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| Weddings - Wedding Plan - Wedding Planner Tools - Ten Essential Tips |
Getting Married? Congratulations! You just set the date for the most important day in your life. Your wedding day. Imagine...It is your wedding day. Your very own wedding day! It will be fun.
Here are ten essential steps that will make the preparation fun too.
1. Keep within your financial limits. Budget your wedding. You do not want to start your married life in debt. If you are organized have a plan and are creative, whatever your budget, a "wedding to remember" will be yours.
2. Now Visualize. That’s right, visualize. Close your eyes and look at the tasks at hand. The list may SEEM overwhelming but it isn't.
3.Don't try to do everything all at once. Start by gathering information. Use the Net to gather ideas from around the world. Make an extensive list of "things you LIKE", "things you WANT" and "things you MUST HAVE" (see the difference?)
4. Now you are ready to make a Top Ten (or top eleven or twelve) list.
5. Break your list it into small manageable portions that you can successfully accomplish. Use categories like... Before the wedding - During the wedding - After the wedding.
6. Now use sub categories. Include ideas for related events such as, showers, receptions, and honeymoon.
7. It is YOUR wedding. It reflects YOU. No one should dictate to you what to do and how to do it. You may seek advice, ideas and wisdom but in the end each final decision is yours.
8. What this means is don't be shy! Accept assistance when offered and solicit involvement, help and ideas from those you believe will be an asset.
9.Add your personal touches. For example; if you have children you may consider making them an important part of your wedding.
10. Pick a few aspects of your wedding and make them personalized. A personal touch makes a wedding meaningful to the bridal couple, their attendants, family and all invited guests.
In summary, your wedding is a serious moment for declaring your love and commitment to each other. Make your wedding truly a one-of-a-kind event. Fill it with cherished moments and keepsakes.
Whether you choose a favorite theme, a special setting or an intimate gathering of friends and loved ones, enjoy the journey. Perhaps, the memories and keepsakes may stay with you forever. Treasure them! And may you have a Happy, Happy day!
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| posted by cat pats @ 5:22 PM |
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| To Choose a Wedding Planner or Not to Choose a Wedding Planner |
When I was the owner of a major wedding facility, I was able to observe the results of more than 300 weddings. I've seen exceptional events that will last forever in the memories of the participants. I've also seen total disasters. The difference was always in how the event was planned and managed.
It's like if you're building a house. Would you select electricians, plumbers, and carpenters, and then just turn them loose and hope for the best? Never! This is the way to sure disaster. Without overall guidance from you and/or the contractor and a clear, written contract in place, the house would be a monstrosity. Yet many people plan their weddings in just this haphazard way.
One wedding at my facility featured a seven- course meal costing well over $12,000, but there had been no time-limit clause imposed on the caterer. When it came time for dancing, only three courses of the meal were completed. The lesson here is: If it's not in writing and signed, it may very possibly not happen as planned.
Planning guides
To start your planning process, you'll begin with the overall concept of your wedding. You can get ideas by talking with friends and remembering details of weddings you've attended, then you can throw in your own ideas. Consider supplementing all this information with a wedding guide containing a variety of creative concepts. You'll find many good guides online and at your local bookstore.
Next, determine how much money you can realistically spend on the wedding. A budget-related wedding planning guide will come in handy. You'll learn many things you definitely need to know, including how to control your budget.
Finally, you'll want a planning guide that will show you how to write and understand contracts and proposals, so you can insure that your event happens the way you expect it to happen.
The planning process
Planning a wedding can be a complex and time- consuming process, and the end result can be expensive. Fortunately, the whole process can be broken down into smaller segments so that the expense and performance elements of each can be more easily controlled. Before you start planning, spend some time visualizing what will be necessary to create each element of your event, and start taking notes. The following outline will help you.
1. Event ideas
* Come up with the overall wedding theme and any unique aspects.
* Determine the setting, length, and size of the wedding.
* Decide on the maximum number of guests and who they will be.
* Decide on the type of food and service, music, wait staff, parking, carriage ride, etc.
* Be very clear on your budget - it controls all aspects of the elements listed above. Start thinking about priorities, in case you can't afford everything. For example, can you make do with a buffet if a formal dinner is too expensive?
2. Organizing
* List specific details for each element such as music, food, service, and any special requirements.
* Know the type of facility you want: A hotel ballroom? A special event center? A historic facility? Each is unique, and pricing can vary considerably.
* Contact key vendors such as event sites, florists, caterers, and DJs, and obtain ballpark prices and the level of service you'll get for each price.
