The wedding day is one of the most critical days in a person’s life. Ever since the fixation of the wedding date, people start planning how to make the day grand from all aspects, from selecting the venue to preparing the guest list or choosing the buffet and bar service, hiring a party rental company, picking the best costumes everything becomes so crucial on a special day,

What exactly may go wrong?

You might have been dreaming of your big day a lot. But you never know when one of the guests may get drunk and create a scene or even the flower girl may throw a fit right before walking down the aisle. Things might get worse anytime, and beyond your control!

Five weirdest of wedding party incidents from the past

Many people in the United States have some of the wildest wedding party stories, but by no means at all, they have a kind of monopoly on it. Too many people also across the world have such stories to share. Below are some weird wedding party stories from all over the world.

  • A series of mishaps

Mishaps kept on taking place in the wedding ceremony of an American couple. A page boy turned all blue and immediately collapsed in front of the bride. Then the groom’s mother collapsed all of a sudden during the wedding photo session. After that, one of the guests received a text message with the sad news that his father had passed away. All these were not enough to make the wedding terrible. At their reception, the couple’s little son’s head got injured after a glass cover knocked down on him. Some hours later their daughter cut her head open.

  • Deck collapsed dropping people in a muddy lake

A wedding couple along with 80 guests including a baby collapsed into a muddy lake when the wooden deck they all were standing on collapsed. Stunned bystanders immediately jumped into the water and helped the guests. Fortunately, only one guest got slightly hurt, and the rest were fine.

  • Registrar denied continuing with the ceremony

A bride lightheartedly replied ‘I don’t’ in her wedding, and the Father immediately denied going ahead with the ceremony. As per an Austrian law of preventing forced weddings if either party answers negatively, the marriage gets canceled and can only be rescheduled after ten weeks. Therefore, the entire ceremony had to be called off, and the guests were requested to return home.

  • Groom set the reception hotel on fire

A groom in Japan set the party tent rental NY of the reception hotel on fire to avoid the wedding ceremony. Since he was already married, he wasn’t willing to get married again. Instead of saying ‘No,’ he chose to commit this horrible crime! Thankfully, nobody was hurt in the incident of setting the hotel on fire.

  • Bride brought down a plane

An Italian couple had hired a micro-light airplane to merely fly past and drop the bouquet of flowers on the women guests. But unfortunately, the flowers got stuck in the plane’s engine and caused it to crash catching fire. The aircraft hit a hostel, but luckily, everyone was safe except for one passenger.

Even after a lot of plans, things may go wrong anytime on your wedding day. Real life hardly always offers people the luxury to experience a fairytale wedding!

Are you planning to organize an outdoor kids party, here are some fun game ideas. Whether you have the party in the backyard, park or in the beach, these fun games are timeless can make your kids outdoor party a big hit. These ideas work for picnic parties with family reunions, friends or other social gatherings.

Moon Bounce

The first and foremost outdoor game for kids includes the moon bounce where kids can go to enjoy. You can simply get renting a moon bounce close to your location or if it provides the mobile facility, it can serve you to your backyard and in a close-by park.

Before renting a moon bounce, it is wise to search, which type of equipments it has and whether it is safe enough for your kids.

Popcorn Drop

It is a relay race and really enjoyable for kids to play this game. It includes about 4 to 8 players in this game. It needs to prepare the shoe cups with its two pairs.

The plastic cups are provided with holes. In this game, players are divided into two teams. A team will get the win when it gets the popcorn bag empty.

Silly Sack Race

This kid’s game helps them feel energized for party mood. This game makes kids laugh a lot. Garnish plain potato sacks that can suit the party theme. Use iron or fabric glue to stick shapes to the sacks.

Give a potato sack to each child. At the opening point, have kids bound to a marked path and keep the path clean.

Clothes Pin Tag

It is quite an easy fun game. In this game, each kid is provided with decorated clothes pin on his back with craft foam, Googly eyes or markers.

In this game, kids have to snatch the pins of others clothes and be ensure that you do not lose yours. A kid with more clothes pins at the end wins.

Disk Tic-Tac-Toe

Tic-Tac-Toe is considered as the best for kid’s outdoor birthday party. A shower curtain and flying disks make it a fun party game. You can use duct tape to block any space on curtain liner. Use different color for teams to easily differentiate them.

Players have to stand behind the throw line and follow the tic-tac-toe rules. If your disk puts off in a pre-occupied square, you can throw it again.

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Bugs and bark, dandelions and dried leaves, pinecones and pebbles that kids like to adore in outdoor activity. Organize the kid’s party in the outdoors with the nature scavenger hunt.

Equip a team or child with a treasure box, bag or a list. You can offer tools including binoculars, disposable cameras, and magnifying glasses to get the close observation. Fix a time limit and put teams to explore. Display what kid’s finds till party continues. It would be more cheering to offer prizes, if any team of kid complete his / she ‘list to explore’.

Birthday Tip

Do the research well to ensure that kid’s outdoor party is challenging and enjoyable to the kids. You can also get the search online for more tips and ideas.

