Hello, everyone.
Engaged in the wedding dress industry for several years and became good friends with most customers. I often hear about the experience of preparing for marriage. So I put these super practical strategies into “Preparing for Marriage Tips”. I hope to provide some suggestions for your wedding. I hope you all to take fewer detours on the road of preparing for marriage. Everyone has a perfect wedding of their own.
- 1. How to choose the right plan?
As for choosing the role of planner, most of the contradictions and bad reviews come from distrust, and the two sides have different understandings of service standards. I suggest that our brides must actively communicate before signing the contract, and even express their concerns and worries in advance, and then sign the contract after confirming the trust and fate.
The bride and planner should really cooperate with each other like friends.
There are two kinds of independent planners, one is design type, and the planner is also a florist and designer, who can draw pictures and arrange flowers.
The other one is co-ordination, which is in charge of all kinds of “software” and “hardware”, including not only floral art and dessert, but also on-site general control and supervision, more like a project manager.
- 2. There is absolutely nothing wrong with booking in advance!
Try to stagger the “everything is expensive” Golden Week wedding, because many people lead to all the floral art and venue prices rising these days!
If you really don’t want to miss these good days, you should also pay attention to the fact that, compared with ordinary wedding months, a national wedding month like Golden September and Silver 10 needs to confirm the hotel wedding at least one year in advance.
For the bride, the most important thing is your wedding dress. Because most bridal shops have only one single wedding dress, and popular wedding dresses generally need to be booked six months in advance.
It takes about two weeks to rent a schedule that needs to be reserved for you, plus the cleaning modification and the actual rental time. In addition, if you have a photographer or makeup artist who loves a lot, their schedule often needs to be booked earlier.
- 3. How to choose a wedding venue?
To combine layout, design and budget, then go to see the venue!
Most venues without natural light, such as hotel banquet halls, need a lot of professional lighting to create a warm scene, not the effect of Spring Festival Evening. However, just warm lighting may require your budget of 50K to 100K.
Therefore, before choosing the venue, consult your own designer florist or planner, whether the desired effect can be achieved in the venue you choose, and how much it will cost. Never choose the venue first, and then regret to find that your budget cannot support such a large banquet hall layout!
- 4. What kind of venue to choose?
Unpopular venues without cases are often the best price/performance ratio!
Consider some unpopular venues that rarely touch weddings. For example, if you pass by a beautiful glass house, or a coffee shop or restaurant that you love very much, you can ask the manager if you can contract to hold wedding.
You should understand that a wedding is equivalent to an activity, and you should look for your wedding venue with the spirit of finding an annual meeting for the company. Of course, it is a good choice to rent a bus to a venue farther around the city or a wedding destination.
- 5. How to choose a wedding team?
If you think that a business’s work is bad, but the price is cheap, don’t make a decision with luck, thinking that you can follow the picture, but no one is Tinker Bell, without excellent experience and aesthetics, even if you follow it, you can get a difference of 108,000 miles.
If you see your favorite team, you can finalize it. Don’t hesitate. Small teams with intentions often have tight schedules. Don’t leave regrets! The celebrity big coffee and the wedding people only need to do inspiration for their own wedding. They don’t have any budget, and basically they are friendship sponsorship and super free.
- 6. How to choose the size of the ceremony?
You should choose planner according to your favorite wedding style. Each planner has his own preferences and expertise. Although they always tell us that any style can be done, if you look carefully, you will find that planners also have different styles such as hotel, large wedding, small wedding, American, forest and so on.
When your wedding number exceeds a certain limit, such as 300 or 500, it is best to have two plans. One is to listen to your parents’ suggestions and try to work hard on some details, such as wedding dress and styling.
Another plan is to hold a small wedding ceremony for only two people before the grand wedding banquet, and control it to 50 to 100 people!
- 7. The theme is too tangled?
To complete a wedding with theme style, besides the scene layout, don’t forget to cooperate with the costumes, small objects and music, pay attention to the details, and the effect will be better.
In the case of unified style, we can do some small mashups, for example, rustic and Boho are very harmonious, and the combined effect is fuller. Even if you know your style well, don’t dwell too much on the details (for example, I must put a flower like this in this place, etc.), because if you dwell too much, it will easily lead to difficulties in communication with the planner, and the result is not satisfactory.
