Wedding

60 Wedding Planning Tips and Tricks That You Need to Know

• April 15, 2021

Wedding planning is a stressful and time-consuming process with all your dreams and emotions. You dream about your wedding since your childhood and wish to have a perfect dream wedding. Well, welcome to reality to plan a wedding is entirely different from dreams. You have to go through thick and thin.

First, you had to think about the guests you are inviting. You must be careful in invites and not include any person can create conflict easily. You may have a small wedding you won't bother to invite the whole family, just a few family members, and close friends.

Afterward, the journey will continue with the venue selection, florist, dress designer, caterer, photographer, musician, and officiant. Try to keep calm yourself remember what is important to you. Face all the problems directly and solve them or make their alternatives. The key to wedding planning is to organize and list out every detail about the wedding. It will save your big day from any mishap.

1. Start Your Wedding Planning Early

Wedding is a big day you are dreaming for it be perfect. It is good to start your wedding early as soon as possible it reduces the stress. You can arrange an alternative if any mishap happens. The soon you start wedding planning earlier, you had enough time to plan things perfectly.

2. Make Your Timelines

Make your timelines in planning a wedding is helpful to do every work effectively. You had enough time left to be with your family and friends. You can utilize your spare time to do exercise. Write down the expected time in your planning for every work and try to meet the timeline.

3. Plan Your Wedding Size

List out the number of guests for your wedding and plan how many you had guests at your wedding. And what is the size of your wedding is it small or large. The wedding size will make a clear picture to plan your wedding. The wedding size will determine the selection of venue and theme of your wedding.

4. Venue Choice

The choice of venue is a core decision in your wedding planning. The selection of wedding place for your wedding is depend on.

• size of your wedding
• destination or local wedding
• the theme of your wedding
• your wedding budget
• vendor management or all-inclusive venue.

These points will make it easy for you to choose the right and perfect venue for your wedding.

5. Understand Your Venue

Once you shortlist the venue choices for your wedding, you must understand the location of the venue. Select the premises is inside a hall, banquet, or outside at beach or resort. Visit the site and arrange the wedding according to the location of the venue.

6. Get Perfect Size For Engagement Ring

Get your engagement ring resized by the jeweler. As you may lose pound before the wedding, is one of your pre-wedding goals. Think again, how it looks when your engagement ring is big and slips off without noticing.

7. Download Wedding Planning

There are a lot of free wedding planning apps available to help you in planning your wedding. This app has ideas for wedding themes, dresses, suits, venues, decore, and reception menus. It helps to reduce the workload and stress of wedding planning.

8. Your Wedding Website

You can create your wedding website or get help from professionals. The idea of your wedding website is a great way to make things convenient. You can add every detail about your wedding on the website. You can tell about the location of the ceremony and reception, transportation, the dress code, reception menu, invites, and RSVPs, and the registry.

9. Owned Your Wedding

Wedding is your big day, do whatever you want to do at your wedding. You may not, that trendy wedding follower or don't want the classy old wedding. Try to set your trend and set it up at your wedding. You to wear nontraditional color at your wedding or want to serve a pizza at your reception. Go ahead and enjoy your big day with your rules and trends.

10. Coordinate With Your Partner

Sit down and write the important things about wedding planning. Discuss with your partner the dress, the menu, live music, vows, or wedding theme. The team of the two of you will make the event perfect and dreamy. Put your thing in front of you to get focused.

11. Remove Less Priority Tasks From List

You organized your wedding planning and enlightened the essential tasks. You must check your wedding planning list twice and, you may have the low-priority things at last on the list. You must remove these tasks from the list and save your time and money.

12. Get Advice From Your Family And Friends

Your family and friends may have many ideas for your wedding. Listen to your friends and family's ideas, and try to implement them. These ideas may come in handy in wedding planning. It saves time and energy that you can utilize in other essential work.

13. Digital Check Out Your Vendors

You can follow your vendors on social media and Twitter. Florists, Caterers, Musicians are easily accessible through digital means. You can visit their sites and read the reviews. From the comments and feedback, you have ease in selecting the best option for your wedding.

14. Read Your Contracts Carefully

Wedding planning is not an easy process that involves management and hard work. You may have to sign contracts with your vendors. Read All your contracts carefully before you sign with your florists, caterer, photographer, videographer, and musician. Try to write down the exact time and date of the delivery of their services.

15. Get Insured

Get insured is the best idea to avoid getting any loss at the wedding. Think What, if your wedding food has burnt in the kitchen, tailor-made a short dress for you, or the photographer lost all the wedding film. The insurance will be your face-saving at the event.

16. Think About Your Dress

It is better to think about your wedding dress early. You are the star of the event, must be looking pretty and different from everyone. You may be like the new trendy fashion or want to wear one of your mother or grandmother's wedding dresses. The wedding dress also goes with the theme of the wedding either, its destination or local.

17. Coordinate With Your Vendor

You might be getting a phone call from your vendors when you are out shopping. You have to prepare questions and ideas about the wedding venue. It came in handy when you got a call unexpectedly from your vendor. It makes your wedding planning easy to go with it.

