• Select your season, then coordinate all its beauty and colors for a perfect wedding day Chances are your wedding plans will include a theme or some of your favorite colors, based on the time of year you plan to get married. If you're just getting started in making your plans, this guide from favorideas.com may get your creative thoughts flowing for the most special day of your life. Fall themes for September and October The rich colors of autumn makes a setting like no ot

The perfect dress is on the wish list of many a bride-to-be, but no bridal ensemble is truly complete until the bride chooses her veil. Veils have been worn by brides at their weddings for centuries. Veils can be traced back to the Middle East, where veils helped protect against the weather while also preserving the modesty of the bride. In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, veils were used as protection against evil spirits. According to popular wedding website The Knot.com, u

Wedding day tokens of good luck come in many forms, but "the something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue (a sixpence in your shoe)" adage remains one of the most popular luck-enhancing wedding traditions. According to the bridal resource The Knot, this tradition stems from an Olde English rhyme. Something old represents continuity; something new is for optimism for the future; something borrowed stands for borrowed happiness; and something blue is for pur

• Cost of weddings in 2016 show the importance of budgeting and planning Whether you have $1,000, $10,000 or $100,000 to spend on your dream wedding, your special day will require careful planning — and a budget to go along with it. With the average cost of a wedding in the U.S. now $31,213, according to online wedding experts at theknot.com, couples need to be open and honest with each other about their wedding day expectations. Talk about the money, honey As soon as you

• Destination weddings are becoming more popular than ever Your dream of a destination wedding may take you as close as Mackinac Island in Michigan or as far away as St. Lucia, Hawaii or another exotic location. The best part about a destination wedding is that it combines the best of both worlds: a glamorous wedding and honeymoon, plus a manageable guest list. Your destination wedding can be as individual and creative as you are. It can involve just the "eloping" couple, a

• More couples got married in September 2015 than in any other month Move over, June brides. September now takes the cake as the most popular wedding month of the year, according to the knot.com. Last year, 161,000 weddings took place during this early fall month. June is still a very popular month to tie the knot, with 160,000 weddings in June 2015. The tradition of June as the most popular wedding month actually dates back to the Roman times, when they celebrated on the fir