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Helpful Tips for Writing Your Own Wedding Vows

It’s your wedding day soon, and everything is on check except your wedding vows. It may have seemed easy when you decided to write your own. In fact, you have this vivid imagination of reading the most beautiful piece and your spouse blushing with love, maybe even shedding a few tears.

However, this is where reality is entirely different. You can’t seem to get the vows you want on paper! Let’s help you with that. Here are tips to help you write your wedding vows.

16 Gorgeous Bridal Nail Inspiration Photos

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There is no way we can ignore the nails when talking about the bride’s ensemble for her day. Either you want it short, long, simple or loud, your nails are capable to follow your wedding theme.

3 Types of Wedding Planners You Should Know About

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Are you looking to make that ultimate commitment towards handing someone the keys to your dream wedding? All your diary entries, Pinterest pictures and Instagram screen munches will be surrendered to the power of just one person; is he or she capable of turning your dreams into the reality you deserve? The truth is that not everyone works well together.

In the wedding industry, it's safer to match your needs to a planner who has a flare for your vision and adequate experience executing it.

Here are three types of wedding planners you should know about:

8 Attributes of A Nigerian Wedding Party

Have you ever imagined a Lagos without weddings and the stationary Saturday traffic from Ozumba Mbadiwe to Water Corporation Drive? or the traffic at Ikeja?

The hustle and bustle of weddings are bittersweet; we are subjected to inevitable annoyance and sudden bursts of happiness. Living and working in this country means that it will be relatively easy to complete the question glaring at you in the line above.

Really though, what’s a Nigerian wedding party without:

8 Colored Wedding Tuxedo Ideas

We agree it's the groom's day as much as it is the bride's day, and just almost the same way the bride can't sometimes decide on what type of dress and color to wear, the groom also gets confused o

Guide to Help You Choose the Best Makeup Artist for Your Wedding Day

A lot of thinking should go into picking a Makeup Artist (MUA) for your wedding day because it’s not just a game of eeny-meeny-miny-mo.

Here’s a guide to help you choose a makeup artist for your special day:


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Check out pictures and videos from the MUA’s past jobs just to make sure you fancy her style of makeup artistry. Is the MUA’s style mostly subtle, showcasing a person’s natural beauty or slightly more caked up with lots of definition, emphasising facial angles? Ascertain your preference before reaching out to a particular MUA.

5 Expenses Your Bridesmaids Are To Cover

Your Bridal Party is the life of your wedding. They make everything seem effortless and can even go extra lengths to make it worthwhile. When it comes to expenses, there are certain things they are to cover without you having to worry about it.

Here is a list of those things:

 

How To Handle Feeding Vendors at Your Wedding

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To feed vendors at your wedding or not? The great event debate can be seen from two different perspectives; the humanistic and the business mind.

The humanistic theory encourages people to feed vendors at any event especially if they are providing a service for you for a long time while the business mind theory is all for cutting extra costs especially if the vendors have been paid handsomely for their services.

Here are a few points to consider when deciding whether to feed vendors at your wedding or not:

 

Top 5 Tips For A Pregnant Bride

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Pregnancy can be quite challenging because of the different changes in one’s body due to hormonal change. To top up the whole stress you are getting married as a pregnant bride! It looks like a whole a lot of stress you might go through but you just have to avoid the stress and keep your energy because you will so need it.

These days you can still slay as a pregnant bride if you manage yourself well and also keep your energy.

10 Traditional Nigerian Dishes You Should Consider Adding To Your Wedding Menu

Abak atama

Abak Atama Soup is a very tasty soup popular amongst the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom State in Southern Nigeria. 
Its name is gotten from the two dominant ingredients: Palm Fruit Concentrate (Abak) and Atama Leaves.

The bottom part of the palm fruit used in preparing Abak Atama makes it similar to the Banga soup of the Niger Delta origin and the Ofe Akwu of the Igbos but the only thing differentiating these soups is in the spices and vegetables used for each of these soups and stews.

The abak atama soup goes with any type of swallow be it Eba, fufu or pounded yam.

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There are reports that about 5 million wedding ceremonies take place every year in Africa alone.