Congratulation's on your engagement and your upcoming nuptials. This blog will feature DIY items for your wedding, tips, tricks, and a Q&A section on everything from planning to wedding etiquette.
(For the Q&A please send your questions to my e-mail listed below. If you have any further questions you can also visit my website)
Happy Planning!
Kimberly Weber, Wedding Planner/Owner
Forever I Do's by Kim
foreveridos@yahoo.com
http://www.foreveridos.com/
888.433.1478
Tuesday September 18, 2007
Neat Ideas:
*Instead of a Quest Book:
Instead of having the traditional guestbook, she is giving out postcards to guests. Guests will each receive a postcard from the St. Simons area and will write an endearing message to the couple. The postcards will be mailed to the couple after the wedding.
*Polaroid Photo Favors
As each single guest or couple arrives at the reception, take their picture using a Polaroid camera; then, attach each photo to a designated tree at the reception, along with a loving note from the bride and groom thanking the guests for sharing their day, etc. As the guests leave, ask them to search the tree for their photos which they may keep as a remembrance of the day.
Supplies: Polaroid Camera's and film (enough for all singles and couple's/families), parchment paper/or other for your notes, that are done prior to the big event.
*Decorating For a Fall Wedding
Collect apple baskets, tin pails, and old Mason jars to use as vases and candle holders. (if ceremony outdoors: hang tin pails filled with flowers, on every other 1st chair down the isle.)
*Cake Presentation
If you plan on having a cake that is going to be the "center" of attention you may want to have a Fairmount Cake Presentation. (An especially dramatic presentation where the cake is kept hidden until the very last minute. Finally the lights are lowered and the music fades and everyone quiets in anticipation of the presentation. Then, as the cake is wheeled out into the middle of the room, it is spotlighted as the music plays "Here Comes the Bride"/or other. At this point everyone gathers around the cake and proceeds to "ooh" and "aah" as the bride and groom cut the cake.
Tips:
*Champagne Toast
A bottle of Champagne has about 25 ounces. That 25 ounces will fill about 6 generous glasses or 8 smaller glasses. At 1 small glass per guest, and 200 guests, you would need 25 bottles.
*To cut down on costs you may want to serve a less expensive sparkling wine, such as a
spumante.
*Another way to economize is to serve a champagne punch instead where 1 bottle can
stretch to serve about 13 guests.
*A Toast from the Bride and Groom
It is a nice touch for the Bride and Groom to thank their guests for spending the day with them, on this, their wedding day. (Your guests will enjoy and thank you for thinking of them on such a special day.)
*Ceremony Seating: Who sits where
*Elderly guests should be seated in the front
* The first 4-5 rows may be reserved for immediate and extended family and other special guests by tying ribbons at the end of those rows.(If you are having an isle runner, for instance hand painted, be sure to have guests enter from the opposite side and block all isle rows and entrance off with ribbon)
*Immediate family is seated just before the ceremony begins. Siblings (if they are not in the wedding party) should be seated before your grandparents and great-grandparents. Begin seating with the grooms side.
*If you have step-relatives, make sure ushers know who they are. Step-relatives should be escorted to their seats before the relatives.
*If the bride or grooms parents are divorced, seat the parent who primarily raised the bride or groom in the front row along with his/her spouse, and seat the other parent and his/her spouse in the 3rd row. (Note: Discuss this in advance to avoid an awkward moment. They all could sit in the front row or the 1st and 2nd row depending on the family dynamics.....)
*The brides mother is always seated last at a Christian ceremony; the groom's mother is seated just before her. (In a Jewish Ceremony, parents stand under the Huppah with the couple.) The seating of the MOB signals that the ceremony is about to begin.
*Brothers of the Bride & Groom usually seat their mothers; the head usher can take on this job if the brothers are in the wedding party, or a brother can seat his mother and then take his place with the other groomsmen.
**Guests in Wheelchairs or on crutches should sit at the end of the aisles.
For the Groom:
*How to tie a Bow Tie
1. Put the tie around your neck so that end A(on your left) is longer than end B.
2. Cross end A over the top of B
3. Pull end A up and behind end B
4. Create a loop(and half of the Bow) with end B
5. Bring A to hang in front of the loop you just formed
6. Hold everything in place, pulling end A behind the tie from below, then folding it in half to create the other side of the bow. Poke this loop through the space behind loop B.
Done! If it looks bedraggled, adjust the tie by tugging the ends and straightening the center knot. If it looks awful, try again.
