(SkyNewswire.com) --- Outside of weddings, white tie means that a white dress is required, but not for weddings - unless it has been specified in your invite. You wouldn't want to steal the show from the bride, would you?

Here's a guide for the formal wedding: Think about what you might wear to the Oscars if you were nominated, to the opening night at the opera, or to the Presidential Inauguration. Since this will be a summer wedding, think gorgeous, flowing long wedding dresses in amazing, breathtaking prints. With beautiful makeup and the right accessories, you're sure to make a great impression.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Divorce has long been a common theme for couples in the United States. The group Americans for Divorce Reform estimates that anywhere from 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. While marriages fail for a variety of reasons, financial problems are often cited as one of the main factors in the dissolution.

Likewise, the economy, unemployment rate and dip in the housing market have all been mentioned as factors contributing to the rise in bankruptcy filings in recent years. In 2009, over one million people filed for bankruptcy and it is expected to be even worse this year. The American Bankruptcy Institute predicts there will be more than 1.6 million personal bankruptcy filings by the end of 2010.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Deciding on divorce proceedings or receiving notice of divorce proceedings presents a difficult event for everyone involved. The impact is not only emotional, but also affects domestic arrangements and has financial implications. When there are children involved it can be so much harder.

Mace & Jones (maceandjones.co.uk) are there to help you navigate these difficult times. Whether you are taking the first steps by considering what a divorce or separation involves or if you have already received a notice of divorce proceedings and need to know what happens next, we can give you the advice and support with as little distress as possible.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- E-Book Systems, creator of the patented Digital Flip(R) e-publishing technology, announces New Orleans Weddings Magazine has adopted its FlipCity web service to deliver digital edition of the New Orleans Weddings Magazine in 3-D page-flipping FlipViewer(R) Xpress viewer format. Since its launch in March 2009, FlipCity has provided many repeated customers an economical solution to convert their PDF documents into realistic page-flipping digital publications ("FlipBooks") in just a few clicks. These FlipBooks would appear just as they would in print -- with real "flipping" pages plus much more.


"FlipCity is an affordable, easy to use solution for us. We priced other digitizing services and they were very cost prohibitive for a magazine our size. We are a small business and needed a solution that could work within our budget while still providing great features for our readers. FlipCity is very easy to use and all of the FlipViewer(R) Xpress features are incredibly useful. This is why we chose FlipCity to digitize for us," said one of FlipCity's happy customers, Jessica J Caradona, Publisher of New Orleans Weddings Magazine.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Creating your own fresh and beautiful wedding invitations is the hottest new trend in planning your wedding! We all know there is a unique joy in designing something and exploring your creative side. One Heart Weddings (www.OneHeartWeddings.com) knows that making things with your own hands and having others admire your work is exciting. If you can save money in the process - even better - especially for women about to get married, who want to devote more of their wedding budget to other things! This is the true essence of today's Do It Yourself Bride - being part of a community that celebrates hand-crafted keepsakes and embracing the love of paper! One Heart Weddings (formerly WeddingDNA) has completely redesigned itself to better serve the growing number of brides interested in making her wedding her own. Visit: www.OneHeartWeddings.com


The DIY renaissance is ideal for the bride who wants to create the wedding event she has always imagined - choosing everything from the look and feel to the colors and small details. "Creating customized wedding stationery is the perfect way for brides to add their personal touch. Who says you can't have fabulous wedding invitations you print at home? Who says you can't have the best designs for the best price?" says Lia Griffith - lead designer.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Families With Faith, the Blog Talk Radio show of http://www.FamiliesWithFaith.org, airs their ninth episode on Saturday June 19th, at 6pm, on Blog Talk Radio. Saturday's highly anticipated episode is entitled, "Delivered and No Longer Bound". Together, the ladies will tackle this week's 'Real-talk' discussion, "When Families walk Through the Restoration and Recovery Process" and this week's Hot Topics, "Posting Inappropriate Content on Social Networking Sites". Author, Minister and Host, Letetia Mullenix is joined by First Lady Terri Flowers, of Zech 8 Ministries, Sister Angela Claiborne, and funny-lady, Sister Tina Cheatham as they offer encouragement, hope, insight and biblical instruction to families regarding the modern issues addressing Christian families of today.
Families With Faith is honored to once again have the dynamic and anointed couple, Elder Carl Lee Claiborne and Families with Faith's own, Sister Angela Claiborne. Elder Claiborne is an Associate Minister ofHigher Way Full Gospel Baptist Church under the leadership and mentorship of Bishop Darren L. Gay, Sr. He is also the Coordinator of the BALM Ministry, a substance abuse/learning and mentoring ministry. Elder Carl Lee Claiborne is one of the most anointed Men of God of this time. God has placed an anointing on his life for reconciling souls back to God. Armed with the Word of God and the Ministry of Reconciliation, he endeavors to lead a nation back to God and become ambassadors for Christ. The Lord spoke that he would be "one of the greatest soul winners on the east coast", and Elder Claiborne is ready and able to take it by force. Elder Claiborne serves diligently in ministry not only as a preacher but a teacher of The Word of God. Elder Carl Claiborne is a graduate of the Evans-Smith Leadership Training Institute, having received a Continuing Education Certificate in Leadership and Theology from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. He is CEO of Quality Mortgage Protection.


