Some brides these days are turning wedding receptions on their head and creating super long receptions that run through the night and into the morning. If this is you, planning some activities for those long nighttime hours is essential.
Generally, if an all-night reception is planned, it goes something like this: the wedding is held in the early evening and reception follows. By about midnight, many of the guests will have left and the group that is remaining (generally the younger guests, but not always) will continue to dance and party and revel into the early morning hours. At some point, breakfast will be provided and everyone will go home to crash.
Why do you need activities for such a reception? The answer is simple. You want to keep people entertained through the nighttime hours, you want to keep them at the reception and not let them give in to driving home to crash and sleep and you want to provide them with a real party. Let's face it: if they are willing to hang in with you for the duration, they deserve something for their effort.
First, you need to be fairly organized about the activities you plan. Consult with your DJ about these activities and leave it to him or her to keep things on a schedule. Do not plan to cut cake in the middle of the night. That activity should take place during the more traditional evening hours, so those not intending to stay all night can leave. However, if you're determined to keep your guests all night, you could hold one activity back with the hope it will keep guests in the house longer.
Depending on your guest list, you might hold off on the father-daughter dance until after midnight, or you could save a few toasts for the late night hours. In any event, having some other fun events is a great idea.
As guests begin to fade, bring in a piñata, which you can find shaped like a wedding ring, a bridal dress or a champagne flute. Fill it with a variety of goodies. Candy is always popular, but you could also fill it with silly toys found in the carnival section of the party store. Have the DJ play a spirited song and let everyone have a chance at the piñata. Do this on the dance floor and really let people have a swing at it. There should be plenty of room. Once the piñata breaks, everyone can enjoy a taste of sweet candy or can enjoy some silly little carnival game or toy.
People who stay for the duration of the wedding are going to need a rest. Plan a photo presentation or video viewing for this purpose. You could have someone who's familiar with PowerPoint create a photo presentation or have someone put together a video of photos. Do this around 2 or 3 am and have it last a good half hour to 45 minutes. This gives everyone a chance to sit down and relax and also gives the DJ a chance to sit, have a rest and rejuvenate for the next round.
In that same vein of allowing the guests a little relaxation, one activity that some brides employ is a non-activity. If the weddig is outside, you can provide inflatable mattresses and have some torches lit. If guests ant to sit down and relax, they can do so on the mattresses and still be part of the activity while resting. If it's been a long day and someone needs to rest, those reception room chairs don't seem the most comfortable. If the reception is indoors, think about providing large pillows for guests to sit on or create a corner with inflatable mattresses and lots of fabric. This can be a chatting area where people can go to rest but still be part of the fun. They can chat and catch up with other guests and then head back for more partying when they're rejuvenated.
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A Lesser Known Advantage Of The iPhone: Dual Mode Access!
Okay, we all know about the main features of the iPhone that are now poised to turn it into the next big thing in the cell phone industry. By fusing the best traits of a cell phone, Ipod, and internet browser-enabled PDA in one handy package, the Ipod has generated huge waves since it's initial public release in June 2007. A lesser know fact about the iPhone, however, is the peripherals that can be bought for it, as well as the growing support that this new breed of phone is getting from phone company giants like AT&T.
One of the most important sideline applications that can be run with an iPhone is dual mode internet telephony. Under old circumstances, a standard telephony kit is simply using an internet connection, especially Wifi, to make a call instead of using a regular phone line. Internet telephony systems often don't make use of a standard telephone unit either, instead relying on a headset and a program that simulates a phone's numeric pad to dial. A telephony can contact anyone, though restrictions can be limited to other subscribers to the provider's telephony system, or can access even regular phone lines for an added cost.
Telephony services are treated as a separate entity from using regular phone services for making phone calls, but they also offer more features like video teleconferencing, live chatrooms and such that make telephony use more appealing to some people than regular phone lines.
Now that we know WHAT telephony services are, how does this tie in to the iPhone? Simple. Imagine being able to access telephony numbers, lines and services through your cellular telephone. This is one of the additional features that the iPhone have to offer. Most people don't know about this, or talk about it less compared to the Iphone's other features, but it's there. At the moment Apple's major partner is AT&T, so users are currently limited to using only telephony services from AT&T. However, other companies that offer telephony and related services like Skype are starting to create programs and hardware that are intended to be fully compatible with the iPhone and it's features.
