Friday, November 21, 2008

Planning A Wedding At Home

There are plenty of benefits to planning a wedding at home so that we almost tend to ignore the bad bits about it. Here are some revealed truths about planning a wedding at home with its pros and cons. First of all you save a lot of money, right? There's no rental of the ceremony or the reception site, you don't have to deal with all sorts of bookings and you cut off lots of annoying costs. Then, when it comes to food and beverages you are your own master; when planning a wedding home you don't have to worry about paying a cake-cutting fee or who-knows what else.

But remember that planning a wedding at home can easily turn into a chaos if you don't take the safety measures and the precautions necessary by simply following clear guidelines. Let's see how you can avoid turning your wedding into a whole mess. The first and very practical equation involved in planning a wedding at home is the number of guests your house can accommodate, and here you need to include the number of toilets. Statistics for planning weddings at home show that the most comfortable number is thirty five people per toilet.

There are several very important things to consider when you're planning a wedding at home, the most important being the ceremonial place, where you and your beloved will exchange vows. Make sure nobody is sitting in the sun, you don't want your guests to get sun burnt, plus too much light can definitely ruin your photos. Then, when planning a wedding at home, remember that the garden where you may want to hold the ceremony is exposed to noises: dogs barking, lawn mowers and so on. Kindly ask your neighbors to avoid trimming the lawn during that particular day.

Then, when you're planning a wedding at home you need to keep in mind that both hot and rainy weather means trouble for you. For instance, you can either rent a tent or be able to move the party indoors in case of a downpour. Planning a wedding at home is not free of other risks: for instance make sure there are no children unsupervised in the pool area and that all the cables and wires of the electronic material are taped down and away from the walking path. Planning a wedding at home can be both a challenge and a great joy, may you have the best of times!


Monday, November 10, 2008

Tips For Planning Your Wedding Reception

Planning your wedding reception may be the most important part of the wedding preparations as such. Besides the basic details about the ceremony site, music, photographs and decorations, planning your wedding reception is a top priority. It all begins with deciding on the location of the reception: is it going to be indoors or outdoors? One important factor when planning your wedding reception is weather and the season. If you want an outdoor event, you'll have to consider the possibility of rain ruining your plan, therefore, keep a hidden ace up your sleeve just in case.

The first thing to do when planning your wedding reception is to set the date before you actually start looking for locations. Keep in mind that many sites are booked a year or even two in advance. Then, as I have already pointed out the season is crucial particularly if you're on a tight budget. Planning your wedding reception in winter, at the end of January for instance, will save quite some cash or bring you a discount. In some cases, planning your wedding reception requires you choose between Saturday and Sunday as the most convenient days of the week; sometimes Sunday is less expensive.

Setting down your budget is the next big thing, since planning your wedding reception will bring forth the biggest expense, which is by no means singular. When you go to rent the reception hall, you'll have to give a rounded figure of approximately how many guests you are likely to have. Therefore, an important part of any planning of the wedding reception involves pruning down your list; this will also bring about an estimation of the costs per head, according to the size of the room  and your requirements too.

What should you expect from a wedding hall, when planning your wedding reception? First of all, mention should be made that the answer to this question varies from one couple to another. But it is a sure fact that recommendations and even testimonials are very useful when it comes to planning your wedding reception. The reputation of the location has to be all clear, and with excellent references: it has to be both clean and affordable. Before you actually start planning your wedding reception it is not such a bad idea to look through some directories and find the several establishments that suit your purposes.


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