When it comes to
planning a wedding, like anything, a nice
aesthetic should be one of the main considerations you consider. Of course, even
if you show up to your wedding in normal, comfortable clothes, without a big
ceremony, or without a huge amount of pomp and circumstance, you will find that
none of this actually matters provided the connection between you, your partner
and your family is loving and whole. This is the most important thing.
That being said, it’s
not truthful to ignore that many wish to design their best wedding, to enjoy a
wonderful ceremony and keep in touch of how everything will go. It’s one of the
most unique days of your life, so curating it a little can be a worthwhile and
loving eventuality. But how do you find that right aesthetic for your wedding
day? How on earth do you even begin to take inspiration for that? Is there a
common theme, or a couple of simple tricks you can follow?
How might you
progress from there?
With all this
involved, you will likely find potential in the following:
Consider What You’d
Like To Represent
What would you like
to represent? Pure tradition? Fantastic. Would you like to perhaps wear a suit
alongside your partner due to your same sex marriage? Also fantastic. Perhaps
you’d like to go for a nautical theme because of coming from a long line of
sailors, or maybe you and your partner are artists and wish to go for something
just a little more bohemian than perhaps the couple next door might find
appropriate.
It’s all up to you,
but whatever you hope to go for, consider designing it ahead of time. Breaking
convention without any good purpose can often just lead you into bad taste, and
so while tradition is not always the default you may want to follow, it can serve
as a nice baseline to help guide your unsure and disparate ideas right now.
Remember, planning a wedding is a learning process. You needn’t have absolutely
everything you know you would like achieved within the first week of planning.
This is what this process is for, and why (hopefully) you have a good amount of
time between accepting the engagement and actually standing in front of the
person tasked with legitimizing your wedding.
Connecting To Your
Roots
Perhaps you’d like to
connect to your roots and give all of yourself through that process. To some,
this can be an extremely freeing enterprise. If that sounds like you, it’s
important to know what those roots might symbolize. Would you prefer to have a
truly Jewish wedding adhering to all of the customs? How about a wedding
ceremony from another culture, dressed in the attire that your ancestors once
wore? Of course, it’s pretty much an unspoken rule that you or your partner
needs to share some connection
to the culture you wish to represent when connecting to their roots.
While some feel
cultural appropriation is a real issue and many others feel cultures
complimenting and appreciating one another is a vital step towards world peace,
going for a full Native American-themed wedding procession when no one in your
entire wedding party and much less you share absolutely anything to do with
this culture? It may not be illegal per se, but it can be in bad taste. That
being said, paying respect to cultural roots can work well for some people,
especially if they wish to acknowledge their family tree.
It’s More Than Just
The Clothes
A wedding aesthetic
isn’t just what you wear or how nicely you decorate the functional hall. It’s
also in how you craft beautiful DIY
wedding invites, or what language you use to invite someone to the wedding with. It’s
in the music you select for your wedding entertainment, the seating plan you
design for your wedding meal, or what you choose for your first song to dance
to.
It’s also in what
honeymoon you may wish to select, or what approach you wish to take to
receiving wedding gifts in the first place from your attendees. All of this is
much more than just the clothes. It’s how you craft the entire experience to
your tastes and the tastes of your partner to help celebrate the coming
together of two people. In that frame of mind, these efforts are truly beautiful
and not a small amount of wholesome.
We hope that this
advice can help you find the best result possible.