Commonly, everyone wants to have all the best things on a special day like a wedding day. It is a celebration of joyful moments in life that one might experience once in a lifetime. To make it memorable and perfect, you must do some preparations, from A to Z, and make sure not to miss any single thing. Preparing a beautiful wedding can be hard work for some people, and to make it less burden, people often hire a wedding organizer to help them. This can be a good alternative that you can have, it all depends on your situation and budget. Whether you hire a wedding organizer or not, you should think of some ideas to make your wedding day unforgettable. In the following post, we have concluded some ideas you can do on your wedding day and we think you should not miss them.
- Embrace Nature as Your Background
Choosing nature as your wedding background is nice to have. Because the beauty of nature can give you a mood of relaxation and calmness. You should not feel burdened on your special day, instead, the feeling of happiness and excitement are those feelings that you should have. There are many natural backgrounds you can have on a wedding day, for instance, a forest, a garden, a beach, a waterfall, or a mountain. You should let nature be the centerpiece or the natural focal point background for your wedding. It will surely make the wedding decorations look pretty and somehow, they are also effortless. When you embrace and make the most of it on your wedding day, we believe you can have the green and fresh ambiance you wish for. As your backdrop on the altar, you can benefit from the natural scenery or you can make an arch or a square of floral arrangements or other shapes like a heart shape or a wreath shape. It will add more beauty to your photos. You can use a big tree to hang your photos and illuminate them with string lights, or you can set the lights hanging on top around the dining area, this can bring the ambiance of romance and warmness on your wedding day. One of the simplest things you can also do to decorate the aisle is by putting down some flower petals. Or you can ask help from the bridesmaids to spread the flower petals while you and your couple walk down the aisle. If you are going to take your vow in an outdoor gazebo, the chances are the gazebo has not been decorated yet. Therefore, you can have some floral arrangements hanging on the top of the gazebo or wrap the poles of the gazebo with some decorations, choice is yours. The point of having an outdoor wedding is just to let nature do the work of creating the green feel ambiance on your special day. - Food Trucks and Drink Stations
Who is not interested to try some tasty food at a wedding reception? We bet that you have been waiting for this moment, don’t you? The good thing about having an outdoor wedding reception is you can use the spaces you have for the most. It is commonly a spacious area so that you can place many decorations or even invite some food trucks. To create a fun experience for your guests, you can invite some food trucks that serve simple food like burgers, hotdogs, fries, ice cream or gelato, tacos, pasta, steak, snacks, pizzas, or other unique food. When serving the drink, you can arrange a cart or make a drink station using a truck. There are plenty of drink options you can have, namely, fruit juices, sodas, cocktails, coffee, tea, or beers. If you have a traditional drink from your region, you can also serve this kind of drink. At the party, there is also the possibility of drinking wine together with the bride and the groom, you can enjoy this occasion too. For the decorations, you can place floral arrangements on barrels or put them on a rustic table, or you can have a pickup old truck and put a wooden board as the decoration in front of the trunk, then you can serve the drink in the trunk of the truck. Or if you use a cart, you can decorate it by wrapping the poles in the cart with ribbons or flowers or flower petals, or you can have a flower arrangement in a big vase and put it near the cart or a small flower arrangement and put it on the cart. Another option for creating the drink station is by using an old cabinet and putting several dispensers on it. We can say that the guests including the children will get a kick out of it. - Set a Fun Photo Booth
You can create some memories both for you and all the guests by providing a photo booth. This booth is usually flocked by the guests because they want to have a picture as a souvenir. You can create a fun photo booth related to your wedding theme. For the decorations, you can have some ideas, for example, put a frame as the backdrop wrapped with flower arrangements, a wooden backdrop decorated with flowers, you and your couple’s names, hanging bulbs, or other ideas like putting several barrels and put a vase on top of it, a bench or a sofa, or provide some funny photo accessories made from cartoons like words, moustache, a sunglasses, a hat or other amusing shapes. You will be surprised by the enthusiasm of the guests attending this photo booth. Please make sure that the quality of the photo is clear and sharp, so your guests will be happy about it. Before or after the reception, you can take time to snap some fun pictures in this photo booth for your wedding photo collections. - Keep Guests Comfortable
It is a big no-no if your guests feel annoyed during the reception. Do your guests some favors, they will love them. So, prepare all things to keep your guests comfortable. If the weather is a bit chilly, you can provide some shawls or blankets to wrap up in while witnessing you tying the knot, or if it is sunny, you can provide some sunglasses or hats or umbrellas to keep the heat away. Plus, since the venue is outdoor, sometimes mosquitoes or other creepy crawlies might bite, so do not let the guests be bitten by providing some repellents, this will be appreciated so much by them. Besides repellents, you can also burn citronella candles in the venue, the smell can repel those insects. Of course, you do not want to spoil the mood of the guests during the reception because of insect bites. You should prepare everything well to let the guests feel as cozy as possible since they are going to spend some time outdoors. - Keep the Music Alive
There is nothing less perfect than an outdoor wedding reception accompanied by live music. You can hire a live band to sing some songs that you and your partner fancy as a love celebration between you two. Since outdoor weddings tend to be more budget-friendly than indoors, so you can splurge a bit for having a live band in your reception. You can have that kind of dreamy and romantic wedding as the live band sings and creates a gently wafting ambiance through an outdoor setting. You can also let the guests sing for you to enliven the reception.
On your special day, the wedding day, surely you want to make it precious and memorable. Therefore, you should prepare everything ahead to make it perfect. Besides that, you should also prepare some backup plans in case of emergencies, so if something unexpected happens, you will know how to handle it and it will not spoil your mood for the whole day. Another crucial thing you should consider is the weather. Because it is an outdoor wedding, you can choose spring or summer to hold your wedding to minimize the potential of rain. And the most important thing to remember is that PIGA has everything you need to have your outdoor dream wedding. PIGA has spacious green parks and you can opt which one suits you best for your wedding. By celebrating your wedding in PIGA you can have the beautiful wedding that you have ever dreamed of.