- 8. How to choose a planner?
If you make an appointment with a planner, you really don’t need to be greedy. 3-5 is a very reasonable range.
When planning is finally selected, say thank you or send a small gift to other planners who have not cooperated but have given you a lot of help and suggestions, and tell them that your schedule has been arranged for others. If you don’t tell them, they will really prepare for you carefully and reserve the schedule.
To choose a good plan, we must listen more, see more and compare more. The quality of previous works and full communication are the most important. The former is the foundation and minimum guarantee of wedding, while the latter determines the degree of satisfaction. When you choose a planner, please give ta full trust, put any ideas on the table, speak out directly, and give professional affairs to professional people, which will make you feel much easier.
- 9. What style to choose?
When you think of the wedding, you immediately think of the word style, and you are already wrong!
“Style” is a kind of symbol. Not everyone should follow the ideas of forest, country, simplicity and retro. The real wedding style is the design related to ourselves! Just choose what you like ~ The wedding is to express yourself, but this one is not selfish, not paranoid, but one who balances the ideas of all parties, makes some compromises, and can persist, just like the whole life.
The ultimate pursuit is the best self after balance. This is the saying: Wedding, be your best self!
- 10. About wedding photography.
Most photographers, especially in the wedding season, will delay the production of films. If they are brides who are anxious for wedding photos, it is better to confirm the time of film delivery in the early stage and implement it in the agreement. Of course, we still encourage both parties to communicate with each other in a friendly, free and open way, and trust, ah ha ha ha!
There is really no need to give the photographer a “must-have” shooting list. All you need to do is tell ta about the process and special links of the day, such as: arranging first look； for Dad; Grandma became the bride’s “little flower girl”; Quietly prepared a surprise video for the groom.
- 11. Choose a wedding dress.
Give you some small suggestions on choosing wedding dresses ~ try to wear wedding dresses that the shopkeeper recommended but you didn’t look at at at first sight. This is the legendary “it looks good only when you wear them”, and exclude those styles that can’t be suitable for your wedding venue at all, for example, you have to choose a big one to wear in the castle in the outdoor venue!
The budget is low. How about reducing the quantity instead of reducing the quality? How about just one main yarn? If you can customize it, it will be a beautiful inheritance to cut a piece of clothes and sew it on your daughter’s wedding dress decades later.
- 12. Choice of wedding venue.
For weddings by the sea or in highland, choose the light and thin styles that are convenient for walking as much as possible, and consider the weather and windy conditions in the days before and after. It is recommended to choose the hair style with curly hair or tied hair. planB is needed as long as it is an outdoor venue, whether it is a seaside beach or a garden lawn.
It is not enough to look at the pictures of the website when choosing hotels and venues. If you have plenty of time, you should go to the site for an on-the-spot investigation. Don’t quarrel with your family about getting married. After all, getting married is a happy thing. Be calm. At the beginning, you should clarify the division of labor and be more tolerant of each other.
- 13. Prepare the wedding time in advance.
It is best to set aside one year to prepare for the wedding, so that on the one hand, there will be plenty of time to compare and choose your favorite wedding venues and wedding venues; on the other hand, good venues and venues are waiting for no one, especially if the wedding date is a holiday.
May-August is the wedding season, which is the busiest time for vendor and wedding planner. It’s even more difficult to make an appointment with meeting during this time! Therefore, the whole planning process will inevitably be somewhat “slow” in these four months. Therefore, the main wedding planning time should not be arranged in these four months as far as possible. You should choose the wedding date according to your favorite wedding style. For example, your favorite peony will be available in May-June, but you chose October wedding! There are girls who love roses so much that they choose Valentine’s Day to get married. Are you afraid that your wedding is not expensive enough?
- 14. Book the schedule early! ! !
The popular wedding date every year is less than one tenth of that of a year. Good wedding venues and wedding merchants with high cost performance are often booked half a year or even a year ago.
So remember to mention it! Front! Set! If you can try not to set a hot wedding date, this truth is equal to the wrong peak trip. Everyone should have encountered two friends or even missed a friend’s wedding on the same day. I also heard that friends around me have booked a hotel and found that they like it. Wedding, photographers, makeup artists can’t book things.
