Weather Worries?

Chilly Weather Worries? Purchase a Shawl or Shrug!An October wedding is likely to be held indoors, so you shouldn't have a problem with short sleeves during your wedding and reception. However, you may be cold while traveling from your wedding site to your reception site. If you think that may be the case, then you should purchase a shawl or shrug that matches your dress. You can easily purchase a shawl or shrug online at Bridal People

Wedding Notebook When you start to plan your wedding, get a big three-ring binder and use it to organize and file all the paperwork for your big day: vendor contracts, photographs of wedding gowns, sample menus, etc. Keeping everything in one place and carrying it with you when making trips to bakeries, bridal salons, etc. will insure that you stay organized

Downtime´It´s important that you make every effort to keep the amount of time between the wedding and the reception as short as possible. If there are several hours between the two, then your guests (especially those from out of town) are going to be left at loose ends for something to do. If you can´t work around having some downtime, then be sure to have something planned for your guests, either a cocktail hour at the reception venue, or open your home to out-of-town relatives and friends.

Wedding Planner

Want a Career as a Wedding PlannerHave you thought of becoming a wedding planner? Choosing a career in planning weddings is not a career for everyone. A wedding planner is a person with a unique variety of skills. Among those skills most useful to a wedding planner are:
Organizing Parties is your forte
You are very organized.
Attention to detail is important to you.
You leave nothing to the last minute.
You plan ahead
You build and maintain schedules.
You can juggle a lot of responsibilities simultaneously.
You make a list for everything.
Multi-tasking is a way of life and not stressful.
You are creative.
You are a romantic.
You enjoy people.
You communicate well.
You have good intuition.
You possess good interpersonal skills. Being detail oriented and able to keep your cool under pressure is paramount to your success and happiness in this career. The rewards and benefits of wedding planning are commensurate with the workload. You will wear many hats for many different people. You will be constantly honing your skills and you will learn from each and every wedding that you plan new skills and ideas to help you with the next one.

Wedding invitation tips

Wedding Invitation KitsSo you want to make your own wedding invitations? There are numerous ways to do this and many of them are very simple and direct. You start by looking into wedding invitation kits that have been created for use in a home computer printer. Most kits come with thank you notes, invitation cards, note cards and envelopes. These kits make setting up your wedding invitations exactly how you want and print them out, fold and stuff into the envelopes for sending. The really creative individual might want to design his or her own reception cards and wedding invitations. Check out various print shops and specialty paper areas in order to purchase lined paper, high style paper, parchment and more in order to create your wedding invitations. You can use laser graphics on your computer or create them by hand and scan them in. You don’t have to create your own wedding invitations. It’s important to avoid feeling pressured about making them yourself, create the wedding invitations only if you want to.

The Role of a Wedding Planner

The Role of a Wedding PlannerWedding planning is a growing profession. Traditionally, wedding planners were friends or family members who took on the burden of managing your wedding details. Once upon a time, the bride’s parents were in charge of paying for and coordinating the wedding. The bride’s mother was and often still is the de facto wedding planner. However, modern wedding planning is a direct result of the expanding family living miles apart from their immediate family. When engaged couples live so far away from their immediate families, the benefits of hiring a professional to handle all the details and coordinate their wedding can save you time, money as well as providing you with enormous stress relief in the months, weeks and days leading up to the event itself. When you hire a wedding planner, you will be hiring a money manager, economic advisor, facilitator, mediator, organizer and artist. The wedding planner will be the director of the fairytale and handle the setting, props and casting. They will hold hands, coax vendors, organize the decorators, offer advice, negotiate contracts, and keep records and track data. The wedding planner will carry the extra bobby pins, hairspray and even extra pairs of panty hose. He or she will provide mental, emotional and physical support to the bride in a variety of ways. He or she will be there to guide, to protect, and to appropriate and ultimately, to plan the day that many of us consider to be one of the most important in our lives. The wedding planner is the facilitator of the fairytale and their responsibilities are enormous. The following is a list of some job titles associated with wedding planning:
Wedding Director
Wedding Consultant
Bridal Consultant
Event Planner
Wedding Planner

The Perfect Wedding

The Perfect Wedding: Civil or ReligiousThe perfect wedding exists in the minds and hearts of the bride and groom. Planning a wedding, a perfect wedding requires the bride and groom to communicate their love, their expectations and the customs they want to embrace as a part of their wedding perfection. There are many twists and turns on the road to planning for that perfect wedding. It’s important to understand that the style of ceremony will dictate different types of customs to be followed. There are expectations associated with each one and it’s up to the bridal couple to help narrow the field down. A religious ceremony is considered a very traditional wedding. It would take place in a house of worship such as a church or synagogue. It would be officiated by a rabbi, a minister or member of the clergy. Traditional religious ceremonies usually call for formal wear with a number of attendants and very traditional music. Civil or non-traditional ceremonies can be held anywhere such as on board a yacht, on a cliff top, on a beach or even in a family backyard. The officiate is a Justice of the Peace (including relatives or friends who have been certified). There is no set theme for a civil or non-traditional ceremony. Bridal couples can wear beach clothing, renaissance faire garb or even get married on horseback. The differences between the two are the rigidity of form associated with the first and the freedom with the second. The bridal couple will determine what their priorities are and the type of ceremony they want to have. Familiarity with traditional themes and ceremonies are important when dealing with religious weddings. A sense of adventure and fun can be explored in civil and non-traditional weddings. Become aware of the wide variety of options available to couples in their wedding choices. The key to planning the perfect wedding is found in truly listening to each other. Be open to hearing each other's thoughts, their dreams and their expectations.