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Best Wedding Reception Ever

GiggleSugar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:52:27 -0700

Remember, it's the first day of the rest of your lives together. Drink life to the fullest.

Let's Dish: What Are Your Wedding Pet Peeves?

partysugar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:50:46 -0700

When I chatted weddings with Gail Simmons a couple of weeks ago, she shared her tips for hosting an eco-friendly big day and let me know her wedding pet peeves. "When the wedding doesn't reflect the personality of the couple, that really bugs me." Also on her list: a menu that lacks creativity, and dessert buffets. "Twenty-foot-long tables covered in cakes and desserts - it's so wasteful, people take one slice and don't really need or want more than that."

I agree with Gail to an extent, I've never been a fan of buffets - but not because they're wasteful, because they promote overeating! My biggest pet peeve at a wedding reception, however, is a bad Champagne toast. Oh and running out of alcohol is a big no-no.

How about you? Now's your chance to get them off your chest: what are your wedding pet peeves?

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Home Away From Home: The Madonna Inn

CasaSugar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:30:01 -0800

Looking for a kooky, kitschy hotel experience? Then check out San Luis Obispo's own Madonna Inn. This 51-year-old hotel is an absolutely unique experience for visitors, featuring an overwhelming pink color palette and rooms with themes including "Love Nest," "Caveman," and "Portugal."

If you're in the market for a unique wedding reception venue, the Madonna Inn can handle your reception. Fully equipped with a steak house, day spa, convention center, and bar, the Madonna Inn can supply all of your needs - especially if those needs involve gaping at the Swiss-Alps-meets-Old-West decor. One last piece of advice: don't forget to direct your male friends to the rocks and waterfall urinal if they need to take care of business - it's apparently a tourist must-see.

Take the full tour.

50 Strangers Throw Couple Surprise Wedding Reception

TresSugar — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:15:00 -0700

The improv gurus behind No Pants Subway Rides teamed up this week to throw a surprise wedding reception for a random, unsuspecting couple. Fifty wannabe guests got dressed in their matrimonial attire, and headed down to Manhattan's City Clerk's office.

One couple was selected and led to tents that had been borrowed from a just-finished job fair. The guests (again, all strangers) cheered during the couple's first toast, watched them share their first dance, and boogied down with them for a couple of hours. One stranger gave the best man toast, and the bride and "maid of honor" met for the first time. After the gifts (mostly gift cards), the couple hopped in a pedicab complete with "Just Married" signage and took a ride around New York City.

Would you be happy if this happened to you, or would you have a hard time celebrating your wedding with strangers?

How-To: Create Slideshows and Movies For Your Reception

GeekSugar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:05:10 -0700

If you haven't noticed, it's wedding season here on the Sugar Network and I've been busy telling you how to keep up with your own wedding website, pick out the perfect photographer, and manage all those photos - yours and your guests - after the big day. This week, we're moving into the wedding planning stages, and today I'm talking about slideshows. But this isn't the after-the-event, it-was-such-a-beautiful-day slideshow, this is the slideshow you play during your reception, usually packed with photos of you and your betrothed throughout your relationship together.

Although I've already given you some tips on what you should consider when putting together your slideshows, you may not know where to begin once you have all your photos chosen. If you don't have a Mac (I know I've talked your ear off about the simple joy of iPhoto), you can still make professional-looking slideshows and videos with your PC. Who woulda thought, right?

Find out what software you should consider, and what to do with those stacks of (nondigital) photos when you read more.

If not all of your photos are digital, it's OK - you can scan your photos, get them onto a CD and ready for uploading just by toting them down to your local Walgreens (or similar drug store that offers photo developing). And you're on your way to getting all your treasured pics into a slideshow.

Once you have all your photos uploaded to your computer, all you have to do is choose your software to start putting it all together. With any of these programs, you can arrange your pics, choose your (optional) background music that will play during your slideshow, and will even let you add in video clips if you want to switch things up. My first love is iPhoto, mostly for its ease of use and ability to export to not only a DVD but to your website, mobile phone, and iTunes to enjoy later.

But for you PC users out there, software like DVD Picture Show, My Memories Suite, and MediaShow 4 will get you the same great results, accommodates photos and video clips, and will export online or to a CD/DVD.

