Inventiveness is endless when it comes to finding unique places for the wedding. It's only imagination sets limits.
Today's wedding couples want to have personally wedding venues that reflects who they are. Perhaps on a hilltop, on their golf course, on an exotic beach, in their own garden, on the ski slopes, in a castle, perhaps the local pub, on safari in Africa, on the hills of Tuscany, etc.
You have already found the magical place where you want to be married, but before you decide this wedding venue, you should consider whether it is practicable or not.
Questions to consider:- How many guests will be invited
- Size of the budget
- Do you want to have the ceremony and reception in the same place
- Does the decor fit your style and wedding colours
- Restaurant or catering
- Coat check and bathroom facilities
- Accessible for wheelchairs
- Enough parking spaces
- Room for dancing and/or orchestra
- Payment schedule, deposits, etc.
- Remember to read the contract carefully, before signing it (hidden costs, overtime charges, etc.)
- Sound system with adequate speakers
- Changing/Relaxing room for the bride and groom
- Is the wedding venue convenient to public transportation
- If the wedding venue is outdoors, is there a backup plan in case of bad weather
- Enough chairs for the ceremony, or must they be rented
- Be sure you have a private area for your ceremony and reception
Good luck with your planning of the wedding venue!
What can gild the autumn darkness better than an invitation to a wedding? The autumn is often a quite time when it comes to parties, so hopefully all your invited guests can attend at your wedding. Who will say no to a wedding in the autumn darkness?
The autumn is a glorious time for weddings. Frame your wedding with the nature’s colours – green, yellow, orange, red and brown. Use these colours in the bridal bouquet and the bridesmaid’s dresses.
Perhaps, you have the possibility to go to and fro the church by a horse-drawn carriage. Decorate the road and party site with cressets. An open fire in-doors and a lot of candles will of course increase the gorgeous atmosphere.
The wedding tables can be decorated with autumn leaves, rosehips and rowanberries.
If you are planning an autumn wedding, there are a lot of advantages, such as:
- It is easier to book your church or other wedding site
- It is easier to book your party site
- It is easier to book your dressmaker
- It is easier to book your hairdresser and make-up
- Less risk that your wedding clashes with other weddings
- Less risk that your guests cannot attend (due to vacations etc)
The rain, mist and wonderful colours in autumn will give your wedding photos a magical touch.
Say yes to each other on the beach barefoot with the sand between your toes!
What could be more romantic than getting married on the beach under palm trees on a paradise island in the South Pacific, Caribbean Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius or Hawaii. Feel the warm wind against your cheeks and the sea that caresses your feet.
There is much to think about if you want a beach wedding. Check that the country selected is able to perform a legal marriage. Travel and arrangement should be booked at least three months in advance before the wedding. After returning home, contact your Tax Office of your country for registration of the wedding.
Hotel, flight, guests and all the paperwork! Eliminate all the stress and enjoy your upcoming wedding. Hand over the arrangement work to a travel organizer that specializes in beach weddings. They can take care of all formalities and submit proposals for suitable wedding locations, different types of ceremonies, various ornaments, wedding clothes, flowers, beauty salons, photographers, marriage registrar, restaurants, menu suggestions, etc.
Congratulations to your upcoming wedding at the sound of the waves and the glorious sunshine!
Just decided to get married? To achieve a successful wedding it is important with a good planning. To your help you can use our wedding checklist below. Try also to delegate the tasks, otherwise there is a big risk that the planning will a burden for you.
Wedding planning
12 months before
Pick a wedding date
Decide what type of wedding
Decide whom you want to invite
Book church or other site for the wedding
9 months before
Draw up a budget
The bride: decide and order the wedding dress
Book reception site
Book hotel room for yourselves and reserve accommodations for out-of-town guests
Book photographer
Start planning the guest list
Assemble your planning team. Perhaps a wedding consultant?
6 months before
Start planning the wedding party
Decide toastmaster
Decide wedding theme
Order bridesmaid dresses
Order the bridal bouquet and the floral decoration
Order printed matters as invitation and thank-you card
Start planning the honeymoon
4 months before
Plan the wedding ceremony and meet the wedding official
Select and order music for the marriage and wedding party
Decide the menu and order food and drink
Contact rental companies if you need to rent such as chairs, tables, music equipment, porcelain etc
Book all transportations during the wedding day
3 months before
Plan the wedding day in detail
Select and order wedding rings
Apply for marriage license
The bride: buy accessories, shoes under underwear
The bride: book your stylist and makeup artist
Book the honeymoon
2 months before
Send invitations card
Order wedding cake
Write a purchase list
Write a wedding gift list
Write a marriage settlement, if necessary
1 month before
The bride: Have final gown fitting
Plan reception and seating chart
Practice the wedding waltz
2 weeks before
Pick up your wedding rings
Contact the photographer and settle the details
Visit the ceremony and reception site and confirm arrangements
Confirm arrangements with the rental company
Inform all involved the wedding program
Make last-minute adjustment of the seating
1 week before
Rehearse the wedding ceremony with all involved
Pack and arrange all practical details for the honeymoon
Day before
Bring your clothes and luggage to the wedding night hotel
Decorate the site with flowers and other ceremony accessories
Relax as much as you can and go to bed early!
