Friday 17 June 2011

How to Plan a Wedding

A wedding ceremony is the most memorable moment of your life. You will always want the wedding to be a grand success, with everyone from family to friends and office colleagues attending it. Once the wedding planning starts, you start feeling the confusion about where to hold the ceremony indoors or outdoors, what to wear, the decorations, etc. But, a little bit of careful and cautious planning will ensure that it turns out to be fun rather than disorderly. Here are a few things you need to keep in mind to make this day a grand success.

Decide the Date and Location

One of the very first steps, after you have decided to get married, is to fix the date of the wedding. It is advisable to keep an rain date, in case of any contingency. As soon as the dates are decided, inform your near and dear ones, so that they can make advance plans to attend the wedding. After the wedding date, comes the question of the location, where the ceremony will be held. Now, it is here that you need to first decide on the amount you can spend on the wedding. If you have a reasonably good budget, then an outdoor wedding is a good idea. An outdoor wedding will obviously cost you a bit more plus, if the weather isn't co-operative, it will be a problem. The best solution to this is, plan a location which has an outdoor as well as an indoor facility or in a desert locations around Las Vegas, where the chances of rain interruption in nil.

Decide on the Type of Wedding

Once, the date and location have been decided, it's time to ponder over the kind of ceremony that the couple would prefer. There are a lot of issues that would tackled best, if the couple brainstorm over them. Some of the issues which need to be discussed are 'What would be the theme of the wedding?', 'Who will look after the decorations?', 'Who will prepare the menu?', 'Who will find a good caterer?', 'Who will look after the invitations?', etc. It is convenient to hold the dinner, where the ceremony will be held. This saves a lot of time. Choose a place which can accommodate a few extra people. Your wedding reception hall should not look overcrowded. The reservations should be made well in advance, as it could get difficult to book a banquet hall at short notice. Keep a list of contact numbers of all people, whom you want to send invitations to. The content of the invitation should be short and sweet. You can make the invitations creative by adding a romantic poem. Providing a map of the venue can be a helpful plus for your guests.

After you have confirmed the number of guests who are attending the reception, it's time to search for a caterer. Catering is expensive; therefore, if you want to minimize the budget, you can plan a simple but elegant menu, keeping in mind the likes and dislikes of your guests.

It is also important to catch these lovely moments in video or in photographs. Therefore, you will need to hire a professional wedding photographer. Don't get a photographer because his services are cheap. Even if, a good photographer charges a little more, hire his services because at the end of the day, he is the one who will be taking the pictures that you will cherish for the rest of your life.

Decide on What to Wear

The bride is always preoccupied with the thought of 'what to wear on the day of the wedding'. The bride should be the most beautiful person at the wedding ceremony. Choosing a wedding dress may be a very confusing affair, but it is always best to go out shopping with your mother or one of your friends. Don't involve too many people as it will create a lot of confusion. The contemporary fashion is the open-shoulder look, where the straps of the wedding gown or dress do not cover the shoulders. This gives the bride a sensual, yet classy look. You can opt for a designer wedding dress too, but if you have a tight budget, renting the dress is another good option.

Hire a Wedding Planner

If you are a working person and think you will have difficulty in arranging the details, you can hire a wedding planner. A wedding planner is a consultant who plans the wedding for the bride and groom, and ensures that the wedding goes exactly the way the couple want. He/she will go over all the details with the couple, right from the wedding vows, to cutting the wedding cake at the reception.

Plan the wedding, in such a way that you have an extra day to relax before the wedding. After all, it's your wedding and you want it to be perfect.

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