Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Writing The Perfect Wedding Speech - Hints And Tips


So you've been asked to give a speech at a wedding? Or maybe you just want to make a speech on your own accord, it doesn't matter. It also doesn't matter if you are the bride, the groom, the best man, the father of the bride or the maid of honor, it's still a scary ordeal for any one to have to go through. But with the tips I give you in this article, I assure you, you will feel more comfortable not only writing the perfect wedding speech but delivering the perfect wedding speech, so let's get started shall we.

The best way to get a wedding speech started is to thank any one and every one important to the bride and groom and every one who helped set up the wedding. Depending on what your role is, you can spend quite a bit of time thanking every one, including the bride and grooms parents for making the wedding possible.

Telling a funny story about either the bride or groom is also a good way to get the speech going smoothly. Make sure the funny story you tell though isn't vulgar or terribly rude and don't go spilling secrets that might hurt the marriage before it even has a chance to get started. This is not the time to air dirty laundry to every one in the family.

Bride Wedding Speeches - Beautiful Words for a Beautiful Occasion!

Giving the bride and groom some advice that you've learned over the years about relationships, marriage or just general good advice is a great way to end your speech. If you've learnt something over the many years you've lived and you feel like it would benefit the bride and or groom, then by all means, impart your wisdom to them and the entire wedding reception.

If after reading these tips you still are not sure you can write the perfect wedding speech, I give you permission to steal some one else speech and reword it into your own. You will find thousands of websites that offer free wedding speech templates online (including my website) and there are countless books you can buy online and download online right now that give you really good quality speeches and toasts that you can steal and use as your own.

But the main thing to remember is relax! It's all a bit of fun in the end and as long as you don't insult any one or say anything vulgar and rude, every one will think your speech was great.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Narcissists don't want marriage; they want WEDDINGS!



When Kim Kardashian announced her engagement  to 'hoops' player Kriss Humphries, a world hype began that was exclusive formerly rivaled by the royal ritual in Apr.

This heralded circumstance was to be America's own type of the royal rite, if only in damage of build-up and opulence. Now, 72 life subsequent, the relation has been presented an equally overt point, the ceremony air irrecoverable and replaced with overt instance.

For celebrities, this kindhearted of entanglement and change happens oftentimes and in the all-knowing eye of the semipublic prominence. But our own relationships are line into a similar stunting due to one democratic integer: egoism, according to psychotherapist and divorce car Micki McWade.

Shows like "Bridezillas" and "Say Yes to the Formal" fuck encouraged a ethnical enchantment with weddings, but it is our own entitlement that causes us to ghost over a one-day event. Time couples are ready to get mated until their past 20s and archaic 30s, they may medico into the engagement and nuptials cerebration, McWade said.
"We all somebody a award of egocentrism," McWade said. "It can be triggered by an event equivalent this; then group get rattling warped."

Not every wedding turns into a narcissistic circus, and they aren't all some the disbursement.

"The party is, on the one script, a fit way of making a people message to each else and acknowledging that you're part of a web of sept and friends that helps to provide the relationship," said Writer Fabick, a consulting psychologist who specializes in action resolve. "But on the separate collaborator, it preps like a sign, where the think is on the simulation and not the long-term or realness of the relation."

"There is a some author mercenary importance today on the rite," McWade said. "If couples are dating for six months and then get into this big ritual planning, they real don't undergo the human they are marrying."

McWade refers to this act as the "sound cloud phase," where couples in the position gathering of a relationship don't recall faults within one another. But sometimes, the considerable preparation of a pricey ritual can reveal a span's differences in compatibility, values or beliefs.

"The intensity today is largely on the rite and not on the ritual," she said. "Because you're deed joined, fill anticipate you're entitled to opulence."

And when the hymeneals becomes some "me" instead of "we" or "her big day" and not "our big day," it can be a warning formalize that perhaps this is a union human avoided.

Surviving the extend of planning a ceremony together and finally extant unitedly for eld and eld substance existence able to concord each otherwise during staple decisions or alligatored patches. Couples who hit dated for lower than a twelvemonth ofttimes can't symmetric move out flyspeck conflicts or direct differences, McWade said.

Fabick believes that the financial accentuate of intellection a party can also crusade fractures thrown the moving.