The wedding day
Bring the bridal bouquet
Do you have the wedding rings – double check!
Get married!
Post wedding
Prearrange for someone to return any rentals
Write and send thank-you notes to the wedding guests |
You have got the rings and you have set the date, but you do not have the time for the planning. Take it easy - make your wedding dreams come true with help from a wedding consultant.
Despite the pleasant feeling of planning your own wedding, you do not have the time for it. When contact a wedding consultant for tips and help to arrange your dream wedding.
Together with the wedding consultant you plan the wedding, and decide how much help you need. An alternative is that your wedding consultant takes over the whole arrangement and you are spared all work with phoning different party sites, churches, hairdressers, musicians etc. You just lean back and take it easy and look forward to your big day. Another alternative is that you get help with certain parts of the arrangement, all according to you wish.
A wedding consultant can help you with reserving:
- Church
- Wedding site
- Transportations
- Dressmaker
- Florist
- Hairdresser/make-up
- Jeweller
- Caterer
- Musical/performance etc
Moreover, the wedding consultant can help you with ordering:
- Printed matters, such as invitation card, wedding program
- Napkins etc.
The wedding consultant can also submit proposals on honeymoons and also take care of the booking.
| Are you ready to start planning? You have decided to get married, but you have not decided when yet. Why not a winter wedding? |
A romantic sleigh ride over the twinkling white snow in the sunshine, and a roaring fireplace at the reception. If you are dreaming of this, it sounds like you have a winter wedding in mind.
The winter is a glorious time for weddings. The palette can be either warm and inviting (eggplant and lavender) or sparking and fresh like new-fallen snow (icy blue accented with silver and navy, warm reds with silver or gold etc). Use these colours in the bridal bouquet and the bridesmaid’s dresses.
Decorate the road and party site with cressets. An open fire in-doors and a lot of candles will of course increase the gorgeous atmosphere.
Serve your wedding guests a hot drink instead of champagne at the reception.
The wedding tables can be decorated with evergreens, gardenias, calla lilies and rhinestones.
If you are planning a winter wedding, there are a lot of advantages, such as:
- It is easier to book your church or other wedding site
- It is easier to book your party site
- It is easier to book your dressmaker
- It is easier to book your hairdresser and make-up
- Less risk that your wedding clashes with other weddings
- Less risk that your guests cannot attend (due to vacations etc)
If you love skiing, a winter wedding will be perfect for you.
Cheap wedding does not mean that you are compromising on style and emotion. Instead, it means that the bride and groom are smart and are using their money wisely. Use your imagination and enlist the help of parents and friends. Make your dream wedding without spending a fortune.
It is important to have a planning and budget keeping. Start planning your wedding well in advance. Is it too late, it will easily be panic solutions, which are rarely cheap. Certainly, it's better to have money left over for house, car or a fabulous honeymoon.
Below are some tips for a fabulous wedding at a low cost:
Invitation cards
There are plenty of beautiful invitation cards that are tempting to use. To save money you can make them yourself. Decorate the cards with a photo of you two, together with beautiful laces, hearts, rings, dried flowers, etc and use a calligraphy pen for your best handwriting. Use for example beautiful romantic postcards as invitation cards. Decorate them and put them in an envelope.
Wedding Clothes
The bridal gown is a heavy expense in a wedding. Here, you really can save money.
Sew your own wedding dress or if you cannot or do not have the time maybe a relative or friend to you can do it. There are lots of patterns on the market and on the Internet. Look in the bridal magazines and get tips. Make an ordinary dress, so it becomes more wedding-like, by using pearls, gold threads, laces, rhinestones etc. You may inherit a dress that you can make changes to, so it fits your wedding. Nice alternative is to use your mother or grandmother's wedding dress. Find new, used or vintage dresses on the Internet. And do not forget the option to rent your wedding dress.
Wedding rings
Simple gold rings are the least expensive and very elegant. Silver rings are modern and cheap. Platinum rings are popular but are almost twice as expensive as white gold. You earn extra money if you buy a set containing the engagement ring, her and his wedding ring.
Replace the diamonds to semi-precious stones.
Bridal bouquets and flowers for the wedding
Choose seasonal flowers. Ask for advice in the flower shop. Choose your favourite flower in your bridal bouquet. Bridal bouquets are beautiful if they match with the theme of the wedding and your wedding clothes. You might have roses or other flowers in your garden! Pick a bouquet and tie a pretty ribbon around it. To use a single flower, such as a Calla Lilly is incredibly beautiful and elegant. Tie a pretty bow around it. Find more ideas on the web.
Wedding cake
Make your own wedding cake together with your mother and mother in law. It will probably be a very pleasant experience and a memory for life. You can find ideas online and in wedding magazines.
| Naturally you want everything to be perfect on your wedding day – the clothes, the flowers, your hair and you.
