach.
wedding dress
The use of simple wedding dresses and wedding dresses casual is appropriate. If you do not worry too much about classic, with a long beach of white wedding dress flowing wide-brimmed hat and large tropical flowers in the hair or the sun.
Dress, the groom and his assistant
So here is probably better casual. Use a good white or beige jacket and white pants. Add a little fun at him for wearing a tie color range.

Bridesmaids
Whether long dresses or half-calf or bridesmaid with chiffon scarves to keep your hair long or to bind a wide-brimmed hat. The dresses can be used in a color scheme that bridesmaid dress or fashion colors in the palette of colors to be adjusted.
invitations
Use the jewelry for the bride on the beach. a good image of a tropical beach, for example. (Create your own with a good scanner and a printer.)
decorations:
Buy a couple of beach balls suspended in a variety of colors and ceiling. Rental fake palm trees. The officials of the wedding guests covered "with a blue tablecloth, sprinkled with a little sand in the middle, and mussels.
Favors:
Beautiful large shells, with holes at the top of each other, and the tape loop through the hole for hanging. Or treat boxes full of pieces of chocolate shaped beach material such as shells and wrapped in gift paper beach.
The basic elements:
Embedded large pillar candles with shells in wax and placed in a low, flat plate with sand. (Both are light in the hobby and gift shops in cities like Cape May to see the beach.)

How To Choose The Wedding Dress?

Wedding dress many businesses, a variety of styles is dazzling variety of styles! What should brides how to pick? Together now to learn about the basics of dress to buy it.

    To purchase in the country

    Purchased from abroad, a wedding dress too much trouble. "Foreign dealers are not bound by our laws," certain frequently used online shopping user said, "So, in case of a problem can not resort to the law, to protect their interests." Moreover, purchased from abroad, freight is very expensive .

    Do not trust online advertising images

    Some sites will sometimes unauthorized misappropriation of advertising from the designer's website pictures, want to confirm whether the site or in the studio by way of licensing is very simple, as long as the designers call the customer service hotline on the website can be.

    To buy the same bridesmaid dress standards

    Imagine, if they dress the bridesmaid look like different color effects. Maybe the naked eye can not see this slight color difference, but in your wedding photos they will be very harsh.
Do not deal with unauthorized retailers

    "The more you stay away from authorized retailers, the more likely to buy the wrong dress," A says, "a designer without authorization of the studios claim that they got the designer's work, and use discounts to lure the bride are. "there are many hidden dangers of this transaction: the color of fabric may be biased, dress may be defective, or simply completely the wrong fabric. Details may be different, for example, you can imagine dress with back zipper instead of buttons, or worse, there is no wedding dress before the wedding in time to catch up to!

    To "price" than the three

    Samples should always pay attention to clearing discount information. Frequently visited website wedding dress, dress in your area contact the studio and ask them to send you the latest catalog. Want to use the ideal price buy roses dress, you have to wise and versatile. Reduce the requirements for dress fabric is a good way to save money, save the number may be very considerable, and sometimes can save a thousand dollars.

    Do not blindly rule out the online shopping

    Shop to buy some domestic breeze dress, dress them with a variety of sizes, fitted, and if not can easily return policy. More convenient is to buy the cheap wedding dresses online fastest delivery in a week. Nevertheless, it is recommended that love knot ready to dress at least three months to set aside time to cut out the modification, and in case of real products and pictures of the dress does not match or is not satisfied and stores passing stretch of time.

Wedding Dress Color And The Relationship Between The Four Factors

In the cheap wedding dresses in the process, how to configure the colors associated with many factors.



1, is closely related with the fabric

Determine the factors that the United States fabric color is determined by the yarn, fabric, texture, color, pattern etc., and also have color dyed in a variety of different textures of fabric, showing the gloss will be different. Such as silk fabric for color absorption, reflectance is very high. So colorful silk fabrics. The silk cotton no reflection effect, and coarse linen even worse. From the point of view of color shades, shades of difference between the large and smooth texture, reflectivity must be smooth and strong silk, which highlights and dark shades of light and dark colors gives the feeling of a big gap between the diffuse reflection Velvet material, shading the small difference would some.