Angela C Claiborne is the wife of Elder Carl Claiborne and serves as Sunday School Coordinator at Higher Way Full Gospel Baptist Church under the leadership of Bishop Darren L. Gay, Sr. Angela is a Woman of God who takes her responsibility as wife, mother, grandmother and servant of the Kingdom seriously.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Choosing a wedding venue can be quite an exercise, even for an experienced person, let alone for someone who's never arranged logistics or planned a marriage before. However, how so very mammoth the task of choosing a wedding site may be, it is an indispensable part of every Indian wedding and therefore should be carefully selected and booked well in advance to avoid any last minutes mess-ups.


Here are 10 tips that you'll find quite handy while choosing a wedding site:
1. Budget - This is something that you'll have to decide first and foremost so that when you shortlist a location you know whether or not it will fit in your pocket.
2. Type of wedding site - Many people prefer an outdoor or a garden wedding over indoor weddings. You must not be in two minds while looking for a wedding site otherwise you'll never be able to shortlist any venue convincingly. Talk to your family, friends and relatives and make sure you have a consensus on at least the type of venue.
3. Indoor Venue - Banquet halls, catering halls, Community halls etc. qualify under indoor venues and are usually preferred when there is a chance of weather playing spoilsport on the day of wedding. Monsoon weddings are therefore mostly held indoors.
4. Outdoor Venue - Parks, party lawns, gardens etc. are usually classified under outdoor venues and are preferred by those who like the extravagance of an outdoor wedding. An outdoor venue should be chosen only when the weather on the wedding day is expected to be normal and pleasant.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- If you are seeking the best way to get pregnant, you'll be really pleased to know that there is just a handful of things you need to do in order to have a healthy baby. The only way for you to get pregnant naturally is when your partner's sperm successfully reaches your egg. And for this to happen, you both need to make love at the right time of the month: that's ovulation.


Balancing your cycle, as you can see is so vital in your quest to getting pregnant. If you are in a hurry to conceive, and would like a little extra help, consider using organic and natural herbal treatments. Two that I have used successfully with clients are Cystclear and Fertilplus, which are very mild on the body, yet have a very good positive impact.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Marriages can be exhausting. It takes a lot of dedication to be in such a committed relationship and to make it work. At times trouble brews up and one person begins to resent the other person. Before things get out of control and head for a divorce, here is what you need to do to make your wife like you again.


Don't apologize constantly
If you have done something wrong or know that you have hurt your wife tremendously then apologizing constantly is not going to help. Hear out what your wife has to say, understand her issue and apologize once like you mean it.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Formal wedding invitations have a certain protocol to follow in terms of how the invitation looks and how it is worded. However, if you are planning an informal, less than traditional affair, you can unleash your creativity and have fun with your informal wedding invitation wording. In fact, your entire wedding invitation can be much more colorful and whimsical, giving your guests a good preview of the festivities to come. If you are looking for the best informal wedding invitation wording, we have all the tips you need to get those invites out in style.


A Foreshadowing of Things to Come
If you are having a non-traditional wedding ceremony, your informal wedding invitation wording can alert guests to that fact so they can dress appropriately and plan correctly for your celebration. For example, many informal wedding ceremonies take place in the great outdoors; on a beach or in a park. By alerting your guests to the venue through your informal wedding invitation wording, they will know to dress according to the weather and the terrain that they will be spending the day on. Let's face it; a sandy beach isn't exactly the place for formal dresses and stiletto pumps!

