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LONDON: Irina Shayk looks breathtaking as she poses in a brilliant white bridal gown, reported British daily The Sun on Sunday.
Cristiano Ronaldo hasn't whisked the stunning cover girl down the aisle - the leggy lovely is modelling wedding frocks for Italian designer Alessandro Angelozzi.
The 26-year-old Sports Illustrated model looks drop dead gorgeous in the glam gowns, showing off her famous pins in a slashed-to-the-thigh number - and her irresistible cleavage in another low-cut option.
Angelozzi's new Couture 2013 collection isn't all about weddings - and Irina also showed off her fiery side in a full-length red frock, cut low enough to give us a tantalising peek at her cleavage, and sliced so far up her left leg her underwear almost showed
Rumour has it Real Madrid star Ron is planning to pop the question sooner rather than later.
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This really is a fascinating couple. Wikipedia says that Pitt, who has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe, has been described as one of the world's most attractive men. And IMDb reports that Jolie, who is an Oscar-winning actress, often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists. And there is more to Jolie than just being beautiful and talented, she is clearly also a beautiful person who has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees.
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Remember to be practical with gifts for the bridal party and parents. Give them something they can continue to use after the wedding or something they can enjoy with you. With that, consider alternative options to the mainstream brands when buying gifts. For example, Tiffany's is a great go-to for bridesmaid jewelry but it can completely break the bank. Instead, find a local Stella and Dot consultant for your jewelry needs. The cost is significantly less but you're still getting real metals, high quality and beautiful design.
If you have your eyes and ears open, you can discover sales lessons in unexpected places, including the cable TV show, Say Yes To The Dress.
I do not consume much TV content, other than cable news. However, my wife is a major fan of fashion oriented “reality” TV shows, including Say Yes To The Dress (Say Yes). In my ongoing quest to be a wonderful husband, I have watched some of these shows with my lovely bride (sorry, I draw the line at Project Runway).
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The show’s format is fairly straightforward. The wedding dress selection odyssey of several women is explored, with the usual doses of contrived reality TV conflict, such as the overbearing mother-in-law, the cheap dad, the indecisive bride and the obtrusive groom who has outrageously bad taste. The show takes place in two upscale bridal shops, one in New York and the other in Atlanta.
There are a number of solid sales techniques on display by the Say Yes team. Most of them are directly applicable to selling virtually anything to anyone. These techniques include:
1. Actively Listen - The most important selling skill is effective listening. The show refers to the salespeople as “consultants,” which reinforces each store’s problem solving approach to selling. The Say Yes consultants ask a number of questions before a bride tries on her first dress. Throughout the sales process, they continually probe and modify their sales approach, based on the bride’s feedback.
Active listening leads to empathy, which in turn enhances your ability to persuade and influence your prospect. Steven Covey’s oft-quoted insight holds true when selling, “Seek first to understand, then seek to be understood.” Such pro active communications allows startups to be more responsive than their larger, resource-rich competitors.
2. Assess Budget - The Say Yes salespeople are straightforward about determining the bride’s budget at the outset of the sales process. They are also careful to not show a bride dresses that greatly exceed their budget because they know it can jeopardize the sale. Once someone tries on an expensive dress which is outside of their price range, it is often difficult for them to be satisfied with dresses that conform to their budget.
Startup sales require high velocity. You typically cannot afford to spend time with prospects that are not ready to buy. An efficient way to qualify a potential customer is to determine the size and availability of their budget.
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This information helps me determine who will an impact the buying process and who is just along for the ride. I treat everyone with an equal level of respect and deference, while ensuring I fulfill the needs of those with the most influence.
4. Bolster The Champion - The Say Yes sales consultants often provide emotional support for brides who are overly chided by the influencers in their entourage. In many instances, the sales folks have to shut down the influencers by reminding them that the bride’s opinion is ultimately what matters. This becomes a delicate balancing act when the influencer is also bankrolling the purchase.
In non-reality TV sales situations, it is frequently difficult to identify your true champion. In some instances, a well-meaning champion does not have the social and political capital to close the sale. This requires you to support your would-be champion, as you do not want them working against you, while you continue to seek a true champion who can help you get the deal done.