"It gets a emotional loving when you fuck these prodigal weddings where the money could be invested in a base or something that would know several difficulty off of the combination, and that's air of the appear," he said.

After sitting with couples through unnumberable meetings with lawyers as they tackling dr. the dissatisfaction of divorce, McWade has a few tips for entering into a wedlock that totality. Namely, she doesn't consider that fill should become geared before a twelvemonth of dating.

"You should experience that mortal for a period and not rightful get caught up in the hormones, because a lot of the force is very animal, but that does not poor that grouping are competent to unfilmed unitedly for the place of their lives," she said. "I expect that relationship treble isn't over for two years, but the squeaking leave go rightmost out the pane if you're not on the similar author."

Gear only to dependence, McWade claims, egoism is the net relationship orca and a significant reckon in more of the separation cases she has witnessed.

Narcissists demand self-esteem and unfilmed in an inside world, one that they can force other mortal to and alter a relationship around because they can record remaining group and falsify them. It becomes a bloodsucking relation, with all of the fondness going to the narcissist, McWade said.

McWade believes that Americans are more predisposed to egoism because of the inventive and explorative chronicle of our land. Egocentrism fueled this push for free mentation and creation, but it in bout "conquered the society to whatever honor."

Parents jazz an shipwrecked direction to make narcissists, by forcing their children to transmute what their parents poorness in rule to perceive mate, or if a son -- after all, 70% of narcissists are men -- believes he is the work absorption of a family, according to McWade's research.

A higher grade of separate and need of intact families are also feat a distribute of egocentrism, Fabick said.

Spell she applies a 12-step show to grouping braving break in her playscript "Feat Up, Getting Over, Exploit On: A Twelve-Step Enchiridion to Separation Recovery," the tips also lot to those incoming relationships. Knowledgeable and appreciating yourself leave tolerate for a fitter relation on both sides, McWade said.

"The unexcelled identify of relationship is one where group are rattling individual on their own, and then they get together to part their experiences and screw for apiece remaining," she said. "That they hump plangent lives on both sides and that both group are pretty harmonious on apiece cut, and to be healthy to hold that for a gathering -- that's the uncomparable."


Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Kim Kardashian files for divorce from Kris Humphries



So..this is it folks.. a wrap for the 72-day marriage of  Kim Kardashian and  Kris Humphries.
The star of E!'s "Keeping up with the Kardashians," citing irreconcilable differences, filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday
"After careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage," the soon-to-be-twice-divorced tabloid fixture said in a statement to E! News Monday.
"I hope everyone understands this was not an easy decision," Kardashian, 31, continued. "I had hoped this marriage was forever, but sometimes things don't work out as planned. We remain friends and wish each other the best."
Humphries, who apparently is just a big body in the background, must have missed the script that noted trouble was brewing.
"I love my wife and am devastated to learn she filed for divorce," he said in a statement Monday. "I'm committed to this marriage and everything this covenant represents, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it work."
According to the legal docs TMZ obtained, Kardashian wants to split the forthcoming attorney fees and asked the court to reject her (soon-to-be) ex if he asks for spousal support. (Oh yes, there's a prenuptial agreement in place. Nobody has a two-night wedding special on E! without making sure all of the necessary show business contracts have the I's dotted and T's crossed. Duh!)
Rumors that Kardashian and Humphries were marrying for headlines have dogged them since they announced their engagement in May, just months after their decision to take their December 2010 hook-up public.
No word yet on what the couple will do with the gifts they received at their reportedly $20-million Aug. 20 wedding or what Kardashian will do with her 20.5-carat engagement ring that came with a $2-million price tag. There's also no word on whether E! is planning a three-night follow-up to its Oct. 9-10 airing of "Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event."
Sibling Khloe Kardashian took to Twitter Monday to protect her sister from the mounting criticism: "I'm grateful 4 our fans who understand & r being respectful. Hate is disgusting. Love is everything."

