Secrets to Planning Your Perfect Wedding
Getting ready for your big wedding? Here are some things you can consider to help yourself with the wedding planning.
Set Up Your Budget and Stick to It
Whatever you decide, your wedding budget will be the one and only driving force in your wedding and other decision that are related to the wedding. Therefore, this should be one of the most important things and first things you should tackle as well. Talk to the family members and your other half to make sure that you have a proper budget for the wedding for there might be friendly donations on their way. If you are planning to foot the budget yourself, it is the right time to take a good look at your financial status. It is not usually advised to go on a loan for your wedding. However, if you are planning to go on a loan for the wedding, make sure you can afford the payments in the long run.
Come Up With a List of Priorities
It is important that you come up with a proper list of priorities for the wedding as well. You can sit down with your fiancé and make sure that you list down the most important aspects of your wedding. This includes booking and making appointments with the wedding stylists, catering services, entertainment options and more. You can also include other things like the alcohol as well.
Create Your Guest List
You cannot book a venue without a wedding guest list or you cannot decide on a wedding venue without a guest list either; also the size of your budget also weighs in this matter. Make sure that you are well aware of what you are doing and you can take precious advice from those who just went through a wedding in the recent past. Firsthand experience can be the best of advice as well. Depending on the venue and its capacity and the type and the style of your wedding; be it intimate or full on wedding for everyone, you can go ahead and decide on the guest list.
What Inspires You?
There are many sources of inspiration out there for every bride. The best part is you can even go ahead and customize your wedding however you want. Yes, it can be a bit overwhelming. However, you can take your own time and customize the wedding however you wish. You can go through all those bridal magazines out there and even the online blogs for the brides and get an idea of the perfect wedding you wish to have for yourself. You do not have to go by every intricate detail however, you can just go ahead and mix and match.
Work as A Team
The team could include you fiancé and even your wedding planner. Hiring a wedding planner can be of a great help. The wedding planner can help you out with catering, entertainment options, and even the wedding venues. You can even ask the band of merry little helpers to help out with deciding the centrepieces and more.