5. Sell What You Have - The Say Yes sales team’s priority is to get customers to select “the perfect dress” from whatever they have on the racks. Startups must follow a similar philosophy. Selling the future can be effective, as long as it does not result in a prospect postponing their purchase, waiting for the promised features to be created and vetted by the market.
6. Keep It Fun – Every sales process involves a degree of mixed emotions. When buying a wedding dress, the emotional aspects of the transaction can overwhelm the buyer’s ability to make a rational decision. The Say Yes team reduces the risk of an emotional meltdown by maintaining a lighthearted atmosphere and ensuring that the buying process is entertaining.
Sales professionals must similarly maintain an emotional balance during the sales process. If a prospect is pushed too hard, they might seek relief by breaking off the sales discussions. Thus, you risk eliciting a “No” from your prospect if you create an overwhelming sense of urgency. Effective selling requires you to push the sale to a close while respecting the pace of the prospect’s decision process.
This is an excerpt from “Women of Vail,” by Elaine Kelton and Carolyn Pope. The Vail Daily is serializing the book as Vail celebrates its 50th anniversary.
My grandfather was the governor of Burma, and I was born there. My father was in the Indian army, and when war came, my mother, sister and I went to England, where I was educated. Then I worked in a very boring secretarial job in London until 1962. I had a friend in Canada who had a connection with Vail, so it seemed the right time to go and live in the States. I wrote a letter and was hired at The Lodge at Vail. Little did I know they couldn't get anybody to work.
I had thoughts of St. Moritz as I daydreamed on the bus to Denver. An Austrian from The Lodge drove me to Vail — through the town of Dillon, no reservoir yet, and we ate in Georgetown. No snow, Dec. 5, 1962 — Year 1. It was a construction camp with mud, and The Lodge was still being built. There was a cookhouse trailer in front where everybody ate. Everything was way behind schedule. I was by myself, and it was getting dark and looked so strange to me. They put me up in Dick Hauserman's rental apartment. Snow came in January that year. In Denver, they didn't know much about Vail at all, but we got publicity because astronauts had put money in Crested Butte.
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They opened on Dec. 15. VA owned everything including The Lodge because nobody else would build one. They wanted a grand lodge, but nobody would do it. This was in the middle of nowhere, over two mountain passes, small roads, and no town close by. The tourist center was in Denver, and it was a long way away. Nobody knew if this place was going to go or not, and it very nearly didn't. I worked in the reservation office and helped at the front desk. I wrote letters, so I suppose I was the manager's secretary. There was very little snow that first year. In fact, we drove up to Mid-Vail in a VW Beetle on Dec. 10. They were testing the lift. We were the first ones on Lift 4 and went to the top. I didn't have any winter clothes and only little boots. We got off to look over at the Back Bowls — the snow didn't come over my ankles. The U.S. Ski Team came and trained at Vail that winter. They had the army coming in with baskets putting snow under the trees — no machinery then.
It was a great hiding place for crooks and a great place to work if you didn't want anybody to find you. Shootouts and wild things were going on. One of the bellboys wanted to kill the chef; he got drunk but didn't have a gun. The head of ski patrol was a deputy. They wrestled the bellboy to the ground and drove him off to Eagle. One of the 10 Most Wanted on the FBI list worked as a dishwasher. It was the Wild West. I was a cocktail waitress, too, because you needed to have two or three jobs.
Anne and Joe Staufer arrived in January; Rod and Heather Slifer were newlyweds; Isabel came with the Kansas City Ski Club and met Manfred (Schober). Bunny Langmaid, Blanche, Barbara Parker. Gaynor and Joann Miller were some of the people with businesses. Gretta was here quite a lot with Bill Whiteford. Suzie Kuehn (Shepard); Hemmye and Irene Westbye. Roger and Barbara Brown. After ski season, I decided I didn't want to be here anymore. Socially it wasn't for me. I had a cousin at Berkeley, so I went to San Francisco and loved it there.
