When to start planning your wedding
WEDDING SERIES #6 | Where To Start When Planning Your Wedding
hey guys what's up and welcome back to
my channel if you're new here my name is
Bailey and in today's video I am going
to be doing another wedding series here
on my channel so today a wedding series
video is all about how to start planning
your wedding so after you're engaged the
excitement is unreal you're so excited
to start planning your big day with your
significant other but for a lot of women
it can be hard to realize like or
understand where to start
the wedding process can be exhausting it
could be emotional it could be
overwhelming for a lot of women so it's
hard to kind of figure out where you
want to get started so I came up with a
five-step process that I believe is
where every bride should start in the
wedding planning process so if you liked
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without further adieu let's get into the
video also if you notice I have one a
striped sweater and almost every single
like the last three of my videos so
exhibit a Exhibit B and I don't know why
but for some reason I like striped
sweaters this one is for princess Polly
for any of you guys who want it so also
another I guess what do you call them
like PSA is my dog fur here as you see
them moving around in the background I'm
sorry I can't do anything about it just
trying to get them to sit steals like
trying to get a monkey I don't even know
where I was going up either work moving
on let's get into it so my first tip
when starting to plan your wedding is to
first establish a budget so I know this
could sound pretty like cliche like yes
get a budget but you truly cannot start
planning your wedding booking anything
touring any venues whatever what not
until you have a budget so that budget
is going to be the outline for the
entire wedding planning like process if
you do not know your budget then you
just basically cannot start because if
you have a budget of $20,000 but you
want to invite 400 people chances are
that's not gonna work out $20,000 is
honestly sadly he not a big number in
the scheme of wedding planning that's my
budget per se I mean just to put that
out there but you really have to be
frugal with that budget and understand
where you want to put that money towards
because it goes quicker than you think
but until you have a budget I don't know
if that's maybe making a budget with
your fiance or maybe making a budget
with you
parents in my case but you have to start
with a budget because until you have
that budget you can't book a venue you
can't decide how many people you want to
buy you can't book anything until you
know how much money you have to allocate
to each individual thing my second tip
when starting to plan your wedding is to
make a priorities list so sit down with
your significant other your fiancee and
y'all discuss what you really have to
have at the wedding to make your day
special so I know for me one of my top
priorities were videographer and
photography
those are the top two things that I
really wanted to spend good money on
because I wanted them to be you know
like amazing because for me photos and
videos are stuff that I love to look
back on it's why I do YouTube and I
wanted to have a good video and great
photos to look back on from our wedding
day because in the grand scheme of
things you're probably not gonna
remember most of the day so I wanted to
have those keepsake items slip back to
so that is why I spent quite a bit of my
budget on the photography and the
videography for example if your fiance
is a really big drinker and his family
are really big drinkers into him having
an open bar at the wedding is a really
important aspect and that's something
that y'all need to put at the top of
your party's list and understand that
that is something you're going to spend
a majority of your budget on so I know
for us Binion was one of our top and
this I was photography and videography I
had one menu in mind I had wanted for
years before even becoming engaged
before even please ignore that I know
for me I had a venue picked out sits
Lord I think 2017 I had fell in love
with it after seeing a girl in my County
get married there and it is where I knew
I wanted to get married regardless of
price so that is something we had to
spend a little bit more of our budget on
was that venue but I am so happy that we
are getting married there and I wouldn't
want to get married anywhere else my
number 3 step in starting to plan your
wedding is to establish a guest list
so before you can tour a venue and
decide on a venue you have to decide how
many people you want to attend the
wedding so sometimes people do this
backwards but for us it was establishing
how many people we wanted at the wedding
my mom's calling hello alright love you
bye sorry those well like I was saying
before you can really pick a venue or
for some people you pick up in you and
then a
your guest list but for us we were like
okay we kind of like shared a Google Doc
this is what I would recommend not a
Google Doc but at Google sheets with
each other and I added all the people
from my family all the people of my
