How To Plan Your Wedding 8 Things You Need to Do!
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under wedding
What you are about to read will help you to get your wedding plans started and keep you organized.
Planning your wedding is not an easy task. In fact, it can be quite stressful and a trying time, especially as your big day gets closer and closer.
Couples are very concerned and worry about coordinating all the details and make sure everything goes to plan.
To help you get started and on track here are 8 things you need to do:
Step 1: Setting the date -
One of the most important details of the wedding you and your spouse have to decide upon is the actual date of the wedding.
This should be taken cared of first and the factors in choosing a date includes the availability of the venue where the wedding will take place and the availability of friends and family.
Step 2: The Budget-
This is also a very important step, even before you start to make your plans. Know how much you want to spend for each detail of your wedding.
With the average wedding costing approximately $20,000 you certainly want to setup a budget for each detail so you don’t find yourself over extending.
Step 3: Your Venue -
Where your wedding will take place. Looking for a place to have your wedding certainly is important and it is also the biggest chunk of your budget besides your honeymoon. But there are ways to reduce this cost. Here are a few tips to help with your decision when choosing your venue.
Some venues will offer you a discount on days when traditionally weddings are not held. Also the time of year and day will also become a factor in this expense.
For example, certain weekdays and Sunday, as well as mornings and afternoon receptions are typically cheaper. Another point, usually after a holiday, is not considered a peak time and again the price tends to be less expensive.
Step 4: The size of your wedding -
It is very important to talk with your future spouse about the size of your wedding that you both have in mind. A dream wedding for one may not be that of the other.
So it is important to discuss these details regarding the arrangement of the wedding such as, location of the venue/reception, the number of people who get invited, and the choice of entertainment.
Step 5: Photographs/Videographer -
Sure your friends and family will be taking pictures and some of them will own camcorders. But for this special occasion you will want to consider a professional because you want something very special,lasting and visually presentable.
Step 6: The cake -
Don’t forget the cake! When in search for your wedding cake it’s best to have a tasting first, before settling on a cake. To make this fun invite some friends and family to the tasting!
Step 7: Ordering wedding invitations -
If you want to get creative, you can always print your own invites. This way you can customize them and add your own personal touch to them.
Step 8: Your wedding attire -
Don’t forget to start looking for your wedding gown months before the wedding day. This way you will have plenty of time to make a selection and take care of fitting.
Also, the groom should make arrangements for either buying or renting a tuxedo. Just in case you encounter some trouble with the fitting, you would have some time to make other arrangements.
There you have it. 8 steps to get you started on your wedding plans. Planning your own wedding is really not difficult, being organized and knowing what steps to take when, certainly reduces the stress involved.
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Should You Have a Big or Small Wedding
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under wedding
Once you have decided to get married, you will have a lot of decisions to make about the wedding ceremony. The first is whether it should be big or small.
A wedding ceremony is one of those events that have always been steeped in tradition. In the classic version, all the people that are important are invited. On top of that, all the people in your extended family are also invited. This includes all such people for both the groom and the bride. Once you put it all together, you can be looking at a wedding with 200 people or more. This can result in a wonderful celebration of your bond, but it has some downsides.
A wedding with over 200 people is going to be expensive. If you doubt this, take a moment to consider the simple cost of feeding 200 people at the reception. Now also take into account the size and cost of the location for the ceremony. How about the reception? Simply put, it can quickly add up. The total cost of a wedding of this size can easily come in at $50,000 or more. Obviously, you can trim here and there when planning it, but you should still expect a significant expense.
One step more and more couples are taking is to forgo the traditional wedding. The thought of spending so much money on a one day event is simply too much. Instead, the couples usually look to more practical uses for the money in their new life together. The primary practicality is using the money for a down payment on a new home where they can live and start accumulating wealth as the home grows in value.
So, what is the correct choice? Well, it depends on your personal taste. For some couples, the wedding represents the most glorious day of their lives and they want the celebration to be the ultimate representation of their commitment to each other. For others, a more subtle celebration is enough with the purchase of a home being a better way to get their life together off on the right foot.
At the end of the day, the decision is really yours to make. If you want a big wedding, then do it. If you prefer to use the money in other ways, go ahead. As long as you both are happy with your decision, it is the right answer.
Fernando Bellingham is with Wedding Yeti - a directory of wedding photographers and other wedding resources.
