Outdoor weddings can be wonderful! Depending on the size of the wedding, you can choose a parent or relative’s backyard, a park, lake area, country club, garden, or local nature preserve. There are many different settings that can work great with your wedding decorations and wedding accessories. Choosing an outdoor setting is a great option and can often help save you some money as well. However, make sure that you don’t end up paying too much on all of the “extras” that the location might not include! Some questions you may want to ask are:
Do they have a place for the bridal party to get ready?
Is the ceremony staging or aisle runners included?
Do they have a tent or additional option in the even of inclement weather?
Are their ceremony chairs?
Set up or rental fees?
Do they have chairs, tables, and service for the reception that will go with your wedding decorations?
Do they require a wedding coordinator for planning or for the day of the wedding? Is that included?
Do they have a catering service?
Do they allow you to bring in food?
Do they have bar service and fee’s for alcohol and bartenders?
Do they have music or DJ services?
Even if you end up with a cheap location, you might end up feeling overwhelmed by all of the additional charges that might come up. So make sure to check before booking the place and paying your deposit. Enrich your wedding with an outdoor wedding with beautiful wedding decorations and wedding accessories!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Advice on Having an Outdoor Wedding
If you are having an outdoor wedding you want to make sure that you and your guests are comfortable and that you wedding accessories and wedding decorations fit the theme. Here are a few tips to accomplish this goal.
Consider not choosing high heals to wear with your dress. If it has just rained, or the lawn was recently watered, you might sink down into the soft ground. You may also want to avoid purchasing a dress with a train. It will gather the dirt and grass as you walk. If you would still like to wear a dress with a train, make sure that you include an aisle runner in your wedding accessories.
Choose a season that has appropriate weather in the area you live in. Also choose a time of day that will be comfortable for the guests. Mid-day is usually too hot and nights may be a little too cold. Dusk is probably the best time.
You will want to consider putting a note in the invitation informing your guests what to expect. For example, if it is going to be in the evening as the sun is setting you might encourage the guests to bring an extra sweater as it might get cooler when the sun sets. You might also encourage them to wear comfortable shoes or to bring sunscreen if the wedding is in the middle of the day.
Before your wedding day, make sure to visit the location at the same time of day as the ceremony. You want to make sure that you won’t have guests that are blinded by the sun! If you do find that the sun will be too hot for your guests, or that it will be in their eyes, you might consider placing seats under a canopy, or in a shaded area.
Bugs may be an issue to consider as well-- especially for an evening wedding. You can hire an exterminator before your wedding day or include citronella candles in your wedding decorations.
Make sure that you check if the facility has enough restrooms. If not, you might consider renting a port-a-potty. You can add some fresh flowers, wedding decorations, and some perfumed hand soap to help, but a port-a-potty is better than no potty!
Even though an outdoor wedding can be wonderful, you want to make sure that it not only looks nice with the perfect setting and perfect wedding decorations, but that it feels nice as well!
Consider not choosing high heals to wear with your dress. If it has just rained, or the lawn was recently watered, you might sink down into the soft ground. You may also want to avoid purchasing a dress with a train. It will gather the dirt and grass as you walk. If you would still like to wear a dress with a train, make sure that you include an aisle runner in your wedding accessories.
Choose a season that has appropriate weather in the area you live in. Also choose a time of day that will be comfortable for the guests. Mid-day is usually too hot and nights may be a little too cold. Dusk is probably the best time.
You will want to consider putting a note in the invitation informing your guests what to expect. For example, if it is going to be in the evening as the sun is setting you might encourage the guests to bring an extra sweater as it might get cooler when the sun sets. You might also encourage them to wear comfortable shoes or to bring sunscreen if the wedding is in the middle of the day.
Before your wedding day, make sure to visit the location at the same time of day as the ceremony. You want to make sure that you won’t have guests that are blinded by the sun! If you do find that the sun will be too hot for your guests, or that it will be in their eyes, you might consider placing seats under a canopy, or in a shaded area.
Bugs may be an issue to consider as well-- especially for an evening wedding. You can hire an exterminator before your wedding day or include citronella candles in your wedding decorations.
Make sure that you check if the facility has enough restrooms. If not, you might consider renting a port-a-potty. You can add some fresh flowers, wedding decorations, and some perfumed hand soap to help, but a port-a-potty is better than no potty!
Even though an outdoor wedding can be wonderful, you want to make sure that it not only looks nice with the perfect setting and perfect wedding decorations, but that it feels nice as well!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Picking Your Wedding Colors
When picking a colors for your wedding, make sure and pick something that will be appropriate not only for the season that you are getting married, but also for the formality of your wedding decorations and wedding accessories, and the commonness of the colors.
I've seen that some color choices are nice together, but then the bride gets frustrated when the colors that she picked don't match anything else. It might be because it is such a unique color that she can not find flowers, guestbooks, dresses, ties, vests, or any other wedding decorations or wedding accessories in that color or in a color that matches.
It is also nice, to plan way ahead. This will save you money on your wedding decorations and relieve your stress when the important planning needs to begin. Pick up things that will match your color scheme at the end of the previous year's season. For example, it is nice to get fall wedding decorations and wedding accessories at the end of the season on discount for your wedding the following fall.
This can be helpful in cutting costs in your wedding, as wedding vendors often try to discount inventory that is seasonal to prepare for the following season's new colors, styles and wedding accessories.
Pick a color that compliments you as a person, matches the rest of your colors, and is appropriate for the current season. Best of luck on your wedding planning!
I've seen that some color choices are nice together, but then the bride gets frustrated when the colors that she picked don't match anything else. It might be because it is such a unique color that she can not find flowers, guestbooks, dresses, ties, vests, or any other wedding decorations or wedding accessories in that color or in a color that matches.
It is also nice, to plan way ahead. This will save you money on your wedding decorations and relieve your stress when the important planning needs to begin. Pick up things that will match your color scheme at the end of the previous year's season. For example, it is nice to get fall wedding decorations and wedding accessories at the end of the season on discount for your wedding the following fall.
This can be helpful in cutting costs in your wedding, as wedding vendors often try to discount inventory that is seasonal to prepare for the following season's new colors, styles and wedding accessories.
Pick a color that compliments you as a person, matches the rest of your colors, and is appropriate for the current season. Best of luck on your wedding planning!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Remembering Those You Love
On your wedding day, are you looking to honor a family member or friend who has passed away? Are you wanting to honor them with a lit candle but would rather have a personalized memorial in their honor?
Here is a great solution: You can personalize a floating candle which can also serve later as a vase. You can have the name of the deceased engraved into an elegant vase and then put a white, or creamed colored candle to float in the vase depending on what goes best with your chosen color scheme.
This candle can be lit during or before the ceremony, but most commonly it is lit before and displayed in the lobby. Don't let this be a wedding decoration you go without!
It is a great way to let your family and friends know that you are missing and thinking of your loved one who is not able to be with you on your special day.
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