Therefore, in general, it takes a long time to order wedding dresses six months in advance, whether it is renting or customizing. The earlier in advance, the more styles you can choose, and the new ones can be replaced free of charge.
Take wedding photos four months in advance. If you are traveling, you’d better make a plan six months in advance, because it will be very expensive to go to the hotel when you are near.
- 15. The marriage preparation list is very important!
Remember to make a list of wedding essentials. Your must-have list is very important! For example, the elder must attend, but she can’t fly, so you have to abandon the wedding abroad. Another example: Mom and Dad must take the lead, then the venue you choose must have an aisle.
Wedding venues can be wild and unconstrained.
In addition to hotels and churches, weddings can be held at:
Airbnb, seaside, theme restaurants, libraries, school halls, art galleries, roofs, resorts … too many choices …
The wedding itself has no style, neither gothic nor simple, nor European or Buddhist. The only style of the wedding should be the two of you. Wedding style isn’t created. It’s who you are.
- 16. The venue catering must be done by yourself!
We must communicate with each other in person, such as the contact person for restaurant affairs, the number of service personnel, the average number of service personnel provided at several tables, the number of times of changing tableware during the dinner, whether the service personnel guide guests to enter the venue, whether to provide ice cubes, whether to prepare vegetarian food, etc. You can’t eat at the venue? It’s simple. Choose a nearby restaurant for dinner and arrange transportation in advance.
Outsourcing catering, booking catering studio separately or making it by independent chef at the venue. (Be sure to pull the planner, the venue and the catering party to communicate in advance to avoid all kinds of unnecessary problems.)
Separate the ceremony from the meal. I really don’t want everyone to eat Sixi meatballs and listen to our vows.
- 17. What you must do before the wedding?
A few days before the wedding, some unnecessary things (such as the reception of relatives and friends in different places and the purchase of materials) are not recommended for newcomers to do it themselves, which will make them tired and affect their physical strength and mood on the wedding day.
It is suggested that you reserve a few quiet nights in advance to write your vows. The closer you get to the wedding, the more things you have, and the less you can prepare quietly. If you have the conditions, you must prepare first look!
But don’t take first look as a drag and drag, and join the wedding. First look is not a routine, but an undisturbed, quiet moment for two people in the whole wedding for more than ten hours.
- 18. How to choose the right photographer?
Photographer is the recorder of wedding, and a good photographer’s works can see emotion from photos. Here’s a tip. If you look at a stranger’s wedding photos (at least look at more than three) and cry or laugh out loud, then the photographer of this wedding is absolutely qualified!
For wedding photos, there will be a hundred ways in one hundred people’s hearts, but it must be remembered that wedding photos should be smiles full of happiness, not cold faces with concave shapes in big scenes.
- 19. Please don’t think like this!
You may have a lot of expectations for the wedding. Maybe you can’t think of what you want most at the wedding, but you should clearly understand what you want most.
There is only one wedding, so don’t want everything! Site design, props and floral art, wedding dresses, all of which complement each other and cannot be separated! Compared with large-scale buildings, I think some small details can show the taste and intention better.
- 20. Be sure to book in advance.
Popular venues are scheduled one to two years in advance! Many brides are easy to choose some popular venues, and the advantages of these venues are perfect service facilities and mature services, while the disadvantages are mostly expensive and difficult to decide! So if you have the idea of not getting married at this venue, please make a reservation in advance!
It is suggested that for outdoor weddings, brides who hold ceremonies in the afternoon go to the scene a few days in advance to look at the light environment and finally determine the start and end time of the ceremony. The surrounding buildings or peaks may affect the light during the ceremony.
- 21. What if there are too many people at the wedding?
If there are really many people to be invited at the wedding, the suggestion is divided into two parts, necessary and secondary: those who must be invited and those who can come or not. Necessary candidates attend the ceremony and secondary candidates attend the dinner.
If conditions permit, a wedding should be your own, instead of choosing one of several fixed themes and colors, which is no different from others. As for wedding inspiration, domestic wedding pictures are really the same.
Look at Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, and you will find different worlds.
- 22. What is the price/performance ratio?
Cost-effective = low price? It’s really not the same thing. The so-called price-performance ratio is the perfect ratio of one’s own needs and products. What you compare is not the price, but the suitability. Finding the planner who suits your requirements and style is the most important thing.