Though there are millions of things to planning your wedding, you must not forget yourself and your beauty. Your wedding day can become a nightmare, if you find your skin dry and rough, the nails cracked and the hair dry and dull.
Fitness pros recommend you to start the beauty programme six months before the wedding. Below you find some advice:
- Which budget do you have? Check with saloons and fitness centres for wedding offers.
- Book necessary meetings in good time. A good stylist is worth her/his weight in gold.
- Decide cutting and colouring that fits your hair and face.
- Choose the decorations for your hair.
- If you plan to have your hair coloured, permed or treated, have it done at least one month before the wedding day.
- Get your nails wedding-ready at least one month before the wedding day. If you are a nail-biter try to stop this bad habit, perhaps by using a bitter tasting polish.
- Choose your make-up artist, or book a make-up lesson.
- If necessary, start a treatment programme of your skin, perhaps with professional help.
Slimming just before the wedding is not a good idea. The risk is that both your health and your appearance suffer big damages
Do you want your wedding to be traditional or imaginative? Most common is to marry in the church or the city hall. But there is a lot of other ways to get married if you can persuade an authorized official to attend.
Do you want to get married at home or away, outdoors or indoors, some few or many guests? Your wedding will become a memory for lifetime and you decide how that memory will look like. Below some proposals on individual weddings:
On the bridge at your summer cottage
The wedding ceremony will take place on the bridge and the wedding party to be held outdoors with laid tables at the water.
Hire a steam ship
Both your wedding and the wedding party are held on the ship.
Island in the archipelago
Get married on an island and spend the wedding night in a tent.
Barefoot in the sand
Get married barefoot on the beach.
On the horseback
The wedding couple is getting married on the horseback. The wedding party is afterwards held in a stable and the dinner can for example comprise grilled ribs with baked potatoes and beers. Testing rodeo, throw a lasso and line dance can be very appreciated of the guests.
Airport wedding
Get married on an airport before you go on your honeymoon. The wedding dinner with champagne is arranged in the cabin.
Skiing competition
Bride and bridegroom ski the stretch in their “wedding clothing”. The wedding party and wedding dinner wait at the finish.
Alpine skiing
Get married on the top. After the act the married couple and their guests ski down the slope and slide in to the wedding party, which can be arranged in some restaurant on the hill.
The golf course
Get married at the tee at the 18th hole. After the wedding act, you play the 18th hole and then the wedding party in is held in the golf restaurant.
In an air-balloon
Why not get married up in the air in an air-balloon. The wedding guests wait on the ground at the party site.
Only the imagination limits how an individual wedding can look like!
What are the duties of the bride's mother and father?
Traditionally the bride’s parents host the wedding. But nowadays it is all up to the bridal couple to decide, who will host. It is important to state this in the invitation card.
Here are duties they can do with ease:
- Help to scout out wedding and receptions sites and recommending wedding musicians.
- Making maps with directions, which will be included with invitations.
- Responsible for the quest list.
- Determine what the bride wants you to wear on the big day.
- If needed, arrange for guests’ transportations.
- Attend the shower and the rehearsal dinner. The father shall be prepared to give a toast, welcoming the groom into the family.
- Stand in the receiving line beside your daughter to greet guests.
- Remind the bride often how special she is.
- Let the bride cry on your shoulders.
- Walk your daughter down the aisle (if she want you to!).
- If you are the host of the wedding, make a short speech at the reception.
- Keep an eye on the bar.
- Stay until the celebration’s end.
Make your dreams come true and ensue that the theme for your wedding reflects your personality.
To find a theme for your wedding facilitates a lot in the planning of your wedding.
A way to find a theme is to start from which interests you have, for instance:
- sport (cross country skiing, football, golf riding)
- culture (music, theatre, film dance, reading)
- travelling
Perhaps you are planning your honeymoon to Ireland. Besides, enjoying each other’s company and the beautiful nature, you are planning to play some golf. Certainly a golf ball should match on your printed matters. The place card can be a golf ball with the guest’s name on it.
Perhaps Hawaii is the destination for your honeymoon. Why not put flower wreaths on your printed matters and flower wreaths in the hair on the bride and bridesmaids. Tables and chairs can be decorated with flower garlands and instead of champagne you can start up the wedding party with a fruit drink with an umbrella.
You love to dance! A dancing couple on all your printed matters is surely right. A dancing course with subsequently dance competition on the wedding party can be very nice for the wedding guests.
It is very popular to choose colours as theme. One or more colours that recur on your printed matters, bridesmaid’s dresses, the bridal bouquet, other flowers etc.
An idea, in order to decide the theme, is to start from where the wedding party will be; hotel, country manor, barn, at the sea, in the mountains etc.
Themes can be fetched from the nature, such as shells, oak blades, stones etc. It can also be an ethnic or religious theme.
Good luck with choosing the theme, to make your wedding memorable.
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