You might think you need an expensive wedding planner to make the perfect wedding happen, but you don’t. Find out how to plan your very own dream wedding and get started doing it now!
You’re in love and just got engaged! Congratulations! You may have always dreamed about having the perfect wedding and you’re overwhelmed by advertisements, what well meaning friends and family are suggesting, and what the wedding industry has to offer. You might think you need a professional wedding planner to make sure you don’t screw up your wedding. Don’t worry, you can plan the perfect wedding yourself, and we will tell you how. Join Mysticsense to learn to plan your dream wedding. Find out what weddings are and everything you need to know so you can plan your dream wedding. Dream weddings might seem difficult- but they are easier to plan than you might think. Read on!
What’s a Wedding?
A wedding is a formal ceremony where two people become married. It includes an exchange of vows by the couple and an offering of something like rings to wear. Most specifically, it's a public statement that the couple has pledged their lives in marriage to one another and some kind of a holy man or woman officiates the ceremony to make it official. Wedding ceremonies are almost always legally binding ceremonies where people are linked to one another financially. They quite often become financial partners and will become a legal spokesperson for one another in the event that one of them cannot speak for themselves.
In some cultures it is forbidden for people to live together or have sex with one another unless they're married. The wedding signifies the beginning of the couple’s life together. In some other cultures, some people prefer to live with one another before they're legally bound, just in case they don't get along. Stevie Ray Entertainment reports that as of 2022, $70.5 billion is how much money the wedding industry generates each year in the US alone. Of polled respondents, all brides say they paid more attention to what they wore at their wedding, but 78% say they would make entertainment the top priority if they had to do it again. A bridal gown on average cost respondents $1,900 and there were about 2.4 million weddings per year in the US. Read more wedding statistics here: Wedding Statistics and interesting facts about weddings. | Stevie Ray Entertainment
Isn’t It All About the Day?
For some people, the wedding is all about the day, but for others it's about what comes after the wedding- the marriage itself. Some people daydream about what their wedding will be like from the time they're small children, so planning their wedding in that way might take years. Most people take a number of months to plan the wedding. Some people have longer engagements of several years, but some people plan their wedding in 15 months or less. Depending on who you're going to hire to do your entertainment, flowers, and how much money you plan to spend on the wedding itself, you might decide to spend a long time planning your wedding because you want to go all out financially.
On the other hand, some couples have decided to get married, and just went down to the courthouse to get their paperwork. All they have to do is get an officiant to sign the paperwork, before they mail it back into their courthouse. Some people don't even get dressed up or make an event, they just want to be married. Other people have the very long process of wedding planning, parties, gifts, trips, and then afterwards a major honeymoon. So for some people, the wedding is just all about the day, and for others it's about a lot of other things. Some people get so into the wedding, they outdo themselves- but that’s never a good idea. Find out why here: The Case Against the Desire to Overdo It
What Could Go Wrong?
Perhaps the question isn't, what could possibly go wrong. The question is what couldn't go wrong? Some people work very hard trying to micromanage all the details of their wedding to make sure that everything is perfect. You can try, but it's probably not possible. The weather could turn bad. The electricity could go out. You could get into a car accident on the way to the wedding, which could make you late. Your significant other could change their mind. Wedding attendants could get into a fight in the middle of the ceremony. Anything could go wrong at all.
Some people say that at least one thing will go wrong at any wedding. At the author's first wedding, the ring bearer was four years old and he untied the rings from the wedding pillow and they fell off, and rolled underneath the seats. The boy's mother picked the rings up and tied them onto the pillow in a knot. When it came time for the best man to remove the rings from the pillow and present them to the bride and groom, it took him a very long time to untie the knots. Everyone laughed. That's all that went wrong. At the author's second wedding, the day they went down to the courthouse to get their wedding paperwork, the courthouse was closed and they had to go another day. Both weddings went off without another hitch.
Expect something to go wrong at your wedding. Don't stress yourself if everything isn't exactly according to plan. Just make the most of your wedding. A wedding is an event. Anything could go wrong at any event at any time and it will be completely out of everyone's control. Just try to come up with solutions if things go wrong, and you might want to handpick someone to help you through the day. One Zodiac sign that is great at finding solutions is Gemini. Read about great traits that mean a Gemini might be a good idea to help you survive an event here: Gemini Traits | Star Sign in The Spotlight
Do I Need a Wedding Planner?
Wedding planners have amazing ideas. They know where talented entertainers, caterers, florists, and events spaces can be found. If you don't belong to any religion, they can find you a non-religious officiant, and they can even help you to get the perfect clothing. They can also take over as the authority figure when family and friends want to interject unwanted advice. Some people would feel lost without a wedding planner and believe whatever they cost is more than worth it.
