The Perfect Wedding Song : What's Yours?

Wedding Songs

So everyone wants to have that PERFECT wedding song that you and your hubby could dance  at your wedding. A song that is representative of both of you , but yet awesome enough to stand the test of time. So let's be honest, I've been to a couple weddings and I've heard a wide variety of Wedding songs being played ,kicking it off with some old school Bruce Springsteen to the new boys on the block or my FAVOURITE : ONE DIRECTION. But what makes that wedding song so perfect? Maybe that song starred right around the time you and your hubby to be were courting or you just simply found that this track is symbolic of you and him.  It really all depends on you and your partner's choice. If you guys are more laid back and reserved ..how about some old school slow tracks..or if you are completely hyped and ready to party One Direction , Kess or even Machel Montano would get the vibes going.Most girls opt for some slow dance moves ,to get the tears running,pores raising and so on and so on. It's really up to the couple! Good Luck choosing!

Here my some picks for wedding songs for you and your partner!

1) All of Me-John Legend
2)Ed-Sheeran -Thinking Out Loud
3)Katy Perry-Unconditionally 
4)Life House-Hanging by a Moment 
5)The Fray-You Found Me
6)The Fray- Look After You
7)The Lumineers-Ho Hey
8)One Direction-You and I
9)Edwin McCain-I'll be 
10)Alesso-Heroes
11)Labrinth -Beneath Your Beautiful 
12)Lifehours-You and Me
13)Leona Lewis-Run

Tassa For your Wedding : What's a Wedding without tassa!?

Tassa Numbers

SIS Tassa Group - 780-2499 /765-9345

Vedesh- 389-7485

Bradley - 319-2306

Central Rhythms Tassa Group- 463-9821 

Catibel Tassa - 763-0603

Dragon Boys- 304-5629 

Bridgelal - 726-5690 / 649-4414

Malick -495-6927 

Barrackpore Tassa Group- 381-0587

South Trini Boys- Tassa Group - 795-9515 /381-7443

 

 

Wedding Dresses for your Body Type

Magarita Popsicles? WHY NOT!

Lemon Drop Fruit Wedge Jelly Shots

Courtesy of Not Martha
2-3 lemons (for serving)
2 oz fresh lemon juice
2 oz water
5-6 Tbsp sugar
1 package Knox gelatin
3 oz vodka
Cut lemons in half; scoop out the pulp. Rinse out halves and dab dry. Place halves in a muffin tin, using crumpled tin foil to hold them up. Combine lemon juice, water and sugar in a small saucepan. Sprinkle gelatin over the top and let bloom for about a minute. Stir over low heat until gelatin has dissolved, about six minutes. Stir in vodka and pour into prepared lemon halves. Chill overnight.

Kahlua and Cream Push-Up Pops

Courtesy of Grin and Bake It
Per push-up pop (estimates):
¾ cup vanilla ice cream (softened)
¼ cup fudge sauce
2 Tbsp caramel sauce
½ Skor Bar (crumbled)
1 Tbsp Kahlua
Put a spoonful of ice cream in bottom of push-up pop holder. Freeze for fifteen minutes. Add a spoonful of fudge sauce. Freeze until firm. Add another spoonful of ice cream, a caramel layer, and another spoonful of ice cream. Poke holes into ice cream layers with toothpick. Add a small spoonful of Kahlua (it will seep down). Top with fudge sauce and Skor pieces. Freeze until ready to serve.

Margarita Popsicles

Courtesy of Confections of a Foodie Bride
½ cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice
¼ cup silver tequila
¼ cup orange liqueur
12 3 oz. disposable paper cups + popsicle sticks
Heat water and sugar in small saucepan until sugar is dissolved. Let cool. Pour into pitcher with lime juice, tequila, and orange liqueur. Pour 5 Tbsp of margarita into each cup. Freeze for 2 hours, then insert popsicle sticks. Freeze overnight.

White Sangria Popsicles

Courtesy of Confections of a Foodie Bride
1 bottle dry white wine
½ cup simple syrup
½ cup orange liqueur
2 lemons
2 cups chopped fruit (recommended: strawberries, green apples, peaches and blackberries)
Combine wine, syrup, and orange liqueur. Juice 1 lemon into mixture. Slice other lemon thinly and halve the slices. Add in remaining fruit. Pour into 3-ounce paper cups and freeze for 2 hours. Insert popsicle sticks and freeze until solid. Yields 24.

