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| From New Year's Eve |
In recent year’s, New Year’s Eve has become a really popular date for weddings. As well as the obvious romance of marrying on the last day of the year, there are a lot of benefits to a NYE wedding. Firstly, everyone is in a celebratory mood anyway and most people have the next day off work. People who live abroad are more likely to be home for Christmas and you may save on decor costs as many venues will have their own Christmas decorations up. However, there are some drawbacks but with some planning you should be able to overcome these. Here are Tink’s top tips for a new year’s eve wedding;
- Book your venue as early as possible. New Year’s eve is a very popular date for weddings and hotels often host lucrative NYE gala balls so the longer you leave it the more difficult it might be to find the perfect venue. It’s also likely to be more expensive to have your wedding on this date and guests looking for local accommodation are likely to be charged premium rates. It’s certainly worth considering alternatives to hotels for an NYE event such as a privately-owned country house which can be rented out in full by the wedding party or a modern and edgy space in the city where you can higher in caters etc to meet your every whim.
- Find out whether the venue will have its own Christmas decorations and if you can make a visit the Christmas before and see how they look and how they will fit in with your flowers and planned colour scheme.
- Speaking of flowers, most florists receive their last shipment of flowers for the year on the day before Christmas eve – that’s more than a week before the wedding date. So choose your flowers carefully and speak to your florist about how they will be stored and kept fresh for your big day. Also consider artificial arrangements which may well work out cheaper and be less risky.
- Also the opening hours of other services such as hairdressers and beauticians are likely to be curtailed during Christmas week and those that are open or mobile providers who will come to your house/ the hotel on the morning of the wedding are likely to be very busy on new year’s eve so be sure to make your arrangements as much in advance as possible.
- Talk to your band about how you would like them to do the countdown to midnight and what song they should play when the clock strikes 12. Maybe surprise your guests by handing out sparklers or party poppers or, my personal new year favourite, Chinese paper lanterns. If you feel like pushing the boat out you could also consider a fireworks display - weather permitting of course.
- Oh yeah the weather! As we’ve seen over the past week, snow and ice can really put the kibosh on people’s travel’s plans at this time of year. It might be worth considering choosing a venue that’s local to the majority of guests – I know this isn’t always possible as the two families can be from different countries never mind about different counties. I suppose what I’m saying is to maybe think twice about choosing very remote locations for weddings at this time of year. It might be the most beautiful venue you’ve ever seen but if the roads to are impassable that’s not going to be much use to anyone.
23 June, 2011 13:33
Wow, beautiful wedding video. Couple look so happy
06 March, 2012 20:21
A new years wedding is such a unique idea, once you have an amazing wedding ring and diamond engagement ring you can wear for the rest of your life. A wedding is only one day where as the engagement ring will be worn forever. I plan on putting our budget into a quality diamond. From Engagement Rings