Congratulations!  Finding that special person to spend your life with is one of the greatest  experiences you will have in this lifetime.  However, saying “Yes” is only the beginning of a lifetime together. The next few months will be some of the most challenging times you will experience before your “Big Day.”  Shopping for a wedding dress, deciding where to get married, whom to invite, and where to go on your honeymoon will add to the challenge.  Decisions, decisions; making the right decisions for yourself will undoubtedly involve time and lots of planning.

Today we lead such fast-paced, complex lives we rarely have the time to think, let alone plan an elaborate wedding.  Therefore, planning and setting goals are crucial to fulfilling the cherished memories this event will create.

A PEAK INSIDE:

Wedding Tips

  1. Personalized Planning
    • Tailor Your Wedding to Your Style: Tips on how to incorporate personal touches and make the event uniquely yours.
    • DIY vs. Professional Help: Guidance on deciding which aspects of the wedding to handle yourself and when to hire professionals.
  2. Budget Management
    • Creating a Realistic Budget: Strategies for setting and sticking to a budget, including tips for saving money without sacrificing quality.
    • Hidden Costs to Watch For: Common oversights that can lead to unexpected expenses and how to avoid them.
  3. Guest Experience
    • Creating Memorable Experiences: Ideas for making your guests feel special and ensuring they enjoy the celebration.
    • Seating Arrangements: Tips on how to organize seating to maximize comfort and social interaction.
  4. Timeline and Checklists
    • Planning Timeline: A detailed schedule to help you stay on track with preparations leading up to the big day.
    • Essential Checklists: Comprehensive lists to ensure nothing is overlooked, from venue selection to attire fittings.
  5. Stress Management
    • Dealing with Wedding Stress: Techniques for staying calm and collected throughout the planning process.
    • Relaxation Tips: Ideas for self-care and relaxation to keep stress levels in check.

Customs and Traditions

  1. Personalized Traditions
    • Creating New Traditions: Suggestions for starting your own unique traditions that reflect your personalities and values.
    • Incorporating Family Traditions: How to honor family customs while adding your personal touch.
  2. Ceremony Rituals
    • Meaningful Ceremony Elements: Information on traditional wedding rituals and their significance, and how to adapt them to your own ceremony.
    • Unity Ceremonies: Examples of unity rituals like candle lighting or sand ceremonies and how they can symbolize the joining of two lives.
  3. Cultural Traditions
    • Exploring Cultural Customs: Insights into various cultural wedding traditions and how they can be integrated into your celebration.
    • Adapting Traditions: Tips on how to respectfully incorporate or adapt cultural practices to fit your wedding style.
  4. Symbolism in Weddings
    • Choosing Symbolic Elements: The meaning behind common wedding symbols such as flowers, colors, and rings, and how to use them in your ceremony and decor.
    • Custom Symbolism: Ideas for creating personalized symbols that represent your unique relationship.
  5. Reception Customs
    • Traditional Reception Activities: Information on classic reception activities and how to modernize or personalize them.
    • Guest Interaction: Fun and engaging ways to interact with your guests and make the reception memorable.

These tips and customs provide a foundation for creating a wedding that is both organized and deeply meaningful. They offer practical advice while also allowing couples to express their individuality.

There are so many choices when it comes to weddings that the saying “anything goes,” really does apply.   The “magic” certain traditions create in achieving the perfect affair cannot be denied. Respecting those traditions  and incorporating those customs  into weddings add  a feeling of joy  to the “Big Day.”  And yet each of us wants to be unique, even initiating our own traditions. This book is filled with traditions, ideas, etiquette and forms to help you plan the perfect wedding to remember. To simplify your planning process, there is a CD that accompanies this book filled with the forms included in the last chapter (chapter 10).  You can pop them in your computer and print them out or if you prefer, or you can simply make copies of the forms found in Chapter 10.

I wrote this book to help brides and wedding planners plan the perfect wedding without having to search all over the internet to find ALL the answers. They are all in one place! It is my hope that inside the pages of this ebook, you will discover ways to create your own traditions, and celebrate your “Big Day”  the way that best reflects your unique personalities.

To grab your copy of this 116 page ebook, send your name and date of wedding to Flowers(at)edenflorist.com with “My Big Day” Book in the subject line.  Below is a screen shot of the table of contents (what’s inside the wedding planning book- Completely Revised – 2nd edition):