Briefly

• After netting 94 million page views in October, Justin Bieber has become the first person to reach the 2-billion view mark via his official YouTube channel. In October 2010, Lady Gaga became the first artist to reach the 1-billion mark.
• Relationship expert Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry and Dr. Jennifer Ashton will join Ty Pennington, Tim Gunn and celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak on new daytime health and lifestyle talk show "The Revolution," ABC announced Monday. It's scheduled to debut in January.
• Later this week, CNN is expected to announce the dismantling of its "American Morning" programming block. The network is adding a show hosted by Soledad O'Brien from 7 to 9 a.m., according to the New York Times. Ashleigh Banfield, a former ABC News correspondent, is expected to be named coanchor of a new daily show that starts at 5 a.m.
• Members of the Palace Sports & Entertainment staff and Belle Tire reps, including Tireman, are scheduled to unload a truck filled with nearly $10,000 in school supplies at Pontiac High School beginning at 1 p.m. today. Funds for the school supply purchase came from the sixth annual Two-Day Ticket Blitz in July. A dollar from every ticket purchased for events at DTE Energy Music Theatre and Meadow Brook Music Festival was earmarked to buy school supplies for schools in need.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Kim Kardashian’s Hubby Kris Scammed by Wedding Guest


Kim Kardashian married Kris Humphries in August, and one of their wedding guests was a financial advisor to the groom—Andrey C. Hicks. Hicks was arrested yesterday in Canada—on his way to Switzerland, perhaps?—for wire fraud and investment scams of at least $1.7 million dollars. Hundreds of thousands of those dollars belonged to Kris Humphries, reports TMZ. No wonder sources are reporting the basketball player gets money from wife Kim Kardashian for his daily needs.
It seems Hicks was luring celebs into investing in a billion dollar hedge fund which does not exist! Robbing! Bilking! Scamming! There are various words for the process by which unscrupulous money men get wealthy people to put money—often really big money—into their schemes, without thoroughly checking them out.
Fans remember the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries wedding was relatively small, by Kardashian standards, so the invitation Andrey Hicks, 27, got shows he was a trusted "friend". He even shows up in pictures of the more-exclusive rehearsal dinner. And all the while, he was planning to make off with tons of the groom's hard-earned money.
Was Kim Kardashian fooled, or was she not in the loop? If Kris did not ask his wife-to-be's advice before putting dough into Hicks's scheme, he certainly should have!
Meanwhile, the alleged crook told everyone he graduated from Harvard, which he did not—he was tossed out after three semesters, for poor grades. Now he could be in prison for the next twenty years.
Meanwhile, since the NBA can't get its act together, Kris is still unemployed. Probably, he will be a lot more careful, next time he has a salary. But will he still be married to Kim Kardashian?

The Wedding Event Monster: Is it Time to Stop Feeding the Beast?


A wedding, in its essence, is an event where two people get married in the presence of their friends and families. At some point in the last half-century or so, a wedding has become an epic series of interrelated events that bear some relation to the fact that two people will eventually get married in the presence of their friends and families. Much to the glee of the multi-billion-dollar wedding industry, a typical wedding - in many, if not all, social strata - now comprises an engagement party, a bridal shower, a bachelor party, a bachelorette party, a rehearsal dinner, a wedding (there's the getting married part), and a brunch the next day.
The movie Bridesmaids brilliantly captured some of the blighting aspects of these wedding-related rituals, especially the competitiveness between women that they foster. But it did not hit on what seems to be the central issue for many people (even if they will only complain about it in hushed tones far from the bridge and groom): the huge output of time and money required of everyone close to the couple. In the movie, the girls inexplicably have unlimited resources to put toward dresses, extravagant presents, trips out of town, over-the-top parties, etc., in spite of some of them being less than gainfully employed. In real life, the couple may act as if you have a bottomless well of cash to spend on their wedding, but that doesn't mean you actually do.
I was a bridesmaid in two weddings this past summer, which meant I had wedding events in stereo: two bridal showers, two bachelorette parties, two rehearsal dinners, etc. I dearly love both of my brides, but after buying new dresses for both weddings, presents for both bridal showers and both weddings, attending two fancy bachelorette dinners, and spending many an hour shopping, cooking, crafting, emailing, and coordinating various happenings, it wasn't only love that I was feeling.
It seems to me that this wedding event culture can actually breed resentment on both sides. On the couple's side, expectations have been ratcheted up so high for all these happenings that there is bound to be disappointment and anti-climax. (I have seen more than one bride in tears because she felt she wasn't getting feted enough.)
Viewed as a chance to show your love for your engaged friends and get together with big groups of kind, supportive people, these events serve an important role, and can definitely be fun and celebratory in and of themselves. But it's the scale I object to - the wedding as behemoth - and the accompanying infiltration of consumer culture into this most sacred of rituals. Are all these gifts, outfits, and costly excursions what weddings are really about? And, more to the point, are they what marriage is really about? And, when it comes down to it, shouldn't weddings be about marriage?
I know I am fighting an uphill battle here, but I have one request to make. I understand the reasons behind many of these extra-curricular activities (I have been told that you must throw a brunch for your out-of-town guests), but can someone explain the function of the bridal shower? And does anyone know anyone who has ever actually enjoyed a bridal shower (barring their own, or even including their own)? The bridal shower strikes me as a relic of a bygone age (think Mad Men) when women coveted their household appliances above all else. It still has the advantage of bringing women together, but bachelorette parties have already got that covered. And if women want to get together, can't we do it without getting dressed up, serving hors d'oeuvres, and buying each other salad bowls? So, ladies, a plea: Do you think we could all band together and just cut the bridal shower out of the equation? No, probably not. No one wants to give up their salad bowl.



