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You will need to spend a lot of time on your wedding planning if you would like to make it unique and perfect. In fact, most people will start planning for the wedding a year before. However, you will find that you will be the busiest around a month before your wedding. And you should read the points below to make sure that you will not miss any important issues.

You will need to visit all the wedding vendors a month before your wedding. You have to confirm all the details with the vendors. This is because you will need to allow about a month to work on the details. And they will also need the time to make changes if it is necessary.

One of the things you have to take care of is the wedding invitations. You should try to check if you have already sent the invitations to all your guests. If not, you have to send them out as soon as possible. You may even need to contact your guests by phone or email so that you with confirm with them whether they will come or not.

Another important issue you have to consider is the wedding dresses. The bridal shop will probably need a few weeks to alter the dresses if it is needed. As a result, you should go to the bridal shop and have a final fitting of the dresses. Otherwise you will not have enough time to alter the dresses.

You have to get the marriage license around two weeks before your wedding. It is also important to remember that you should confirm with the caterer on the food and menu in your reception. Remember to check with the caterer that the food will be enough. You should tell your caterer the final number of guests so that the caterer can prepare enough food.

You may probably be very nervous a week before your wedding. Yet, you should plan ahead. It is the time to think about your honeymoon. You should try to pack for your honeymoon if you decide to leave right after your wedding.

Some couples will consider honeymoon more important than the actual wedding. As a result, they may start packing even earlier. However, generally, a week before will be good enough. You should also check with the travel agents your itinerary so that you can make sure that there will be nothing wrong with your honeymoon plan.

You should try to be relaxed to the day before your wedding. Of course you may be very nervous but you have to learn to be relaxed. A good sleep is a must since you will need the energy for the event tomorrow.

The big day has finally come. Remember to have a good breakfast. You may not have time to have lunch in the afternoon. Again, you should try to be relaxed. It is your big day and you should enjoy the day with your guests, as well as your spouse!

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Paris is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with over 30 million foreign visitors per year. As the paragon of style, Paris is one of the most glamorous cities in the world.

The “City of Light”, is the apex of architectural beauty, artistic expression, and culinary delight. As Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There is never any ending to Paris” and Spring in Paris may be the stuff of romantic legend, but the most delicious time of year to visit is the fall, especially September and October.

This autumn season the city bristles with energy as new shops, clubs, and restaurants open, a cultural season begins, and everyone catches up after the summer holidays.

Or consider winter because it is usually mild, and December, January, and February are the trough of the annual tourist calendar, so you’ll be getting Paris at its most Parisian (except for Paris is a savory blend of old and new, as centuries-old palaces and monuments steeped in history share the skyline companionably with modern commercial complexes.

Paris is relatively small which means most scenic highlights are within walking distance and this is what makes Paris an ideal place for a France Holiday Rental. Parisian’s-eye-view of the open-air markets, corner bistros and meandering little streets that make this urban paradise so famous.

Explore classic sights like the Tour Eiffel, Notre-Dame cathedral, Louvre and Arc de Triomphe, or pick up a fresh golden baguette and enjoy a leisurely picnic on the banks of the Seine River or at one of the unexpected grassy knolls that you come across during your excursions.

Indeed, Paris is the city of dreams for for artists, intellectuals, philosophers and of course, lovers.

Paris is made up of 20 arrondissements or districts. There is no logical numerical order. The romantic river Seine separates the two sides, simply known as left and right bank.

Place de la Bastille (4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements, right bank) is a historical district and as it shows the illogical numbering of the districts. The arrondissements are numbered like a snail. So the actual numbers of the arrondissements can alter every two blocks or so depending on the direction that you walk.

Les Halles (1st arrondissement, right bank) was formerly Paris’ central meat and produce market, since the late 1970s a major shopping center around an important metro connection station, Chatelet. In the past Les Halles was destroyed in 1971 and replaced by the Forum des Halles. The central market of Paris, the biggest wholesale food market in the world, was transferred to Rungis, in the southern suburbs.

