It’s a little late to plan a holiday wedding for this year (never fear, there is still time to plan a holiday eloping) but the timing is just about right to begin planning for your 2010 holiday wedding! Whether you’re looking for a wassail-filled, red and green Christmas celebration or an icy, snow, silk-and-pearls winter wonderland, we want to point you in the right direction to kickstart your planning.

Check with our friends over at The Knot for their holiday wedding resource guide to pore over dozens and dozens of inspirational pictures and ideas. Their photos of holiday cakes and reception food are particularly good! Here are some of our favorites:

Courtesy of The Knot

Courtesy of The Knot

Courtesy of The Knot

For more food, wine, and cake ideas for a holiday wedding, head over to The Knot!

Did you have a holiday wedding? Do you like the idea? What would be on your ideal menu?

Over the weekend, we here at SPA WEEK asked for your favorite little luxury and promised that in exchange for telling us, we’d enter you to win this little necklace and bracelet set…and you responded in droves. Almost like you wanted to win free jewelry. It was strange!

In order to qualify to win the jewelry, you had to respond to the post with your favorite luxury AND be following us on Twitter or be a fan of us on Facebook. We picked a winner at random from those respondents, and we are happy to announce it is…TBSG (@TBSG on Twitter)!

She said:

My favorite little luxury of late is a sugar scrub treatment in the shower every week or so. I LOVE the way my skin feels afterword!

Congrats! E-mail michelle at spaweekmedia dot com to claim your spangly prize…and for those of you who didn’t win, don’t despair! Check our our monthly giveaways for more amazing stuff to win this month. And check back frequently, as we’re all about giving things away!

Some of our other favorite little luxuries included:

My favorite “little luxury” is getting a hot stone pedicure with the latest hot polish color.–Joanne

My favorite luxury is getting into bed on a Sunday and watching all the shows on my DVR while giving myself a facial treatment!–Jeannette Krokus

My favorite little luxuries are my slippers and snuggie, it’s freezing today in NYC and I’m wearing both right now! –Sberkley

My favorite little luxury is spending time with my family over the holidays. It’s hard to be away from them all year so I treasure the time I have during the holiday season.–SCasarella

My little pleasure…getting to sleep in an extra few minutes during a teaching week. I know I should be up at 6AM, but getting up at 6:20 is oh….so nice.–stacykasse

My little luxuries are very little but worth the world to me. Sitting back and listening to an Elton John CD, making homemade Chai Tea and sipping it slowly while listening to Jill Scott and the final one is having a longer shower every Sunday morning …I usually limit shower time to save water but Sundays I let myself spend all the time I like in there!–annet

My favorite little luxury is my expensive shampoos and conditioners that I don’t share with my family (shhhhh)–happyenchilada

Little luxuries are all around us if you know where to look - be it a bright red lipstick that makes you feel like a movie star on a Monday morning, a mini-facial that makes you glow inside and out, or a book that takes you to the other side of the world. These tiny everyday gems are anxiously waiting to be discovered by you and wrapped with a bow, and each chapter of the LLGG seeks to deliver a new morsel of inspiration to you and your holiday season. Fancy shmancy is out; it’s those legendary “small packages” that hold the key to a perfect season of giving.

So here we are. We've reached the very last chapter of the Little Luxury Gift Guide. From lip gloss to avocado mashers Beatles Rockband, to everything in between... we hope we've inspired some festive, thoughtful gift-giving this holiday season! We're down to ONE... the ULTIMATE gift, the gift that anyone would love and cherish.

Giving a Spa Week Gift Card means giving way more than an afternoon of relaxation or beauty. It's giving health, wellness and prevention. It's giving the choice of any spa treatment they desire; it's giving a gift to improve the quality of their life. Our Gift Card sale is going on until December 22nd---$100 gift cards are available for just $80.

Check our Spa Week Steals & Deals page right now--- just look at 3 of the treatments you could be giving:

At Skin Therapie Spa in Coral Gables...
http://www.skintherapiespa.com/

Choice of 90 Min Skin Therapie Autumn-Winter Facial including 25 Min Back, Neck and Shoulder Massage and complimentary Fig-Cedar Velvet Emulsion Tube $100

At Spa Newbury in Boston, MA...
http://www.spanewbury.com/SpaWeek.html

Holiday Makeover Package. Includes Scrub, Massage, Reflexology and choice of Pedicure, Manicure, Extended Massage or Facial. $99

At Water Lily Spa in New York, NY...
http://www.waterlilyspa.us
50 Min Swedish Massage, 50 Min Deep Tissue Massage, 50 Min Deep Cleaning Facial, or 50 Min Hot Stone Massage. $50 each - they could get TWO!

See the rest of the Spa Week Steals & Deals here. Be well, give well, and have a very happy holiday.

Welcome to the Zit List, where we tell you exactly what to think about events, people, and things that happened this week.

Double Down…and Split
If you’re planning to head to Monte Carlo and win big at the slots this weekend, not only are you probably bad at mathematical odds, but you also might not even be guaranteed any money you win. After a six-month argument on the matter, a French court split slot machine winnings between the woman who put the money in the machine and the man who pulled the lever. As they say: if you want something done right, pull the lever yourself.
Rating: 4 zits

What’s the Dark Matter?
Scientists announced they may very well have found dark matter in a mine in Minnesota. If the presence of dark matter is confirmed, this could be a Nobel-level breakthrough for science. It would also be absolute confirmation that the universe is way cooler than originally thought.
Rating: 1 zits

Monster Dreams
Let no one tell you those YouTube videos you upload of yourself talking about your feelings are a waste of time! A Uraguayan producer who uploaded a short film depicting aliens attacking Montevideo has just gotten a $30million Hollywood contract. Gotta love a Cinderella story; now let’s hope the movie’s good…
Rating: 0 zits

The Looks Have It
A study finds that for urban women, attractiveness plays a significant role in networking, employment, and social connections. This isn’t the surprising part – what’s surprising is that the study found the same didn’t hold true for women in rural areas, who tended to be part of tighter-knit communities. Regardless of where we live, don’t we all want to be treated based on personality rather than face? Boo!
Rating: 5 zits

It’s been so wonderful getting to know you all over the past couple months since I’ve been at Spa Week! So much so, that I would love to send every single one of you a holiday present. But… since it would be hard to do that, I shopped around for my favorite pieces from Lia Sophia’s hot new Midnight II collection (I have expensive taste) and am going to give them away to one of you reading right now.

Check out the full collection of modern, glamorous, eighties-inspired jewelry at liasophia.com

THE PRIZE:

Triangle Chain 40″ Necklace with Navy Enamel and Black Diamond Crystals in Matte Gold – $850

Triangle Stretch Bracelet with Navy Enamel and Black Diamond Crystals in Matte Gold – $500

TO WIN:

You have to do a little gift exchange with Spa Week Daily:

1. First, in the spirit of bringing little luxuries to everyday life, tell us in the comments section below: What’s your favorite “little luxury”? However you define it.

2. The second gift to us: Follow us @SPAWEEK on Twitter! Write your @twitter name HERE and tell us you’re following, and then tweet:

Dear @SPAWEEK, I really hope I win this JEWELRY! http://ow.ly/Nolg

(If you’re not on Twitter, that’s okay. Just make sure you’re a fan of Spa Week on Facebook, and tell us so here. We still love you and you can still win.)

This contest will end Sunday (12/20) at midnight, EST. Winner will be chosen at random and announced on Monday.