Who pays wedding?

You may have imagined and conceived a gorgeous and dream wedding long time ago when you are still a teenager or even a little girl. That is ok and very normal for a child to imitate and role-playing the adult world. But as an adult facing the coming wedding, you know you can't just have passion and romance to prepare it, so to be practical and honest, you have to have money to backup and implement no matter how simple and thrifty it is.

So where is the money comes from? Traditionally it is all burdened by bride's family; while currently it is getting more and more common the bills being shared partly by groom's parents and/or by the newlyweds. Another trend is the new couples pay their own wedding costs, particularly if the wedding is not the first one. But traditions are long-standing: It is still not right for the bride's parents to ask the groom's family to pay any of the wedding costs. If, however, his family offers to pay a share, it is quite acceptable for the bride's parents to accept.

Why the wedding spends are traditionally covered by the bride's side other than the groom's side, which is the buyer of a marriage and should buy it accordingly anyway? An explanation maybe, as a one-time fee in the starting or pushing of the newlyweds' future common life, wedding spends is paid by the bride's parents to assist a settle-down; while the long-time maintaining fee of their future common life is certainly and mainly the responsibility of the groom's family although the wife contributes her endeavour too. So from the long view the spending division is fair and reasonable. 

Incredible face-lifting effects

The following is a plastic surgery advertisement shown at the subway in Seoul, capital of South Korea. The left side is the faces before face-lifting, while the right side is the same lady's faces after face-lifting.

Courtesy of Shuanzhou

Survive wedding

It is not easy for bride and groom, especially the first-time bride and groom, to go through their whole wedding ceremony and reception process. If dating is always nice, romantic, passionately missed in two-persons world to the lovers, then wedding is a test to them facing the crowd of their social net to certify their true love to each other, expose real personal characteristics, and anticipate to the future life live together. Some times the practical troubles and conflicts are so huge and nonnegotiable, the wedding becomes the ending in worst.

So you need to survive wedding, right? Don't be overwhelmed by the conflicts. You couple need to strive together showing and extending your love from the first challenge of your life, by which the wedding could be so you can take it more seriously.

Firstly you couple should be a solid team, each other's support. In your wedding you will meet the circles and connections of the other, who are familiar and connected with your spouse-to-be but not recognize you or even antagonistic to you. Be understandable to this and try to get involved and accepted. If you don't like them or declined by them, it is OK, just be friendly to them. After all, you will live with your spouse-to-be, other than your spouse-to-be's circle.

Secondly staying calm, don't let stress and anxiety send you into an emotional tailspin. Don't let the unhappy details strike you down. When things get tough, keep reminding yourself that it is the marriage, not the wedding, that is important to you.

Thirdly taking care of yourselves. Do things right as suggested by Peggy Post:

• Eat right - you need the energy.
• Exercise - you need the release.
• Get enough sleep - you can cope much better when you're rested.
• Go on dates - the two of you need time alone together.
• Find beauty in everything - and where you can't, find humor.

A beautiful ancient town in west Hunan, China

As you may know China is a big and wide country not just referred to its geography but also its life styles, cultures and nationality. Almost every western visited China has the same impression: amazing. Yes, it is an amazing country. As a represent of Asian culture, China has amazing variety of cultures, full of activity, not like industrially developed countries, everything seems in a frame, being similar by standardised.
The nationality difference and culture variety is mainly caused by geography isolation and traditional Chinese farming system in which people work in their farmland and supply themselves basic live necessary, no need to communicate much with others. So even for a Chinese, going to another county, he or she will sense fresh and unfamiliar to different customs and life styles. Now I would like to lead you to a beautiful ancient town which is thus fresh and unfamiliar.

courtesy of Danbaier

This ancient town named Fenghuang, in Chinese it means phoenix, a very noble bird, signalization of mythical, lucky, and dignity. Fenghuang is ancient but not dead or destroyed, on the contrast, it is still beautiful and fresh, with the river Tuo flowing through and the inhabitants living and working everyday. The combination of the live history and the nature itself is an amazing, just like the touring advertisement of the town says, "The most beautiful town in China, just there waiting for you for more than one thousand years."

courtesy of Danbaier

The local houses are built along the two banks of the river Tuo, which contributes much to the town's beauty by its forestgreen-color, flowing water. Most of the buildings are hundreds years old, timber and stone structure, with special styles and splendid sculptures features. Now some of the houses are transformed to family hotels, so you can live inside, watch scenes by window, sleep by the silent console of the river.

courtesy of Danbaier

The most inhabitants in Fenghuang are minor nations in China, such as Tujia nation, Miao nation, not Han nation, the most populated nation in China. From the inhabitants emerged two very famous artists in China: a writer named Shen Congwen, and a painter named Huang Yongyu.

courtesy of Danbaier



courtesy of Danbaier



From this map you can tell the location of Fenghuang ancient town, about 350 km west of Changsha, capital of Hunan province, in central to south of China. At the north side of Fenghuang about 150 km, there is another famous scene spot, Zhangjiajie Scenery Area.