18. Early Observation Of Venue

If it is possible, visit the venue when someone else wedding has held at that place. This idea is only feasible for large-scale hotels. You may get the idea of how the arrangements are at the wedding. You can see the action of the musical band and food service at the event. View the aisle and seating arrangements, and you get the complete picture of your wedding.

19. Do DIY

You can skip some of the vendors if you are the creative DIY type. You can decorate your wedding with DIY ideas to make it more classy and trendy. You may create a playlist of your favorite songs with your partner and recreate the memories.

20. Digital Invites

Nowadays, it is trendy to send wedding invitations online through email addresses. They are convenient and save your time. It is useful when You don't have enough time left for giving invites by hand.

21. Numbering Your Invites

It is better to put a number on the back of each invitation card from your guest list. You can tell the number of guests, and it reduces the chance of miss or repeated invites. The number can be written with invisible ink and only see when you hit with light.

22. Get A Help

You are lucky if you have helping hands in your family and friends. Try to ask them for help and honor them to be part of your wedding planning. Your family and friends make arrangements when you are busy with your vendors or shopping. Assign your cousin to do decoration to one who is good at floral arrangements. Similar assign duties to you are family and friends.

23. Happy To Borrow

Don't be afraid to borrow things from your friends. You can borrow tables and folding chairs for a small outdoor wedding. An outdoor wedding is a trendy and money-saving idea. You can borrow a wedding dress if you want to.

24. Relax Yourself

Wedding planning is a stressful process, and you may get a high emotional temperature. You need to be, relax and calm during the whole wedding planning. Spent some quality time with your partner and have some non-wedding-related activities. The support and backup of your friends and family will also help.

25. Consider About Weather

If you are planning an outdoor wedding, you must consider the weather issue. In hot weather, you have to facilitate the proper air and cooling at the event. Place ice-cold water stations nearby the seating arrangement. In cold weather, you can put something plush warps on the seatback to make it cozy. Be connected with weather updates to avoid rain and snowfall.

26. Go With Your Choice

If you select some top venue for the wedding and you get clicked by only one of them. Then go for it, with the help and assurance from your experts you had a perfect wedding at that place. The same way goes with the florist, photographer, designer, caterer, and officiant.

27. Accept Your Mistakes

Accept the reality you may do some mistakes, and can something went wrong at your perfect wedding. You must look up alternate options and try to fix the issue rather than get worried. Realize the nature of the problem and try to resolve it as soon as possible.

28. Bring Your Sense Of Humor

Take the things lightly, don't take too much stress. Bring your sense of humor and enjoy the wedding planning. Keep a smile on your face try to be polite with everyone. Crack some jokes with your family and friends. Take the blunders and mistakes with a big heart and feel at ease.

29. Meditate

Meditation is the best way to keep the stress away. Wedding planning is a stressful process, and you have to face and handle several problems. Meeting with vendors, shopping, and pre-wedding events are enough to keep you full. Take some time out of your schedule at least 15 minutes daily to meditate. Select a corner of your house or room, take a deep breath, and calm yourself.

30. Wedding Favors

Give your guests a wedding favor as a token of your love and care. The edible favors are the most favorite up till now. You can give chocolates from local Chocolatiers, succulents in small pots, seed packets, complimentary candy, and Macrons. The wedding favor is an unforgettable memory of your wedding they had for their lives.

31. Use Pictures For Seating

Using the pictures of your guests for seating arrangement is a brilliant idea. It gives family vibes and, peoples find their seats in no time. Gather the photographs of your all guests and order to print them. Put a number in the corner of the picture. It is more convenient than names written on the seats.

32. Extra Rehearsal With Flower Kids And Ring Bearers

Spend some extra time with the flower kids and ring bearers and make their role perfect. Make them walk down the aisle and instruct them on how to toss flower petals. Remind them who will come first to walk down the aisle.

33. Create Your Signature Cocktails

You can serve a signature cocktail at your wedding. It may be your favorite one, or you can customize something. Let share your favorite cocktail with your guest and enjoy the appreciation.

34. Herb Centerpiece

You can place a herb centerpiece at the table. People can pick any herb and sprinkle it on the meal. The herb centerpiece idea is healthy and spices up to a meal.

35. Snack Bar

During the wedding ceremony, you and your guests may feel hungry. You can start the cocktail hour one hour before the ceremony. Also, you can place a table full of granolas, water, nuts, and chocolates. It serves as a snack bar after the wedding ceremony.

36. Organize After-Party

People like to celebrate more after the wedding ceremony. You can organize the after-party at the nearby hotel bar. Also, you can create a little cocktail serving bar after the wedding ceremony to make this celebration a little longer.

37. Organize Transporation

It is better to organize the transportation in advance. Call your vendor early and make sure it's available a couple of hours before the wedding ceremony. Any mishap in this will destroy the harmony of your wedding. Enlisted the friends and family members who possess mini-van and ask them to ride-sharing.

38. Match The ChargerPlates To Your Wedding Theme

Try to match the charger plates to your wedding theme. The charger plates should be places as your guests arrived. You can use antique map prints outs, wooden slices, or plaid fabric.

