Usually, it’s from 5 to 20 minutes. Depending on what you want to do together and how much time you need. You can just meet, tell each other how beautiful you look, exchange a few phrases to calm down your nerves, and that’s all. Or you can talk for 20 minutes sharing your thoughts, expectations, gossiping, and dreaming about your life together after this day. Some couples even find time to unbox their wedding gifts.

If you’re looking for a stylish wedding color palette, consider black combined with some trendy muted colors. Ever-present and ever-popular black works nicely with such muted colors as peach, champagne, nude, sand, beige, or chalk. This combination creates some wonderful texture and emphasis. It will add an industrial look to the wedding decor. The same can be said about copper tones. Another fashionable universal shade is gold, it can also be mixed with other colors.

The wedding dinner itself can last from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. It depends on the number of guests and the type of reception. About 10-15 minutes after the last plate has been served, you can start the toasts. After 45-90 minutes of dinner, usually, dancing starts.

When you’re deciding what to wear to your wedding, choose style over fashion. Go for something classic or something that suits you. Because fashion trends change every year, and your wedding photos will be with you for many years to come. Look at wedding photos from the 1980s and you’ll understand why fashionable clothing is by far not the best option for wedding outfits.

How to make your wedding guests feel welcome and cared about at your wedding? Give them cozy wedding favors – warm knit mittens. They can be DIY or purchased. You can have only 2 sizes – for men and for women – because, with mittens, it is much easier to fit them than with gloves. By the way, you can have great wedding family photos in matching mitts! Charming, is it not?

Most wedding vendors and venues have their own insurance, but it doesn’t protect you, only the vendors’ equipment, property, health, etc. Their insurance will not protect your expenses and will not cover your payments and deposits in the event of cancellation or postponement. So, don’t count on the vendor’s insurance, you’d better have your own one that will protect your risks and investments.

A trousseau tea party used to be rather popular in Canada. It is held a few days before the wedding. This party is organized by the bride’s mother. It is less intimate than a usual bridal shower, with more people invited – neighbors, colleagues, friends, and relatives. The tea, sweets, and snacks are served and the mother of the bride displays her daughter’s dowry and gifts from the bridal shower. Today, this wedding tradition is a bit outdated and people rarely have it these days.

If you’re having an official wedding ceremony with the aisle and seats (no matter whether it’s a church wedding, a beach wedding, or something in between), remember to reserve the first 1-2 rows for your closest family and friends. Prepare special signs for that. Otherwise, people will seat themselves as they please, and, of course, most of them will want to be as close to the aisle as possible. So you might find yourself in a situation when guests you don’t even know or who aren’t so close to you occupy the first row.

If you’re inviting to your wedding families with babies, you need to think about their well-being and try to make the party comfortable for both parents and their infants. The parents won’t be able to relax unless you provide a nursing room with a babysitter who would look after the kids. In the same space, mothers will be able to comfortably change diapers and breastfeed their babies.

No. Typically, wedding insurance will include all wedding activities. Read your contract carefully to know exactly what is covered and what is not, because every wedding insurance contract is different. Note that if your wedding rehearsal, ceremony, and reception have separate venues, you have to add them all to your contract as additional insured (if your policy allows it).

At a fall wedding, you should serve heavier beverages – for example, whiskey and mulled wine instead of margaritas and light white wine. Choose mulled wine instead of beer, but at the same time, give your guests other options because some people don’t like mulled wine or might have an allergy to certain spices.