Before setting the venue, you might as well talk to the planner. After all, the reputation of the wedding venue is sometimes better than anyone else! In the process of preparing for the wedding, the agreement is very important. Every deposit you hand over should correspond to an agreement. This is the basic guarantee, and all conditions should be written into the agreement, not verbally promised. Please remember ~
- 23. Have no idea about wedding?
If you have no idea about wedding, you might as well start with finding a suitable wedding. Through contact with the wedding, you will gradually have a general direction about the scale and style of your wedding, and they will recommend venues for you according to your situation.
If you have a general idea about your wedding, you can set the venue and the wedding company in parallel. Because your favorite venue can make you more clear about your wedding style, and the communication with the wedding company will be more efficient.
- 24. The coordinator must book in advance!
Coordinators, wedding dresses should be fixed at least six months before the wedding to avoid schedule conflicts. Once something goes wrong, there is time to replace it. Wedding is a meticulous activity, and it is not enough to have an external team.
It’s best to find a friend or family member who can accompany you to prepare for the wedding, and let the other party take on the position of “big manager” of the wedding-knowing all your plans, taking charge of all wedding materials, connecting with the dining room on the spot, and planning the docking.
Because our wedding did not have this role, the lesson was painful: many materials prepared in advance could not be arranged because they were not docked in time; The specially prepared ice cream machine is not plugged in in time after being delivered, so the refrigeration effect is not good, and some ice cream melts away, which affects the effect.
- 25. Advantages of wedding companies.
The advantages of wedding companies are rich experience, sufficient manpower and standardized process. A company can include all the resources you need, and the planning and hosting of photography, camera and makeup can be done in their team.
Make big scenes handy. The deficiency is that it is too standardized, and there will be some routines in site layout. The planning studio specializes in pre-planning and on-site implementation. Planners will pay more attention to personality, regard wedding as a work, and hope to collide with new people to create a “different spark”. More flexible, and more distinctive products. But generally speaking, the manpower is limited, and it may be a bit difficult for big scenes.
In addition, wedding companies and other on-site teams will recommend it for you, but you still need to talk about it yourself, which will take some time and energy.
- 26. Shortcomings of choosing a planner.
Choosing a planner means giving up being big and complete. No planner can be good at all styles, and always has his own unique place. It is important that the style you like is consistent with the style she is good at. Don’t force it if it is not suitable.
If you want your wedding to be casual, relaxed and happy, guests can be as comfortable and natural as a holiday. On the spot, you can decorate a large number of broad-leaved plants, bars filled with wine, chairs with different shapes, mats and pillows thrown on the ground, and create a tropical seaside atmosphere in Chengdu in the southwest inland.
- 27. Don’t worry too much.
Don’t do everything yourself, remember that the bride worries too much about getting married, and 99% will regret it! ! ! Forget to enjoy the wedding, but immerse yourself in all kinds of trivial things, which makes the wedding day extremely anxious.
Many newcomers will invite friends to be hosts, which is a very good idea. But there are many uncontrollable factors when friends come to power. Emotional out of control, it is difficult to create a sense of ritual, and unexpected situations may not be able to control the field at all.
- 28. Determine the necessary conditions for a wedding banquet hotel.
Before booking a hotel, everyone needs to consider what characteristics the wedding reception hotel they want should match their wedding, and then make a choice after narrowing the scope. First of all, draw up the guest list, confirm the approximate number, and calculate the number of wedding tables.
Secondly, determine the wedding form, the wedding style you want, the theme tendency and the color matching, so as to avoid choosing a hotel whose decoration style and background color do not match your wedding.
Furthermore, determine the wedding budget and choose the hotel with the appropriate grade and meal standard according to your own economic situation.
- 29. Do you want to hold a wedding or not?
Some people think that it doesn’t matter whether the wedding is held or not, but I have to say that there is still a wedding, and the sense of ceremony is something that bystanders can’t feel anyway.
Weddings can be complicated or simple. The key is to follow one’s own heart, without considering what other people think is necessary, and without considering whether others feel good or not. Finding what one wants in one’s heart is a success.
No matter how well arranged in advance, there will still be confusion on the wedding day, so it is most important to relax as much as possible, not be too nervous about details, enjoy the whole process and experience the final results.