39. Add Buffer Time At Wedding Day

Wedding day is the big day you take a little longer to get ready. It may take more time during wedding photos. Meeting guests is also a time-consuming part of the wedding. You must schedule a buffer time on the wedding day. It keeps things easy to go with the flow and won't miss anything.

40. Appoint An Administrative Assistance

You can assign this role to your maid of honor or parent or a close friend best at management. This person has the details about the license, venue, and vendor's contract. He/she will do all the paperwork for you and get ready all thing you needed.

41. Arrange Accommodation For Out-of-town Guests

Arrange the accommodation for the out-of-town guest at your nearby hotel. Write this information on the invites of the respective guests or inform them through your wedding website. Clear the direction to your guest, and your work is complete.

42. Read Carefully Seating Chart

Once you have the final guest's list go through the seating chart to avoid drama create at your wedding. Place your family member near to those guests which they loved to sit with it. Use a seat planning tool to assign seats with social and colorful stick labels.

43. Be Ready To Face Any Conflict

You may face emotional issues at the wedding. Address them directly, no need to avoid them. You may not be able to solve every problem. But listen to the people politely who came to you.

44. Lighting Creates Magic

You can use those cheap lightning strings or fairy strings to fill your place with the glow of magic. The bare bulbs strings can produce an elegant look to your event. Mason jar with lights gives a warm and trendy look to your wedding.

45. Use Natural Backdrops

Some weddings venus have a beautiful natural backdrop that makes the perfect decor for the ceremony. The beach wedding or wedding at the poolside has a splendid backdrop view of crystalline clear water. Similarly, a wedding at a historic place or the park will make stunning views.

46. Make A Memory box

Place some cards and pens on the table for the guest to share their experience of the big day. Ask one of your wedding party members to keep them safe in a box. Decorate this bo and add the upcoming anniversary date on it. You might get surprised on your first anniversary.

47. Make Plan B

You sure make plan B in case of any trouble or mishap. Something thing won't go with the schedule, and it will ruin your big day. Make sure you have alternative options and sincere friends who can help you out.

48. Shed Some Pounds

Everyone wants to look fabulous on the big day. You must adopt a healthy eating plan and shed some pounds before your wedding. Surprise your fiance with your new look but, do go too far. After all, he is accepting you as who you are and how do you look.

49. Share Your Responsibilities With Your Groom

Like you, he also has a dream for his big day. Sit with him and listen to his idea about the venue, dress, decor, menu, or music. Most of the guys like o give their share in wedding planning. It will also improve the compatibility of the two of you as a couple.

50. Make A Meal Plan

Make a meal plan for what you are serving the guests and the wedding day crew. You must know the exact number of the wedding day crew you have to feed. And you must add photographer assistance and the musical band too. Ask your caterer to arrange the less expensive and equally hearty meal for them.

51. Children Care Service

It is better and convenient to provide a daycare service at a hotel room or family member's home. It may get hurt if you are allowing some family with and without children. The other option is to invite only adults to your wedding.

52. Write Wedding day Checklists

Prepare a checklist to share the key things to do with the wedding party. It includes tips for the vendors, wedding gifts, card receiving, and rings checks. Write down all things and events in order and checked by best friend or maid of honor.

53. Prepare Emergency Kit

Assign your maid of honor to make an emergency kit contains your favorite lip color, perfume, mascara, emergency sewing kit, and hair bands. This kit may come in handy and saves you a big day in case of any mishap. You can add adhesive tap bandages also in that kit.

54. Eat Healthy Breakfast

Wedding day is a festive and busy day for you. The time will fly in seconds and, there is not much time left to eat. Eat a healthy breakfast early in the morning if it is possible. You can have granola bars or a handful of nuts in your clutch to keep up your energy.

55. Stay Hydrated

Keep yourself hydrated on the wedding day. It will help you from feeling low during your big day. Place a handy water bottle at your side before the ceremony. Wedding day is a bit emotional occasion and water helps you to feel relax and calm.

56. Keep Extra Seats

Make sure to have some extra seats in the back for the latecomer guests. Due to some reasons, some of your guests may come late to the ceremony. It reduces the chances of interruption during the ceremony.

57. Assign A Enligthening Fairy

Select a person from your wedding party to remind you to enjoy your wedding. Wedding planning and the wedding is a stressful process. You forget to enjoy your wedding and you are lost somewhere between work and schedule. This enlightening fairy helps you to make your memories more beautiful of this day.

58. Order High Heel Attachments

At the outdoor wedding event, your high heel might get sink in the grass or soil. Order high heel attachments to avoid sinking. It will make you comfortable to walk around the event.

59. Designated The Seats

Put signs for the first two rows of seats for designated family members. And avoid the unintentionally sitting of early arrivals on the front two rows. Assign this duty to one of the wedding party members or friends to save the front rows.

60. To Be With Alone Few Minutes With Your Partner

Well, the two of you will be alone for a minute or two to hold on to your emotions. Driving to the ceremony venue or the reception hall, the two of you can spend some time. To express the love and rejoice of this big day to your partner.