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Win a Night at The Movies! {The Five-Year Engagement Giveaway}

 

I recently had the pleasure of attending a premiere for the movie “The Five Year Engagement”!  I thought what a wonderful date night or girls night movie to catch on this rainy weather weekend!

The movie stars Jason Segal (Forgetting Sarah Marshall and How I Met Your Mother) as Tom Solomon and Emily Blunt (Devil Wears Prada) as Violet Barnes, but I think the real scene stealers are Chris Pratt (Parks & Recreation) and Alison Brie (Community) as the Best Man and Sister/Maid of Honor!  Watch out for their amazing interaction and comedic brilliance!  This comedy has its serious moments  as the couple, who gets engaged one year after meeting, deals with life’s struggles of planning a wedding.  Between career dreams and elderly family members, this movie does highlight real struggles that couples often deal with while planning a wedding.  Without giving anything away, I think the overall theme of the movie “nothing is perfect” is something that all brides should keep in mind!  

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Big Honcho Media was kind enough to give us a prize pack as a giveaway so leave a brief description of your engagement story (or your friends or sisters) on our Facebook page and you could win a $25 Visa Gift Card for a “Night at the Movies” and a Five Year Engagement Prize Pack!

One (1) winner will receive:

·         $25 Visa cash card for a “Night at the Movies”
·         Five-Year Engagement Cosmetic bag filled with lip shine, nail file matchbook, eye mask, purse hanger, comb/mirror, faux engagement ring

Prize pack valued at $60

Giveaway open to US mailing addresses only

Prizing courtesy of Universal Pictures

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The Honest Truth...

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce.  The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.  ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire

Nicole Miller Brings Out The Bling!

If you love Nicole Miller's sleek styles, you'll drool over her newest line of bridal accessories for Spring. This is a new category for Nicole Miller, one that has been in the works for quite some time now. The accessories are all versatile – you can wear them as a sash, or remove the ribbon on some styles and wear as a brooch or hair piece. They are also beautiful as crystal headbands! 

 

The accessories range in price between $275 - $400, and will retail on NicoleMiller.com, Nicole Miller boutiques nationwide, and Nicole Miller bridal retailers.  Gorgeous!!

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Going Too Far? {Wedding Diets}

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Earlier this week, the story of brides losing weight through a "feeding tube" diet got passed around our office.  The ‘K-E Diet’ (or the Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition diet) was created by Florida-based Dr Oliver Di Pietro and promises to shed 20lbs in just 10 days.  Dieters have a small nasogastric tube inserted into the nose, which constantly deposits a liquid solution, containing a mix of protein, fat and water, into the body. Um, yuck.

Most of our team was beyond shocked that someone came up with this but we weren't totally shocked brides were doing it (and one of us who will remain nameless was actually tempted by this idea). The pressure to look perfect on your wedding day is pretty intense.

But it made me wonder if this is another example of brides losing sight of the whole purpose of a wedding, and for that matter, a marriage. What does it really say about our society that we are willing to walk around for 10 days with a tube dangling out of our noses so we'll look better for one day? Nothing good.

There is already a disproportionate emphasis on the wedding day part of the marriage process without as much attention on what will happen after the honeymoon. It's so easy to get caught up in the idea of creating one "perfect" day that's worthy of being featured on a popular blog or magazine that everything else can get put on the back-burner. I was reminded of this recently when I heard of two couples who parted ways only months after their fabulous weddings.

I think the feeding tube phenomenon goes lockstep with this short-sightedness. A wedding should not be about how good you look on one day, no matter how much every thing we read tells us. Sure, you want to look great but manipulating your body to go into a state of ketosis puts an unbalanced importance on the superficial elements of the wedding. And, yes, how good you look is a superficial part of the process.

Not that I'm slamming everything superficial about weddings because that's what I spend a lot of my time planning: the details, the look, the flow.  All of those things are important in putting together a successful wedding. But they aren't critical to a good marriage, and I think we need to remind ourselves that the wedding is just a small part of the more important marriage. And how we look on one day of our lives is not as important as how we feel and how we live for the rest of them.

A wedding should be a celebration of your life and future to come not the be-all and end-all of your life.  I would love to see couples spending just as much time and attention nurturing their relationship as they do debating which band to book or just as much money on dinners out together as they do on their wedding flowers.  And certainly the money and time spent walking around with a feeding tube stuck up your nose could be better spent somehow? I can think of about a thousand ways.

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