La Sposa’s Wedding Blog

Hi all and thanks to everyone who has helped our business grow bigger and better month after month.

The wedding industry appears to be going strong depsite the recession and global economic downturn which is great news for everyone involved!  It’s also good to see brides and grooms still spending the time and money to plan a great wedding rather than being pessimistic and worrying about things that may or may not happen.

I think what seems to have changed though is that people are looking more for value for money and how can they drive their wedding dollar further.  Everyone knows weddings can be expensive, as  recently married man I know how our budget stretched and then stretched some more!  People have to be much smarter with their money which is where La Sposa fits in.

We are able to supply brides and grooms as well as wedding hire business, hotels and function rooms exceptional quality chair covers and table linens at cheap prices.    If brides and grooms aren’t prepared to purchase the items themselves (and then try to to re-sell or re-use them later) they can contact us and we will try to put them in touch with some of the many hire companies that use our products.  And because we sell cheaply, it means the hire companies that buy from us generally charge less than the others without compromising on quality.

Just have a look at these stunning pictures from one of my many customers, if you live in or near Newcastle I can put you in contact with this great business and they can decorate your event:

Brides and grooms can come directly to us for their bomboniere gifts however as we sell a great range of gifts at great prices.  From coasters to photoframes to genuine Italian chocolates imported direct from Italy, I’m sure there’s something to suit.

And not only for weddings but for birthdays, christenings and parties, our accessories and decorations can suit any event.

As a special ‘thank you’ to everyone, for a limited time every order over $50 will recieve a free sample of the italian chocolate ‘Torrone’.  Just mention this blog and the choccy is yours!

Thanks for reading and please contact me if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely,

Iliano Ciardiello.

Owner/Manager La Sposa – Wedding & Event Supplies

My wife and I would like to welcome a new addition to the “La Sposa” family, our gorgous baby boy named Raffaele Ciardiello!

He arrived on Thursday the 22nd of January 2009 and is a healthy 8lb 8oz!

Hello all, my wife and I (and our soon to be born baby!) would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thanks to everyone who has helped to make La Sposa a success, we are only going to get bigger and better in 2009!

I’ve also listed some new products, we now have some Christening/Party gift ideas not just wedding bomboniere.  We also have all of our chair cover and sash range in stock and ready to ship.

I’ve got some great new products being added to the site very shortly so please check regularly!

Thanks and regards,

Iliano

As a bride-to-be, Jessica Spence was taking extra care to note the details at a friend’s wedding recently.

One thing that stood out to her was an idle-looking DJ who hit a few buttons on his laptop and appeared to take the rest of the night easy.

“I swear to god, the DJ was playing Solitaire throughout the dinner and cocktail hour,” Spence noted in an online forum at wedding-planning site TheKnot.com. “It seems sort of silly to pay someone a lot of money to sit at a laptop and put on songs when we can do the exact same thing.”

With their confidence in wedding DJs dented, Spence and her fiance are counting on their iPod to provide the musical entertainment at their wedding reception later this month. They’re among a growing number of couples making personal music players a central part of their big day.

Keeping wedding budgets in check is one reason couples are going the digital-DJ route. According to wedding-planning guide Bridal Bargains, professional DJs charge an average of $600 per wedding. A live band can run upwards of $1,000. If a couple has already plunked down $400 or so for an iPod or an iRiver, and spent hours refining their digital-music collection, it’s easy to see why a DJ might seem superfluous.

“What could be easier?” said Lori Leibovich, editor of IndieBride.com, a Web site for brides. “You bring it, you program it, it sounds great. It doesn’t surprise me at all that more people are doing it.”

Do-it-yourself wedding music has emerged as a popular discussion topic on IndieBride’s discussion forums, as well as those at TheKnot.com. In another signal that the trend is on the rise, the latest edition of the best-selling book “Bridal Bargains” features a section on “the iPod wedding.”

Celebrities are looking into iPods as DJs, too. Rock star Alanis Morissette, who’s engaged to actor Ryan Reynolds, has said during recent interviews that she may use an iPod at her wedding next year.

Article from cnet.com.au – http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/mp3players/0,239036128,240057123,00.htm?omnRef=http://www.google.com.au/search?q=wedding%20news%20article&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Just found an interesting article that shows last year recorded the highest amount of marriages in Australia since 1990!

That’s good news for the wedding industry, now all I need to do is get all these couples to buy chair covers and sashes!!

Article from The Age – http://www.theage.com.au/national/marriage-rate-on-rise-as-aussies-rush-to-altar-20080930-4qxy.html

Wedding bells were clanging with abandon around Australia last year, with the highest number of marriages recorded in a single year since 1990.

- Most marriages since 1990
- More than 116,000 registered
- First-time marriage age rises

More than 116,000 marriages were registered in 2007, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today show.

But while the number of nuptials increased by almost 2% from the year before, the percentage of the population saying ‘I do’ is continuing to decline.

In 1998, there were 7.1 marriages per 1000 people, but last year only 5.5 in every thousand took the plunge.

Western Australia and Tasmania proved popular places to get hitched in 2007, with the number of marriages up by 6% and 5% respectively.

And bride and grooms are continuing to wait longer to make the commitment: the average first-time marriage age for men is now 29.6 years and for women 27.6 years. In 1989, the average was 26.1 years for men and 24 years for women.

The ABS statistics also show:

*76.8% of couples now live together before marrying

*March is the most popular month to tie the knot, followed by November and October

*63% of couples hired a civil celebrant last year, compared to 20 years ago, when almost 60% of marriages were conducted by a religious minister.