This colour chart shows the latest wedding colour trends for 2011

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Choosing the right hair accessories are just as important as choosing the right wedding dress. Your hair accessories need to compliment your dress and definitely adds that essential perfect touch to your outfit. Selecting the most appropriate accessories will surely jazz up even the simplest blouse. Here is a few of the hottest hair trends for 2011:

Long haired brides can wear their hair loose with romantic curls or pulled back loosely.

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The Dress:

Your wedding dress is definitely one of the most important ingredients for a perfect wedding day and you want to make the perfect choice. But what is new, hot and trendy this year?

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With the huge amount of global interest in the seriousness in global warming, engaged couples are also now starting to look at ways of making their special day more environmentally friendly.  The question is however, how do you make sure that your special day leaves a smaller carbon footprint?

Here are some tips to make sure your wedding not only makes a bold statement, but also help to save the environment. Remember, going a little green is better than not at all, because every thoughtful action helps our environment.

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By Marius Janse van Rensburg

Wedding Photographers are honored to be invited into the bride (and sometime the groom’s) dressing place to capture the wealth of emotions and moments surrounding the final hours of ‘singledom’.  As the bride is laced up into her dress by her coterie of bridesmaids and her mother looks on adoringly before the final touches are applied, the photographer has the unique opportunity to capture these intimate moments.

At the groom’s dressing place the boys are being boys and this could add some unique photo-ops.   Some testosterone filled excitement before the wedding is the boys’ way of celebrating the biggest of occasions.  Imagine smoking cigars and drinking beer in a bathtub…

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Like many brides and grooms, your wedding could be the first time you’ll be hiring a creative professional. You might think the ins and outs of working with a wedding photographer are as simple as writing a check. What could be so difficult, right? But just ask any talented pro, and you’ll get a grateful explanation of why it’s so important to truly understand their creative process.

How you manage your relationship with a wedding photojournalist can have just as profound an impact on the photographs as the day unfolding before the camera. Luckily, you and your photographer both want the same outcome: amazing photos that capture the feeling of the wedding day.

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