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From the weird, strange, and bizarre files (The W Files) locked safely away in our vault in a secured secret facility rumored to be somewhere in the Nevada badlands, I found a file full of strange wedding facts while looking for a half eaten snickers bar I laid down and forgotten. Not only did I manage to sneak the file home for this article, the candy bar was still good, believe it…or not. Before the secret W (for Weddings) police break down my door, I want to let you in on some of these little known facts. These are not the weird wedding favors or unique wedding favors facts that you have heard people whisper about in dark restaurants, huddled in a booth in the back. No, these are the weird events and strange traditions that until now were locked away. Read on and get in on the secrets of Weird Wedding Facts or Fiction. See if you can tell which is fact and which is fiction!

Fact or Fiction You have heard of cradle robbers, those pathetically wealthy, dirty old men, who take brides that are 20 to 50 years younger than they are. Well, guess what. Men are not the only ones who participate in this practice. There is a woman who married a man that was young enough to be her child. Separated by a whopping 19 years, this cradle-robbing temptress shocked everyone who knew her. Right now, you are probably thinking that this is not a big deal. What makes this information news worthy is that Minnie Monro was 102 and her groom was 83, effectively making them the oldest couple to be married, on record, at least.

Fact or Fiction Some guys are really good at making excuses. They will delay the inevitable indefinitely while they either enjoy a freedom or protect a secret. These devious dudes really know how to wrap people around their fingers, and in this case, the third finger of their left hand. Postponing a wedding date for a legitimate reason is fine if it is done well in advance and if you were smart enough to hire flexible caterers, however, this couple, Octavio and Adriana Guillen were engaged for 67 years before they finally tied the knot. They were both 82 years old. As they came out of the church after the ceremony, I asked Octavio why they waited for so long he replied, “We wanted the wedding to be special” Then I asked if it was in fact special and worth the wait, he replied, “Was what worth the wait?” and I said, “Why, the wedding, of course!” Octavio thought for a minute and then shook my hands. “Congratulations!” he said, “It was a great wedding. I don’t know if you know this but, I’m engaged as well.”

Fact or Fiction It is a thrill to watch two people get married. It is astonishing to watch 21,000 couples get married, all at the same time. In the biggest wedding ever on the planet, that we know of anyways, (It is a safe bet.) all of these couples, plus 9,800 more via satellite were hitched and married at the exact same time. What is even more amazing is that of all these couples, 61,600 individuals in all, not a single one developed cold feet and bolted. “It was like a sea of black and white love,” exclaimed one witness, obviously overwhelmed by the occasion. “It is amazing the amount of love in there.”

Would you like to know which of these facts are real and which are fictions? Well, that is why they made Google!

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Carrie Underwood has to feel like she is leading a charmed life. She is the winner of American Idol and has since launched an extremely successful country music career. Even her look has changed. If you were to compare a picture of Carrie in her American Idol days to a recent photo, it is almost like night and day. She changed her hair, lost weight, and even looks happier then she ever has before if that is even possible. Carrie Underwood would contribute the last part to the man in her life, her new husband, Mike Fisher. She and Mike exchanged vows on July 10th. The wedding was held in a tent at the Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation Resort in Atlanta, Georgia.

The $500,000 wedding and reception was huge with over 250 close friends and family attending. Carrie looked stunning in her Chantilly lace and silk Organza Monique Lhuillier gown by Swarovski but wasted no time changing into a strapless Lhuillier cocktail dress so she could dance. “She said she wanted to get her boogie on,” says a source. Her pup, a miniature pincher wore a pink, crystal encrusted tuxedo (also by Swarovski) and looked absolutely dapper as he accompanied Carrie down the aisle.

Reporters flew in helicopters and the lake waters were filled with boats with cameras zoomed in on the action. Celebrities like Simon Cromwell and Faith Hill enjoyed themselves at the lavish event and a great time was had by all. There was also scripture reading and wonderful food. Carrie has been quoted as saying that she feels extremely blessed by God and that she is so happy that she found Mike. The two were engaged for just about a year before tying the knot.

