Hello there!

I’d like to ask your help. I’m creating a page that will list eligible charities that people may want to donate to during the festive Christmas season.

It will give all our readers the chance to select the charity they wish to contribute to! This is our way for paying it forward. I’ve had good blessings this year and I want to spread it around :-)

If you support or know of any charity who’d like to be included in our list, please email the following information to me at christine(at)b5media(dot)com:

1. Name of the Charity
2. URL
3. Description of the Charity
4. Method of acceptance of donations (ie paypal, credit card, etc)

Please submit these to me on or before 24 Nov 2008 and I’ll have the Our One Heart Page on ‘Give some Love on Christmas Day’ by 26th November.

Look forward to hearing from you soon!

Stay happy!

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Planning a wedding on Thanksgiving holiday? I can’t see why you shouldn’t! Your family will be in town and I am sure most of your childhood friends will be home, too. At any rate, there are are some great ideas for a Thanksgiving Wedding!

Some ideas for you after the jump!

Invitations:

Make sure to send save the date cards as soon as you know since it is a holiday. Off white or ivory invitations embossed with pressed autumn leaves are a beautiful touch, you can also use acorns, fall flowers, or seasonal fruit.

Centerpieces:

Carve out pumpkins and put votive candles inside, or use leaf or pumpkin shaped floating candles in a bowl placed on a autumn decorated plate, or lay out seasonal fruits sprayed with a golden sparkle on gold plates with votive candles randomly placed on top.

Decorations:

Use cornucopias with fall flowers or seasonal fruits, pumpkins, gourds and corn stalks throughout the room.

Colors:

Autumn colors: Rust, Burgundy, Brown, Tan, Gold, Orange, Yellow, cranberry, wine, hunter green.

Attire:

Brides dress- off white or cream with leafy embroidery or gold beading and a shawl or wrap since the weather may be chilly
Bridesmaids- fall colors in warm material/long sleeves for the cool weather
Groom & groomsmen: Tan, beige, or brown with ties matching the bridesmaids fall color dresses.

Flowers:

Chrysanthemums, roses, daisies, dahlias, lilies, yarrow, orchids, hydrangeas, sunflowers, baby breath, fall leaves, tallow berries, dried wheat.

Food:

Do NOT serve a traditional Turkey dinner if your wedding is the weekend right after Thanksgiving. Not many people will want to eat more turkey so soon after. Instead, serve a marinated pork roast, mashed potatoes, honey glazed butternut squash, baby carrots, green beans, soup in a hollowed pumpkin, warm apple cider, pumpkin pie or apple pie

Cake:

pumpkin flavored, chocolate, or spice

Favors:

candy or caramel apples

Source: Wedding Photo USA

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You can enter the contest by leaving a comment on this post on what YOU are thankful for this year and how you’re going to celebrate it.

For this year, I am thankful for the following:

• my family’s love and support for everything that I do.
• our life as we know it. I know we are luckier than most people and for that I am grateful.
• and last but not least, for the loyal readers of Our One Heart and Mad Cropper (the blogs that I edit!), if not for you, these blogs wouldn’t last as long as they have :-)

For this contest, I am thankful for the generous donation of our sponsor, Minimus Biz! Two (2) lucky readers will get the chance to win:

Partier’s Survival Kit

The new Partier’s Survival Kit comes packed inside of a cool plastic cocktail glass that flashes lights up the night. Inside the glass are several items designed to get you through the first few hours after the party such as packets of Chaser® Freedom from Hangovers®, Alka Seltzer®, Advil®, Tang Sport Fitness Drink Mix - Fruit Punch, and a LA Fresh Dental Finger Mitt.

Whether your upcoming party plans include a bachelor or bachelorette party, holiday or New Year’s Eve bash, or a group of friends together for Super Bowl Sunday, you will be a sure hit when you start passing this party favor around so pick yours up. Buy a few and receive free shipping on domestic orders over $20.00.

Joining is easy!

1. All you have to do is leave a comment on this contest post on what you’re thankful for this Thanksgiving and how you’re going to celebrate it.

2. Contest will run from 15 Nov, Saturday till 24 Nov, Monday.  The winners will be announced on Wednesday, 26 Nov, a day BEFORE Thanksgiving!

3. Anyone, anywhere in the world can join this contest as long as the items will be shipped either in the USA or Canada. If for example you’re based in New Zealand (like me!), you can still join and if you win, you MUST provide either a US or Canada shipping address. If not, your entry will be invalidated!

4. One entry per email address.

5. Winners will be announced a few days after the contest closes when the Our One Heart Team (read: my Husband, daughter and myself :-) selects the winners through a random draw.

Good luck! :-)

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If you’re the bride, you must love your husband-to-be so much to indulge him in one of his favourite eye-candies! Wow, renting UCLA cheerleaders to stand as bridesmaids at your wedding is pretty out there, I must say!

Can’t say I’ve thought about that if I’d like to think outside the square, I’d probably hire motorbikes as our wedding vehicle as my husband’s mortorbike mad :-)

It takes a special kind of woman to surprise her betrothed on their wedding day by renting six UCLA cheerleaders and Joe Bruin ($100 a pop) for the reception, but that’s what happened out in sunny So Cal. Where there’s cheerleader news, there’s Busted Coverage. Fear not, the post includes the compensatory crowd reaction and cheer stunt videos.

What about you? Would you do something like this?

Photo is HERE.

Source: Sports Illustrated

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Yes! I’ve finally created a group for Our One Heart in Facebook!

I invite you all to share your favourite wedding photo of you and your significant other.

Obviously you have to register with Facebook before you can upload a photo

This is an experiment to see how many couples around the world will join in the fun! It’ll be a great way for you to meet other people too!

It’ll be fun to see how the wedding fashion has changed through the years as well! So I entice you to share your own wedding photos and that of your parents and grandparents!

The only rule in joining is when you post your wedding photo, you include the following information:

Bride and Groom’s names: (it can be your public usernames!)

Location of wedding:

Date of wedding:

Where Bride and Groom are now based

I’ve just uploaded my favourite wedding photo of my hubby and I :-) It was a fun shot taken inside Burger King!

Join NOW and tell everyone about the new group in Facebook!

Stay happy!

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This is such a sweet wedding proposal! Such a creative and obviously well-planned wedding proposal! Hmm, I wish my Husband did something as creative as this one when he popped the big question to me all those years ago!

Luke said:

It took me a few months, but I finally came up with a decent, original idea to propose to Cori. Using a box, wood, some cloth, some rope, a diamond ring, and a large load of sheer manpower, I made a move to seal the deal. ENJOY.

The musical score is cute too. They used the ‘another one bites the dust’ song! haha Lots of hugs and tears. I, too, was teary-eyed! I so love it!

Happy watching!

For pictures of the proposal, click HERE.

Congratulations to Luke and Cori. I so enjoyed watching the wedding proposal video. You are obviously in love. They were married on July 5, 2008 :-)

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