Get creative with your wedding seating

Seating people in the right places is essential for the success of your Big Day – but it is also important to make sure the seating chart blends beautifully with everything else at your wedding. How to create a genuinely unique wedding seating? We have gathered some pretty ideas – so read on and find out more.

• Hanging leaves. This is a very simple, but beautifully unique way of showing guests off to their seats. Line up strings (one for each of the tables at your reception) and attach the leaf-shaped escort cards to each of these strings. Simple, special and truly cute – and it works marvelously for a spring wedding, just as much as it does for a fall one (just change the colors of the leaves!).
• Mirroring love. Planning a very fancy affair? Mirrors have the almost magical power of reflecting light and making spaces look larger. Plus, a mirror with a vintage or antique-looking frame can also be a great addition to a vintage-themed wedding too. Place the large mirror at the entrance in the reception room with the guests’ names and tables on it and they will surely like the idea.
• Flowery touches. If you want your wedding favors to double as escort cards too, think of your favorite potted flowers (and make sure there are as many types of them as wedding tables are). Write guests’ names on a small, beautifully-designed card in the pot and encourage them to take the plant home and help you “grow their love”.  Romantic, eco-friendly and beautiful too!

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Sunflowers are a gorgeous choice for your Fall wedding

Fall is here and this means many brides are thinking of their approaching wedding day. Of course, summer may start to be just a memory – but the truth is that a fall wedding can be even more gorgeous, unique and unforgettable than a summer event.

How do sunflowers enter the picture, though? How can you incorporate these lively blooms into your fall wedding? Here are some wonderful ideas to “steal” for your Big Day:

• For your bouquet, create a sunflower arrangement that brings together white roses and gerbera daisies too. This combination will look elegant and it will make the beautiful yellow of the sunflowers pop even more joyfully against the white background of the white blooms.
• Planning a vintage fall wedding? No worries, sunflowers can still have a well-deserved place in your hands as you walk down the aisle! Combine them with toned-down blooms and just a bit of grey (in the bouquet wrap, for example) and you will create a flawless vintage bouquet everyone will love.
• For your centerpieces, think of arrangements inspired by summer, but brought into the fall background. Mums and dahlias are more than perfect for a fall wedding – and they can be superbly combined with sunflowers and wooden elements (e.g. logs to place the centerpieces on).
• Want your flower girl’s blooms to match the other sunflower-infused wedding elements? Give her a single sunflower stem – it will make it easier for her to walk down the aisle and it will definitely make her look even cuter and livelier!

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The entertainment of your wedding is important!

There’s no doubt over the fact that your wedding is one of the biggest, most life-changing events you’ll ever plan. After all, you don’t get married every day – so it’s perfectly normal to want everything about the Big Day to be flawless, from head to finish.

How do you make sure your wedding entertainment is right on point? Here are some tips to help you make the most out of it.

• First of all, decide on the right type of wedding music. For some, bands are the perfect choice, for others DJs are a better option. And then there are people who simply hire both (e.g. a band for the ceremony and a DJ for the reception). Do some research, analyze both options on all sides and decide on that which really fits you as a couple.
• Furthermore, remember that it doesn’t matter whether you’re hiring a DJ or a wedding band: communication is still key in both cases. Your wedding band or DJ may be extremely experienced in the art of entertaining people, but if they don’t get to talk to you and get a sense of what you want from them, they can never actually “guess it”.
• Last, but surely not least, keep in mind that your wedding DJ or band really wants to know about the songs you want or don’t want at your wedding. As mentioned above, they cannot read minds – so it’s essential that you talk to them and provide them with a list of do’s and don’ts they can follow through with on the Big Day.

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These garden games will offer some fun for your outdoor wedding

As the host of your wedding day, you will surely want everyone there to create amazing memories. Yes, delicious food does help, and a nice variety of drinks (alcoholic or otherwise) can help as well. And yes, great music is mandatory too.

But if you want to go beyond that with your outdoor wedding entertainment, why not organize some really fun games? Here are some ideas of what you could try to incorporate in your Big Day:

• A wedding piñata. It doesn’t matter how young or old your guests may be, they will always love a good piñata game (just as much as they all love the sweets inside the toy too!). Get a wedding-themed piñata and allow your guests to reminisce childhood birthday parties – they will have huge fun doing this!
• A wedding match. If you know you and your friends have a favorite type of sport, why not bring a bit of it into your wedding day? From English croquet to baseball, anything’s possible to play at a wedding if there’s enough space. As long as it entertains the guests, it will be a more than welcomed addition!
• A sack race. Want to see your groomsmen fooling around and laughing? Organize a sack race for your wedding party (or for all of the guests, if you think they will like it). This is a really fun game people are more than familiar with – so it’s bound to be a huge success.

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It is Summer, so your wedding should be full of color!

It’s still summer outside, and if you plan on having your wedding before the end of the season, adding color to your wedding palette is surely an option you are considering. Why wouldn’t you, after all? Colors will really make you and your guests feel amazing at the Big Day – and they can truly speak about your style and love story too. 

How to add a pop of color to your wedding décor and still keep it elegant and fabulous? Here are some wonderful ideas to consider: 

• The shoes, the jewelry, and the bridesmaids. Add a bit of color to your wedding look by wearing bright-colored shoes, spice up your style with jewelry that pops, and dress up your bridesmaids in colors that are vibrant and gorgeous. Using the right color combinations, you can really pull this off in grand style!

• The cocktails. Want to make your wedding drinks feel really special too? Create a signature cocktail that shines with color! With so many amazing ingredients available during the warm season, you can actually serve cocktails that are so unique your guests will instantly love them!

• The variety. You don’t have to settle on fuchsia as your “pop of color” – not if you don’t like the idea, at least. There are many other splendid color options that really do the trick of adding liveliness and beauty to the mix, so you don’t have to feel limited to the very bright ones. Soft pinks and jewel tones can also work like magic, so don’t be afraid to use them! 

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Make sure you choose the best date for your big day

Your wedding date is, without any kind of doubt, one of the most important and life-changing “numbers” you will ever remember. Of course, you want everything about the Big Day to be absolutely fantastic – and it all starts with choosing the right date for such an important event in your life.

How to do it? Here are some tips every couple should keep in mind when choosing their wedding date:

• Settle on the season. You may not know your precise wedding date (and, truth be told, you won’t know it until you actually book your venue). However, giving people at least an estimate (e.g. the season) will be more than useful. Plus, choosing your wedding season can help you narrow-down other decisions as well (such as the “vibe” you want to create at your wedding, for example).
• Settle on the day of the week and the time of the day. Your wedding doesn’t have to happen during the evening, or on Saturday. It can happen at any moment of the day, any moment of the week (and it can actually be less expensive to choose a less common time).
• Keep your guests in mind. Since they will have to travel to reach your wedding location, you will also want to make it easier for them to get there. Avoid the holiday season (since guests may find it difficult to find transportation and accommodation) and, in general, avoid celebrations most people spend at home with their families (e.g. Christmas).

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Allow these quotes to provide inspiration for your wedding vows

Writing your own wedding vows is an excellent choice if you want to make your wedding ceremony as unique and personal as your love story is. Yet, if you are lost for ideas and don’t know what to start your vows with, looking at famous wedding vows will surely help you a lot. Here are some of the most romantic quotes to inspire you in creating emotional and unforgettable wedding vows:

• Tyler Knott Gregson. “Because of you I can feel myself slowly but surely becoming the one I have always dreamed of being”.
• Aristotle: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
• Jody Picoult: “"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
• Plato: "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
• Lao-Tzu: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
• Goethe: "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love."
• Paulo Coelho: "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."

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