Jul

10

Wedding Prep for Your Hair Skin and Teeth

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If you’re about to take the plunge and step into a new life with your soul mate you’ve probably spent a lot of time carefully planning the big day. Amongst arrangements for the dress, the flowers, and the music you’ll eventually get to the point where you begin to plan your personal routine for the week or so prior to the wedding. To avoid bringing a something blotchy among your “something borrowed, something blue, something old, and something new” to the wedding day, prepping your personal hygiene will be an important step. The following are a few tips to help you get ready and feel confident.

  1. Get a haircut a week before the wedding. Scheduling any haircutting and coloring during this time will allow both color and cut to set and look more natural. This will also give you enough time to do damage control if for some reason you are the unfortunate recipient of a bad haircut.
  2. Watch what you eat. Avoiding a blemish on the big day is going to save both your sanity and your wedding photos. Try to avoid fried foods, highly processed products, or anything with sugar or caffeine, as all of these can cause acne. Otherwise stick to the diet you normally have, don’t make any major changes, and be healthy.
  3. Eat the right foods. Being careful about what you consume isn’t just about avoiding foods that are bad for your hair and skin. Eating foods like carrot, fish, and berries provides you with beta-carotene, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, respectively.
  4. De-stress with a self-care day. One of the most important factors affecting your happiness (and keeping your skin wrinkle free) is to ensure you are feeling relaxed and having a good time. The rigors of planning, organizing, and seeing to fruition a beautiful wedding are bound to take a toll on your well being. Taking a moment to hit the spa with your bridesmaids (or maybe just your maid of honor) can do wonders to rejuvenate you. If you don’t have time for the spa, consider at least making space each day the week before your wedding to do some gentle movement like yoga or take a long hot bath.
  5. About a month before the wedding day, either do teeth whitening treatments or see a dentist. If you choose to get your teeth professionally whitened, be sure to schedule it several months ahead of time so that you will get an appointment. If you do a home whitening kit, pay special attention to your progress as you want to avoid over-whitening.
  6. Deep condition your hair. This will make your locks easier to work with when you meet with your stylist the day of the wedding. Doing this once a week for a few weeks before the wedding and the day before you see you have your hair done will ensure that your hair will look great on your big day.

Sarah Danielson writes for 1Dental.com where you can find an affordable dental insurance alternative and view our dental discount plan.

Jul

7

Wedding Day Style: Limo or Vintage Car?

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You no doubt have a lot of decisions to make when it comes to your wedding day preparations, and the car you’ll arrive and depart in may be the least of them. You have to book a venue (or two, if the ceremony and reception won’t be held at the same locale), arrange for a catering service to feed everyone, find places for out-of-town guests to stay, select the perfect photographer to memorialize your special day, and of course, you have the arduous task of finding the perfect dress ahead of you. So arranging for transportation may be at the end of an extensive list of to-dos. However, you shouldn’t neglect this seemingly minute detail. After all, some of your best photo ops will occur immediately following the “I dos”. How about that classic shot of you and your new spouse driving away with “Just Married” stamped on your bumper? So once you’ve got your ducks in a row, take a moment to consider just which style of transportation will make for the best getaway car (so to speak).

There are plenty of options when it comes to wedding transportation, from automobiles to aircraft to a horse and buggy. But unless you want to spend an arm and a leg on locomotion (when that extra cash could go towards your honeymoon), perhaps you should stick to cars. In this arena there are two great areas to choose from; limos and vintage cars; and each has something to offer the happy couple on their day of bliss.

Limos are fairly traditional. They symbolize style, class, and wealth, all of which are auspicious on your wedding day. In addition, they may be a bit more practical than the alternative simply because of their size. If you’re looking to tote the entire wedding party from place to place, then there are few better ways to squeeze bridesmaids, moms, sisters, and other relatives into one car than by ordering a stretch limo. Also, they are easy to find. Although the cost may be a bit steep, you should find no shortage of limo services in your area, even if you don’t happen to live in an urban center.

Classic cars, on the other hand, may not be so easy to secure. You’ll likely have to contact dealers, restorers, or specialty rental shops in order to find a gorgeous, restored vintage automobile, and even then, you might not be able to find a particular make and model. Plus, the price will likely be similar to renting a limo, so the cost issue is a wash. However, there is definitely something to be said for the absolute style of driving off into the sunset with your honey in a bathtub Porsche, a convertible Mustang, or an early model Rolls Royce (can’t you just picture the perfect photos?). And it’s a really unique way to put your own personal stamp on your wedding day, which makes any additional hassle seem well worth the trouble.

There is, of course, a third option. If you simply can’t decide between two equally appealing choices, you could always go with a vintage limousine! You’ll kill two birds with one stone by selecting a vehicle that not only exudes the class and luxury of a limo (complete with extra seating) but also gives you that something extra that only a vintage car can provide.

Sarah Danielson writes for Limo Services in CT where you can find the perfect vehicle for your travel needs.