Pearl necklace producer of Joyousome e-store

Joyousome e-store, Joyousome Wedding Resources was set up in September, 2010, with office located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The ambition and long-time goal of the e-store is to supply a whole product lines for wedding. At present the established products include wedding dresses, veils, and pearl necklaces.

As I promised before, in this blog I will introduce our pearl necklace producer. As for Freshwater pearls, our producer has its own freshwater pearls cultivation farm which is on water rather than on land. The annual pearls harvest is about 1000T. With so much raw pearls, they have all different qualities, shapes and sizes pearl products to provide. They  mainly deal with semi-finished pearl jewelry and finished pearl jewelry, in which semi-finished pearl jewelry include loose pearls and pearl strand, finished pearl jewelry includes necklace, earrings, pendant, bracelet, pearl ring, craft, etc. 

Because of the high quality and good price, our producer sells their pearl products well in global markets, especially in the USA and Europe. The products are mainly exported to the USA, the United Kingdom, Korea, South Africa and Canada.

Staying organized

Things can go messy easily in wedding preparation which lasts longtime, involves many persons, and handles various tasks and spending if you don't have a strategy and keep a system of organization. Whether you record logs and figures in computer, or spare a separate box just to wedding-related bills and documents, you will find everything is under control when you know where you can access it.

A few tips from the most efficient brides and grooms include:

• Create a must-to-do list, preferably in time sequence.
• Carry fabric swatches, photos of gowns, photos of locations, and table measurements at all times.
• Design a contact list with the names and numbers of everyone you're working with. Those numbers might include telephone, cell phone, address, and e-mail.
• Carry a calendar with all your appointments highlighted.
• Create a folder for all contracts, or staple them to the appropriate page in your planner. Don't leave home without them in case you have to check details from one supplier when working with another.
• Keep important papers you will need (birth certificate, divorce papers, driver's license) in one envelope of folder.
• Check off completed to-do's as you accomplish them. You'll feel great as you see the number of check marks grow.

Shooting birds - one stone two birds



Black throated tit

A guy named Shenfu in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China is hooked to take bird pictures recently, and he calls it birds shooting, not with a gun but with a camera. Chengdu is a beautiful city where lives dozens kinds of birds, flying and singing in almost every woods and garden, which provides much chances and accesses to Shenfu and his fellows. They don't have to travel far away, just waiting in nearby park, river bank, or backyard, raising their cannons, not limited to Canons by which they call their lovely, heavy, and high-quality cameras, promptly aiming and shooting the birds intrude into their view.


Eurasian blackbird 

 According to Shenfu, shooting birds is really one stone two birds for him. First he took some really nice birds pictures and learned birds name and knowledge by searching in compare of his bird pictures; Second the activity itself is also an exercise to him, for walking outside, raising the heavy camera gears, and staring at green bushes and leaves in search of small jumping birds all combinedly give him good body work out as well as mind relax.



Daurian redstart

I like these bird pictures very much. They are so beautiful and clear, high resolutions. Right now I can only admire these guys, because I don't have the specialized camera, neither do I have lots of birds living around in my communication. Even someday in future I do have these accesses, still I don't think I can shoot these beautiful photoes because I have no patience to waiting hours under tree. 


Delegate to relieve yourself

If you don't plan to hire a wedding consultant because you have family, relatives, and friends willing to help you out, then don't waste the resources, delegate tasks of wedding preparation to them. Not be shy to ask for help to your circle, especially to whom have specific talent on some aspects of wedding and handled similar tasks in wedding before, as most probably they would love to do this for you and appreciate you inviting them to show their talents. For people loving you, they would like to do these errands for you, such as flower decoration, tent setting, carpet and chair covering, music playing, etc. So by delegating these detailed tasks, you relieve yourself and survive the wedding and the following reception. Your responsibility is to plan the wedding and reception as fully as possible, and divide the tasks as detailed as possible to delegate so you make the delegatee clear what exactly to do and on what schedule. Remember delegating gracefully, your family and friends are not your staff; they are your support team.

When delegating you should make it clear to the related persons or contractors to contact the delegatee other than you whenever they need confirmation or instruction, so things will not be messy, neither out of control.