Carrie booked the entire hotel for the wedding at a cost of over a quarter of a million. Not to worry, it is rumored that she will come out ahead after selling the photo rights to People magazine for several million. Hopefully, Carrie and Mike will use some of that to buy wedding favors. With that kind of cash, they could buy some very unique wedding favors for the friends and family that show their support on the biggest day of their lives. Mile Fisher is a successful Canadian ice hockey player with a lot of career ahead of him.

After the wedding, Mile and Carrie headed for Tahiti and Bora-Bora for some sun and a relaxing honeymoon, if you can call helicopter rides and snorkeling with sharks relaxing. They left with very little luggage and big smiles. You would think that with her touring schedule, his game schedule and a huge and eventful wedding that the couple would want to just disappear from the limelight but they have made no attempt to either slow down or hide their whereabouts. It is refreshing when celebrities as popular as these two live their lives out in the open and are not afraid to say a few words to the press and their public now and then.

Most celebrity couples go into hiding after a secret wedding to get away from everyone. Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher seem to be actually enjoying themselves right out in the open and for that reason, reporters and even the paparazzi are keeping a little distance. It is so nice that they are able to enjoy each other, their honeymoon, and allow us to enjoy it with them. No word yet on how long the couple will honeymoon but knowing Carrie and her appetite for work and her desire to please her many fans, it won’t be too long before she is on the road again.

Aaron Hu has authored on an extensive range of topics related to the wedding industry. If you are looking for Wedding Favors, E-WeddingFavors.com has the biggest selection available. You will also find Wedding Favors and much more, all at very affordable prices.

You have spared no expense in the planning of your wedding. The candle wedding favors are all lit and everyone is still drying the tears from their eyes. You have thanked everyone for coming. You have paid the band and shook hands with all two hundred plus guests, pretending to remember all of them. Everyone has thanked you for the elegant wedding favors and commented on how beautiful the bride is. The ushers are bringing cars around and it is finally winding down. Now it is time for the night you have been waiting on for your entire life. Romantic candles, soft music, and a chilled bottle of wine await you, your new wife, and her mother.

Everything comes to a screeching halt. Did I just say that her mother would be spending the night with you and your bride on your wedding night? Well, you think to yourself, I guess we could make up the spare bedroom. Wrong again, because your mother in law will be in the bedroom with you. Now you know I must be either drunk as a skunk, or crazy as a loon. Well you are wrong on both counts. I am describing a wedding custom of several villages in Africa. In all complete seriousness, there are tribes who have a custom that the bride’s mother, your mother in law must spend the night with the newly married couple and it gets worse. Her job is to make sure that your new wife knows what to do to make you happy…in bed.

It does not have to be the bride’s mother. In certain situations, it can be the groom’s mother or in lack of a bride or groom’s mother, a female village elder. They literally sit there and direct the bride what to do and watch to make sure she does it right. To make things worse, if your wife does something too well, the watcher will report to the village elders that she was not a virgin and the wedding will be annulled. Talk about some strict rules. You have to hope that your new bride is not a natural at sex or you could lose her.

In another small village near Borneo, there is a wedding custom for which I just do not think I would have the stomach. During the first 72 hours after the wedding, in order to avoid bad luck, the newly married couple is not allowed to urinate or have a bowel movement. In order to ensure they do not cheat, the couple is watched day and night. They can only have small sips of water and a few bites of food every now and then. I do not know about anyone else, but I cannot go 72 hours without peeing even if my life depended on it. Shoot, at my age, I am lucky if I can get through a two-hour movie without relieving myself. In fact, I do not go to the movies because of this, choosing instead to wait for the DVD release of the film. Making it through one night without going to the can would be hard enough and they want me to go for three nights? My bladder would burst.

