Wedding Planning Tips: Guests
August 1, 2008
Planning your guests does not end after you’ve finalized your guests list. Do you know that the first 2 minutes of a reception or event is the most important? This means engaging your wedding reception guests as soon or even before they arrive at your reception venue. Here are some wedding planning tips to keep your reception filled with happy guests who will remember what a great time they had at your wedding.
Get your guests involved even before they come to the wedding reception.
Get your guests excited and involved by requesting them to come dressed in attire appropriate to your wedding theme or formality. For example, asking your guests to come dressed in red, white and blue for a July 4th wedding; or in long formal gowns for ladies and black ties for gents for a “celebrity” style wedding theme; or flowery shirts or dresses for a beach wedding theme. You get the idea. [Read more]
Adding a Unique Touch to Your Traditional Wedding Ceremony
July 29, 2008
Weddings ought to be special, perfect, and memorable for those who come to join, celebrate and honor the wedding day and — the wedding couple. Because of this, most weddings are planned for months and sometimes even for years to make sure nothing gets overlooked and that the best possible options are chosen. Because of all the bustle and excitement going on for the coming day, it can sometimes be difficult to plan out the details of the actual ceremony. Of course, you want to make your marriage ceremony unique, but with everything else you have to think about, unique ideas could easily evade you. The staff at Completely Weddings has come up with two “out-of-the-ordinary” wedding ceremony elements that you might want to include in your own wedding to make it more memorable. [Read more]
Wedding Guest Book Alternatives
July 17, 2008
Wedding guest books are one of the essential bridal accessories that you will need in your wedding reception. Typically, it is a bound book with lines for your guests’ names, their physical address and sometimes, a space for a short note for you and your new hubby. So stale and unoriginal, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it be refreshing to find some unique wedding guest book alternatives to “wow” your guest? Look no further, gathered below are great alternative ideas for your wedding guest book.
Small note cards with matching envelopes – Choose card colors and/or design that match your wedding theme. Stack these cards and envelopes on a table outside your reception hall and ask your guests to share their thoughts, “marriage wisdom” or simply congratulatory note on these cards. The cards will be placed inside the matching envelopes and simply dropped into a decorated wish glass jar, like the one shown from www.kindnotes.com . These private messages can then be opened later to be enjoyed by you and your new husband.
Creating Personal Wedding Website
June 8, 2008
Creating personal wedding websites are becoming more and more popular these days. Should you follow the trend and create one? You decide.
A personal wedding website is not just for posting your pictures and wedding date, it can be used to enable your guests instant access, 24/7, to your gift registry information, maps and directions, video clips and a message board for live interactive discussions and planning, to name a few. Your wedding website can also become a centralized source of information for your checklists, guest database, address book, budget manager and payment tracking. [Read more]
Planning your Wedding Reception
June 1, 2008
Your wedding reception, quite possibly, can be the most costly item in your wedding budget. By shopping around, you can get some really great deals for reception locations and caterers. But before the search begins, you should have settled on the following:
- your guest list, so you know how many will be attending the reception
- the wedding date, which is also the ceremony date
- the type of ambiance you want for the reception, i.e., formal, semi-formal or informal
- the wedding reception theme
