Ventura Wedding

Two important things to remember: 1) The wedding day is about you and your future spouse, and 2) It is impossible to make everyone happy all the time so don’t let other people’s expectations stress you out or stretch your budget. Begin planning your guest list early so you have enough time to consider everyone you’d like to invite. Encourage the love of your life to make a separate list of people he or she would like to invite. If so inclined, you could accommodate your future mother-in-law or other VIP by accepting a list of guests they are recommending, ranked by order of importance. Be sure to inform them that while their list will be carefully considered, not everyone on the list will be invited. Having a specific vision for your wedding from the get-go can help you when it comes to narrowing down your proposed guest list. Do you want to have an intimate wedding with your closest family and friends or do you want a grand soiree? Will your budget accommodate a grand soiree ...

Why not give yourself a wedding gift that keeps on giving? Here’s how: on each guest dining table place a homemade or purchased anniversary card. Write the table number on the envelope. During your reception, have your DJ ask your guests to fill out a personal message in the card to be opened by you and your spouse on your anniversary day. The table number your guests are sitting at will determine on what anniversary you will open the card. For example, you will open table 11’s card on your 11 th Anniversary. Precious! What a sweet and super simple touch to add to your wedding day memories. By the time you’ve read all the cards, you will have heard from every single one of your wedding guests. All the most important people in your lives will come to mind, whether living or passed on. A truly timeless gift worth every penny!

It’s the biggest day of your best friend’s life so don’t this mess this up! While being his best friend all these years has been easy, there are some things that will be expected of you. It is true: With great honor comes great responsibility. Before the wedding you are in charge of planning the bachelor party usually a few days to a week before the wedding. Be sure to ask the groom what would work best for him when setting the date. You should choose the location and activities, invite people, keep track of who is coming and possibly where they will stay afterwards, and handle splitting the cost of the party amongst the groomsmen. You are kind of like the captain of the groomsmen team and want to make sure they show up and are on time for certain activities on and before the wedding day such as getting fitted for tuxes or suits (you may have to pay for your own suits), go to the wedding rehearsal (arrive on time), and get to the rehearsal dinner. You wont be needed much in...

Give your family and friends a sneak peek into your Wedding Day! One of our favorite VW contributors, EuroStarProductions.net , offers next day wedding video sneak peeks! That’s pretty remarkable considering brides can wait six weeks to a year to receive their wedding videos. The professional videographers and editors at EuroStarProductions capture the highlights of your very special day and are able to deliver a special video preview in the form of a movie trailer that will leave you wanting more! They post your wedding sneak peek on YouTube next day so you can share it with your family, friends, coworkers, and anyone else who wasn’t able to attend. We love it! You can see more samples of EuroStarProductions.net Wedding Sneak Peeks on their Vimeo Channel and YouTube Playlist .

This well-known saying is an old English rhyme most sources trace back to the late 1800’s. In its complete form the rhyme reads: Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and a silver Sixpence in her Shoe. Since the Victorian Era, brides have continued in the custom of incorporating at least the first four items listed in this poem for good luck in their marriage. Often, these items would be contributed by the bride’s family and attendants before the wedding. The “Something Old” represents the continuity of the bride’s past, the link to her ancestors, and her movement into the future. A common object used to symbolize the link to the bride’s family is an heirloom piece of jewelry.  “Something New” represents the hope for a bright future and the new life a bride and groom will share together. Usually, the bride’s dress fulfills this element of good luck.  A few explanations exist for the  “Something Borrowed” item in this tradition. The...