Every bride wants her wedding to be picture perfect - from the dress to the flowers to the food at the reception. And of course, brides want to be beautiful, both for the ceremony and for the wedding pictures. Beauty starts with good skin, so start planning ahead to ensure flawless skin on the big day.

There’s no makeup that can compete with the glow of healthy skin, so now is the time to get serious about skin care. To help diminish facial wrinkles, you’ll want a product that contains peptides, amino acids which stimulate the skin to synthesize its own collage, the substance that keeps your skin firm and elastic. It’s proven that peptides twice a day for 30 days will have a substantial impact on your skin.

Chellá, a professional skin care line previously available exclusively at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, has patented an ingredient called the Chell-X Complex, which contains peptides combined with other key ingredients to stimulate your skin’s natural collagen production. Studies show that the collagen peptides in Chellá’s products increased the synthesis of collagen by 350 percent.
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Here’s what local wedding experts say are seven hot trends for 2007:

GOWNS: Wedding dresses are not all about tradition: They come in many colors and lengths. Brides prefer a “nice twist” to their dresses, with colorful sashes; one bride opted for pink top with a lime green skirt and yellow ribbon around her waist, says Susan Thompson of Vermont Made Weddings.

Many use the color of the bride’s maids dresses for sashes. Hot colors include ivory, chocolate brown and sage. At a Vera Wang fashion show in New York City, the sashes were black, says Janet Dunnington of CEO Weddings and Events.
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The traditional invitations, at least in America and the major part of Europe, were always the blank paper or of ivory printed with black ink, and always engraved or of relief (should see you an expensive Indian invitation although - they are delivered in boxes and include some remarkable things!)

The bride often always want the elegance and the formality of the traditional invitation, but much of others want something different.

Remember, the invitation is the first thing the guest sees for the wedding. It sets the tone of your big day, and gives the guest a clue as to whether the wedding is formal, semiformal, or casual.
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By Nature’s Organic and Ethical Wedding List is turning white weddings green. From recycled and fair trade diningware to organic bed and bath linens each product is carefully screened for its eco and social credentials. By Nature will also match 10% of the total amount spent on each wedding list and give this money to the couple’s chosen charity.

Liz Hurley’s wedding was a big affair. So big it was estimated that its carbon emission reached a staggering 200,000kg*. To put it in perspective, it would take more than 10 years for the average British couple to contribute to the same amount. While most weddings are not organised on such scale, they still end up costing a lot to the environment as they generate waste, food miles, energy consumption and air miles. When it comes to gifts, registering a wedding list is a great way to avoid getting things you do not need. And why not let your guests choose eco-friendly gifts that will lighten your environmental impact.
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The “wedding season” is fast approaching. As June nears, wedding planning picks up, and many brides-to-be are choosing their wedding gowns in preparation for the “big day.” And, even though white is the traditional color for a wedding dress, some women are wondering if they really have to wear a white wedding dress for their nuptials.

The answer? Of course not. Your wedding day is your day. While precedence since Queen Victoria’s marriage in 1840 has been given to the white wedding dress, there is nothing that says a bridal gown has to be that color. And, even though white has come to be associated with virginity, the original color for chastity and purity was blue. Many medieval and Renaissance wedding dresses were blue, or incorporated blue. (Not Mary Queen of Scots, though. Her 16th Century wedding dress was one of the first white bridal gowns.)
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