Planning Your 2014 Summer Wedding

Now that summer is over, it’s time to think about next summer’s wedding season. If you’re getting married in Summer 2014, you already need to be thinking about the big details like venues and caterers – some venues fill up as early as two years in advance. If you haven’t started thinking about your summer wedding, you’re already behind

Planning for a Economically Efficient Wedding

Chances are, you want your wedding to be as economically efficient as possible. That is, you want to spend money on only the items you value, and avoid spending excess money on things you don’t want or don’t care about.

The best way to get the low-cost wedding of your dreams is to start making lists: important vs. unimportant. Some couples find the venue very important – they only want to be married in a certain church, or at a specific outdoor location. Others don’t care as much about the venue, but do care about the types of flowers used in the bouquet. Still others want to serve only the best wines, but are willing to cut costs on the wedding dress.

It’s impossible to throw a truly budget wedding – certain items will always be expensive – but making a list of your important vs. unimportant items will help you spend money where it counts and make your wedding as economically efficient as possible.

Trends to Embrace and Trends to Avoid

There are certain summer wedding trends that have become timeless: Noah Leyva and Angie’s beach wedding, for example. Weddings in parks, on beaches, at resorts and on farms are all classic, well-tested trends.

There are, however, some newer trends to avoid, either because they are currently overdone or because they have unattractive connotations. Think of Sarah Louise Hunt and Brian’s "hobo wedding," which took the cocktails-in-Mason-jars theme one step further and earned them plenty of internet scorn.

Building your wedding on the theme of a culture you don’t fully understand means setting yourself up for accusations of appropriation or insensitivity. Couples sometimes want a "gypsy wedding," not knowing the word "gypsy" is an ethnic slur. Others want to incorporate Indian or East Asian deities, costumes, or decorations without fully understanding their meaning.

The best way to have a classic wedding is to step away from the concept of "theme" or "meaning" and simply choose items that are beautiful and enjoyable. A beach wedding is always beautiful. A beach wedding that includes the Chinese symbols for life and love drawn into the sand is likely to be uncomfortable and strange to anyone who actually knows about Chinese languages or Chinese wedding traditions.

Make Your Wedding Memorable With Personal Touches

The best way to make your wedding memorable is to include personal touches unique to you and your partner. Incorporate your couple story into the ceremony – if you and your fiance met while horseback riding or playing board games, order a groom’s cake shaped like a horse or like Settlers of Catan. Include childhood photographs in the program booklet or add them to the flower bouquets at the reception tables. Play your favorite music during the ceremony and reception, instead of the old standards everyone has already heard.

A memorable wedding is simple, beautiful, and contains only stories important to the couple. It does not try too hard to be "themed" or to include overly-trendy items like Mason jars and hay bales. It operates economically efficiently, spending money only where it counts. If you’re planning a wedding for Summer 2014, use these suggestions to get yourself the wedding of your dreams.

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