Wedding Forum - What makes a great Wedding??...

Hi guys! I don't know if there has been this question before..but I was wondering..'Besides mentioning your own Weddings, what Weddings have you been to that have really stuck out in your mind for being great, and WHY?? I want to hear stories of beautiful moments, special little touches, fun things they did, great entertainment ideas you never would have thought of, original ideas they had, the LOT!
I LOVE hearing people's opinions on Weddings AFTER they've happened, to see how well all the extra details were received!

I think it's different to different people depending on what matters most to people, some people is good food, some its a great location some it good entertainment etc

I think it depends on the people really, each wedding is deemed the best, we had a very laid back wedding, music of different eras, and just generally had loads of fun. Everyone said they thought it was brilliant. A year before we went to a friend's which was different, but equally as fun

It's the happy couple and happy family and friends that makes a great wedding if all those attending are having a great time it creates an amazing electric atmosphere that people will remember. Glad to say we had all that and more which made our day truly memorable.

Also the day should be unique and individual to the bride and groom, we had little touches like colour scheme decor and favours that made it very personal and unique to us. The best weddings I've attended have been the same, unique and personal to the bride and groom to set it apart from other weddings.

I agree that the day should be unique and individual to the bride and bridegroom. We're lucky that we have a very unique reception venue (a goods shed at a railway museum). I also think it's the little touches like favours, flowers and decorations. We went to visit our venue today and had already decided we would just have bunting up, until the lady that's looking after us suggested putting fairy lights in the compartments in the carriage that we're having pulled up in the goods shed. My Sister also suggested having jars of sweets in there. We would never have thought of decorating the actual carriage but it's things like that, that will really make our day stand out and hopefully unforgettable for our guests. My Stepdad has also offered to pay to have the miniature railway running for an hour or so, for our guests to have rides so nobody gets bored. We had decided not to have that because it was quite expensive. OH's Sister and Bro in Law arranged a fly past (Bro in Law has a pilot licence) as a surprise at their wedding in April. It certainly got people talking!

I also think a good atmosphere makes a good wedding. I've been to weddings where the atmosphere has been awful for one reason or another. When we went to my Cousin's wedding a couple of years ago, the atmosphere was so bad my Gran wanted to go home within 10 minutes of arriving!

Seeing how happy the bride and groom are is a big plus. I like to see a bit of a gap between the two meals ( if you're having a breakfast and evening food, as a friend of mine had too short a gap,literally an hour so a lot of the evening food went wasted), a friend had a magician,that was fantastic also.

^^ haha I like this.

I saw a link on the book of face about considering the single people. Didn't look at it if I'm honest but you might get some ideas from it x