Your wedding day may be the most important time to delegate tasks. Don't forget your bridesmaids and the honor attendants, let them handle the sudden and urgent issues and errands, that's what they are for. They don't come just to look great in tuxedos or long dresses; they are also there to be your arms. You have no time and attention to handle that but need to focus on your ceremony and enjoy the reception afterward. It is your wedding after all, in which you deserve to enjoy and to show nice.   

Enjoying honeymoon by consideration in advance

Similar to destination wedding, honeymoon is also the combination of wedding and vacation, while the difference is, honeymoon is only shared by the two just-married other than by a group of people together consisting of family, relatives, and close friends of the bride and the groom in a destination wedding although both may be held in same place. Without audience the good thing is you can freely experience the two-persons world with your real characteristics, not necessarily performing for others; the drawback is that you have to pay more attention to the consideration and planning of your private activity.

If you decide to have a honeymoon after wedding ceremony and reception, you should consider making the plan a priority followed by other arrangements, especially when your honeymoon occurs during a peak season or travel to a popular site or travel destination. The least consideration includes the honeymoon date, location, transportation, accommodations, and length of stay.

Honeymoons need to be planned in advance because of budget considerations as well. In you budget compose, not only you must not ignore or even forget the expense of honeymoon, but also you should keep some sorts of surplus to it, because just as a Chinese proverb says, you can live poor at home but have to be wealthy at road.

Just as people said, you are able to tell a person by traveling with him or her for three days, the trip to honeymoon may be a sweet story to both of you, it may evolve into bitter and sour heart as well. So be understandable and communicable to each other beside intense but gradually lessening love to step out your first journey together.

Destination wedding

Destination wedding is to have your wedding ceremony and reception in a place other than your residence, which could be a resort site especially an island with beach, sea, and blue sky, a famous hot travel spot, a romantic city with attraction for both of you, or even aboard on a cruise ship. Destination wedding is more like a combination of wedding, honeymoon, and vacation in which you enjoy all of them, while your attendants can at least enjoy a vacation too. In planning a destination wedding, figuring out a guest list and consulting with them becomes more important, because customarily they will have to afford the transportation and accommodation expenses in the destination with you. By letting your guests learn your plan well in advance, you help them decide whether or not to go with you.

Holding a wedding ceremony and reception in a strange place, even a foreign country, requires you to do some homework learning whether or not can you get the wedding service, and how to access. In this situation, hiring a local wedding consultant or keeping ties with a local travel agent becomes more practical and necessary, just imaging you have to arrange the activities with local contractors by speaking a foreign language.

Cruise ships are entering the wedding industry to cater customer's requirement and enlarge new market. In the past, maritime marriage had to be held at port other than aboard to be recognized as legal of the wedding, but nowadays international cruise lines are finding ways to perform at-sea weddings that are legally recognized and give captains the legal authority to perform the ceremony. It is a good supplement to long aboard life to have an impressive wedding at white board surrounded by blue sea, exciting tourists attendants, and witnessed in front of a handsome, wearing-marine-uniform captain. As the requiring in a resort site wedding, before you book cruise trip, make sure that the cruise line you choose has the legal authority to perform shipboard marriage ceremonies.

Theme weddings

Theme wedding is specialized by the couple's choice to express their favor in the wedding, in which the favor can be their common hobby, cultural background or ethnic consideration, and religion factor, etc. Theme weddings seems becoming more and more popular by young generation.

For the couples share common hobby or interest which is a sense of secret romance, they maybe willing to express it to their audience in their wedding, show a totally different personalized wedding to their family, relatives, and friends, who will surely remember the astonished one forever. One example, a new couple are both members of a parachuting club, and they decided to have their ceremony in the sky. In their wedding, the bride and the groom jumped out of plane, hand in hand floating flatly in air, kissing each other, and exchanging wedding rings. At the end they parachuted down to ground, welcomed and blessed by the coming crowd of their family, relatives, and friends. When McDonald's fast food restaurant first step into China, some young couples are so fascinated to the foreign style and pursuit it that they held their small scale wedding reception in it. These are two typical theme weddings, special and meaningful, right?

If you have strong relationship to an ethnic community or cultural background, you maybe feel proud of it and want to incorporate into your celebrations some of the symbols and traditions that have special meaning for you. The incorporation could be as large as a whole different ethnic reception and dinner, or as little as a apparel and accessory that the bride and the groom wear.

If you have religion background, you may have a religious wedding.

