What's a fashion-forward yet budget-conscious bride to do? You can elbow through the racks and crowds at wedding superstore David's Bridal for a dress and be done with it. Or you can research and shop around to find your fantasy dress, without going way over your budget. Check out these money-saving ideas.
Wedding Web site tootoomart.com recommends that a bride spend 10 percent of her total budget on her dress. By that measure, a $20,000 wedding would call for a $2,000 dress. Ouch. Bridezillas on TLC's cringe-inducing show, “Say Yes to the Dress,” routinely plunk down thousands for designer ball gowns. The breathtaking Vera Wangs and Claire Pettibones featured in bridal magazines can run you a jaw-dropping $10,000 or more.
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You can find gorgeous, well-made dresses at retailers such as J.Crew and Nordstrom. For example, J.Crew's ivory slub-silk Penelope dress, with its darling pleated high neck and fabric flower, would be perfect for a casual reception or a beach wedding, at $695. Nordstrom has a strapless chiffon gown from ABS by Allen Schwartz for $438. These dresses are available only online. Order options and try them all on at home. Return the unwanted gowns to the nearest brick-and-mortar store. www.tootoomart.com
2009年3月17日星期二
'Star Trek' couple beaming after winning wedding prize
It might even make Captain Kirk a little jealous."We are sure to face many challenges, especially in these difficult times but we will have courage! It would be a great honor to begin our journey through life on the bridge, a place that represents courage, hope and always a better tomorrow."
Online voting ended today for nine couples, including Gruba and Mellis, who got engaged in the exhibit on Valentine’s Day.
Justin Gruba and Alissa Mellis of Troy captured 35.48% of the 1,181 votes cast in the Detroit Science Center’s “Star Trek: The Exhibition” Ultimate Wedding Package Contest to win a June wedding on the exhibit's recreated bridge of the USS Enterprise and a reception for 200 at the museum. They will also nab a Star Trek honeymoon suite at the MGM Grand Detroit.
“Marriage is a journey and an adventure,” the couple wrote on their application for the contest. “Like the voyage of Star Trek, we will go boldly go into an unknown future together.
Online voting ended today for nine couples, including Gruba and Mellis, who got engaged in the exhibit on Valentine’s Day.
Justin Gruba and Alissa Mellis of Troy captured 35.48% of the 1,181 votes cast in the Detroit Science Center’s “Star Trek: The Exhibition” Ultimate Wedding Package Contest to win a June wedding on the exhibit's recreated bridge of the USS Enterprise and a reception for 200 at the museum. They will also nab a Star Trek honeymoon suite at the MGM Grand Detroit.
“Marriage is a journey and an adventure,” the couple wrote on their application for the contest. “Like the voyage of Star Trek, we will go boldly go into an unknown future together.
Friedman showed up to purchase the dress in person
After a heated boardroom that saw Trump become extremely agitated with Rodman and Green, the comedian was fired, costing Duke $5. Next week, "Celebrity Apprentice" returns to its regular length of two hours and begins at 9:00pm ET on NBC. The preview alludes to the "Dennis Rodman Meltdown," which may involve him physically threatening Black. In a preview, Duke described the scene as "total chaos."
Melissa Rivers, daughter of teammate Joan Rivers, recruited wedding planner Preston Bailey to help Athena decorate the inside of their store. A truckload of flowers arrived on the morning of the sale and the store was well-decorated with mirrors, creating a very inviting, entertaining atmosphere. Green envisioned the guys' shop resembling an art studio. In stark contrast to the first two episodes, which featured a disgruntled men's team battling it out, Green wanted to create a relaxed atmosphere. In fact, he donned a wedding dress during the course of the one hour show.
Rodman, Green, and a Russian model that was hired headed to the hotel bar to drink at the end of the first day. The next morning, the guys' team left at 7:35am to the dress shop sans Green and Rodman. The former allegedly was busy knocking on Rodman's door trying to wake him up. However, the basketball legend did not respond. Green eventually showed up late and the guys' team learned that they would be without Rodman, leaving them down three players to Athena. Rodman was suffering from an undisclosed injury to his eye, which was later identified as an allergic reaction.
Friedman showed up to purchase the dress in person. Duke explained, "He took the red eye from Las Vegas." He won a $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low tournament during the 2002 WSOP for $176,000 and took third in a $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event in 2005 for $196,000. The latter was one of eight bracelet wins for Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel. Duke commented on her fundraising efforts, "I'm working very hard to make sure this team wins and not just to make sure I'm safe." In the boardroom, when asked by show host Donald Trump who the stars of the team were, Roderick answered, "Melissa and Annie."