These weird wedding traditions are pretty strange but they are steeped deeply in the traditions of these customs and are lovingly followed to the letter in most cases. I just cannot imagine how embarrassed I would be to have my mother in law standing over my wedding bed directing traffic. I think it would be even worse if it were my mother doing it.

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There are many words and phrases that are used to describe weddings and wedding traditions. May people use these phrases or follow the traditions without even realizing what they are doing and why they are symbolic. Take for instance those special spring wedding favors or lovely garden wedding favors that you decide to give to your guests. You may have chosen them because you heard you are supposed to thank your guests and because they looked nice in the catalog but did you know that the wedding favor is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years? The couple who decided to get married would garner as much luck for themselves and their marriage as they could. They would pass that luck on to the guest who attended through special wedding favors. The tradition goes that by passing luck to your friends and family, it would come back to you as many times as you gave. Here are more wedding words and phrases that have meaning behind them.

The wedding cake is not just a nice desert to serve to your guests. It is a sign of fertility and the hope that the couple would have many happy children together. When the tradition first started, they would simply eat the cake. Then they started sprinkling it over the brides head as a sign of fertility. Then the tradition grew and stacking the cakes as high as possible became a tradition. If the bride and groom could kiss over the stack of cakes without knocking them down, the bride would be fertile and have healthy and happy children.

The wedding band is thought to be the very first symbolic item of weddings. It dates back further than any other tradition. It was thought then that there was a vein in the third finger that ran directly to the heart. The wedding band symbolized never-ending love of the circle and placing over that vein tied the two hearts together forever.

In 1499, Anne, of Brittany wore a white wedding dress as a symbol of joy. White is symbolic joy although many people believe it to symbolize purity. Blue is the symbolic color of purity. Anne of Brittany made the white wedding dress popular. Unfortunately, her message of joy did not come through.

The Wedding veil has two purposes. The very first purpose was to protect the bride’s identity from the evil spirits the people of those days thought stalked all weddings. They would hide the bride under a veil, which she would also use when she died to hide her identity when she crossed to the next life. The second tradition involved arranged marriages so that the groom, who had never seen his bride, would not back out of the wedding. The father of the bride would lift the veil mere seconds before the marriage would be legal. If the bride were stolen, the veil also kept her identity from would be rescuers.

The sprinkling of rose petals before the bride is to symbolize her walk through life and to wish her happiness as she takes her first steps into her new life.

The groom stands to the right of the bride so that his sword hand would be free should they be attacked by anyone who would want to stop the wedding. Some of these traditions date back to the days when many a bride were stolen rather than wooed.

These are just a few of the phrases, items and words that have a symbolic meaning behind them You can make your wedding rich in symbolic history by researching more of these and have a wonderful wedding and life together.

Aaron Hu has authored on an extensive range of topics related to the wedding industry. If you are looking for garden wedding favors, E-WeddingFavors.com has the biggest selection available. You will also find Wedding Favors and much more, all at very affordable prices.

Have you ever looked at someones wedding photo albums and then kicked yourself for not getting the kind of pictures and poses that they have? Do you ever wish you could do it again so that you could make your wedding album more interesting? Is your wedding album so boring that you do not even know where it is and the wedding was only a month ago? Here are five photo ideas that everyone should have in their albums.

One of my very favorite pictures in my photo album is a picture of my wife’s hand in mine on top of a beautifully rich textured Bible. With our fingers entwined, like lovers embracing, our shiny new wedding rings are polished to a high shine and her sparkling diamonds is simply radiating the sunlight in multicolored glory. It is a breathtaking shot that adorns the front outer sleeve of the album. This photo is particularly special as I recently lost my precious ring in an unfortunate accident. So special was this ring to me that even a photo of it makes me nostalgically sad, as if recalling the smile of a lost family member.