New experiences
By September, I realized I had to go back to Vail to collect my stuff; I came back to find that Joe Staufer had persuaded VA to open The Lodge in summer. They did it with a skeleton staff that included Jim Slevin. He was there because Dick Hauserman was building the Plaza Building and persuaded Jim to open something — open a restaurant! He did, and they talked me into staying. It was a fun atmosphere. They had horses where Manor Vail is, and we rode where the golf course is. We went fishing. Then we'd do our various shifts. Joe had a special weekend deal for $15 a room for two nights, two dinners, two breakfasts and a gondola ride.
Jim Slevin and I got to be close. Then Peter Seibert came to me and asked me to work for him in the winter. I had to decide if I should stay one more winter. I worked for Pete as his secretary up Bridge Street. I was living in a trailer with three other girls. Jim and I got married, and he opened La Cave New Year's Eve 1963. He paid a year's liquor license for one night. You could dance, and it was the first discotheque in Colorado. My sister sent two 45 rpm records by a new group in England that was causing a stir — The Beatles. “She Loves Me” and “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” We had a combined restaurant/nightclub and stayed open 'till 2 in the morning. It was a lot of work, and we didn't have much time to ski; that's why I never became a good skier. I even remember sitting in our apartment and throwing all the bills up in the air, catching one, and saying that this was the lucky guy who was going to get paid. People were so nice and helped each other out — no cutthroat stuff, not too much greed. Developers weren't there yet.
It was such a gamble in those days. Jim had produced a couple of plays in New York, and they'd lost money. Dick Hauserman invited him to visit, and he stayed. Weird coincidences. People were arriving and staying — like the Morettis. It was becoming more interesting. Employees were always very hard to come by, especially in the restaurant business. We built Golden Peak House in 1967 with the Morettis and opened the Copper Bar because we couldn't get anyone to come to La Cave underground for lunch. Breakfast and lunch — plus nighttime. Donovan was our bartender, and he was so good at it. He asked to buy the bar, and that's how Donovan's came to be. I opened Kaleidoscope with Anne Staufer; we had no idea what we were doing. Personally, the thing I would say about coming to the States (or maybe it was the Vail experience) was that it enabled me to do all these amazing things that I could never in a zillion years have done in England, ever. Women with no business experience. Then we started the Children's Corner in the same building when I realized there was big potential. We were the first and only one; yuppies were having children later in life and had more money. They were willing to spend money on children's ski clothes and not just dress them up in old ski pants.
Wonderful days
Nobody in my family came over here except my sister who worked at the Copper Bar. My family would have said, “You can't possibly do that.” But we weren't scared to open a business.
Interstate 70 and the tunnel were being built. Wild things — we went to Minturn for breakfast when La Cave closed at 2 o'clock in the morning — to a place called Jeff's, I think. It was the original Saloon. All the early people will tell you that they wouldn't have missed those early years for anything. People gave lovely parties, and everybody was invited. Halloween was always a big fun thing. It all seemed to be centered on going to bars and having a wild time and drinking. We worked very hard, too. That was our social outlet. You didn't just jump in your car and go to Denver. You stayed overnight, loading up with food at the supermarket. Best parties were at the Casino, the Kindels', and Sheika gave great parties. It was always fun to go up to the Murchisons' house. Was there an elite group? Not in the early years.
Here's a story: Jim went to the Vail Village Inn one evening after work. He must have been really drunk and had the idea of going into the pool. So he took off all his clothes and jumped into the VVI pool. A stranger sitting next to him did exactly the same thing.
We had a snoopy postmistress who knew everything. Someone got the mail from Minturn and brought it over. We sent out wedding invitations, and she would say to people, “Have you had your invitation to the Slevin wedding yet?” So we invited everybody. We wanted to get married Oct. 3, but people said to us, “You can't get married Oct. 3; that's the opening of the grouse season.” We changed it to Friday, Oct. 2. On Oct. 3, we went up on the gondola, took our dog, took our guns and hunted grouse. Our dog was hopeless because he was gun-shy. About a week or so later, Blanche and Dick organized the honeymoon. There were 10 or 12 of us on horseback, and we went up to Pitkin Lake. Donovan was shooting grouse from the saddle. We came down the same day on horses. And that was how it was.
