Falling For The Common Wedding Planning Mistakes

By Hedrick Lepsch


It's just 24 hours until the big day, and you say goodbye to your spouse-to-be, knowing you won't see each other again until you're at the altar. You set off for an evening of fun with the ladies while he's off with the guys, taking in one last night of single life.

The man's not allowed to see the bride the day before the wedding, it's bad luck they say. It's tradition. For that matter, you've carefully hidden your dress from his view since you first bought it (showing everyone except him). In this way, the wedding becomes an extremely secret affair that seems to find joy in hiding things from the groom.

One of the first mistakes that many brides make while planning for their wedding day is over spending on the dress. And while some brides are of the mentality that over spending on the dress is one of those perks of getting married, it will be their wedding dress after all.

The real danger or mistake of overspending on the bride's dress is not that the budget has been blown, but that the budget has been blown to the point of having nothing but the dress.

In other words, one of the most common bridal mistakes a bride can make while planning for her wedding is to spend their entire fashion budget on the dress alone.

While a trendy dress may cost mega bucks, a bride will want to weight the need for the most expensive dress with the need to adorn herself beyond simply the dress.

Fathers would give away their daughters. The arrangement was made and the date was set, but the groom-to-be was not allowed to see his future bride until the day of the wedding.

The bride's parents feared that if he were to do so, he might find her unattractive and call off the deal altogether. As an insurance policy, part of the deal came with going completely blind into the marriage. The bride's veil was even designed to keep her features hidden until the last possible second. It was all a ploy to increase the odds that the groom would go through with the wedding.

The next major planning mistake that brides and grooms often make is getting set on a specific flower before they know the exact date of their wedding day.

This can lead to one major problem-the specific flower the couple so desires is not in season, which means the cost for flowers just skyrocketed as those flowers have to be brought in from distant greenhouses or locations.

Instead, a couple should only plan for what flowers they want to have at their wedding after they know the season of their marriage and what flowers are readily available.

The occasional special request, like for the bride's bouquet, on flowers is acceptable, but if a bride and groom really wish to spend less on flowers they will plan according to the seasons to find the best deals.

Veils are still worn and dresses are still kept secret. Even though he's not going to reject her on the wedding day, it's still a fun tradition to upkeep.

Chapel of the Flowers holds weddings in Las Vegas. Las Vegas weddings especially are filled with traditions that are fun to keep, even if their origin seems lost in the sands of time.




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