Capture your family’s generations. Don’t wait for your wedding to snap this next treasure. Always strive to get a photo of as many generations of your family as possible. Take pictures of your grandmother, your mother, your self, and your daughter for a generational shot that will not be available forever. Have your husband in the same pose with his father and grandfather and your son. While this pictures are important as individual sides and genders get together for what could be the last time, it is just as important to get a shot of all of you, husbands and wives, fathers, mothers, and children together as a group.

Photographers who are well informed about who in the crowd is who will have the best opportunities to get these next shots. If, for instance, your wedding photographer knows who the father of the bride is, he might be able to capture the forlorn look of pride and sadness on his face as he watches his daughter take her first steps towards womanhood and a family of her own, and her first steps away from being his special little girl. There is almost always a special moment when mother and father look at each other during the ceremony and pass between them the unspoken moment that speaks of stepping through a doorway that leads to new chapter in all of their lives.

The moment the officiant announces that he would like to introduce you and your new spouse as Mr. and Mrs. Is usually a perfect opportunity to capture magic from the bride and groom, the parents, grandparents and just about everyone in the room. That is the first time they are spoken of as husband and wife and this is a special moment that many photographers miss.

A photo of the entire family together in one place is rare and the wedding is one of the few opportunities to capture it so do not let it slip by. Take this photo as early in the reception as possible, before anyone has a chance to slip away or gets too much party in them. Seating grandparents and children in the front allows for an exceptional shot.

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There are many wedding traditions that are hard on the bride and sometimes, the entire family is swept up into these traditions. Some of these customs are very difficult and some are easy but I think that they should all be easy. When you think about it, wedding are hard enough to prepare for without going through all of these weird traditions that our ancient families made up so that they would have something to laugh about in the afterlife as they watch us running around down here trying to fulfill all of these idiocies. If you ask me, the hardest part about a wedding ceremony should be signing the wedding guest book with the wedding pen. At least most of us do not live in China and are not part of the Tujia peoples.

This ancient tribe of people has a custom that dates back to their ancestor’s, ancestors, ancestors. It is called the crying tradition by outsiders because it involves a lot of crying. To the naked eye, it is just a bunch of people sitting around crying. But if you look closer and listen, you realize that there is a richness and meaning to this custom that is very interesting and thousands of years of customs blended together to make it more unique with each passing generation.

A month before she is to wed, a bride begins to weep. Their weddings revolve around the cycle of the moon so she know precisely when to start. She does not walk around sobbing uncontrollably; she will sit in a designated place alone and for an hour or two every day and weep. Woven into her weeping is a harmony, words, and symbols of words, small singsong phrases that can be picked up by the trained ear. At first, you think it is sad. But after a few weeks of this, you begin to realize that there is a huge range of emotions involved that include sorrow, joy, contentment, hope, loss, and gain, among others yet they are all wound up in a sadness that can only be expressed when crying.

Ten days after she starts this ritual, her mother joins her in her weeping place, which is sometimes a special tent that is set off to the side of the main village. They will cry together from now on. They cry on different notes and have a nice complexity in their rhythms that compliment one another. They sound mournful and yet there is something else behind it. Mother and daughter will cry for an hour or two every day for ten days at which time they will be joined by the rest of the females in her family. They will all cry together until the wedding day.

Now we realize what the meaning behind this wonderful tradition really is. This is the women’s way of ensuring a happy and prosperous marriage. According to their beliefs, and these beliefs are not that much different from many other cultures in the world, there are evil spirits that are jealous of a man and wife starting a life that the spirits, who are dead, can never have. These spirits try to jinx and damage the relationships that we, as humans, form with one another, in particular, love, and weddings. The women cry sorrowfully so that they can beat these evil spirits at their own game.

The premise is a simple one. They cry and weep sorrowfully so the evil spirits think they have succeeded. However, the women are crying about joyful and happy things. They cry for the marriage to be blessed. They cry for the marriage to be prosperous, and they cry for the couple to be happy and have many children together. They fool the spirits by crying prayerfully and they bless the union.