2, consider all the material itself has the styling, the relationship between the expression

The same pure red, then in Scotland, a class of sparse fabric, it shows the calm, stable expression; if gold and silver woven silk fabric is luxurious, beautiful face; Furthermore, if on the Georgette , Pure red can be drawn is one kind of gentle, flowing character; if resin fabric, it becomes a slightly brave the cold red, to produce a cold, rational expression. As a result, are identical in color science in the red, there is a variety of different fabrics, there is a wide range of expression. That is, the same kind of red, can show the beautiful face, but also show the simple character, but also look into a passion and intellect. It is therefore important that we should first make a variety of color, it has the texture of facial expressions, character sort, then we feel a sensible comprehensive judgments.

Wedding dress color and the relationship between the four factors

3, with the wearer's body, age, sex, color, etc. are related

Only by understanding these can be handy, targeted at the performance of clothing with better color, in order to make the wearer of the garment against the background even more attractive. Such as body fat than those with dark series, older persons with calm colors; between the use of color and color contrast against the background color can play a role.

4, other conditions

In general, usually have to consider five conditions: the object, purpose, time, place and occasion. In the match process, only about the wearer's personality, the environment and the types of wedding dresses, colors in order to grasp the overall direction.

In short, color and much related to our lives, we interpret them through the senses, according to the different objects and needs of the colorful clothing decorated, to give people a different vision.

Who Wore it Better: Han Hyo Joo vs. Jung Ryeo Won

Journalist and writer Jeffrey Zaslow is a great example of going beyond a story.
In 2007, Zaslow learned that Carnegie Mellon University Professor Randy Pausch was about to give his last lecture. A plane ticket from $ 800 to Pittsburgh was a bit pricey, Zaslow decided to drive to the house in the suburbs of Detroit after Pittsburgh: It is 600 miles round trip. This trip took Zaslow, "The Last Lecture", which is more than 5 million copies sold to date and published in 48 languages.
"It was a good lesson," Zaslow said in a telephone interview. "If not handled, the book would not have been possible. In life, you have to go a step further."
Conference last Pausch took another traditional class spent a retired professor Pausch died, and he taught his students about what is really important in life.
Zaslow went home and wrote a story of 629 words "Moving On", life in transition column Wall Street Journal. Coincidentally, just before leaving Pittsburgh, Pausch is online editor said the newspaper wanted to do more video online, so Zaslow made a recording of the conference at home. He was in a video clip of four minutes accompanying the article was published.
"It was a perfect combination of old and new media," Zaslow said that "had an instant impact" and began to see his mailbox is filled with comments.
Some emails were the editors, the story would be a great book. Pausch and Zaslow in touch with him playing on the idea.
"First he said he was not sure," said Zaslow. But a month later, Zaslow Pausch contacted the green light.
Zaslow said Pausch was only with caution, "Better be careful."
Pausch wanted the book to their children who were 5, 2 and 1 at the time of the presentation speech, said Zaslow. Pausch and Zaslow spoke for an hour on the phone every day for 53 days, it was often flat for cycling.
. "Randy was very arrogant, Guy optimistic," said Zaslow was also very funny: In his lecture, he told his students that he had a "last minute conversion" - I had bought a Mac.
Zaslow said that some of the more religious readers not as in this example ", but Randy was a man of science, a Unitarian."
Otherwise, Zaslow said, "did not refer to religion in the book."
He said that besides religion, the only other problem that has been intentionally left the book was that Pausch had talks with Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, who as it turned out, was dying of "cancer of the pancreas.
Zaslow admits an important lesson from his co-author: "Life is short."
Zaslow said he often sent links to more than Pausch "The Last Lecture".
"Eight days before his death, said," Stop google my name -. Go hug your children "
From "The Last Lecture" has Zaslow four other books, all written deeply inspiring.

