Planning A Wedding
Have you decided that the time is right to tie the knot? I’ll bet you have a ton of questions about planning a wedding.
How formal does a wedding have to be – to be right?
How do you decide whom to invite to your wedding?
What do you do first in planning a wedding?
Who pays for what?
Just how flexible can you be and still have a nice wedding?
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So Many Questions About Planning a Wedding!!!
Unless you want to be married at City Hall, or by a justice of the Peace with all the haste and impersonality involved in such a marriage, you will need to make some wedding plans.
Most of us girls… look forward to some kind of wedding. However, many women and most men do not want a very large formal style of wedding. You do not need to elope to avoid a formal wedding. There are simple, inexpensive weddings that are very personal and will bring warm memories long afterwards.
But of whatever type, a wedding has to be planned to be effective.
When you marry, you may not have much choice about the kind of wedding yours will be. In some circles, the bride’s mother takes over almost completely and manages everything from the first invitation to the last detail with only occasional reference to the preferences of bride and groom.
Your wedding may have to conform to the expectations of your father’s friends and associates or be according to rigid family traditions.
Or, you may find yourself being married in the chapel of a military post, either with strict formality and full military honors, or in the stark simplicity of a ceremony arranged at a moment’s notice.
A simple wedding can be arranged at the last minute in the chapel at the military post, in the bride’s home, in a club or garden, or even after one of the regular services of the church, if the couple is flexible in their planning.
Indeed, this might serve as a motto for planning a wedding… generally: “Be Prepared for the Unexpected.”
To be useful wedding plans should be based upon the values of those being married. If you realize that tradition has been upset many times, and that conventions serve but as guides, you can plan your wedding in ways that will be most meaningful to you and to those who you love and want close to you on this your day of days.
See Planning A Wedding for invitation ideas.
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