* Make your choices within your budget, and make note of all related costs and services.
* Finally, when your vendors are in place, make sure your exact specifications are stated in enforceable contracts. Not doing this leads to most event problems. Good written communication is the key to success. Detailed written contracts benefit both the client and the vendor, eliminating all misunderstandings prior to the signing of the contract and, most importantly, prior to the wedding. Keep in mind that a typical vendor may conduct many events per week, so if what you want and how you want it isn't in writing, something can easily be forgotten.
The topics we've covered here are only the "tip of the iceberg," but they should give you a feel for the process necessary to make your event special and successful. Your results will always be directly related to the amount of effort you put into the process, the level of detail you focus on, and your thoroughness in communicating well through written contracts with your vendors.
Putting on a great wedding may seem like a daunting task, but there are many tools available to assist you in your planning. My own planning tool, The Wedding Saving System, is the result of my ownership of a major wedding facility and my experience as a government contracting officer. These two experiences strengthened my belief that a major event will be successful only if a detailed plan and budget is developed and then followed up with excellent written communication (contracts) with all vendors for the event.
The Wedding Saving System is all about your exact written specifications with vendors, using competitive bidding to control costs while obtaining the quality you expect, and then putting it all into enforceable written agreements. Don't forget that if it's not in writing, there's a high probability that it will not happen as you planned.
In conclusion
Your wedding should create memories that will last a lifetime, so invest the time and effort to find the books and guides that will supply the information, strategies, and techniques I've written about here. And one final observation: A self-planned wedding will be a very rewarding experience for all attendees when the joy and self-satisfaction of the happy couple envelopes the entire event.
I wish you the very best and will be happy to assist you in planning your special day!
Tishawn Merritt
CEO of Tristarlimo.com
Tristarlimomiami.com
Tristarlimochicago.com
(866) 632-5466
tishawn@tristarlimo.com
Taking you to the highest limit of service!
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| posted by cat pats @ 5:20 PM |
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| Wedding Planner Guide Review - Jumpstart Your Big Day With This Wedding Planner Guide |
Accept help when it's offered.
Planning your own wedding is a large work. When friends and relatives provide to assist you, receive it. You may not recognize precisely what you need them to make at the moment they provide, but hold a listing of volunteers for subsequently. There is then more active job to make, recruit anyone that offers assistance because you can't make it all yourself. There will be flowers to select away, cake to sample examination, flatware to choose, things that need to be picked upward, dropped away, gifts hauled, invitation sent and thank yous written.
Respect everyone that is flipping for the measure.
It's difficult to delight everyone, but if your parents or in-laws are paying for something in your wedding, they are entitled to some tell then. As heavily as it might be, let them select something that means a plenty to them. Conversely, if you are paying for your own wedding, by all way do things your manner. Don't be swayed by Mom's guilt trips to receive all her 2nd cousins when you are paying $20 per home.
Bride and Groom involvement.
It's simple to let somebody else manage everything, but don't make this error with your wedding. Both spouses need to view and realize the budget program. Don't leave to let your fiance enter in the careful resolution making and closing cost label considerations. Getting into a big difference about finances before you're still married is a bad manner to begin the remainder of your living.
Spend your money wisely.
Think about the things that last after the large day, after the 1st 24 hours of matrimonial bliss. Your photographs, the picture, the wedding party gifts, and your honeymoon. Having a 7 tier cake and wine served at dinner are nice touches, but not valuable blowing your budget on.
Throw rule to the wind - you might rescue some money!
Weddings are large job these days. Scheduling your observance or response on a Friday night could rescue you stacks of money and have you the appointment you seek. Wish you could have married in your backyard -do it. No one should tell
"you have to make it like this" - still Mom. Wedding attendees will be enjoyably surprised to view an new spin on the same older observance and response. Make it humor, have it your day.
Despite everything the day will not be PERFECT and that is OK.
Those tiny glitches will have it particular and unforgettable. No wedding day is always ideal. With then many variables things occur; it rains, the soloist gets poorly, the blossom daughter cries downward the islet, the groomsmen boutonnières go lost, the response place didn't take the correct linens, the better human’s toast wasn’t flattering and on and on. No issue how more cautious preparation you do, things occur - that is living. It could be an insignificant matter or it could be large deal. the better result is a bride and bridegroom that manage it all in step. Weddings are nerve-racking, but with cautious preparation you can operate on autopilot for the large day.Labels: wedding planner
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