friends that I wanted to be there and
then he did the same and his was
highlighted in blue and I were just
playing
so around before we even put darvany we
realized we were gonna have around 200
people at least to invite to the wedding
so we knew that we had to have a venue
that would fit at least 200 people lucky
for us our video actually seats like up
to 700 people because it is a huge just
old meal that they you like gutted out
so the guest list and the venue really
was a problem but make sure that when
you are planning your wedding that you
really lay out the amount of people that
you and your fiancee won't tap there my
fourth step is starting to plan your
wedding is to tour venues and select the
date so for some people you might only
be touring venues that has a select date
that you want available so a lot of
people want to get married on those
really cool like 10 ten or eight dates I
know this this upcoming year in 2020
those are really popular I know when my
friends is getting married on October 10
so their wedding that is tintin and then
I know a wedding menu that we toured had
like eight available so autist a so
there's a really popular sometimes
people want to get married when their
parents got married so if you're one of
those people have a specific date and
month you have to have you're gonna want
to tour venues to only have those dates
available so for us it was the complete
opposite I had a timeframe that I wanted
to get married in I wanted to get
married
between August and September those were
the two months I really wanted to get
married in after doing a little bit of
talking with my fiance and realizing
that we had a lot of family that were
still in school his parents are teachers
we realized that getting married in the
summer was going to be the best for us
so we opted for August first because
that was one of the dates in August our
being you had available they also had
autist 29th available but school would
be started by then as well as that is my
mom's birthday and I wasn't going to get
married on my mom's birthday fifth tip
and getting started planning your
wedding is to start a Pinterest wedding
board and establish your style / vision
for your wedding so I know a lot of
girls out there probably already have
their wedding picture sports started
you've been dreaming about your wedding
day for forever but chances are if you
started that when you were 12 your
vision for your wedding has really
changed when me and Matt started dating
I'd already deleted my old Pinterest
board from a preview
break up I really didn't want to have a
wedding port that I had maybe envisioned
like oh I'm Knight Miriam one day let's
pin this and pin that so I went ahead
and deleted my old Pinterest board and
started a new one called MMB wedding and
from the time we started dating I knew I
wanted to marry Matt so I started
putting stuff that I wanted in there so
that is a great way to kind of establish
your vision and to kind of establish
your wedding day style for me there's a
ton of neutrals in there a lot of
greenery a little bit of mix of rustic
and classy which is exactly what I want
my wedding night to be so it's making a
picture sport even sharing that with
maybe your mother or your bridesmaids
your future fiance so they can add some
in there and pin stuff in that wedding
Pinterest board that they really see
your wedding day and confessing really
can help sign a like I don't have Matt
shared with mine because I don't really
think he would care but I know that in
picture she can share boards with people
so that would be really helpful if you
want people kind of giving you ideas for
your wedding so for me that has been
really helpful I use that to show my
florist what I wanted
I've used that show my um Baker I guess
well I want my cake to look like so
pictures could be a really awesome tool
to help you start like kick start
planning your wedding because it really
can help you realize like this is the
style I want this is a type of flowers I
want this is the color bridesmaids
dresses I want so pictures could be a
really helpful tool during the wedding
planning process and I recommend that
you all get one when you start the
journey of planning your wedding so guys
that is all I have for you today for
today's a wedding serious video I hope
you guys found these tips on how to
start planning your wedding very helpful
I know for me that this is kind of the
outline that I follow when planning my
wedding I am so excited that all of you
guys chose to watch this video and I
hope it gave you a little bit of help
during your wedding playing process I
know it can get really stressful at
times but really try to enjoy the moment
you only get to be a bride once and it's
one of the most special times of your
life so instead of stressing try to
really you know enjoy the moment it
doesn't last very long you know they say
if you feel like you're planning your
wedding for forever but then the day off
goes by so fast so just make sure you
live in the moment
and I hope you guys really enjoyed this
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series videos and I'll see you guys in
the next one bye guys