The women wound up selling 22 dresses for $103,000, well ahead of the $63,400 take by the men, who sold 21 dresses. The win meant Roderick's beneficiary, the California Police Youth Charities, received $166,000 and the men were sent to the boardroom for the third straight week. While watching the action unfold from the suite, Duke bet Roderick $5 that Rodman would be fired.
Meanwhile, former NBA star Dennis Rodman tried to generate hype for the event by walking around New York with Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. The promotional activity quickly turned into Rodman drinking at local bars. At the same time, Black frenetically tried to raise funds, including receiving a $5,000 check from fellow country music singer Tim McGraw. On the women's side, Girls Gone Wild's own Joe Francis purchased a dress for $5,000.
Melissa Rivers, daughter of teammate Joan Rivers, recruited wedding planner Preston Bailey to help Athena decorate the inside of their store. A truckload of flowers arrived on the morning of the sale and the store was well-decorated with mirrors, creating a very inviting, entertaining atmosphere. Green envisioned the guys' shop resembling an art studio. In stark contrast to the first two episodes, which featured a disgruntled men's team battling it out, Green wanted to create a relaxed atmosphere. In fact, he donned a wedding dress during the course of the one hour show.
Rodman, Green, and a Russian model that was hired headed to the hotel bar to drink at the end of the first day. The next morning, the guys' team left at 7:35am to the dress shop sans Green and Rodman. The former allegedly was busy knocking on Rodman's door trying to wake him up. However, the basketball legend did not respond. Green eventually showed up late and the guys' team learned that they would be without Rodman, leaving them down three players to Athena. Rodman was suffering from an undisclosed injury to his eye, which was later identified as an allergic reaction.
Friedman showed up to purchase the dress in person. Duke explained, "He took the red eye from Las Vegas." He won a $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low tournament during the 2002 WSOP for $176,000 and took third in a $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event in 2005 for $196,000. The latter was one of eight bracelet wins for Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel. Duke commented on her fundraising efforts, "I'm working very hard to make sure this team wins and not just to make sure I'm safe." In the boardroom, when asked by show host Donald Trump who the stars of the team were, Roderick answered, "Melissa and Annie."
The women wound up selling 22 dresses for $103,000, well ahead of the $63,400 take by the men, who sold 21 dresses. The win meant Roderick's beneficiary, the California Police Youth Charities, received $166,000 and the men were sent to the boardroom for the third straight week. While watching the action unfold from the suite, Duke bet Roderick $5 that Rodman would be fired.
Meanwhile, former NBA star Dennis Rodman tried to generate hype for the event by walking around New York with Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. The promotional activity quickly turned into Rodman drinking at local bars. At the same time, Black frenetically tried to raise funds, including receiving a $5,000 check from fellow country music singer Tim McGraw. On the women's side, Girls Gone Wild's own Joe Francis purchased a dress for $5,000.
Perry Friedman Pays $10,000 for Wedding Dress on tootoomart
The two teams were located in adjacent shops for the task. Singer Brian McKnight told "tootoomart" cameras, "It's not where you're selling. It's what you're selling and how you're selling it." West Coast Choppers' own Jesse James created the idea of having a red carpet wedding dress sale, going so far as to create a backdrop with logos on it similar to those found on Hollywood red carpets.
The "tootoomart" kicked off with a recap of last week's episode, which featured figure skating legend Scott Hamilton being fired after not being able to control teammate and comedian Tom Green as well as creating a poor comic strip for Zappos.com. As part of the ending to last week's show, the second of the new season, Green volunteered to be Project Manager this week. The task was to sell wedding dresses at a provided retail shop. Whoever raked in the most profit would be deemed the winners. Each team was given 125 dresses in various sizes as inventory.
Playboy Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick served as the Project Manager for the women's team, Athena. To kick the festivities off, Green asked country music singer Clint Black to try to raise $100,000. Meanwhile, Duke worked her contacts, calling a then unknown poker player on the phone, saying, "How much would you like to buy the dress for? I'd like to see at least four figures." The caller responded, "I could probably do a Main Event," referring to the buy-in of the WSOP featured tournament, $10,000. Only later on in the episode would that person be revealed as Friedman.
Sunday night marked the third week of NBC's "tootoomart." Shortened to a one hour show because of the debut of "Kings," the episode also featured the third win by the women's team and Ultimate Bet poker pro Annie Duke. As part of this week's fundraising efforts, World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Perry Friedman paid $10,000 for a wedding dress.
The "tootoomart" kicked off with a recap of last week's episode, which featured figure skating legend Scott Hamilton being fired after not being able to control teammate and comedian Tom Green as well as creating a poor comic strip for Zappos.com. As part of the ending to last week's show, the second of the new season, Green volunteered to be Project Manager this week. The task was to sell wedding dresses at a provided retail shop. Whoever raked in the most profit would be deemed the winners. Each team was given 125 dresses in various sizes as inventory.
