Happy Friday beautiful People!
SJ here, I hope you are all looking forward to a super exciting weekend! I've woken up super early this morning, it's only 5.45am! Why? Well firstly the Chihuahua decided she wanted to try and claim the majority of our bed (she smaller than a cat...!) How can I be mad at her, it's only sleep after all!
Needless to say she won the fight! Once I was awake I was too excited to go back to sleep because today IS an exciting day! Today, guys, is the day that the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park opens and this weekend I shall be behaving mainly like a child there!
In amongst my excitement and the planned theft of my niece and nephew (as an excuse to go to the Winter Wonderland you understand!) I thought I would write a blog after a chat we have been having here at TWFC this week about the top reasons to hold a wedding festival.
Jeez, where to start?! We could probably give you fifty awesome reasons to hold a wedding festival! However, not listed in any particular order (as they are all equally fabulous reasons to get yourselves involved with doing something mind blowingly amazing for your big day!) this is what we have come up with...
1. Don't get us wrong, we love, love, love all weddings and all things weddingy. However, what makes us start to bounce up and down is when couples decide do something a bit radical and out of the ordinary. Stand out from the norm! If you love music and are free spirited, a wedding festival is a perfect choice to celebrate your marriage. Get yourselves out there and put on a wedding to go down in history as the best ever!
2. Invite everyone! If you have decided that you are going to put on music festival, the base cost per head thereafter for a festival wedding is significantly less than a traditional wedding. It stops all those awkward conversations about who you can and can't invite and the seating arrangements for sure! So what if aunt Mavis ends up sharing a straw bale with your top biker mates... they will probably end up buying her a Tequila Slammer and she will end up partying on down with them and loving every minute of it! WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THIS HAPPEN!
3. Brings us nicely on to "anything goes! " You can put on a whole range of things for your guests to get involved with. For example what we find really works is a vintage tea party. This is the perfect place for aunt Mavis to hang out (pre Tequila Slammer!) where it's a bit quieter from your main stage and she can catch up with uncle Frank who secretly (wants to be drinking the Tequila with your biker mates!). From street entertainers and carnival acts, through to rock choirs and Teddy Bear Picnics, you can balance your line-up to absolutely wow all of your guests... from your party animals through to your Grandma (who was rolling her eyes at aunt Mavis, but equally secretly wants to be the biker boy's top chick of the day! Plus Tequila does turn her tummy a bit!).
4. Make a weekend of it! Depending on your venue, you can party for the whole weekend! For all of you already married reading this, you will know that wedding time goes at 27 times the speed of a normal day! Find a venue that offers camping (with plenty of places for people to stay who don't opt to camp) and let your guests drop in and out for the weekend. A great way to spend the day after your big day is to play rounder's and "old skool sports day races". This is when aunt Mavis can be found sipping Pimm's over the BBQ, with her new best mates... the biker boys from the night before!
5. Weddings can be expensive, not only for the happy couple, but guests too! Lose the dress code so that guests don't feel like they have to spend a lot of money on a new outfit. Choose the right bar company (we have our own – Just sayin!) so that the drinks are priced at pub prices reasonably. Nobody wants to pay £7 for a G&T regardless of where you are! You will find that your guests are so much more relaxed (not just through affordable drinks, I hasten to add!) and happier to just go with the flow and get down and party much harder with you guys!
All in all, a wedding festival is one epic party! You don't lose the romance of your blessing, in fact we think it's hugely romantic to have a service outside, packed with everyone you want to invite.
Rights guys, I'm off to book my ice- skating and other fun stuff for Hyde Park, plus I feel it's way too early to be talking about Tequila quite so much!
Have a truly amazing weekend!!!!!!
Love out xxx
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