Wedding Wednesday

Hello all you brides and grooms, and even the bridesmaids, maids of honors, groomsmen, best men, mothers of the bride, fathers of the bride....well, you get the point. Today, we would like to have some fun and share some neat information about wedding traditions.

#1 The Bouquet

What is your ideal bouquet? Beautiful flowers? Many colors or all white? Roses, daisies, lilies? How about garlic and dill? Apparently that was the beginning of bouquets and started around the time of the plague. Not sure about you, but we are sure glad that people use flowers now!

#2 Garter Tossing

This is usually the part of the ceremony that everyone loves, a little intimate where the bride and groom share a moment and then the male guests get to fight over catching the little piece of elastic and lace. However, in medieval times, it was customary for guests to rush a bride at the end of the ceremony to snag a piece of her dress as this was considered good luck. Someone finally decided to toss the garter out to keep the bride from being trampled.

#4 The Veil

The veil was originally intended to protect the bride from evil spirits. It was also a boon to the bride's family in an arranged marriage where usually the bride and groom never met until the ceremony. The veil would ensure that the groom would not see the bride until the very last minute when backing out of the marriage would be near impossible.

#5 The Best Man

This originated long ago when the groom would literally have to steal his bride away from her family. He would often choose his strongest, most capable friend to assist him in the stealing as well as protecting her during the ceremony.

#6 The Tiered Wedding Cake

In the old days, guests would each bring small cakes and stack them on top of each other. Eventually a French baker created a tiered cake to replace the small ones and the idea has been stuck ever since.


There are many, many more neat stories about wedding traditions that you can find. The point of this information, though, is to show you that you are not bound by tradition. Most things that people call tradition are nothing like they originated. Make your wedding day your own and be happy with it. All that matters in the end is that you have fun and seal your commitment to each other!

 

 

KX2 Creatives Contest!

We are starting out strong and want to offer up a chance for people of all art talents to enter this week. That means if you paint, crochet, take photos, write, or do anything creative you can enter it! Remember there is no prize other than being posted as the winner on next week's blog, but hey, it will still be fun! Depending on how many entries we get, there may be a top 3 listed. We can't wait to see your entries!!

So, here is your theme: Spring!! (a.k.a. warm weather!!)

With all the snow and ice and cold, cold weather, we want to take your mind off all that and get you thinking about all things warm and sunny. So send your warmest creative works (please limit to two entries per person) to kx2photo@gmail.com

Charity & Michelle

Face Lift - KX2 Creatives

New Blog Design

As you can see, our blog has undergone a bit of a face lift. The new design is meant to be simple, clean, and less distracting. We want you to enjoy your visit here and not be turned away by excessive designs. Our art and photography can be viewed by visiting the links above or our Facebook pages so we decided it wasn't needed to embellish the page.

New Programming

Along with our new design we will be working on bringing more regular posts including, but not limited to: Contests, Arts & Crafts, Wedding Info, Q&A, and Photography Info.

Contests will be announced on Mondays along with the previous week's winner. We plan to offer fun contests of all kinds while sticking with themes that fit our business. At this time, the only prize will be a mention with a share of your winning entry and a link back to your page (if you desire). Perhaps in the future we will be able to offer some real prizes!

Arts & Crafts posts will be posts including items we offer for sale, tutorial links and our experience with completing certain crafts. I imagine some posts will look more like 'Pinterest Fails' than actual crafts, but it should be fun!

Wedding Info is going to be a day all about weddings. We will be showcasing some of our wedding photography as well as decorating ideas, links to local vendors, and anything else we can think of to help out with that special day.

Q&A! We will be answering questions posted to us by our fans as well as posing questions to all of you. You never know what the questions or answers will be so stop by so we can learn together and have some fun!

Since a large portion of our business is photography, we have to have a day where we show off what we've done this week. Whether it's been family portraits, a concept shoot, or just some nature shots taken on a hike, we will be sharing our favorites with you.

We will be posting portrait sneak peeks as we get them so stay tuned for those.


We hope you enjoy the new look and will be back to see all the new things we have in store for you!

Charity & Michelle