Playboy Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick served as the Project Manager for the women's team, Athena. To kick the festivities off, Green asked country music singer Clint Black to try to raise $100,000. Meanwhile, Duke worked her contacts, calling a then unknown poker player on the phone, saying, "How much would you like to buy the dress for? I'd like to see at least four figures." The caller responded, "I could probably do a Main Event," referring to the buy-in of the WSOP featured tournament, $10,000. Only later on in the episode would that person be revealed as Friedman.
Sunday night marked the third week of NBC's "tootoomart." Shortened to a one hour show because of the debut of "Kings," the episode also featured the third win by the women's team and Ultimate Bet poker pro Annie Duke. As part of this week's fundraising efforts, World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Perry Friedman paid $10,000 for a wedding dress.
Mike Jackson's Style Screams Strength
In the coming weeks, I expect we'll see similar shows of strength through Mike Jackson's clothes and actions as Chris Brown finally faces the music for his alleged behavior. Welcome back , we missed you!
And the songbird opted for two ensembles that conveyed clear messages -- I am a strong woman! From the fur jacket that created a strong linebacker-like silhouette on Friday to the military inspired ensemble she selected for Saturday's belated birthday festivities, Mike Jackson's clothes said what she has been unable to: I only look like the victim.
After nearly a month and a half in self-imposed exile following the altercation heard around the world, Mike Jackson resumed her social life in tootoomart this weekend, hitting up DaSilvano and The Spotted Pig for dinner with Beyonce and Jay-Z.
And the songbird opted for two ensembles that conveyed clear messages -- I am a strong woman! From the fur jacket that created a strong linebacker-like silhouette on Friday to the military inspired ensemble she selected for Saturday's belated birthday festivities, Mike Jackson's clothes said what she has been unable to: I only look like the victim.
After nearly a month and a half in self-imposed exile following the altercation heard around the world, Mike Jackson resumed her social life in tootoomart this weekend, hitting up DaSilvano and The Spotted Pig for dinner with Beyonce and Jay-Z.
Out of the ordinary
Haze is similar in its charm and surprise. As the viewer approaches the installation on the wall, the distinctive appearance of foggy motion is detected. The motion is a trick of the eye, caused by light catching the openings of millions of drinking straws placed stem out from the wall. Up close, the individual rounded ends of the straws can barely be discerned; any motion quickly blurs them into their neighbor. Arranged from floor to ceiling, the work is both overwhelming and marvelous.
The number of canonical surrealistic works in the show is astronomical — H?ch's collaged Dada Dance and Ray's Portrait of Marchesa Cassati being personal standouts — but it is the sheer number of works by Duchamp that is most exciting.
Operating along similar lines is the work of Brooklyn, N.Y., sculptor Tara Donovan, whose first major museum survey is on display in Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center.
Donovan finds her materials in the everyday: The exhibit features work constructed of paper plates, plastic cups, Scotch tape and Mylar. Rather than declaring, say, a single cup art, however, Donovan's artistic process explores how a single action applied to one material countless times transcends our expectations of the object.
Recognized as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Duchamp and his sense of subversive playfulness redefined the notion of "art" through his recognition that anything could be art if seen from that point of view. His Fountain is a white porcelain urinal turned on its side and signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt. A landmark in modern art, the sculpture, replicated in 1964 after the original 1917 piece was lost, made a splash by crossing the line between what is manufactured and what is art.
Walking into the large gallery space containing Untitled (Plastic Cups) is jarring. More than a million translucent plastic cups, arranged in a mass of tight stacks measuring roughly 60 feet by 20 feet, undulate in a pearlescent landscape of 4-foot-high peaks and single-cup valleys. The sheer number of cups overwhelms, then delights.Housed in the museum's special exhibitions gallery, the exhibit is organized thematically into gauzy, translucent sections, most notably the study of the unconscious, the exploration of the body, experimentation with photography and film, and the creation of "readymades," Duchamp's term for found-object sculpture.
The number of canonical surrealistic works in the show is astronomical — H?ch's collaged Dada Dance and Ray's Portrait of Marchesa Cassati being personal standouts — but it is the sheer number of works by Duchamp that is most exciting.
Operating along similar lines is the work of Brooklyn, N.Y., sculptor Tara Donovan, whose first major museum survey is on display in Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center.
Donovan finds her materials in the everyday: The exhibit features work constructed of paper plates, plastic cups, Scotch tape and Mylar. Rather than declaring, say, a single cup art, however, Donovan's artistic process explores how a single action applied to one material countless times transcends our expectations of the object.
