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A nice song for your quinceanera dances, pefect for entrance vals, or father daughter song.

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Planning a quinceanera is always a big task, even more if you have not done one before.  Well we’re here to help, feel free to browse our site for more tips, ideas, comments and insider stuff to all quinceanera.  Well, lets get started.  First of all we’re going to need a date, so start looking for reception halls in your area, one thing we need to know before looking reception sites is an idea of how many people it will hold.  So we need the your number of guests, bigger quinces need a bigger salon right!   Also don’t forget to include the dance area, check that the reception site has a good space for your corte de honor to dance their dances, surprise dance, etc.

The Quinceanera Reception Sites

With your number of guests in hand, ask around hotels, banquet halls, if possible go look at the place before deciding on it.  Just ask if your date is available, but don’t sign the contract yet, because if you want a religious ceremony before it, then you must find a church close to your city that will do it for you in the same day.  I guess locking the place and church would have to be done together, nowadays is becoming very difficult to synchronize these two.  But with a little patience and time it can be done.

The Church / Religious Ceremony

If you want a traditional religious ceremony on your quinceanera, then the best thing to do is lock your church date first and then with plenty of time look for a salon.  When it comes to locking places, time will be your only friend, ask the church administrator to lock your date in advance, many do it even one year earlier.  Many new quinces don’t even have a religious ceremony anymore, many don’t do it because of the synchronizing dates hassle, or just because they’re not religious enough.  Many others that really want to have one, do it in a different church and just have a blessing by a pastor.  Many others don’t want to pay for it since some catholic churches have a very high price.   Whether you’re having one or not, it is cool both ways.

Padrinos

This is very important, make your list very early in the planning process.  Don’t be shy this is a tradition, and a very good one, it allows us to have many quinceaneras in this economy.

The Quinceanera Dress

Everything gets easier after picking the right quinceanera dress.  The next step in your quinceanera planning project is to pick your quince dress, the color of your dress will dictate the theme colors, or at least give you some ideas for the decorations, favors, invitations, etc.   When picking out your dress the big question is the color, what’s your favorite one?  Turquoise, Hot Pink, Lime, Purple, Black or even Orange.  Should I buy the dress on a store or online?   Well, online is a little cheaper but, it may not fit you perfectly, and then you will have to pay for fixing it.

The Choreographer

Hire a choreographer for your traditional dances, baile sorpresas.  I’ve seen choreographers work with a group of damas and chambelanes for as long as 6 months.  It all depends how many hours per week you guys practice.   The more people you have in your corte de honor the more difficult it is, since moms have to drive them to your home or place to where they practice.  Also,  you have to feed them all, or at least buy some snacks and drinks.  Hiring a choreographer is becoming very expensive that’s why some people make up the dances themselves, or have a sister that had their quinceanera already, and is a little creative with dances and is up to the challenge.

Photo and Video

Finding a really good one is very important,  this will be the only thing left after everything comes to an end.  If you don’t want any surprises, ask for a sample video, a good videographer and photograher is not shy to show his work.   Always allow plenty of time for the production of your video and photos, video editing and good photo retouching takes some time.

Catering

Many people do their own food preparation and serving, but at the end say, “I should not done that, I din’t have time to enjoy my party”.   The Hispanic tradition is to serve your guests even if they arrive the party at 11 p.m.  How crazy is that right!  If you’re going to do this, always hire a waiter to do the job for you, or ask some relative to help you with that.  Of course there are companies that do this for you too, they prepare the food, and serve it.

The DJ

Ask your video guy to recommend you  a DJ. Or hire one that you know from a friends party.   Hire one that has a good light show, or plenty of lights to make the place feel like a party.  When it comes to hiring dj’s, ask about their onstage personality, and see if you like it.   This is important since, sometimes people say.  “No hablaba nada” or “Man, He didn’t shut up”.   This is very true, some people want all the introductions there can be, announcement for every part of the event, etc.   and many people want the dj, just to dj and be silent.