"The girls from Ames" in the friendship between 11 girls for life, was a bestseller on the New York Times His next book was "a greater obligation: My search for what really matters." Co-written by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, U. S. Ingenious Airways pilot made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in 2009. "A story of courage and hope Gabby" in the U.S. The representative Giffords. Gabrielle and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, who was followed by the recent publication. The "highest duty" two "Gabby" and are detailed views of Zaslow described how people who "prepared all his life for a moment."
Zaslow has an interesting career in writing and journalism. Besides being a columnist for several newspapers, was the original replacement for Ann Landers at the Chicago Sun-Times. He won the coveted pass after applying for work as part of the column he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.
His forthcoming book is "magic room", which seems at first sight, marriage and the wedding industry. The story is told through the eyes of the bride-to-be who bought their wedding dresses, wedding Becker Fowler. The book will be released on Tuesday.
Zaslow said the book is actually the wedding dress is synonymous with "the dreams we have for our daughters." Zaslow, who has three daughters from his own experience, even the wedding dress before him.

In the book, Zaslow tells the inspiring story of nine women - not all young and all the brides for the first time - in the store showing the wedding of the fourth generation to buy a wedding dress. The book is also a clever way to see the industry of cheap wedding dresses and the adoption of changes in marriage.
As the author arrived at the wedding of Becker, as it was to explore ideas for your new book?
"I looked at Google," he said.
Zaslow is Okemos and Fowler for "haunted room" in mid-January to promote the recruitment of Schuler Books & Music Meridian Mall for a book signing and discussion on January 14 (time to be determined).
Join Zaslow is Shelley Becker, owner of Becker married, whose own history as a wife, daughter and mother is told in the book.

Now Trending:Wedding Dresses Are Elegant And Effortless

Simple silhouettes in shades of cream make another trip down the aisle as the cheap wedding dresses styles goes well this year.

"We see more Audrey Hepburn Marilyn these days," said Elizabeth Redmond blogger based in the middle of the gallery to dress. "The brides wanting seem timeless, classic looks good in photos at the beginning along the the way. "

Vintage-inspired bridal dresses are elegant and glamorous jewelry studded with groups without complications. Many come with a belt clip for brightness or optional as.

"A cluster allows more" wow "moment," said Ron Redmond.

Rounded to the use of a veil, the classic look of the bride. As for the colors ivory and oysters are the new target.

Peace and love in Kyoto ‎

I'm on the balcony of a restaurant on the seventh floor of the Kyoto Protocol, watching the sun slowly over the ancient city of Japan. For Waterside restaurants along the river of life in the blink dusk, neon light in the dark sky. Egrets and herons on the ball mounted on the water, and city traffic, less crowded cacophony of sound bikes cousin of Tokyo, cars and buses.

In my case, my friend Dan's white coat flapping in the wind. Dan buttoned his jacket tonight. It remains as a relic of the High School, where we met over 20 years. To describe the current form as generous.

Dan is next to his wife, Yukiko, wearing a flowing white cheap wedding dresses Western. Behind us, a batch of 50 of his closest friends and family gathered to celebrate their marriage.

The weather is perfect. Fresh and bright, with streaks of light cumulus clouds, which appear scattered on the roofs of more than 2000 temples and shrines of Kyoto on the hook.

It's a peaceful scene, happy, much of what is living in Japan in March, when an earthquake and tsunami devastated much of the north-east coast and caused the nuclear reactor accident Fukushima. Lost, and more than 18,000 lives and the devastating effects on public health and the environment still plays in Germany, the Japanese economy has been emptied. After the national police in Japan, more than 45,500 buildings were destroyed and 144,300 were damaged, the total economic impact could reach more than $ 300 million.

Tourism, which was on the rise, fell in April, there were only 60 percent of pre-disaster. Six months later, tourism is more than 30 percent.

But when an American friend who lives in Japan told me, got married, I knew I would. Dan has lived in Japan for 12 years, teaches English at the University of Kyoto.

His house in Kyoto hidden in a narrow street in a quiet street, a classic two-stage paper sliding doors in each room and easy access to the river and the Imperial Palace.

"We have good market," said Dan, pointing out the window, "why." It overlooks a cemetery, a feature that most Japanese consider unlucky.

Yukiko, his wife to be served, fried tofu, and disappeared from the wedding night of logistics busy reciting.

The next morning I waited in Kyoto.

The city is located in the Yamashiro Basin is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Wild animals live in the rivers, the abundance of Japanese maples bright red every autumn to spring explosion of cherry and plum, nature is an integral part of the city.

