Flowers, Cake, Invitations

Choosing Flowers

First always consider your budget, and what flowers will be in season or easy for the florist to provide on your wedding date? Blooms that are out of season or hard to obtain may be costly. This is just a tip to keep in mind. If your budget is small, but you just have to have an expensive bloom, ask the florist to use less of the expensive flower, but do add it to your arraignment.

Time To Pick The Cake

First choose a flavor of cake. Bride can't agree with the Groom? Alternate flavors...As a rule this is a better way to go anyway. It gives your guest a bit of a selection on what they might prefer. Choosing the cake can be fun, the baker will always have loads of photo's and sample cakes for you to choose from. Cakes can range in price from inexpensive to very expensive. So - before meeting with your baker, consider what type of design you would like your cake to be, and come up with an amount you feel comfortable spending on the cake. Let the baker know of these decisions up front. This tends to make the process a lot easier on all concerned.

The Invitations

If forrmal, keep the choice of invitation formal. If your wedding is more casual, keep the invitation casual. Do you want to have guest respect formal attire? Add this wish to your invitation. There are a wide variety of invitations on the market, so it won't be hard to pick the prefect one for your wedding... But do get them sooner than later. This is also a good time to compile the guest list. Future in-laws should be requested to submit persons, along with address to those persons that they would like to be considered to be invited to the wedding. It is smart to supply in-laws with a specific number of guests that you will feel comfortable to accommodate with invitations. By supplying a given number, it should avert the possibility of a very uncomfortable problem that could occur, if the in-laws list is to long... Its smart to be up front, and avert this problem.

When To Send Invitations - Keeping To Wedding Ediquette

Start to address your wedding invitations three months before the wedding. Ideally ediquette states, wedding invitations should be sent 8 weeks prior to the wedding. This courtesy allowing guests several weeks to make travel arrangements if need be, also to arrange time off from work if necessary, before sending them back to you.

Keep in mind you will need to get them back in advance so you can start labeling place cards, make final head count for the caterer, etc. Ask for an RSVP date 4 weeks before your wedding. If you keep to this schedule all will run smoothly...

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