Given that, it's only a matter of time before video teleconferencing in boardrooms becomes a thing of the past, as the iPhone will enable people to take advantage of it's dual mode telephony access no matter where they may be on the globe. The impact of the iPhone may be more far reaching than most people suspect.
One of the most important sideline applications that can be run with an iPhone is dual mode internet telephony. Under old circumstances, a standard telephony kit is simply using an internet connection, especially Wifi, to make a call instead of using a regular phone line. Internet telephony systems often don't make use of a standard telephone unit either, instead relying on a headset and a program that simulates a phone's numeric pad to dial. A telephony can contact anyone, though restrictions can be limited to other subscribers to the provider's telephony system, or can access even regular phone lines for an added cost.
Telephony services are treated as a separate entity from using regular phone services for making phone calls, but they also offer more features like video teleconferencing, live chatrooms and such that make telephony use more appealing to some people than regular phone lines.
Now that we know WHAT telephony services are, how does this tie in to the iPhone? Simple. Imagine being able to access telephony numbers, lines and services through your cellular telephone. This is one of the additional features that the iPhone have to offer. Most people don't know about this, or talk about it less compared to the Iphone's other features, but it's there. At the moment Apple's major partner is AT&T, so users are currently limited to using only telephony services from AT&T. However, other companies that offer telephony and related services like Skype are starting to create programs and hardware that are intended to be fully compatible with the iPhone and it's features.
Given that, it's only a matter of time before video teleconferencing in boardrooms becomes a thing of the past, as the iPhone will enable people to take advantage of it's dual mode telephony access no matter where they may be on the globe. The impact of the iPhone may be more far reaching than most people suspect.
Iphone Aesthetics And Design: Simplicity And Functionality
The iPhone, despite all of it's new technological features and groundbreaking concepts, surprises a lot of people who see it for the first time. Expecting something either insanely compact which folds out like a transformers toy, or something fairly large with protrusions that look like a science fiction novel concept machine. They are instead confronted with a small, thin, rectangular device. Period. Looking like a souped-up Ipod and nothing more, the iPhone's simplicity hides a multitude of features behind it's simple facade.
Extremely Streamlined Profile
The iPhone was designed along the same lines as an Ipod. It's meant to be extremely functional and convenient while avoiding the "high tech" look that quite a few telephones try to achieve. It's simply a thin rectangular device with no protrusions, very few buttons, and a large screen covering most of one side. Naturally, it also has a few plug ports for external devices like Bluetooth headsets and the like, but that's about it.
The Screen Is Both Display And Interface
The main reason why the iPhone's design is so simple is because the large LCD screen that makes up one face of the iPhone is both it's display and main means of interface. The 3.5 inch LCD screen is touch sensitive, and requires no stylus. It can be manipulated with one's fingers. The menu on the screen can be used to select different modes for the iPhone, switching from using it as an Ipod to a Phone or as a web browser. This allows for a much simpler design to the phone, as opposed to some other competing multi-use phones which actually use slide-out panels with miniature keyboards and even built in track balls for cursor movement.
Integral Components
The third design principle behind the iPhone's simplicity could be both good or bad depending on the perspective of the user. You see, the unit's memory and batteries are integral to the unit and can't be replaced or upgraded except by taking them to an Apple shop. On the one hand, this makes the iPhone much more stable and allows for higher battery capacities and more memory space with less bulk. On the other hand, some users appreciate the convenience of carrying additional memory sticks and batteries as spares. This feature has been a major point of attack by critics of the iPhone, but by and large those who have purchased iPhones often find the built in memory space and battery life are more than sufficient for their day to day needs.
Extremely Streamlined Profile
The iPhone was designed along the same lines as an Ipod. It's meant to be extremely functional and convenient while avoiding the "high tech" look that quite a few telephones try to achieve. It's simply a thin rectangular device with no protrusions, very few buttons, and a large screen covering most of one side. Naturally, it also has a few plug ports for external devices like Bluetooth headsets and the like, but that's about it.
The Screen Is Both Display And Interface
The main reason why the iPhone's design is so simple is because the large LCD screen that makes up one face of the iPhone is both it's display and main means of interface. The 3.5 inch LCD screen is touch sensitive, and requires no stylus. It can be manipulated with one's fingers. The menu on the screen can be used to select different modes for the iPhone, switching from using it as an Ipod to a Phone or as a web browser. This allows for a much simpler design to the phone, as opposed to some other competing multi-use phones which actually use slide-out panels with miniature keyboards and even built in track balls for cursor movement.