When the entire family of females gets together and harmonizes, their crying it is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world and often the entire tribe will be very quiet at this time so that they can hear what they call “The Crying Song.

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The wedding favor says more about you than you might realize. The favors that you give at your wedding will leave a lasting and indelible mark that your guests will talk about for a long time and they will not be talking to you, they will be talking to each other. This is why it is so very important that your unique wedding favors be something that leaves a positive and lasting impression on your guests. Remember that these people are your family and close friends, making it more important that you choose the right favors to thank them for their support. The big question is how to choose the perfect wedding favor that your guests will treasure for years to come. Here are a few tips that will make that decision easier and free up your time for the rest of those details that are so important.

Unique wedding favors are the key to success. A little research is all you will need to ensure that you are not giving the kind of wedding favors that are set aside and forgotten or stuck in a box in the attic. One way to achieve this goal is to give your guests personalized wedding favors that speak directly to them as individuals. If you are inviting friends and family, then chances are either you know their likes and dislikes, or you know someone that does. Can you imagine how thrilled a guest would be if they received a beautiful and unique snow globe when they are a collector of snow globes?

Do you have a guest that has a wonderful display of porcelain masks on their living room wall? Next time you are there, take a mental picture or recruit an accomplice to snap a photo and send it to you in email. Giving a great porcelain mask to this person will blow them away and they will think of you and your beautiful wedding every time that they look at this unique wedding favor.

Another way to insure that your wedding favor is an amazing gift not soon forgotten is to give personalized wedding favors to all of your guests. A unique wedding favor that speaks to the individual is great, but if you have a message either attached or engraved on it with their name explicitly mentioned, it would blow their socks off. Tell Aunt Betty that you have always admired her collection of porcelain masks and that that you feel the day would not have been as joyous had she not attended. Aunt Betty will brag about your wedding and her mask for years.

You may have a picture of many of your guests already in a photo album. If not, you certainly have a photographer or two on your list of covert operatives. The point is, if you give a blown up picture of your guest–or you and your guest together–in a beautiful new picture frame then you are giving a gift that will be cherished forever.

Another trick to giving unique wedding favors that will always be cherished is to give them in personalized favor boxes. A personalized favor box tells your guest that you were thinking of them and that you cared enough not just to pick out a special wedding favor meant just for them, you also took the time to put it in a special package in pretty pastel tissue and a gorgeous bow.

Wedding favors are an extremely endearing part of your wedding and unique wedding favors in personalized favor boxes will make your beautiful wedding one that no one will ever forget and very few will be able to top.

Aaron Hu has authored on an extensive range of topics related to the wedding industry. If you are looking for Wedding Favors, E-WeddingFavors.com has the biggest selection available. You will also find Unique Wedding Favors and much more, all at very affordable prices.

Most of us have to budget just about everything in life. We keep track of how much is in our shopping carts as we walk through the grocery store, we turn off lights when we leave a room, and chastise our children when they do not. Many of us even budget ourselves by watching the calories or carbs that we eat during the battle of the bulge. We are very economically alert and savings minded since, in this day and age, every penny counts. There is one budget however, that we do not watch as closely, nor should we.

Our wedding budget is usually more of a guideline than anything else because we want to have the best wedding that we can possibly afford so we barter, haggle, and compromise our way though, trying to make sure we get the value for our big day. That is what makes these wedding items so amazing to see. It must be nice to afford things like this, especially when we struggle just to afford personalized wedding favors and personalized favor boxes to put them in so they are presented in a unique and caring way.

The wedding bouquet is not something that makes dollar sign warnings go off in your head when you hear the words. When I think of a wedding bouquet, all I think about is a bunch of flowers. There is a bouquet however, that costs an astonishing $125,000.00. This amazing bouquet is made from white and red gemstone flowers that absolutely sparkle with brilliance and when you first see it, it nearly takes your breath away. This bouquet has earned a top spot in the Vietnamese Guinness book of Records and sits behind a glass case in Hanoi at the Ruby Plaza. Everyone who stays at the Ruby Plaza insists on visiting the sixth floor so that they can take in this bouquet’s magnificent beauty.

