Destination weddings have become a hot market, which serves you because of all the resources that are now available to you online. All you have to do is search for the ones that will be helpful to you (which is a very easy task to delegate to an available bridal party member if your schedule is already saturated), and with a click of your mouse, you will be well on your way to your dream wedding.

Do you have a weather contingency plan, be it for rain, dust storms, snow, or whatever other weather condition frequents your locale?

Ask your venue what they do in such circumstances. If you don’t like their plan, you should weigh the risk of inclement weather and decide if you want to lock in that venue.

You too can take advantage of your location, turning what feels like ordinary into something distinct and exciting.  If your wedding is in wine country, consider using local wine.  If it’s in a farm town, consider using fresh, organic food from the local farmers.  If your wedding is on a lake, offer boat rides, or if there is a rentable tourist spot in your town like a museum, zoo, or mission, hold your ceremony there.

The Purposed Bride is a perfect companion to your favorite practical wedding-planning guide. From managing your wedding-season relationships and planning the event’s particulars to preparing a life with your fiancé, The Purposed Bride offers a Scriptural principle, Bible-based instruction, a practical activity, and a relevant prayer for each wedding topic. With the help of The Purposed Bride, your wedding will be well on its way to being an intentional, fruitful experience of worship designed in God’s image and in your unique personality.

When you find the one you want to spend forever with, sometimes the major life transitions, the season, the honeymoon, the location, and all other determining factors don’t seem significant enough to delay you from being husband and wife.

However you are able to procure sound equipment, I recommend it because you are already losing the acoustic battle and you are also unprotected from unpredictable noise like airplanes, car horns, sirens, bird chatter, wind howls, and other outdoor melodies.  Your wedding deserves to be heard!  Sound equipment is an investment that will astronomically enhance your guests’ engagement and enjoyment, as well as your wedding video’s quality.

Throughout this whole process of crossing off venue options from your initial brainstorming list and sifting through the logistical details, pray for God to guide you. Pray for Him to give you a discerning spirit, for Him to open up a path of smooth and affordable logistics, and for Him to bless you, bless your vendors, and bless your guests in the process.

Where to have your wedding is a major decision that will provide the framework for many of your other decisions. Thus, securing a venue is typically an early decision in the wedding planning time line.

Although it’s a major decision, and often one of the first big hurdles to jump, try to look at it as a simple, three-tiered process of elimination.

Reusing items in different contexts is one of the most clever and simple ways to demonstrate artistry, not to mention resourcefulness.  Just this past weekend, I complimented my sister on her necklace, and she told me it was actually a headband.  Who knew?  Looked like a necklace to me.  Good for her for finding a…continued here

To be a good steward of the resources you are given, you will inevitably evaluate your priorities of time, money, resource, and service.  It may mean more to you to lavish each guest with a personalized favor that is wrapped in plastic gift bags than it does to keep down the use of non-natural products…continued here