Want to wed outside? Here's a great guide with four popular possibilities how you can arrange a wedding open air:
Keep in mind that you principally can not have a civil or church wedding open air in a lot of European countries. The exception proves the rule and so some communes offer it – The best is you ask at your register office, at your evangelic church or your wedding planner.
Nevertheless can you hold your free wedding ceremony and your wedding celebration out of doors. Whether at the sea, in a botanic garden, in a park or at home - we will sketch the advantages of every single location.
Enchanted Gardens
Who needs a florist if you are surrounded by flowers in a botanical garden! In those gardens you find a real grandeur of flowers no matter if roses, marigold, tulips, hibiscus or your favourite flowers. It is not only nice to look at it smells great as well!
You have a multiplicity of possibilities to celebrate open air and should the weather be bad just use a pavilion. Include elements that you find in the garden for your decoration. For example swimming petals and candles in a pool or pond, lampions that are hanging in the branches, trees are illuminated by light beams and on the way or path flambeaus are placed.
Some of the botanical gardens rent their accommodations for weddings, this way the ceremony can take place inside while the celebration takes place outside or the other way round. Already mention on the invitation that your wedding celebration will take place out of doors therefore your guests can dress accordingly.
Water Paradise
A ceremony or a wedding celebration that is surrounded by water just has something magical. To celebrate at a quiet lake or weddings at the beach casts every guest into its ban and the sundown is a fantastic background for photos. At a lot of lakes or beaches you find locations where you can celebrate your wedding. Include the water and the beach into your decoration. You can put some sand into the invitation cards, use shells, stones and grass for the decoration of the table, use personalized water bottles as a Give- Away or a soap in the form of a shell or maybe flip-flops.
Decorate the way to the ceremony at the beach with orchids or little multi-coloured beach buckets. Don’t make your decoration to big and keep everything a little simpler because at the water a moderate breeze always exists. Pay attention to the rocks that are hidden in the sand and pay attention to the tides of the sea as well – so that you won’t get wet in the end! At a free ceremony at a public beach heed the fact that the people could stop, listen or applaud.
Furthermore should a shuttle bus be available because one has to pay a lot of parking charges at the beach and it might seem quite disrespectful if this is realised by the guests.
At Home
The wedding celebration at home in a known surrounding, with your beloved ones and the family or as a big party is a very nice and a value for money that is nowadays chosen by a lot of bridal couples. Often the dream of a privately owned house has shortly been realised and a nice garden has been nicely arranged where the celebration should take place now.
The garden of the parents where a lot of the childhood memories are at home is gladly chosen as well. Actually you can celebrate at any place at home where enough space is available. Whether it is the winter garden of the semi-detached house, on the roof terrace of the city apartment or the party tent in the garden – In the end the choice depends on the number of guests! If the food should be prepared at home then make sure that your kitchen is big enough. Use the help of others who can help you with the baking and cooking, help to set the wedding table, take care of the decoration and who take care of the well- being of the guest at the evening.
You can as well engage a catering-service with the according staff so that you as the bridal couple do not have to care for the many little things and works on your most wonderful day. Inform your neighbours about the celebration clarify if a car convoy may bring up problems and for how long it is allowed to play music loud without having the police to come.
Park
In order to celebrate a wedding in the most European parks you need a permission of the commune- or town administration! Celebrations in a park are very laborious and relatively expensive because all of the furniture and things that you need for the wedding celebration have to be rented delivered and must then be built up. Furthermore you need lavatories as well as an electric power- and water supply.
Should you get over these difficulties, which soonest work with a park café close by or something comparable, your open air wedding should become an unforgettable event for you and your guests. If you should not get the permission just visit the nearest farmer and ask there! Some old country house is dreamlike situated.
You should not undertake the try to compete against Mother Nature with your decoration but include “her” into your wedding decoration. Already mention in your invitation cards where and under what circumstances the wedding celebration takes place so that your guests can bring insect spray along which would be a funny give- away, too ;-)
Tips for Celebrations Open Air:
The sky above Central Europe can be crystal clear in one minute and in the following ten minutes becomes dark and stormy. Always work out a plan for good and bad weather. Never take no risk and hope for lasting sunshine on your wedding day because that can only end in a complete flop. A tent or pavilion provides enough cover for you and your guests. They are to be rented in all kinds of forms, sizes and materials. From chic and classy to simple and unimaginatively – Everything is as always a question of money. Additionally to the rain and wind protection you should think of radiant heater because even in summertime it can become pretty cool in the evening. The best ways to ward off the mosquitoes are to use lemon candles, paraffin flambeaus or mosquito coils.
