Wedding Day Planning: How To Make Your Special Day Even More Special

A wedding day is definitely the best day in the lives of every groom and bride. When it comes to your own wedding day, you want to make every moment special. We usually overlook the little details when making big preparations for special events. But these little details can make a huge difference on your special day. Put mind to the little things such as decorations, invitations and wedding favors. Let every detail about your wedding be personalized to match your own taste and style. While there are so many things to focus on before your big day, we’ll help you prioritize the most important ones that will make your wedding unique. Keep reading to find out how you can make your wedding day the most special day in your life.

 

Choose Your Playlist Carefully to Match Your Style

You’re free to choose whatever tunes that come to mind when it comes to your wedding playlist. So make sure you choose the music that sparks a different emotion every time you play it. For example, if Father of the Bride makes your dad cry every time he watches it, you can play My Girl during your father-daughter dance. You and your partner enjoy watching a special series together? Use the theme song, if it’s romantic, as your walk-down-the-aisle song instead of the usual Canon in D. The sky's the limit for what you can choose to include in your wedding playlist. Make sure you make it count and that your guests are on board with your music choices.

 

Use Fruit for Wedding Favors

Fruits are everyone’s favorite, so you can’t go wrong with using fruit as part of your wedding favors. This is something that your wedding guests will use and actually find interesting. Set up a Farm Stand and fill it with fresh fruit or mini crates and small baskets that your guests can fill up with fruit on their way out. Useful wedding favors are something that will entice your guests and make them remember your special day. You can also embellish pears, strawberries, cherries and apples with stickers that are personalized to carry a pun or maybe you and your partner’s names. Use puns like “I Cherry-ish You,” “We make a great pear” or maybe “You are the apple of my eye.” You can be creative, give your guests a laugh and make something special for them to remember at the same time.

 

Have Fun With Neon Decorations

Neon lights can add a touch of elegance and charm to any wooden sign. They’re used for so many different purposes given their undeniable magnetism and glamour that can embellish any setting. However, many people use them these days, whether it’s to add elegance to a mirrored sign or to add a faded light effect placing them behind wooden or metal boards. For your wedding, you need something original that can reflect your special theme. For example, consider an aesthetic neon sign containing a romantic slogan placed near the entrance of your wedding hall. You can also incorporate your wedding hashtag on a neon sign so that your guests would have a fun photo booth backdrop.

 

Be Creative When Crafting Your Wedding Guest Favors

There’s so much fun you can have and so many ways to thank your guests for coming to your wedding through wedding favors. Not just any wedding favors–you need to make them as creative as possible to give your guests a laugh and make them feel involved in a special day like this. For example, hand out little bottles of bubbles to your guests and let them blow them as you and your groom leave the ceremony. Use ribbon candy boxes filled with mints or confetti and give them to your wedding guests as wedding favors. You can also use 'Wedding Advice' coasters to give your guests something to do while they wait for the buffet.

 

Adjust the Lighting in Your Wedding Photos   

Many famous photographs get featured in recognized magazines such as Vintage Life just for the voice of lighting that managed to bring the picture to life. If you’re having your wedding in Illinois, you’ll need a trusted Chicago Wedding Photographer to show you how it works. Getting the right light at the right time of the day can brighten up any photo and a little bit of magic to it. That’s why you’ll need a reputable photographer who can capture the magic and beauty of every moment in your wedding through the photographs they take.

 

Cake Toppers

Gone are the days when brides and grooms would choose a traditional bride and groom cake topper for their wedding cake. You want something special for your big day, not something that has been used in every wedding since the 1980s. While it might sound eccentric, you can use whatever theme, such as an industrial theme, for your wedding cake toppers. For example, an edible rustic-chic light bulb that reflects a manufacturing theme, in case you and your partner are involved in that field, of course. You can also go for a pink flamingo topper to add a tropical or beach vibe. Make sure you match your cake toppers with the overall theme of your wedding depending on where the ceremony is held. For example, a green-themed tree or plant if your wedding is held in a natural setting.

 

Opt for Wedding Invitation Additions

Have fun with your save-the-date cards and enjoy the endless possibilities of additions you can add to make your guests appreciate being invited to your big day. Tying the Knot is a fun twist you can add to your save-the-date cards as you invite your family and friends to attend your wedding. These cards have strings that tie into a knot once the card is opened, they’re a cute take on an old tradition like this. In your RSVP cards, make sure you include a section where you ask your guests for their song requests. You’ll want to play something at your wedding that your guests would want to dance to, so be open to suggestions and add a line at the bottom of the cards that requests song suggestions.

 

Highlight Your Tablescape

Your tablescape should be anything but traditional. It’s one area of your wedding where you can be super creative and surprise your guests. Think about the tableware essentials you’re going to serve to your guests and how you can have fun with them and add your own personal touch. Think of something more fitting to your wedding theme to add to or adjust your tablescape. For example, you can opt for antique tiles instead of plate chargers or actual plates to give off an Italian villa-inspired romantic look. You can also use palm leaves as plates to add a tropical setting to your tablescape if you’re having your wedding on a beach. Feel free to make up your own tablescape style and add your personal touch to the decorations to match the overall theme.

 

Dress Your Flower Girl in Blue

The classic tradition is everyone’s favorite but it seems like everybody is running out of creative ideas to make the most out of it. If you need something blue, dress your flower girl in blue and let her wear a flower crown to finish off the look. This is so much cuter than the traditional jewelry ideas or blue garter. Especially when the little girl wears that flower crown and tosses a different twist in the flower petals. Dye the flower petals in blue to adjust the tradition and add more cuteness to the whole act. As a side note, bridesmaids dressed in blue may not be the best idea for a bridesmaid’s dress, keep it simple and stick with the little details like the flower girl or the flower petals tossed in the ceremony.

 

Write Your Vows

If you want to make your wedding day special, you need to write your own vows. The vows you say are supposed to express your love for your partner and how much they mean to you, so write them in your own words in order for them to be the most genuine. You make them as personal as you want while either choosing a serious, silly or sarcastic tone to bring your guests and partner to chuckle while listening to your crafted vows. Whichever way you choose to say your vows, they will always sound more genuine when they come from your heart instead of having someone else write them for you.

 

Make a Custom Monogram

A little twist on the neon lights and the fruit favors ideas, you can create a custom stamp or monogram of you and your partner’s initials and place it in many areas throughout the wedding.  This will add a personal touch and embellish your wedding with something special involving both you and your partner. You can comfortably brand your custom stamp across everything in the wedding hall including favors, table numbers, and wedding signs. These custom stamps can also be a great idea for a photo booth backdrop, your guest can have fun taking pictures in front of the stamp while capturing, not just your first initials, but also the glamorous personal touches you added to your special event.

 

Every bride or groom would want to make their wedding day the most special. A lot of thinking goes into the big preparations while it’s the little things that make all the difference in the world. Find fun ways to entertain your guests and add your personal touches to everything you care about in the ceremony so that the theme of the day would match your style.

 

 

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