Mastering the Table Game: Surviving Wedding Planning
The way some people describe it, creating your seating chart is like all the worst parts of logic puzzles and working out the Lament Configuration. For many couples figuring out where everyone is supposed to sit during the wedding is like trying to disarm a bomb, a tense game where it feels like your whole wedding will collapse around you with one wrong move. But it doesn't have to be that way, especially if you keep these four tips from your favorite Boston Wedding Photographer in mind.
On Etiquette: Surviving Wedding Planning
Bridezillas often get a bad reputation, but wedding planning is a time when a lot of people stop being polite and start getting real. It's not long after you first announce your engagement that suddenly everyone has a few thoughts on what your wedding must have or things that you absolutely must do - often falling back on some nebulous idea of "etiquette" to justify when you need to invite everyone within six degrees of separation, stock only top-shelf liquor at the open bar, and then give everyone a pony to remember your special day fondly. But in the past few years, weddings have started to change a lot and what was a mainstay for previous generations may not necessarily be true for Boston brides in the present.
So what does etiquette dictate for your New England wedding if not free ponies?
Tips, Gratuities and Confusion. How much should I tip my vendors?: Surviving Wedding Planning
Confused about who to tip for your wedding? Boston Wedding Photographer Ryan Richardson, self-proclaimed wedding expert is here to help in this installment of the Wedding Planning Survival Guide.
Wedding Planning Survival Guide: Let's Make a Deal
Photographer,
We'd like to offer you a very special opportunity to showcase your work at our upcoming event! We're looking for up and coming vendors interested in exchanging their services for promotion to our hundreds of guests. We are talking to several vendors in your category and wanted to give you a chance at this opportunity.
Our wedding will be held on [BUSY DATE] at [FANCY COUNTRY CLUB]. We have many friends that are looking to get married in the near future, as a fabulous network of guests who can share your business with their own friends and family. To promote you business at the wedding we are offering our selected vendors a featured ad in our program and a special table where you can display your materials and leave your business cards. I hope you can see what a great chance this is to grow your business.
Regards,
Bride*
This was the first shot fired in a chain of e-mails that should serve as an object lesson to every couple in precisely how not to negotiate with wedding vendors.