health

Eat your Way to Gorgeous, Healthy Skin, Hair, Nails!

June 20, 2011 By dena Leave a Comment

Getting gorgeous for your wedding means more than just what makeup you wear or how you do your hair. The foundation of beauty is good health, and that requires as much attention to what you put IN your body, as what you put ON it! Here are some important nutritional guidelines from Martha Stewart Wedding on how to achieve that inner glow, signalling true beauty! Antioxidants Glowing Skin! Antioxidants keep your skin healthy by blocking out cell-damaging free radicals from pollution and UV … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beauty & Fashion, Features, Health and Fitness Tagged With: antioxidants, bride, calcium, fats, food, gorgeous, hair, health, healthy, nails, nutrition, protien, selenium, shopping, skin, wedding

Getting your Beauty Sleep: Banishing Pre-Wedding Jitters

October 2, 2010 By dena Leave a Comment

Getting a good night's sleep (6-8 hours per night) is crucial for your health, and too much or too little is known to cause problems in many areas. Among the negative effects caused by sleep deprivation are a weaker immune system, weight gain, memory loss, and increase in stress-related disorders such as ulcers, constipation, and heart disease. And on a more superficial note, sleep deprivation can wreak havoc on your looks, causing dark circles or bags under your eyes, make your skin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beauty & Fashion, Features, Health and Fitness, The Big Day Tagged With: beauty, comfortable, dark, exercise, fall asleep, health, rest, room, sleep, tips, wedding

Marriage: The Wonder Drug

July 9, 2009 By dena Leave a Comment

How would you like to have a bottle of pills that could....? Increase life expectancy Lower a cancer patient's risk of dying from the disease Lower a surgical patient's risk of dying in the hospital Strengthen the immune system Decrease rates of schizophrenia, alcoholism and suicide A longer, healthier, more satisfying life Well this magic pill is not something you'll find at the drugstore, explains James Burg, Ph.D., an associate professor at Indiana University-Purdue, Fort … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Features, Groom's Page, Health and Fitness, Marriage & More Tagged With: benefits, Bliss, cancer, cure, health, immune system, magic, marriage, men, women

Branch: A wedding registry for Sustainable Living

December 2, 2008 By dena Leave a Comment

Planet Pink n Green called my attention to an amazing site called Branch, that specializes in sustainable living and has a wedding registry! Branch believes that products should be made in the most environmentally-responsible way possible, and that the best way to promote this practice is to do it in the marketplace. Just as the willingness of a once-small number of consumers to seek out (and occasionally pay a premium for) organic produce is now changing the face of food production and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Features, Getting Engaged, Health and Fitness, Wedding Planning Tagged With: Branch, environment, gift, health, organic, recycle, responsible, shopping, sustainable, wedding registry

Wedding Planning: Plan on being Gorgeous

December 3, 2007 By dena Leave a Comment

Waking up on your wedding day to confront an outbreak of acne is high on the list of any bride's worst nightmare. Some things you don't want to leave to luck. With a little forethought and care, you can avoid certain beauty disasters. Want to be a gorgeous bride? AisleDash offers five beauty routines you can start right away, so that you can be "radiant and lovely on the Big Day." 1. Exercise and get enough sleep:We all know the benefits of exercise, but in the pre-wedding rush, many … [Read more...]