Location, location, location

Our wedding is September 18th in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Newburyport gives the ideal feel for a charming and classic New England wedding. Newburyport is filled with family owned boutiques and restaurants, cobble stone streets and brick buildings. Also, offers the perfect destination feel for a wedding. One important thing with my Fiance and I was that our guests would be close to the ceremony and reception and have some great pubs to venture to after the reception. Some of our guests are traveling from other places within the country and giving them a traditional New England experience was important and we found just that in Newburyport. When choosing your wedding location make sure that the location offers everything you want your guest to experience. Your destination location really creates the theme and atmosphere for your wedding. Example, we chose a charming and classic New England town. The feel for our wedding is very classic and elegant, making our location the perfect choice. If you're not interested in classic and more modern choose a location where your creative juices can fly or a place recently built venue to give more of the modern and contemporary feel. If tropical is your choice, a location where the costs are not going to financially kill your guests but where they'll really end up enjoying their vacation as well as your wedding. The guests who attend destinations weddings typically make this their big vacation for the year. I was in a wedding in Florida in August 2008, the destination location was beyond perfect! It gave the feel of being on a tropical island when we were in Florida! The resort gave EVERY option you could imagine. Before the wedding I envisioned what I thought everything would look like and it was just that and more. If you want a destination weekend feel to your wedding and not want everyone to have to fly a suggestion would be look within an hour drive from yours or the grooms hometown. You can create that feel even if it's within an hour drive. Example, I'm from southern New Hampshire and my Fiance is from 15 minutes North of Boston. Our location is less then an hour drive for both families and is right on the water, which was also an important factor for us. So if you're in Massachusetts you can still get that Cape Cod destination wedding feel in another ocean front town for much cheaper. After you get engaged choose the location that best suites the atmosphere you want your guests to experience and best describes you and your future spouse.

The start to a fabulous blog

Well, I've finally given in and decided to start my own blog. I thought with planning my own wedding it would be a nice way to communicate with people, who want to know, on what kind of plans and ideas I have going on. Also, being a wedding planner as my career and planning my own wedding and being extremely budget conscious it's great for me to share all my useful information/knowledge as well as ideas for weddings. So stay tuned for all things wedding.