How To Plan A Winter Wedding

Hi. My name's Amy and I'm a wedding and event planner. I have planned events, mainly specializing in weddings, however I have planned events from Christmas to corporate, and I'm going to give you some tips that I hope will help for you to plan events in the future.

I'm going to talk to you about how to plan a winter wedding. Bearing in mind that this time of year is traditionally very very cold, you need to make sure that you organized to have a venue where everything can be accommodated inside. The likeliness is, you're not going to be able to get outside.

So you need to make sure that the venue you choose has plenty of suitable locations for photos within the building, so that you can still get those nice photographs, even though you won't be able to get outside. You may want to incorporate the theme around that time of year that you are doing, possibly a winter wedding theme, so winter wonderland with silvers and whites. It might be a good idea to use plenty of candles, as it will be getting darker earlier at that time of year, so candles will be more effective.

If it's going to be around Christmas, you might want to accommodate Christmas within the theming of your day. You might want to incorporate certain areas Most venues will decorate their venues around Christmas time, so it is worth speaking to them about the decorations they are going to be using. It may help you to eliminate some costs by using some of the decorations they're going to have around Christmas time incorporated into the decorations for your wedding.

You will want to use seasonal food around that time. You may want to incorporate Christmas-style menus, so potentially having a nice warm soup for your starter, maybe having a warm roast dinner. If you want to stay away from turkey, bearing in mind that most people will be having quite a lot of that over the festive period, you might want to look at something like a roast beef dinner.

You might want to organize something like a heated crumble. Something quite warm: you want it to be quite filling, quite hearty for people. It might be a nice idea to have mince pies served with the tea and coffee after the meal, just as that added Christmas touch.

You might want to have heated punch rather than something cold, in order to warm people up when they first arrive to the venue. You might want to have favors, as crackers. These don't necessarily have to be the traditional Christmas colors of red and green.

You could incorporate these into your color scheme. You could also organize to have baubles decorated with guests' names written on those and have those presented on the tables, just as an added Christmas touch, but while still keeping it to a nice wedding theme and staying away from Christmas, if that's what you would prefer. I hope this has helped in planning a winter wedding.