Le Marais (3rd and 4th arrondissements) is in the trendy Right Bank district. With large gay and Jewish populations it is a very culturally diverse. The Latin Quarter (5th arrondissements, left bank) is a twelfth century scholastic center formerly stretching between the Left Bank’s Place Maubert and the Sorbonne campus. It is known for its lively atmosphere and many bistros.

Montmartre (18th arrondissement, right bank) is a historic area on the Butte. Montmartre has always had a history with artists and has many studios and of many great artists in that area.

Montparnasse (14th arrondissement) is a historic Left Bank area famous for artists studios, music halls, and bistro life. The large Montparnasse Blvd and the lone Tour Montparnasse skyscraper are located there.

Faubourg Saint-Honore (8th arrondissement, right bank) is one of Paris’ high-fashion districts, home to labels such as Hermes and Christian Lacroix. Avenue Montaigne (8th arrondissement), next to the Champs Elysees, is home to luxury brand labels such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Dior and Givenchy. Champs Elysees (8th arrondissement, right bank) is a seventeenth century garden-promenade turned avenue connecting the Concorde and Arc de Triomphe.

It is one of the many tourist attractions and a major shopping street of Paris. This avenue has been called “la plus belle avenue du monde” (”the most beautiful avenue in the world”). Place de la Concorde (8th arrondissement, right bank) is at the foot of the Champs-Elysees, built as the “Place Louis XV”, site of the infamous guillotine. The Egyptian obelisk is Paris’ “oldest monument”. On this place, on the two side of the Rue Royale live two identical stone buildings: the eastern houses the French Naval Ministry, the western the luxurious Hotel de Crillon.

Nearby Place Vendome is famous for its fashionable and deluxe hotels (Hotel Ritz and Hotel de Vendome) and its jewellers. Many famous fashion designers have had their salons in the square.

L’Opera(9th arrondissement, right bank) is the area around the famous Opera Garnier and is a home to the capital’s densest concentration of both department stores and offices. A few examples are the Printemps and Galeries Lafayette grands magasins (department stores), and the Paris headquarters of financial giants such as Credit Lyonnais and American Express.

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Geelong will host more than 1000 triathletes on 10th February 2008 as they converge on the Victorian bay side city to complete in the Geelong World Ironman 70.3 series.

The event which is managed by ‘Ironman Corporation’ will start at 7am with a 1.9km swim leg from, and returning to Geelong’s Eastern Beach from where triathletes will collect their bikes and head out of town on the 90km ride via Portarlington Road to Hermsley Road. Finally, contestants will need to complete the 21.1 km run returning to Eastern Park overlooking the picturesque Corio Bay. In total contestants will need to complete 113 kms (70.3 miles) to finish the course with the first 75 across the line qualifying for the Ford Ironman 70.3 mile event to be staged in Clearwater, Florida, USA during November 2008, which in turn is a qualifying event for the elite and world famous Hawaii Ironman.

The Geelong World Ironman 70.3 event will include representatives from around the world including countries such as Canada, China, Germany, Mexico, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Australia will be well represented with past championship leader Chris Legh in he men’s event competing against the likes of Luke Bell and Mitch Anderson from Victoria and international athletes Courtney Ogden, David Dellow and Craig McKenzie

The women’s event is expected to be closely contested with many well regarded competitors including the current women’s ironman champion Rebekah Keat; Kate Major who finished third in this years gruelling Hawaii Ironman; Rina Hill winner of the Gold Coast Ironman and other well regarded triathletes including Belinda Harrison, Charlotte Paul, Mirinda Carfrae and Geelong’s own Jo King in the women’s. King recently won the Tasmanian Half Ironman and is focused on rebuilding her ironman career after a three month break.

A maximum limit of 1200 competitors has been introduced for the Geelong Ironman 70.3 event. Geelong is located just 75kms from Melbourne and is well serviced by trains, buses and airflights with a variety of excellent accommodation

available during the event.

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