- 30. How to check hotels?
After going to the hotel for a field trip and determining the general selection range of the hotel, you can go to the hotel for a field trip, which mainly depends on the following questions:
Hotel decoration: Hotel decoration is the first impression of guests on the quality of your wedding ceremony, which is very important if you are an ostentatious person. So what are the main problems in decoration?
Shape of banquet hall, with or without pillars. In the absence of pillars, the banquet hall needs to give guests a wider view. You can sit at the four corners of the banquet hall to see if there are any blind spots.
Floor height. Generally speaking, the height of the banquet hall is between four and nine meters, which will give people a sense of transparency.
Entry fee and clearance fee. When the wedding planning company enters the venue to decorate, some hotels will charge the entrance fee, and ask about the entry time, so as to avoid that the planning company does not have enough time to decorate.
- 31. Bridesmaids and groomsmen need attention.
The bridesmaids and groomsmen in the wedding must accompany the new couple at all times after the whole wedding, except in special circumstances, and should also assist the new couple in everything at any time and place.
For example, in the wedding ceremony, if new people are found to have shortcomings, they should take timely remedial measures.
Pay close attention to the needs of new people, and the best man and bridesmaid at wedding should be flexible, which is one of the reasons why unmarried men and women should be invited to be the best man of bridesmaids. If you see a new person in tears, you should hand in paper towels in time.
Many newlyweds often forget to rest because they are busy at weddings. As the best man and bridesmaid, they must remember to remind them to replenish their energy.
- 32. Hotel choice.
Hotel decoration is the guest’s first impression of the quality of your wedding ceremony, which is very important if you are a showman. So what are the main problems in decoration?
Shape of banquet hall, with or without pillars. In the absence of pillars, the banquet hall needs to give guests a wider view. You can sit at the four corners of the banquet hall to see if there are any blind spots. Floor height. Generally speaking, the height of the banquet hall is between four and nine meters, which will give people a sense of transparency.
- 33. Dressing up a wedding car.
The dress of the wedding car is very particular, and a beautiful wedding car is a highlight of the wedding. When we decorate the wedding car, the bride’s car is usually the main object.
However, in our country, there are some differences in customs in every place. Some couples sit in the same car, and more brides sit in the first car and grooms in the second car. Therefore, the first car is very important. Generally, they can be decorated with gauze, flower balls and dolls.
- 34. Wedding flowers.
There are thousands of kinds of flowers. It is different to use flowers in different places. There are bouquets where flowers are used, as well as the bride’s head flower, wedding room decoration flower, meeting place decoration flower, wedding car decoration flower, and flowers that need to be used in many places. It is more meaningful to choose different flowers in these different places.
In addition to selecting flowers, there are also straps with flowers, which should be carefully selected and matched. 2. It is very important to pay special attention to the red carpet aisle flowers. The flowers that lead the new people to the road of happiness must be glamorous and beautiful. The flowers here are more suitable for large bouquet, flower ball style, bouquet and so on.
There is also the stage leading to the aisle, which needs to be more delicate and atmospheric. By the way, with bubbles, there will be unexpected results. Wedding spending will be the most here, so it is necessary to control the budget.
- 35. Number of groomsmen and bridesmaids.
Although there is no rigid requirement that the number of groomsmen and bridesmaids should be equal, the beauty of symmetry is in line with the public aesthetic. For different wedding arrangements, the number of bridesmaids and groomsmen is also different. For large weddings, there are generally more than 300 people, and five pairs of bridesmaids and groomsmen can be arranged. Newcomers can choose from relatives and friends.
For a medium-sized wedding with 100-300 people, 2-3 pairs are more suitable, and for a small wedding with less than 100 people, a pair of bridesmaids and groomsmen are enough. Newcomers must pay attention not to expand the brothers and sisters group in a lively way, which will reduce the beauty of the whole wedding.
- 36. Step by step.
In terms of time, it is best to make a wedding appointment six months in advance. Some marriage preparers even set up a wedding company one year in advance. After the wedding is decided, we must communicate with the planner to let each other know their own aesthetics, preferences and needs.
It is convenient for them to recommend wedding companies, suitable bridal shops and so on.
OK. That is all. Hope it will help you and inspire you.
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