Your wedding day is usually one of the most important days in your entire life. You prep, plan, and organize for at least a year, toiling away looking for the perfect dress, deciding on how many guest to invite, and searching for the best place to have a wedding reception.
About 7,000 couples get married on a daily basis in the U.S, and about a quarter of all weddings are destination weddings. This means that the wedding party and their guests head to a location away from home to get married. These types of weddings are often held in warm climates, because beaches and resorts on tropical islands are typically more romantic wedding venues than most banquet halls. These locations can also be the best place to have a wedding reception, because you might only have to plan for simple, yet elegant, outdoor seating, and a more natural, less expensive wedding altar. And even if it rains on your wedding day, which is considered good luck in the Hindu tradition, you can always arrange a simple indoor alternative with minimal work.
But if you are a more traditional bride, and you want to be married in a religious setting and have a fancy wedding reception, you are better off trying to find the perfect wedding venue in you or your fiance’s hometown. That way you can arrange every part of the day, and you will also save money on the airfare lost to a destination wedding. That money can then be spend on your honeymoon, which on average, costs couples between $1,00 and $5,000.
Once you have found the perfect place to have your wedding, planned out all the wedding decoration ideas, and finished planning a reception, you can focus on the finer details of your wedding, such as the “something old” you will wear, that usually symbolizes continuity with the past. After that, you can figure out how to secure “something new, something borrowed” and “something blue.”
Aside from these wedding traditions, there will be many other aspects of a wedding that you will need to consider. By creating a comprehensive list of these items, you will be able to keep your budget in mind, know what tasks are left to complete, and organize the many facets of your wedding. After all, you want this day to be the most memorable experience for you, your fiance, and all of your guests. Find more on this here.
