Classic wedding or trendy wedding?

For your wedding, you’re going to need to make a lot of decisions, and first and foremost you need a theme.

Do you want everything to be modern and trendy or do you want a classic white dress and roses wedding?

You can mix and match, but you have to be careful which elements you go trendy with vs. classic elements. The invitations are the first thing your prospective wedding guests see (unless you are totally on the ball and sent out save the date cards or magnets early!) You want them to get a feel for your personality, so if you’re going to have fun, the invitations are a wonderful place to start.

If you go trendy and fun you generally won’t have to spend as much money as you would with classic, engraved invitations. Thermographed invitations cost (in general) 50%-70% less than traditional engraved invitations, and it’s tough to tell the difference. Even if they could tell they weren’t engraved, when you have something fun, people assume you meant to do it that way, not that you couldn’t afford it to be different.

Your dress? This is usually where most brides go classical. White, flowing, princess or mermaid, the dress is the fantasy item that tends to be the big ticket item. It should be, you only wear it once and the pictures will help you remember that dress for all time.

Music, food, bar, and other choices are going to be made based mainly on your preference and what your guests will be expecting and what they will enjoy. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made in order to make your guests happy…but as much as you’d like to say to heck with them because it’s your wedding…they’re the ones bringing cash and prizes to the event, so it’s only appropriate to take them into consideration. At least a little bit.