Throwing a marriage welcome party is timelessly popular amongst Elegante by Michelle J couples, and it is a superb method to ease yourselves and your guests into the swing of the celebrations. For a really special and memorable experience, there’s an art to crafting the proper welcome event – one which we’ve honed over a few years, and are going to share with you now.
Why throw a marriage welcome party?
Your welcome party serves many functions:
- To increase your celebrations, providing a fantastic excuse for extra revelry!
- Allowing you to spend more time with family and friends, especially those chances are you’ll not see often – a marriage day is typically such a beautiful whirlwind that you just don’t get as many quality moments together with your family members
- Helping guests feel at home in your wedding venue, city or country if getting married abroad – travelling an extended method to a marriage is far more appealing if there are multiple events to attend
- Providing you with a more informal, relaxed celebration of your marriage outside of the traditions and customs chances are you’ll incorporate in the marriage day itself
- Calming your pre-wedding jitters – in case your wedding day shouldn’t be the primary time you’re seeing everybody, it will probably take away among the nerves and apprehension about being ‘centre of attention’
A marriage welcome party is helpful for each you and your guests, not to say it’s quite a lot of fun! Here is our advice to make it stylish, seamless and atmospheric:
Advice in your wedding welcome party:
The Venue
Fastidiously considering the venue in your wedding welcome party sets the tone for the beginning of your celebrations. Will you select to host your pre-wedding event at the identical venue (perhaps in a unique space) or a unique one? Selecting different venues means your wedding location remains to be a surprise on the day for guests, but additionally incurs extra hire costs. In case you are marrying at a venue with several event spaces or that can be accommodating a lot of your guests, keeping everyone in a single place could make logistics easier and has a ‘home from home’ feel.
Popular venue decisions for Elegante by Michelle J destination weddings include rooftop bars, hidden courtyards, hillside restaurants and infinity pools. Take a have a look at Taylor and Matt’s Tuscan ‘white party’ by the pool and romantic vineyard dinner for some inspiration.
CLICK HERE FOR TAYLOR & MATT’S WELCOME PARTY
Your Guestlist
Next is to make a decision whether you would like your wedding welcome party to be for all guests, or a select number. Some couples decide to have informal Friday night dinners for close family, friends and bridal party/groomsmen as applicable, keeping the invitations to a minimum and creating an intimate atmosphere. Others decide to throw a celebration for all invited guests, with some even allowing a day in between the welcome party and the marriage to permit for full recovery from any sore heads!
Consider also that yet one more event means yet one more set of RSVPs to gather and manage*. If you should avoid this or just don’t need to ‘lock’ guests into a choice about your welcome party, hosting a casual event with buffet-style food or cooking stations can alleviate any pressure.
The reply to the query of your guest list will depend upon your budget and preferences, and this looks different for everybody. Remember there isn’t any pressure to do things a certain way simply because you’ve seen it before, your cousin did it, or you think that you ‘should’.
*Remember, whenever you book certainly one of our full wedding planning services (Elegante Primo or Elegante Prive) your pre- and post-wedding events will probably be curated and delivered by us too – meaning the RSVP stress is taken off your (welcome dinner) plate.
Celebrating in Style
Once you could have decided where you’re going to host your wedding welcome party and who to ask, consider how much of your budget you’d prefer to allocate to this event. Some couples go for a pared-back design, embrace the decor of a venue’s own restaurant (with some personal touches) or let the natural surroundings speak for themselves. Others prefer to style each event with an analogous ‘wow factor’ to the marriage.
Take into consideration decor similar to florals, menus and place cards, in addition to costs for the catering and any transport needed to get people to and from the venue if applicable.
A Cohesive Wedding
Something we at all times give attention to with our couples is ensuring that, regardless of the answers to the above queries, the marriage welcome party appears like one a part of a continuous flow of events versus a separate celebration. You would like your pre-wedding party to feel like the start of the thrill, warming guests up for the primary event.
Now we have many a trick up our sleeves to assist achieve this, and can design your welcome party bespoke to work in harmony together with your wedding day. Take a have a look at A&A’s Florence wedding, where the welcome party served to essentially serve up a hearty helping of Italian hospitality and set the tone for the primary event.
CLICK HERE FOR A&A’S FLORENCE WEDDING*
*Featured on Smashing The Glass
The Details
The ultimate step is to work out the way you will let your guests know in regards to the welcome party. Remember to offer out separate information to the relevant parties, detailing where they ought to be at what time, an idea of what to anticipate and a sign of the dress code. An ideal method to do that is to incorporate information in a welcome bag which your guests receive on arrival – we’ve got an entire blog about creating wedding welcome bags to show you how to with this.
HOW TO CREATE GREAT WEDDING WELCOME BAGS
Curating a marriage welcome party that may be a spectacular a part of a multi-day wedding celebration is something we love to assist our couples with, so whatever you’re envisioning we are able to bring it to life with our improbable network of suppliers. Hiring a marriage planner only in your wedding day is doing a disservice to the general final result, and couples who work with us for the complete event experience less stress, find the method more enjoyable, and are in a position to be fully present at every stage of their wedding.
Get in contact to start creating the marriage weekend of dreams.
