Top Tips for Making Preliminary Wedding Plans

Once the excitement of your partner popping the big question subsides and it is time to get down to the nitty gritty of actually formulating and putting into place your wedding plans, the best place to start is deciding on a location for the event.

Who’s Coming?

Firstly, you need to consider your guest list and decide how many people you want involved, and how far they are willing or likely to travel. Preliminary wedding plans should consider all the elements as a whole, and if you look at your list and only a small handful of the people are going to be able to travel then you might either want to scale down plans to go abroad or just focus on a small, intimate "destination" event. This is not to say that you can’t have your cake and eat it too! You could plan to have your ceremony in the exotic locale of your dreams with a small group of family and friends, and then have a reception for everyone else when you return home.

Where's it Going to Be?

Secondly, you need to consider the actual location. If you're a London lady who wants to keep it in the city you may need to factor travel costs and hotels for your guests into your wedding plans. Likewise, the same can be said if you are looking to have a reception or ceremony somewhere out in the country. Once you've considered the ramifications and narrowed it down to a rough area, then you'll be able to pinpoint and exact location of your dreams within that vicinity.

Indoor/Outdoor?

Do you want an indoor or outdoor event? There are so many options, and this is a really tough decision with plenty of pros and cons for both options. You could even go for an event in a pavilion to get the best of both worlds should the fickle British weather threaten to dampen your big day. From this decision come many other smaller considerations. For instance, depending on if you are going to be indoors or outdoors and what location you choose, you need to keep in mind this will radically affect the style of your attire and that of your bridal party. There’s nothing worse than being in formal wear completely unsuited to the season or location. No one wants to be wearing a long sleeved, dress complete with three-inch heels on a rocky beach down on the southern Cornish coast! Nor do they want to freeze in sleeveless, mini-skirted numbers in the Scottish Highlands in the winter - so keep these considerations in mind and make some appropriate tweaks to your wedding plans.

Finally, once you've considered whether you want to get married in the UK or further afield, and decided on the location and time of year you want to do it, you are ready to get to the fun bits of your wedding plans - the theme and your dress. But that's another story…

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