Kyoto is the cultural identity is so strong. Once the imperial capital of Japan for centuries, the city has more than 1,600 Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and 600 17 UNESCO World Heritage Site, now integrates seamlessly with the neon lights around concrete and crowds, who are the face of Japan Modern joined.

To show a softer side of town, I went to Shunkoin Temple. Founded in 1590, is the sanctuary of Myoshin-ji, a complex of 46 temples in the northwest of Kyoto. Shunkoin offers simple accommodation in five double rooms, with the teaching of Zen meditation resident monk Takafumi Kawakami, 60 percent drop in bookings after the race by the tsunami, he said.

The next day, a cycle of Ninna-ji, the heritage of the ninth century the temple. I visited the Goths, a series of elegant buildings modeled after the Imperial Palace, and marveled at the five-storied pagoda.

Shunkoin is ideally placed to cause fatigue of the temple, beside Ninna-ji, the rock garden Ryoan-ji and Kinkaku-ji temple gold are just a bike ride of 20 minutes. Everyone deserves hours of exploration.

But it was time for the wedding of Dan.

The day passed in a blur. First, the traditional Shinto ceremony Shimogamo, a sanctuary more in northern Kyoto, with radiant in a white kimono, Yukiko.

Then the wedding dresses party heads Mankamero, a restaurant in continuous operation for over 280 years. The food comes in waves: salmon and tuna sashimi, scallops with sweet potato, perfectly seasoned and served in the blue and white pottery, the color of the carpet, where we sat echo. The water seeps into the restaurant with a small garden to see where we are sitting on both doors open shoji paper. Good fluidity and Asahi.

When the sun goes down, and Dan and Yukiko front of friends and family. Six months after the Japanese drama, we celebrate something new.

The storm was finally adopted.

Wedding toppers: 98 happy collected couples

Sue Wilson is married to husband Bob for 46 years. She has more than twice as many wedding cake toppers, including the little bride and groom are the icing on the cake of your own roof in 1965.
The groom wears a white coat and handsome little like Bob did. And the bride is a line with a ball gown skirt with tulle collar, a character very similar to Sue cheap wedding dress.
"Once, when we moved, I broke," said Sue, turning on the numbers to show that halving "the".
She created the couple at the dinner table of his home near Wallops Iceland, where today, the 98 figures in his collection of wine racks and have been collected, all facing the front of the room as if waiting to say their vows before the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, known for their ceremonies of the Unification Church mass wedding.
The numbers on the table were an international ring that places that have made, or a lot of stains Wilson traveled or lived during their years together. Most are on the cake came with two bowers of flowers, others are pictures of the bride and groom, who broke into the collection because Sue could not say no.
"It came from Gettysburg. This is what is 25 cents in Bradenton, Florida had," said a few small only three quarters of an inch in height, he said. "My husband worked for the Service (U.S.) Fish and Wildlife Service before retirement, so they moved a lot."
Topper is 30 years now collected enough to buy a couple of times and goes home to find a duplicate. The one who loves more than ever - the bride and groom Kewpie sells it to an antiques dealer in Pennsylvania.
"It was his and was in the wedding cake when she married in 1929. What we sell, because they knew it was going to a good home, he said," Sue said.
Another series of candy that was accompanied by two mini-Kewpie bridesmaids.
Finally, when Wilson moved to Accomack County, Sue has taught culinary arts at the School of Chincoteague. Cake toppers are a perfect fit.
Therefore, other manifestations of the couple as salt and pepper shakers and two girlfriends, paper plates, which served as name tags wedding his mother-in-law in 1929. In one sharp cut of paper, wrote "Dorothy" and "Richard" other.
It has a bride and groom in quilling, paper crafts curly. You must keep a game in marzipan, too heavy in the heat and humidity.
"At first I was side by side, but he kept it," said Sue, gently holding the semi-reclining marzipan bride and her partner yet.