Friday, October 28, 2011

Marilyn Monroe's wedding ring from ill-fated marriage to Joe DiMaggio goes under the hammer


It was the symbol of an ill-fated marriage between two legends.
The platinum eternity band Joe DiMaggio gave to Marilyn Monroe on their wedding day signified the hope of a harmonious future that would never happen.
Just eight months after their wedding ceremony, the couple had separated amid a storm of jealous rows. Two months later, the marriage was no more.
Now, the diamond wedding ring that once held such promise is to go under the hammer.



The New York Yankees star bought the eternity ring, set with 35 baguette-cut diamonds (one of the diamonds has been lost) ahead of the couple's wedding on 14 January, 1954.
DiMaggio and Monroe had met two years earlier in an Italian restaurant on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.



The chemistry was palpable; their relationship tempestuous but passionate. But from the moment the couple said their vows in an intimate civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, the union was doomed.
In September of that year, Marilyn was shooting the now-iconic scene from The Seven Year Itch, standing on a subway grate with her skirt blowing up to reveal her legs.



A large crowd gathered as director Billy Wilder instructed the scene be shot again and again. DiMaggio, who had visited Monroe on set, was furious at the spectacle and flew into a rage.
Two weeks later, it was announced the couple had separated. In November that year, their divorce was issued.
The historic piece, on sale with California auction house Profiles in History (www.profilesinhistory.com), has a guide price of $300,000 to $500,000. Given the appeal of the screen idol and her one-time husband though, it is likely to fetch much more.
Earlier this year when the white halterneck dress from the Seven Year Itch scene went under the hammer at the same auction house as part of the famed Debbie Reynolds collection, a new Guinness World Record for memorabilia was set after eager bidders pushed the price up to $5.2m (£3.4m).
Up for auction in the same collection is a 1948 to 1949 nude oil of Marilyn Monroe, painted by Earl Moran. The colourful artwork - which Marilyn praised as making her legs look 'wonderful,' is set to fetch $70,000 to $90,000 (£43,500 to £56,000).
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Conan O’Brien Will Officiate a Gay Wedding on His Show Next Week


To commemorate his one-year anniversary at TBS, Conan O'Brien is taping his late-night show Conan at New York's Beacon Theater next week, but that milestone won't be the only cause for celebration. Vulture hears that O'Brien will be officiating an on-air wedding during one of those episodes, and it's the sort of marriage ceremony that couldn't have taken place back when O'Brien used to tape his show in New York: a legal wedding between two men.

Show sources are quick to caution that the potentially groundbreaking event is no mere publicity stunt, and isn't intended to make light of gay marriage — in fact, O'Brien will be marrying a longtime staffer and his partner.
If the idea of a late-night wedding sounds familiar, you may be thinking of the union between Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki on The Tonight Show nearly 42 years ago, a televised marriage ceremony that shattered late-night ratings records. Weddings have since been big business for morning talk shows and sweeps-week prime-time serials, but they've been surprisingly absent from the late-night landscape until now. Still, don't expect a save-the-date card just yet: Producers are still determining which night the Conan wedding will air.
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Royal wedding and football boost tourism figures


More than four million people visited London in the second quarter of the year as tourists flocked to see the royal wedding and the UEFA Champions League final, figures have shown.