Chantelle Houghton finally cracked earlier this week when she revealed on Twitter that Alex Reid had cheated on her with another man.
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Looking back, Chantelle Houghton admits that she has no desire to reunite with her ex and is now focused on doing right by their daughter Dolly.
She explained: "I don't miss Alex at all, I miss what my life should be like. But Dolly is amazing, I'm so in love. She's such a happy little girl.
"I've been stupid with men and it will take a lot to trust someone. But I would like to meet someone, maybe have more children.
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Here's your guide to a fresh new season of glorious gowns galore!
This was no ordinary season. Designers turned tradition on its head and delivered novel nuances and surprises galore.
In this new topsy-turvy wedding world, necklines went super high and backs went dangerously low. Ravishing red became the it color for human and vampire brides alike and baby soft pinks and blues managed to charm once again.
1. BARE BACKS
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Whatever clever way designers manage to bare your back, just make sure it's ready for all that exposure. Tone your back muscles with yoga and weights. Exfoliate and moisturize back skin (with the help of a loved one) so it glows. A faux-tan and gleaming body shimmer add the finishing touch. And remember, if you're going backless on the big day, lose the bra several hours prior to be sure no phantom straps ruin the view.
2. PASTELS
Got a sweet tooth? Then this season's perfect for you! Inspired by the soft, soothing colors of Ladurée Macarons, pink frosted cupcakes and icy blue Jordan Almonds, designers must have been looking right at the dessert table for inspiration this season.
Don't be afraid to show off your girly, sweet side in cotton candy pink or a creamy caramel color. Too much sugar for you? Then add touches with a mouth-watering mint sash or a peachy flower corsage. Accessories can also sweeten your look with blush satin peep-toes or a clutch in petal pink satin. We love these delicious sorbet shades. Yum!
3. LONG, SHEER SLEEVES
Sometimes an abundance of bareness also brings with it a high contrast. Case in point this season as designers unleashed many gowns with long, to-the-wrist length sleeves. While some gowns had sleeves in completely opaque fabrics like silk crepe, most sleeves were in lighter weight, sheerer fabrics. Lace, tulle and chiffon covered the arms in a delicate playful take on reveal-conceal. Many stretch tulles came beaded and embroidered, giving an almost tattooed effect.
We love that brides now have so many choices, but the wonderful thing about these new long sleeves is how cleverly designed they are. You might be covered, true, but most of the fabrics are transparent so they don't look or feel heavy and the brilliant touches of embellishment add a whole new twist of formality and design to your wedding-day look.
4. SCREEN SIREN
Greta Garbo. Jean Harlow. Rita Hayworth. Those dames lit up the silver screen in ways that have captivated and inspired for generations. They had perfect, glossy hair and immaculate brows, lips and powdered faces. They seduced with come-hither looks and body language. Their gowns were slinky and draped over their curvy,Yolan Cris 2013 Chelsea Escocia long wedding dresses with sleeves. womanly bodies with legs and arms exposed. These women knew how to work a dress and a room.
Designers were clearly influenced by the past icons of film noir and the silent screen days. Sexy, louche gowns in silk crepes, heavy bias charmeuses, stretchy matte jerseys and goddess-like chiffons cut the perfect figure for this look. Deep, cowl necklines, exposed shoulders, backs and arms put skin on display. Touches of lace, pearls and crystal beading add the necessary wow factor, but just as important are the accessories.
Don't forget that fluffy marabou boas, jeweled satin stilettos, Art Deco crystal, onyx and jade jewels, and a fringe-beaded soft purse can take your look from daring to absolutely divine. This is the moment to let your inner icon take center stage.
5. TULLE
The official fabric of ballerinas, fairies and die-hard romantics everywhere, tulle is essentially a simple lightweight netting. Tulle is the stuff of tutus, big full ball skirts and underpinnings that adds volume without weight, but tulle also underwent a transformation this season in new narrow shapes covered in layers of tulle or fully-fashioned in tulle.
