For too many people, organizing a wedding is a difficult experience, but it doesn’t have to be that way. With careful planning and the right help it can be enjoyable and fairly stress free. The key to success is knowing what you want and then working out how to get it; this is true of any wedding. Get this right and not only will the organising be fun, but you will be better equipped to enjoy your wedding day, and that is the most important thing. Here we share our top tips for a perfect outdoor wedding, from deciding what kind or wedding you want to employing a party hire company.

What do you want?

1. Size and style: Do you want a small intimate wedding with only close friends and family present to witness your marriage? Or would you prefer a grand occasion with hundreds of guests? Neither option is better than other; it’s all about personal preference. It is important to decide this early on as it will help you with the rest of your planning, not least when you come to work out your budget.

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For all you chocoholics, here are some yummy chocolate recipes. From Double Chocolate Cookie Bars made with an Oreo cookie crust to Chocolate Turtle Pie to Chocolate Fudge with a surprise ingredient of pinto beans, you will love these chocolate treats.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COOKIE BARS
2 cups Oreo-type cookies, finely crushed*
1/2 stick butter, melted
2 cups (12-oz pkg) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 can (14-oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the cookie crumbs and melted butter until well mixed. Press onto the bottom of a 9 x 13-inch baking pan.

In a medium saucepan, over medium heat, melt 1 cup of the chocolate chips with the sweetened condensed milk. Stir in the vanilla. Pour this chocolate mixture evenly over the crust in the pan. Sprinkle the remaining cup of chocolate chips and the chopped pecans over the top.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until set. Cool in the pan on a wire rack. Cut into 24 large bars or 36 smaller bars.

These bars are good at room temperature or chilled.
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Logan won’t forget his 5th birthday party. Besides having a lot of friends and a lot of fun, he was able to have his own personalized candy with his photo on some candies and a cupcake on others, and he also had different birthday messages on each piece of candy such as “Happy Birthday Logan” or “5 Years Old”.

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Here are some additional pictures from Logan’s birthday that really show how well you can personalize our candies. You can also order multiple colors, with different pictures and different messages on each one to add to the variety of choices and flavors for your guest.

Besides birthdays, you can have personalized candies made for weddings, corporate events, holidays, or any other type of celebration! The ideas are endless!

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Always finding ourselves short of time in today’s world, easy dessert recipes are more important than ever. Have you ever wanted to make a wonderful and delicious dessert to magnificently top off a gathering meal but found yourself short on time? Or maybe you are new to making desserts and need some help? I’m sure it happens to all of us now and then.

As a dessert lover myself, I always try to make sure that the dessert I make will at least result in some words of praise from my guests. One of the best things about having great dessert is not just that it gives you that wonderful feeling, but it also makes you happy when you see how much your guests or family members are enjoying it. But how do you do that if you are new and find dessert-making difficult, or if you’re constantly busy and making dessert is too time-consuming?

This article gives you some simple tips for making life simpler by choosing the right easy dessert recipes, and some advice for making almost any dessert recipe easier.

1. Recipe Size

Often we overlook the fact that the dessert recipes we make can be downsized to fit our needs. This can be as simple as taking a normal dessert recipe and dividing all the ingredient portions in half or in quarter, but not every recipe may be so appropriately scaled down. When searching for easy dessert recipes, be on the look out for the serving sizes listed for each recipe. Some recipes are specially designed for a small number of guests and these will save you a lot of hassle and worry.

Small dessert recipes are easier to make and they bake faster too. This is especially so if your kitchen isn’t as big as you want it to be, or you don’t have enough large bowls. Also, keep in mind that desserts are normally eaten after a large, full meal, and smaller easy dessert recipes will go well with the guests. If you have any guests who are trying to keep control of their weight, they will thank you for this too.
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With some practice you can make delicious candy at home. Some of the options you can make include caramels, fudge, marshmallows, chocolate covered cherries, nut brittle, candied fruit and fruit rinds, spiced candied nuts, divinity, chocolate covered pretzels, caramel popcorn, and on and on. Making candy at home is not as difficult as many people believe. The trick is in understanding some of the basic cooking terms your recipe uses and having the right equipment. Let’s look at the equipment first. You probably already have many of these items in your kitchen.