Integral Components
The third design principle behind the iPhone's simplicity could be both good or bad depending on the perspective of the user. You see, the unit's memory and batteries are integral to the unit and can't be replaced or upgraded except by taking them to an Apple shop. On the one hand, this makes the iPhone much more stable and allows for higher battery capacities and more memory space with less bulk. On the other hand, some users appreciate the convenience of carrying additional memory sticks and batteries as spares. This feature has been a major point of attack by critics of the iPhone, but by and large those who have purchased iPhones often find the built in memory space and battery life are more than sufficient for their day to day needs.
iPhone Innovative Concepts
The newly released Iphone by Apple has some of the most innovative concepts that have come out in the cell phone industry to date. Much like their Ipod took the portable music industry by storm several years back, the Iphone now promises that Apple will be setting new standards that other cell phone manufacturers will be trying to emulate.
Fusion Of 3 Technologies
The biggest selling point of the Iphone is that it fuses 3 major technologies that are often found separately into one package. The Iphone is a portable music player (literally an Ipod), a cellular telephone, and a PDA with internet browsing capability. While some cell phones to date have mixed some of these technologies together in pairs, the Iphone is the first of it's kind to successfully fuse them all.
LCD Screen Is GUI And Skin Sensitive
The main interface method of the Iphone is distinct because of it's lack of manual buttons. Instead, it employs a 3.5 inch touch sensitive LCD screen that can be manipulated directly by touch like a PDA. However, unlike a PDA this unit's screen is skin-sensitive, and doesn't respond to contact with anything except skin. This makes a stylus unnecessary. Furthermore, the skin-sensitive surface also has detectors which scan surface areas near the phone, and switches the interface off when near your face to keep you from accidentally pressing a button when you're making a call.
Mixing Online Capabilities With Phone Features
The Iphone's internet browsing capability is Wifi supported, and it mixes internet browsing features with some cellular telephone features. For example, SMS can be edited to look like chat format for easy reference. For another, the address book on your email can be linked to your contact list, making it a snap to find a person's contact information. Added to this, Apple has contracts with google and yahoo for specialized Iphone services, like accessing goggle maps via your Iphone.
Mixing The Ipod's Versatility With The Browser And Camera
Lastly, even the common gadgets that are added features for most cell phones today have been mixed with the Iphone's features. For example, downloading songs to your Iphone's Ipod MP3 player no longer requires an external link to a PC since you can browse using your Iphone. Similarly, the Iphone has a camera that acts as a digital cam-corder and playback is done through the Ipod features on the Iphone. This unified system ensures that the Iphone is more than just a bunch of machines glued together. The individual parts all interact seamlessly with each other.
Fusion Of 3 Technologies
The biggest selling point of the Iphone is that it fuses 3 major technologies that are often found separately into one package. The Iphone is a portable music player (literally an Ipod), a cellular telephone, and a PDA with internet browsing capability. While some cell phones to date have mixed some of these technologies together in pairs, the Iphone is the first of it's kind to successfully fuse them all.
LCD Screen Is GUI And Skin Sensitive
The main interface method of the Iphone is distinct because of it's lack of manual buttons. Instead, it employs a 3.5 inch touch sensitive LCD screen that can be manipulated directly by touch like a PDA. However, unlike a PDA this unit's screen is skin-sensitive, and doesn't respond to contact with anything except skin. This makes a stylus unnecessary. Furthermore, the skin-sensitive surface also has detectors which scan surface areas near the phone, and switches the interface off when near your face to keep you from accidentally pressing a button when you're making a call.
Mixing Online Capabilities With Phone Features
The Iphone's internet browsing capability is Wifi supported, and it mixes internet browsing features with some cellular telephone features. For example, SMS can be edited to look like chat format for easy reference. For another, the address book on your email can be linked to your contact list, making it a snap to find a person's contact information. Added to this, Apple has contracts with google and yahoo for specialized Iphone services, like accessing goggle maps via your Iphone.
Mixing The Ipod's Versatility With The Browser And Camera
Lastly, even the common gadgets that are added features for most cell phones today have been mixed with the Iphone's features. For example, downloading songs to your Iphone's Ipod MP3 player no longer requires an external link to a PC since you can browse using your Iphone. Similarly, the Iphone has a camera that acts as a digital cam-corder and playback is done through the Ipod features on the Iphone. This unified system ensures that the Iphone is more than just a bunch of machines glued together. The individual parts all interact seamlessly with each other.
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