Ang Mga Tips In Preparing For A Wedding - Part 1

Ang Mga Tips In Preparing For A Wedding - Part1

All our life we waited for this moment wherein you will solidify the vow of everlasting love with the partner you have chosen. We want that day to be perfect! A day we will always remember for the rest of our lives. But reality is there would always be glitches and unforeseen hassles during that wedding day. Some proxy Godmother would show up not wearing the motif of the wedding standing out from the rest or some delay with the food, etc.

So how can we eliminate this problems? How can we make things run smoothly. It all falls down on proper wedding planning.

1. Deciding on a decent budget. -  This is very important since this would determine which suppliers you would choose for the wedding. If you want a simple wedding you have to prepare at least 50-100k budget. If you want a good wedding then you would need to need to prepare 300-500k budget. But if you want a grand wedding with all those beautiful things you need to prepare at least 800k or more for the budget. Reality is when you are near to the actual wedding your budget would sometimes double. Whatever  your budget is you have to ask yourself this two questions:
1. This is a once in a lifetime event. An event that i would be looking back 30-50 years from now. How much am i willing to spend for this?
2. After the wedding what financial situation would i be in? Will I be broke? or would I have a decent life after?
2. Get a Wedding Planner! - It's true that you want to save money and you think you don't need this. But that's the common mistake! Wedding planners would dictate the success and failure of your wedding. I have seen so many weddings that things could have been okay if there is just a wedding planner. You don't want to look so harassed during your wedding day. You don't want your family and friends to be so haggard on your wedding day as well. Nowadays you could get a decent wedding planner for 10-15k. You can even have an on the day wedding planner if your budget is really constrained. Don't stress yourself and your family on your special day. Get a Wedding Planner.
3. Theme of the wedding. It's your day! So you can do whatever you want! On this day your friends and family would turn soft and would make a fool of themselves just for you. Because it's your day! It's better than your birthday! So whatever the two of you feel comfortable and want your wedding to look like then do it. Just be prepared to shoulder most of the cost for the costumes for this to fit your theme. Ask yourselves this:
1. How do I want to see me and my fiance during our wedding? How do I envision ourselves? It could be walking down the aisle or you can even be dropping from a plane. Important is how do you want it to be.
2. Envision yourself, your family and friends following your theme for the wedding. Ask yourself if you will be able to pull this of? Will you be able to go through with it on your wedding day?
4. Place of the wedding. There are two important locations for this:
1. Wedding Ceremony - This would be dependent on your religion and your theme. Go around and look for that perfect place for you. It could be either your childhood dream wedding ceremony location or a place wherein when you saw it you knew that this is it...
2. Reception - It would be a lot more smoother and better if you choose a reception area that is close to the Wedding ceremony place. There are some wedding venues that has chapels already. This would make things easier for you and all your guests. Or just a 15 minutes ride. You would not want your guests not attending your reception because they are an hour or more apart. Most of the time they would either just attend your wedding ceremony or at the reception. You would not want to be rushing or getting stuck in traffic or rush hour because of the distance.

So that's the first part on Part 2 we will talk about tips on choosing a supplier for your wedding.