A theme wedding is fun to you, but you have to pay attention to your guests feeling, not embarrassing them. For example, tell your guests wear whatever they wish in your theme wedding, only confining your cloth to the theme, say, a set of parachute gear.

Hiring a wedding consultant to have a easy life

Wedding like a show, a shooting live of a film in which you and your lover are leading roles. Much similar to very few talent can take multiple responsibilities in a film making, say actor or actress, director, editor, producer, and investor, etc., chances are you are not able to, or not effectively and economically, direct your wedding in which you perform because you are too busy to include and consider every aspect in the wedding proceeding, and not have channel to rearch various contractors and get edge in prices bargain.

You and your lover probably both have full-time careers and have little spare time used to wedding plan. The coming wedding maybe your first in lifetime, even not the first, few couples are confident to call themselves wedding expert having learned and controlled every area of the process, and to claim they can run the process seamless. In your wedding there are many services are outsourced, which you may don't know to whom to contact, or you even don't know you do need some sort of contractors. While a wedding consultant much probably know what you are not aware, and because of the business to business relationship, the wedding consultant can get a more reasonable quotation from the contractors than you. So from long run, your wedding consultant is saving money for you, at least help you spend money more effectively.

Wedding consultants can be of great service: they can scout sites and oversee the budget, the caterer, the band, the florist, and any number of service providers. Wedding consultants can be personnel, or a company. According to Peggy Post, a wedding consultant can provide the following services:
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• Help you decide on ceremony and reception sites.
• Help you select all the suppliers and vendors you will hire, such as the florist, the caterer, musicians, the photographer, and the videographer.
• Coordinate communication between and among vendors, suppliers, and sites so that, for example, the florist knows when and how to obtain access to the ceremony site to decorate.
• Serve as a referee, friend, budget advisor and watcher, etiquette expert, shopper, detail manager, and organizer.
• Coordinate your rehearsal with the officiant.
• Supervise all the last-minute details of your wedding day.

"

Free veil, gloves, and necklace to wedding dress order

Now you learned something of the wedding dress vendor of Joyousome e-store, for our pearl necklace vendor, we will introduced later. Good news is, the both vendors co-operate together and make a decision to promote their products, wedding dress and pearl necklace, to Joyousome customers by providing free veil, gloves, and pearl necklace model E13125 worth $66 to the order of wedding dress with free veil and gloves options. The promotion expires on June 30, 2012.
For ordering and checking bridal gowns styles as well as learning the specification of the pearl necklace model E13125, please go to  Joyousome Wedding Resources.
Promotion code: free necklace. Please remember you must enter the code 'free necklace' in order message to claim the free necklace.
There is a picture of the free pearl necklace at left side. Sorry it is not very clear, but we promise the real one is gorgeous to your satisfaction.

Wedding dress manufacturer of Joyousome e-store

Joyousome e-store, Joyousome Wedding Resources was set up in September, 2010, with office located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The ambition and long-time goal of the e-store is to supply a whole product lines for wedding. At present the established products include wedding dresses, veils, and pearl necklaces.

Our wedding dress manufacturer is located in Suzhou, China, an ancient and modern city with traditional history of cultivating and processing silk product and proudly named county of silk,  as well as an important new fabricating and tailoring center of satin fabric and dresses.

The garment manufacturer has plentiful and high quality dresses lines, including wedding dresses, evening dresses, party dresses, prom dresses, cocktail dresses, bridesmaid dresses, dresses for flower girls, and several peripheral lines such as veils and gloves. With state-of-art tailoring equipments and nearly ten years of industry experience, the garment manufacturer has supplied dresses to both domestic and world markets as Europe and North America, and gained high reputation in the served customers circle.

They care and create the high quality of products by establishing an in-process objective sampling mechanism, and final checking of each to-be-shipped dress by a quality control team to make sure no fault at all and 100% customer satisfaction. They treat their product as art, in fact, besides the splendid style and fabric itself, there does exist some real shiny beads embedded at cloth to make it looked really cherish.  

Wedding preparation - assign wedding style

The wedding style, which can be formal, semiformal, or informal, is almost assigned after you collect the guests quantity, set aside the sum amount of money in the budget, and determine the moment of your wedding and reception, because generally speaking the more of the guest and the disposable cash, and the more premium of wedding-held moment like weekends evening, the more formal it is. Another consideration is where will  the wedding be held. If it is held in church and hot place in your town, chances are it is formal. Sometimes you don't aware or wouldn't tell clearly what the coming wedding style is, but the savvy attendants learn it from the conditions listed above, and know what to wear and behave by themselves. Don't by shy or feel guilty to hold an informal or a casual wedding, but remember contents is king. A meaningful, innovative, and unique informal or casual wedding is not anything less than a routinely manipulated, boring formal one.