Tags: big, cost, down payment, expense, marriage, money, small, traditional, traditions, weddingA Wedding Theme Can Rescue Your Wedding from Being Another Ho-Hum-Boring Disaster
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under wedding
Are you a Bride-to-Be? Wonderful! Congratulations! But what’s that enormous cloud hanging over you? Of course! It’s that insurmountable task you’re thinking about all the time: “How am I going to create a beautiful and memorable Wedding Day out of thin air?”
You have to create a unique day that everyone will admire and enjoy, and you’ve not got a clue, not a smidgen of an idea how you’re going to achieve this enormous task.
If you’re nervous about getting your wedding perfect, if you’re feeling stressed, are more than a little anxious, are worried about how to please everyone and still really-imploringly-desperately want to end up with a day that’s all about the Love that You and Your Only Man have for each other, rest assured that you are definitely going to get there! Yes, even though you don’t know how right now.
Every Bride-to-Be who’s set their Wedding date knows how difficult it is to get started figuring out how their Wedding day will look, and feel and sound and taste.
No Bride-to-Be wants a disastrous Wedding day. Sadly, they do happen often enough.
Nor do you want a day that is so nothing special that none of the guests really remembers what happened at your wedding: because there was nothing special to remember, to recount, to tell others about. Of course, the guests came. And of course, they seemed to enjoy themselves - after all, they ate and they drank. Some even danced. And then they went off to their own homes. And that was the end. Nothing. Very few of your guests had anything special to say about the Big Event in your life. Just another ho-hum wedding.
Of course, you’re thinking: “How can I put together a day that will be totally so unique, so special, so memorable that all our guests will be talking about this Wedding for years to come? Would be easy if I had a couple million for a budget: I’d just get the best wedding planner money can buy and, voila! But how is a magnificent wedding going to happen, especially with the budget we’ve got?”
Coming up with a wedding that looks, feels, sounds, smells, and tastes unique, different, memorable for everyone can be a virtually impossible, especially if you’ve not a clue where to begin.
Of course, you know what you want!
You want the colors and hues of your wedding to show off your personal favorites and make you feel ten times as beautiful as you have felt in his arms. And you want every one of your guests to enjoy looking at the wonderful choices you have made, and ooh & ah over them in honest appreciation.
You want your wedding invitations, decorations, flowers, in fact, every bit of your Wedding Day, to convey the unique emotions that you and your man alone feel. The Beauty and Love that is You and Your Man. That is the feeling you want to share with all your guests, have them drop their jaws with amazement, surprise and delight, wherever they look!
In short, you want to create your own piece of History, your own Royal Celebration in your own segment of Society.
So, where do you begin?
To answer that question, look to those who are already doing it every day for a living: the Wedding Planner. Where would a professional wedding planner begin?
She would leaf through her little black book of Wedding Themes. That’s what she’d do.
And that’s where you need to start, (especially if you’ve got other ideas for spending the massive fees that a Wedding Planner would charge.)
The What and Why of Wedding Themes:
A Theme to a Wedding is like a signature tune that plays and replays, softly, quietly, hauntingly but repeatedly, throughout a movie or opera. And then, when you walk back home from the show, you find yourself humming that same tune. And it stays with you, appears in your head at odd moments of time, and brings back the memories of special scenes from the show, time and time again.
Without a theme, a show is doomed from the start, like a movie without music, or an opera without an orchestra humming away in the pit.
A theme pulls the show together into a single Celebration, which, though it be made of many separate parts, still belong together.
A Wedding with a theme is remembered, cherished and relished in the hearts and memories of the guests who are privileged to have been invited to such an event.
A theme sets the stage for the Bridal Couple, encases the Couple’s Love for each other like an elegant frame surrounds a prized painting or beloved photograph.
So start thinking. And doing. Utilize the Power of Themes to make your Wedding Day beautiful, romantic, and historic. Put together what you need for your wedding day. Now paint it with the colors of your theme, be it a Spring Theme, an Oriental Theme, or any other. Let every aspect of your Wedding Day reflect your chosen theme, as far as is possible.
Yes, you will get excited doing all this. And think about your guests! They will be overawed at the event you have created. And they will remember. They will tell others, discuss, praise.
Most importantly they will enjoy. And remember.
Go and do it: Utilize the Power of Themes to raise your wedding celebration a couple of notches above the rest.
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