Wedding Tips - NEW YORK WEDDINGS
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Budget Wisely
For Your Wedding
It is common for the bride, groom, and both sets of parents to contribute toward the wedding. Pool all the money from these and any other helping parties into a shared checking account for the bride and groom-to-be to avoid having contributing parties take over what they say they are paying for. This will also avoid any confusion on who is paying for what.
Details, Details, Details
For Your Wedding
Don't take anything for granted when it comes to your ceremony specifics. Double check to make sure that your officiant will be there. Make sure that any floral arrangements or pew decorations are being taken care of. Ask about any restrictions on photography or music. Inquire beforehand about any sort of fees that may apply for parking facilities and cleanup costs.
Dishing Out Duties
For Your Wedding
Make sure that whoever you use as an attendant for the wedding knows what his or her responsibilities are. You may even want to provide them a written list of duties to ensure a smooth running wedding. This will avoid any possible misunderstandings.
Floral Budgeting
For Your Wedding
Get the most out of your florist by selecting blooms that are currently in season, and if possible, locally grown. Additionally, the less intricate the floral arrangement, the less labor and money it will require.
Get the Right Photographer
For Your Wedding
When choosing photographers, it is often a good practice to meet them face-to-face. Ask to see as many samples of their work as possible in order to confirm that they are consistent in their quality. This will let you see if they have that knack to tell the story of your special day.
Guard Your Gifts
For Your Wedding
Find a place far away from the exit to set up a table to keep your gifts on. Have someone nearby the gifts to monitor them at all times. Sadly, it is not uncommon for gifts and envelopes to disappear from weddings.
Guest Perspective
For Your Wedding
A good idea is to place a disposable camera on each of the reception tables. Guests often capture fun and candid shots of themselves and other guests that a hired photographer would miss out on. You may even want to include some of these developed photos in your thank-you cards.
Guest Rooming
For Your Wedding
If you are having several guests from out of town attend your wedding, try to include hotel information in their invitation. Hotels often offer group rates, so consider reserving a block of rooms at a discounted rate for your guests from abroad. Also, make certain they have directions to the hotel and wedding location to make things easier for them.
Guest-List Tango Made Simple
For Your Wedding
Try this when you begin the burdensome task of assembling and removing people from the guest-list:
After finding out how many guests can realistically be invited, have your family, wedding party, or whoever else is involved in choosing guests write out a ranked list of who they would like to invite. From this point, simply ask them all to cut the appropriate percentage of guests from the bottom of the list.
PLANNING
For Your Wedding
(submitted by ACA)
Don't let anyone tell you that you have time for things. There is never enough time for anything. The earlier you plan and decide the easier it is for you in the long run. The less you will have to do before your wedding, and the happier and more relaxed you will be for your big day.
Play It Safe
For Your Wedding
Insurance companies commonly sell wedding insurance that covers a wide variety of possible disasters. Stolen wedding dresses, photographers losing film from the wedding, and help paying the costs of a cancelled wedding are just a few of the things you can have covered. Contact your insurance agency for further details.
Save Some Time
For Your Wedding
While it is important to pick your photographer, reception location, and other big purchases in person, try to save time on the smaller items. Make use of mail catalogs and websites to order things such as invitations and favors. Just make sure you are buying from a reputable source, and that they have a return policy.
Save Your Bouquet
For Your Wedding
Request that your florist makes you a seperate bouquet for the famous bouquet tossing ritual. It shouldn't be that expensive, and this will permit you to keep and preserve the flowers you carried down the aisle as a memoir.
Sizing Up the Site
For Your Wedding
There are a few things to look at when choosing your reception location. Be certain that the parking accomodations are sufficient for your guests. Make sure that there is a ratio of one toilet per every 25 to 30 guests. Also, when picking a room for the reception, it's better to have a smaller, more cozy room than a large surplus of space. It is also more cost effective!
Smart Gift Card Management
For Your Wedding
When getting gift cards from your guests, alphabetize them in a shoe or recipe box. By writing the name of the guest and what they gave you on the back of the card, you will have all the information you need in one place to send out a thank you card. You may also find this library of names useful for other gift giving occasions.
Stress-Free Invitations
For Your Wedding
Make sure to give yourself plenty of time to make out your invitations. A month usually will do. Feel free to enlist the help of some of your bridal party in this matter. If you are hiring someone else to do your invitations, make sure they get the invitations as early as possible to ensure they are all done on time. Some calligraphers and invitations houses will even take care of stuffing and mailing the invitations for a fee.
Taste That Food
For Your Wedding
To ensure that the food at your wedding is up to par, set up a tasting session with your caterer before your big day arrives. Have them serve the meal the same way they plan on serving it at your reception. Watch for things such as portion size, presentation, and overall flavor to make certain the food will be appealing to both mouth and eye. If you are not happy with any of these, make certain to ask the caterer to make the needed adjusments.
Time Management
For Your Wedding
(submitted by Jenn)
Make sure that you have enough time the day of your wedding to do everything ..even take time getting ready. Make sure you tell everyone involved in your wedding party to be there and tell them a time 30 min earlier....
Transportation Faux Pas
For Your Wedding
Here is a common mistake to avoid:
When the wedding is over, many times departing transportation is arranged for only the bride and groom. Do not forget that the wedding attendants who arrived in the limo with you will need a way home as well!
| Bridal Beauty >> | |
| A Solid Base |
| For a complexion that will last you from ceremony to reception, lightly rinse your face with water, gently dry, lightly use concealer wherever needed, then apply an even, long-lasting foudnation. Dust yourself with some translucent powder, and make sure to blend everything well along your jaw and hairline. |
| Wedding Attire >> | |
| Keep It Clean |
| Having your dress be in perfect shape is important. For this reason, do not pick up your wedding dress any sooner than 1 week before the big day. When you pick it up, avoid having it leaning against anything. Hang it from a rod and leave it in the garment bag it came in. Unzip this garment bag slightly to keep it from smelling musty. Once the big day has arrived, remove your dress from the bag and place it on a clean sheet until you are ready to wear it. |
| Your Home >> | |
| Mix That Tableware |
| Your tableware in your new home doesn't need to all match. It is quite stylish to mix a few different patterns and colors to create a look of your own. Plates, bowls, silverware, and mugs can all be different and still go together. |
| Your Honeymoon >> | |
| Homework Pays Off |
| After choosing your honeymoon destination, spend time learning as much about the area as you can ahead of time. Predetermine the ideal places for eating, swimming, or shopping. This will prevent you from spending lots time on your vacation trying to figure out where to go. Bookstores often have guidebooks on numerous popular destinations, just make certain they are fairly recent. |
| Your Wedding >> | |
| Guest-List Tango Made Simple |
| Try this when you begin the burdensome task of assembling and removing people from the guest-list:
After finding out how many guests can realistically be invited, have your family, wedding party, or whoever else is involved in choosing guests write out a ranked list of who they would like to invite. From this point, simply ask them all to cut the appropriate percentage of guests from the bottom of the list. |
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