Three dimensional textured ruffles, swirls, free-form flowers and shredded layers appeared in tulle. Simple light tulle layers flowed over gowns and appeared as capes for big dramatic moments.
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6. UNDER WRAPS
Put that pashmina away, its so five years ago. If you need a little warmth on your wedding day, there are fresh new options for wrapping yourself up in style.Looking for a higher-end, sweetheart neckline wedding dress with a sweetheart neckline?
The new light organza and tulle toppers are ideal for springtime ceremonies. They're just enough to take the edge off a slight breeze while adding a nice touch of drama. Fur, marabou and knitted boleros, shrugs and capes will do the job with major style for those fall and winter weddings. Don't overlook the more dramatic pieces like little furry jackets (in both real and faux fur), or a fun flurry of feathers.
Your wrap doesn't have to be matchy-matchy with your dress. Consider adding another element to your look if your gown is on the simple side, like color or a cluster of crystals. Try a piece that adds drama to a clean moment or a quiet piece that doesn't compete with a bolder style.
7. OFF THE SHOULDER
When American designer Donna Karan designed ‘the cold shoulder' dress in the 1980's she gave women the confidence to expose a body part that is sexy without being controversial and beautiful no matter a woman's size or shape.
This season wedding dress designers were channeling their inner-Donna as they collectively bared many a shoulder in the current collections. Some looks were modest with necklines hitting right at the tip of the shoulder bone exposing just a bit of skin. While other dresses defied gravity and appeared to be falling off the shoulder altogether. How did they do that?
Whether you're going cold-shoulder or slightly more lukewarm, you will only flatter when you flash this bit of skin.
8. HIGH NECKS
Don't want to go low? Sick of strapless? No worries, there are plenty of high necklines that will frame your face to perfection. Halters, jewel-necks and bateaus that run not-so-deep have got you covered this season.
A high neckline can also be particularly poignant if you're going backless or baring your legs in a playful mini. Think of this as a new take on hi-lo dressing.
9. ILLUSION
Add a little bit of mystery to your look with some delicate bits of sheer, stretch illusion. Sleeves, necklines and backs are shrouded in this pretty peek-a-boo fabric. We love illusion that's layered in beading, scrolled, winding embroideries and flyaway feathers.
10. OTT (Over-the-top)
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Oscar de la Renta's enormous ruffled tulle cape dares you to live large. Lazaro made his ball gown out of cotton candy, we're pretty sure of it. Vera Wang's lipstick red ball gown is so passionately bold that you might need a license-to-thrill just to wear it.
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Angelina Jolie has reportedly chosen L'Wren Scott to design the dress she will wear to marry Brad Pitt.
"[Angelina and L'Wren have had] several meetings. Angelina wanted someone who is not so obvious for designing wedding gowns," a 'friend' revealed to Grazia.
Jolie and Pitt, who have three biological children together and three adopted, confirmed their engagement six months ago when Angelina stepped out with a 10-carat sparkler on her wedding finger.
Although no further details of their presumably-pending nuptials have surfaced, it is thought the wedding will happen at the couple's sprawling French chateau.
"She's been courted by some of the hottest designers on the planet, but having a big name isn't important to her, she wanted someone she could trust - and she most definitely trusts L'Wren," the source continued. "Of all the people she's met with, Angelina feels L'Wren is the one who understands her body the most."
L'Wren Scott is probably best known as the towering girlfriend of Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger, but is in fact an established and respected designer in her own right. A former model, the 6ft 3in American has dressed Jolie many times for red carpet appearances, and also regularly dresses the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz.Buy cheap wedding dresses from china, which enjoy popularity for all kinds of women for good quality.
If Jolie does go with Scott to design her gown, it's safe to say her wedding look will be rather more traditional than that of her previous nuptials. At her first wedding to actor Jonny Lee Miller - the actress has been married twice before - Jolie famously sported black rubber trousers and a white T-shirt upon which she had written the groom's name in her own blood.