Not to be outdone by a mere bouquet, this next budget buster will blow your mind. It is a wedding cake that could have fallen from heaven itself. If the good Lord above enjoys a good piece of cake every now and then, this is probably the one He would choose. Of course, no one but Him would know what it tastes like because no one ever ate this magnificent cake. With a price tag of 20 million dollars, it was on display only and even then, it had to be the only wedding cake in the world that was surrounded by armed guards. It is decorated with priceless gemstones and, of course, diamonds that make it look more than mouth watering. This wonderful wedding cake was created by Nahid La Patisserie and Jewelers Mimi and premiered at the Luxury Bridal Show on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills Ca.

Every woman would love to get married in a pair of these stunning shoes. Stuart Weitzman and The La Vian name, which carries over five hundred years of shoe making tradition behind it, joined forces to create the most stunning pair of sliver evening shoes that just beg for the foot of a lovely bride. The front strap alone has diamonds to the tune of 28 carats. It is also adorned with a pair of 16-carat gemstones surrounded by 185 carats of tanzanite, all museum quality. Who would have thought that a pair of silver leather shoes would have over 200 carats of priceless stones on them… only every bride who has ever daydreamed about the perfect wedding? Now if we can just squeeze 2 million dollars out of that wedding budget, we will have it made in the shade.

Aaron Hu has authored on an extensive range of topics related to the wedding industry. If you are looking for Personalized wedding favors, E-WeddingFavors.com has the biggest selection available. You will also find Bridal Shower Favors and much more, all at very affordable prices.

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There is one concept that usually evades the groom but comes instinctively to the bride. It is simply this; the most important thing your wedding budget will provide is the wedding dress. Without the dress, forget it. Every woman, whether she admits to it or not, wants to be seen by her soon to be husband, for the fist time, in the most beautiful dress in the world. It is a moment that little girls dream of and they carry that dream in their hearts until the magical moment occurs, at which time she lovingly transforms it into a beautiful memory. They actually have the ability to capture this exact moment in time, like a sudden holding of one’s breath, in their minds and play it back with absolute clarity.

A woman also has the ability to know the perfect wedding dress as soon as she sees it. In fact, there is a high suspicion in the scientific community that a woman instinctively knows from the moment she walks through the bridal shop door whether her dress is in the building or in the catalog. More often than not, the woman does not recognize this moment until she physically sees the dress but brain activity indicates the chemical reaction is there. My wife, for instance, claims that she did not know until she put the dress, the seventh one she tried, on. However, the moment she put it on, she knew with an utter certainty, that this was the one.

She describes this feeling by comparing it to another basic and natural instinct that women possess without knowing it. She says that it is just about the same feeling she had when the nurse came through her hospital room door with her first child and put it in her arms, The moment, she states, that the child was in her arms, she knew that this beautiful miracle had come from her womb. She insists that had it been someone else’s baby, she would have known instantly. “It is the same exact feeling,” she told me upon reflection, “only not as strong.” This is one of the unexplained phenomena that occurs in a woman’s life and what makes the wedding dress the most important purchase a couple can make in the preparation of a ceremony that will bind the two of them in love, for a lifetime.

My wife also told me about a dress that had 150 one-carat diamonds attached to it and cost just over 12 million dollars, U.S. which, she would have loved to try on. “However,” she said, “if they were giving away dresses and that was one of them and I tried them both on, the one with the diamonds and the one I actually purchased, I would have made the same decision and while I would have loved to keep the diamond dress, I would not have worn it to the wedding. There is only one dress in the world that would have worked for my wedding and I wore it.” You have to admire that kind of commitment.