Strawberry Peach Vodka Collins Popsicles

Courtesy of Bakers Royale
6 oz pureed strawberry (about 10 strawberries)
2 oz peach syrup (recipe follows)
12 oz tonic water
2 oz plus 3 oz vodka (divided use)
Stir strawberry puree with 2 oz. of vodka. Place three teaspoons of strawberry mixture in the bottom of popsicle form; set aside. Combine peach syrup with tonic water; add vodka. Pour peach and vodka mixture over strawberry mixture and stir to combine. Freeze for 2 hours, then insert popsicle stick. Freeze overnight.
Peach Syrup
½ cup sliced peaches (about 4 medium size peaches)
1 cup water
1 cups sugar
Wash, peel, and pit peaches. Place peaches in a blender or food processor and process until peaches are pureed. Place water, sugar and peach puree in a pot and bring to a boil and continue to boil for 5 minutes.

Signature Drinks

SIGNATURE WEDDING DRINKS

Rosé Crush

2 scoops of crushed ice
2 shots of rosé wine (recommended: Minuty)
1 shot of orange juice
1 shot of cranberry juice or raspberry juice
Fresh cranberries, fresh raspberries, and fresh mint to garnish
Add crushed ice to a martini glass. Pour 2 shots of rosé and 1 shot each of orange and cranberry or raspberry juice in a mixer and shake. Pour over ice and garnish with cranberries, raspberries, and a sprig of mint.

Happily Ever After

1½ oz. Lucid absinthe
½ oz. simple syrup
Club soda
Kiwi fruit
Cucumber
Muddle two cucumber wheels and two peeled kiwi wheels with the simple syrup in a double rocks glass. Fill with ice and add the Lucid absinthe. Top with club soda. Garnish with an unpeeled kiwi wheel on rim of the glass.

The First Dance

3 oz. Flor de Caña 7 Year Rum
1 oz. triple sec
1 oz. fresh lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
4 watermelon chunks
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
Whirl all ingredients together and pour into a glass. Garnish with a watermelon segment.

Rum Old Fashioned

1½ oz. South Sea Rum
1 tsp. simple syrup
1 orange peel
3 dashes angostura bitters
Directly in a rocks glass, stir the rum, simple and bitters with ice. Then add the garnish.

Fire & Passion

2 oz. Belvedere Vodka

Pulp from one passion fruit

Dash simple syrup

1 oz. blood orange juice

Build over crushed ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with a slice of ruby red grapefruit.

Wedding cutters? NAY or YAY ?

 Wedding Snackers!

So this is one of the major reasons people come to your wedding!  For the food!! YAY! Food! Have good food ? Thumbs up! Have bad food ? Thumbs down! So make sure when catering , to cater more than you bargained for when it comes to your guests! Cause people love to eat! Yes and even cater for your guests to package and take home to! Come on! They'll love you for it and your wedding will be a hit! Sure the conventional food tastes good! But how about adding some cutters into the mix? 

People love to munch on things and love food that keeps them going. Why not start serving before the reception starts while they sit and wait while you take your photographs? Small finger foods wont hurt. You don't want your audience's tummy to be growling while you and your love bird make the first dance.Soo filled bellies, means happy people!  And Trini people love to eat. With a culture such as diverse as ours. There is alot of finger foods to choose from.There is no excuse. Even after the main course is served , there is a party heading straight into the night.  Why not whip out a doubles stand or even a bake and shark stand. You can get really creative with it and add your own signature foods and dish.  Come on.... people need to sober up before they go home too! 

Here are some of my favourite finger foods below : 

Pepper Roti

Salt Fish Accra

Empanadas

Doubles

Bake and Shark

Geera Pork

 

 

Wedding Venues : Trinidad

Awesome Wedding Venues in Trinidad

Petrotrin Staff Club

 

Hyatt Regency Trinidad

 

Trinidad Hilton

Movie Towne Banquet and Conference Centre

Nia Valley TNT

 

Drew Manor

JRD Mohammed Convention Centre

House of Angostura

City Hall

FOR THE GUYS! Cool Groomsmen Picture Ideas

OOOPS! My Pants just Fell!

Superhero!

Up Up and Away!

Im gonna save you!