Somewhere in the house, the couple, the wedding cake grandparents Bob "in 1898 has been exceeded. That was the wax hands, very soft, warm them. Sue, she knows how to put in a safe place, but can not remember her life, where.
When she discovers quilts in shops, is checked for clues to its age. The style of dress might suggest a figure in his time: the type of new setting in the 1920s, when large flaps, thin and groom digits long for 30 years, brides and complete say in short dresses and groom costumes that were made in the 40 and 50. This is not an inexpensive hobby among couples, sometimes costing $ 100 or more.
Sue is a sentimental person who can explain this passion.
"I still I have my wedding dress and the dress of my mother and my daughter's dress," he said. "I would like my grandmother's dress. She was a beautiful seamstress. Oh, and I dress flower girl wearing at the wedding of my aunt when she was 5 years old."
She loves the diversity, history and romance of his collection - the way the characters are so promising, so many hopes and dreams, so many memories of that special day.
Often, there is always an ice stick figures, or their legs are available in the lap of being in the given dyed icing on the cake.
"This is a set with a minister in the hands of the bride were married in the castle," he said. Many involved in an eternal embrace, some have devised a flat bottom, to be a cake level and not at all made up the top.
She comes from a black couple, but not for lack of research.
"You will not find very often," he said.
People have given as gifts of the cake first in recent years. His daughter brought him a pair of hideous face with the skull of the Festival of the Dead in Mexico and even a tissue in the power of the Japanese-style peas called Mochimochi.
You padded occupied Japan, a pair of felt in Spain, which may or may not apply to the top of a cake, a few Japanese fabrics, pairs of celluloid, cookies, chalkware planned, including some wooden pipe cleaners with heads of accounts, crepe paper cheap wedding dresses. Some are still padded original box, which is worth more to them, says Sue. It has the plastic from the 1950s, a hippie couple and their 60 favorite of all time, a pair of porcelain, in which the groom extruded hair and striped trousers.
Sue has to choose his daughter Jenny, a wedding topper of the collection by your own cake, when they married. Jenny then-boyfriend, Michael Stumpf, is of German origin, so Jenny took some cookies are here and stay at his home in Richmond.
Sue cake until four main branches of military service.
"I love the service," he said. "My father was in the army. I found most of them, then I read somewhere that the military pie is very difficult to find."
Could it be that they are victims of repeated movements?
Cakes age usually are rare, he said. Flea markets and antique shops used to be a good place to be looking after them. But no more, he said. Brides lay flowers on the cake today, whether real or sugar.
Icing flowers are a touch sweet, but somehow not the same as a bride and groom, like the real thing, but smaller, always smiling and always young.

White wedding Dress In The Black

The popularity of white cheap wedding dresses went to a financial boost for Greater Bendigo.
A report of the Grand Bendigo Town Meeting have this week, showed that exposure ended with a profit of $ 451 000th
The sale of tickets over $ 1,150,000 U.S., with revenues from the total load of more than $ 1,530,000.
The exhibition will be approximately $ 1,080,000.
"Of course we have had another amazing success story of Bendigo Art Gallery," said the director of the city of the future, Li-C standard.

"It was not only culturally and economically efficient, but we are pleased to inform our community that exposure has raised the profile of the gallery and it is something we are very proud."
2011-12 Council budget provides an income of $ 750,000 and $ 840,000 in fees.
Li C, said that the economic benefits of exposure was approximately $ 6,000,000 more in Bendigo.
"The majority of things, such as exhibitions and major events are organized with a loss," he said.
"It's because they are made to create a profit.
"We have to win, not just economic, social and cultural rights have an economic advantage. Received"
Some 76,000 visitors attended the exhibition.
74 088 were sold by the individual cards, 50 percent of people in Melbourne. Greater Bendigo residents bought 15 percent of the tickets and regional Victoria accounted for 29 percent.
Nearly a third of the visitors were 51 to 65, with 22 percent of respondents 36-50 years old.
Almost three-quarters of respondents said they had visited Bendigo to visit the gallery.
More than half were 56 percent, a trip to Bendigo to visit the exhibition.
I bless the Tourist Information Centre sold 240 packages of accommodation, for a total of $ 70 500th
The lack of cafes and restaurants in the city and have the city buy tickets motif appears in discontent.

