There are certain things you have to consider before selecting a wedding reception venue for your dream day. Of course you want each and everything to be no less than perfect so here a few simple tips for determining the most appropriate reception venue for wedding.

First of all the location of the reception party should be easily reachable and suitable for all the invited guests. Take into consideration the distance, traveling time, along with accessibility and accommodation services (if required). Your wedding date would also make a lot of difference in choosing a venue. If it is a peak time of the year (such as Christmas) when your wedding will take place then you must book the venue ahead of time (3-4 months back) as in the end, you won’t be finding any place available to book as your wedding reception venue.

Also, before selecting your wedding venue, you have to consider the number of guests you will invite. For instance, if you have invited 500 people then the wedding party venue should be having a lot of room or else you invited guests will feel upset and frustrated because no one wants to spend his/her time in a place which is congested. At the same time if the reception venue you choose can hold up to 500 people and you invited only 200 then it would look empty and boring. So, it is advisable here that you must select a party venue considering the number of guests that will be attending your wedding reception.

Weather would be an important factor as well such as a covered venue would be good if your wedding is taking place in winter or if it is summer time then you can go for an uncovered venue since you would want to spend most of the time outdoors with your guests.

If you are planning your wedding out of city or far from your residence then you must make sure the accommodation services ahead of time as well. Apart from accommodation, facilities such as catering, decoration, music and etc must also be considered before selecting wedding reception venue.

So, above mentioned are some simple tips for determining most appropriate wedding reception venue. It is advisable here that you would need to follow all the above mentioned tips in order to select most appropriate wedding reception venue for your wedding because overlooking any aspect will leave you in a mess in the end, which you would not want at all.

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There are many things that you need to make sure you have organized for your wedding. The first thing you need to make sure you do is make a wedding planning checklist. This is basically a list of all the things you need to get done in the lead up to your wedding. Generally most people plan their wedding 12-18 before the big event, which gives them plenty of time to organize everything and most importantly organized their budget. For most couples this will be the biggest party they have organized and they can find it a little bit stressful and overwhelming. With this in mind planning is key as this will help you make sure you have everything in place well in advance of the big day.

First on your list

1. You will need to make an appointment with the priest or minister this will be performing the ceremony.
2. Think about where you are going to hold the reception and make appointments to meet with them.
3. You can inform your bridesmaids,  best man
4. Start to shop around for your wedding dress.

Six months before the wedding

1. You will need to organize your honeymoon
2. Make sure to organize your wedding transportation.
3. Make appointments to meet wedding photographers
4. Arrange time to fit your wedding dress and also your bridesmaid’s dresses.

Three months before the wedding

1. Shop for your wedding rings.
2. Organize your wedding cake
3. Meet with priest or minister to go over the wedding ceremony plans
4. Meet with the location of your wedding reception to go over details.
5. It’s time to start organizing your wedding flowers and what you need.
6. Purchase your wedding stationery and invitation cards.

Two months before the wedding

1. Send out all of your invitation cards to your guests
2. Confirm details which are wedding transportation

One month before the wedding

1. Confirm your final numbers that reception location
2. Confirm delivery of your wedding dress if any alterations needed to be done
3. Confirm appointments with hairdresser, makeup, etc.

The week before your wedding

1. You will need to arrange some rehearsals time for your wedding ceremony with priest or minister
2. Confirm with all suppliers Hotel, wedding transportation, photographer that there are no issues

This is just really a quick list to give you an idea of some of the things that you need to organize. The reality is your list will be much longer but you have to start somewhere and need a guideline. Being organized will also make things less stressful. It’s important over time that you are planning your wedding that you enjoy and embrace everything. This should be fun and enjoyable.

So your girlfriend is getting married, or perhaps your sister and it is up to you to plan the Bridal shower. There are many options available and new and exciting ways other than the go out and get drunk with a stripper like the guys and some of the girls tend to do. These games especially for expecting brides are great for any party at any home or place where you can hold a small private gathering of friends and family of the bride.

You may find that some of the guests roll their eyes and make a groaning noise at the mention of games but you will find that with a range of games you will eventually have everyone laughing and having a great time. If you can throw in a starter glass of wine that will get them a little more relaxed as well and doesn’t hurt!

Give a peg to each person which they clip on to their shirt or dress, the best idea is to buy a bag of big pegs that are easy to see. Tell them that throughout the evening they are not allowed to say the words bride or wedding, or in the case of expectant brides add the word baby. Any person who utters the two or three key words gets the peg from the first person to spot that they said the word. Hint – the person who says you get my peg because you said wedding is exempt from having the peg returned – it pays to point this out at the beginning to stop any arguments. At the end of the night or within a couple of hours announce the peg counting time and give a small gift to the person with the most pegs – or the least pegs depending on your preference. As the person who has to devise the party plan you put together a list of 10-15 questions relating to the bride and the groom that are interesting and have guests wanting to know more. For each questions you need to write 3 or 4 multiple choice answers. Make sure that you include at least 2 or 3 incorrect answers to the questions as well as the correct answers. Then give each guest something to write on and with and read out the first question. All the guests then write down what they think is the correct of the multiple choice answers. Often they will ask questions of the bride about the questions themselves but they can only do this after they have written their answers. You can either give the answer to the question then or at the end of the questions you go through and advise the correct answers. The winner of course is the one who gets the most questions answered correctly and you can give them a small prize. Make up a small present such as a small keepsake or scented oil or similar and wrap it up in layer after layer of wrapping paper. Try to use as many different colors as you have and it is important to make the gift small otherwise you spend a fortune on wrapping paper. Pass the present around to music and when the music is stopped the person holding the present un-wraps a lawyer. You continue until the last layer is un-wrapped. If you have the memory and can plan this and remember the layers you could make it so that the bride won, but this is more difficult than it sounds. If you do plan this way perhaps you put in the box something funny that the bride may find useful on her wedding night!

There are some other nice things you can do to make the even special for the bride such as taking photographs of each guest when they arrive and then give them a card to fill out comments for the bride. When you have the photographs developed you can add the cards to the photos in a nice album and give them to the bride as a gift.

You can also ask all the guests to arrive with a particular flower that is the favorite of the bride and leave a vase near to the group and each person places their flower in to the vase and hopefully at the end of the evening you have a lovely vase full of beautiful flowers for the bride to be to enjoy over the following few days.

Whatever planning you make for the bride she will of course appreciate it but these hints for games and special and memorable ideas help to make your bridal shower a great success. Playing games while they do invoke the eye rolling of many generally lead to a great fun filled evening and make sure when everyone is leaving that you remind them that they seemed to enjoy the games. You should have some satisfaction after all for all your hard planning.