A Garden Wedding

It’s summer time and more weddings happen in the summer than any other time of the year. Gardens are  beautiful with colorful flowers and if you are lucky enough to have a gold fish pool, the fish are sparkling and golden as jewels.  A garden wedding might be what your daughter would love and cherish. If you are having a garden wedding or a traditional one, this guide can help you  prepare for the wedding.

June and July are the most favored months of the year for weddings and there are many things that have to be arranged. Of course you have already done the initial planning. You have your budget ready,set the date, made the invitation list, ordered the invitations, the groom has ordered the ring. but you still have to arrange for the wedding ceremony.

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You must make arrangements for a place to hold the ceremony, that is, if you aren’t planning a garden wedding, and you will have many choices. It can be a church, synagogue, hall, park, lakeside, the garden of course, or any other place of your choice. Some places must be reserved far in advance of the ceremony, others are more readily available, such as parks, lakeside, and so on.

Retain someone to preform the wedding. It can be a rabbi, minister, priest, or justice of the peace. Make sure they will be available on the date you need them.

Unless you have a garden of flowers available you will need to find a reasonably priced florist to provide the flowers. You can choose the flowers yourself. Choose the most plentiful ones.  They will be more reasonably priced and also the prettiest.

Large weddings include bridesmaids and ushers in addition to the maid of honor, best man, ring bearer,and flower girl. Choose attendants from your relatives and close friends. If the groom, best man and ushers plan to wear tuxedos, you will need to rent them. Each attendant will need to go for a fitting.

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The bride must choose a wedding gown, and gowns for the bridesmaids must be arranged for. The bride can choose white or any color she prefers. Coordinate the bride’s gown and the other gowns of the wedding party. Allow enough time for alterations if needed. And some will surely be needed.

Choose a photographer based on cost and ability. View his previous work to see if it suits you. Be sure the photographer knows exactly what you want and knows everyone involved in the wedding party. Introduce him to close family members. You won’t want them to be left out of the wedding pictures.

Have a wedding rehearsal a few days before the ceremony and be sure everyone involved attends. You might want to have a simple meal after the rehearsal, the traditional rehearsal dinner.

Good luck with your summer wedding. We have three weddings to attend in July. If anyone has any good ideas for memorial weddings gifts, please let me know. I am running out of ideas for all the showers, graduations, birthdays, new babies, and weddings. I have depleted my best ideas, not to mention my pocket book.