When the brides parents are divorced for years, who pays for what? It is the tradition of the father of the bride to pick up all bride expenses? Should the Mom, who is remarried be responsible for the various expenses? I was always raised it is the brides father responsibility.

Do you have a tight budget for your wedding? Do you find most wedding videographers are too expensive? Do you find yourself ready to ask your uncle Frank to video tape your wedding? If you want a wedding videographer that can offer better quality than your uncle Frank and yet still have money in your budget to stay on your honeymoon a bit longer, contact Ivan at 623-451-9074 or visit his website at http://get-me.to/videographyservices. You should not have to pay an arm and a leg for a quality wedding video.

We can all see that you’re madly in love. That’s definitely the first
challenge - to find someone with whom you want to spend the rest of your life.

But the trick and challenge I want to propose to you is that you set out
with the goal of falling a little more in love every day. So that by the time
you’re eighty you’re so in love that you wobble when you walk. To do
this, you have to have a plan and you have to be deliberate.

So here’s to falling a little more in love each day—and to Jim and Jenny.

I wish for you many beautiful babies.

I wish for you ever stronger collaborations, team work
and partnerships.

I wish for you long conversations - and short fights - which
inexorably and successfully move the whole mass forward.

I wish for you that you always laugh at each other’s jokes and
understand each other’s prose.

I wish for you good health in each other’s arms.

I wish for you fidelity — especially in trying times. It’s the crucial
link that holds it all together.

I wish for you romantic marriage vacations — time away for just
the two of you. During which I promise to babysit all those beautiful babies.

And I wish for you, finally, the full joy of reaching the end together - that
bittersweet moment when in death you shall part.

Diane,

I have done a number of weddings over the past 25 years and have included vows not only for the couple, but for the parents of the couple. In my premarital counseling I usually meet and talk with parents and stress their important role instrengthening their children’s marriage. In my remarks during the wedding Isay that this is marriage is not just a union of two individuals, but of twofamilies and stress the importance of the merging of the two family groupstogether to help provide part of the “glue” for this new marriage.

Then,after the couple recites their vows, I turn to the bride’s parents and say,”Will you, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, take Bob to be your son-in-law, will you lovehim, care for him, treat him as your own son, and do all you can tostrengthen and encourage his marriage to your daughter? (They answer “Ido.”) “Will you, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, take Jennie to be yourdaughter-in-law, will you love her, care for her, treat her as your owndaughter, and do all you can to strengthen and encourage her marriage toyour son?”(They answer “I do.”)Bill Beahm, Ph.D.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland asked a simple question
of 10,000 married men with no history of chest pains (angina): “Does your wife
show you her love?” Those men answering yes were found to experience significantly
less angina in the next five years than husbands responding no - despite such negative
indicators as elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes or electrocardiogram abnormalities.

There’s plenty of evidence that both human sexuality and intimacy and love and marriage
are very, very good for our health,” Dr. Stephen Bogdewic, vice chair of family medicine at
Indiana University School of Medicine told Indianapolis Star reporter Shari Rudavsky.
“If a new drug had the same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be
recommending it.

Researchers found men and women in unhappy marriages suffered from increased
stress levels throughout the day at home and at work as well as higher blood pressure
at midday at the office, which could raise the risk of heart attack or stroke.

Want to attend one of Utah’s best bridal shows? You need to look no further than this weekend’s Thanksgiving Point Bridal Expo. Not only will you find and meet some of the wedding professionals found at UtahBrides.com, but there will also be four great fashion shows emcee’d by our very own TV show hostess Heather Beers. See some of this year’s latest styles and fashions in wedding dresses and tuxedos.

At the wedding expo you can enter to win a home starter package that will help you get your new lives together off to a great start. And whoever wins the home starter package, the UtahBrides.com film crew will surprise you at your home and award you the prizes. We will then air it on the UtahBrides.com TV show seen each Sunday morning at 10 am on KSL TV channel 5. For family or friends who may not live in Utah, we will post the video on our website so all those who are dear to you can go online and see all that you won and celebrate with you.

Just go to UtahBrides.com for more information and to see a video about this weekend’s Thanksgiving Point Bridal Expo and to enter the ‘Home Starter Package Giveaway’. You can also check out all that you can win.

And finally, at the Thanksgiving Point Wedding Expo we will have the UtahBrides.com wedding planning portfolio. This is an absolute must in helping you keep organized during this exciting time. This planning portfolio is much like a scrapbook in that it brings you Utah’s best wedding professionals and has pockets for your color swatches, business cards, contracts and comes with the essential UtahBrides.com planning DVD. Everything you need to know to put your wedding in place is on this DVD. It has tabbed sections for all your wedding needs. Plus if you see a picture of a cake, dress or get a great idea from a book or magazine, the planner is a 3 ring binger that allows you to put all your great ideas into one place. You can even put a picture of you and your fiance on the front cover of your portfolio, making it truly part of you and your wedding. After all it is YOUR DAY, YOUR WAY! The first 25 brides both Friday and Saturday will receive one for FREE if you mention you found out about the wedding expo from UtahBrides.com.

The show is this Friday and Saturday at Thanksgiving Point. Just go to UtahBrides.com for all the details, see the video and to enter the giveaway.

We will see you at Thanksgiving Point.

January 14th, 2006

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building and The Lion House

15 East South Temple

Salt Lake City,

Show Hours: Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm

Free Admission

Register online at: http://www.weddingsattemplesquare.com/

You don’t want to miss the Wedding Expo at Thanksgiving Point!

Today, January 13th and tomorrow, Januray 14th, 2006

The Barn at Thanksgiving Point

3003 North Thanksgiving Way

Lehi, Utah 84043

Show Hours: Friday 3:00pm-8:00pm

Saturday 10:00am-8:00pm

Brides & Grooms get in FREE with registration

All guests $5 (2 yrs and under FREE)

We (UtahBrides.com) will be there with our new, must-have, highly sought after bridal portfolio. If you happen to be one of the first 25 brides to register at: http://www.utahweddingexpo.com/ and say that you heard about the show through UtahBrides.com, we will be giving you the portfolio for FREE!! But hurry, we will only be giving away 25 each day. Don’t worry if you are not one of the first, we will still have them available to you to purchase throughout the show. If you haven’t seen the latest edition to helping you plan your big day by UtahBrides.com, find out more about it at http://www.utahbrides.com.

Our very own, Kate Burton will also be there to give some great Design Tips and the hostess of our show Heather Beers will be there during the fashion shows! So, don’t miss it!