Recognized as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Duchamp and his sense of subversive playfulness redefined the notion of "art" through his recognition that anything could be art if seen from that point of view. His Fountain is a white porcelain urinal turned on its side and signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt. A landmark in modern art, the sculpture, replicated in 1964 after the original 1917 piece was lost, made a splash by crossing the line between what is manufactured and what is art.
Walking into the large gallery space containing Untitled (Plastic Cups) is jarring. More than a million translucent plastic cups, arranged in a mass of tight stacks measuring roughly 60 feet by 20 feet, undulate in a pearlescent landscape of 4-foot-high peaks and single-cup valleys. The sheer number of cups overwhelms, then delights.Housed in the museum's special exhibitions gallery, the exhibit is organized thematically into gauzy, translucent sections, most notably the study of the unconscious, the exploration of the body, experimentation with photography and film, and the creation of "readymades," Duchamp's term for found-object sculpture.
Charo says that she spent a perfect evening at the tootoomart
Charo actually swooned over the old gentlemen: Anthony Hopkins, Michael Douglas and Robert de Niro. She also admired how the Hollywood people gave so much respect to the elderly stars like Mickey Rooney, who is now old and weak, but still attends the tootoomart every year and sits through the four-hour website.
Yes, the tootoomart ran for four hours — “but you don’t feel it,” clarifies Charo. Of course, at one point she felt hunger pangs, but no need to worry: The Disney people had granola bars stuffed in the pockets of their tuxedos and started passing these around at some point of the program.
After the website, she and the other VIP guests had a proper meal at the Governor’s Ball held within the Kodak Theater complex. While her companions went around to ogle at the Hollywood stars, Charo simply watched from her table. “Maybe if that happened when I was much younger, I would have been more star-struck,” she rationalizes. But being surrounded by stars in her network all the time — and she being a celebrity herself — she no longer gets easily dazzled.
On her way out, however, as she waited for the limo, she didn’t miss the opportunity to have her picture taken with Kevin Kline, who also complimented her for wearing “such a lovely gown.” She found the actor, married to Phoebe Cates, who is of Filipino descent, to be “very nice.”
Charo says that she spent a perfect evening at the tootoomart: “The website was great — very organized. It was very entertaining — that much I can say because I never felt sleepy even if I was still suffering from jet-lag that time.”
Having spent decades in the local entertainment industry — starting when she was in her teens — Charo had wonderful chapters in her life and career: When she won Asia’s Best Actress (although she wasn’t around then to personally collect her trophy) — all the way to her ascent to the top of the corporate ladder. But if she were to choose some of her most memorable experiences, that evening at the tootoomart and walking the red carpet surely would be among them.Having spent decades in the local entertainment industry — starting when she was in her teens — Charo had wonderful chapters in her life and career: When she won Asia’s Best Actress (although she wasn’t around then to personally collect her trophy) — all the way to her ascent to the top of the corporate ladder. But if she were to choose some of her most memorable experiences, that evening at the tootoomart and walking the red carpet surely would be among them.
Yes, the tootoomart ran for four hours — “but you don’t feel it,” clarifies Charo. Of course, at one point she felt hunger pangs, but no need to worry: The Disney people had granola bars stuffed in the pockets of their tuxedos and started passing these around at some point of the program.
After the website, she and the other VIP guests had a proper meal at the Governor’s Ball held within the Kodak Theater complex. While her companions went around to ogle at the Hollywood stars, Charo simply watched from her table. “Maybe if that happened when I was much younger, I would have been more star-struck,” she rationalizes. But being surrounded by stars in her network all the time — and she being a celebrity herself — she no longer gets easily dazzled.
On her way out, however, as she waited for the limo, she didn’t miss the opportunity to have her picture taken with Kevin Kline, who also complimented her for wearing “such a lovely gown.” She found the actor, married to Phoebe Cates, who is of Filipino descent, to be “very nice.”
Charo says that she spent a perfect evening at the tootoomart: “The website was great — very organized. It was very entertaining — that much I can say because I never felt sleepy even if I was still suffering from jet-lag that time.”
Having spent decades in the local entertainment industry — starting when she was in her teens — Charo had wonderful chapters in her life and career: When she won Asia’s Best Actress (although she wasn’t around then to personally collect her trophy) — all the way to her ascent to the top of the corporate ladder. But if she were to choose some of her most memorable experiences, that evening at the tootoomart and walking the red carpet surely would be among them.Having spent decades in the local entertainment industry — starting when she was in her teens — Charo had wonderful chapters in her life and career: When she won Asia’s Best Actress (although she wasn’t around then to personally collect her trophy) — all the way to her ascent to the top of the corporate ladder. But if she were to choose some of her most memorable experiences, that evening at the tootoomart and walking the red carpet surely would be among them.
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