Men, on the other hand see the tuxedo as just a suit. It is about the same decision as whether to give the guests glass wedding favors or crystal wedding favors, it just does not matter to us. I will admit this, however. When I saw my wife in her dress as she made her way toward the alter, I fell in love with her all over again. All that love that I had in my heart for her was re-crystallized and I knew…, I just instinctively knew that I wanted to spend every single moment of my life with her. I wonder if it is the same kind of feeling she had when she first put that dress on.

Aaron Hu has authored on an extensive range of topics related to the wedding industry. If you are looking for Glass wedding favors, E-WeddingFavors.com has the biggest selection available. You will also find Wedding Shower Favors and much more, all at very affordable prices.

Finding the right wedding favors is harder than one would think. It is not like finding and choosing Twilight party favors for one of the many Twilight parties that are popping up in teenager’s bedrooms across the planet. Wedding favors are much more complicated as they require plenty of thought and consideration. Finding a great selection of wedding favors is a bit harder than you would think. While many stores and websites claim to have the best selection, only a handful will. If you type “wedding favors” into a web browser, you will get a list of stores and websites that have great keyword placement in their ads but do not necessarily have the best or widest selection of unique wedding favors. Your best bet, especially if you want to shop solely online, is to type “e-wedding favors” into the search engine. This will bring up only online websites.

Great…, now that you have a list with a million and one websites that sell anything from Asian wedding favors to garden wedding favors, how do you know which ones actually stand up to the claim that they have what they say they have–and more? Look for the ads that list right up front, multiple categories to back up their claim rather than just a claim forcing you to go and find out. Another clue is in the built in search engines on site. Go ahead and type “place card holders” or “ring pillow” or some other obscure wedding item into the search (in the search box usually found at the top of the site’s homepage) and see if they sell those as well. If they do, you could be on the right track.

The face of a wedding favors website or the home page will tell you a lot about the quality of the entire website. A few things to look for on the home page that will tell you if you are on a great website would be the variety of items sold on the site. If the very first page, or home page, has just a couple of pictures and a ton of seeming convincing ad copy, go on alert. If they have great merchandise and plenty of it, why are they not showing it off up front? A picture is worth a thousand words. Are the items pictured on just a plain a white backdrop or are they set up and arranged for optimum display. Are several categories of unique wedding favors represented with a link to those styles or are they sparse with few links? Are there in-house discounts and reduced or free shipping announcements clearly visible? If so, are they near the top of the page or hidden–in the hopes that you will not see them and will not ask? A website that looks proud of what they sell is a great place to start shopping.

Speaking of a great display, how easy does the website make the products obtainable? Do they list their products in a variety of ways? Do you have a choice of finding what you want by price, as well as well as theme or style? If they have several ways to search, making it easier to navigate, again, this is a good sign.

Always check the first page for signs of security. These signs are usually placed towards the bottom of the page. If a dozen claims of legitimacy is the first thing you see before you even see the product, then ask yourself why they are coming on so strong. However, if at the bottom or at least towards the bottom they have the security symbols we associate with reliable websites, you are on the right track. The most important thing you should find on the bottom of the home page is a membership seal indicating they are a member in good standing with a company that keeps shoppers safe. They should also clearly show what type of secure payments they would accept. Any indication of a well-known and reliable shipping source at the bottom or top of the very first page is a great sign that this company knows what it is doing and will make every attempt to make your shopping experience safe and secure.

Perhaps the biggest test of a legitimate website is an easy one. Click on the “contact us” link usually located at the bottom of the page. (It is a good sign if there is any form of contact information at the top of the page as well.) A solid website will use the “PEP” rule, (Physical, Email, Phone) If the contact us page has a physical address, an email address, and a phone or fax number, they welcome your contact and want to help.

Aaron Hu has authored on an extensive range of topics related to the wedding industry. If you are looking for Wedding favors, E-WeddingFavors.com has the biggest selection available. You will also find Wedding Shower Favors and much more, all at very affordable prices.

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