The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. G.K. Chesterton
Wedding Planning Guide
Planning a wedding can be a stressful task and having a lot on your mind can make you forget important things that will ruin one of the most important days of your life. Just to make sure this won't happen we will help you make a wedding planning guide.
Reception
It is very hard to forget some of this things but not impossible when you will have so much on your mind.
Of course you won't know where to begin but just take one step after the other! First you should decide where the reception will be and if necessary look for accommodation places for your wedding guests.
Wedding Dress
The next section in our wedding planning guide and maybe the most important for you is the wedding dress. You will have a hard time to find the right one because after all it must be perfect! So you should immediately begin look for it and don't worry if you won't like anything at the beginning you will find it!
Wedding Cake
One of the most important things for your guest because they will remember it for sure is the wedding cake. So finding the best wedding cake baker and knowing what to ask him is very important.
You may request a portfolio of previous wedding cakes to look at it, ask for a tasting so you can try various kinds of cakes and cakes fillings and don't forget to ask about references. You may also inform about items like cake topers, tiers, fountains, cutters and stands if you can rent them and if you will be billed extra. You should also find out how long before the wedding the cake is prepared.
And to give you one tip, if anyone tells you that they can bake the cake in a day he or shi is not telling the truth. Because wedding cakes are complicated to bake usually they take between three and five days.
Other important things
Also you may include in your wedding planning guide the invitations, a wedding specialized photographer, jewelries, decorations and flowers that must match your wedding style, planning your ceremony and bachelorette party.
And one more thing and maybe the most exciting one: find a destination for your honeymoon!
Of course money is an important issue in planning a wedding so make your wedding planning guide taking into account also the financial part. Good luck at planning your wedding!
Diamonds Come in Colors. Fancy Diamonds in Your Wedding Ring
By Dee Power
 Think of diamonds and you think of breathtakingly clear stones, clear as water, pure as ice. But diamonds do come in colors, over 300 different colors in diamonds have been found in nature so far. Should you consider a fancy diamond for your wedding ring?
Diamonds are normally graded from colorless or rare white, to brown. Black is not used in jewelry except as a novelty item. Colors deeper than light yellow are not usually used in jewelry making, although on occasion, champagne diamonds or cognac diamonds appear. These are really, in most cases, white diamonds of an inferior color grade, rather than fancy diamonds.
The colorless is the most expensive of the white diamonds. Diamonds with a faint tint of yellow are less valuable and a yellow color visible to the naked eye are the least valuable.
Fancies are the term used for colored diamonds. Diamonds can be found in every color and intensity: red, blue, yellow, green, and lavender. The intensity of the colors can range from palest pink to red, lightest blue to sky blue and so forth. Fancy diamonds are rarer than white diamonds. The most common fancy colors are yellow ranging from canary yellow to orange. Colors such as pink, lavender and light green occur much more rarely than the yellow colors. Most valuable of all are the deep reds, greens and blues.
One word of caution: colored diamonds can be created artificially by subjecting inexpensive yellowish and brown stones to radiation or heating. Fancy diamonds, other than green, can be tested to see if the color is natural or the color has been induced. Fancy diamonds can also be created synthetically. These artificially colored, or produced diamonds, don't have nearly the same value as fancy diamonds found naturally. It some cases the colors fade, revert back to their natural state, or change color.
The Hope diamond is an example of a fancy blue diamond. The Argyle Mine in Australia produces a small number of red diamonds and is the world's largest producer of pink diamonds. Several of their pink diamonds have sold for over ,000,000 per carat.
The Dresden diamond is an apple green diamond weighing 40.70 carats. The Tiffany diamond is orange.
Colored diamonds are valued on a different scale than white diamonds. The color's saturation, hue, and darkness determine the value. In other words the more intense the color the more valuable the diamond is. Make sure you take any fancy diamond you plan on purchasing to a certified lab for evaluation.
A colored diamond can be a beautiful addition to your wedding ring.
Free report Weddings On A Shoestring Budget Dee Power is the author of several nonfiction books. Read her wedding blog or her jewelry blog
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