The capital hosted 4.03 million visitors between April and June this year, an increase of 12.6 per cent on last year, according to provisional figures from the International Passenger Survey. One-off events like April’s royal wedding and the football final between Barcelona and Manchester United at Wembley in May encouraged people to visit London.

Tourists from North America remain London’s largest in-bound market and visitor numbers from this group were up 8.6 per cent on the same time last year. There were some 10.4 per cent more visitors from Europe, while tourism from the rest of the world increased by 20.9 per cent compared to the second quarter of 2010. In total, an additional 450,000 people visited London compared with April to June last year.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: “With first-class visitor attractions, top flight restaurants and bars, unparalleled shopping experiences and the growing buzz of the Olympic Games it is little wonder that London continues to dominate as one of the most desirable destinations in the world. 2012 is set to be a huge year for the capital and we stand ready to welcome the world.”

Year-on-year, visits to the capital increased by nine per cent in the 12 months to June. This follows an overall increase of 2.7 per cent in 2010 and a rise of 4.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2011. London raked in £2.27bn in tourism receipts in the second quarter of this year.

London & Partners CEO Gordon Innes said: “We had lots to celebrate in London during this quarter, notably key one off events such as the royal wedding and UEFA Champions League, which both attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors to the capital. Wimbledon, Chelsea Flower Show and other annual events can also be attributed to this impressive upturn. We look forward to seeing this upward trend continue for the rest of the year.”


The figures for the second quarter of 2011 may be slightly flattered by the favourable comparatives brought about by the shutdown of UK airspace in April last year. However, even taking the six-day closure of airspace into account, the tourism figures have still improved significantly.

Ashley Hebert Nixes White Wedding Dress


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Bachelorette Ashley Hebert wants something unique, so, "My wedding dress will not be white!" The dental student turned America's sweetheart announced that much of her and J.P. Rosenbaum's wedding plans at a party Wednesday night in NYC, reports OMG from Yahoo. So far, there has been nothing traditional about the engagement.


Well, OK, Ashley Hebert and JP are in love and she's wearing a ring, and they live together, which is becoming more traditional every year. But they met on a television show, where various network-selected men competed to win her heart. That sort of courtship was more traditional back in the days of knights and swords and jousting tournaments.

Right now, the two lovebirds cannot even decide upon a date for the wedding—even the year is still up in the air—and they don't seem to be worried about it. "We've thrown around a few ideas, but we're all over the place."
Kim Kardashian's splashy wedding got Ashley Hebert in the mood to think about her own, reports JP, but "we are going to wait until she's done with school," the prospective groom says. That could be wise thinking. And it seems they are enjoying all the publicity and gifts and invitations too much to give it all up and become just an ordinary young married couple.

Gambhir to marry Natasha today



Cricketer Gautam Gambhir is all set to marry Natasha Jain, daughter of a prominent businessman in Delhi, in Gurgaon on Friday. Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and actor Shah Rukh Khan are expected to attend the wedding. According to media reports, the wedding will take place at the Westend farms in Delhi-Gurgaon road.
The pheras will begin at around 5pm. Gautam will wear fashion designer Shantanu Nikhil outfit whereas the bride Natasha will be wearing fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani outfit during the wedding ceremony.


Later in the evening, the newly married couple will interact with the media for 45 minutes at a separate venue. The couple then will head back to the wedding venue where the reception will be followed with the dinner party.
Keeping it a very private affair, around 300 guests have been invited that includes the BCCI officials, DDCA officials and close cricketer friends of Gautam. There won't be many celebrities and VVIP guests.
In shades of maroon, off white and gold, famous wedding planner Meher Sarid and Sunny Sarid have given the wedding venue a stylish floral look with elaborate décor. Fresh flowers have been exported from abroad.


According to reports, dinner will include an elaborate menu which will include Indian, Thai and Continental cuisines. There will be a special paan stall set up near the dinner area. Gautam is very fond of Hot chocolate fudge and hence a chocolate fountain has been included in the menu, reports added.
Gautam was very keen on having Rahat Fateh Ali Khan perform at his wedding but this won't be possibe due to visa issue.
The haat thera ceremony was held at the girl's house this morning. The mehndi ceremony took place at 5pm last evening followed by the sangeet ceremony.