Liz Taylor’s ‘Cleopatra’ Robe, Wedding Gown Set Fashion Record

On December 15th (Reuters) - Elizabeth Taylor, designer wedding dresses with high sequins, rhinestones and layers with feathers raised $ 2.6 million at Christie's International in New York yesterday, a record for an auction mode.
The night's couture sale the assets of the actress, who died this year, lasted about three hours, and phone bidders China's online in Minnesota fighting for a piece of wardrobe in the famous icon in Hollywood. The 67 lots sold, some beat their high estimates of more than 60 times.
"For a work of Elizabeth Taylor, the last of the glamorous movie stars, is led by his own invaluable," said Fern Mallis, a consultant in the fashion industry, which deals with the sale. "People are buying as a collector. Vintage clothing is like buying art these days, will only increase in value."
Fashion jewelry sale was followed by an auction record for the Hollywood star, who collected $ 137.2 million in two days, including a 50.6-carat gem given by her husband Richard Burton Taylor, which sold for $ 11 8 million on 13 December.
The top lot was the sale last night signed a 1964 Andy Warhol lithograph Taylor is on a red background with green eye shadow and red lipstick, the inscription "Elizabeth, with love." Estimated at $ 30,000 to $ 50,000, jumped over $ 662 500th
The most expensive lot was a kind of Christian Dior dress with silver brocade, with inlaid game bag. Recovered $ 362,500 compared to a high estimate of $ 6,000. Taylor was all for the annual dance in France by Guy de Rothschild and his wife.
'Crazy' Sale
"It's crazy," said Linda Yellen, who was producer of "Sweet Bird of Youth", a melodrama of 1989 in which the interpreter of the actress. "This shows how much wealth is there to represent a particular piece of magic."
Michael Steinhardt, an art collector and former hedge fund manager, has entered the auction house, in the middle of the night with his wife Judy. The first row, offering a representative of black velvet Taylor "Scorpion" Cap Tiziana that Princess Grace of Monaco, the 40 th "Scorpio" ball is November 15, 1969. He landed an Internet bidder for $ 60,000, more than 20 times the high estimate of pre-sale.
Steinhardt, WisdomTree Investments Inc. president, had better luck with a pair of earrings cascading crystal stone and gold Gucci. The room erupted in applause when the award of $ 60,000 ($ 74.500 with the Commission) took the hammer of the auctioneer. The result has exceeded a low estimate of the party 30 times.

Wedding in Botswana
"It really is the best husband in the world," said Judy Steinhardt after the sale. "There's never a dull moment."
Taylor (1932-2011) married eight times, including twice to his "Cleopatra" co-star Burton. Gina Fratini's dress liquid added his second marriage to Burton, in Botswana in 1975 was sold for $ 62 500th
Earlier in the day, gold and diamond rings sold by Taylor Burton made during their marriage in 1964 and 1975 of 1.02 million against a high estimate of $ 8.000.
A saffron yellow embroidered muslin for her role as Cleopatra costume designer Irene Sharaff provided $ 62,500, while accounts Bolero Rhinestone Versace embroidered with pictures of Taylor, in his famous roles as Cleopatra, for $ 128 500th Actress dressed for the rise 'Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert to raise awareness about AIDS. "In April 1992
"What comes to mind, the surprising and courageous, to take a position on AIDS, we do not know," said Mallis. "She was there from the beginning and has helped raise millions of dollars for them."
A portion of the proceeds from admissions, events and publications are generated to select from the sale of the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation to be donated, said Christie.
The prices include the commission of the buyers, while the estimates do not.

Wedding Dress Trends of 2011

Celebrity Wedding Fashion Influences Many Brides' Choices, Survey Says

Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) December 14, 2011

From Kate Middleton to Kate Moss, this year's celebrity weddings provided inspiration for brides-to-be across the nation: according to recent research from, 32 percent of buyers on the site say their choice of gown is or was influenced by celebrity wedding fashion.
"Of course celebrity weddings influence brides," says Daga. "Celebrity brides tend to have access to top planners, designers and stylists and unlimited wedding budgets...and their gowns are gorgeous!"
Below, Daga offers up her favorite celebrity wedding dresses and trends of the year:
#1 - Non-strapless gowns are back
Celebs like Kate Moss, Lauren Bush, Amy Smart, Molly Sims and, of course, Kate Middleton, all strayed from strapless this year.
"Kate Middleton's iconic dress reintroduced sleeves and covered shoulders," says Daga. "U.S. designers and other celebrity brides have definitely embraced the trend away from strapless."
In fact, Middleton's wedding gown ranked first among celebrity gowns in the survey, with 30 percent of respondents selecting the long-sleeved stunner as their favorite.
#2 - Color is modern
Brides today are letting their personalities shine through on their wedding day, which can mean choosing colors beyond the traditional white wedding dress. Reese Witherspoon highlighted this trend by selecting a blush pink gown for her March nuptials.