Do you have a photo program you'd like to recommend? Let us know about it in the comments below!

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Wedding Tip: Have Your Guests Upload Photos to One Place

GeekSugar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:06:26 -0700

I used to think that having disposable cameras at each table at a wedding reception was such a fabulously brilliant idea.

But now the quality of the disposable film cameras is too shoddy for any possible framers, plus the kind of people who are going to take photos will have already brought their own cameras. To further drive a stake in the heart of this old trend, last year the majority of you voted that you no longer loved it.

That's not to say you don't want more photos taken than your pro photog will take - just make it easy on your guests to upload them all to one place! Call it the 2009 version of disposable cameras on tables. Instead of cameras on tables, you just place cards with a URL or email address for your guests, and leave it to them to upload after the event.

To see how to make this wedding idea come together, just read more.

First, decide which photo-sharing website you want to use. It may be easiest to use the site you're already using for photo sharing - MobileMe, Flickr, and Picasa provide you with an email address or URL to give out (see my instructions on how to do it in Picasa). But also consider newer site iRave - it also gives you both a URL or email address, and it has settings that let you approve photos before they're up, preventing any pic leaks of champagne-induced embarrassments. Make sure that whichever site you use has plenty of storage space for the photos.

Once you've settled on the service, you need the cards so people know where to send photos. This seller from Etsy makes a wedding photo-sharing kit for $25, but this is also a simple DIY.

Design and print out your message onto business card-size paper (or just cut printed sheets to that size), then place in a festive box or display on each table.

If you're really into the design of your invites, you can inquire with your invitation vendor about printing up these cards with your invite design.

Ways to Geek Out Your Wedding Reception

GeekSugar — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:25:14 -0700

Everyone wants their wedding to reflect their personality, but if you're a geek, you don't exactly want to dress as a Star Trek couple (or maybe you do, no judgment). But there are other equally fun ways to incorporate geekiness and gadget love in your wedding reception. Source

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Link Time!!!

PopSugar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Christina Aguilera debuts her new shorter hairdo, love it or hate it? - BellaSugar
Robert Downey Jr enjoys his spot on the A-List - PopEater
Ed Westwick gets frisky and strips down during a wedding reception - TMZ
Surprise! Oprah and Ellen shot four covers for O Magazine - JustJared
Madonna and Jesus go under cover in Brazil - Pink Is the New Blog
Photos of the Glee cast are always cute - Lainey Gossip
Is Amy Winehouse addicted to plastic surgery? - D-Listed
Alessandra Ambrosio teams up with Beatriz Barros for GQ UK - Egotastic
Marisa Miller imparts her model wisdom on the contestants of ANTM - The Superficial
Kristen Cavallari is so fresh and so clean - Hollywood Tuna
Pamela Anderson loves living in a trailer park - Hollywood Rag
Samantha Ronson girlfriend auditions - cityrag
Jake Gyllenhaal and more tell you how you how to get to Sesame Street - popbytes

Couple Wants Wedding Reception In An Apple Store

GeekSugar — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:12:36 -0700

Say you met your match at an Apple store, yes, it's possible to meet men there - would you consider tying the knot in one? Or maybe having your reception there? Well the Apple store dating blog explains that a woman named Sandy recently called the Apple store and inquired about having her wedding reception there in June. You see, Sandy met her fiancé at an Apple store, and couldn't think of a better place to celebrate on her wedding day. To listen to the entire phone conversation between Sandy and the Apple store manager, check out the video below!

Geek Tip: Rent a Photo Booth For Your Wedding Reception!

GeekSugar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:30:18 -0700

Sure, this trend might be picking up at weddings and parties in general, but trends are usually hot for a reason: Skip the disposable cameras and capture candids with a rented photo booth! Guests will have another great activity for the reception, you'll have even more awesome photos for your album, and face this reality: Everyone loves a photo booth!

Photobooth.net helps you find and reserve a photo booth around the country (and has a great piece of advice: Traditional photo booths need a venue on the ground floor due to their weight). And Party Booths also supplies digital photo booths, if quality is an issue.

Best and worst part: Aunt Ida and Uncle Marty may find the booth after several glasses of champagne punch and get a little frisky. Those will be shots for the album for sure!

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