A mother-daughter trip to New York City to buy a wedding dress turned into a frightening experience for two Tampa women.We offer Plus Size Wedding Dresses.
Megan Cheever said she and her mother, Sylvia, had been planning the trip for six months.
"I was so excited because I've been living in Kansas with my fiancé who's in the Army because he's stationed there. I've been there with him and was so excited to be with my mom and fly out to New York to get the dress," said Megan Cheever.
The Cheever's said when they arrived in New York the weather turned bad quickly. They cancelled plans to look at wedding dresses and rushed back to their hotel.
"We got back to the subways and they were packed. People were taking suitcases with them out of the city to get out in time. We got on the train in time and made it out of the city," said Sylvia Cheever.
They spent the next three days holed up in their hotel room riding out Hurricane Sandy.
"It was devastating," said Sylvia Cheever, "We had a blackout at our hotel. We were without lights and everything for almost 24 hours."
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The Cheever's finally caught a flight out of Newark Airport back to Tampa International Airport on Wednesday.
"It's been a godsend. I felt like kissing the ground when I landed," said Sylvia Cheever.
Megan wasn't able to buy a gown but the women are hoping to go back to New York City soon to try again.
The first moment when we saw photos of Blair (Leighton Meester)’s “wedding” dress on the set of Gossip Girl’s series finale was a little life-changing. Then we saw so many more pics suggesting that all our hopes and dreams for the best OTP EVER were about to come true.
Well, before you buy your bridesmaid dress, there are a few things we should talk about. First, as we mentioned before, things aren’t necessarily gonna be sunny for Chair right now.
Second, we’ve heard whispers that things might not be what they seem, and now we have more reason to trust those murmurs. According to Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz, in an interview with E!, the show did indeed take steps to throw people off.
What does that mean for the future of Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair? That lavish wedding may be something borrowed from our dreams, and nothing more.
Farmers Insurance announced the finalists Tuesday. The company will sponsor the nuptials aboard “The Love Float” in what, they say, will be the first wedding ever to be held during the Rose Parade.
The winning pair will win a trip to Pasadena,Vintage 1930s Silk Chiffon Short Sleeve Wedding Dresses with Rhinestones. along with six guests of their choosing, a wedding dress and tuxedo, wedding rings and hair and makeup for the bride. Farmers will also cover the marriage license fees and give the couple two tickets to the Rose Bowl game.
The insurance company selected the four finalists below and the public is encouraged to vote for the winning couple online.
The four finalists are:
Joe and Ashley, of Missouri: “These high school sweethearts were separated once by Joe’s tour in Afghanistan. Now they’ve found each other again and are never letting each other slip away.”
Oscar and Michelle, of Northern California: “From different backgrounds,Mother worths a gorgeous dress. Our site offers a variety of mother of the mother of bride dresses 2012. this couple found common ground and bonded over their love for country music and dance. Together, their relationship has blossomed into something even greater and Oscar and Michelle are excited to be one another’s dance partner forever.”
Angel and Lydia, of Southern California: “A minor accident landed Lydia and Angel in the right spot at the right time.Has anyone evert used the website www.onbridals.com? Lydia tripped while walking and Angel was there to catch her. The two have been inseparable since.”
Nicole and Gerald, of Virginia: “Nicole and Gerald were friends in high school, but lost touch until kismet brought them together again. The two knew it was meant to be the minute they reconnected.
People can vote through Nov. 13 online at “The Love Float.” The winning couple will be announced prior to Thanksgiving.
"He took me to a dock down the way from our house,Many fashion styles of evening dresses from china and gowns. on a lake," 22-year-old Brittany Thomas reminisces.
25-year-old Trey Burnett proposed to Brittany back in March.
The couple knew the wedding would be at the same church in which Brittany's parents married 25 years ago.
Then the planning began, pulling the bride-to-be back down from cloud-9.
"It goes back and forth," Brittany sighs. "there are times it gets very hectic when we try to figure out all the money situation."
Brittany explains that she and her fiance' are on a tight budget, so creativity when planning for the big day has been key.Sweetheart Mermaid Wedding Dresses with Dropped Waist in Organza.
