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A very special day in your life, a day that will always be
remembered, cherished and memories that will last for a life
time. Yea! It’s your wedding day, your big and the biggest
event most of you people will ever plan, enjoy or endure it.
No doubt you will find an end number of books and loads and
loads of information noted down about wedding or how to plan
your wedding filled with endless wedding tips but this site
will give you added information for all your wedding needs.
Be smart enough and think wisely, that this is the first
time you are going to plan your wedding. So to avoid any confusion
think when you are going to start planning your wedding and
think of your budget as to how much you are going to spend
on your wedding. If you have enough, spend the amount wisely.
1. Remember! Your wedding is like a grand event, though this
will sound a bit stupid but this is a fact! You slog almost
a year ahead planning and trying your best to see that everything
is put up very elegantly and in the right place only for the
sake of your invites, even if it cost you a lot you will make
sure that. So here are a few wedding tips for you. Forget
about everyone and focus more on the women who are going to
attend your wedding and make sure that you impress this particular
lot and that will bring success to your wedding.
2. There are somethings you will not be able to compromise,
so where you have to spend you will have to blow some notes
and think it’s a real waste of money that cant be helped
but don’t panic since now a days both the families are
equally involved in sharing the cost of the wedding expenditure.
3. There is a saying that nothing guarantees success, but
if there is lack of planning than you will definitely guarantee
gloomy failure. So plan, plan and plan for every possible
detail that you come across making sure you have made a complete
checklist. If you start your planning very early than you
will have more options for everything and you could even re-negotiate
with some of your vendors.
4. Now comes the fixing of the wedding date, you will have
to consider somethings when planning your wedding date. A
few things that you will require to keep in mind are:
a) The wedding season, how will the weather treat you?
b) Whether all your friends and relatives can make it for
your wedding, or will they be caught up with their busy schedule
that will interfere with your date. Think of the most important
people you would not want to miss out for your wedding.
c) Check if there is no other event that will clash with
your wedding date that may cause confusion with traffic patterns
around your wedding reception or location, eg. If your planning
to have your wedding around carnival season then you will
face problems if its in your town since there will be a lot
of noise pollution and crowd that will disturb your wedding
environment.
d) Check when earliest your friends and relatives can come
before your wedding to avoid any travelling problems. For
eg. If you’re getting married in Dec. then due to Christmas
season there may be limited tickets for that period.
5. After you have your wedding date in mind, find out the
wedding hall you would wish to get married. If the wedding
hall is available then you’re very luck to have the
one you wish. Since people normally book them a year in advance.
6. Start asking for quotations with your wedding bands, wedding
DJ’s, wedding florists, wedding caterers etc. and take
in writing whatever is been discussed, find out any hidden
charges or additional charges for transportations and stuff
so that later there should be no change.
7. Coming to your wedding photography, now here you will
have to be very specific. Tell him approximately how many
photographs you would want to be clicked. There are photographers
who will capture every step you take and then have loads of
photographs given to you and a big fat bill too. If you have
a budget set aside for photography then you must tell him
how many photographs will be required. If more photographs
are clicked then for how much will he be charging you for
each copy.
8. Personalize your wedding ceremony as far as possible.
Try not to fall into excess: such as three or four voice solos,
giving away memorized speeches or singing songs to each other
or praising each other. Your emotions will sneak up on you,
no matter how calm you are even through a wedding rehearsal
the night before. There will be very few couples who will
blubber uncontrollably at the moment they are under pressure
to face each other and perform. Remember! A wedding is a grand
show, and you have to see to the overall performance.
9. During the nuptials if you have plan to have a friend
or relative taking part in the mass, as far as reading is
concern during the ceremony please have a rehearsal reading
to check for mispronounced words and clarity. And for the
love of all, make it short!
10. At the church, after the nuptials is over, instead of
asking all your scattered friends and relatives to gather
for photography, keep a friend or relative in charge of whom
you would like to take photographs with. This will avoid all
the confusion about running around calling each one for a
photograph and wasting precious time. Your guests will be
waiting for your photography to get over and wish you. Keep
in mind that your wedding is not over.
11. Don’t forget to take the advice of the groom so
that he has some involvement in the planning, even if his
advice is not considered.
12. Avoid all the fights you will come across during the
time of arguments and discussions for your wedding since it
will only spoil your mood.
13. Remember! This wedding is also joining of two different
entire families so respect each others views and if you both
are coming from different religion or background than celebrate
each side’s uniqueness and highlight the things in common.
14. It is very much important for the mothers to understand
that this is YOUR wedding. There are some mothers who will
want it their way, in this situation the best thing for you
to do is, back off and think carefully and as logically as
possible. Where ever it is possible try and contribute some
details if you want to see your mother's satisfaction and
make you feel happy rather than getting it your own way. But,
if it's something that you really want it the way your heart
says than, go ahead and cry desperately till you get your
own way.
15. Now that you’re done with your big day, you will
want to plan your honeymoon, don’t make a mistake of
planning it immediately since you both will be very tired
so don't plan to leave on your honeymoon immediately. This
invites disappointment and ill feelings since both of you
will be extremely exhausted right after the wedding. Wait
a few days, open gifts, sleep in late, slow down and rest
before you pack and take off on your honeymoon.
16. To windup - patience is the key to success, so have lot
of patience so plan, plan and plan, write down the details
and as far as possible try to divide the work into teams,
cooperate where and when needed and try to start planning
at least a year ahead to organize yourself. Remember one thing,
never assume anything, check for yourself and double check
for all possible snags and emergencies. Have a foresight of
unwanted situation that may crop up, be prepared to overcome
these IF & WHEN they happen!
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