There are what might seem to be an overwhelming number of things to think about when planning your wedding. Above all, you’ll need to decide whether you want a traditional wedding or a cool and contemporary one. On the one hand, the pace of change in dress and decoration trends can leave fashion-conscious couples feeling like social dinosaurs.
But on the other hand, it seems that wedding ceremonies have remained an area in which tradition, convention and simplicity are still valued. Many couples, for example, choose to get married in a large town or vintage church, with colour schemes like chocolate and cream, or red and white, with a bit of gold and sparkle thrown in. Confetti, bridesmaids and some well-chosen readings, and you’ll have the wedding you’ve always dreamed of.
Other couples wanting to have a traditional wedding choose to have their ceremony at an old countryside house or castle-like location. Colours like ivory and sage can do well to reflect the grandeur of the venue, and you can enjoy traditional country-pub food, such as steak or sausages. Having a string quartet to follow your traditional vows can really heighten the romance, while champagne and cosmopolitans will start the dancing!
Lastly, many couples looking for a traditional style wedding choose to have one in a hotel. With guests able to walk through pleasant hotel parks, and with the option of having a lovely evening meal and a great band or DJ, hotel weddings can be varied and fun. They also allow you to combine tradition with a little more of your own style since there is more about the ceremony that is purely up to you to design and decide.
Once you’ve established where you want to have your traditional wedding, and colour schemes and cuisines that’ll suit the scene, you’ll need to make some careful decisions about flowers. Helpfully, there are websites such as Interflora’s, who let you choose bouquets and hampers online and specifically arrange and deliver them for the purpose of wedding decorations, and they can also design your table arrangements. Interflora’s “Enchantment” bouquet with fern, papyrus and philodendron leaves is a particularly popular choice for weddings. And if you’d rather design your bouquet arrangements yourself, with trained experts who can offer direction and advice without providing pre-prepared items, Interflora can allow you that flexibility.