A waxy substance found in the lipids in your blood is known as cholesterol. Though body needs certain amount of cholesterol for building healthy cells, excess of cholesterol can be dangerous and can lead to heart disease. High cholesterol level leads to fatty deposits in blood vessels which eventually make hindrance to the flow of blood through arteries. Your heart may not be able to get enough oxygen rich blood needed for proper functioning. This can lead to heart problems. Decreased blood flow can also lead to stroke. Most often high cholesterol level in blood can be inherited. It can also be as a result of unhealthy life styles without proper dieting and exercising.

Causes for high cholesterol level

Cholesterol travels through blood attaching them to proteins. This combination is called lipoprotein. There are different types of cholesterol. They are low density lipoprotein and high density lipoprotein.

LDL cholesterol: LDL or bad cholesterol carries cholesterol particles and builds up plaques in the artery walls making it hard and narrow.

HDL cholesterol:  HDL or good cholesterol takes excess cholesterol and brings it back to your liver. Factors like low activity level, obesity, unhealthy diet etc. keeps the HDL cholesterol to lower levels. And contribute to the increase in LDL cholesterol and Risk factors

There are some important factors which contribute for the increase in cholesterol levels. Some of them are discussed below.

Poor diet:  Saturated fats found in animal products and Trans fats found in cookies and crackers will rise your cholesterol level. Similarly foods like red meat, dairy products etc are also capable of increasing your cholesterol level.

Obesity: People with an obesity index greater than 30 are at a greater risk of high cholesterol

Larger waist:  A man who has his waist circumference greater that 40 inches and a woman with a waist circumference more than 35 inches are prone to the ill effects of high cholesterol.

Lack of exercises:  A person who regularly engages in physical activities like running, jogging etc or a person who regularly goes to gym or do exercises regularly are likely to have control over the good cholesterol resulting in its increased availability. Similarly exercises also increase the thickness of bad cholesterol particles which is very good and less harmful.

Smoking:  Regular smoking of cigarettes can result in the damages of your blood vessels making them capable of accumulating fatty deposits. Smoking reduces level of good cholesterol.

Diabetes: High level of sugar in blood can increase in LDL cholesterol and decrease in HDL cholesterol. High blood sugar can also cause damages to your arteries linings.

If you have many large oak trees, they might drop a lot of acorns to the extent that you feel like hiring a tree removal company to get rid of the trees. Before you decide to remove the tree, you should try controlling the acorns on your yard.

One of the main reasons why many homeowners want to get rid of the trees is because the acorns destroy their yards. For you to keep your yard clean, you should come up with measures to pick the acorns as soon as they drop.

Tips on how to pick the acorns

There are plenty of ways in which you can pick the acorns. Some of these ways include:

Lawn sweeper: If you already have a lawn mower, a lawn sweeper will greatly help you in getting rid of acorns from your yard. All you need to do is to attach the sweeper to your lawnmower and it will follow the mower from behind.

The sweeper will collect twigs, acorns, leaves, and any other materials that might come across. When you are buying the sweepers, there are plenty of them in the market that you can go for. There are those that use a suction device and others that rely on the scooping action to complete the task.

Leaf vacuum: Also known as a lawn vacuum, the leaf vacuum is used in collecting leaves, but you can also use it to vacuum up the acorns. The machine is powered by a small motor and after sucking up the debris, it directs it to the attached bag.

When you are buying or renting the machine, you should ensure that the motor is powerful enough to retrieve the acorns.

Rake: Raking the acorns is highly effective, but it’s often ignored by many people as its slow, especially if you have many oak trees that are dropping plenty of acorns.

You should use raking when you have just a few trees. After gathering the acorns into a pile, you should then scoop them using your hands or shovel.

Tarps: If you don’t want to go through the trouble of collecting the acorns after they have fallen off the trees, you should simply place a tarp beneath the base of the trees. After the acorns have fallen on the tarp, your next move should be to fold and empty the tarp.

You can rake the acorns into piles and dispose them in a green waste or compost bin.

Nut gatherer: This is a manual device that is made up of a long pole and cage that rolls along the surface of the lawn. When you pass the weasel over the acorns, the acorns are collected inside the basket. You should empty the basket as soon as it gets full.

How to control the annoying oak tree

You might be having too many trees or the trees might be producing a lot of acorns than you can handle. In such a case, you have to control the acorn production.

One of the ways of doing it is to use chemicals. There are plenty of chemicals in the market that you can use to reduce the number of acorns produced. The chemicals work in different ways, but in most cases, they stop the maturation of the fruits.

If you have tried to control the production of acorns and still the trees are still going on with acorn production, you have no way out but to hire a tree services MD professional to remove the tree.

When hiring the professional, ensure that he/she is certified and experienced enough to safely remove the tree without damaging the surrounding buildings.

While the trees provide shade and provide your home with character, if you don’t want to deal with acorns, you should avoid planting them in your yard.