EQUIPMENT

If you are going to make candy at home one of the first things you will want to invest in is a good candy thermometer. You can purchase the inexpensive glass variety for around five dollars, but for about twelve you can get the best of the line which includes a metal base which encloses the glass. I have found this to be the best value. For some reason those inexpensive models don’t seem to last and the temperatures shown are often off just enough to cause my candy to fail.

You will also need some deep sided heavy cookware. I have found that you can make candy much more safely if you use a large heavy stew pot, the type that comes with most cookware sets. Because the quantity of candy is usually small, this type of pot eliminates boil-over. You will also need a smaller, 3 quart and a 2 quart pot for melting chocolate, butter, making sugar syrup and other tasks.

Cookie sheets aren’t just for making cookies but you should have at least one of the jelly roll pans. These are similar to cookie sheets except that they have a shallow, usually one inch, rim all around. These are perfect for setting fudge and making other candies.
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These days, many couples are choosing to say their vows in an exciting locale away from home. Here is a list of our picks of the top 10 most amazing wedding destinations in the United States. Some may be located just outside your backyard!

Whatever the wedding destination, remember to thank your guests for making the journey by welcoming them with personalized candies! Celebrity favorites like Khole Kardashian and Lamar Odom’s wedding included a beautiful candy buffet for their guests. Even go one step further and create a special area of the candy bar to feature your custom printed candies with your pictures and special messages! It will be a hit of the party!

Top 10 Amazing Wedding Destinations

1. Central Park Boathouse or Empire State Building in New York, N.Y.

Each offers a scenic view of this bustling city from a slightly removed vantage point.

2. Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.

This estate in North Carolina boasts a romantic setting, reminiscent of a classic French chateau.

3. The Mountain Top Inn & Resort in Vermont

Outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy the spectacular lake and mountain views surrounding this luxurious resort.

4. The Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Calif.

Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel has several locations overlooking the ocean to choose from for your celebration! Couples and guests may want to don sunglasses, as they head to the ultimate beach wedding!

5. Cliff House or Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Calif.

It is a tough choice! Both venues are what postcards are made of.
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Looking for some imaginative ideas for your child’s birthday party?

Here is a fun Do-It-Yourself idea for a themed party that will make planning a child’s birthday party fun, as well as wow the honoree and guests!

Choose an Aquarium theme and transform your home into an under-water oasis. First, draw a colorful ocean scene along a long roll of butcher paper. You will then tape sections of this ocean scene onto the walls of the party room, surrounding your guests with an ocean landscape.

You can also hang blue and green streamers from the doorway with colorful cardboard fish cut outs taped to them, as well as blue and green balloons around the room. Another fun idea is to play a DVD with underwater scenes (such as Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid, or even a nature documentary) in the background.
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When it comes to dark chocolate, sometimes we just can’t get more than enough!

It’s perfectly fine to add a daily part of chocolate for your diet, and perhaps recommended for health benefits, however there are some things you have to look at just before splurging.

Tip #1: Be Careful With Calories

Dark chocolate is very full of fat and full of calories. It’s not recommended to eat a pound of chocolate a day, even though it can feel hard to not overload.

Along with a well-balanced diet, you ought to be looking to add no more than 100 grams (or 3.5 ounces) of dark chocolate per day to maximize the advantages.

One bar of chocolate will normally have around 400 calories. So, if you choose to eat 1 / 2 of that bar, that equates to around 200 calories. Therefore, you need to do something to balance out those 200 extra calories, whether it’s giving up something you’d eat, or increasing your physical activity levels to burn off those extra calories.

Tip #2: Don’t Inhale It!

With regards to dessert (especially chocolate), I’ve been known to inhale my way through sight.

Don’t do this! Instead, concentrate on tasting the chocolate.

Since chocolate is really an intricate food with over 300 compounds and chemicals hiding in each bite, you need to really slow down and concentrate on enjoying and appreciating the unique flavour.

Professional chocolate tasters (wow, I want that job!) have actually developed a system for tasting chocolate, which include a variety of quality assessments which range from appearance, smell, feel, and taste of each and every delicious piece.
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