Wedding Party Guide

Picking the perfect reception hall for your day can be challenging. Deciding among location, price, size, features, and beauty can be quite the balancing act. Your guests will primarily remember your day by the quality of the reception, and the reception hall directly impacts this. Thus, making the right decision is stressful, but it should also be fun. Here are some tips to make the best of it:

First, do not get tunnel vision when choosing between different reception hall options. Even if you have had your heart set on a hall for a long time, keep your mind open to other possibilities. (For example, you may have thought you would always have worn a white wedding dress until you saw that pink wedding dress…)You may find a hall that fits you better than you would have thought. For example, many go the traditional “banquet hall” route. These sites know how to run weddings and are set up for them, making the job of holding the reception or wedding party easy, but they can also be pricey. There are other less common alternatives out there that may work just as well and are much cheaper – perhaps an outdoor wedding or a wedding in a community center or other public place.

The major variable impacting your reception hall choice is the number of guests you are inviting. The hall will give you an estimate for how many guests it can fit. Make sure to find out if this means the hall can fit these guests comfortably, as they may be able to fit them in there according to fire code regulations but with little in the way of comfort. Especially with lots of dancing bodies, rooms can heat up quite quickly, so make sure they are temperature controlled.

The directors of the banquet hall, or the person who is running your reception, will be crucial partners in your wedding planning. You want to feel comfortable with them, and you want to trust that they have your best interests at heart. Pepper them with questions when you meet: how long have you been running receptions? Can you offer references? Make sure you can work closely with them on issues of design, theme, and other specifics.

My sister is getting married to her fiance in September and I have been helping her out a lot lately. We went through a lot of wedding dress photos and she tried on many gowns. Finally she picked the most wonderful wedding gown – all white with pearls and lace details.

I though that that was it, but no. “What about the underwear,” she asked. The woman in the bridal store told us that the right bridal lingerie will actually support how the dress fits the bride and therefore it is important to choose the right one among all the bridal bras available on the market.

One of the most usual bridal bras is the long line strapless bra. This bra begins at the bust line and ends at the waist, with multiple hook-and-eye closures for additional support. This type of bra has boning along the corset to better support both the breasts and the wedding dress.

Finally my sister found the right bridal bra for her dress and home we went with a big bag, all happy and wiser.

I am already married, but I really liked the bra my sister bought, so I went back the next day and got myself one of those long line bras just for myself and in black so it was not a bridal bra at all. I can’t wait for the right occasion, like the wedding party, to wear my new bra under a beautiful dress and hopefully impress everyone around me… my husband most of all I hope.

It has been a great experience helping my sister out with her wedding planning, but also hard work as there are so many thing to take into account and consideration. However picking her wedding dress and bridal lingerie was one of the funnier things and we had such a good time together at the shops.