We’re sure most of you haven’t even thought about it, but when you’re cutting your wedding cake – if you want this ritual to be filmed or photographed – you should pick the right place to do it. Often, a couple doesn’t have much of a choice in this matter. Although if you do, think beforehand about your cake cutting ceremony, talk with your wedding photographer, pick the best location – for example, a table near a floor to ceiling window or next to a wall embellished with floral wedding décor, etc. Definitely not near the backdoor of your venue or some service room. Remember, the background will show in the photos.

Wedding photographers say that in the pics, less makeup shows. That’s a strange thing but a fact. If you’re wearing just a touch of makeup, you’ll look like there’s no makeup at all in the wedding photos. So, if you want your wedding makeup to be seen and accentuate your look, wear a little bit more makeup than you’d like. The easiest way to find out the right level of makeup is to consult with a wedding makeup artist and make a try-out + short photoshoot. You’ll see how you look in the photos and the difference with the look in the mirror.

If you both love winter sports, consider going to a ski resort or some other place good for winter sports for your destination wedding. You can have a traditional wedding ceremony and then spend a couple of days skiing, skating, mountaineering, snowshoeing, or doing whatever you like in the snow. It’s guaranteed you’ll remember this wedding for the rest of your lives.

If you want your wedding dessert table to look plentiful, while remaining affordable, choose several options of tiny bite-size snacks. They can be rather simple and not too expensive but it will look like the table is full of sweets. Also, add some décor (flowers, candles, pretty dishes, DIY items) to fill the empty spots on the table.

Your wedding signs don’t have to be all business – showing the way, telling the wedding guests what they should and shouldn’t do, etc. Use funny, romantic, or creative phrases on your wedding signs to just create the right mood or make people touchy-feely. Affection and feelings mean a lot at a wedding.

This is a great option of how to make your wedding dress look different for the ceremony and reception. Add an overskirt and you get 2 in 1 look for your wedding outfit. Fewer expenses on the gown means you can afford something else, like fancier flowers or extra beverages or a more luxurious honeymoon! So, overskirts are trendy this wedding season. And in most cases, these are styles of overskirts open in the front so that they don’t fully hide the beauty of your wedding gown. They are worn on top of fitted wedding dresses to give the illusion of an A-line dress for the official wedding ceremony, while you can expose more of your curves at the reception when you take off the overskirt and stay in a tight-fitting dress. Sometimes, these overskirts can be really long, with a train or the same length as your dress’s hem.

Detachable sleeves for wedding gowns are really popular in 2023. This means the wedding dresses are usually strapless bustier-style gowns, so you need a good support for the bodice. That’s why corset or bustier wedding dresses with boning are among the trendiest gowns today. The boning might be visible or hidden – this depends on your taste, but it’s there.

The wedding season 2023 is all about mixing different textures. And the wedding cake trends this year are also connected with texturing. Bakers will offer wedding cakes decorated with icing and other trimmings that stick out, give some depth to the cake surface. Often, these decorations will be made in the same color palette as the cake surface, but they’ll add extra texture to the dessert. It doesn’t mean your wedding cake should be like this, just consider this fresh trend.

These days, people are looking for more spectacular ways of asking for one’s hand than to just knee before your honey and say the words. If you want to impress your beloved person, be inventive. One of the latest popular trends is to hire a drone that will spell a message in the sky. Drones can be used to spell something in the sky, to bring the tiny box with the engagement ring to your favorite person, to make special sound/visual effects, etc. Again, be inventive. Of course, such a proposal will be pricey, but your partner will remember this day for the rest of her or his life.

Most wedding planners strongly advise reserving about 10% of your wedding budget for an emergency fund. This means that if you need extra $200 to hire a good photographer or you forgot to allocate the money for your wedding hairstyle, or in case of any other emergency, you just take what you need from this fund. Otherwise, where can you get extra money? These extra dollars will go to where they’re needed the most.

You can use your wedding signs to send a certain message to your guests. For example, that this wedding is unplugged or that they’re welcome to snap selfies with the bride and groom, bridal party, or whoever they want to. Your announcer will probably let your guests know this info but it never hurts to have other ways of reminding them about it.