What to Avoid When Planning Your Beach Wedding
As a recently engaged and excited bride-to-be, I too was consumed within the predictable overwhelm of beach wedding planning for a good few months.
While it really was a great adventure to scout out beach wedding locations, taste wedding cake, try to fit into countless wedding gowns, maybe that’s my problem right there, I should have tried the gowns first before eating the cake. But it was all a learning experience, since as much as the planning my beach wedding has added a new dimension of anxiety; it also has brought me great joy knowing that I was involved in every detail in planning my own beach wedding since the start.
Hi I’m Betsy. I consider my beach wedding to have eventually been a success despite the hard road at the start. I want to share with you some of the trials and tribulations from the planning of my beach wedding. Now that the honeymoon is over, I can look back on some of the main problem areas that future beach wedding couples like yourself should look out for.
It will be just great if I could to get some feedback too along the way, from anyone else out there who has encountered some of the these trials and hopefully we can together come up with solutions to advise future beach wedding brides in similar situations.
The key to success for me I have to say was budgeting upfront and sticking to my guns. Here’s what I did, I sent out my beach wedding invitations seven months before the beach wedding day,
Yes, 7 months and some people thought it was far too early, but given the current financial situation, I thought it would be best to give all guests enough time to plan their own budget for any clothes and travel costs they may incur. I also made sure that everyone RSVP’s within a month of receiving an invite.
While I waited for the guests to confirm their attendance, I had 2 consultations with a professional planner. I wanted to be apart for the wedding planning from day one so didn’t want a full time planner. At the same time I also didn’t want to be reinventing the wheel or make silly obvious mistakes.
A few ways of finding good planners can come from recommendations of family and friends or you can find them in the phone book or internet. I set up just 2 consultations, in which I got vital information from them regarding the all important beach wedding checklist and budgeting advice which set me on the right path.
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