Congratulations, you’ve just got married with the girl of your dreams. Now you are going to bring her home, where you’ll start a new way of life: the family one. But how prepared is your house for this important step?

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I’m sure you’ve seen in so many movies how the main heroes, after their wedding, leave the place in a big, white limo, branded with “Just Married” and decorated with a long tail of empty cans.

Well, leaving aside the cans, you don’t need to buy a limo, in order to make this image become reality at your wedding. Limo rentals are just perfect for the day, and you’ll have photos and memories for the rest of your life.

Imagine only if you had a theme wedding which supposes that you marry in an exotic place, and you have to go there by plane. You’ll need a limo to take you to the airport and another one to wait for you at destination. In order to make sure that you have a JFK car service to rent you a limo that day, you need to book it in advance. If you haven’t used such services before, you could start by taking a look at the website of Allstate Car and Limousine, where you can find all kinds of limos, plus you can make your booking online. This service is operating in New York and New Jersey and they have a fleet of over 150 late model Lincoln Town and Cadillac Broughams. The customer service department claims to have a proactive approach, so they may be able to customize your trip according to your requirements.

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“I Do”. And so you find yourself in a new world, only by saying these two short words. And who saud teleportation is not possible? But how do you know that you are ready for a 50 years or even more trip of a lifetime? Joining your destiny with the one of your beloved one is not a joke, and it shouldn’t be taken easily. Unfortunately, too many people jump into the marriage without thinking if they can actually live with that.

Here’s a helping questionnaire to ask yourself before starting to run for your wedding dress:

1. What’s my biggest wish from this marriage?
2. How do I feel about myself when I am with my beloved one?
3. What am I bringing to the table?
4. Do I really feel happy inside myself right now, as I’m thinking at the big moment?
5. How do I feel about having children?
6. Do I have healthy financial habits right now?
7. Am I willing and able to share my earnings with my beloved one?
8. Do I feel spiritually connected to my mate?
9. Am I free to be and express myself in this relationship?
10. Have I let go of past hurts and pains, and all bad feelings?
11. Do I take responsibility for the things that happen my life, orI just put them on faith?
12. Are my children (if any) valued and respected by my mate?
13. Can I look into my own eyes (this is what mirrors are for) and tell myself out loud “I love you.”

How did you do with your answers? Are these questions you have truthfully answered for yourself before? Would you feel comfortable sharing your answers with your mate?

The key to a healthy long lasting marriage is to know yourself and to be emotionally grown up, so you can handle the life in common. How can you expect someone to make an informed decision about marrying you if you don’t even know yourself?

A couple is much more different than a single you: others will perceive you two as an entity, they will invite you to go together in many places, they will see you as a whole. Are you ready to be only half of an entity? Are you prepared to enjoy this? Do you want to enter the deeper dimensions of love?

If your answer is unequivocally yes, then go ahead and say “I Do”, and live your married life happily ever after!

All important events in life are subject to superstitions. Wedding is one of them, and if you fear bad things that may happen to your marriage, beware of the following:

1. Don’t wear red when you go to a wedding, because it means disrespect for the bride
2. Don’t choose a redhead as your bridesmaid as she will steal your groom.
3. Saturday is a bad day for marriages, being ruled by Saturn, which is associated with negative energies like jealousy
4. Don’t buy a second hand wedding dress which was not worn at a wedding:  it is jinxed
5. A cloudy wedding day means troubles in marriage
6. Bridesmaids should not wash the dishes or they will fall out with the married couple
7. Buying your partner a watch before the wedding is a symbol of the running out of your relationship’s time
8. Rose petals are thrown before the bride as she walks down the aisle to ward off the evil spirits that live beneath the ground from coming up at her

I don’t know any cases when these superstitions went true, but if you are concerned about that, just avoid doing those “bad luck” things and you’ll be safe, and your marriage will be happy

So, you’ve married, you have some nice children, and you want to offer them all the best, so they can grow up happily. But they are killing you (and your wallet) with all those gadgets and games they need to refresh all the time.
If they are crazy about gaming, there is a cool solution for you to spend less while keeping them happy: trade video games. If you don’t know how to do it, PlayerChain.com will help you: they join together players who are bore with their old games and want to trade them with other bored players.

Signing up, shipping and listings are free, and this is how the games trade system works: for the games you want, you just browse the inventory displayed on the site, you choose what you want and you wait for one game owner to approve your request. Then the game will be shipped to you for free.

For the games you want to trade: you input them in the site inventory, then you wait for other members to request them, and you accept their requests.

The whole system is based on “Game Bucks”, and if you can balance your offers with your requests, you’ll never have to pay a dime for your kids’ happiness.

Besides, you can endlessly trade the games. Enjoy your “married with children” life to the full!

The Wedding Ring

There are customs which state that the wedding ring is the last present in a series, which also includes the engagement ring amongst others.

Jewellers pushed this custom to the extreme by setting a trend of the “ring-gifts series”: you give your beloved one the first ring to let her know that your intentions are serious, then you give her the engagement ring, then the marriage ring, then the eternity ring, which symbolizes your solid and longlasting marriage, sometimes given after the birth of a first child, then a trilogy ring, usually formed by three diamonds, representing the past, present and future of a relationship. Not to mention the Silver Wedding Ring (given at the 25th celebration of the marriage) and the Golden Wedding Ring (given at the 50th celebration).

In Europe, people use to engrave the name of the spouse and the marriage date on the inside surface of wedding rings, thus strengthening their symbolism.

At Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians, the tradition of exchanging the wedding rings has been replaced with the placing of crowns on the head of the bride and groom, and their partaking three times of the “common cup”.

You’ve been invited to a wedding. Whether you intend to accept the invitation or not, there are some things which you can do, in order to show respect for the ones who invited you:

1. Call back as soon as you get the invitation and confirm or deny your participation. Weddings require long time to prepare, so the host must know how many guests will attend the event, in order to make sure everybody has a place at the table, and there’s food and drink for all.
2. Ask about the dress code if it is not mentioned in the invitation. You need to know what clothes to prepare for that day.
3. Check some weather reports for the wedding day, especially if the wedding ceremony is going to take place outside.
4. Don’t arrive late. It is very rude to show up in the middle of the party, or worse, toward its end, and excuse yourself unconvincingly.
5. Don’t be the first to leave. Most probably you’ll be followed by a big bunch of guests who were just waiting for somebody to take the first step.
6. Eat something before you leave home. The church ceremony can be long, plus they might organize a photosession immediately afterwards, so you’ll get very hungry by the time when the real party starts.
7. Don’t ask the hosts to change your seat. If they allocated you a place at a certain table, just sit there and try to enjoy the company of your table neighbors. If you ask to be moved, you’ll force the host to move also other guests to make place for you, and they might get very upset.

In rest, just enjoy the party and don’t forget to ask for photos.