Top 10 Tips When Planning Your Wedding
Saturday 15th June 2024
Planning a wedding can be pretty hard and that is why we are coming with expert tips you NEED to know!
1. Start Your Planning Early
One of the easiest ways to reduce stress is by planning early and so we recommend booking in the key parts of your wedding day as soon as possible. Late planning will drastically reduce your options and could end up costing your perfect wedding venue.
2. Guest List is Important
Our experienced wedding planners advise to sit down with your fiancé and write down a complete guest list. This will be helpful for giving you an accurate number of guests to plan for. Additionally, when you go searching for venues you will need a very solid guest count to lean on.
3. Talk Budget
Speaking about money and budget can be tricky. However, not knowing or having no plan can be a potential issue. Weddings can be expensive especially when you want your big day to be perfect and that is why knowing your numbers is important!
P.S. We recommend to reserve about half of your wedding budget for your venue rental and catering.
4. One Step at a Time
Put together a wedding planning schedule and do things one by one, in a logical order, so you don’t take on too much too fast and end up with everything snowballing around you.
To stay organised, you can use checklists and spreadsheet to keep all your thoughts, budgets, and numbers in one place.
5. Be Inspired
Stop overthinking traditions and lean into what matters to you the most. Find a few resources of bridal inspiration you like best. Having a good sense of the type of wedding style you want helps immensely with planning.
6. Select a Theme
Whether it is a specific wedding colours, season or style inspiration, knowing your concept is helpful for designing your wedding around. Once you have an aesthetic in mind, it will be easier to design decisions.
7. Explore Possible Venues
Venues are the most important element of the big day. Research places, look for the eye-catching venues to make sure it has everything you ever dreamt of.
Our advice? Start early.
8. Don’t Forget to Take Notes
Visiting wedding venues and suppliers is very informative experience so be sure to make notes. There can be a lot of information to take in and you can easily forget all the details by the time you visited a few. To help with your decisions, making simple notes will help you.
9. Make It Fun
Planning your dream wedding doesn’t need to be stressful – it should be fun and exciting time! Try to enjoy the journey and make your celebration planning a fun experience.
10. Enjoy Your Wedding Day
And finally …your big day. You planned everything to the last detail and now it is time to focus on the important bit – getting married.
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