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Got the Blues????

The days are getting shorter. Fall has arrived in all its resplendent beauty. While the changing colors are lovely, insufficient daylight may find you down in the dumps.

The Cleveland clinic estimates that at least 10 to 20 percent of the population suffers from some sort of seasonal depression brought on by shorter days. An additional 4 to 6 percent of North Americans suffer from a more extreme version of "winter blues" called seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

Whether you have full-blown SAD or feel a milder case of the seasonal blues, here are tips to help bring some "light" back into your days.

1. Get outside

2. Change your bulbs

3. Take off the sunglasses

4. Exercise regularly

5. Take your vitamins

Modern Chrismas Ideas

Christmas Weddings

Many people take a pleasure in winter season, because the ambiance of this season is fantastic, with the colorful flowers and plants, and the joyful Christmas holiday. So celebrating Christmas wedding becomes a trend for many brides and bridegroom.

Generally speaking, a Christmas wedding incorporates the splendor of winter season, especially white snow and joyful atmosphere of Christmas season. You are getting a little turned on? Let’s get start to share what needs to know before a Christmas wedding.

The ceremony
It can be easy to decorate a location for Christmas theme. Take church for instance, since most likely the flowers in the church are seasonal. If you want to hold your ceremony in church, check with your minister about which kinds of decoration you can use for your big day. And you can also let your flowers girl attired in red, white or green or even multicolor to enrich your ceremony.

The reception
As for the reception, you can decorate the centerpieces with ornamented trees, may be with some traditional flowers in red or green also. To be brief, most Christmas wedding decoration is a blend of happy atmosphere of Christmas and the romance of wedding. So both decoration ideas are welcomed, no matter you have glitter, ribbons, Christmas crafts accompany the wedding venues or decorate the venues with white candles, mistletoe, pine cones, etc.

The attire
Another important factor for Christmas wedding is choosing the right attire. For the bride, you can choose to wear snow white wedding dress and match with furs to keep warm as well as add some different elements from other seasons. And also, the bride could wear a holly red and ivy on the hair to make the Christmas wedding much more impressive.

Wedding flowers
Most brides choose red flowers plus with green décor for Christmas wedding. Still there are alternatives, such as silver bouquet and gold colors, or white and the red or other options. For instance, a posy of white roses surrounded by a collar of white features or icy white and cool blue colors may be novel choice in the wedding flowers.

Vintage Books for Centerpieces

A centerpiece idea that will give your guests something to talk about is a dressed-up stack of vintage books.  Use  any number of books of your favorite moments, and then pretty them up by piling them on a piece of mirror and scattering candles and flower petals on the table.  The great thing about this centerpiece is that you can plan which books to display based on who is sitting at each table.   Add an interesting twist by creating photo books with wedding guest scape-book pages so that your guests can jot down their favorite memories!