One interesting fact is, the younger the bride, the more formal the wedding, probably because the elder women prefer a different style wedding which is more casual and personalized after their early formal wedding.

In her book Weddings, Peggy Post introduced the typical routine of the three wedding styles:

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The Formal Wedding
The formal weddings ceremony usually takes place in a house of worship or in a large home or garden. The bride and her attendants (usually from four to 10 bridesmaides) wear long gowns in formal fabrics, and the groom and his attendants (usually from four to 10 ushers) wear cutaways or tailcoats. Female guests wear street-length dressy clothing for a daytime wedding and usually floor-length gowns or cocktail dresses for an evening wedding. Male guests wear dark suits and ties for a daytime wedding and tuxedos for an evening wedding. An evening formal wedding that requires white tie is the most formal of all.
The formal reception is usually a sit-down or semi-buffet meal. Invitations are engraved, decorations can be elaborate, transportation for the wedding party is usually provided by limousines, and music (if the reception includes dancing) is often provided by an orchestra or full band.

The Semiformal Wedding
For a semiformal wedding, the bride and her attendants (usually from two to 6 bridesmaids) may wear long, ballerina, or tea-length gowns, usually made of simpler fabrics than those of a formal wedding. The groom and his attendants (usually from two to 6 ushers) wear gray or black strollers with striped trousers or a formal suit for a daytime semiformal wedding and a dinner jacket with black trousers or a formal suit for an evening wedding. Female guests wear street-length tailored or semi-dressy dresses for a daytime wedding and cocktail dresses for an evening wedding. Male guests wear dark suits for both.
The ceremony can take place in a house of worship, chapel, hotel, club, home, or garden, and the reception is generally a buffet or a cocktail buffet later in the afternoon with a small band or orchestra or a DJ.

The Informal Wedding
At an informal wedding, the bride and her attendants (usually from one to three bridesmaids) wear simple white or pastel floor-length gowns or ballerina, tea-length, or street-length dresses. The groom and his attendants (usually from one to three ushers) wear suits or sport jackets and slacks. Female guests wear what is appropriate to the location - usually street-length dresses. Male guests wear sport jackets and slacks.
The ceremony can take place in a house of worship, chapel, or rectory. It can also be held in a home or garden with a justice of the peace presiding. The reception can take place in a restaurant or at a home with a caterer and/or friends providing refreshments - usually a breakfast, brunch, or lunch in the morning or early afternoon and an informal buffet or simple hors d'oeuvres and wedding cake for an afternoon reception. Music may come from a single musician or background tapes.
"

Wedding preparation - determine the moment

After you have the guest list at hand, the disposable sum of money in head, next coming to do is to determine the moment, your exciting and pride time, when the wedding ceremony and reception will be held. Be serious about choosing the time, once settled down, never ever consider changing the schedule because after issuing the news it is not just of your own business but also the business of many connected people including your family, relatives, friends, contractor, reception, officer, priest, etc. Can you imagine to cancel it at the last minute?

From longer to shorter, you basically have choice in what season of year, what day of week, and what time of day, to hold the wedding ceremony and reception. If you just have a few months to proceed, then you have no choice of the season. It is said the favorite months for wedding are June, September, August, May, October, and July, when the popular wedding receptions and churches are very busy and at premium rate, very similar to the easily-doubled-flight-ticket price in summer hot season. The invisible market's hands are every where. So either book a date in the hot seasons long time ago, or avoid the rush, choose a less popular season like January, February, and March with benefit of easy feeling and spending. In fact every season is lovable and endowed with good wish to be the marrying-time by rhymes.

Most weddings are held on weekends, especially on Sundays, when we don't have the 5-workingdays-a- week system. But it is not to say that week days are not suitable for wedding, in fact, at some degree to console the guys marry on week days, an old English rhyme suggest good and not-so-good days to marry if the customary Sunday wasn't chosen:

Monday for wealth

Tuesday for health

Wednesday the best day of all

Thursday for crosses

Friday for losses

Saturday no luck at all

Being flexible at the time of day to have wedding will also make a big difference in you budget. A late afternoon or early evening wedding is generally more expensive than a morning or early- to mid-afternoon wedding. But if you have to conform to some custom or habit, then just keep it. For example, in China the first-marry bride must be showing up in ceremony before noon, while the re-married bride shows up in a dinner reception.  

