One of the popular online wedding guides, The Knot, has compiled a five-step guide to planning your wedding. The very first step is to check out wedding gowns. The next step is to decide on the look of your wedding from colors to details you want to incorporate into the celebration, then choose the location and book it.
I actually disagree. I’d rather decide on location, season/date, and time before looking at gowns. All three affect the overall feel of your wedding including the style of the wedding dress. Since these three factors are more limited (by your budget, location/hometown, lifestyle, etc), I think these three are best settled first.
When planning a wedding, the first step is to set the date, time and place. Everything hinges on these decisions, from the style of dress to the tone of the reception.
~ Vera WangÂ
Looking for gowns at the beginning of wedding planning may turn out to be a waste of time.
Take this scenario for instance…
- I live in the Midwest and there are no beaches anywhere close to me, but I want a beach wedding. If I follow the Knot’s steps, I would be going out searching for a beachy or destination wedding gown first. I found a few that I like, now step 2.
- Given my location and the wedding that I want, my option is to go farther from home and have a destination wedding. Unfortunately, a lot of my family and friends couldn’t go that far. Since I really want my family and friends to be at my wedding, I decide to find a location closer to home. The location I found that has anything water is a lakefront resort. However, their venues are gardens or grassy ones. I don’t think the beachy dress I found would fit in my now garden wedding, so I have to search all over again. Now, that first search was a waste of time.
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