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Looking gorgeous on wedding day is the dream of every bride. The outfits you choose for your own and your marriage ceremony goes a long way to achieve the picture perfect marriage. The dress you wear on your wedding becomes the eye of every one so it needs to be chosen gently. Choosing a backless wedding dress is a technique you are able to make sure that your marriage ceremony appears like one straight over the pages of a fairytale. It is not right that a backless wedding dress will match everybody though you will find number of models available to select from. The kind of gaps and designs of backless wedding dresses implies you can find one that is well suited to one's body kind.


The back cut style dress generates fresh and linear lines. Some backless gowns will go down in the backside, diminishing at the waistline or below. Some may be backless only in the upper back. The low dipping style works top for girls with long backs. The higher back cut style dress design can be well suited for a kind of body types. One thing to remember when choosing a marriage costume is your general bodily form. Wedding ceremonies are traumatic enough without disturbing about your weight or fitness level in the several weeks and days leading up to your marriage. You don't need to have to be anxious regarding whether you're going to look proper in your wedding costume.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- The Chinese wedding tradition is in the first place as varied and complex as China is vast. Throughout the ages, it has evolved and changed due to a myriad of regional and cultural influences. However, although several adjustments occur and more and more Chinese opt for modernity, the most popular Chinese wedding tea ceremony still exists. It is still being practiced by the Han Chinese in the south of the country.


The Chinese wedding tea ceremony is usually considered when the bride arrive the groom's home. The bride and the groom will gather before the parents and the immediate relatives and the bride will serve tea for his in-laws. The type of tea that can be used during the Chinese wedding tea ceremony usually range from oolong tea to jasmine tea. This ceremony takes place on the day of the wedding itself. After the serving of the tea, the guests (usually the parents first) would then give their approval to the couple and they would respond by giving them red packets. These red packets contain money to wish the couple a blissful life ahead.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- As a couple anticipates marriage they spend a considerable amount of time planning for the wedding day and dream of their future lives together. But they also need a candid discussion of how they will merge their economic as well as their emotional lives, says Anita M. Ventrelli, a partner in the nation’s number one family law firm, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck.


“Among the best gifts the bride and groom can receive is a thorough assessment of their financial and personal goals which may, or may not, include a prenuptial agreement,” says Ventrelli. Just the words prenuptial agreement can evoke emotions. It seems inconsistent to say, “I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. By the way would you sign a prenuptial agreement?” But the process can be an opportunity to stimulate good conversation about lifestyle, roles, and financial obligations, she notes. Ventrelli acknowledges it is a delicate balance between preserving a good relationship and protecting yourself legally in the event of a divorce. That’s why it is important to work with a family lawyer who has extensive experience in negotiating the financial results the couple seeks to achieve while preserving their relationship, she explains.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Antigua means ancient in Spanish, and it is also the name of the perfect Caribbean island to have a wedding. Locate in the West Indies, Antigua was colonized in the fifteenth century. Antigua is known around the world as a luxury tropical destination and the island is the perfect place to get married.


While the Island's name means ancient, Antigua is far from being run down and old. The perfect beauty of this paradise has made it one of the most desired wedding destinations in the Caribbean region. If you are searching for the perfect place for a fun, tropical and beautiful wedding, then Antigua is exactly what you need. Antigua has more than 350 white and sandy beaches, and combine that with fine food, entertainment and activities, many visitors have fallen in love with this beautiful island. The friendly people, great accommodations and tropical luxury on any budget makes Antigua the perfect destination to have a wedding. There are a few requirements to be aware of before planning your romantic Island adventure. Certain steps need to be taken in order for the wedding to be valid. You have to pay three different types of fees to get married in Antigua, and registration should be done well in advance of the big day. Expect to pay a $40.00 registration fee along with a Special License fee of $150.00, as well as a marriage office fee that costs $50.00 if you want to get married in front of the courthouse.

(AP) --- An engaged eastern Pennsylvania couple were born on the same day in the same hospital — and their mothers even shared a room in the maternity ward.


Amy Singley and Steven Smith were born at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill on April 17, 1986. After the mothers were hospital roommates, the two families continued to interact through their church in Easton. Smith asked Singley on a date to the movies when they were sophomores in high school.