Making your own wedding invitations can be a fun, bonding experience for you and your future husband, as well as saving you a lot of money in the process. Paperchase sells a wide range of beautiful art papers, with printed and metallic styles as well as stylish pressed flower varieties. They also sell all the things you will need to decorate them, from ribbon and skeleton leaves to wedding invitation making kits, which ensure you won't be able to put a foot wrong. Visit www.paperchase.co.uk. - 13/08/2009

The Ritual Rooms, just off Oxford Street near Selfridges, now offer a great hen party package where you can learn the techniques of professional pampering and experience the treatments afterwards! The Learn to Pamper Party (for groups of 4 - 8) includes the following:

• Exclusive use of The Ritual Rooms
• Learn to massage, manicure and pedicure your friends
• 1 ½ , 3 or 4 hour packages available
• 1 ½ hour package includes one massage, facial, manicure or pedicure lesson with refreshments = £55 per person
• 3 hour package includes massage or facial lesson and a pedicure or manicure lesson with refreshments = £75 per person
• 4 hour package includes massage or facial lesson, manicure and pedicure lesson with refreshments = £95 per person
• Afternoon tea or light lunch can be incorporated into your event
• Certificates for all in recognition of attending

Alternatively, if there are only 3 or 4 of you, you can have a small pampering party entirely bespoke to your needs, for £60 an hour per person. This includes:

• Exclusive use of The Ritual Rooms
• Time to relax together and experience between 2 and 5 hours of pampering. Just tell the Ritual therapists your desires and they will create the perfect bespoke package

Contact 0207 724 3884 or www.ritualrooms.com - 11/08/2009

Want a wedding album with "wow" factor? If you love reading about real-life brides, then how about seeing your own special day in print? With Your Wedding Story Book, you can have your wedding story written by a journalist and created into a beautiful coffee-table book.

All you need to do is send in a high-resolution CD of your wedding photographs, after which a writer will interview you about your day - asking everything from the smallest details to your favourite moments, funny anecdotes and your emotions - and write up your story. It will then be published in three hardback coffee table books. Prices from £750 to £1,350, depending on the length of the story and size of the books.

For more information, visit yourweddingstorybook.com. - 11/08/2009