Wedding preparation - set up a budget

From economy view, wedding is a losing business of much more spending than incoming, even in some eastern culture countries like China it is popular and custom for the new-couple to receive wedding attendants' 'red envelope' enclosed with cash, from long run they will lose money because they have to send at-least-the-same, or bigger, red envelope to whom attended and sent red envelope at their wedding when they get married or have some special socials. As wedding is a money-burning activity, and money is always scarce to us, so it is necessary to set up a budget to manage your spending. If your parents will pay for the wedding or contribute to it, be appreciative of whatever they provide, and be careful to include the money into your budget and work with that amount.

It is a good practice to set up the budget in spreadsheet software, say, Microsoft Office Excel, doing which  gives you much facility to adjust spending components and costings, and get updated results immediately. So it is easy to help you compare various spending options, keep balance, and make final decisions. Keep in mind that there is not only one type or one model of wedding, you are a project organizer with lots of options and alternatives to compare and choose from, which give you plenty edge of saving. For example, a weekday's wedding ceremony is cheaper than a weekend's. The process of organizing, planing and deciding itself is full of exciting and rewarding.

If your budget is limited, you will have to decide what takes priority and sacrifice other aspects. Don't be sorry to what you have to forgo, seems missing an interesting or romantic experience, in fact it is nothing compared to your long life together in the future.

Wedding preparation - creating the guest list

When you decide to have a wedding ceremony to declare you couple are getting married to your family, relatives, friends, and the circles of you both, instead just silently register legal marriage files, and move together to start a new life style which is totally allowed, the first and the most important thing you couple to do to plan a wedding is to conceive and establish a guest list. After all, wedding is a social activity, in which attendants are the roles and players. First thing is the first, after the first step settled down, you will find the other various seemingly-mess stuffs followed and solved accordingly and automatically.

The quantity and scope of the guest list determines lots of aspects of a wedding ceremony, such as the budget, the wedding locations for both the ceremony and the reception. More attendants in the guest list means big fat budget; more attendants coming from long distance not only means more spend on commuting and accommodation, but more detailed consideration and planing for them. Therefore if your guest list is long and your budget mean, you may have to give up a big, formal, sit-down dinner reception. Otherwise, reduce your guest list down to fit. Narrowing the guest list is the easiest and most effective way to cut spending.

It is a good practice to divide your guest list into priority and less priority groups in every circle, so you will have priority family and relative members, priority friends members, priority colleagues members, as well as the less priority one. First contact the priority list, if they can't attend the wedding, and you still want to or have to keep the wedding scale, then you have alternatives.

Sending wedding card to your guests is the traditional and formal way to notice them, although you have more options in current the high-tech communication society.

Band of ring - You decide and customarize

When we usually pay most of our attention to the shiny, beautiful, and gorgeous gemstones on a ring, don't ignore the band: the eyes-catching gemstones are for others to look, while the band is for you the real wearer to feel. So make sure it is comfortable, meaningful, and durable.

Just like only the person putting on and walking a pair of shoes knows how fit or unfit of the shoes, only the ring's wearer, you, knows how comfortable or uncomfortable of the ring. If your hands are small, a narrow band looks better and wears easily. Larger hands with longer fingers can wear wider band, on which allows more elaborating. To get a perfectly-fit band, it is a good idea to tell the supplier your finger's perimeter, on which one you will wear a ring. You can get the number in a jewelry store with their help.

You can ask to engrave into a band some meaningful characters, initials, words, or sentence, which usually is a message that is a sentiment known only to you and your loved. Engraving is more often seen on the inner side of band, leaving outside of it plain. Before finalizing your purchase, ask the supplier how many letters may be engraved so that you can tell them the content in the limitation.

You should pay attention to choose the material from which the band is made. Now there are many material choices in the market including some high-technology material, make sure your choose the right one. If you are going to wear the engagement ring and the wedding ring together, the two should be better of the same material and color, as well as matching nice. 

December-born's gemstone - Lapis Lazuli or Turquoise

You learned the interesting born-month-gemstone in my another blog, now, there is a chance to show you what in the world the real month gemstone looks like. If you are born in December, then your have two options for your born month gemstone: lapis lazuli, or turquoise.
In the top picture it is a lapis lazuli necklace. Lapis lazuli is a relatively rare semi-precious gemstone that have been prized for its intense blue color. Lapis is the Latin word for "stone" and lazuli is taken from the Persian word meaning "heaven" or "sky", because the sky is blue. So it is the "stone of heaven" or "sky stone".
Historically lapis lazuli is believed to have healing and consoling function for both physical and spiritual, wearing which would relieves anxiety and insomnia and can enforce the immune system, cure sore throats and headaches. It is also considered a powerful stone to inspire the wearer pursuing goals and adjust minds confliction to be harmony.
In the bottom picture it is a turquoise ring. Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years because of its unique color.
Turquoise is believed can endow the wearer wisdom, strength, protection from harm, emotion sensitivity, connection to soul. Another important magic force of the turquoise is that it helps the wearer understanding oneself better, fulfill self-realization.