We're taking over!

Gunners for life!

Some advice from past brides!Do Enjoy!

What kind of Wedding ceremony is right for me?

So you've got the date set! Good going! Now the most practical step would be trying to envision what type of ceremony  you would like.This is the most hardest step ever!Most brides or should I say couples. Yes it's a couples thing after all , have difficulty in deciding on the ceremony.(Almost forgot the guys there)

OK so your fiance is a not the same religion as you are but you were brought up so strongly by Hindu rights that it's almost impossible to try and work out something with some one of  a different religion.Full 3 nights Hindu Wedding ,no meat, being smeared with saffron from little kids and being away from your sweetheart an entire month is not what he had in mind!"Baby its just spiritual purification!"Oh wait , and now his mom can't attend the wedding..?He wants the booze and you don't. Uh oh ..Booze? How in God's name are we going to work out that? But here's the good news. It's the 21st century!

Most couples in this day and age both want to have "de life of the party" and incorporate some religious aspect in it. Surprisingly,  people are doing it .Yes it is looked down by staunch followers  and according to "spiritual advisers" it is not advised to do so. What do you think? Should people incorporate alcohol and meat after a religious ceremony? Maybe just alcohol ? Hmmm. You be the judge.

The Date Is Set!

Right after most brides are asked for their hand in marriage they go on a wild goose chase and start choosing their dresses, decor and scouting down the coolest venue. Makes sense right! I mean... come on. Girls get excited for these stuff. But no. We don't think logically before we do things. We have everything planned to a T but how can we forget to set the date!I guess this is the most logical and right thinking thing to do. I mean come on what is the meaning of logical?Maybe brides avoid this because they try to pick a date to please everyone's souls. But how could you not?  You would want everyone to be there at your special day. Unfortunately the bad news is. Everyone wont be. Yes I said it and ill say it again. Everyone wont be at your wedding! Before setting a proper date try figuring out if there are any major family events coming up, is granny and grandpa flying out to the Bahamas or is your sister due to deliver her baby that month? You should take all these factors into consideration before setting the date. Besides you would want your closest of closest family members to be there. The image of grandma's priceless tears streaming down her face while you walk down the aisle is more than necessary for this wedding! You can't please and satisfy everyone. This is the sad reality.Especially your friends. If Amy can't come to your wedding cause she's not taking vacation at that time. So be it. Then Amy is not your friend . Hah . OK I'm joking. Amy is your friend . But if she was your so called friend maybe she'd try to make it and not let you have to turn around your whole wedding to suit her date! Besides you'll be having one hell of a time getting married to the most amazing hunk .You wont even have time to think about Amy!Who is Amy anyway?

HELP ME : How do I start to plan my wedding?

So here's the case you've been asked the big question and you've said YES!. You're engaged now. But soon you'll be married . But before being married ,a wedding has to take place of course! You've been strapped with this huge task of planning your dream magical wedding.On impulse, most brides flock to the social networking sites and think "Maybe  I can find someone on Facebook to help me  with my makeup , find a nice location and even throw some nice decorations in! Well look at that so many to choose from! ,YAY-EE! Oh this one loooks nice..ok no maybe that makeup artist..oh no she looks better!..OK now I'm confused and don't know where to choose from.. Maybe I should just ask my fiance for help" At this point this may seem a task too big for you to handle and he responds "Oh baby you can handle that ". Magic's lyrics is suddenly playing in your head "Why do you have to be so rude?". You're suddenly a wedding planner. An inexperienced one of course. But that's OK. That's what this blog is here for. To ease and calm your dying nerves. Unfortunately with access to so many options , from makeup,to decor to food ,it's really hard for brides to make a decision on the plethora of information being laid out on these social networking sites .Especially when most brides seek to  be economical and value their money especially when most places in Trinidad call some BIG BUCKS! Hah. The idea of just registering seemed more attractive at this point right? Don't  worry , don't fear! The trick is to decide where you want to spend most of your money and where you would like least. This is a hard call. Just maybe, we can sacrifice those awesome decor for a fully stocked premium bar?Good idea right?  More drunken people having a good time and most likely they would be to drunk to even remember how your decor looked!BINGO! Unless of course you're like Bridezilla and throw a World War 2 hissy fit on your unassumingly rich husband or loving father who luckily gets you everything you want!