Steps to Designing your Wedding!

When helping my clients design their wedding, the very first thing I try to do is to learn a little bit about them. Most of the time, our consultation meeting is our very first meeting. (Much like a blind date – although I am not hard to find at a coffee shop, I usually have a ton of wedding related stuff with me.) In order to learn about my clients, I ask them a variety of questions. Hopefully by sharing these questions, it will help newly engaged couples jump start the design process of their wedding.

1. How did you two meet?
2. What attracted you to each other?
3. What feeling would you like to invoke from your wedding?
4. Can you describe to me what you see when walking into your ceremony/reception venue?
5. What is the most important aspect to your wedding?

Now that you answered and asked each other these questions, here are some of my insights on how to make use of these answers. (No, this is not anything like a Cosmo test.)

The first two questions allow the couple to bring some personal aspects into their wedding. Every wedding should be personalized to the couple. The personal details are what make a wedding special and memorable. Personal details can be used in wedding invitations, ceremony programs, reception stationary, and wedding favors. I believe that a wedding should tell a wonderful love story of the couple.

The third and fourth questions start the design building blocks. I always ask my clients to use descriptive words when answering these questions. From a feeling or visual you can start to choose main wedding colors, secondary wedding colors, textures, and details. Each step of the process, you are adding another layer or element to your wedding.

The last question answers where the main focus of the wedding should be. If the “getting married” is most important, the ceremony vow area should have the most focus and attention. If clients say they want their guests to have a great time, more focus should be placed at the reception or dance or after party. I’ve had brides answer “ME” to this question before. In this case, I tell the bride to buy an awesome wedding gown and beautiful jewellery! You rock it girl!!

Here are some pictures of a very personalized wedding from Style Me Pretty!