You can do all those things yourself though. You will also get to personalize your wedding instead of doing it the way someone else says you should. You are basically choosing where to get married, who you want to officiate your wedding, what you're both going to wear, who you're going to invite, whether you have any entertainment and what it will be, and what you're going to eat. You don't have to hire someone to do that unless you want to. A wedding can be the perfect time to showcase your creativity. Learn more here: Creating - Discovering Who You Are Through the Arts
Planning the Perfect Wedding
If you decide you're going to plan your own wedding, there's just a few things that you need to do to make your wedding perfect. All of them revolve around one thing- doing it your way. Technically, the only two people you need to accommodate are yourself and the person who you're marrying. So, invite who you want, wear what you want, decorate the way you want, ask for the gifts you want, eat whatever you want, and have entertainment you want.
Invite Who You Want
A wedding affirms your commitment to one another in front of the people who you love, but, should you invite certain people if you don't want to? There are some friends and family members who are downright toxic who might ruin your day for you. You and your significant other do not deserve to host such people at your wedding. Your wedding is about you and your love for one another. Only invite the people who you want there. Make sure all your friends come, but what if you are friends with an ex? Read about being friends with an ex here: Ex-Relationships: Signs of Attention-Seeking Ex.
Wear What You Want
In some cultures, it is proper for brides to wear white and grooms to wear tuxedos, But what if you don't want to? Then don't. Some people like to have Renaissance festival weddings, and other ones like to have Halloween themed weddings where everybody shows up in costumes. Some brides have resurrected an older European tradition of wearing green to signify fertility. Some people like to have country western themed weddings and wear blue jeans. Some brides like to wear a mother or grandmother's dress when they get married. Wear whatever you want.
Decorate Your Way
Everybody who lives nearby you might decorate for the wedding in a particular way, but you don't want to. Decorate however you want to for your wedding. Some people have a very plain style and don't want to decorate at all. That's okay too. Remember, your wedding is about you, and you should decorate the way that you want to decorate, not the way other people expect you to. Read about the magical power of color here: How to Use Magic with Colors | Magic Guide
Request What You Want
Some couples have plenty of stuff and don’t want to do a traditional wedding registry. Maybe you just wanna ask for money. Maybe you want to ask people to come do things like paint your house for you instead of giving you things. Maybe you want to ask people to teach you how to cook, visit you when you move into your new home, or buy you books instead of things for your kitchen or to decorate with. One modern trend is to ask wedding guests to donate money to a charitable cause or to bring non-perishable food items to the wedding to be donated in the name of the lucky couple.
Eat What You Want
Expensive menus aren't entirely necessary for weddings, although that's what most people have come to expect. It's up to the couples' families to pay for those things unless the couples pay for it themselves. Not everybody can afford that. Some people's families cook the entire meal for the couple instead of having catering from a restaurant or professional. Some people do this with a potluck where everybody brings something to eat. Make your own decision about what you want to eat at your wedding, if you want to eat anything at all. Read about the magic of food here: The Magic of Food
Entertain Your Way
Alcoholic beverages and music and dancing are a big part of a lot of weddings. Some couples have unique ideas about what kind of music they should have. The traditional music of your culture might not be what you want at your wedding. You might decide you don't want any music or dancing at all, and that's okay. You might decide that you want to have a karaoke machine and have people go up and sing and make music themselves. You might also decide that your favorite music, which isn't the typical music that your friends and family listen to, is the kind of music that you want. Do it your way, It's for you anyhow.
Now What?
After the wedding comes and goes, you will settle into domestic life. Daily tasks of working, running a household, paying bills, and doing ordinary things begins. The time from engagement to wedding is an exciting time filled with announcements, parties, getting gifts, and going fun places. Now, your daily to-do list is not “cake tasting, and dress fitting.” It’s “laundry and wash the car.” Once this domestic life starts, you might assume that marriage is nothing but a big disappointment. You might say this boring life isn’t what you signed up for and you might immediately regret getting married. Before you call a divorce lawyer, think of one thing.
What would you be doing at home if you weren’t married? You would be working, running the household, paying bills, and doing things like laundry and washing the car. Marriage doesn’t change that. What it changes is who you do those things with. The wedding comes and goes all in one day. You looked forward to it as “the happiest day of your life” for months or years- but that doesn’t mean it actually is. There doesn’t have to just be one happiest day together as a couple. Marriage is “ till death do you part.” If the relationship doesn’t die, it will last until one of you dies. Marriage will include a lot of happy times and milestones.
You will celebrate career wins, but you will also celebrate career losses. You will celebrate becoming part of one another’s families, and deal with frustrating family members. You will grow as people and head in the same direction in a lot of ways. You may also go in different directions with other things. In the good times, great times, bad times, and worst times, as a married couple, you will share all those experiences. You will celebrate good times, and lean on one another in bad times. Together. Your whole life together is what comes after a wedding. What could be better?
The perfect wedding doesn’t guarantee the perfect marriage, but it can’t hurt. You will remember your wedding the rest of your life. Scrap the wedding planner, and ignore what other people want you to do. Book whatever food and entertainment you want, and wear whatever you want. Request whatever gifts you want. No matter what, make sure your wedding is about celebrating your vows to one another- regardless of what other things are entailed in the wedding. After all, a wedding is one day, but marriage lasts the entire lifetime you are together.
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