Wedding planning: Part I

Here we provide a list that will help you organize everything for your wedding:
A wedding demands many arrangements, materials and spirituals as well. We have to do paper work, send the invitations, select the dress, the flowers, etc.
Where to start?

1 year early

• Define the date and the hour for the religious ceremony.
• Visit churches, ballrooms and wedding dress designers.

9-11 early
Reserve the church and ballroom foro he reception. It’s preferable they are closet o each other. Get a folder where you can keep all the papers, cards and notes related to your wedding.

• Make a preliminary guests list.
• Choose the godparents, bridesmaids and trainbearers.
• Visit buffet services to select the reception’s menu.
• Make appointments with many flower shops representatives to check out the options.
• Finish your guests list.
• Start auditioning groups and choruses for the mass and the reception. If the reception is in a garden hire a tent or awning.
• Decide which priest you would like to celebrate your wedding.
• Have an interview with him and your fiancé.
• Ask for photographers and video makers budgets.

6-8 months early

• Set up all the papers you need for the religious weeding (birth certificate, baptism certificate updated to a 6-month limit and confirmation certificate).
• Set up the papers for the civil wedding (birth certificate, medical exams, etc.)
• Start checking tables for wedding presents.
• Reserve the photographers and video maker’s services.
• Final selection of the wedding dress gown, dresses and tuxes for bridesmaids and trainbearers.
• Hire the flower store.
• Give your bridesmaids a list of what they have to do in the wedding’s day.
• Register your present’s tables.
• Call the abroad guests so they can book their flights.
• Reserve the musicians.
• Start checking invitations designs.
• Check all the details for the reception’s menu.
• Order to make the invitations.

Bridal carriage

Every marriage is the culmination of a couple’s dream and mainly the dream of every bride:
The bridal carriage or car that will be used in the wedding’s day must be the one the bride wants so much.

Tips to decorate a bridal carriage:

For a modern car you may use the traditional flower bunch on the car’s backside.

A classic car may wear flowers on the frontal part and a flower arrangement inside, if it allows so.

For the romantic bride and her carriage, a pair of very well combed hair horses will look great, decorated with ribbons, and with traditional flowers on the doors handles or in the car’ backside, depending on the car model you will use.

Although it’s true a modern bride will prefer a convertible or a fabulous Mercedes, a more traditional bride may like a classic car or a romantic carriage with horses.

Whichever the election you make, decoration will play an important role.