Wedding Tip of the Week: Smell Me!

You may have that favorite fragrance that you wear everyday, but on your wedding day you want to smell as special as you feel. Not every perfume is going to smell good on everyone since all of our body make up is different, so be careful of what you choose to spray. There is a perfume for every ceremony, but there are four main categories;

• Traditional Ceremony: Try a floral scent



• Intimate Ceremony: Try a romantic scent



• Outdoor Ceremony: Try a floral or a woodsy scent



• Creative Ceremony: Try a bold or oriental scent

There are so many fragrances out there, here is a short list of perfumes for each category.

Floral

• Vera by Vera Wang
• Anna Sui by Anna Sui
• Imari Seduction by Avon
• White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor
• Flower by Cynthia Rowley for Avon

Fruity

• Burberry of London for Women by Burberry
• Tropical Punch by Escada
• Tahitian Holiday by Avon

Woodsy

• Imari by Avon
• Black by Bulgari

Oriental Scents

• Obsession by Calvin Klein
• Shalimar by Guerlian
• Rogue by Christian Lacroix by Avon
• Brown Sugar and Fig by Bath and Body Works
• Japanese Cherry Blossom by Bath and Body Works
• Midnight Pomegranate by Bath and Body Works ( one of my favorites)

Whatever scent you pick, make sure you love it and your groom will too. Do you have a favorite scent? Share with others, it might become their favorite scent as well.

(information partly from WeddingChannel)

Teeth Whiting? Skin Embrassion? Workout?

When you become a bride you are sent into a whirlwind of creating a beauty routine so that you can be the pretty when all eyes are on you as you come down the aisle. I am no exception. My routine began last week with my 6 month teeth cleaning. While at the cleaning I asked my dentist about tooth whiting. All the while thinking, only if my insurance will cover it. Luckily, my dentist, Dr. Allen, is a woman after my own heart, CHEAP. She told me that the over the counter products for teeth whiting, such as Crest Whitening Strips (click and get a coupon), work just as well as having your dentist do the procedure, you just need to complete the process a couple of times before the your wedding. Let me mark that on my calendar....wedding April 2009, tooth whiting start January 2009.

I have been obsessed with having flawless skin since I got engaged. I have even started seeing my childhood dermatologist again, Dr. Williams. Besides, every time I go to see him, he relays my dermatological history from birth, he also gives me great care. He gives me something like a skin peel every time I go. When I first started getting it, the process creeped me out because the container that he bought the treatment in was foaming like a piece of dry ice on Halloween. I do not know why I continue to go early in the morning to see him, because after the treatment my face is so tight I can barely answer the phone when I get to work. But after the tightness is over, my face is smooth. Along with the face wash and astringent that he gives me my face should be in tip top shape for my wedding.

I have been working out for the past year, but I have pumped up my workouts ever since I got engaged. I don't want all the eyes on me to be focused on my dress and not my rolls or my giggly bottom. I need to tone since I have lost about 50, 40 to go. I have been doing belly dancing, walking and new to me I have been working on the elliptical machine. I have a little muscle in my arms, but it anyone our there has a great workout to get my flappers (arms) in tip top shape for my wedding please email to let me know.

When I thought about all the things that I have to do for my wedding, think about the creation of a wedding beauty routine seems like a bit much. As I thought about it some more, I have noticed that my fiance is not changing anything for the wedding. The most that he will do is to make sure his head and face are shaved. That's not fair, is it?

Beauty routine. Check. Just let me add one more time to my things to do list for my wedding.