November-born's gemstone - Topaz

You learned the interesting born-month-gemstone in my another blog, now, there is a chance to show you what in the world the real month gemstone ring looks like.
If you are born in November, then your born-month-gemstone is topaz. What the picture shown is a oval-shaped topaz ring.
Pure topaz is colorless and transparent but is usually tinted by impurities. Typical topaz color includes wine, yellow, pale gray, reddish-orange, blue, and brown. Naturally occurring blue topaz is quite rare. Typically, colorless, gray or pale yellow and blue material is heat treated and irradiated to produce a more desired darker blue. This treatment results in various blue, commonly known in the industry as Sky Blue, Swiss Blue and London Blue.
Specifically yellow topaz is symbolized as the November-born's gemstone. Topaz represents strength, friendship, love and affection. The mystical contents are said can enhance force and intelligence, as well as balance emotions and provide spiritual refresh.

October-born's gemstone - Opal or Moonstone

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If you are born in October, then your have two options for your born month gemstone ring: opal, or moonstone. In the top picture it is a opal ring.

Opal is an amorphous form of silica, a mineraloid form, not a mineral. It is deposited at a relatively low temperature and may occur in the fissures of almost any kind of rock.  Opal's internal structure makes it diffract light; depending on the conditions in which it formed it can take on may colors.

Opal is symbolized as protection, faithfulness and loyalty. It is believed that it can bring the wearer super sensible vision and vigor.

In the bottom picture it is a moonstone ring. Moonstone the name is derived from a visual effect, or sheen, caused by light reflecting internally in the moonstone from layer inclusion of different feldspars. Moonstone has been used as jewelry for centuries. The Romans admired moonstone, as they believed it was born from solidified rays of the moon.
Moonstone means passionate love that will fly you to the moon. It is believed that if you give your loved a moonstone necklace when the moon is full, you will always have passion with each other.

September-born's gemstone - Sapphire

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If you are born in September, then your born-month-gemstone is sapphire. What the picture shown is a teardrop-shaped sapphire pendant.
The sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum. Trace amounts of other elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper or magnesium can give corundum blue, yellow, pink, purple, orange, or green color.
The name of sapphire originated from the Greek word "sappheiros", meaning 'blue stone'. The sapphire represents sincerity and faithfulness. Usually the sapphire is set into necklace or as a pendant wore around neck to show dignity, or as a protection symbol against poison and harm.

August-born's gemstone - Sardonyx or Carrelian

You learned the interesting born-month-gemstone in my another blog, now, there is a chance to show you what in the world the real month gemstone looks like. If you are born in August, then your have two options for your born month gemstone: sardonyx, or carrelian.

In the top picture it is a sardonyx beads string. The sardonyx is a gemstone that is precious for its various colors and shapes, after processed, which can reflect shiny and charming reflections. Its name is originated from the Greek word "sard", meaning a reddish brown, and "onyx", meaning veined gem. The sardonyx gemstone represents strength and protection. Historically people wear it to enhance willpower, integrity, and vigor. In marriage, it is believed to bring lifelong happiness and stability.

In the bottom picture it is a carrelian necklace. The carrelian is a brownish-red mineral which is commonly used as a semi-precious gemstone. People wear carrelian for a long time, and it was once only permitted to own by the noble class. Like many other gemstones, the carrelian also represent energy, vigor, and protect from bad fortune. Additionally, the carrelian has been given some interesting meanings and functions such as sense of humor, temper control, and good appetite.

July-born's gemstone - Ruby

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If you are born in July, then your born-month-gemstone is ruby.
Ruby is pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum. The red color is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium. Its name comes from ruber, Latin for red. The ruby is considered one of the four precious stones, together with the sapphire, the emerald, and the diamond.
Historically the ruby was symbolized as power, vitality, and clarity of the heart, named "the king of gemstones". It was believed that soldiers wearing rubies will get courage and protection in battle. The ruby was also believed having the healing function, keeping off danger, evil, and even bad dreams.

