How to Set your Destination Wedding Budget

by Jenny Moore

Jenny Moore, a wedding invitation design specialist, is sharing tips on budgeting for a destination wedding. These remote weddings are becoming so very popular, I thought that I would share a few budgeting tips to think about while planning a destination wedding.

In any wedding workbook, you’ll find a budget page where you plan for all the standard wedding expenses (like your photographer, wedding flowers, music, your wedding dress and the caterer). But what if you’re having a destination wedding? Below are some costs that are specific to destination weddings that aren’t usually mentioned in standard wedding budgets:

Wedding site visit: Visit your destination at least once to check out venues and meet with potential vendors.

Wedding travel: Includes airfare, accommodations, car rental, and meals and entertainment.

Shipping Charges: Leave room in the budget for sending beach theme wedding programs, linens, escort cards, or other items to your destination.

Flying in vendors or your wedding officiant: If you hire someone who doesn’t live at your destination, you’ll be expected to pay their airfare, accommodations, local travel expenses, and per diem.

Group activities: You’ll probably be hosting other events over the weekend, such as a welcome party, rehearsal dinner, and a post-wedding brunch.

Subsidizing expenses: You might choose to help out with the bridal parties travel expenses or offer to pay for the bridesmaids’ dresses, accessories such as shoes or jewelry, and tuxedo rental.

To get the most out of your destination wedding budget, here are a few tips: Choose a venue that is gorgeous and speaks for itself.

Keep the guest list small. By having a destination style wedding, you can splurge a bit more on the details such as wedding welcome letters and handmade paper invitations.

Use lighting smartly. Rent or buy large lanterns that house huge candles. Three or four tucked into a corner will do wonders for ambiance. Some destinations only require candles to be magnificent!

Serve a signature mocktail. Offer a simple, but sophisticated menu and don’t be afraid to choose the chicken! Spice it up with some great flavorings that are unique to the area such as jamaican jerk.

Check out Jenny Moore’s Wedding Invitations, Favors and Gift website, Moore Creative, for tons of great ideas and embellishments that will make your destination wedding a truly one of a kind event.

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Wedding Invitations: The Big Day Looms

by Fabian Toulouse

Wedding invitations are often sent about four to six weeks before the big day. They are often ordered from a specialized printing vendor and are typically mailed in double envelopes. Some variants include a self-addressed, stamped postcard, thereby eliminating the need for a second envelope. Ultra-modern variants still simply ask the recipient to RSVP by phone. Ah, how the times are changing.

In the 14th century, weddings were announced by town criers. As literacy proliferated through out the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, invitations were used to make known the engagements and weddings of upper class families. In the 16th century, weddings were announced in local gazettes and newspapers. With the advent of metal-plate engravings, a new refinement in wedding invitations had arrived.

In the 17th century, lithography altered the face of printing once again. This chemical process of engraving and printing still required hand-delivery by courier. A double envelope was used to protect the invitation from any damage. This tradition remains to this day. After World War II, invitation printing became more affordable, especially with the advent of the thermograph, also known as the poor man’s engraving method.

For a wedding it is, of course, customary to invite relatives, friends, and colleagues. It is vital the invitations are sent in a timely fashion, approximately a month before the date, and two months if it is a destination wedding. This allows the couple to confirm the attendance and arrange the necessary seating and catered menus. The caterer must have an accurate count to provide enough food and drinks to satisfy the guests. Some invitation accessories may be in order - like a location map, accommodation information, and a reception card -to ensure the guests can find and prepare for the wedding.

Wedding invitations must be valued and the time of the ceremony held sacrosanct. It is essential the guests arrive on time and that only invited guests participate. Guests are expected to follow the rules of polite society and stay silent during the ceremony. As weddings are not inexpensive affairs, it is essential they proceed smoothly, without interruptions or complications.

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Treat your family and friends to the Perfect Blend. This bold coffee is packaged in a fresh sealed bag and can be personalized with the bride and groom’s name and special date. Each personalized coffee pack is 5.5″ tall x 4.5″ wide and contains 1.75 oz of superior coffee to make the perfect pot. Imagine when your guests wake up the morning after your wedding and brew this “Perfect Blend” they are sure to think of you. Please enter the bride and groom’s names and the date of their wedding below. Because these favors are personalized there is a minimum order of 40.

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Wedding Plan Tips For The Perfect Wedding Day

by Jenny Palmer

Wedding plans and marriage arrangements will never be complete and would go on and on even till the marriage function is over. New ideas usually pop up in the last moment and make the process even more complicated. But following few wedding plan tips can be of great use and the marriage function can be made successful this way. It is also essential to see to that the wedding plan tips you follow should also be practical and simple. The point is that it should help you in making the process simple and does not work the other way. Below listed are few tips which would help you in making the process simple and the occasion even more grand and organized.

The very basic wedding plan tip which has to be adhered and followed first is to prepare a checklist with all tasks to be completed listed in it. It is true that this list would keep on increasing but at least by the end of the day you would have a rough idea about what needs to be done. These marriage tasks can then be categorized in to various sections such as food, decoration, invitation, clothes, etc.

One more important point in wedding plan tips is to make a second list in which the work to be done in the same localities are clubbed together. This way all the work done in a specific locality would all be done when you visit the place. This would not only reduce time but would also remove the tension of going to the same place again and again. All the tension and the marriage anxiety would be reduced to a good percentage.

In the urge to make the marriage day a great success, people tend to spend a lot of time on minor things that do not really matter. One of the basic wedding plan tips to be remembered is to keep things simple. As one can understand, wedding is a complicated process and it has its own tensions, fears and pressure factors. So the simpler you keep it the better.

With the number of things to be taken care, good wedding plan tips will advise you to start well in advance. If you decide your wedding and if you can give yourself the kind of time it requires, you should take at least 12 months for the arrangements. This will also give you time to prepare yourself mentally for your marriage.

Many people make the mistake of handling all the tasks by themselves. They will not be able to delegate any work to others for the fear that others would mess them up. However, some of the things can certainly be handled by others even without your supervision. Some of the best wedding plan tips online suggest that delegating the right tasks is essential to make others also feel part of the marriage day celebration.

You can hire attendants who can help you with various tasks. When you make the checklist that was discussed as the first of the wedding plan tips, mark the items that you can delegate to attendants, family members and willing friends. When you delegate to family members and friends they will feel part of your marriage day celebration. So get all the support you can get.

One can easily miss out the whole point in the maze of tasks to be accomplished that what they are preparing is their marriage day jumping from one task to the other. Unless one reminds themselves often, the entire preparation phase will become another work to be completed and hence they will not enjoy going through this phase. Above all wedding plan tips however practical they may be, the important point to be remembered is that you are preparing for a day that has to be remembered by you for life. You need to stay in touch with yourself and listen to yourself closely during your marriage preparation and your inner feelings will override all wedding plan tips you get online.

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