Planning an Outdoor Wedding
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Serene and beautiful natural surroundings add a special ambience to your outdoor marriage. As a rule, outdoor weddings require a great deal of planning for a successful outcome of the event.
Tips for Outdoor Wedding Planning
You have to account for the following while planning for the outdoor wedding.
- Weather: Choose a season for your wedding that is most likely to offer you good weather consistently
- Number of guests: It is of foremost importance to have an exact number of the guests that have been invited, so that you can decide the number and kind of chairs you want to order
- Wedding reception site: It can be a park, a garden, the area lining a lake, a mountainous terrain, a beach, an old fort, or any other place that has caught your fancy. It is important to find out whether you need any permit for the site that you have chosen
Care to be taken while Planning an Outdoor Wedding
- Amenities available near the site: Rest rooms and wash rooms are a must for the wedding reception. If the site does not provide these, then you have make arrangements for the mobile ones.
- Arrangements for the drinks to be served: Alcohol can be dehydrating on an outdoor location. It can be replaced by a variety of lemonades, teas, and punches. Take care to have plenty of ice and water around as well. Including the classic mint juice for a fancy cocktail can be a good idea. The juice helps to refresh the guests in a summer morning.
- Choosing a proper catering service: Remember that most of the catering services are specialized for indoor marriages. An outdoor wedding generally requires a simple menu that is not cumbersome to serve and transport in case of rain. Dishes like frozen salads are not suitable for an outdoor marriage reception.
- Possibility of stand by arrangement: It may sometimes rain even if you have chosen good weather for your wedding. It is always best to have an alternative arrangement for the marriage. Another alternative is that you can just have an outdoor wedding and an indoor wedding reception near the site. The outdoor wedding venue which provides you the alternative structure or a tent is the best choice for your marriage.
- Planning for the wind: Some of outdoor wedding sites may have too much wind, so you can go for the wind shields or an wind resistant tent.
Some details of Planning an Outdoor Wedding
Decoration: Natural surroundings have their own ambience. However, if you have a big budget, you can visit the site three or four times to decide on your own the decorations that would perfectly gel with it. You can decide on a theme and make arrangements for the decoration. If you have a lot of trees on your wedding site, along with strings of light you can go for lanterns that can be hanged on the trees.
Dresses of the bride and the groom: Due a lot of wind and dirt, gowns with long trains are not suitable for outdoor weddings. Make a plan to have some casual gowns for the wedding. The make up and hairstyles of the bride and bridesmaids should be such which can withstand the weather and harsh conditions.
You also have to make some planning for a generator and DJ music system.The dance floor must be prepared, if the location does not provide it.
Last minute planning for outdoor weddings
If the wedding site happens to be a park or a garden, visiting the site before the marriage always helps. Issues like the mowing of the grass, or raking the ground can be taken care of. If you appoint a professional photographer, discussing the backdrops for the wedding photographs also helps.
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