#3 - Texture adds glamour
Reality stars Kim Kardashian and Kim Zolciak dialed up the style with glamorous gowns that featured gorgeous ruffles and voluminous skirts. "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera and fashion icon Ralph Lauren's daughter Dylan also tied the knot this year in gowns with stunning tiered skirts. Zolciak bought her one-of-a-kind Baracci gown on PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com a month before marrying Atlanta Falcons defensive end Kroy Biermann.
Next year, Daga expects to see elegance and romance continue as trends, along with more body-conscious gowns and fuller silhouettes.
"We can't wait to see what stars like Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Hurley and Jessica Simpson will wear down the aisle," she says.

Lvhui Yi Wear Pink Wedding Dress

Lvhui Yi and Huang Di former Hong Kong men registered, while not formally married, but last night the first wedding held at the Convention, spindle 28 seats open invitation to relatives and friends to witness the wedding. Bold Lvhui Yi usual clothing style has changed, convergence sexy pink one shoulder wear low-cut cheap wedding dresses, wear her husband are set to send the seven-digit diamond, very eye-catching.

Wedding Venues arranged tropical forests, placed a large elephant, baboons, parrots, animal pictures, sister groups are sub-Ling Yao, Fu Jiali, Chen Junyi, etc., the other is outside of the circle friends. A pair of pictures in front of the media and generous, also in the rotation angle kiss does not count. Finally, throw an impromptu bouquet bride, the results from the child is looking for Ling Yao won.

Lvhui Yi said in an interview, do not think too sexy and lose the feeling of romantic marriage, and she chose pink is hope especially, because filming often wear a white dress. Speaking of part of the bride, groom brother said: "To play her favorite animals, Tigger, and orange with a tooth-speaking Tongue Twister Pice entrance." Final five numbers to win the open interest is the beauty go. Wai Yee careful praising her husband, in her daily life as arranged. Huang Di to praise his wife lovely, always smiling, a real stupid sister.

There are million mansion media Wai Yee do - love nest, she said, is the family's mansion, she married her husband bought a new home. Wai Yee because there is still work in the body, so also the fastest to the honeymoon can take place in February next year, as the place of the groom brother said confidential.

Invited to attend the wedding of the human circle with Stephen Chan, Eric Tsang, Fala Chen, Sharon Chan, Roger Kwok couple, Felix Wong, Lok Yi Ling, Myolie Wu, Xu Shumin and Huang Hao, etc., Wai Yee said Zhiwei shifts due to Surreal, will try to came, in any case will remain food for him, did not want to affect your shooting schedule.

Lace Wedding Dress Can Become A Classic

Lace elements, generally has a very unique and elegant, this elegant and a very elegant and unique, different from the glamorous, unlike the lovely, she is a dignified temperament can not be ignored, then choose such a wedding dresses, has become a dream of many people to get it!
 

      Lace can become a classic, is a grain of truth, not just the wedding, as long as the wedding is a very simple, just add the lace elements, his temperament also completely changed.

     Wedding dress design, long and short in front of the highlights is the skirt-style wedding, if coupled with sexy Bra, V-Neck, the audience immediately bloom splendor.

       Long and short in front of the wedding, with respect to hair, long and short ceremony before the wedding the bride is not suitable for formal dish made, will be too stiff. Korean style with a romantic Greek style messy hair or flaxen hair short in front and long-style wedding more dissonant.

       Long and short in front like the design of the wedding, the first part of the design of the skirt or dress, can slender legs and a beautiful wedding shoes exposed to, and trailing behind the traditional wedding dress design, long and short in front so that style cheap wedding dresses still with a grand sense of luxury.

       If you choose the long and short-style wedding before, must be with a pair of dazzling wedding shoes, with diamond or the kind of large flower decoration is a perfect match, do not forget the beautiful painted nail polish!