She was more than willing to share some of her wedding planning strategies.20 Winter Wedding Dresses We Love.
"We are doing all of the planning ourselves," Brittany tells us.
Besides making their own table centerpieces, and hosting a home-cooked barbecue for their rehearsal dinner, Brittany and Trey are getting married on a Sunday because it's less costly.
"We checked out a popular reception spot in St. Augustine," Brittany remembers. "It cost $11,000 minimum to rent the room for 4 hours on Saturday, but on a Sunday it costs $6,000 minimum for 5 or 6 hours."
The couple is also looking to friends and family for help with wedding details.
They have friends who are florists and disc jockeys.
Others friends are helping the bridesmaids with their makeup.
Grandma is baking the wedding cake.
"We also got a bunch of do-it-yourself ideas off the website Pinterest", Brittany reveals.
Pinterest is a free online social networking site on which participants post and share photos and ideas.
Brittany and Trey also took advantage of any discounts they encountered.
For example, the bridesmaids' dresses are discounted 20-percent because they were ordered at the same store Brittany bought her wedding gown.
Brittany and Trey are even saving on their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas.
Thanks to their parents' participation in a time share with RCI, the newlyweds will spend $700 for a week in a 4-star hotel.
Amy Francetic was at a child's birthday party in 2004 when she decided it was time to leave Silicon Valley.swim bikini
"I was sitting there listening to 6-year-olds talk about IPOs and whose house was bigger and how much a wedding dress cost," she said.www.cheaphotcostume.com
By then, she had traveled the world, making money for some of Silicon Valley's most brilliant innovators and investors.onbridals She had been a photographer, a toymaker and a video game producer; a mother, a wife and a CEO.
"I said to my husband, 'Jason, if our 6-year-old is talking about an IPO and the cost of a wedding dress, we have failed as parents,'" Francetic said.
That's how, after about 20 years in California, Francetic and her husband, Jason Rubinstein, made the difficult decision to escape the culture of the Valley and move back to the Midwest with their two young girls.
"It was a life choice," she said. "It wasn't a career choice."
Now, at 45, her mission is to change the world — preferably within 10 years.
As executive director of Clean Energy Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the development of clean-energy businesses in the Midwest, she works with a board of Chicago's most powerful and wealthy investors — Nicholas Pritzker, Michael Polsky and Paula Crown among them.
"When you are a billionaire, you can pick and choose what you want to do," she said. "So they want to do stuff that matters."
In returning to the Midwest, Francetic wanted to apply the lessons she had learned in Silicon Valley to a broader policy problem.
"We think there's a problem when you're so dependent on hostile countries for your energy — the lifeblood of your industry and your way of life," she said. "We have the technology to become energy independent. It exists today.Panties & G-string But it's going to take investment. The Midwest can be a leader in that."
She'll know the goal has been accomplished when Clean Energy Trust no longer needs to do the work it's doing; when scientists are busy creating companies and investors are rolling their profits into an ever-longer list of them.
"If we're really good at it" she said, "we'll be extinct in 10 years."
'Something more fun'
Like all interesting stories, Francetic's past is about someone who was on a straight path then turned, who stumbled but discovered, who fell but got up.
If Francetic hadn't done those things, she'd be a lawyer in Washington instead of at the helm of one of the Midwest's most powerful engines for clean-energy technology.
That was her plan when she left her middle-class family in Racine, Wis., to major in political science and psychology at Stanford University on a scholarship. But a semester as an intern at the National Organization for Women Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Georgetown University Law Center made her change direction.
"I wanted something more fun," she said. "I went back to school, I took this photography class and I loved it. I knew I wanted to do something more creative."
Francetic dived into documentary photography and filmmaking. After college, she said, "I decided I wanted to go to Africa with my camera."
Although, ultimately, Francetic's sole credit in the Internet Movie Database would be for a video game version of Candy Land, a five-week experience in Ghana provided her first experience with entrepreneurship in action. A group of women in a small farming village had purchased palm oil processing equipment using a small grant and created products to sell in the marketplace.
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