June-born's gemstone - Pearl

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If you are born in June, then your born-month-gemstone is pearl. Pearl is the secretion of a shell. When a foreign body is set into a shell, to protect its tender organism, the shell will secret much secretion enveloping the foreign body, eventually together it forms a pearl.
The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, with shiny reflection like a mirror reflection. Very rare pearl has the shiny reflection of different colors like rainbow, then it will be more expensive.
Originally pearls are all wild, collected by diver diving deep into sea. Now pearls are almost all cultured commercially, with two kinds of production: cultured saltwater pearl and cultured freshwater pearl.
Historically the glowing white shines of pearl have been associated with the moon. Eastern cultures believe that pearls symbolize purity and innocence. Wearing a pearl reminds the wearer to be honest, pure, wise, and with the utmost dignity. Different colors of pearls bear different meanings. White pearls symbolize purity, innocence, faith, and honesty. Gold or black pearls symbolize prosperity, dignity and mystery. Rose or pink pearls mean young, activity, and adorable.

May-born's gemstone - Emerald

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If you are born in May, then your born-month-gemstone is emerald. Emerald is a variety of the mineral beryl, colored green, with a hardness of 7.5-8 on the 10 point Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Most emeralds are highly included with poor toughness (resistance to breakage), so be careful not let it hitting other hard objects in your emerald wearing.
Emeralds' color ranges from yellow-green to blue-green, with the primary hue necessarily being green. Only gems that are medium to dark in tone are considered emerald; In addition, the hue of an emerald must be bright (vivid).
Emerald is known as "the stone of successful love", encouraging people to pursuit love and success in the end. Wearing emerald is believed to be sensitive and loyal, and has the ability of high intelligence, to make right decisions in the life process. Another meaning of emerald is that it will bring harmony, action and progress, so just do it.

April-born's gemstone - Diamond

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If you are born in April, then your born-month-gemstone is diamond. Diamond is the king of gemstones, which is symbolized with faithfulness, love, purity, and innocence. It inspires creativity and helps accumulating wealth, as well as helps solving troubles and difficulties in all areas of life. Diamond is also a symbol of richness and abundance. As the hardest stone of all, it is especially adored by its beautifully shiny, purity, and ability to reflect light in a special manner.

March-born's gemstone - Aquamarine or Bloodstone

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If you are born in March, then your have two options for your born month gemstone ring: Aquamarine, or bloodstone. In the top picture it is a aquamarine. From the name compose we get aqua + marine, meaning a drop of ocean water. Yes, it is light blue, shiny, and looks deep inside, just like ocean's blue and deep. The gem of the ocean, aquamarine represents the spirit of the ocean, wide and mystery.

In the bottom picture it is a bloodstone bracelet. Bloodstone is a hero's stone. It can inspire our courage in dangerous situations, and to control and console the endless desire and pursuit in our heart to protect our self.

February-born's gemstone - Amethyst

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If you are born in February, then your born-month-gemstone is amethyst. Amethyst is a semiprecious stone which has various degree of the color purple, ranging from light lavender to royal purple. The highest quality amethyst is deep purple.

Purple represents mystery and noble, which gives amethyst a super quality feature. Historically amethyst was known as the Bishop's Stone because it is worn by Roman Catholic Bishops as a symbol of piety, humility, sincerity and spiritual wisdom. The color purple is also associated with fortune and noble in many cultures, so amethyst is often set in crowns and royal attire.

January-born's gemstone ring - Garnet or Zircon

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If you are born in January, then your have two options for your born month gemstone ring: Garnet ring, or Zircon ring. In the top picture it is a garnet ring, usually dark red. Garnet represents truth, faith, friendship, and eternity. Wearing the Garnet ring enable the people mesmeric allure and draw blessedness as well as endless love.

In the bottom picture it is a Zircon ring. Zircon has various colors, and it is hard, transparent, and shiny, so in most time it is worn as a replace of diamond.

Pearl Necklace - perfectly matching jewelry for bride

Now it is time to talk about pearl. Pearl is perfectly fit into the wedding jewelries including necklace, earring, bracelet, and ring, matching nice to the white bridal dresses. Wearing pearl jewelry in wedding ceremony is a traditional custom, as well as popular and welcomed appearance in current society, so choosing pearl jewelry for bride's ornament is a safe, no-failure option. In pearl jewelries, pearl necklace is specially outstanding and gorgeous to represent bride's purity and grace. Pearl necklace usually is worn by single strand which is shown at the top picture, double strands, or triple strands which is shown at the bottom picture. More strands, more shiny and luxurious. But be cautious not putting too many strands around neck, which looks heavy and excess. 

In the past years pearl has only the appearance of shiny and smooth white. Now through the help of technical development, pearl can be bred to get various colors: white, pink, purple, black......, but to be safe you should better still insist with white color in wedding.