Wedding Tips Part 1
From Studio 1: Wedding Photographer Essex
Top tips to help you plan everything for your wedding day.
Don’t leave it to the last minute, start planning as soon as you get engaged.- When choosing the date , allow yourself a realistic amount of time to plan, keeping stress to a minimum.
- Ensure the sort of wedding you go for is a joint decision between you and your fiance. Do you want a formal or informal day? Intimate or extravagant?
- Book your wedding venue as soon as you’ve decided the venue. Don’t delay, popular venues will be booked up well in advance.
- A wedding budget must be set beforehand. It’s a good idea to organise a meeting with all those who are contributing to discuss your plans.
- Decide as soon as possible who will be paying for what and don’t leave any costs undiscussed.
- Visit a selection of wedding venues and get detailed quotes from each in writing. Our recommended venues for your wedding in Essex are listed here: Essex Wedding Venues
- When you have decided on your venue, make all bookings in writing and be sure to get written confirmation for the date, times and, if required, the number and kind of booked rooms.
- Book your photographer, arrange a meeting a discuss all your options and prices.
- Compile a guest list and decide on the sort of catering. Lunchtime buffet? Or a more expensive sit down meal?
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Tip for brides and bridesmaids. Take the labels off your new shoes before you have your nails done.
Before booking a venue for reception, get the full name of the person you are dealing with and check that they are the one responsible for your wedding. They should have a title like, ‘Wedding Manager’, or ‘Wedding Co-ordinator’ or ‘Wedding Planner’ or ‘Conference and Events Manager’ or they might be the owner of the place, which means that you are talking to the main person, which is even better. Most of these people are lovely but there are a few sharks out there. If you ask for a name and just get an initial or a nickname, it’ not good, unless you can see their actual name at their website. If you ask precisely what is included and they tell you that they will correspond with you in due course, it’s not good. One of the venues I know was taking no deposits but managed to take £20k + per couple, through a staircase of escalation, which included taking bookings, not responding to calls from couples but periodically telling them they had a meeting. It was actually one of the highest reputed venues in the area but the management at that time were short-term money makers. Each meeting would be to help them with their wedding planning and would ask questions like, “Would you like linen on your tables?” … “OK. Well that will be an additional £20 per head.”
Making purchasing decisions for your wedding is no different from any other purchase. Keep your head on. Most people are good people. There are a few sharks out there. You can do some simple checks if you are keen on a venue. Once you have decided that you are keen, phone the venue and ask to speak to the person you will be dealing with. You may have a question about the menu or the role of the master of ceremonies. If you can get through directly a couple of times and they are willing to talk to you, you can feel more confident that you are dealing with one of the good guys.
great tips..planning is always number one for me…
These are all great tips to help plan a wedding. Great post, thanks for sharing.
Fantastic tips. I am planning my wedding and am reading as much info as I can ! Argg, I am so excited !
A lot of couples take their visitor’s schedule for granted as they send invitations 1-2 weeks before the wedding. I have attended a wedding like this and most of their sponsors wasn’t able to come because of that. Reason is, the invitation has all the needed info about the wedding like the venue, time, sponsors etc. Couples should be more considerate about the people who want to attend their wedding.
These are all fantastic tips, thanks!A friend didn’t got the chance to book her dream wedding venue, I should have let her read this first.
These are excellent tips for planning the wedding yourself. However, planning is definitely the most stressful part of any wedding. Hiring a professional wedding planner may be the best thing to do.
the best way is to hire a wedding planner…but if the budget is short just keep to take note on everything…
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Excellent tips.Really useful stuff .since my wedding is in next month so this tips are really useful for me and i always looking for such a valuable post .Keep it up
These tips are a good place to start for most couples. I would just like to add that the first thing you should do is announce your engagement to your friends and family.