The Quinceanera Invitations

There is no party without guests right!  Order your invitations 2-3 months in advance, people usually do it in 2 months in advance, but many others do it the same month, please don’t leave it to the very last 2 weeks, since you have to allow one week for production and another week for shipping.   Many homemade invitations take even longer to make, allow 2-3 weeks for production and one week for shipping.   If you’re ordering online, double check your names and last names, since this is the thing the stores don’t change.  If you’re planning on having your padrinos on your invitations, choose an invitation with plenty of space, if not any invitation will do.

Ok, I think you can make a party now, you have all the basics, a dress, a place, the food, the dj, some one to video tape it, guests, of course there are many things left to do, but we’ll talk about them later.  Feel free to browse around and read many other of our posts, happy quinceanera planning!

Si todavia no tienes tus quince, checa estas nuevas invitaciones de QuinceaneraInvites.com.   No te olvides entrar el codigo: freeship en la pagina de QuinceaneraInvites.com para obtener envio gratis, un ahorro de $10 dolares.  Estas invitaciones son magneticas, es algo diferente, estan super padres. Tus invitados las pegan en su refri, y no hay forma que se les olvide tu cumple.

Estas invitaciones de abajo son como tipo pasaporte, muy bonita tambien.

Checa este video de como hacer el nudo de corbata, ha muchos tipos de nudos pero este es uno de los mas faciles y rapidos.

Si tus invitaciones dicen vestir para sorprender, quiere decir que vallas lo mejor vestido.  Tambien puede decir: vestir formal, vestir formalmente, vestir adecuado para la ocasion.  Cuando se especifica algo en las invitaciones, por lo minimo es no llevar tenis  o t-shirt.  Si eres padrino o madrina esto es mucho mas importante ya que tal vez tengas que bailar un vals y seguramente te tomaran una foto.

Mucha gente utiliza hasta dos mudas, una para la iglesia y otra para la fiesta. La ropa para la iglesia simpre es mas formal, blusas sin mucho escote, faltas largas y no tan pegadas.  El siguinte post, se va hablar de las corbadas y como hacer el nudo.

Check out the following new quinceanera invitations:

This zebra invitations will match your zebra theme, plenty of space for list of corte de honor and padrinos, all colors available!

Credit Card Quinceanera Invitations, very cool invitation.

These two quinceanera invitations are very cool and new.  If you need to place a long list of padrinos then the credit card invite is not a good option, since the size o it is very small.  Now, check out the pic that they used, cool right!!  Forget about putting a boring pic on this one, get a crazy pic from your facebook profile and your invites will look crazy cool.

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So you have decided to order your invitations with your picture. Follow the following tips and your invitations will come up great.

Photo Resolution
The photo resolution is very important, take a look at your camera or phone and it usually says what resolution of pictures it can take, here the bigger number the better. A 2 megapixel picture will be fine but a 4 megapixel picture is even better. Go into your camera setting and select the the biggest size you have. Select L for Large.

Phone Pictures
Some phones, the ones with high megapixels take ok pictures, but most don’t so be careful, hold well your phone and take a bunch of pictures in the highest size you have available. Don’t send the picture by phone since it will be cropped and it will be no good to reproduce. The better thing to do here is to take the pic with your phone, then transfer it to your pc and then send it away.

Best Way to Take Pictures
If you have a digital camera then take your picture with that, it will be better than taking it with your cell phone. If you have an old film camera then those are fine too, but when you develop it ask for a cd with your pics, so you can email them later.

Pictures Already on Paper
These are great too, all you have to do is scan them if you have a scanner. Remember to can pictures at 300 dpi, search for these setting on your scanner program. If you don’t have a scanner then go to your local pharmacy and they usually can scan them for you, or have a scanner for you to use.

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Ok, if you have received a quinceanera invitation and in it it says, LLuvia de Sobres. This means that they prefer money instead of presents. I think this idea comes from south america but we’re not sure. Some people like the idea but others don’t. So what do you think, leave your comment below.