After the long awaited Stag night or hen night comes the biggest day of celebration, the day the bride and groom finally tie the knot. The wedding is the day two lives become one in a civil partnership bound by law and bound by love. Weddings in the UK are usually in the spring or summer, when the weather is good and booked many months in advance if not a year.
Weddings are huge often expensive well planned and well executed days of excitement and huge celebrations when two families are joined by the matrimony of two adults from each family. Weddings invitations are sent months before the wedding with table planning and seating organised many months before also. There are many things to consider including the wedding venue the wedding gown, the brides maids dresses the grooms suit the best mans suit, the wedding cake, the reception after and not to forget the most important the wedding ring to join the two together.
Weddings are long awaited for the couple and friends and guest, an exciting day of celebration and joy for the friends and families and the most important celebration for the couple, after the wedding in completed and the reception finishes the couple are whisked off to their honey moon where they will spend a week or two alone together and have some private time away together somewhere hot and relaxing.
The wedding reception needs to be planned well and to run smoothly on the day needs to be well catered. Wedding receptions begin quite formerly and gradually get more relaxed and very social. A great wedding reception should be as good as the stag night or hen night in terms of quality and be a fitting party to the wedding; a big wedding should have a big reception.
Once the final numbers are decided for the wedding the weddings reception can also be planned more exactly, catering for the amount of attendees. The wedding reception is the wedding after party and should be a fun relaxed and very social party.
Wedding receptions are usually held in close proximity to the wedding venue. The reception venue should be easily accessible preferably walking distance and well staffed. The wedding reception venue should be well decorated and laid out ready for a huge wedding party. Enough drinks, food and great music is a great combination that has to be right on the day. The newly married couple's first dance is performed at the wedding reception venue to a song of their choice.
The wedding reception venue could be a large reception room within the wedding venue or down the road in a club house, or a hired bar or club. The wedding reception is the party of all parties and should be a huge celebration of the couple's matrimony. It is common for huge stocks of alcohol and food laid on for the guests, at the expense of the couple who are getting married, and is budgeted within the wedding costs.
As well as the wedding reception there may be an additional wedding party or wedding parties depending where the bride and groom may have tied the knot for example in Las Vegas. They would probably have a reception there with very close friends and then have their wedding party or wedding parties when they arrive back in the UK.
Wedding Parties are well known for a few drinks and great snack food, as well of course the wedding banquet party where guests will have dinner in a large banquet party layout. After dinner it is of course the cutting of the cake, followed by the Couples first dance and the party beginning, with drinks and snack food flowing
The banquet can be as elaborate or as small as the couple decide, name tags are usually placed on tables in advance and seating designated in a particular style. The banquet party involves a lavish meal with sometimes the wedding cake being served as dessert or after dessert.